CHAPTER CCCXCVIII

(FAMILIAR MELODY)

“YOU WOULD NOT FORGET, RIGHT?”

“I WILL COME BACK, FOR YOU, RYUU.”

Knock by the familiar melody of those words bring to both of them. Arius smirks as it is too early for him to draw back, as he will never accept such petty feelings for it is nothing but weakness in his world.

“Shall we?”

Impatient, yet in reality, he just wanted to escape from the drowning scene in front of them. Daniela nods as she jumps inside the space that he marks and strips from the thin layer of time. But before the hole ever closes, she looks back as she knows the feeling, the promise, and the said memory that is being forgotten.

“Promises.”

She whispers all as their surroundings change and they both now stand in their still ghostly appearance at the beginning of the current book and the world they are within. As the voice and image of the other shard of him ask.

“WILL you be my scarlet kingdom?”

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