“Did you know? I used to like you.”
The day before my one and only childhood friend was to become a May bride, she confessed to me like that.
“You really didn’t know, did you?”
“Not at all.”
“Don’t worry, it was just for a little while.”
Back then, I didn’t know what this heavy, aching feeling was. Unable to say a single word, she remained kind to me until the very end.
“You have to live well even without me, okay?”
“Okay.”
If I had known that my childhood friend, who left like that, would return as a cold corpse.
Clinging to her coffin in maddening regret, guarding her side, and then, by some miracle, finding myself back at the age of eighteen.
“I won’t let it happen again.”
Dante resolved to change everything.
***
“How do you seduce someone?”
“With your looks, Master, you could just charm them with your face. Then, when the mood’s right, sweep them off their feet!”
“What? If they fall, they’ll get hurt.”
“…….”
“Why are you making that face?”
