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When Reine opened her eyes, she was already back in her house. Rio was looking over her with worry. Reine groaned slightly and tried to get up. "…Gwen?"

"She's alright," Rio replied. "Well, Dr Klaus took a look at her, just to be sure."

"…Right."

"My name's Rod, and I'm a werewolf!"

Reine scratched her head, messing her pink hair up. "That has to be a dream…" she muttered.

"Reine?"

"Hm?"

"What dream?" the blonde asked.

Reine looked at Rio for a moment, then shrugged. "A very ridiculous one," she finally replied.

"Of meeting a werewolf?"

Reine held her breath and blinked hard. "How did you—"

"It's not a dream, Reine," Rio told her immediately. "It was real."

She huffed heavily. "Werewolf? Are you kidding me now?"

Rio shook her head and then directed Reine's attention to a pot at the corner of the room. It was a cherry blossom bonsai that was already past its blooming period. "I'll make that one bloom all-year round," Rio told her as she pointed a finger at the said plant.

Slowly, but surely, the pink blossoms began to appear on the branch. Reine held her breath, again, not knowing whether this was a dream within a dream… if that was possible.

"It's not a dream, Reine," Rio assured her again. "I'm an earth nymph. Farming aligns with my… real nature."

"Nice pun," the pinkette muttered. "So, everyone in this town is… magical?"

"You could put it that way, if that pleases you," she replied.

Reine scratched her head. "Okay… here's what we have—my sister and I are currently living in a town filled with… magical creatures?"

"No mortal are supposed to be able to pass through the Mist," Rio countered. "This town should appear like a thick mist to them!"

"Are you saying that I'm magical, too?" Reine retorted. "Reality check, for the last twenty-one years of my life—and that means my whole life—I'm not magical. No sudden levitation, disappearance, whatever bullshit!"

"But, Reine, this is a reality…"

"What the—"

"Reine," a soft voice called from the direction of the door. Rio turned around and found the other, younger sister, Gwen was already up and about. "I think you're going too far."

The pinkette took off the blanket and stood up, walking to her sister. "Are you okay, Gwen?"

Rio noticed that if there were anyone who could soften the pinkette up, it would be Gwen. Although it seemed that between the two sisters Reine was more assertive, she would never go against Gwen. In a way, Gwen was the one who held the rein in the relationship.

The brunette nodded. "You shouldn't be so harsh," she reminded her.

"Are you telling me to accept this magical theory?" Reine asked back skeptically. "Next, you're telling me Twilight is a real deal!"

"I would gladly appreciate if you do not take that account to be the real story of my kind," Allen interposed from behind Gwen, a hand on his hip. "I am much, much more amazing than that author wrote."

"Your kind?"

The redhead smirked, revealing one of his protruded canines, which Reine finally noticed this time. "Oh, shit…" she muttered under her breath.

"I'm not going to eat you, if that's what you're worried about. Human food has sated my palate."

Reine moved to put herself between Gwen and Allen. "And how am I supposed to trust you with you withholding your identity all this time?"

"Hold me against my word," Allen assured her. "A real man never goes back on his word, and I can prove to you that I am one of them… in any way you'd like to," he winked at the end of his sentence, but Reine simply ignored it.

Gwen put her hand on Reine's tense shoulder. "Reine, they have taken us in… and there has been no incident whatsoever."

"How could I be sure that they meant to help, and not to eat us instead?!"

"If anyone wants to eat you he'd done so from day one," Allen told her. "Please, Reine, you both scream humans."

"There's this thing called a recon!"

"Just shut up," another harsh voice chided her. "Everyone who lives here adhere to the one rule old man gave us—be open-minded—if you can't just pack your stuff and get the hell outta here!"

The moment Reine saw Neil's face, she felt a pain in her chest. She dismissed it almost immediately, thinking that it was due to her rage of this whole absurd notion of this town being a less-than-normal town. However, the pain soon became too much for her to hide it, and she gripped the fabric on her chest and groaned.

"Reine?" Gwen asked, alarmed. "Are you okay?"

Even in pain, the pinkette still flashed one of her glares to Neil. "Y'know, if this is real… if this whole magic thing is… I wonder if angels are real, too…"

"…am gonna see whether I have a guardian angel and wake him up," she groaned out. "With all these misfortunes… seems like logical to do so, right?"

By the time she finished talking, her breathing had become heavy that Gwen had to bring her back to her bed with Rio's help. "I think you really should control your temper…" the brunette told her sister softly. "…won't do you good…"

"Never thought you still believe in that," Neil muttered before turning back and leaving.


Dunhill came to visit the two sisters, but Reine was still resting. As such, Gwen was the only one receiving him.

"At first, I thought there might be something different with the two of you," Dunhill said the moment both of them sat down across each other. "The barrier I erected should have misled normal humans."

"So I've heard," Gwen said quietly. "But… here we are."

"One possibility is that perhaps both of you are not fully humans," Dunhill proposed. "That's what I thought when looking at Reine's hair."

"I can't confirm or deny that. We have been nothing but… ordinary."

"Of course…" Dunhill sighed. "Say, Gwen, if the two of you want to move out…"

"We have nowhere else to go," Gwen replied. "Nobody will give us a shelter for free and not many would employ either of us knowing my sickness or Reine's half-blindness."

"World has become a much more complicated place, huh?"

Gwen's face darkened. For a moment, her life flashed through her mind. The family that rejected her, employers that turned them away… it was not so complicated in her mind. They had a choice, and that's what they choose.

"Kindness is a rare thing, that's that."


Do you think that kindness has become rare in our world, too?

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