Yume100 Translations

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Ster: "It's been a while since I've laughed that hard and I'm a little…"

 

OO: "Are you alright!?"

 

Ster: "To Meteobel Castle."

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The star we rode arrived at the planet where Meteobel Castle sat, and a butler and doctor had taken care of Ster, who was now breathing calmly as he slept.

 

Ster was in bad health the whole time. I wonder if it was unreasonable of me to have asked to go with him and wander about…

 

I grasped at the necklace Ster had given me.

 

Ster: "Nn…"

 

OO: "Ster?"

 

Ster opened his eyes and they were still unfocused as he looked at me.

 

Ster: "OO…?"

 

[CHOICE]

• Thank goodness (SUN)

• I'll go call someone (MOON)

 

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Ster: "Don't look at me like that. This happens all the time."

 

All the time…he had said his body was weak when he was young, so it must still be.

 

Ster: "…"

 

He ran his finger up his chest and uneasily grasped the stardust hourglass.

 

OO: "Ah…"

 

As I looked at the stardust hourglass, for the first time I realized there was something strange about it.

 

Huh?

 

The cause of the strange feeling…

 

It was that no matter what angle the hourglass was at, the stardust refused to adhere to the forces of gravity and stayed in the same side.

 

OO: "That's…"

 

Ster: "Yeah…"

 

Ster spoke in a quiet voice, having guessed the question written on my face.

 

Ster: "…this isn't an hourglass. It's called a Stardust Clock. It drops the stardust to count how much time I have left."

 

OO: "Eh…? What…does that mean…?"

 

There seemed to be a mere pinch of stardust left in the top of the Stardust Clock.

 

He spoke so casually that I wondered if I'd misheard, but his words tumbled over and over in my head.

 

Ster: "Well… it's made when a member of the royal family is born, and it's designed to measure our lifespan."

 

Then…that's all that's left of Ster's life…?

 

Ster: "Since my body is weak, my amount of stardust was less from the beginning. With this…there's one, maybe two left."

 

Ster held the Stardust Clock up to the light of the chandelier as he spoke.

 

He's lying, right…?

 

Ster: "Well, it's fine. If I can die having done what I wanted, I won't have any regrets."

 

No matter how I looked at them, his eyes were filled with earnest.

 

My thoughts whirled about and I could scarcely remember to breathe.

 

OO: "Why are you so casual about it…!? And the thing you want to do…?  Does this have something to do with why you collapsed earlier?"

 

Ster: "…I was defective from the start. The stardust of the Stardust Clock only falls when a person's wish is granted, and people in my family usually have incredible longevity. No matter how many wishes they grant, they can still live longer than the average person. I was defective and born into that royal family. My body is weak, and so I started with a great deal less stardust."

 

OO: "Then if you didn't grant any more wishes…"

 

Ster: "And live in fear of death, as a coward doing nothing? I can't live like that.  I don't want to go back to when I couldn't do anything and only made people cry. I love when people smile."

 

Ster's voice was quiet, yet astonishingly resonate and clear.

 

Within the whirl of thoughts, I realized a single thing.

 

OO: "Then this…!? Is this also part of your life!?"

 

I took out the shooting star he'd given me when we'd first met.

 

OO: "And these…!"

 

I pointed at the coat and necklace Ster had asked the shooting stars for…

 

And the flower field…everything was in exchange for Ster's life?

 

OO: "Why…!?"

 

I was distressed as Ster looked me right in the eyes.

 

His eyes were so overwhelmingly beautiful that I felt a pain, like my heart breaking.

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