"Hmm..."
In that dark and slightly chilly darkness, Eliza’s eyelids trembled slightly.
Slowly opened her eyes, her blood-red pupils still held a trace of confusion from just waking up.
"..."
She blinked, looking around in a daze.
Who am I? Where am I? What to eat tonight?
The familiar darkness, the unchanging interior of the coffin.
She was still stuck in the coffin.
Hmm, nothing has changed from the past.
Eliza sighed in relief and gave a big yawn.
"Ha..."
So, I was just asleep a mont ago.
Speaking of which, what was I doing before sleep?
I feel like I did sothing really thrilling?
What was it exactly?
"Hmm... I can’t rember."
After seriously reminiscing for a bit, Eliza couldn’t recall anything, and there seed to be a void in her mory.
Just vaguely felt that she did sothing particularly embarrassing, but there was no concrete impression left.
After several failed attempts to rember, she chose to give up thinking.
"...Well, it’s probably just a nightmare," Eliza mumbled, nodding slightly.
Anyway, nightmares are like that, you quickly forget all about them after waking up.
It’s normal not to rember...
Thinking this, Eliza completely emptied her mind.
She decided not to think anymore.
To think about nothing.
There seed to be a voice whispering incessantly in her ear, telling her not to delve further.
Yes, don’t think anymore.
"Hmm, hmm, it should just be a dream,"
Eliza mumbled, repeating it several tis as if convincing herself.
Wait, how strange.
Why isn’t my body the slightest bit damp... Hmm?
As this thought popped up in her mind, Eliza froze all of a sudden.
No.
Why would I think I should be "damp"?
Sothing’s not quite right.
Eliza’s expression turned sowhat grim, an uneasy feeling lurking in her heart.
Like I’ve forgotten sothing?
Like...
Even as the voice in her mind kept urgently warning, she couldn’t help but start rembering.
I, I must rember!
If I care this much, then it must be sothing I can’t forget!
I want to rember!
Eliza ignored the pleas in her mind, desperately trying to rember.
Humph!
How can I forget?
Soone must be deceiving !
I won’t forget!
No one can deceive !
Absolutely not!
Finally, after so intense thinking, a thought suddenly popped into her mind.
"Haha! I rember now!"
Eliza laughed excitedly, boasting, "I’m sothing else, even managed to rember this."
"I recall, I was thinking about Herbert, while..."
But as she spoke, Eliza’s voice gradually diminished, becoming more and more guilty.
"Hiss!!!"
Herbert!
As she rembered "Herbert," it was like triggering a keyword, and she froze completely.
At that mont, the mories originally sealed for "self-protection" suddenly awakened.
Once she recalled one detail, the rest could no longer be suppressed.
Herbert returned!
And I was at that ti...
He saw it!!?
The dam protecting her ntal health collapsed with a roar, an unbearable wave of embarrassnt surged like a tidal wave, assaulting her fragile spirit.
I... Ah!!!!
Isha’s eyes widened abruptly, her expression contorted, gritting her teeth to stop herself from shouting.
Aaaaah---
What have I done!!?
She opened her mouth wide, yet nothing ca out from her throat, silently howling.
Collapse.
The once proud vampire completely broke down at this mont.
No no no.
This isn’t real!
This definitely isn’t real!!!
"...No!"
After wailing for a while, Eliza’s body shook abruptly.
"Wrong!"
"Sothing’s still not right!"
At this instant, Eliza’s eyes suddenly lit up.
"My pants aren’t wet, so that ans... it was a dream?"
As if finding the last straw to grasp.
Clinging onto the last hope, began frantically examining the small space she was in.
Scanning with her eyes back and forth, fingers touching every corner of the coffin, she carefully sniffed the surrounding scents.
After checking thoroughly, she breathed a long sigh of relief.
She was certain her body posture remained unchanged from before, and confird her clothes were neatly worn, untouched by anyone.
Especially when Eliza sniffed carefully afterward, she didn’t sll any hint of Herbert.
Yes, no one had been here!
"...Haha, hahaha! So that’s it!"
Eliza laughed weakly, laughing heartily as if she’d narrowly escaped disaster.
Yeah.
It was just a dream!
Though the lead role of the dream was Herbert, which felt unnatural, uncomfortable, making her heart itch slightly...
But this was better than that ridiculous reality.
"There’s no way I’d do that kind of thing!"
"Yeah, how could he just appear at that ti!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"Hahaha!"
Eliza laughed for a while, sighed, "Thankfully... it was just a dream."
Yes.
Everything before was rely a dream.
In reality, Herbert didn’t exist at all.
He didn’t see that mont either.
Right!
That’s it.
It must be like this!
It must...
And just as Eliza was nodding persistently, the Black Iron Coffin holding her spoke.
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