Opening my eyes I look around in confusion. Where am I?  This isn’t the room I was in before. Where was I before? As I sit upright the door opens. It’s Charlotte and a tall man with long, white hair. Why does that seem so familiar?

“Good morning lady Pime!” As Charlotte smiles at me. 

Clapping her hands she introduces the man, “Oh yeah! This is the demon lord, Zotsely! Saul Zotsely!” 

Where have I seen him?

“Hello.” as he said this in a nervous tone.

“Um, how did I get here by chance? I don't remember being here at all.” As I scan the room.

“Oh, a maid was walking by and saw you lying lifeless on the floor in one of the halls. So we quickly took you to a room, cause you know. We don’t leave lifeless bodies on the floor.” She claps her hands together with a grin on her face.

Smiling at her I got up but, when I stood up a pain ran through my whole body. Needles piercing my chest. I grasp my chest as I sit back down on the bed.

“W-what's wrong with me?” Breathing heavily, I hold my chest, it hurts so much.

What’s wrong with me? I didn’t even do anything. How did I get here and remember absolutely nothing?

As I look at Charlotte and Saul, they are talking to each other. There is no way they did. Oh that's why he's nervous.

Sighing, I cut through their conversation, “Did one of you wipe my memories?”

It goes silent. Charlotte turns around as Saul turns to me. Staring at me I look back at him.

“So you did it?”

He nodded yes. He has no emotions at all. His eyes are dull, bored even. But why, why is this making me so angry?

He’s done nothing too noteworthy so far…

I must be his attitude.

Honestly, at least I figured this out sooner. Whatever magic he used was trash but, I don’t think it was an accident. Why through? What happened? All I know right now is my chest pain and I had my memories wiped from today. 

“Why did you do it?”

Asking him this question I sighed. As I rub my face in irritation. 

Looking at him I look at him with confusion, as he looks away. Tapping on Charlotte's shoulder she turns back to me. Hitting Saul in the back he snaps toward me.

Smiling, I could tell why Saul looked nervous. 

As Charlotte stares at me with a smile she turns slowly to Saul growing her smile.

Quickly Saul starts talking, “Um, sooo I moved your mana core to your heart. If you didn’t already know it somehow formed in your head which most of the time leads to death. From what I’ve seen, also the memory erasing was more fear of what you would think of me because of this.” 

Looking around he fidgets with his hands when he bows, “I’m sorry.”

Seeing this I laugh at him.

Standing up right he looks embarrassed. It is funny to watch. Then, Charlotte claps her hands once again.

“Well, that explains almost everything but!”

As she gives a very ‘friendly’ grin to Saul she continues, “I have not taken any part in this and gave him a very fun chat. So don’t blame me for any of this.” Laughing, she walks up to me as she grabs my hand giving me something.

 Looking at my hand, it was bread! It looks so good, the top was a crisp golden color as I ripped a piece from it. The inside was fluffy as the steam ran to my face.

Wow. I’ve never seen bread this good-looking before.

“Yeah this was from the kitchen, the chefs fixed everything up!”

This is amazing. Even though I got an f- you from Saul. It definitely could have been worse…

Eating my bread I felt a sense of guilt. It dug into my stomach. 

Why me?

As Charlotte finishes her bread she gets up walking to the door with Saul. Before they leave she turns to me, “You can rest here! We have way too many empty rooms anyway!” 

Shutting the door behind her. 

It’s quiet. The room is warm as a slow breeze flows in through the window. The walls are smooth even just looking at them. With ceilings reaching the sky. Turning to the window I smile at the sunset. Oranges, pinks, and reds fill the sky. As clouds stretch through the sky.

My heart sinks as I smile.

After the sunset, the room goes dark. A cool blue lights the room. It grows cold as I stand up to close the window, my heart throbs in pain. Holding my chest I limb to the window. Closing it the pain grows. Wincing I start breathing faster. It hurts so much. After standing by the window I move one leg at a time, my legs feel more numb after every step. Before I stumble to the bed face first. I don’t want any more pain.

 I'll just want to sleep.

A tear runs down my face as I fall asleep.

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T-

Ti-

Tick-

Tick-

Tick-

What is that noise? 

Opening my eyes it’s bright. As I blink quickly, adjusting my eyes to the brightness. Pushing myself up I look around. The first thing I notice is the grass and flowers scattered around the plains.

Grass? 

This isn’t the demon world. That's for sure.

“Hello?” Shouting out my words echo back. 

What?

“Hell-” A voice cuts through me.

“Oh my goddess!”

Quickly turning to the noise, my heart sinks.

N-no this can’t be.

It’s me and Mumbo when he proposed to me… 

My heart beats faster and faster, it grows in my mind. The two of them hug each other. I  sit on the ground when the Pime hugging Mumbo disappears. 

?!

Then, he turns to me.

Raising his arm he shouts to me, “Pime! Pime what are you doing over there?”

I stare at him as he runs to me. 

Slowly getting closer he stands in front of me.

“What are you doing on the ground?” Smiling at me as he reaches his hand to me.

I stare at him with no reaction. 

“How could you do this to me?”

“Pime are you alright?” 

How could he do this? How. How can someone like him be this happy?

As I push myself up I feel light. There's no pain in my heart. I stare at him.

Looking around he asks in a concerned tone, “Are you okay? Did something happen?”

Poking my cheek I tilt my head, “I don’t know, did something happen?”

Before he could say anything my body moved on its own. Leaping forward I knock him to the ground. Grunting in pain I stare at him with no emotion. 

In a whiney tone he says, “Ow my head.” 

I move my hands to his neck. Grabbing my wrists he yells, “PIME WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” 

Just die. How could you be happy like this? How? You killed me for what. Fame? 

Squeezing his neck he kicks me off him. As I sit there, I look at him. He crawls backwards holding his neck. I see my fingernails imprinted on his neck.

“Are you crazy?!” Saying this, the land changes. 

Hitting his chest he yells, “Are you trying to kill me?” 

The grass dies as the flowers shrivel up, turning to dust.

He changed, his worried look turned to nothing. Dead eyes looked at me. As his arm grew into an axe.

My eyes widened as I tried to yell at him. I couldn’t. Oh, I know what this is. 

It’s fear.

Sitting on the floor he walks closer to me before hugging me. Why? Why again? What did I do? I want to cry but I can’t even do that.

Letting me go he raised his arm mouthing the words, “I’m sorry.” 

My vision blurs and unblurred.I can’t do anything. Nothing. Please do anything. PLEASE.

As I push and push to move PLEASE MOVE. The only thing I could do was smile. 

The sword swings down and my vision goes dark. 

Why?

Why me?

What did I do?

I open my eyes. Sweat drips from my face. My throat is dry as my heart pounds. It rings through my head. 

BUMP BUMP-

BUMP BUMP-

BUMP BUMP-

In a raspy voice I whisper to myself, “Can’t I? Can’t I be happy?”

I can explain these feelings. I just want to kill him. Hurt him. Break, just anything to equal the pain he gave me.

Oh. I figured out what I’ll do. 

Slowly, very slowly he will wish for death. 

Giggling to myself, I sat up right. Turning to the window the sun rises through the mountains. The dark blue sky fights the rise of the sun. 

How can something be so beautiful?