Chapter 91 – Epilogue 2 – The Story of Those Left Behind
Peroz Mansion.
Depending on the person, it may have been experienced several times, but usually the first one is gorgeous.
In the banquet hall of the Feroz family where the event was taking place, Professor Rosalyn was watching the scene in front of him.
It was definitely a place to celebrate.
Even if she was a complete stranger she would hand out formal congratulations but you would see her wedding of the day is very close to her.
The second daughter of her own sister, so to her, the nephew was her bride.
And her own special disciple was the groom.
It wasn’t that she had any special feelings for her new groom-to-be.
It was even more strange to not feel sympathy for him when he looked into the eyes of a man who had lived his whole life, even though he had just become an adult.
When he first brought his dissertation topic to her, she, like her other professors, did not understand it.
Well, it was even more strange when he understood right away that he was going in a different direction from everything he had been studying and learning.
It was the instinct of the race that could not be helped.
Only now, if there was a difference between her and her other professors, it was her acceptance of what she didn’t know.
In reality, she, too, was busy at the time, so she couldn’t take good care of her pupils.
In fact, he told her that it was okay with her later words, saying, “Where is that?”, But she couldn’t help feeling uncomfortable.
Her brilliant pupil had earned the highest honor possible as a researcher of hers, and now she was about to forge some kind of family ties with her own.
The problem was because of the words I heard recently.
I wonder if it’s been a while since he graduated and let him go, hoping that he will live happily ever after.
Her first nephew came to visit her.
It wasn’t that they weren’t close, but they didn’t know what would come out if they showed that closeness at school, so they thoroughly maintained a relationship between professor and student at school.
When she came to find herself with the title of her ‘aunt’, she felt something different from usual.
She was shocked by what her own nephew explained.
The beginning was nothing.
Just that her own brother loves her pupil.
She seemed to have been vaguely aware of that fact as well.
Now that she had just come of age, when I saw her getting married, I thought it would be possible because she really liked her partner.
The place she made herself.
At first, she seemed reluctant, but at some point she didn’t know it would lead to years.
The problem is that that love seems to be twisted somewhere.
She said that the atmosphere around her house was strange, starting with not saying that she had a boss to herself, but she didn’t ask what she thought of the women hanging around her.
She felt a sense of discomfort when he said that he seemed to be taking away, one by one, every place he could escape, as if he were breaking her bird’s wings.
Even so, it didn’t make sense that her sister’s husband, the current head of the Feroz family, was sympathetic to it.
Even if she had developed her love from a young age, her second nephew, now an adult, would not be able to do all those things.
A bitter laugh was built up.
She even had the title of professor and knew everything about her sister’s husband, so the picture was roughly drawn.
If so, she would surely have recognized her worth in her own disciple’s thesis.
She thought that maybe she was too, and he must have predicted the future.
Since he has no relatives and his parents have already passed away, this is the most perfect condition since he has no one to influence him.
It is truly the best target with no loss and only gain.
“Then let’s start the wedding from now on.”
Her moderator’s words pulled her out of her thoughts.
The event was about to begin.
Someone was walking in with a few words.
It was his pupil, Edward Weiss, in a white suit.
Slowly but with some hesitation, he moved his feet step by step.
If you go in, you will never come out again. But he seemed to be walking a path from which there was no turning back.
Staring straight ahead, he seemed to be trembling with anxiety somewhere and seemed aloof.
Like someone who gave up on everything.
The moderator’s words were heard again, and this time it was the priest’s turn to enter.
His second nephew’s outfit was… Unconventional.
To the point where I wonder how he persuaded his own father, who cares about other people’s eyes.
Our eyes met momentarily.
She could be known as the same woman.
Those were… The eyes of a woman who had everything to show off.
And she said everything to her was the man standing right there.
I didn’t hear all the information, but what I heard roughly took shape and settled down.
A form of love in which you love someone so much that you only want them to look at you.
It was a twisted love.
I felt somehow guilty.
Couldn’t she have pushed him down the abyss?
Couldn’t she have sent him away without thinking about a favor?
I don’t know if I’ll see him later, but if I see him again, what should I say?
While lost in thought, the covenant of the oath was in progress.
And now it was his turn to speak.
He was silent for a while.
Do you feel remorse in front of an irreversible choice?
But there was nothing she could do.
“Yes.”
The officiating words were being heard and the kiss of the oath was going on.
All I could do was applaud with a bitter heart.
###
“Eurelia-san, finish this and go home.”
“Yes.”
After graduating from college, she went into society and decided to work in the government office of the institution.
It was her advisor who even encouraged her to go to graduate school, but she didn’t want to.
It was because she couldn’t seem to concentrate on her studies.
More precisely, it was because of what happened after that.
That day, the day she wanted to express her own feelings.
She went through something that she should have experienced once in her lifetime.
Kidnapping, confinement, and assault.
Even if she had just one, she was enough items to go to jail, but she was the one who went through those three at once.
Although she was a commoner of her own status, her shock was multiplied because she had never experienced anything like it before.
In the aftermath, she locks herself in her room right after her graduation ceremony.
As she was on the road, she even kidnapped herself, so she could find out about her own house, so she couldn’t do anything but shudder.
A week passed like that, a month passed, but no one came back to him.
Still, she was always anxious.
She lived a life of staying out of the house unless she needed something.
I was in tears.
He just wanted to express his feelings.
Why did he have to go through this?
Tears flowed. I didn’t have any resentment towards him…
It was clear that he really knew nothing.
I don’t know if it’s an eyepatch on someone I love, but she decided to think so.
Living in such fear, she decided to become a civil servant.
She just couldn’t live like this, and the idea came from the thought that if she was a public servant, she might be able to escape from that demon a little bit.
Her status as a college graduate and her good grades allowed her to work in the drafting.
There was even a thought that I might see him, even if it was very small, later, but the unfulfilled love was gradually eroding.
Around that time, when she thought she would be able to let go of her memories of her past.
She was briefly in charge of the window of the department where she worked, and she saw someone open the door and come in.
It was two men and women.
Did these people also come to register their marriage?
However, it was different from others.
Whether the man was injured or had a problem with his leg, he was sitting on a chair and a woman was pushing it.
Thinking that maybe these people were the last, she tried to greet her as usual.
“Hello, can I help you with something…”
Only then did she recognize the man’s face.
I couldn’t have known
Because that man was the man he once had in his heart.
As she couldn’t take her eyes off him, she heard voices from the woman’s side.
“I’m trying to submit documents.”
When she first looked at the woman’s face, a visceral fear rushed through her.
It was not unfamiliar. It was the same thing she felt when she lived in fear.
Her head knew instinctively that the voice of her then and the person in front of her eyes now were the same person.
Her limbs trembled.
Why did she come back only now? Take him too.
She seemed to know what the situation meant.
I urge you not to dream anymore.
“Hey?”
Even his voice sounded disgusting. But what needs to be done is what needs to be done. She opened her mouth, desperately hiding her emotions.
“Ah…You can fill out this document.”
I was just watching what was happening right in front of my eyes.
What’s so exciting about it, aside from the woman filling out her paperwork while humming her song, she kept staring at the man.
Seeing him again, various emotions came to his face.
Guideline. Fatigue. And resignation as if everything had been left behind.
She made eye contact with him.
But it didn’t last long.
“I wrote everything.”
“Ah. You can go now.”
So they turned their backs and left.
A blank sheet of paper caught her eye.
I could find out the name However, it could not be reported.
Should I be thankful that he is alive, even for a moment?
A drop of tear soaked the paper underneath.
###
Somewhere in the western part of the empire.
Two women were sitting at a desk facing each other.
“…Sorry.”
What was the meaning of that apology?
It’s an arbitrary decision that has nothing to do with family, but did he come to apologize out of moral responsibility?
Or is it that I am sorry that I had no choice but to deliver this news?
In fact, it didn’t matter if the person in front of me cursed and criticized me.
Back then, I just had to hold on to my hair and fight.
Still, just because this person came to apologize to her, she didn’t deserve the blame.
Even if she didn’t know anything about it, no one in the world would blame her for her.
How can people from the same boat be so different?
She hadn’t even thought about it, but she soon decided not to.
She herself is also from the same boat, but she has a few other people.
“It’s okay.”
She says so Could she just say that?
She has nothing to say, so she stays silent.
She decides to ask what to ask.
“So.”
“Where is he now?”
“I went on a trip…”
The trip will probably be a honeymoon.
I felt sick to my stomach.
Maybe she did it because she was deprived of what she should have enjoyed?
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel a slight disappointment…
It would be an obvious lie for her to say that she felt good that she ended up choosing someone else over herself.
In the end, you chose someone other than me.
However, he was tormented by a feeling of self-loathing that soon followed.
I was a sinner who had sinned against him, but it was disgusting to see him secretly hoping for salvation instead of reflecting.
That’s probably why he left.
“I left a letter.”
The woman in front of her took out a letter from her bag she was carrying.
It’s a letter that I desperately hid and somehow brought it.
I explain something, but I can’t hear it.
My eyes go to the paper called the letter that contains his heart.
“Then I will go.”
Talk to the woman trying to get her seat up.
“You’ve come a long way, so let’s have dinner and go.”
“I have to go back soon.”
She lowered her head and continued her speech.
“Maybe this will be the last time I come here.”
“Enough then.”
“Go carefully.”
The living room was silent. The house where there were three people a while ago soon became two.
It’s always been like this, but today, one person left, so the house seemed a little deserted.
I was able to ridicule myself by saying that I know better than anyone else the feeling of not having anything.
Because right now there is nothing to be by her side.
A letter lying on the desk catches my eye.
A letter in a plain white envelope.
What did you write
Is it an excuse for a choice?
Or is it an apology to yourself?
It was funny.
I’m still out of my mind
I wanted to open it right away, but I didn’t even want to open it for some reason.
I didn’t want to dig through the scars that might be in the words contained in it.
Still.
I had to open it myself.
As a sinner who hurt him, it was clear that accepting his last words without hesitation was the only salvation given to him.
Chewy.
The entrance is torn off, and the paper with the content inside sees the light of the world.
————————————————– —————–
To Heina.
Perhaps this will be my last letter to you.
I don’t think I’ll be able to keep my promise to visit you from time to time.
I don’t know if the person who took this letter told you.
Perhaps her personality would have done it.
I’ve been through a lot of troubles
How to solve this situation.
Is there any other good way?
But it wasn’t there.
All I can say is that it is an inevitable choice for everyone.
It was the seed I sowed, so I felt I had to reap it.
I sent a letter to Bill.
If there’s something you really can’t solve on your own, you can go see him.
Looks like it’s time to go
May we meet again in the next life and live happily ever after.
How are you.
————————————————– —————–
Sat down
My knees hurt from the sudden fall, but I couldn’t feel it.
He was kind to the end.
Even though he could curse, he didn’t say that to the end even though he could say it’s because of you.
Water began to wet the wooden floor.
To the end.
To the end he sacrificed himself for himself and for his others.
If he had asked to run away with him, he would have been with her for the rest of his life, even if he became his maid.
I know very well that it is an impossible wish.
He still couldn’t make up his mind.
But now he seemed to have made up his mind.
I was happy.
The fact that he still thinks of himself.
It was sad.
The reality that I will never see him again.
He held the letter tightly in his arms.
It seemed that he pushed him to the limb while trying to fill his own happiness by saying that he would make him happy.
If only I had believed in him a little back then. If she told her that no matter how much you did, what you wished for would not come true.
So, would we have been happy by now?
It was a meaningless assumption.
Everything is already over
He kicked away the happiness that came to him.
He couldn’t keep a single word he said while conveying his heart to him.
Even so, it was clear that he had sacrificed himself for his sake.
“I’m a bad bitch…”
Words that I did not know who they were talking to came out.
Sobbing filled the whole house.
Cries were heard.
A younger, higher-pitched cry that wasn’t her own.
I reflexively moved my body to where the sound came from.
A precious treasure was there.
Last memories of him and himself.
He carefully embraced the treasure.
“It’s okay… It’s okay…”
She continued to cry, but soon she stopped crying and went back to a peaceful sleep.
“It’s okay…Everything will be fine…Baby…”
The day was drawing to a close just like that.
