Chapter 313: The Ash-gray Girl (5)
The Ash-gray Girl was dreaming.
A memory faded to ash, just like her hair.
In that dream, she had become a slightly younger girl.
The shouts of her father and mother echoed throughout the house.
“It’s because you’re always out drinking that we’ve ended up like this!”
To her mother’s scream, her father responded with an even louder voice.
“You say I’m just drinking? It’s because you keep squandering money that I’m like this!”
Frightened by her parents’ endless fighting, the girl curled up in a corner of the room.
Tears rolled down her cheeks, but the girl couldn’t move or make a sound.
It felt as if the whole world was crumbling down.
‘Mom, Dad…’
This dream was a memory that left an indelible scar in the Ash-gray Girl’s heart.
It should have been a memory etched in her mind, impossible to forget…
Strangely, the Ash-gray Girl had completely forgotten this memory.
Her parents, always fighting for all sorts of reasons.
Her brother, who hardly ever came home.
And then…
“It’s okay. It’ll be alright.”
That’s when it happened.
The Ash-gray Girl’s older sister approached her silently and embraced her tightly.
The girl’s frozen heart began to melt little by little in the warm body temperature and cozy scent.
“Everything will be okay.”
As her sister whispered, tears rolled down from the girl’s eyes.
Somehow it felt like her sister was saying it to herself, but it was a truly warm word that comforted the girl.
Pat pat.
And in the dream, her sister slowly patted the girl’s head.
“…”
With that, the Ash-gray Girl woke up from her dream.
Pat pat.
When she looked up, the Yellow Reaper was patting her head with a worried expression.
The Yellow Reaper, meeting her gaze, smiled with its still awkward expression.
Somehow.
It made her laugh.
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