Chapter 66 – Truth (4)
The sky was so blue.
It was a really blue sky without a single cloud.
Depending on the day, the weather was toxic warm.
It was a strange day, considering the average winter weather.
The blue sky was blue, as if he didn’t know what was going to happen in the future.
Maybe it’s a foreshadowing of what’s to come?
As I thought about this and that, I also came across such thoughts.
It was around
In my hand was a series of piles of papers.
It was provided according to a request for information disclosure, and originally it was not to be disclosed, but I was allowed because I was related to it.
Actually, I don’t even know.
Do they think my back ship is the Faroes family?
I wondered why it came out so quickly.
My location was west.
While I was here, I thought about going to see Bill.
Youngji was also nearby, and I had a longing to see a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time, so I thought about that for a while.
I was able to see it later, and I didn’t come because of that now, so I decided to visit it next time.
It arrived yesterday, but I couldn’t find it without any preparation.
I wasn’t going to visit the guests, but I felt like I had to prepare my mind.
The location was a house on the outskirts.
It was a pretty big town compared to the one I grew up in.
It was a bit like being treated as a vicious criminal, but no one seemed to be watching it all day.
That wasn’t my concern, and given that she hasn’t come to me so far, it’s reasonable to assume her system is working.
Arrived at a house.
It was a house that would be suitable for two people to live in.
It was the moment I stood in front of the door and was about to knock.
Before knocking on the door, the door opened by itself.
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As I was standing in a daze in front of the door where the reversal of the action took place, someone spoke to me from inside.
“Is it Ed?”
A blue-haired woman was watching me.
The emotions in her eyes were varied.
Surprise, joy and resignation.
Emotions of all colors were streaming from her eyes.
Among them, joy was the strongest, so I tried to hold it in my arms like it used to.
However, instinctively, she couldn’t help but hesitated as if she saw me taking a step away from her.
A strange situation where there is no contact at a distance of less than a span.
Heina was the first to get out of that awkwardness.
“I’ll bring you something to drink.”
With that, she disappeared into the kitchen.
It was a similar scene from before, but our relationship between then and now has changed a lot.
I don’t know if she still thinks of me the way she did back then
I was in her position, where I couldn’t trust her.
It was true that she had loved, but what she did to me in the name of her love was incomprehensible.
“Here.”
She brought me a drink.
It was two steaming cups.
But it didn’t go unnoticed.
If I drink that, I feel like I’ll fall asleep again.
She half-guessed my thoughts and put on a sad face.
“I didn’t put anything in it.”
Having said that, she drank from each cup.
“This must also be the karma of my actions.”
There didn’t seem to be any problems.
She said that there are sleeping pills that have a slightly delayed effect, but she didn’t think she had them.
It’s hard to find and it’s a strictly controlled item.
I drank a cup of tea.
The sweet yet bitter taste seemed to represent our current situation.
There was only silence.
I am her concern about how to treat her.
Maybe it’s her silence because of her guilt and sorry for me.
“So what are you curious about?”
“What are you curious about?”
“I didn’t even expect a reply… I just thought I would spend my whole life like this, but she suddenly came to me because Ed was cursing at me.
It must have been one of the two to ask something.”
“So.”
“What happened there that day?”
“Didn’t Ed see everything too?”
“Just tell me.”
“You’ve seen it all and want to hear the facts of that day from me… Means you’ve lost your memory or you really want to be clear.”
“Ed seems to have no memory.”
She knew me so well
In contrast to the fact that I still don’t fully understand her mind.
“But will you be okay?”
“What.”
“If I lie. Ed has no way of knowing the truth, right?”
“Ed has already gone to him. Why should I tell him the truth?”
For a moment, I felt something disconnected in my head.
I heard the sound of glass breaking and suddenly I was strangling Heina.
Seeing her face go pale, she seemed to be pressing pretty hard, but she didn’t complain of any pain, as if that wasn’t the problem.
Only an intermittent coughing cough signaled that breathing was being restricted.
“Poor Ed…”
Her expression was not pain or anger, but affection.
“I got away from a woman like me…And after that I met the same type of person.”
The intermittent blanks were proving that they were strangling her.
“If Ed really hates me…Don’t let it go.”
In a moment of surprise, he removed her hand from her neck.
She was breathing heavily, as if she was taking her restless breath at once.
What ended the hectic situation was the sound of a child crying from inside.
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The child’s cry did a great job of stopping the both of us.
Upon hearing it, she went inside and seemed to calm her child.
She seemed to know that she hadn’t neglected her child, as her cries were not heard soon after.
Heina opened the door and came out.
I was alone when I went in, but not when I came out.
A small child was still sleeping in her arms.
She was sleeping so well that it was hard to believe that she had been crying for a long time just before she was awakened by a noise.
“At first, it was very difficult because I cried no matter how much I tried to comfort her.”
She really did talk like a stranger, but she didn’t sound like a stranger to me.
Was it because I knew it instinctively?
That the child is my child.
Is this the atmosphere a child creates?
The atmosphere that had been tense before had softened a little.
But I had to check.
“Hey.”
“Huh.”
“That…”
It wasn’t that I didn’t know what to say.
But it was hard to spit out that one word.
“Whose child are you?”
“Huh.”
Without saying a word, she held out her paper.
It was probably already prepared at the time I came.
I opened the envelope and read her papers.
There were several chapters, but I briefly skipped over and looked at the most important one.
She put her paper back with some thought.
“Can’t you check more?”
“Uh.”
I already had a conclusion.
Now it was right to go back to the original purpose.
“So what happened there that day?”
She stopped her arms that were gently holding her child and turned around behind her.
“I’ll put it on the bed.”
The process was quick. Doesn’t seem like it’s been done once or twice.
“What are you curious about?”
“The thing of the day.”
“I think it will take too long.”
“Are you okay.”
“Where should I start talking?”
She seemed worried, but it didn’t take long.
“It’s been about a week since you brought Ed to that room? Ed was sleeping that day, as usual. We’ve been hanging out all day, and it’s weird that we didn’t.
It is true that the child was also born then. She vomited a lot while coming here.”
“I was brought there without anyone suspecting it, but someone opened the door and came in.
It was a double lock, but it seemed to have been broken through using a scroll.”
Roughly the same as what I knew.
However, compared to me, who now only has memories of when I was not sober and what I heard from someone.
It was the difference she remembered with a clear mind.
“I took one of her knives just in case.
That’s right, I wasn’t crazy at the time.
She was a crazy bitch who had the delusion that someone would take Ed away.”
“At one point, I saw Ed collapsed in front of the room. Is he there?”
It seemed that everything would be different depending on who that person was.
“Who is that person?”
“You know him, Ed.”
And the next word was a kind of sentence.
“Did you say Seria?”
There was a name there that I did not want to appear.
“The child you taught.”
“He was standing there.”
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The story that followed after that was roughly as follows.
“So I swung the knife with my eyes closed.”
“But Edner was momentarily hit by that knife instead.”
Did I?
Then the target of Heina’s anger was not me, but Seria?
Memories filled the holes in my head.
“So the trial ended up with this amount of sentence.”
The back and forth were roughly correct.
It was when she went to embroider that she disappeared.
And she was paying the price for what she had done.
If I apply my short knowledge, maybe it’s about injury, rape, and imprisonment.
I wrote a non-punishment application for all three of them, so it must have ended with a ban on access and I am here.
It seemed that one of the big things was done.
One truth has been found out.
Now, it was time to hear the story of another person who was there.
Before that, there was a problem to solve.
“The child… I’ll stop by from time to time.”
No matter how unplanned the child was, he was still my child.
“Don’t worry about the child. I’ll take care of him.”
“Still.”
She was adamant
“It’s the price of my sins. My karma. It’s probably my duty to raise this kid well.”
“She won’t hold you accountable, she was a child without Ed’s will.”
“In my heart, I want to marry Ed and live a quiet life while raising this child.”
She paused.
“Because I don’t deserve it.”
