To be an artist
Poems
Just
Like You
flower
of the night
Round
Table Talk
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Novel
Adonis
Blue (6)
Adonis
Blue (7)
Relay
Writing
Cafe
Evergreen
Adonis Blue (7)
Epilogue (2)
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Crystal approached in front of the building just then and
heard the cry. Before that in a distance she noticed his figure rushing
into the building at a dash.
She hurried to enter the building. She ploughed her way
through the throng, run to him and knelt down.
'Dear Jeanne...'
'Oh Crystal, it's ya' He looked in her direction and responded
feebly.
Crystal took his hands and wrapped her hands round them.
'What's the matter with you? What on earth happened to you?'
She looked at him but the electronic shock had entirely
changed him from what he was before.
Her eyes were unchanged from those days - crystal-clear, without blur,
pure, and straight.
'Crystal, I'm a slayer. This is the second time'
She shook her head.
'I was about to blow up this building, this country, and this world'
Her gentle warmth came down to him.
It was a soft feel of maiden mignon palms.
'I thought the world was mad. Such a society's better be
gone.
...my best friend has died, and I'm useless to live.
I set a bomb on the picture and I was thinking to see it burst from the
building opposite, and waited.
'But, when I saw ya coming, I realised.
This world's got you.
If I leave it burst, I, of all, am part of the mad cog. This is tough,
I thought and came to stop it'.
Her white one-piece dress was trembling slightly beside
him.
'Crystal, ya know, I been living letting myself be carried
away by the tide.
I just took and gave into all. I was stuck, drifting'.
The figure of Crystal gradually looked blurry and like a
whitish hazy gleam in his weakened vision.
Even the feel of her hands clasping him was becoming lost little by little.
'Nevertheless I've run to stop it on my own will for the
first time.
It was the first time I moved my life by myself.
I'm no longer who I was, and I don't need the name given by someone.
I'm not Jeanne d'Arc anymore'
His senses receded increasingly.
That does it, he thought, gazed squarely at the eyes of Crystal although
he couldn't focus on her, squeezed out his last strength, and opened his
lips with his shoulders heaving from heavy breathing.
'Sorry Crystal, but it's up with me, I can't live up to
the promise to attend your wedding and look at your figure in bridal dress...'
Crystal, whose tears just came faster and made her voiceless,
could do nothing but shake her head with a full swing.
His smile then was the most beautiful to date. 'Crystal...nice
to meet you...'
So said he, and closed his eyes calmly.
She sensed the light of one small candle out in her hands.
She heard a voice outside their surroundings, this is a heroic boy who's
saved the crisis.
Crystal felt her outer world getting more and more distant.
The reality that this is in the building located in a heart of the city,
faded from her senses.
A luminous, lucid light veiled all over the area.
There smelled an unearthly fragrant scent, and a beautiful
woman with long hair in white silk like fairy plumage floated down before
her eyes.
The woman embraced him in her arms, showed a look smitten with sorrow, and dropped a tear.
In front of Crystal in a stupor, the woman fluffily lifted into the air holding him in her arms, and - vanished.
Crystal, who had not been able to move at all in fright
at the incident in front of her eyes, bounced back and released her grasp.
And - a little butterfly in vivid azure appeared, circled in front of
her once, and flew away somewhere.
Adonis Blue Lysandra bellargus for the scientific name. A small, blue-coloured butterfly belonging to lycaenidae. It is named after Adonis, a beautiful boy in Greek mythology, who is loved by goddess of beauty Aphrodite, but dies struck by the fangs of a beast.
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Novel
'Adonis Blue'
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Epilogue
