192. Each season has its own beauty
Aries looks at winter.
The whole world was covered in white with soft snow. In the quiet tranquility, the forest was silent, and no steps were taken on the snow-covered road, as if no one had come or gone.
The starlight shining through the night sky was incomparably brighter than the night sky in another world. The aurora flowing across the towering spiers of the ice castle in the distance was enough to dazzle anyone’s eyes.
However, the only guest in this world was busy looking down, not up.
“Is this… Me?”
The night was so bright, and the winter lake so clear, that when the snow was removed from its frozen surface, the scenery was reflected as clear as a mirror.
Aries looked at his reflection on the frozen lake. In the spirit world, she was not a sword, but a human being.
The face of a woman she had never thought of before, soft and mature, affectionate and strong, was in it. She wears a silver coffin and a golden chain.
Those eyes that were as blue as the sea were the color of the jewels that were embedded in her handle when she was her holy sword. Suddenly, she choked and staggered.
“You have to be careful.”
She felt someone’s hand holding her behind her. Aries reflexively shook it off and stood up. A woman with a stern expression with a frown on her face was looking at her.
Rabbit ears and silver fur. All of them were characteristics not found in ordinary beastmen. But somehow, Aries felt as if he could find out who they were.
However, the unresolved weight of her doubts made her stumble again. I am······.
*
Choco kicks off autumn.
“Heh, heh. Oh my! Sister, come with me!”
“Why are you so slow when you are a beast?”
Autumn foal······. No, Choco, who was galloping excitedly like her puppy, stopped behind her, pouting her lips at the sound of her voice restraining her.
“I told you!”
“I don’t know, I didn’t hear. Why am I your sister?”
“Ahhhhh! Whoa, so it’s not like they’re real sisters, it’s just a kind of courtesy to say that our ancestors are the same!”
“Have the same ancestors?”
Choco stopped her run for a moment and went around behind her, snatching up her little boy who was following her and putting it around her side. The child, who struggled for a while, sighed as if she had given up, and collapsed.
“Keep talking.”
“So, outsiders say it is a high-ranking species? After all, we are all descendants of the divine beast! The golden human, the green fairy, and the pure-blooded beastman are all.”
“But you are too weak for that?”
“That’s because we, the White Rabbit, received a different mission and came to live here. Oh, put it down!”
“No~ uh. Are you going this way?”
The beautiful autumn scenery couldn’t be seen by Choco, who was slowly humming and, on the contrary, running while raising clouds of dust.
Is it comforting that the animals escaped from predators? The beautiful fallen leaves were trampled on, and the colorfully decorated giant trees were uprooted.
I don’t have the slightest doubt. Following the leader’s back, it always advances toward its goal. Without hesitation or hesitation. Until the moment she plunges her teeth into the scruff of her prey.
That was her way.
*
Cream hears summer.
The season when everything blooms after spring, when everything comes alive. The small beasts born in the spring cold became adults before they knew it, and the fruits were not young enough to burst open, revealing their flesh to the world.
Even though it was her summer, it wasn’t overly hot, and the pleasant warmth embraced her. Savoring the moment, Cream was moving her steps, looking at her guide’s back.
“Are you a warrior? Great!”
“Yes.”
Her bookkeeper who guides her is a girl who is more likely to say that she is young rather than young. She pricked up her rabbit-like ears, and the girl jumped ahead of her with rabbit-like steps.
Cream looked like a girl her age with him, but she was expressionless, unable to read any emotions. Irrespective of the blunt listener’s reaction, the storyteller continued to tease her.
“I read about many warriors too! What kind of warrior are you? Goodness? Exemplar?”
“I am, peace.”
“Your name is pretty too! Certainly, the hero is the most kind and gentle person among the warriors, right?”
Cream made no reply. Countless summer scenes passed between one person’s liveliness and one person’s silence.
“Ehehehe, I want to hear the story of the hero like a chimney, but first I have to fulfill my role as a guide, right? You may be familiar with the Four Seasons Tower, but I will explain in more detail.”
She is a story everyone knows.
“Our Four Seasons Tower is also called the Library of the Four Seasons, but in fact, you wouldn’t know what it is just by looking at the name, right? To put it in a bit more detail…”
A filter that filters out the remnants of evil thoughts so that the darkness of the world is less accumulated. The accident twisted under someone’s influence spewed ridicule at will.
“This is a place where ‘all non-existent books’ gather!”
“All, books?”
Not at all curious, Cream listened to her pretending to be curious. Because he knew it would please Bunny Girl. She’s a shy benevolence that’s not like her.
Cream no longer values life. They don’t value relationships either. She wasn’t like that from the beginning. It’s just, now it’s just dull.
“Yes! Mmm. More precisely, all the memories, situations, and scenes that have happened, happened, or will happen in the future are recorded in the tower in the form of a book. Lol. Is it too abstract?”
“No, I understand.”
But unlike someone she loved, she wasn’t the kind of person who could really be insensitive to the pain and loss of others.
“Then I’ll keep telling you! Anyway, so books keep piling up in the tower, but we don’t read them. Because it might be someone else’s private secret or embarrassing memory, right?”
After shaving, shaving, and shaving herself, she was able to no longer empathize with someone else’s pain. Although she still couldn’t help but enjoy watching it.
At least she no longer felt guilty and sad. But is it because the memories she deliberately hid came back? At this moment, indeed, a feeling of guilt was sprouting in her heart.
She still doesn’t hesitate to harm lives. Still, I don’t even attach meaning to any other relationship except for one. But when the two are combined.
“That’s why we’re book keepers, not librarians!”
Cream grabbed the empty space where the hilt of the sword once stood.
When she decided to kill her friend’s offspring – no, her heart was eaten, but when her decision finally met reality, she felt the pain.
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When the seal on her memory was lifted, she ‘gave up’ all those feelings with a single cry. Yes, her star words were aimed at Karbal, but they were also a story that worked for Cream as well.
Even if a piece of nail or a strand of hair gains life and moves, it can never become the person in charge. So, this feeling is also not hers.
However, as if there was a hole in my heart, why do emotions keep filling up even after removing them?
“Yes.”
“Yes?”
The girl looked back for the first time. Looking at the ear, which resembled her friend’s infinitely, Cream asked a question.
“You did something wrong.”
“Yes?”
“Just a question. For now, listen.”
“Umm…? Yes!”
I don’t know why my heart was moved. Maybe it’s because this girl resembles an old friend, maybe it’s because she’s the same age as Choco. Or maybe.
Since I’m going to die soon anyway, no one will hear this conversation.
“You did something wrong. That’s what you did, no.”
“・・・・・・Yes?”
“But, yes, it is wrong. Then, what do you want to do?”
However, in the end, all that came out of her mouth was a jumbled sentence. Even now, she was good at listening, but not good at talking.
She couldn’t even understand what she said herself, but the girl was shocked. The girl who had been contemplating while patting her ears for a moment, her face brightened as if she had found her answer.
“Um, maybe I’m still young, so I didn’t quite understand.”
“Yes.”
“After all, aren’t you trying to apologize to someone?”
I see. Cream was momentarily dazed at the perspective she hadn’t thought about, but then she saw the girl’s twinkling eyes and reluctantly nodded her head.
“Then I think it’s good to apologize! Whether it’s really your fault, or even if it’s not your fault!”
“Why?”
It was summer.
The midday sunlight breaking through laughter. A sweet smell spreads in all directions. Colorful flowers in full bloom with full vitality. Turning her back on all of that, the girl said with a smile.
“After you apologize, you can make up with each other!”
*
Karbal is.
“Keuok, you are me…”
Enemy. Enemy.
[No, that’s too much. If a person is hungry, isn’t it possible to eat a little and do that?]
Enemy. Enemy.
[But, as expected, the appearance is good, but the taste is not good. Hmmm, is it because it’s an empty shell without an owner?]
Enemy. Enemy.
[Ah, it’s not fun. Hey. Give me an answer Are you already dead?]
Enemy. Enemy. Enemy.
[Anyway, things these days have no guts. He said he had his lower body ripped off… Whew, what’s the point of talking alone when no one is listening?]
Enemy.
[I already ate it all. Awesome. Then let’s go soon.]
Swallow the spring.