It was still the familiar taste.
But it felt even richer than before.
Was this... the taste of time?
It was now fifty thousand years later...
Eden tilted back her neck, and the wine in her mouth flowed down her throat, slipping into the dark depths below.
"If it were left with me, I might not be able to resist drinking it all."
Eden liked this taste very much.
Eden had also loved the civilization that had birthed her fifty thousand years ago. She had been a symbol of beauty in that era, and she had given her finest years to that world.
"Leave the wine with you for now. Drink a little with me every now and then..."
Eden turned to look at Otto, stars glimmering in her beautiful eyes.
Otto was slightly dazed. He was facing the beauty of an era itself, and through Eden's eyes, he could see everything that era had left behind.
"Is that alright, Elysia?"
Eden asked softly.
Oh?
Otto's heart stirred. From the look of it, she did not intend to be buried alongside the Previous Era?
He had thought Eden would be difficult to persuade, yet it was this simple?
Still, as he looked into Eden's eyes, Otto seemed to sense something. He nodded.
"No matter how much you want to drink, I'll drink with you, just like before."
Eden regarded Elysia as her best friend. The two often drank together, bathed together, slept together, and shared all kinds of private secrets. No matter when it was, Eden had always trusted Elysia.
"But I thought that you, who chose to be buried in darkness with the old era at the end of that age, would still want to leave alongside that era even if you woke up in this one."
That was