This night, Asaki had a strange dream. What was it ? He could, sadly, not remember at all. Everything that he could remember of, were warmth and silence, reigning as kings over this inner world.
Still lost inside of this soft and blurry fog, a warm and gradual sensation slowly appeared on his cheek, as a ticklish and warmer thing pressed on top of his head. Slowly, it caressed it, was it trying to awake him ? Or something else ?
He didn't know.
During a few more minutes, the man kept enjoying the soft caress, until his consciousness finally, and fully, came back. His eyes, slowly opening, took a moment to adapt to the sudden light filling them... It was the sun's, warm and powerful, as if he was sleeping outside.
Strangely, it reminded him of that time, where he opened his eyes while being transported inside of a wheelbarrow by an Aurora... A bad, or good memory ? Maybe both.
Instantly, the soft and warm sensation disappeared, and when the young man looked up...
There was nothing.
Nothing but the church's roof, profusely shining thanks to the sunlight.
"Huh...? Oh, right... We're in the church..."
The brown wooden ground also became cold and hard again, not akin at all to the soft and warm fabric he was feeling under his body seconds before.
Yet, the young man didn't feel any coldness at all. His body still sending strange waves of warmth across each of his limbs, as if some kind of generators got turned on, and never stopped working.
A slight respiration was also echoing near him, and when Asaki turned to glance at the source of the breath, his eyes instantly met a crimson figure laying just behind him, one of its arm weakly wrapped around his body.
'Celia...?'
Now, this explained why he wasn't feeling cold at all...
'Wait... Celia ??!!!'
Instantly, the man rolled away from the girl by reflex, looking with surprise and embarrassment at the redheaded girl, whose eyes slowly opened because of the noise.
The man's heart was pounding pretty fast, and his legs feeling a bit weak. Why... Why was she here ?? He exactly remembered her sleeping on one of the benches, so how did she get there, on the ground ??
And, was she the one who was patting his head second before ??
'No... She's waking up...'
"Good morning..."
Her tired voice elevated from her face, as she slowly redressed before stretching a bit, also loudly yawning. The girl's hair were even more messy than they usually were, spikes and waves crossing each fiber of the red strings, profusely denser than before.
Some of them even were covering the girl's face, whom quickly brushed them back or on the side by reflex, the two suns being her eyes trying to properly stare at Asaki.
"H...Hey."
And soon, the girl, after she looked everywhere around her, also opened her mouth of surprise, instantly hiding her face by turning her back to the man.
"Oh sorry... I guess I was cold or something."
"Hahaha-"
A laugh suddenly started to escape from Asaki's lips, which couldn't contain it anymore. He laughed, hiding his mouth with the back of his hand, and as he did so... Celia also started laughing, contaminated by the strange virus he had just spread.
"Hahahahaha"
During minutes, both continued to laugh in the middle of the church, without any peculiar reason, and in the middle of the end of the world.
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During the following dozens minute, Celia went inside of one of the church's room to change and prepare a bit, while Asaki waited on a bench, having changed quicker than her.
His stomach, aching because of the hunger, couldn't wait for the Aurora to finally eat the meals he had stacked inside of his bag. In yesterday's evening, they hadn't even eaten, so the urge was extremely powerful.
"So... Asaki, you guessed what I wanted you to find ?"
Celia's voice echoed from a partially opened door near the bench where stood the man, a hint of worry and amusement filling it.
Instantly, the man sighed, a bit more serious and embarrassed because of the religious subject. This girl, was obsessed with these lords, although society forbid it. And even in the eyes of someone like Asaki whom didn't care, hearing her voice as she thought that they had being chosen, or saved by some deities...
"Yeah... But you're misunderstanding. Lords, or whatever, didn't save us or anything. There's actually no reasons, and surely scientific explanation."
Even from here, he heard the girl sigh with a fainted wrath as her head popped out from behind the door.
"Pfft... Lords don't need any reason to save us, and that's because they love us ! Plus, do you think that science can explain any of those monsters ? The coincidences are too strong to be just some random thing !"
Even if she wasn't really angry, Asaki still saw hints of vexation and annoyance on her face, talking as if it was just some religious debate and not the reason of how they got saved from death during an apocalypse. But, she was an Aurora, so compared to the twins, it looked way more normal.
"Then why didn't they saved everyone ? Why only us ? And yeah, I can surely explain with science the origin of those monsters, like some kind of virus which made people mutate."
The girl started to talk, but then stopped herself in the middle of her sentence, slowly going back inside of the room and closing the door. After more seconds, she simply said.
"We'll see which one of us is right then."
And silently, Asaki nodded, not wanting to continue this debate either. He respected the Aurora's believes, but still couldn't simply explain their situation by "Oh, gods saved me, out of all the dying persons in the world !" when he himself, was just Asaki.
He just felt a bit guilty that the Aurora looked, that much brainwashed... He didn't hate The Letatras peculiarly, but its true goal and followers... It was something else.
'Even my own parents...'
After all, because of this brainwashing, Asaki had lost the only family he had left, even if now he didn't considered those guys being his parents anymore.
'Still... There's no Lords, nor gods. We've got saved by some chance, and the next time will be the last.'
Celia finally came out of the room, not saying anything. Both weren't angry, just didn't wanted to create even more tension inside of the great mood which had surrounded them until now.
And, after they quickly ate their meals. Both looked at the entrance, Asaki lost in his thoughts, as he was wondering if he indeed found what he needed to find. And Celia, thinking about a promise she had made before leaving, as the sun profusely shined above their head.