After a heavy rain, various sounds echoed through the mountains along with the morning sun.
Among them, the chirping of winter birds that endured the heavy rain reached even inside the cave.
Having slept without a single movement, Shar-tee forced her heavy eyelids open. Her bewildered eyes stared at the dark cave ceiling.
“Ah…”
Shar-tee lay on a roughly spread blanket, silently laughing to herself.
“It hurts…!!!”
The muscle pain was so terrible that it felt like sleep escaped in an instant.
“Even though every part of my body hurts, I slept well… I fainted.”
Once the tension was released, it was almost the same as losing consciousness.
Shar-tee just laughed.
Still, how fortunate it was not to have nightmares.
“Huh?”
Shar-tee glanced down at the force applied to her left hand.
There, intertwined with Ren’s hand, she noticed.
“…”
Shar-tee rolled her eyes slyly.
Late, but one by one, the events of yesterday, before falling asleep, started to vividly come back to her.
Ren, who feared the rain, the sudden revelation of madness, removing the silver ring to calm Ren, the bare face they faced, and the first confession in the rain.
[“I like you, Ren.”]“Kuh, uh…”
It felt like her face would burst with embarrassment.
Shar-tee bit her lip, holding back the belated embarrassment. Reflexively, her fingers tightened with Ren’s, causing the intertwined fingers to tremble.
“Uh…”
“…”
When Ren seemed to be waking up and started tossing, Shar-tee closed her mouth, stifling her breath.
Although she had fallen into sleep without realizing, there was no way to confirm if the madness had disappeared or not.
“Ren…?”
Shar-tee, who turned her body to the side with difficulty, called him cautiously.
However, Ren only let out faint groans occasionally and didn’t open his eyes. There was still a deep groove between his eyebrows, and his thick eyebrows were mercilessly furrowed.
‘What should I do?’
Shar-tee anxiously observed Ren’s condition.
She couldn’t escape with her body groaning in pain. In that case, there was only one way.
Shar-tee resolutely clenched her lips, closing the distance with Ren desperately. As soon as he opened his eyes, she attached her face closely, allowing him to see her first and foremost.
Survival was more important than embarrassment.
“Haa…”
As Ren’s deep breath burst out, his eyelids shivered.
While still lying down, Shar-tee watched nervously as Ren slowly opened his eyes.
“Ren!”
Shar-tee didn’t miss a beat and tightly held the hand she was holding with Ren. Once again, Ren responded to Shar-tee’s call with a slight jerk.
As Ren’s clear turquoise eyes turned toward Shar-tee, his pupils quietly dilated.
“Ren, are you okay?”
“…”
Ren stared at Shar-tee with a vacant expression as he blinked slowly.
Shar-tee, unsure and relying only on his gaze, observed him with a nervous heart.
“Are you okay? Your eyes seem to have regained focus.”
Slightly perplexed, Shar-tee, reassured by Ren’s gentle response, let out a sigh of relief.
Just the fact that he didn’t utter agonizing moans while breathing roughly was fortunate enough.
As Shar-tee’s expression softened, Ren’s eyes trembled beneath them.
“…Sha?”
With a hoarse sound, Ren scratched his locked throat and spoke.
However, as he sensed something strange, he immediately rose to sit up.
“Why am I…”
Upon observing the bandages tightly wound around his clenched fist, small wounds scattered across his body, and the sore muscle pain, Ren wore an uncertain expression.
Perceiving that his current condition was entirely different from his last memory, Ren became perplexed and touched his forehead.
Shar-tee tensed up in a different way.
“Do you remember me?”
“…Remember?”
Shar-tee’s throat felt dry.
The gaze she directed at Ren, questioning where his memory began and where it stopped, was intense. Ren, feeling a peculiar pressure beside him, remained silent for a moment, seemingly retracing his memory.
A complex and subtle mix of emotions brushed across Ren’s face several times, disappearing and reappearing.
“…Ah.”
At that moment, Ren’s gaze halted on the intertwined hands with Shar-tee.
Shar-tee, with a tense expression, awaited Ren’s reaction.
However, Ren, instead of responding, closed his eyes for a long moment, then turned his gaze away. It seemed noticeably awkward.
“Oh, it’s already morning. You said you’d wake me up; did you stand guard alone all night?”
“…”
“It must have been cold. Why didn’t you cover yourself with anything?”
Shar-tee was momentarily speechless.
“Are you perhaps lying down now to get some sleep after staying up all night?”
Observing Ren asking questions without making eye contact, Shar-tee’s lips twitched in disbelief.
‘Can’t remember…? Everything?’
It was fine to forget everything else. That’s what she hoped for.
But at least, the first confession, the moment she conveyed her feelings that she had hidden, denied, and kept secret until now, shouldn’t he remember that? An uneasy Shar-tee turned her gaze abruptly.
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