"Thank you, Amidamaru. You are a good friend," I say and get up, go to my room and first lie down under the covers. I had left my coat lying around, of course, which was typical for me. Suddenly I feel colder than before and I don't know why. Staggering a little, I go into the kitchen, look in the refrigerator, and get out a couple of onigiri. This time I will eat something voluntarily, without compulsion and I realize that I have lost quite a bit of weight. No wonder. In any case, I feel a little better now. "I need a bath ..." I mumble and go to the bathroom. Fortunately, there is always warm water in the spring. I just jump in and almost get a heart attack because the difference between air and water temperature is really huge. I feel kind of strangely dizzy and weak. I sit back and I have a song going around in my head. A song that I've rarely heard until now, it's really sad, probably because of that.But I know the text, but I don't know where from. After a while I nod off.
"Yo?" The loud cry of my name makes me jump. I feel sick and I quickly get out of the water and wrap a towel around my body. I stagger to my room, where Tamao is sitting and happily running towards me. "There you are! I thought you ran away, I am so glad that you are here, I have already imagined the most terrible things, just terrible," she gushes, but I hardly hear her and collapse.
When I wake up, I'm lying in my bed and looking at Tamao's worried face. Next to her sit Faust, who is scribbling on a piece of paper, Horohoro and Ren. "What kind of things are you doing?" Asks Horohoro and shakes his head. "Leave him, you can see that he is doing badly", Tamao defends me and I straighten up. I immediately felt dizzy and pressed my hand to my forehead."Lie down immediately," orders Faust, not looking up. Although I don't feel like it, I let myself fall back on my pillow. "How are you?" Asks Faust and puts a thermometer in my mouth. "Bad," I mumble and close my eyes. After a few seconds he takes it out and shakes his head. "As expected. You have a fever, 39.8 degrees. You shouldn't have occupied yourself too much with your thoughts and should have eaten and drink more" I sigh, while Tamao holds out a cup of red-hot tea, which I drink immediately, of course not without burning my face and dumping half of it on my ceiling. "I'll go get another one," says Ren, gets up and goes into another room, comes back shortly afterwards.
When he is about to cover me up again, I sit up and hold my hand in front of her. "No," I say in a nutshell and he looks at me questioningly. "Yes. You are sick, don't freak out now" I push out my lower lip like a little child and stick my tongue out."No," I say again and wrap my arms around my legs; I'm cold. "Why not?" Asks Tamao worried. "This is Anna's blanket," I say quietly and don't look at any of them. "Don't act like that," Ren snorts, but Faust holds him back. "Let him, if he doesn't want that, get another one" The youngest of the Taos throws him a withering look and leaves again, this time he comes back with a couple of blankets. He throws it at me furiously. "I didn't find others. You could have taken the other one too, don't always be so petty" I get up, trembling, I can barely hold myself. "Shut up!" I yell at him and he backs away in shock, raising his hands. "Lie down, I didn't mean it. - I'm sorry," he adds meekly, while I sink to the floor and a cold wave floods me. When I have calmed down a bit and dozed off a bit, Faust takes the others aside: "Be a little careful with what you do or say, ok?His psyche is badly damaged and it will stay that way for a while. We can be happy that he hasn't gone crazy at all, "he says half-quietly, but I still say in a weak voice:" I heard that "and grin with my eyes still closed." It doesn't matter. Just getting well quick, okay, buddy? Otherwise I'll have to grapple with the Eisheini for a long time, "jokes Ren and immediately catches an indignant look from Horohoro." What do you mean, 'grapple' ?! You're the one who deserves a punch here! ", he screams and clenches a fist. Ren replies something angrily, whereupon they throw swear words at each other. Tamao tries, intimidated by her screams, to stop them by shyly standing between them and quietly saying something is drowned out by both. Faust and Eliza watch the two brawlers confused and also do not know what to say. I can't help but grin and suddenly laugh out loud.Everyone looks at me and I get up again. Grinning, I put an arm around both of them. "You really can't be improved, just like always" Suddenly I don't grin anymore and my face turns green. "I have to throw up ..." I realize and quickly run to the toilet after Horohoro has a fit of laughter. Ren stands in front of the toilet door with a raised eyebrow. "Neither do you," he says and brings me back. "At least I feel a little better now," I grin and lie down again. Involuntarily I remember Anna's angry face, which she would have made now and my good mood evaporates. "Damn it," I say, covering my ears with the pillow, squinting my eyes. Tamao tries to kneel next to me, but Faust shakes his head and pulls her up. "I think we'd better go now ...", Horohoro says ashamed and wants to go out of the room with the others, but I'm against it: "Stay there, please. Sleep with me today, okay?I'll make sure that you get a place to sleep. "Worried and decisive, Tamao looks at me." No, have you gone crazy? I'll do that. "I nod." Thank you, "I say quietly before I go back to sleep.
I dream again, but this time it is not as daunting a dream as last time and I can decide for myself what to do or not. The only equality that exists is that I am at home. I slowly go outside where the moon disappears behind a cloud. As I go to the veranda, I see a shadow and am frightened at first because I don't know who it could be. I carefully walk towards her and the moon comes out of its hiding place. I am even more frightened and stunned; it's Anna. I run to her quickly. She looks at me smiling. "Yo ... I'm sorry," she says, remorse in her voice, I've never seen anything like it. "What ... what are you sorry for?" I ask, completely perplexed, and sit down next to her."I left you alone" At first I don't understand what she means, but then I realize that she is very cold when I want to touch her. I look at her almost frightened. "You ... why are you here? You can't" She shakes her head and puts a finger on my mouth. He's also freezing. "Why do you think? I just wanted to say goodbye and that I'm sorry. And I've done that now." Slowly she begins to disappear, but I can't just allow that. I reach out my hand to her, but I can't touch her. Tears come to my eyes. "Anna, you can't go! I promised you that I would become the shaman king and you would be my wife! You cannot do that, so I can never keep my promise," I call out in a tear-choked voice, but she has already disappeared .
I wake up and my wet cheeks tell me that I cried in my sleep. "No. That wasn't a dream, she was here," I gasp and run outside, although I'm still sick.It is night and the moon is shining. However, when I look out on the porch, there is no one there. With my head bowed, I go back into the house and lean on the door frame of my room. Next to my bed is Horohoro, snoring and talking weird things. On the other side, Ren and Faust, who are sleeping peacefully, Faust with his Elisa in his arms. Sighing, I sit down on the floor and look out the window, not noticing how my eyes are closing more and more and I am falling to the floor.
"What did the idiot do again tonight!" Shouts Ren, waking me up with it. When I look down at myself, I realize that I wasn't sleeping in my bed, but by the door. "You are such a fool, why do we even care about you?" He snaps at me, but I feel better, besides my nose running. I get up slowly and look at him mischievously. "Why? I sleep where I want. I had a strange dream and then I got up ..." My gaze falls and Ren raises both eyebrows."You dreamed of her? How much did you actually like her, that's not possible" He hands me my clothes, but not only my shirt but also a sweater, which is usually much too warm for me. Shrugging, I accept the things and put them on. "I don't know exactly ... Probably pretty much" "Ok, you can't take that as a correct answer, but at least ... Breakfast will be ready soon, Tamao got up early ... but without realizing what you were for You have strange sleeping habits "I poke him in a friendly manner and go to the kitchen with him, where everything is already set up. "Yo, you are awake and you are better," says Tamao happily and sits down, which I do, as does Ren. "So the injection that I gave you helped ...", mumbles Faust and I look at him in horror. "What ?! You stuck a needle in my arm ?! Are you crazy?" I shout. Of course, Horohoro has to go one step further: "He tapped you too.At first he thought you got blood poisoning or something ... ", he says, chewing and I shake my head, put my hands behind it and make a playful, tortured face." You don't all have them anymore, how can you just do something ", I moan and Horohoro pats me on the back and grins." Don't act like that, Anna would have tortured you even more than we could ever ... "The others give him a deeply evil look, but I smile: "Sure, it's possible. Can someone give me an onigiri? I'm starving, "I change the subject.
After breakfast I help Tamao clear the table while the others put their beds in order or put them away. Suddenly Tamao tugs at my sleeve and blushes. "Hm? What?" I look at her questioningly. "Um ... today ... your grandparents are coming ... and ... they want to discuss something with you," she stutters and then immediately clears the things off the table. "Oh, really. What are they doing here," I mean, and Dödel und Klöten answer my question with a sardonic grin: "Something that little Tamao is guaranteed to like ..." At first I don't get anything that will become of the two of them