Chapter 22 – Catastrophe
Heina doesn’t answer.
She went home saying that she was sick after dinner that night.
She’s never seen her face
Wanting to know what happened, she went to her room, but
She just said she was fine and she wanted to be alone, she did.
I wondered if there was something I couldn’t tell you, but I decided to understand.
Because this has happened once before.
It was on the last day of the week that she contacted her.
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Her contact came from her.
What has she been doing
What was she thinking
And… Even talking about our future.
The story was going to be long, so let’s talk in his room.
Of course, I wanted to go without saying anything.
The last sentence took a lot of time.
A sigh came out.
We had no naive thought that we would never have to fight.
When people fight, they fight because they have feelings, but if they really don’t care, the fight itself won’t happen.
If you’re not interested, why fight with him?
I’ll just do what I was doing and pass it on.
But the thought is, are we going in the right direction?
I don’t even think that love will last forever, but is the love we’re doing right now?
It is an answer that does not come out alone.
Love is always with two people.
Whatever kind of love it is.
In front of her room
Whatever our conclusion may be, we should probably accept it.
“I’m here?”
Her door opens and she greets me.
Did you not sleep well?
There are black marks under the eyes.
“Come in.”
“Excuse me.”
Words that were not said before come out today.
Does the atmosphere make it this way?
“Sit on the bed.”
I said I would bring something to drink.
“Now, here.”
Cool drinks? It was the same.
“I’ll eat well.”
As soon as I took a bite, I fell asleep.
I don’t even go to work these days, so why am I so tired?
“Ed, are you sleepy?”
“I’m a little… Sleepy.”
“Sleep for a while. Let’s get up and talk.”
The last thing I remembered was her subtle expression of mixed joy and sadness.
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Where am I?
Blurry
I see a person’s person.
Who is that person?
Seeing that her hair is rather long, it seems to be a woman.
Hey…?
It seems to be Heina.
Why is she here?
My thoughts don’t work properly and my body doesn’t move either.
As if it is bound somewhere.
Heina looks at me and smiles sadly.
“Ed”
“Sorry.”
What? Why?
My eyes opened and the light began to come in.
I think the last thing I remember was falling asleep in Heina’s room.
The ceiling is white.
I don’t think Heina’s room was white.
I try to get up, but my body won’t move.
To be precise, the limbs are tied to something.
The first emotion that came to my mind was panic.
Who? Why?
Looking around, it was a white room with nothing on it.
I had many thoughts, but there was no answer I could get from them.
There was nothing I could do but wait in this state.
Someone came in with the sound of a door opening.
“Hey?”
It was Heina who opened the door and entered.
Was she also kidnapped?
Since she was the daughter of a merchant family, she seems to have thought that she could get a ransom.
“Ed, did you sleep well?”
Did you sleep well? What else does this mean?
It seems that the aftermath of sleep has not yet gone.
Did you sleep well
Did you sleep well
Did you sleep well?
Mind returns quickly.
If they were both kidnapped, Heina wouldn’t be so free.
At least that means she’s an accomplice.
If you think logically, that would be correct, but the person in front of me
Because it was Heina, that idea was not accepted.
Why is she
“You look so confused, Ed.”
“Ed is so smart that when she falls into this estrangement, she doesn’t understand.”
“But…Ed, that doesn’t matter anymore.”
The tone of voice is different from usual.
“Now Ed can live here with me for the rest of his life.”
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I couldn’t believe the reality in front of my eyes.
In fact, it may have been something I didn’t want to face the truth in front of my eyes.
“Hey, let’s solve this and talk.”
“That’s not allowed.”
If I don’t do this, Ed will walk away from me.
Run each other’s thoughts in parallel.
Reason pushes me to try a conversation.
“We can go back to the old days, let’s solve this before there is no turning back.”
She had a very sad expression.
“Ed.”
“You’re right.”
“By the way. It’s late.”
“Our relationship can never go back to what it was.”
Like a judge passing judgment, she asserted.
“Can you still love me like you did before?”
“I made a choice. I gambled on the future.”
“You could be influenced by my words and live like this, what kind of crazy are you talking about?”
You might hate me.”
It was a theory.
Saying that the story would be long, she went out and brought something to eat.
Fish, mushrooms, and unknown plants.
There were various kinds, but all of them had one thing in common: they were all foods that were good for stamina.
“Ed, ah.”
I felt like I had to eat.
The conversation and behavior were the same as before, but the situation was not at all like that.
Food flowed through the mouth and into the intestines, but the taste was not felt.
She was watching me eat with a happy expression on her face.
After a meal she didn’t even know she had eaten, she came back.
The only thing that changed was her clothes.
It was a dress in the form of a dress with a very short hem.
“You still don’t understand, Ed.”
The way she said that was very alluring.
To the point where I wondered if the Heina I knew was right.
“This wasn’t what I was originally trying to do, but…”
“From now on, the two of us will be together forever, so that’s about it.”
“What are you curious about, Ed?”
“Ask me anything. There are no secrets between us anymore.”
I had only one thing to say.
“…Why?”
Why did you do this?
Listening to it wouldn’t change the situation, but I felt like I had to listen.
“Um…The story is going to be a bit long, is that okay?”
There was no answer.
She started talking as if she thought silence was an unspoken agreement.
“Do you remember the day we first became lovers?”
How can I forget that It was a very happy day.
“Were you really happy after that day?”
“I felt like I had won the world. I wonder if there has ever been a better moment in my life than this.”
She looked so ecstatic.
“We were happy just eating together, and although we didn’t go far to play, it was still fun.”
Then, her expression changed.
“But that day, while we were eating, some snake-like bitch hovered around us?”
She didn’t say her name, but she seemed to know who she was referring to.
“At first, I heard that she was giving tutoring at her house, so I thought it was just that. I wish I hadn’t done it at all.
But that was before that, so it wasn’t anything I could say, so I just thought it was like that.”
“But after meeting that bitch at the restaurant that day, I felt a bit uneasy?”
“By the way, do you know what that bitch said while you were going to the bathroom for a while that day?
“Now I’m by your side, but someday, that seat will be yours.”
Miss Seria said that?
“Is Seria really like that?”
Her words didn’t follow.
“Seria Seria Seria Seria Seria Seria Seria Seria
Seria Seria Seria Seria Seria Seria Seria Seria.”
“Why do I have to hear her name all this time?”
“You don’t understand. No? It’s only natural that you don’t understand.”
I remembered the day I first looked into someone’s abyss.
“Do you know why I’m doing this, Ed?”
“Why don’t you just look at me?
Who is your lover it’s me? Is that bitch?
It was a moment of emotional explosion.
“I was anxious. A person who seemed to be superior to me in everything was circling around me.
Aren’t you worried?”
“Trust me, I know you’re not that kind of person,
I should have trusted you in that situation, but I didn’t think…”
“But apart from believing, fear of the invisible is different.”
The pressure started to mount.
“I was alone in my room for three days and thought about many things.”
“If you really want to take Ed away, can I keep it?
But how? It’s just that I’ve looked longer.”
“Nothing else means anything, it doesn’t matter how much you kiss or how much you mix.”
“She won’t even care about that.”
“So I needed proof. Proof that you don’t leave me.”
“It was a child. A child between the two of us.”
She looked happy now.
“Ed doesn’t express himself well, but he’s responsible and kind, right?”
“Wait for a sec…!”
Heina took off the pants I was wearing.
“I know Ed, it must be embarrassing. I still don’t know what’s going on.”
“But, it’s okay now. We can be together for the rest of our lives, right?”
“I really hate Ed for making me anxious all this while…
I don’t hate you anymore Ed is with me right now.”
Did you feel the fear of life?
Apart from the atmosphere, the lower part of my body started sending out signals that I was ready.
“No one can interfere now.”
She lifted the bottom of her dress and came up on top of me.
Roughly aligned on each other’s axes, she said to me with a happy-looking smile.
“So Ed.”
“Let us be one.”
