Chapter 151 – Destiny.
“But there’s nothing I can do about it.”
After bringing the pie Lyudmila left behind. The girls put their heads together to think about what to play with, but the problem was that there was no suitable toy.
“I don’t know if there would have been a lot of things to do if it hadn’t been raining.”
Medea also shook her head and looked out the window at the rain. However, it was impossible to force them not to come during the annual rainy season. In the end, all they could do was play inside the castle, but even that was something they had grown tired of.
“After all, you’re just reading a book…?”
“Uuuuu, I don’t know if there’s any meaning in being together like this.”
Lyudmila and Medea liked to read, but they were well aware of their tendency to forget their surroundings because they tend to concentrate quietly when reading. It was when I was contemplating whether they would be okay as they were because I knew that Belka was no different. While they were doing this, Belka quietly approached the bookshelf and picked up a book that was sticking out.
“This?”
“Ah! That’s what I was trying to read.”
The title of the book was ‘Summer Robins’. The girl who was staring at the book said.
“Do you read me a book?”
“I like it!”
“I don’t think it’s bad.”
Belka sat down with her books, and Lyudmila and Medea sat on either side of her. The story began when a child discovered that a robin, which should have come in the fall, came at the wrong time in the summer and was injured. She had no ointment for her child, so she was barely living day by day, but she couldn’t turn away from the dying bird, so she treated it and raised it. It was an ordinary fairy tale, nothing special.
However, because the girl’s soft voice was good, they were listening intently. The child and the robin soon became close friends. The robin always followed the child wherever he went, and the child really liked that robin. Then came the autumn day. Birds like the robin found the robin and asked.
“Why are you with him?”
“Because we are friends.”
“But we must leave here before winter arrives or we will freeze to death.”
But the child did not want to let the robin go. Robins were her only friends when it came to her children. The robin also decided to stay for such a child. The child was overjoyed, but still she was worried.
“You really don’t have to leave with the other friends?”
“But I’m your only friend.”
The child has prepared winter for such a robin. She closed the gaps in the shabby house and covered it with lots of straw to keep it warm. The winter was very cold and harsh, but she was able to stay warm and cozy with the robins. But she couldn’t have her child always be by Robin’s side. She needed something to eat even in the winter. Then she realized that the robins were not eating and were sleeping.
“Grandpa! Robin! Robin is sick!”
The child took the robin and hurriedly went to visit her grandfather next door.
“You still have robins?”
“It doesn’t matter, the robins are sick!”
“It doesn’t matter! It doesn’t hurt to stay here this winter.”
Said Grandpa, covering the robin with a thick cloth.
“Be sure to return the robin next fall.”
“But robins are my friends!”
“Otherwise the robin will die.”
Winter has passed and spring has come. Fortunately, the robin was cheered up, but the child was depressed. And when the summer day they met came. The child is determined.
“I have to leave this fall.”
“Then you will be alone.”
“I still hate you dying.”
The autumn day that followed. A robin asked the child for seeds.
“What’s this?”
“A deal called happiness. If it’s there, I’ll be able to find you.”
“Can we meet again?”
“Certainly.”
Helena comes to pick up Belka, and when she sees the images of the girls leaning on each other talking and listening, she recalls herself and Sasha in the past. She had to say that it was time for her to go back, but she hesitated because she didn’t have the courage to speak. She heard the regular sound of footsteps behind her, as if each step had been decided.
“Is it true that you are leaving Lantua?”
Helena was so calm that whenever she heard a cold voice, there was a dark feeling boiling inside her. But she felt no emotion now. Just like the sound of rain hitting her window.
“I don’t know how many times I’ve heard that sound all day.”
Is it because she played the role of a doctor in her own way? When she said she was leaving, she remembered the people she missed. Until the end, she came up with the man she was the worst of, but that was only for a moment.
“If I had to answer, yes, yes.”
“It’s still the same.”
A cold voice without any emotion seemed to say that Sasha’s death was nothing, but now that I hear it, I don’t know how lonely it is. When Helena took a quick deep breath and looked back, she was met by a pair of gray eyes. It was the first time he faced Aeolus with such certainty. Facing her as an individual, he had the same expression as her in the mirror. Yes, it was difficult for you too.
“As expected, I hate you. No matter what anyone says, you are the son of the one who hurt Sasha.”
“…Is it.”
He laughs like he can’t help it. To the extent that I don’t think he was a man who was so thorough and stern to himself.
“I hated you even more because you were married to Sasha.”
All Helena’s efforts, her heart, and her actions to save Sasha, he had rendered meaningless. Because he became Sasha’s husband, without even having time to confess her feelings for Sasha.
“But now I see. How pointless it was.”
But now I realized. She was just resentful. No one else She couldn’t save her dearest friend herself. It was hard to handle it, so she just turned the arrow of resentment at others. It was a childish fever that made me feel that I had been intercepted because I could not save my loved one with my own hands. She didn’t stop her natural smile. Helena said to Aeolus, who opened her eyes wide in surprise.
“I was resentful and resentful. Maybe that’s why I’ve been complaining all this time.”
The most important thing to Helena was that Sasha was happy.
“You are a respectable person.”
And then, without further delay, Helena approached the chattering girls. Because the story is over.
“My lady, you must return now.”
At her words, the girls raised their heads, widening her eyes. Even as Helena smiled at those lovely figures, she swallowed the bitterness that followed.
“Are you leaving already? Haven’t you been playing for a while?”
Lyudmila asked gloomily, holding Belka’s hand. They went out to the wall of the territory to return by boat, and they accompanied them all the way to this place. Aeolus was also watching them one step away.
“Lyuda, Belka is in trouble.”
Medea tried to persuade Lyudmilla, but her regret was evident in her as well. She pretended not to because she was holding on to Belka’s sleeve. It was when Helena, who had come to pick up Belka, couldn’t bear to let go of the girls who couldn’t let go of their lingering feelings for each other. As if Medea had made up her mind, she took out her mask. It was a simple, ornate mask with a cross on the forehead.
“Belka, did you leave your mask behind?”
Belka, who briefly accepted the mask Mediah gave her, gently swept it away. The girl who wiped her mask off several times with her affectionate touch held out the mask to Mediah again.
“Accept it.”
“Yes? But this is something precious to Belka.”
“It’s okay if it’s Mea and Ryuda.”
Eventually, Medea took her mask and held it in her chest.
“…Because I’ll keep it. Do you really have to come back?”
Lyudmila let go of Belka’s hand and Helena approached Medea while Lyudmila couldn’t lift her face.
“Lady Medea. I have to apologize to you.”
“Yeah? What is that?”
“She said she was Sasha’s friend. She had been ignoring you, her daughter.”
Helena smiled bitterly at Mediah’s appearance as if she had just remembered her. She was very young for Medea, so she couldn’t remember, but she did.
“I’m sorry. Even now I…”
“You decided to follow Belka?”
“…Yes.”
“Because I’m fine. Please protect Belka.”
“Yes.”
Helena had many things she wanted to say, but in the end she only had one word left and she signaled her departure to the boatman.
“It’s gone after all.”
“I hope you come back safely.”
Medea and Lyudmila knew. It would be foolish to believe that they will ever come back. But even so, I prayed for them to return safely. So they passed the summer.
