“It’s not like it was a corpse torn to shreds. I properly shrouded it and wrapped it up so it’d be easy to carry, so why are you making such a fuss?”
“…….”
Hey, don’t you hear something? Like the sound of my glass heart cracking?
“…I don’t think ‘wrapped it up for you’ is an appropriate expression to use in front of the deceased.”
Of course, considering the era and world, along with where Meister came from and how Meister had grown up, there probably hadn’t been the slightest malice behind those words. Yeah. I knew that, which was why I let it slide.
My eyes shot Meister a sidelong glance before returning to the coffin in front of me. I had hurriedly prepared it because I simply couldn’t bring myself to put the body away while it was wrapped in nothing but cloth.
Well, there hadn’t been many finished coffins available, and because of the sizing issue, I’d ended up being stuck with the most expensive pine coffin… It had cost me a fair bit of money, but at least my conscience was at ease.
I didn’t know much about this person’s circumstances, but… treating someone like a piece of luggage after they were already dead simply wasn’t right.
“Yeeah… Still, no matter how I think about it, I’m telling you, you got scammed. That bastard definitely told you there were only expensive pine coffins even though they had paulownia ones.”
“It does not matter.”
“Good grief…….”
After checking the state of the body one last time, I closed…