I Blue : Reincarnated as a Cursed Crit-Based Swordwoman-Chapter 27: Limbo – Froschköning (2)

"I will be honest, I am absolutely not okay with the way you handled things up until now, you know?"

"I... I guess so..."

"Isolating yourself! Dwelling on those dark thoughts every day! Skipping baths and some meals!" she said kicking him at any item she mentioned. "How will I ever grow into a beautiful and charming woman with that?!"

"Ah! Wait, I—Ouch— Huh, well, sorry. I don't even do that ever since Momo is here!"

"Then for once that someone is nice with us, you have to go and lust after her! What would you have done if she got disgusted by us and left! People's feelings are delicate, ok?!"

"Wait, wait! I understand okay? I understand!"

Noah was barely blocking the blows of her fists as they tried to hit his face. She wasn't even using force but it was as if the weight of each of her accusations was too heavy for him to bear.

"What were those stares?! You don't think she noticed where you were looking at?? You would even take a sniff at her when you she close enough!!!"

"H-Hey! The last one only happened twice!"

"It!!! Happened!!!"

"Wait, I get it okay?! Stop hitting me!"

"Also, how could you go after a woman in my body?! I am a girl if you didn't notice! I can't be interested in another girl!!!"

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"And—ouch—and I am a boy!!! Why would you expect me to—ah—go after anything but a girl?!!"

"Because you are in a girl body, idiot!!!"

"Two girls can love each other just fine, you dumbass!!!" replied Noah, catching Vasilisa's arms.

"Then you should love another man too, you dick brain!!!"

"I am strictly heterosexual!!!" Noah yelled.

"So I am!!!" Vasilisa yelled back.

"..."

"..."

The two stayed silent for a moment , forgetting even to fight themselves. The court was now empty with only them left in the world. Both of them realized—this was a unique moment the world may not bestow them in the future. If they had to say something to each other, it was now or never.

It was Noah who started, taking in a deep breath. "Hum... Sorry for what I did. I am terribly sorry."

"Hmph... What you did? What are you talking about exactly? I can't really pinpoint anything specific with all the things you did."

"Everything. I am sorry for everything. Sorry, if you didn't stumble on someone like me, you..."

He stopped feeling tears coming up his eyes. What was happening to him? He yelled so proudly he was a man earlier—couldn't he even block his tears.

"...You idiot."

Vasilisa pulled him into a tight embrace.

"If you weren't there, I would already be dead a long time ago. A death nobody would have shed any tear for... A death nobody would have avenged in any way."

"... But if you didn't meet me... You would still be alive. I wasted my life first and now I am.... I..."

"... I will admit, you are not the most reliable adult I know. Sometimes, I have the feeling you are even more childish than me. Do you have any idea of what I lived before you took over my body?!"

"No... but I can still tell it was worse than where I lived..."

"Exactly! You could talk normally! Nobody treated you like a monster!"

"Yes..."

"Your mother was actually your true mother and didn't hate you! She was just a bit too violent! If you simply understood that she wasn't one to openly show her feelings, then you two could have lived happily!"

"I guess..."

"You could have stood up to those bullies if you wanted! You could have gotten that girl's heart if you insisted a bit more!"

"Maybe..."

"Why are you such a half-assed person pretending to know his limits when you give up at the slightest occasion?! You are strong and smart, you idiot! A few failed classes in college is nothing for someone like you! You could have done something of that life if you really wanted to!"

"... Yeah."

"People... People would have understood you, you know? Why... Why didn't you talk to anyone? You can speak... right? You aren't like me... Why didn't you... tell them... Why did you keep all that for yourself? Why?"

"..."

Noah pushed the young teenage girl's sobbing face against his chest. She was back to the appearance he was familiar with—that lonely 14 years old girl whose body had been his for almost half a year. He too was back to this body he spent 21 years into—the Noah Ashenville he drowned that day.

The courtyard had disappeared leaving them in a boundless white room. The end was near, they knew it.

"... Do you realize... how much I envy you?" she asked, in a whisper

Noah took a moment to think about the question and then nodded.

"I do."

"Heh... No... You couldn't possibly get it... I am the only one who understands me. Our bodies are just islands on which we are. We wave to each other and send each other bottles, but we have no raft to visit each other."

"... We are together now, though. Guess that I did find a raft."

"And you wasted it..."

"Are you sure? You might think that you are the only one who understands yourself but that's false... You are only... the one who understands yourself the most."

"... Heh, trying to be the adult now?"

"Gotta act my age at some point... Though 21 is a bit... It is not old, right?"

"Geezer."

"... Brat."

"You left Momo alone."

"Yeah..."

"Even though she could take your virginity."

"... A kid shouldn't say that kind of thing!?"

"Don't think about how to use my body to do something like that then! I can hear those things, you know? Did I even give you the permission to use my body like that? This is my island, you know?!"

"Are you sure you weren't the one secretly expecting me to do exactly that with Momo?! You are oddly insistent!"

"... It is time."

Vasilisa slowly left his embrace standing up in front of him. Her hair was messy and she had red tired eyes. Everything about her looked miserable in a new way but she somehow stood there looking almost invincible.

"I... don't like sports too, Noah," she said, calmly sweeping her already dry eyes. "But this sport is the one I hate the most."

A smile drew itself on her face, shining more than the pure white around her.

"Please, be an adult this time. Don't make me take over for you ever again, okay?"

"Huh?"

Before he could understand the meaning of her words his vision was filled with a blinding white enveloping both his body and mind.

"Va... Vasilisa?"

His mind was drifting away peacefully. Maybe that was the eternal peace of paradise he couldn't conceive before? It was such a... frightening thing.

.

I am giving another chance, Noah Ashenville.

Please...

Find a way for us...

To exist in this world.