When I tried to open my eyes, my eyelids felt heavy. The light above felt so bright that I closed my eyes again. Then, I tried to slowly open my eyes in order to adapt to its surroundings. Blurred image of ceilings entered my field of vision before my eyes gradually got used to the light. Finally, I could see the ceilings clearly.
But...For so reason, this familiar ceiling seed unfamiliar to my eyes. Although this was supposed to be the ceilings I had seen for my whole life, a question popped in my mind.
Where am I?
I tried to get up, but my body was sluggish that waking up seed to be a hassle. More importantly, my head hurt...
“...kh,” I raised my voice in frustration, but my throat was so dry that I couldn’t utter anything.
Then, at that ti...
“Oh my!” A female’s surprised voice could be heard. Before long, soone’s footsteps gradually grew louder. Soone was approaching .
“Young Miss, you’ve woken up!” A young maid’s surprised face entered my vision.
...Who?
I still couldn’t process the information. I couldn’t even rember what happened before I woke up.
“Are you sure?!” A more elderly voice could be heard as another footsteps rushed to .
Then, an elderly maid was looking at with joy and surprise on her face.
“Praise Aion-sama, Reinst-sama has woken up! I should tell Dahlia-sama!” The elderly maid said before she left the room in a hurry.
...Wait, what did she say?
Aion-sama...was certainly the na of the god of life, the Alpha.
Reinst-sama...was she referring to ? It seed that way, since she said ‘Reinst-sama has woken up’ after seeing .
...Reinst...Yes, that was .
Yet at the sa ti, why did I feel like sothing was wrong?
“Here, let help you get up,” the younger maid said as she helped get up to sit on the bed, with so pillows supporting my back.
The first thing I did after sitting up was to touch my forehead. My head still ached.
“Would you like so water, Reinst-sama?” The younger maid asked.
I couldn’t really speak with my dry throat, so I lightly nodded.
The younger maid imdiately left the room, presumably to get so water.
Now then...
What on earth was going on?
I simply had no recollection on what had happened so far...
I wish soone could tell what was happening...
Shortly after that, the younger maid entered the room with a glass of water. Then, she helped drink it.
“Thanks,” I said with a slightly hoarse voice.
“No problem, Reinst-sama,” The maid smiled.
Afterward, I heard the sound of the door being opened. When I turned to look at the door, a familiar woman was standing there with a look of disbelief on her face. Her brown curly hair was tied up in a ponytail and her pine-colored eyes were looking straight at .
Aah, right. She was none other than Mother.
I sat there in disbelief. Why couldn’t I recall right away? Why did I feel a sense of oddness tingling in my heart?
“Reinst! You’re finally awake!” Mother said as she rushed to my side and grabbed my hands. As she entered my room, I saw a little boy clinging behind her. He had the sa brown hair as Mother, and his amber eyes were looking at in curiosity.
He was...my younger brother, Domi. But why was he so small?
...Wait. He was still a child, of course he was small.
Why did I feel like he was supposed to be bigger than this?
I touched my head again.
“What’s the matter?” Mother asked, her eyebrows frowned as she looked at holding my aching head.
“...What’s going on?” I asked back.
“You don’t rember?” Mother asked.
“...What happened before this?” I asked back.
Mother heaved a long sigh before she finally explained.
“A few days after your coming-of-age ceremony, you went out alone. Incidentally on that day, a teor shower happened and you were so unfortunate to get hit by one of the teorites. You were knocked unconscious and were brought to a hospital imdiately. After then, you didn’t wake up for almost a year...But thank goodness you are now awake.”
I stared dumbfoundedly at Mother.
A teor shower? My head got hit by the teorite? Knocked unconscious for almost a year?
I blinked. That sounded like sothing from a fairy tale, but at the sa ti, it felt so familiar...
Didn’t I die? Why didn’t I die at that ti, though?
I pondered over these questions.
Why did I only fall into a comatose? This left with more howork instead...
My head seed to ache more thinking about the amount of work I should be doing to make up for the ti I spent sleeping like a log.
Rather than falling into a vegetative phase, I felt like dying was an even better solution...
Yes, after sleeping for almost a year—based on what Mother said—I’d rather die instead. How ironic.
But what ca after dying? Was it really the sweet release of death?
I felt like I knew sothing about this...but why would I know it and what was it?
“I’ll call a doctor to examine you. In the anti...can you move?” Mother asked.
“...I don’t think so,” I said as I smiled bitterly.
“Then, Jane, you and Mary help Reinst take a bath and also eat. For the ti being, Reinst will be having her als in her room,” Mother said as she looked at the young maid, Jane.
“Yes, I will call Mary to prepare the bath,” Jane said as she bowed to Mother.
“It is good that you are awake. Now, let’s do things step by step. For now, you should focus on your recovery. After that, we can start on reviewing what you’ve missed while you were asleep. Then, there’s still ti before your fourteenth birthday, so we should be prepared for that as well,” Mother rambled on.
“I understand,” I said as I already expected Mother to think like that. That was what I had been thinking, too.
There was no ti to stop and agonize over my fate of being in comatose for almost a year. What was important was to seize the future. I had to resu my life...Sigh.
“I’m glad you are finally awake,” Mother smiled proudly as if she believed all along I would wake up.
“Don’t worry about the engagent with the crown prince, as his engagent hasn’t been decided yet. With you here now, most likely we will get this engagent,” Mother said ambitiously.
Huh...Oh right. Although the crown prince didn’t say anything during my coming-of-age ceremony, there was a rumor that the royal family was interested in discussing an engagent with after I ca of age. But before that could happen, I was knocked asleep by the teorite. I thought that the crown prince’s engagent would be settled with soone else by now, but who would have suggested that it hadn’t been decided? Maybe it was really fate?
But as I was thinking about the crown prince, Titus-sama and his engagent, I felt like sothing was really wrong if he were to be engaged to . Was it just my feeling, as I honestly didn’t like this engagent? But all my life, I was raised with the expectations of becoming his suitor, so why now...
There were so many ‘gaps’ that I felt in my mories. Like I was forgetting sothing important, but what was that? I couldn’t even guess...
For the ti being, I should focus on recovering first. I could also chase after that ‘gap’ after I felt better and could move around.
After that, Jane and Mary helped to get up from the bed. Perhaps it was the effect of being asleep for too long, my body felt so stiff that I couldn’t move around like I usually was. My body was nourished during my comatose, so I still had so energy, but I had better eat like normal after this. Perhaps it would make feel better.
It was almost evening when I woke up, so dinner would be in order after this. A doctor arrived after I had taken my bath. The examination didn’t take that long before the doctor told us that there was nothing wrong with . I just needed to take more rest and then exercises to make my body back to normal. The doctor even said that it was a miracle I woke up. The probability of waking up after one month in comatose was even smaller. There was even a possibility I would be sleeping for my whole life, or so I was told.
Mary and Jane helped eat my dinner. Since I just woke up, the chefs made a special porridge for instead of making the sa dinner for . They wouldn’t want to make my stomach upset after all. Thanks to it, dinner was easy for to eat.
Father ca to see after dinner. He said that he was glad to see finally waking up. He was looking forward to seeing brandishing a sword again and spar with him. I was also looking forward to it.
brandishing sword and swinging it at the sa ti as chanting magic...Huh?
Wait...I couldn’t even do magic, why would I be thinking about chanting magic during a combat?
The thought popped up in my mind almost naturally that I was even surprised at it myself.
Did my mories beco jumbled due to the lengthy slumber I had?
Silly , really.
Kania-san and Clyde also visited my room that night.
“Thank goodness you’re awake now,” Kania-san said as she proceeded to hug . I stiffened my body as this was unexpected. Yet at the sa ti, why did I feel like I was used to being hugged by soone?
Definitely not Kania-san, though. She was Clyde’s mom, not mine.
Yes, I definitely wasn’t used to this kind of gesture...could Kania-san and Clyde have this kind of habit? How enviable...
The hug didn’t last long, much to my relief...because that situation was quite awkward.
Perhaps sensing my awkwardness, Kania-san only smiled as she asked about how I was doing and how I was feeling, and so on.
We never really got along well due to our status quo, but I guess Kania-san kind of cared about , looking at her like this? Since we were still family after all, and she had watched grow up from a baby...
......I should be thinking that this gesture was just an acting to show our cordiality, but why was I so convinced that she was sincere?
“Reinst. I’m so glad that you’re awake,” Clyde’s face really showed his joy upon seeing awake.
I flinched looking at him like this.
Again, I felt like his feeling towards was sincere.
I felt like he wasn’t the type of person to lie about things like this. I felt like he really considered as his sister instead of a competitor, and that he wanted to be on good terms with .
But why?
My head ached a bit whenever I tried to think harder about these things, so I stopped overthinking for a while. Perhaps I really needed to take more rest before I started to think things through, slowly...
What I had in my head sotis contradicted the facts that I should have known. This contradiction...there ought to be so explanations to it, right?
Author's Note:
Thanks for reading and don't hesitate to comnt! If you'd like to mingle with other readers and discuss the story, don't hesitate to join my Discord server!
If you'd like to support this series and gain access to advanced chapter(s), you can do so by clicking the button below :3
Special thanks to all patrons~!
Reviews
All reviews (0)