VOL. 2
MOto HagiO
Alan, please wake up!
Edgar! Edgar!
Alone I am hounded by memories.
Why won’t you open your eyes?
…I beg you to open your eyes.
Even if it was a mistake to bring you to this…
Even if I’m a creature that has no right to live…
Alan Rain… Rain…
Could the rain be the cause?
it’s so dark …
This dampness? This heavy, cloying dampness?
I can’t bear to be alone.
Marybelle, too, was always weakened by water.
is this what keeps Alan from waking?
if the rain would stop…
if it would just stop…
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I can’t bear to be alone.
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January, eighteentwenty.
A blue-eyed boy Henry happened to fish out of the river said his name was Edgar.
When Henry was Earl, Edgar made an appearance.
The events were recorded by this Doctor Dodd, who was staying at the manor.
And so, remembering the will, Henry cared for the boy.
Later, a girl named Marybelle appeared, and they vanished together.
But Dodd records that during his stay, Edgar sucked the blood of a boy named Ernest.
The doctor looked into Evans’ will and the Evans’ family line.
it’s just an old fable, Charlotte ! Dodd wrote that he believed the two to be vampirnella.
Sucked his blood!?
Their names were Edgar and Marybelle.
But she, too, soon died.
They were said to have died in infancy.
Oswald, who wrote the will, had halfsiblings by another mother.
But it’s just an old fable!
Vampirnella indeed!
…but he, too, died young.
Later, the family adopted a girl of thirteen, named Marybelle.
He had another brother, named Eustace …
Gracious …
However …
Precisely. it made no sense.
in his will, Oswald had That one prophesied, day his … three descendants who hundred would would years ago… meet this … “Edgar” and “Marybelle”…
… the sea of time …
… cross …
See? it’s just a fairy tale. Nothing makes sense.
Henry, Earl Evans, actually met Edgar.
Steps to the roof!
…they certainly have some valuable pieces.
TMP
For humble antique dealers…
Henry, Roger-- have either of you seen my hat?
You’re going out?
No, but I’ll help you look for it when I get back.
Be sure to lock the doors!
I will. Bye now.
We’ve come across a real find. We’ll be back by eleven.
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