Beatrice cackled over Battler`s frustration.
Lambdadelta was amused no longer.
Bernkastel sipped her tea quietly.
"Come,Battler!That was surely nothing!Another round!"
Beatrice urged Battler to come up and fight once more.
Though all the witches and servants knew that she wanted him to smile with determination always.
Her infatuation with him was quite obvious.
Though,Bernkastel was occupied in her own thoughts.
It seemed as if her own reflection was looking at her.
With piercing yet lifeless eyes.
The reflection was like a human Bernkastel.
Though quite younger.
"Oh."
Bernkastel dropped her teacup.
Everyone looked at her.
Bernkastel just fixed the cup,not saying anything.
Lambda smiled smugly,"My,my,aren`t we clumsy?"
Bernkastel just scowled at her.
Though Lambdadelta was her friend,she was also a rival.
"Milady Bernkastel,may I?"
Ronove offered more tea to Bernkastel.
Bernkastel covered her face with her hand,shaking her head.
"Excuse me,"she muttered.
Bernkastel was floating in her sea of kakera.
fragments of different worlds,but same times.
She drifted towards anything.
The one that floated by her was of Tsumihoroboshi-hen.
When Rena Ryuuguu was the murderer.
Bernkastel grimaced as Rena mercilessly bashed the pipe into Ritsuko Mamiya`s body.
Then was Watanagashi-hen.
She turned away from that one.
Bernkastel sighed,she then remembered the body that she had taken from a young girl.
Rika...Furude.
"You."
Bernkastel straightened herself out,looking at who said that.
It was the girl.
She was wearing her summer green dress.
Her dark purple hair below her waist.
Bernkastel had realized,this was her "reflection."
"Why are you here?"Rika asked.
Her voice too mature for her looks.
Bernkastel was silent for a while.
"Just...Just looking...It`s been a while,Rika..."
Bernkastel had offered a hand.
Rika snapped back,"Don`t touch me!"
Bernkastel`s hand drifted back to her side.
"See you again,Rika."
Bernkastel had returned from her sea.
Still very upset.
"Yo,Bernkastel!"
Battler had come up the witch.
"Battler...Good afternoon."
"What`s up?You look a little sick."
"Oh...It`s nothing to be concerned about.
We don`t get ,I ...
We get sick of being this way."
Battler nodded,understanding.
He then ruffled her hair.
Bernkastel gasped softly,looking up at him.
He smiled,"See us next game?"
Bernkastel looked away.
"Perhaps...I will..."
And so,she never thought of those days in dreadful
Hinamizawa.