Chapter 44

How Long without Seeing You (長い間あっていませんでしたね, Nagaiai a tte imasendeshita ne) is the 44th chapter of the Gleipnir manga series.

Characters
  Shuichi Kagaya   Clair Aoki   Tadanori Sanbe   Kaito  

Summary
When they move further, Shuichi warns Claire. If she wishes, she can go back. But she denied. They saw a lot of black smog corpse standing in their way. Claire thought if she comes to the mountain, they can solve the mystery behind Shuichi transformation and why Elena killed her parents. But the situation changed Claire asked them to let them see Kaito. The black smog was confused of them knowing about Kaito. It takes a photo of them and showed it to Kaito. He was shocked of seeing them there. Kaito asked his underling to bring them and take away Honoka for a while. Only Claire and Shuichi were permitted to meet him. Shuichi asked Sanbe to wait there. Shuichi thanked Claire that without her help he cannot reach this further. Claire teases Shuichi that she might die here anytime. Shuichi feel that someone is eager to meet him. At last, he met Kaito directly. Claire feels like that there was a purpose that Shuichi memory was erased, which must be much important to something with this whole incident. Kaito welcomed Shuichi. He also apologizes, at the night he was one to ever believe in Honoka after everyone betrayed her.