Chapter 480 – 480. Starcheva Mansion
Anna’s eyes seem to be burning.
What should I say to this woman?
She’s usually quite calm, but her tension is definitely up right now.
I guess so. The country where she was born, her own home that she lost.
Now that I’m back there, I understand why I’m so motivated. But that’s why we can’t take the lead.
It’s a perfect situation to buy and hit, right? If blood rushes to the head, even something that should be done can go astray. I can’t see that with my own eyes.
“I just want to ask you something.”
Anna’s eyes sparkle at my words. As expected, it’s different from usual. It’s so shiny.
“For now, go back to the bunker. Take Seunghee, Mina, and SeAh.”
“Yes?”
Anna tilts her head, thinking she didn’t hear correctly.
“Go back. Not now. “Now is the time to go back.”
“Under… But.”
As expected, Anna doesn’t easily accept what I say.
But before she goes on to say anything, I strike first.
“I just got here and haven’t really checked out what the surroundings are like yet. Well, I’ve looked at the basics, but there’s still a lot to figure out. So, go home and wait until I’m ready. It’s much better for me that way.”
Anna’s expression is one that is not easily understood. However, she does not openly reject or rebel.
Because I’m not wrong. I’m not trying to be weird, right?
“But… I can’t leave you to struggle alone. And here I am, here to help. It may be old, but still…”
“I know. Anna, that’s where you used to live, so it might be helpful. I understand that you want to help me, but I’m back now. I think you know it’s not because I don’t trust you or find you annoying, right?”
“… Yes.”
“I’m just talking about a matter of efficiency. I’m sure there are things that can be done with your help. But there are also big limitations. Especially when you’re impatient like you are now, you’re bound to make mistakes you didn’t make before. You’re stronger than before. I know you want to solve it with your own hands, but I’ll be with you when the time comes.”
Anna bit her lip at my firm words.
If it were Se-Ah, she would have messed up a couple more times here, but Anna is not that kind of woman.
If anything, she’s an amazing woman. She is the one whose faith in me is everything.
Ah. Maybe this is just my opinion. Because no one knows a person’s inner thoughts.
It’s not something you can open wide and see with your own eyes.
But Anna believes. Rather than a shallow and irresponsible trust, it was more about reading her memories.
Is there anyone who can fool her own mind and even her own memory? Probably not. If that were possible… I have to die.
With that level of sincerity, it’s worth dying for.
Anyway, Anna doesn’t go against what I say. I can tell that.
Look. In the end, you give up.
“… Ha. I understand. I’ll do as you say.”
I smiled brightly at her answer.
I guess my smile isn’t that terrible. When I laugh, she loosens her tightness and laughs weakly.
“Then… We don’t have to go right away, right? Since we’re already here… Is it okay if I look around a bit?”
Anna returns to her original form.
I think she realized that she had put a lot of energy into it. After all, she is a wise woman.
“Of course. It’s your house.”
“Yes. Haha. It’s my house.”
Anna took a deep breath. Then she looked at me and the three women and spoke with a smile.
“Well then… Would you like to see the Starcheva family mansion?”
After saying that, I followed her and started looking around the mansion, which was now almost in ruins.
Even from the outside, it seemed like a decent mansion. It was definitely worth it. This place was older and had a deeper history than expected.
The mansion is said to be at least 300 years old. I had a feeling for some reason.
It wasn’t such a fancy place on the outside. The traces of a good life that can be seen throughout the house are enough to make me look at Anna again.
Things are already broken, broken, and dirty, but it is still a unique experience to find traces of Anna among them.
“This is… Where my room used to be.”
Anna, who led us to the second floor, opens the door and speaks, and the rusty hinges squeak and open in response.
“Hey. Anna, you really lived well?”
Seunghee, who has seen it all this time, seems to be able to feel it clearly when she sees what used to be Anna’s room, and enters the room with admiration.
“It looks like a princess’s room. It’s a canopy bed.”
Mina also looks curious as she enters the room and looks towards the bed.
Although Anna’s room was messy, as if someone had rummaged through it, it wasn’t as messy as other places.
Probably because the windows here are not broken, they are in good condition.
Although there is a lot of dust.
The women each looked at the room curiously. As I was looking at them, I saw something in the middle of the room.
Something covered with a cover. But I think I know what it is. This is it. Piano.
As I walk towards it, Anna follows behind me. Immediately I grab the cover and pull it gently, and the cover comes off smoothly with a little dust flying.
A pitch black grand piano.
It must have been unmaintained and neglected, but because it was covered with a cover, it maintains its sparkling shine.
An object that appears to be completely normal on the outside. It looks pretty good. Even though I don’t know anything about musical instruments, it looks perfect.
Anna approached me with that piano. I open her body cover, then open the keyboard cover and press one of the keys with my long, slender hands.
Ding
Seunghee, Mina, and Se-Ah, who were looking around the room at the sound louder than expected, all look in this direction.
Ding ding
This time, two keys.
Women naturally come this way.
Do re mi fa so la si do
Press the keys from degrees to degrees, just like a child trying to play the piano for the first time.
The clear and pure sound of piano keys. A smile blooming on Anna’s lips.
“Oh…”
Se-ah gives a brief exclamation. That’s because this time Anna played briefly with both hands.
A loud and resonant sound. Although it was a short performance, I feel like I am being sucked into the sound.
Anna’s smile got bigger and brighter, and she now took out her piano chair and sat in front of it.
And then she starts hitting it right.
I’ve heard Anna play the piano before.
The house above the bunker. A performance played on the piano there.
But it feels different from back then. Even if I listen to it as a beginner, I can still feel something about this performance.
Do you feel like the sound coming from the keyboard shakes your soul? Hey. I can also express things like this.
But I guess it’s not just me. Seunghee, Mina, and Se-Ah quietly close their eyes and seem absorbed in Anna’s performance.
Musical instruments are so amazing. How does this happen?
It’s just a mixture of sounds. How can you shake your heart like this just by connecting sounds?
When the performance that I had hoped would never end ended, I clapped my hands without realizing it.
The same goes for the other three women. It’s not the first time they’ve heard Anna play, but everyone looks touched and claps their hands sincerely.
Anna blushes slightly as if she is embarrassed by our reaction.
“Oh… She doesn’t deserve that much praise.”
“What are you talking about? After doing this well.”
“There were a lot of mistakes. Plus, some of the keys sounded a little strange.”
“Don’t worry. We don’t notice that, right? Oh, did Mina notice?”
“No. I don’t know. I’m not that great of a person.”
“But you were a singer.”
“I’m a singer, but I’m not at the level of playing the piano or composing music.”
Mina pretends to be humble by waving her hand.
Meanwhile, Anna smiles contentedly while stroking her piano.
“Songcheol.”
“Huh?”
“This is a piano. Can I take it?”
“This? Of course. As much as you want.”
“Thank you. I would like to take more than that.”
“Okay. If you want, you can take everything in this room.”
“Ah… Not to that extent.”
Saying that, Anna gets up from the piano. Looking at her like that, I spread out my hands and said.
“Would you all like to take a step back?”
Four women who listen obediently. Everyone takes a couple of steps back.
“Now, the magic of the piano disappearing!”
I flap the piano cover that fell off earlier and spread it over the piano.
Four women frowning and covering their noses at the dust that still remains.
“Hot. Hot!”
As soon as the cover covered the piano, the storage compartment at the bottom was opened, and the piano was swallowed.
The piano disappears and only the cover flutters and falls to the floor.
“Cough, cough. Oh, that sounds plausible? I should practice something like that too.”
Se-ah looks interested as she waves her hand to kick up the dust.
If you are someone who is not familiar with storage, this is definitely something that will make your eyes widen.
Of course, we all know, so there is no reaction.
I’m thankful that SeAh at least showed that kind of reaction.
So I look around the room a little more.
Anna started looking through her desk and her closet, looking for something, and Seunghee, Mina, and Se-ah chattered next to Anna, looking at other items.
Then Anna took something out of her closet. Women exclaim in admiration.
Out of curiosity, I sneaked over and looked at Anna’s back, and there were a lot of things.
These are definitely items that will make women stare.
Jewelry box? It feels like something like that, but there are quite a few items that look precious just by looking at them.
“Where was that? It looked like someone had already searched the room.”
“It’s my secret place. Fortunately, no one searched there.”
“Secret place? Is there something like that?”
“Of course. There’s a secret double-structured drawer in the closet over there.”
“Hey. Is there such a thing? That’s fascinating.”
No matter how you look at them, these accessories look like real gems. A mirror that looks somewhat luxurious. Comb. Clock. Etc.
Anna certainly seems to have lived well. She was fifteen when she left this house, but it’s hard to believe that a girl like that would have something like that.
Well, looking at this house, that much would be natural. But the matching still isn’t working well. Anna was the daughter of a rich family.
The three women are looking at the items Anna took out, giggling and saying how pretty they are.
To be honest, I wasn’t really interested in that, so I just walked around the room and looked around.
But no matter how messy the room is, in some ways, this is a girl’s room. Is it okay to just look around like this?
While thinking about such useless things, I looked at the bookshelf and saw something falling on the floor.
That… Is it a photo?
The back of the photo is unique. I reached out and picked up the photo.
Two photos. One was a family photo. A girl who appears to be Anna in the middle. A boy next to him. Parents on both sides.
Ah. As expected, Anna’s mother was pretty.
You have extraordinary beauty. So she would have given birth to a daughter like Anna.
The second photo was of young Anna. She is, but I don’t know how old she is. She is very young, but it is not easy to guess her age.
I think it’s a photo of around elementary school age… It’s an insanely cute photo.
A face with a slightly large straw hat on its head and the brightest smile in the world.
And. Is this a bit of a heart attack? It turned. How can it be this cute?
“Hey. Look at this.”
I showed everyone the photos I found.
Seunghee, Mina, and Se-ah look at the photo and squeal with love in their eyes.
Anna blushes as everyone makes a fuss about how cute she is. Hey. I see Anna like that too.
Is it because she came to the place where she used to live? Anna definitely looks a little more disheveled than usual.
We were arguing over getting it and almost tore it up, but in the end, I took it back.
Se-Ah didn’t give in, but in the end, I won rock-paper-scissors.
But why does he covet Anna’s photo so much? Funny guy.
After a brief commotion, I secretly handed Anna a photo of her family.
Anna took the photo with a puzzled expression and paused for a moment.
“Ah… Thank you. I really appreciate it.”
In an instant, your voice becomes moist. Fortunately, I didn’t shed any tears, but I guess I got close to that point.
My eyes quickly turn red.
After looking around, I gathered all the necessary items, which I put in storage and brought to the bunker.
The piano was placed in the middle of the living room of the house above. Because there is nowhere else to put it.
After finishing cleaning up, Anna came up to me and grabbed both of my hands.
“Don’t overdo it. You can take it slowly. Revenge… Of course, it’s important, but you are more important to me.”
Anna’s sincere appearance. For some reason, it makes me sad to see him like that.
Seeing him like that makes her want to look for him quickly.
She has a strong desire to stay alive.
“Okay. Then… I’ll come back.”
“Yes. Never overdo it. Absolutely.”
“Okay. Don’t worry.”
Just like that, I returned to Russia.
If you say it that way… Strangely enough, you want to become a tree frog, right?
How many times do I emphasize not to overdo it? Then the more you do it, the more you want to overdo it.
The last thing I saved was Anna’s house, so I left there and flew into the sky.
Under. What should I do now? Let’s start by screwing up the mafia, right?
It’s Igor. I don’t know where it is… Please stay alive. Please.
I hope you will appear before me in good health. Definitely.
That way Anna won’t make you unhealthy.
