Literature
HetaOni: The Story Continues 21
"So I'm a mistake," Germany surmised. "A bandage to hold the fabric of reality together until you come back."
Holy Rome shook his head.
"It's not like that at all."
"Then what is it like?" Germany asked.
"You're the person I was supposed to become," Holy Rome told him. "For all intents and purposes, you are me. I'm really nothing more than a ghost. A dream."
Germany thought it over. There was one thing he still wanted to ask.
"You are
very important to Italy," Germany said carefully.
Holy Rome nodded.
"That's right," he confirmed. "And Italy means more to me than my own life."
"You were the one he spoke of, when he said his firs