CHAPTER 31: THE FESTIVAL

She leaves her house, though, there are a lot of people, she leaves the main streets and walks away from them as she goes out.

RYU, dressed as the humans he has seen on this day, also carries an antiface.

The walk through the village, marveling at how beautiful this festival is.

Humans are very witty, there are even games.

There are so many people who, it's hard to look at women's faces and try to distinguish PANDORA by the antiface.

It's not like I can go around asking about her.

They'd deny it.

After a while, RYU's heart accelerates, she has seen a young woman who is identical to PANDORA, she is accompanied by two more girls, this makes him hesitate a little, she knows that she turns away from people.

But, it's more your anxiety.

He follows the young woman through some streets, she approaches some stalls, they take food from the stalls and in some they play to catch a small fish with a piece of paper or throw arrows breaking spheres.

There's too many people.

At one of the stalls, the young woman gets water on her face and to clean he removes her face.

RYU has not lost detail, he feels that his heart breaks into a thousand pieces again, discovering that she was not PANDORA.

His gaze def diverts again into the crowd.

He feels lost, that's when, he climbs a roof and from above he can see people better, not so clear their faces, but their picture is better.

On the outskirts of the village, PANDORA has sat on top of a hill near the lake where RYU has bathed, she leaves her basket on the ground.

Look at the starry sky for a while.

In the dragon cation.

They've had a great feast.

They have adorned with red fabrics a box for the councillors and the king.

Rituals have begun.

First, they are taking numbers to decide the matches, consisting of 8 fights in total to get to know a champion.

Clarifying that there are limits, they are exhibition fights.

No one will admit a death at this event.

While RYU searches through the roofs of houses and sometimes changes locations.

PANDORA sits with RYU's drawing in her hand.

She's talking to the drawing.

She tells her that her day has been somewhat laborious, she started practicing embroidery, that a woman in the village has been teaching her, well, she corrects herself, she sometimes sits close to seeing her embroider, so she has noticed that the woman embroidered so that she can look.

Even one day he approached him and as PANDORA walked away the woman, the next day he did not go to embroider in his corner, however, when PANDORA went to see her, he found a bag with colored threads and a blanket.

She knows that somehow the woman left her for her.

So he's been practicing.

PANDORA puts the drawing on the grass and lays a stone over it so it doesn't blow up.

She pulls out of the basket two plates and puts food on both, serves dinner for two.

She jokes that if he doesn't like food, don't worry, she's not on a diet.

He's a little slaping, look at the drawing.

She blames him with a slight smile for going crazy, it's funny, talking to each other and answering herself.

PANDORA is about to make a braid.

As he does so, he hums a melody from his world, across the sea.

RYU, hurt, not finding PANDORA anywhere, feels so bad that just that it's a good day now, it's too complicated because of the number of people who have gathered.

RYU, he's leaving the village, totally frustrated.

On the outskirts of the village, take the same path where it came from.

Gradually it is filled with rage.

Then run, becoming a dragon, raise the flight.

Nearby, by the lagoon, PANDORA can see how in the moonlight, reflects the image of a dragon passing very close and moving away from there.

She gets up very fast, up to the slice of bite bread that she had in her hand, falls off, while her gaze is lost trying to recognize the figure that moves away very quickly.

She is silent, gradually losing her strength, she sits hugging her legs with her arms, looking at the horizon, in the direction the dragon left, no doubt it could have been RYU.

Around it, all the vegetation within a radius of about 5 meters withers, even the food that had been served rots, along with the sheet of paper that wears out so much that, the slight wind breezes rip it.

The color of her hair, begins to change, PANDORA hides her face on her knees.

END OF CHAPTER 31