Chapter 136 – Ep.8 – A Sister’s Story (4)
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When loved ones leave for a while, most of them see them off with a bright smile.
Not many people cling to them and cry out loud, telling them not to go. In the case of young children, when their parents go out, they cry sadly, feeling as if they are leaving forever, but when they grow up, they can soon let them go.
It is a natural phenomenon.
When I love you, I naturally want to keep you by my side,
I want to protect you
You want to do well, but
Humans cannot live without love.
Humans have to have various relationships,
Have to get out of the house
That’s why humans learn to let go…
“Mom and dad… Please don’t leave for this journey. Please… Can’t we just sleep one more night? Yes?”
But Neva had to hold on by their sleeves the day her parents left.
Her father gave her a warm hug, and her mother comforted her by stroking her hair several times.
“I had a nightmare… I’m afraid I won’t be able to sleep alone. Please just one more day… “
“Neva. If you cry like that, your dad and I will have a hard time. You are the pride of our family. Know? Always dignified, always brave.”
“I don’t like it, I mean… I hate it!”
Neva ran up to her room and locked her door, stealing her tears. The parents’ journey was delayed a little by her daughter’s whining, but they eventually had to leave.
“Neva, Irion. Come to dad hurry.”
To appease her, her father stood in front of her door and waited for her daughter. Hearing the sound of her sobbing daughter, thinking of hugging her one last time…
“At this rate, your sister will wake up too. Neva, why don’t you stop crying and open the door?”
“No, I do not want! I hate it!”
Still, Neva gave her last grumble.
Locked in her room, she buried her face in her pillow, went to her corner, and let her tears flow.
“I hate my mom, I hate my dad too… ! If you’re going, just go away!”
“Neva, please open the door. Let’s hug one last time. Huh? If you leave like this, it will be hard for your father too… “
It was normal for children to have nightmares. The day before the exam, I have nightmares about ruining the exam, and the day before the picnic, I have nightmares about the picnic being canceled…
“You know you can’t help it. Dad and Mom have to leave. That’s our duty we are nobles Your mother is a knight, and your father is the husband of the greatest knight.”
“If you want to go, take me too. Please… Take me and Eva too… “
In a dark room,
Neva, who had locked her door herself, whimpered.
“If you are going to leave me, just leave me! Throw it all away and go!”
“Eva. Let me hug you one last time. Please… “
“Go!”
“Aw… “
Eva brushed her ass as she was pushed into her bedroom where they were together. She was almost in tears as the pain rushed through her ass as she was thrown hard.
But what frightened her even more was the frightening fact that her door was making a slamming sound as if it were being locked with something of her own.
“Uh, sister… !”
Eva crawled across her floor to her door. As she approached, she eagerly turned her doorknob and called for her sister to open the door.
“Sister! What are you doing… ! Open the door!”
There was only a resolute voice coming from beyond the door.
“Stay there until you reflect.”
Neva’s footsteps gradually faded away. It meant that Neva was leaving, locking herself in the room.
“Sister! Now, wait! Sister!”
Eva was terrified and slammed her door, calling for her sister to leave. She was often put in her room to be punished, but being forced into her room and her door locked caused indescribable horror in the little girl.
It was the same space as usual, but it suddenly felt like a prison. One of her windows was wide open, but Eva, who was always timid, had no choice but to escape through it.
It was a prison.
And Eva, she was only released after being locked up there for 10 hours.
Her pants and underwear were already soaked with urine, and her face was red from her tears.
Neva said without hesitation.
“Don’t even think about talking to them from now on. She hangs out with the weird ones, that’s why she’s such a bad kid who doesn’t listen to her older sister. Okay?”
“… “
Eva said nothing.
She only cried a little more, feeling the unpleasant sensation of her soggy lower legs, her little hands gripping the hem of her skirt.
… The girl who locked herself in her room,
She ended up locking her brother in her room.
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From the day she was first confined to her room, the relationship between Neva and Eva began to deteriorate.
Eva avoided Neva, and Neva became angry with Eva again and punished her severely.
“Don’t even think about coming out. Stay there all day.”
“No! Hig, hig… Hehe… “
“Never open it until you reflect on what you did wrong.”
Eva couldn’t go to school anymore.
The paperwork for her withdrawal that Neva applied for did not have Eva’s hindrance, but she was [Neva] Who submitted it, so her withdrawal was processed without any problems.
“Lee, Rika. Please open the door… My bathroom… “
“I’m sorry, miss… Neva told me not to open it… “
Eva got to spend her whole day at her house.
She told her she wasn’t allowed to go out.
While Neva continued her training as a knight, Eva was forced to spend her days confined to her room.
She said all Eva could do was look at her wallpaper and look at the garden from her window.
Looking at the flowers of her own that she had gathered in her garden, Eva waited for her sister with her sniffles.
She waited patiently until her sister returned, and she released herself again…
“Sister, please open the door… Huh? I will only water the flowers. Please… “
“No. Her sister made it clear If you leave without a word, I’ll lock you up for a whole week.”
The time she was confined only increased gradually.
Her new method devised by Neva allowed her little brother to be safe, and she did not have to worry about being harassed by others.
“Raphina. Listen up, okay? Among the pink flowers, there is a flower that is a little rounder, but you need to water it once every three days, and the one with a slightly darker flower color needs to be watered once at noon… “
“Ah, miss. Even so, it’s not just one or two pink flowers… “
“Please! If you don’t give it as it is, the roots will rot and you’ll be in big trouble. Huh? Please take a good look at it, okay?”
As time passed, Neva, worried about Eva’s escape, even closed her window.
As a result, Eva, unable to properly monitor the condition of the flowers, sat blankly in her room, feeling the slow passing of time.
There, Eva wept all the time.
It wasn’t like this before.
She was always just happy.
“Hey, heeuk… They’re all dead… “
“I’m sorry. Miss. She was trying to do her best… “
In the end, an attendant secretly opened the door, and Eva, who came out to the garden without Neva’s knowledge, shed tears as she looked at the flowers that had already died.
The purple flowers her father picked up while walking by the river holding her hand before her, the red flowers her mother picked up after she left on her mission far away,
Even the little yellow flowers she had picked up with her sister, and the stocky flowers that Eva especially liked, because they were ugly but so fragrant with her…
Only Eva knew how to care for those many flowers.
Despite diligently informing her attendants, the flowers eventually died.
The little plants that did not feel her young touch of the master’s love could not survive.
Just like each lost flower lost its memories one by one.
Eva hugged them tightly and she wept.
But.
On the day she sneaked out to the garden like that, Neva came back home earlier than usual.
“… “
“It hurts! It hurts!”
After savagely chasing away her attendant who dared not listen to her own words, she dragged Eva roughly up.
She said it all with her tightly shut Neva mouth.
Grinding her teeth, she showed her anger and dragged Eva away.
“It hurts! It hurts!”
“… “
Eva was dragged along, carving the remaining flowers that had not yet been watered and those that had not been properly buried with her tearful vision.
She had no way to resist Neva, as she already possessed power beyond her standards. Her bruises were large on Eva’s delicate arms.
“Sister, Jebaal!”
Nonetheless, Neva locked Eva in her room.
She ordered her attendants outside her room so Eva could hear.
“Pluck all the flowers in the garden.”
“Oh, no! Sister! I was wrong, I was wrong… “
Neva, who wanted Eva to stay in the safety of her home, was desperate to sever her last remaining ties to the outside world.
Because Eva was more important to Neva than the memories of her in her garden.
“No way… Please, huh? Sister, yes… ?”
However, for Eva, her memories in her garden were the driving force and straw of her life.
“These are the things my mom, dad, and sister planted… Please don’t touch the garden… I will only be here I will never go out Instead, please don’t touch the garden… “
“… “
Neva, who was not tough enough to resist her younger brother’s pleas, eventually gave her brother one more chance.
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Eva, like the flowers she grows,
She became a flower to spend the day locked in the mansion.
“Sister, these flowers are pretty… ? Huh?”
Every time Eva returned, she carefully picked up a flower and handed it to her. She prayed that one day her sister would come back like before, while waiting for her sister to smile kindly like before.
“It is pretty.”
But my sister didn’t laugh.
When young Eva saw her sister like that, she always stole her tears, but Neva, who was still around middle school age…
Did she know that she hated herself for not being able to smile while looking at flowers?
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It was one afternoon when it happened.
After returning from her training as usual, Neva found her Eva, and when she was rarely seen, she called her attendants and asked her whereabouts.
“I beg your pardon… ?”
“Lord, I have sinned to death… He must have been in the garden, but he suddenly disappeared… “
The answer that came back was just irresponsible and stupid. Neva screamed on the spot.
“Come right away, right now!”
It could be the influence of her next queen candidate she came to serve, or maybe her too many pains changed her,
Neva’s emotions reminded her of something beyond her evil. For her little girl could not lose the last treasure she had left to herself.
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“Huh, huh… “
It was Neva, not her servants, who found Eva. She ran faster on her two legs wherever Eva might go, faster than the attendants who searched everywhere and called her maiden name.
“Ah, sister… “
“Whoa, whoa… “
It was a messed up Neva from messing around all over her, but Eva was just as messed up as Neva.
Her pretty dress was all full of mud, and in places it was torn to reveal her flesh.
“Mi, I’m sorry. Sister… “
Eva walked slowly. She whimpered, but held a flower in her hand.
“I was going to pick flowers right away and go back, but I fell in the middle… “
Blood dripped from her knees to the floor. Seeing a single flower as red as that blood, Neva gnashed her teeth.
“It’s the flower that my sister liked… Everything in her garden died, so she went back to find… “
That day, Neva slapped her brother on the cheek for the first time.
No, it was the first time she even hit someone outside of knight training.
“Uh, sister… “
One of her flowers, which Eva had obtained after her hard work, was trampled by her Neva’s feet and vomited out its scent. Each time the petals kicked off, they fell off one by one…
“Sister, sister… Stop, stop… Hig, hig… “
Delrin looked at her two sisters.
“Stop… Jebaal, hib… “
“… “
She looked at Neva, who was silent, and Eva, who spoke her words through her loose mouth.
“I’m scared, scared… Sister… “
“… “
The two sisters, who had already grown too much, were carving each other’s past together with a few tears.
The day I slapped Eva on the cheek,
Neva set fire to the garden.
Ignoring Eva as she wailed and shook her cage, she ignored the tears of blood flowing from the little girl’s eyes,
In her little eyes, the fire carved her garden.
“If you’re going to do that too, just get out of here. Go away right in front of your eyes.”
“No way! Black, heh… “
Memories burned.
Blue moonlight poured over Eva’s sadness.
“Why is that… “
“Go away.”
The little girl was driven out of her mansion with only a few gold coins and a torn dress.
A little girl holding on to the barbed wire in front of the gate, crying, asking to let her in again, and saying that she would never go out again.
Neva never let in.
Maybe she didn’t have the heart to kick it out.
As if he had locked himself in her room,
She may have locked herself in the mansion.
“Sister, I will pick a prettier flower… Please forgive me… ”
However, no talent
Stupid,
Young,
To the foolish Eva,
She always needed her flowers, which brought happiness to herself and her family.
“Yes? Sister… “
“I don’t even want to see you.”
If I had caught the crying girl before she left, I could have brought her back.
Eva never came back.
Like Neva’s parents, the little girl also left her sister.
Despite belated regret, Eva did not return.
Her brother, who disappeared with her stupid words to pick her flowers, never showed her face to her sister again.
Even though she raised her prayers every day, Eva did not return.
She went around asking everywhere, but Eva was nowhere to be found.
No one knew the whereabouts of the girl named Eva.
Even though her Eva waited for her, remembering her favorite flowers and decorating her pretty garden,
In her large mansion, only knights with even greater wounds were left.
Only the splendid garden, which did not suit the ruined mansion, gave off a nostalgic scent.
There, her knight waited for her brother every day.
Without hesitation.
Cursing herself for driving her brother away with her bitterness,
She punishes herself with more severe training,
She doesn’t even dare to wish to be happy, she just goes after criminals or works for her queen.
Well damn bro