Gino said softly.
"I don't know...I just don't. I mean, it looks like him but it doesn't, and - and the more I try to remember what my brother Naoto actually looked like... It's like... Every time I try to remember him, he looks different or something...
Kallen sighed, then, looking up at the full moon.
"I just - I just don't know."
Except that...there was some kind of...something in her mind. Something was beginning to take shape...
"Ahh." Gino said, and then began to pat her back. Kallen groaned. Oh, she knew he meant well, but...
"Oh, come on, that's enough. Hmph. Well. Um." The words ended in a mumble.
Gino looked at her, and then grinned. Had Kouzuki Kallen of the Black Knights actually just said 'thank you' to a former member of the Rounds?
Nina Einstein stood next to the body laid in state, while it was Lloyd Asplund who started the first speech.
"Here we gather to pay our regards to Charles N. Pendragon, who saved the World at least half a dozen times or more. He was one of the best of us, once - Let us remember that, those who knew him and still remember how he smiled..."
Hmph. He had been 'the best of them' to the very end, in her humble opinion, but... How he smiled, yes. Nina looked at the skies, remembering that.
Nunnally, on the other hand...
Nunnally was remembering just what she'd seen in the swirling darkness, behind the dark curtain.
Even though she would have preferred not too.
"Charles, Charles, I made you a present! Look, look!"
The girl on the wheelchair squealed, trying to push her glasses up her nose and reach out to the boy in front of her at the same time.
"You made me a present? What is it?"
The boy smiled, running a hand through his hair.
"I made you a Magical Warrior Princess Cornelia figurine! See, see?"
The boy stared at the small figurine in the girl's hand, getting somewhat red in the face.
"...Come on, Lulu, she has bikini chainmail on... Clovis helped me design it, too! Didn't you, Clovis?"
The small dog on the floor yaps apprecitively up at her. The boy sighs.
"Clovis is a dog, not a designer. And stop calling me 'Lulu' - it makes me sound like a girl, alright?" The boy mutters. "Or I wouldn't - wouldn't give you your present."
"Oh, alright, alright." The girl pouts. "What is it?"
"Err...um..." The boy twitches for a bit, and then gives her the box.
"Oh - oh... It's..it's..."
"She's - supposed to have pink hair, right?"
"Oh, oh - Thank you, Lu - Charles! Yaay!!"
"What's going on?" A voice calls from outside the room.
"Charles got me a Magical Flower Princess Euphemia doll!"
On the windowstill, a cat yawns. It bears a remarkable resemblance to a certain school mascot called Arthur.
And on the desk, their are sketches. One of them is of a Magical Mascot who looks like a black cat with purple eyes. There is also the beginning of a sketch of a girl in a wheelchair, holding a magic wand.
Nina Einstein - for that is who she is now, except when she isn't - closes her eyes, remembering when their was a girl called Henrietta Nina Pendragon, 'Henny' or 'Hina' for short, who had a cousin...
Goodbye, Charles. 'Lulu'. Fare Thee Well."
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