Chapter 23: Leo reappears again

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"-if I'm really... -it right...? ...-ell maybe not?"

"...-it's cold... -ose the curtains...."

(I can hear a voice...)

"-o way... -if you... -ight now!? ...-ou will get caught."

(No... a familiar voice...)

"...-dispose of it? ...-what if Leo... -he will cry...."

"...-ou're right...."

(...I know that voice...)

It's Leena's voice... or more precisely, his voice.

Leo's mind was becoming more and more clearer by the time.

But his head was hurting really, really bad.

I feel like this happened before.

"Oh look, he's finally awake."

"So you finally woke up?"

"I'm, sleepy...."

It feels like my head will burst.

"......Ow...!"

When he was about to say: "Good, morning," pain suddenly welled up in his throat.

"—–!!!"

"Don't speak, idiot!!!"

After waking up, he got a scolded by Leena.

"If we didn't help, you would be sleeping in the streets by now."

'Leena is always complaining when we speak.' – Thought Leo, pouting slightly.

"Morning. Sleep well?"

And just like that, Bruno asked. He was always a man of few words.

If it was just that, it would be good, but–

*Cock* *Cock* *Cock* (Tl/n: These are chicken noises...)

'Why I'm sleeping here with a bunch of chickens.' – Was the first thing that Leo thought when he noticed where he was.

While holding his head in pain, Leo glanced around the room.

Piles of firewood, chickens roaming through the floor and the sun that shone through some parts of the broken ceiling.

"The, chicken, house...?"

Yes, he was sleeping inside of the chicken house of Hannah's Orphanage.

"What happened...? I remember, I was, at the, presentation... then, the ceiling...."

But while he was trying to remember what happened, Leo noticed that something was missing.

"The gold coin!?"

Leo searched his entire body for the gold coin.

But it was not there.

The gold coin he had taken from Albert had disappeared.

"Bruno! The gold coin! Where, is it!?

Leo grabbed the shirt of his best friend and shook it, questioning the whereabouts of the gold coin, but because of the difference in boldly proportions, Bruno didn't even sway.

"Calm down. What coin...?"

"As soon as you wake up, the first thing you want to know is about gold coins... that's the Leo we know."

Bruno leaned his head to the side and Leena was troubled because of how greedy Leo was.

But Leo shook his head to the sides.

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