Chapter 71 – Doubt (3)
“The Nisty family?”
Sister Helen answers gently.
“You know then. But why are you asking?”
Bienne cannot answer that question again.
She asked Casey the same question, but she couldn’t answer.
And like Casey, Sister Helen notices why.
“..Is it because of that boy?”
“..Yes.”
“Hmm.. I don’t know what the child has to do with the Nisty family.”
Helen was puzzled, but she still smiled at Vien.
She moved slightly to her side and tapped the seat next to her with her hand.
“Come and sit down, Vien. She will answer any questions you ask.”
Bien glanced at her call, noticed
She slowly sat down next to Sister Helen.
Helen gently grabbed one of her late aunt Bien’s hands.
Vien, who had many scars on her hands, was startedled, but
The sense of security that came to her soon made her feel at ease.
Helen’s hand was warm.
“Ask Vien.”
Bien swallows her saliva and asks her question again the previous night to her gatekeepers.
“… Do you know Elsaine Nisti?”
Helen thought for a moment and shook her head.
“That’s the first name I’ve heard of. And maybe there is no one like that.”
“…Yes?”
“The Nisty family is not a big family. It only consisted of the head of the house, Hian Nisthi, and his daughter, Rose Nisty.”
“Are there only two of you?”
“Isn’t it unusual?”
“..?”
Bien tilted her head.
She was just confused.
Then, why the hell did Starchis enter that house?
Did you really have a meeting at someone else’s house?
That would have been uncomfortable not only for Elsain, but also for Stachis.
There is no reason to have a meeting in an inconvenient place for both families.
Something is hidden.
Even if you can feel there’s something behind all of this
I couldn’t figure out what it was.
“..Sister Helen. Is there any reason to have a meeting at someone else’s house?”
“Meeting ceremony?”
Sister Helen rolls her eyes and replies.
“Hmm… If you say yes, it must be for a very unusual reason, right? I don’t know.”
Vienne’s reply fueled Sister Helen’s doubts.
As expected, there is no reason to have such a meeting in someone else’s house.
Helen looked at Vienne, who was brooding.
Then he laughed and pulled Bien’s hair.
Naturally, Bienne leaned on her Helen’s shoulder.
“It seems that the question is not resolved.”
“…”
“Bien, then shall we do this?”
“…?”
Sister Helen implicitly questions Bien.
“Fortunately, tomorrow, the head of the Nisty family is visiting for this month’s sponsorship. Would you like to stand by then?”
“…Yes?”
“When something doesn’t come out, it’s not bad to try bumping into it with your body. Maybe we can find a clue to the question?”
Vienne salivated at Sister Helen’s suggestion.
I know that nothing will be solved if I stay like this.
She wondered if seeing the head of the Nicesty family would change anything.
I thought I might know more than I do now.
But one thing bothered me.
Sister Helen would suggest that she do this with a good heart to herself.
I know she’s doing this just to solve a simple curiosity.
You won’t know that Bien is dreaming of bad things.
Ultimately, to take Stachis away from Elzain
She won’t know what she’s doing.
Vien knows too.
If it comes true
How ugly this would be.
Elzain also felt the pain Bienne herself tasted.
You will find out.
The pain of losing someone you love.
If Helen gave her the opportunity to do something like that…
Maybe she has karma to bear for her sins
She felt guilty that she might not move on to Sister Helen.
“…Ah…”
“Yes?”
“..No..”
Bien bites her lip and answers with difficulty.
I really wanted to go.
She seemed to be able to figure out something important if she was there.
But she didn’t want to bother Helen as much as she did.
“..Why don’t you like Vien?”
Helen asks, stroking the head of her bien leaning on her shoulder.
“…I’m actually… Doing it to… Do something bad.”
For a moment, Helen’s gestures stopped.
Maybe she’s disappointed
Bien closed her eyes tightly.
“…I’m sorry..”
“…?”
“..Haha..!”
“Sister Helen?”
Bienne tore her head off Helen’s shoulders.
Sister Helen laughed amusedly, covering her mouth with her hand that was stroking her bien.
It had been a long time since I had seen her smile like that.
Helen, who laughed for a while, said to Bien.
“Ahaha… Ah, Bien. How can you be so nice?”
“…Yes?”
“Are you worried about that?”
“..Sister Helen, I’m not that nice.”
Especially when Starchis is by my side, I realize it a lot.
Compared to him, she herself is shabby and not nice.
“No, Vien. You are nice you just don’t know yourself You still refused for me, right?”
“…”
“It’s okay. Please attend this meeting.”
“Yes? No..! Because of something really bad…”
More than anything, Vienne did not want to disgrace Helen’s face.
She doesn’t know if it’s her own business.
But she didn’t want to be a nuisance to others.
“Bien, it’s okay to do bad things.”
“Yes?”
And from Helen’s mouth, Vienne hears her words that he never thought he would hear.
When she was young, she was always taught only goodness, which is to say that she doesn’t have to be good.
“Ah… No, but… “
Helen blinked her eyes once or twice and looked at Vienne with deep eyes.
It was a gaze that seemed to pierce her.
“Bienne, what do you think of the mistakes you made without knowing?”
She opened her mouth to answer,
No words came out of her mouth.
Prickly.
I open my mouth and close my eyes.
Wrong I didn’t know.
Have never thought about it.
“What if mistakes made without knowing were bigger than bad things done intentionally?”
Helen asks.
“Even if you think you’ve lived a good life, the standards are all yours.”
“…Still-“
“Church members are people too.”
Helen said softly.
“People can’t always be good. I get angry, and I get jealous. Don’t complain. That’s natural If you forcefully change her circular shape and knead it, she will quickly return to her original shape. You have to wait for yourself to change.”
“…It’s too hard, Helen..”
Bien takes her word for her nun and calls her as she used to.
Once again, Helen laughs.
“What do I mean, Bien? I’m just telling you to do whatever you want.”
Bien looks up at her Helen at her words.
It’s something I heard, one day.
When drinking with starches.
He had told Bien.
Isn’t it hard to just try to act nice?
I feel like I’m wearing clothes that don’t fit.
It’s okay to do whatever you want.
Be comfortable in front of yourself.
Then his words shook her bien heart.
It’s also what made her fall in love with him.
Since then, she has slowly stopped pretending to be nice.
Curtly, she began to act as she originally wanted to do.
“It was very difficult for you growing up in the church, right?”
Helen stroked Vien again.
“Sometimes, I wondered if I was just asking you to be good.”
Something made Bien feel like she was going to cry.
“How heartbreaking it was to see you winking even when you were greedy when you were young, and holding back even when you didn’t like it. Didn’t you change after meeting that boy?”
Helen opens her eyes and makes a big gesture.
“You’ve become a little more honest, and you’ve become a little cuter. No matter how lost your mind Whoop..”
Bien had tears in her eyes.
She hadn’t known
She thought that as long as she lived a good life, Helen would like her.
She didn’t do anything bad that she was worried about that too.
Also, she was a thoughtful person.
Helen held Vien in her arms.
“The important thing is to know how to apologize the moment you realize you were wrong and come back. That’s how you grow by learning. You become a more mature person through mistakes. If you were good every time, would you have a chance to learn from your mistakes? If you don’t walk on your own, you won’t be able to see the road.”
Vien now closed his eyes and sobbed.
Even the ugly parts of herself are embraced by her.
She’s okay with things she’s not proud of herself.
To some extent, she was telling Vienne that she believed in her.
Bien was so grateful for that.
She raised herself with her love,
Asks her bien to her own mentor.
“… Mom did that too?”
Helen whispered everything in her bien’s ear.
“Then. At your age, I made a lot of mistakes.”
****
-Sseuk!
When Paine, the patrol of the Aid Party, raised her hand, they all stopped walking.
The sharp-looking man turned her head and listened to her.
Russ couldn’t hear anything.
Payne seemed to be listening to her.
It’s been a while since I did this.
If it was an enemy that could be overpowered, it would have disappeared in haste.
I would have tried to find an A-class party, but
The opponent was the sky serpent.
The closest being to the dragon, an S-class monster.
It is quite dangerous even among class A.
It was not an enemy that could act hastily.
In that case, the Aid party members might also be in danger.
Payne, who had stopped listening carefully, whispered.
“…They entered the realm of the serpent in the sky. I can hear it crawling.”
After Stion nodded her head,
She gestured to Russ in the middle of the line.
“Russ, take the lead.”
“…What?”
“…Stion!”
The vanguard Boyle and the spearman Fioren react.
But inside the dungeon, the leader’s words were absolute.
In particular, in the case of Stion, he had charisma, so he couldn’t fight it out loud.
Stion dismisses both opinions with his eyes.
Boyle groaned,
Fioren bit her lip and followed Stion’s words.
Russ was scared, but she came with determination.
If her own actions could help Stachis, she would do them a hundred times more.
If Starchis can never be knocked down again by this, he can anytime.
Russ nodded and stood in front of Payne.
“..Depart.”
At Stion’s words, Russ cautiously walked forward step by step.
Because it was her first A-class mission, her sinister sense enveloped her.
