110. The End and the Beginning (Part Two)

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The following morning.

The beheading was carried out.

Rose stood in front of the guillotine installed within Laurensis's plaza.

She dazedly looked up at the sky. The sun's bright rays made her narrow her eyes.

Her hearing didn't seem to be working properly. The citizens gathered in the plaza began throwing stones at her and angrily yelled at her.

Their voices were filled with resentment.

However, Rose couldn't hear them at all.

A voice belonging to someone else entirely continued to swim within her ears and her mind even at this very moment.

-Do you remember, mother? That one time, there was a fierce thunderstorm. You held me and comforted me back to sleep. Did you know how warm and safe I felt back then? I still recall that moment often whenever things get too difficult for me.

Whose... voice did it belong to?

She was so sure that the voice came to her last night.

Along with that voice, someone gently embraced her shoulders.