44
Estio Volume 2
- Episode 19
"...But, I thought about what had happened before I decided to kill someone with those eyes."
"Keeping."
"I don't know, no matter what I think."
The whole world that a ten-year-old child believed in was dyed red.
On the day the author was stained with blood, she fell into her father's arms, and she wasn't completely lost. So, even after Estio left, I listened intently to the voices of Jeremion and the people who were murmuring.
"What did your brother and dad do then?"
It was so shocking to Sarah that a precious family member could put on someone else a cruel expression that made her want to kill her. Since that day, Sera has also sparked a match on the caring faces of her family. She was so lethargic that she couldn't trust anyone, this time with extreme lethargy.
"That was so scary."
Hiru moaned and put her head under the girl's palm. The little master's hand was trembling softly. Recalling a time when so many people had died, Sarah buried her face in her lap.
"Nevertheless, it's really scary."
"......"
"it's me."
In the midst of all the horrors, he himself was the most terrible. Sera confessed her feelings only in front of animals that could not speak with a crazy feeling.
"I thought it was fortunate. Even after so many people died, Estio didn't hurt my father and my brother......"
Whether it was because of pain or lack of strength, his voice gradually diminished.
"I'm glad..."
"It's not your fault."
twitch.
Sarah slowly lifted her face that was buried in her lap. Her eyes were blurry as her hair was clinging to her tear-stained face.
A black cat is still sitting in front of him. I thought so, but when I blinked, the tears that had been blocking my vision flowed down and I could see clearly in front of me.
The shape I thought was a cat was a human boot when I looked closely.
"Don't blame yourself for something you didn't do wrong."
"Meow."
I looked up after the boots and saw a cat on someone's shoulder. The black cloak fluttered lightly in the wind from outside the window.
Sera recognized her opponent and widened her eyes.
"S...Tio?"
"Yes."
"Are you really Estio?"
"It's been a while, Serarin-sama."
A hand in a white glove reached out towards her. As soon as she called her name from him, a sense of reality came to her.
'It's real Estio. It's not like a dream.'
After the incident, Sarah often had nightmares. In her dreams the dead bled and cursed at her and her family, and Estio would turn her back on her cold eyes.
But the real Estio was not as cold as in the dream. She was staring at her calmly with her neither smiling nor frowning.
Sera, who was staring blankly at Estio, realized that she had been sitting on the floor without dignity, one beat later, and swallowed her breath. Then she slowly took her hand.
"Because you call me 'Sera'."
Estio nodded her head slightly toward the girl who was muttering like a grudge. Sera stood up from her seat and looked up at Estio. There were many things she wanted to say, but nothing came to mind when she was in front of her.
'You look healthy.'
I heard there was a big fight. There were many people who died, but Sera knew that Estio and Neju would not have been spared in the process.
"Hey... What about Neju?"
Sarah looked around with anxious eyes. In the room, Estio and Tsuki, Sera herself and her dog Hiru were all there. I approached the window, but Neju was nowhere to be seen. There was no way that large body was hiding from her sight, so it was clear that he wasn't really nearby.
Sera's complexion, who had been thinking up to that point, turned blue.
"Stand, please."
"It's okay."
Estio decided to cut off the girl's imagination that was going into the worst situation.
"Wow, that's good."
Sera looked at Estio and let out a sigh of relief. She didn't need to ask how she got in. This is because no one can go directly to the room without a message to meet the nobleman formally.
Even a high-ranking member of the royal family, it was right to be polite and wait in the drawing room. Therefore, Estio had committed a crime of trespassing into the room of an aristocratic lady, even among the worst of the rudeness.
But Sera didn't care and spoke directly to him.
"Did you come here to hear me from Dad?"
"It has nothing to do with the Viscount."
It was a sword-like denial. uh? ' Estio added slowly towards Sarah who tilted her head.
"Didn't you tell me back then. Chin......"
"Yes?"
"... Friends, say."
It was an awkward pronunciation. Embarrassment drifted over his face as he had never spoken the word friend out of his mouth.
"That's right! Secret friend!"
Sarah smiled broadly, not like the girl who was dying with empty eyes a while ago. Estio, who had her child's innocent smile in front of her, felt a bit of an itch in her stomach and avoided her gaze with an embarrassed expression.
"Thank you. It's so nice to see you again."
"Why are you happy?"
"This time, you didn't even call me for a request, but you came."
Sera held Estio's hand, who had lifted her up, without letting go.
"I know, there was something I really wanted to say to Estio."
"do it."
"Chi, it's still there, hard tone."
Sera puffed her cheeks and pouted her lips, then took a deep breath after a while.
"Sorry."
The gaze that had been avoided returned. You can tell without reading it. The girl was apologizing to him with all her heart.
"......"
Estio opened his mouth in search of something to say, but no expression came to mind. There were many people who had troubled him until now. I had never heard of an apology from those responsible, so I did not know how to properly respond to such a sincere apology.
Finally giving up on answering, he raised a hand.
'Cold hands.'
Sera felt an unhuman chill in the man's hand on top of my head. Unlike her parents' hands, she did not caress me softly, but just laid it on her. She did, but she didn't like it at all. On the contrary, until now.
'It's the warmest.'
It wasn't about the actual temperature. Sarah quietly placed her head in his hands. His hands are colder and lighter than anyone else, but strangely, he felt relieved as if he had lit a bonfire in his heart.
"You don't have to be afraid."
While Sarah closed her eyes as if to sleep, leaning on that warmth for a moment, Estio's voice echoed low in her ear.
"Because I have no intention of harming you or your family."
"I know. Estio is not a scary person."
Sarah narrowed her eyes and smiled. However, in the next words, the smile on the girl's face hardened as it was.
"I'll erase your memory."
"......What?"
"It's something I've never tried. It might fail, it might have side effects. But."
Sera looked up blankly at Estio, who continued to speak with an expression and tone that had not changed a bit from before.
"Cerarin, this is what you need."
"What is it!"
"Or are you going to die?"
Estio's voice was so calm that Sera was speechless. He spoke again as he met the green eyes that looked up at him in disbelief.
"Forget everything that concerns me."
"What is it? Then you..."
"Then you will be able to see your family and laugh again."
Estio intercepted the words and concluded. Then Sarah took a hot breath. What he said was none other than the part that bothered Sera the most. He felt disgusted by seeing the people he loved most and suffered from lethargy. A disease of the mind gnaws at people more painfully than a body ache.
If you are sick, you can take medicine to cure it, but when you are sick, there is no medicine. All he had to do was cry alone surrounded by the pain.
As a result, she was now to the point where she could not stand still without holy water for a single day.
'It was as if he had really looked inside... No, he must have looked inside.'
That's the only one possible. Sera, who bit his lip tightly and let go, raised her eyes and looked up at Estio.
"Estio."
"......"
"Answer me. Don't pretend you didn't hear. Listen straight."
"......Yes."
Sarah raised her wig and gripped Estio's collar tightly. As the weight of the girl was lifted, his body leaned forward slightly.
With their faces close like that, Sarah burst into rage.
"You idiot, don't make fun of me!"
Estio stiffened in embarrassment. A little girl was angry with her small, skinny body.
"What do I need? It's okay not to know? Can I just ignore the things I don't like? If you pretend you don't know and forget about it, that's fine, is that the way of an adult?"
"I don't mean that."
"Or what! You idiot!"
He was cursed, but he didn't say anything as he looked at his green, watery eyes. As Estio shut his mouth, Sarah began to sob.
"I am, I am afraid."
The small hand that grabbed his collar trembled slightly.
"I'm afraid I'll forget these feelings I'm feeling right now. I'm afraid that I will bully people, make them suffer, and laugh without knowing that I'm doing something wrong."
'Like Dad.'
After reading Sarah's thoughts, Estio blankly looked down at the small crown. It was an unexpected fear.
"Wow, that's scary. Hehehe."
"Win. Kiing. Arleung."
As Sarah cried, the sound of a puppy crying was also heard. Sera let go of Estio's collar and bowed her back towards her Hiru.
"Sigh. Hiru, come here."
While the owner was sick, he refused to eat together, so the dog, who had lost its hair and was very dry, fell into Sera's arms. Sera shed tears again as she hugged her dog, who had become bald.
"Look, if you forget about you, you will also forget about Hiru. I absolutely hate that."
"......then."
Estio asked the question like a sigh.
"What do you want Serarin-sama to do?"
"Sera."
"Yes, Sarah."
After hearing the desired title, Sarah wiped away her tears and smiled softly.
"Keep being my friend."
"?"
"That's enough. I'll take care of the rest."
The girl stood up bravely, holding the puppy in her arms. Clear green eyes that did not contain anger or sadness this time completely captured him.
"no?"
"No, of course."
"I knew that Neju was okay, I knew that Estio didn't hate me, and I properly conveyed the apology I wanted to make."
It was a cool expression. Estio saw the expression on the 10-year-old child's expression and felt that she was much more grown-up than herself.
"We can continue to be friends in the future. I'm so happy."
44
Estio Volume 2
- Episode 19
"...But, I thought about what had happened before I decided to kill someone with those eyes."
"Keeping."
"I don't know, no matter what I think."
The whole world that a ten-year-old child believed in was dyed red.
On the day the author was stained with blood, she fell into her father's arms, and she wasn't completely lost. So, even after Estio left, I listened intently to the voices of Jeremion and the people who were murmuring.
"What did your brother and dad do then?"
It was so shocking to Sarah that a precious family member could put on someone else a cruel expression that made her want to kill her. Since that day, Sera has also sparked a match on the caring faces of her family. She was so lethargic that she couldn't trust anyone, this time with extreme lethargy.
"That was so scary."
Hiru moaned and put her head under the girl's palm. The little master's hand was trembling softly. Recalling a time when so many people had died, Sarah buried her face in her lap.
"Nevertheless, it's really scary."
"......"
"it's me."
In the midst of all the horrors, he himself was the most terrible. Sera confessed her feelings only in front of animals that could not speak with a crazy feeling.
"I thought it was fortunate. Even after so many people died, Estio didn't hurt my father and my brother......"
Whether it was because of pain or lack of strength, his voice gradually diminished.
"I'm glad..."
"It's not your fault."
twitch.
Sarah slowly lifted her face that was buried in her lap. Her eyes were blurry as her hair was clinging to her tear-stained face.
A black cat is still sitting in front of him. I thought so, but when I blinked, the tears that had been blocking my vision flowed down and I could see clearly in front of me.
The shape I thought was a cat was a human boot when I looked closely.
"Don't blame yourself for something you didn't do wrong."
"Meow."
I looked up after the boots and saw a cat on someone's shoulder. The black cloak fluttered lightly in the wind from outside the window.
Sera recognized her opponent and widened her eyes.
"S...Tio?"
"Yes."
"Are you really Estio?"
"It's been a while, Serarin-sama."
A hand in a white glove reached out towards her. As soon as she called her name from him, a sense of reality came to her.
'It's real Estio. It's not like a dream.'
After the incident, Sarah often had nightmares. In her dreams the dead bled and cursed at her and her family, and Estio would turn her back on her cold eyes.
But the real Estio was not as cold as in the dream. She was staring at her calmly with her neither smiling nor frowning.
Sera, who was staring blankly at Estio, realized that she had been sitting on the floor without dignity, one beat later, and swallowed her breath. Then she slowly took her hand.
"Because you call me 'Sera'."
Estio nodded her head slightly toward the girl who was muttering like a grudge. Sera stood up from her seat and looked up at Estio. There were many things she wanted to say, but nothing came to mind when she was in front of her.
'You look healthy.'
I heard there was a big fight. There were many people who died, but Sera knew that Estio and Neju would not have been spared in the process.
"Hey... What about Neju?"
Sarah looked around with anxious eyes. In the room, Estio and Tsuki, Sera herself and her dog Hiru were all there. I approached the window, but Neju was nowhere to be seen. There was no way that large body was hiding from her sight, so it was clear that he wasn't really nearby.
Sera's complexion, who had been thinking up to that point, turned blue.
"Stand, please."
"It's okay."
Estio decided to cut off the girl's imagination that was going into the worst situation.
"Wow, that's good."
Sera looked at Estio and let out a sigh of relief. She didn't need to ask how she got in. This is because no one can go directly to the room without a message to meet the nobleman formally.
Even a high-ranking member of the royal family, it was right to be polite and wait in the drawing room. Therefore, Estio had committed a crime of trespassing into the room of an aristocratic lady, even among the worst of the rudeness.
But Sera didn't care and spoke directly to him.
"Did you come here to hear me from Dad?"
"It has nothing to do with the Viscount."
It was a sword-like denial. uh? ' Estio added slowly towards Sarah who tilted her head.
"Didn't you tell me back then. Chin......"
"Yes?"
"... Friends, say."
It was an awkward pronunciation. Embarrassment drifted over his face as he had never spoken the word friend out of his mouth.
"That's right! Secret friend!"
Sarah smiled broadly, not like the girl who was dying with empty eyes a while ago. Estio, who had her child's innocent smile in front of her, felt a bit of an itch in her stomach and avoided her gaze with an embarrassed expression.
"Thank you. It's so nice to see you again."
"Why are you happy?"
"This time, you didn't even call me for a request, but you came."
Sera held Estio's hand, who had lifted her up, without letting go.
"I know, there was something I really wanted to say to Estio."
"do it."
"Chi, it's still there, hard tone."
Sera puffed her cheeks and pouted her lips, then took a deep breath after a while.
"Sorry."
The gaze that had been avoided returned. You can tell without reading it. The girl was apologizing to him with all her heart.
"......"
Estio opened his mouth in search of something to say, but no expression came to mind. There were many people who had troubled him until now. I had never heard of an apology from those responsible, so I did not know how to properly respond to such a sincere apology.
Finally giving up on answering, he raised a hand.
'Cold hands.'
Sera felt an unhuman chill in the man's hand on top of my head. Unlike her parents' hands, she did not caress me softly, but just laid it on her. She did, but she didn't like it at all. On the contrary, until now.
'It's the warmest.'
It wasn't about the actual temperature. Sarah quietly placed her head in his hands. His hands are colder and lighter than anyone else, but strangely, he felt relieved as if he had lit a bonfire in his heart.
"You don't have to be afraid."
While Sarah closed her eyes as if to sleep, leaning on that warmth for a moment, Estio's voice echoed low in her ear.
"Because I have no intention of harming you or your family."
"I know. Estio is not a scary person."
Sarah narrowed her eyes and smiled. However, in the next words, the smile on the girl's face hardened as it was.
"I'll erase your memory."
"......What?"
"It's something I've never tried. It might fail, it might have side effects. But."
Sera looked up blankly at Estio, who continued to speak with an expression and tone that had not changed a bit from before.
"Cerarin, this is what you need."
"What is it!"
"Or are you going to die?"
Estio's voice was so calm that Sera was speechless. He spoke again as he met the green eyes that looked up at him in disbelief.
"Forget everything that concerns me."
"What is it? Then you..."
"Then you will be able to see your family and laugh again."
Estio intercepted the words and concluded. Then Sarah took a hot breath. What he said was none other than the part that bothered Sera the most. He felt disgusted by seeing the people he loved most and suffered from lethargy. A disease of the mind gnaws at people more painfully than a body ache.
If you are sick, you can take medicine to cure it, but when you are sick, there is no medicine. All he had to do was cry alone surrounded by the pain.
As a result, she was now to the point where she could not stand still without holy water for a single day.
'It was as if he had really looked inside... No, he must have looked inside.'
That's the only one possible. Sera, who bit his lip tightly and let go, raised her eyes and looked up at Estio.
"Estio."
"......"
"Answer me. Don't pretend you didn't hear. Listen straight."
"......Yes."
Sarah raised her wig and gripped Estio's collar tightly. As the weight of the girl was lifted, his body leaned forward slightly.
With their faces close like that, Sarah burst into rage.
"You idiot, don't make fun of me!"
Estio stiffened in embarrassment. A little girl was angry with her small, skinny body.
"What do I need? It's okay not to know? Can I just ignore the things I don't like? If you pretend you don't know and forget about it, that's fine, is that the way of an adult?"
"I don't mean that."
"Or what! You idiot!"
He was cursed, but he didn't say anything as he looked at his green, watery eyes. As Estio shut his mouth, Sarah began to sob.
"I am, I am afraid."
The small hand that grabbed his collar trembled slightly.
"I'm afraid I'll forget these feelings I'm feeling right now. I'm afraid that I will bully people, make them suffer, and laugh without knowing that I'm doing something wrong."
'Like Dad.'
After reading Sarah's thoughts, Estio blankly looked down at the small crown. It was an unexpected fear.
"Wow, that's scary. Hehehe."
"Win. Kiing. Arleung."
As Sarah cried, the sound of a puppy crying was also heard. Sera let go of Estio's collar and bowed her back towards her Hiru.
"Sigh. Hiru, come here."
While the owner was sick, he refused to eat together, so the dog, who had lost its hair and was very dry, fell into Sera's arms. Sera shed tears again as she hugged her dog, who had become bald.
"Look, if you forget about you, you will also forget about Hiru. I absolutely hate that."
"......then."
Estio asked the question like a sigh.
"What do you want Serarin-sama to do?"
"Sera."
"Yes, Sarah."
After hearing the desired title, Sarah wiped away her tears and smiled softly.
"Keep being my friend."
"?"
"That's enough. I'll take care of the rest."
The girl stood up bravely, holding the puppy in her arms. Clear green eyes that did not contain anger or sadness this time completely captured him.
"no?"
"No, of course."
"I knew that Neju was okay, I knew that Estio didn't hate me, and I properly conveyed the apology I wanted to make."
It was a cool expression. Estio saw the expression on the 10-year-old child's expression and felt that she was much more grown-up than herself.
"We can continue to be friends in the future. I'm so happy."
