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As the evening set in, we returned to the dormitory.
“Hey.”
After all the other guys had gone in, I stopped Ellen, who was the last one to enter.
“… Yeah?”
“Let’s talk for a moment.”
I felt like I needed to have a word with her.
***
I took Ellen to the park in front of the dormitory. She followed a short distance behind me.
Once I made sure there were no people around, I turned to face her.
“Hey.”
Ellen looked puzzled as to why I had suddenly called her over.
“Why have you been so wary of me lately?”
Since the kidnapping incident, she had been notably wary of me. She had even talked about going to the Dark Land suddenly, and seemed determined to follow through with it.
I didn’t want her to go to such a dangerous place, so I’d told her not to.
I expected her to at least be stubborn about it, yet she had immediately agreed not to go, which felt rather strange to me
It was unusual for her to be so accommodating toward me all of a sudden.
And I thought I knew the reason why. We had decided to keep our distance from each other, but then, suddenly, the bizarre incident of me being kidnapped arose.
She must have been shocked to suddenly lose me for real, even when she thought that it wouldn’t matter if I was gone. Moreover, she had regretted what she’d said to me and felt sorry, to the extent that she believed my kidnapping was somehow her fault. Of course, it wasn’t her fault at all.
She had...
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