-Side Yura-

Even though you fell into a dark side, I still loved you, because I knew you were in agony...

Even now, I still love you.

I miss you so much with sweet heartache.

So tender and with a heart as beautiful as your appearance...

The only man I was in love with from the bottom of my heart, Saga...

The first time I met Saga was when we were both 15 years old.

Saga, the head candidate of the next Pope, was adored and surrounded by villagers, although I was too intimidated to talk to him, so I was just staring at him from outside the circle of the people.

I always thought, "What a beautiful and tender person.", and I longed for him, dreaming of how wonderful it would be if he became Pope because he was that attractive...

Aioros was very popular among children for being friendly and playing with them whenever he visited the village of Sanctuary.

Both of them were loved by the villagers, but I was in awe and felt I couldn't be close to them, even though I was attracted to Saga somehow.

I was so envious of people who could talk and be friendly with Saga

I never thought a turning point would come to a girl like me at that moment...

-Side Saga-

Every time I visited the villages, I socialized with them, looking forward to Athena's birth. I encouraged them by informing them of the joy of her rebirth, and we were celebrating together.

From children to elders, all of them were waiting for Athena's rebirth happily and I was always surrounded by them.

This is one of the duties of elder Gold Saints.

I'm not sure since when, but I started to realize there was a girl who didn't join the villagers, looking at me with a longing expression.

At first I thought she was just a shy girl, but as I gradually saw her looking at me, I noticed her eyes were full of aspiration toward me.

Since then, unlike my usual, I started to follow her in the eyes.

When my eyes met hers, she averted her eyes bashfully.

If I looked away from her, I detected a whiff of her gaze.

Someday, I want to talk to her while looking into her eyes...

Casting my mind back over that now, that was a moment she started to attract me.

And soon after that, the occasion where I got close to her came...

-Side Yura-

I was all alone, having no relatives, so I had to spend the most of my day on housekeeping such as delivering foodstuff, drawing the water from the well and so on.

Born to a Greek mother from Sanctuary and a Japanese father , something which was unheard of in the village, my mother and I received cold treatment from the villagers.

The ill treatment she received caused a lot of strain on my mother, unable to withstand it, she eventually became physically and mentally ill and passed away young.

There were people who felt a pity for me, and they sometimes supported me, but basically I was all alone.

Staring at Saga was the only moment that I could forget my loneliness.

On that day as usual, I was on my way back home from drawing the water from the well.

I found Saga unusually standing alone in a field of flowers with a sorrowful face, looking at faraway in the sky.

I was fascinated by his face, standing with my hands holding the pails.

It was the moment. As soon as Saga looked at me with a stern face, he shouted, "Dangerous!". He rushed to me with an astonishing speed and then held me up and jumped back.

Saga made a chopping motion in front of me, who was confused with not knowing what was going on, I saw flower petals scattered and also a venomous snake divided into pieces .

From the dreadful scene made me shiver, terrorized with fear, I clung to his chest in spite of myself.

"You are safe now. There is nothing to worry about any more. Sorry for scaring you."

"Please don't apologize. Thank you for saving me."

I never imagined that I would talk to my longing Saga that way.

My heart was throbbing.

Saga patted me on the head with a perplexed expression.

"I'm sorry for spoiling all your efforts to bring the water all the way to here."

"I am sorry, Saga. You got soaking wet."

"It'll get dry very soon, no problem. Anyway, what is your name?"

"Yura."

"Yura? Are you Japanese? You don't look like a Japanese girl at all though..."

"My mother is Greek and my father is Japanese. Although both are gone now..."

"I see...That's why you draw the water all by yourself. Since my actions caused you to spill it let me draw the water for you."

"What!? Impossible...! I can't let Gold Saint do something like that!"

"A gold Saint must not forsake a girl all alone in the world."

"But..."

"Okay. Well then. How about having lunch with me at your house? Think of it as gratitude."

I went speechless because of Saga's such offer.

I was happy enough to see him from the distances, but being saved my life and having lunch with him...!

I blushed and nodded.

-Side Saga-

The reason why I stood alone the outskirts of the village and looked faraway was because I had a quarrel with Kanon.

I got irritated with him, who gradually liked dark deeds and incite me to do things which Saints must not do, so I knocked him out and left.

I just ran and ran, and without realizing I came to the outskirts of the village.

When I was looking at a blue sea faraway absentmindedly, I noticed the gaze which I knew.

I inadvertently looked there, that girl stood still, staring at me with her arms holding pails.

Before I met her eyes, I noticed a venomous snake creeping toward her.

I held her up and jumped away, and killed it with throwing a chop.

I never imagined coming across her like that.

I talked to her, who always looked somehow sorrowful and distant, for the first time.

Yura...having no family, all alone in the world...

With wavy brown hairs, green eyes surrounded by the mysterious orangish edge of irish which makes me feel like being drawn into them, and well-formed Greek beautiful nose...

She didn't look half of Greek and Japanese at all.

It was my first time to see her that close.

I noticed that I turned over her pails.

In dry Greek climate, the places where you can get water are limited.

Delivering the water all by herself is a hard labor.

I felt a pity for her so I offered to do it instead of her.

She refused it but I didn't allow her another choice.

By making her have lunch with me, I got her agreement.

I wanted to talk with her more.

Now that I know the reason why her eyes were full of sorrow, I wanted to save her.

She reminded me of my brother Kanon, who I can never save, The only difference was unlike Kanon who is a strong boy, she was a weak girl.

If I could help her from sadness, I want to be with her as much as I could.

I didn't want sad existence like Kanon anymore.

I wished from the bottom of my heart.

This was our encounter.

Unknowing the fate where I would end up hurting her terribly later on, we met.

If we didn't, she would've never got hurt.

Still, I was happy despite the fate.

Because she taught me the meaning of true love...