You Promised…Remember?
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Chapter One
Memory of a Promise
We survived. I'm not sure how, but…we survived. Mio kept her promise and came for me, but it hadn't really registered at first. Kneeling there, on the cold, rough stone ground, I was still in a daze.
My twin sister and I…we had gone to visit that place once more-the place where we used to play as children and where we had first promised to always be together. It's still a little fuzzy, but I remember seeing that butterfly. I don't know why, but I had felt as though I had to follow it. Mio had, of course, come running after me, and we had wound up trapped in a village filled with ghosts.
I have trouble remembering a lot of what happened while we were there, except that we kept getting separated. The village…it had some sort of ritual…twins sisters were sacrificed-the elder forced to kill the younger and make them one being again. I…wanted to do the ritual…We were so close to escaping, but I chose to leave my darling sister and head to where the ritual had to be performed. Everything after that is completely blank. It wasn't until Mio caught me just as I was about to jump into the Abyss that I came to.
After she saved me, Mio told me that the ghost of a girl whose ritual had failed had possessed me. It was that girl's desire to correctly perform the ritual with her own sister that had made me go to the Abyss.
I had watched the freed girl's spirit flutter from the Abyss in the form of a crimson butterfly-now one with her twin forever,-followed by hundreds-maybe even thousands-more. Following them, we had finally left the village. Mio confessed how guilty she felt about my accident all those years ago. Of course, I had always known, and it was that guilt I had used to make sure she was always by my side. But she would never know my secret-that I had fallen on purpose.
But during that whole incident, I had realized that guilt would not be enough forever. I think I myself had wanted to go through that ritual-to be one with Mio so she could never go anywhere without me ever again. So that we truly could be "together forever".
The ritual had not been performed by us, but it had turned out okay in the end. As we watched the sun rise, Mio made a new promise to me. Sitting here in our room, watching her sweet sleeping face, I realize I will do anything to make sure she keeps her promise this time…
…anything.