#60
What is lost is ten years.
It took me three minutes to get it back for a while.
Ten years cannot be counted in three minutes.
The time is too short and insufficient to convey all the words that have not yet been said.
… no.
It was enough.
Over time, they were about the same age. Yuri, who was seven years old, grew ten years older and turned 17, and Eidel is still… It was Idel of nineteen. Twelve-year-olds narrowed down to two-year-olds. Yuri was no longer a child, but more like a mature lady, as Eidel sees it.
At first, I was afraid I wouldn’t recognize it. I’m afraid I might mistake you for someone else. Because I’ve grown a lot more than when I was seven.
He was taller, his hair was longer, his face became more mature, and above all, his impression changed a little.
This is because Yuri rarely smiles after her brother’s disappearance. It’s because I couldn’t smile brightly like a mischief while calling my brother…
“… … You grew up so well, Yuri.”
So, when Eidel smiled thinly.
Yuri sighed— and took a hot breath.
Then, his head slowly tilted forward, and it touched Eidel’s tanned chest. Idel’s powerless body shook for an instant, but soon calmed down.
While Yuri sighed and sobbed, Eidel glanced beyond it. A joint that seemed to be about to collapse at any moment. cracked stone floor.
It was not an endless plain. There was no mountain of reckless corpses. Where the hell is it Was there such a place in the kingdom… …
… … No, I actually knew.
All… knew
Thanks to someone’s consideration, not consideration, who was trying not to let the brief reunion go in vain, Eidel just bowed her head to catch the look of her younger brother. The fleeting memories were engraved like a photograph.
If this moment passes, you will soon disappear. with my loving family… I’ll never see you again in my lifetime.
Actually, the environment would not have mattered at all. Eidel just watched Yuri grow up… Satisfied with it.
It’s too late though.
It’s been a while, but it’s very late.
returned to her sister’s side. I saw my sister who grew up wonderfully. In that case, Eidel only smiled thinly like this.
It was just a slightly harsh smile.
Because the existence of older brother has to be a strong support for my sister, I can’t easily shed tears.
“… … ”
There were many things I wanted to say. It was all words of apology. Even a hundred times a thousand times was not enough.
But I couldn’t.
couldn’t do it
“… I’m sorry. really.”
So, just one word.
… … Yuri trembled like a puppy wet in the rain. The voice couldn’t come out. The lips did not open as if they were stuck together. The pain in my throat that keeps getting stuffy and not being able to convey the words I need to say is so painful and bitter… Yuri squeezed her chest and, as if collapsed, rested her head on her brother’s chest and swallowed her tears.
Because if I started crying like this, I wouldn’t be able to stop until the three minutes run out.
I lifted my buried head. I looked straight at Idel’s face. As a princess of a country, she has a ruined face with no dignity to be found.
Swallowing up all the stained tears and runny nose, Yuri vomited a cracked voice from her bitten lips.
“… … It’s too late. idiot.”
sorrow in the past. I promised my brother that I would definitely come back, and in the end resented my brother for not coming back. hated heart. Putting it all together, he said.
stupid- say
That was the end of it.
Now the glass… I no longer resent my brother.
Eidel’s hazy eyes opened wide for a moment. I heard from my younger brother, who was pure, kind and cute, that he was an idiot. A small smile crept across Eidel’s lips.
“It looks really big. I know how to say such harsh words to this older brother. … … On the one hand, it hurts my heart a little.”
“Your brother was wrong.”
“… … Yes, this older brother is an idiot. But, if you were going to do it, how would it feel to say that you are an idiot?”
“Idiot. idiot.”
Yuri inhaled her reddish nose and scolded him so much. Eidel only found the new look of his younger brother somewhat fresh. That young thing has grown so much that he curses at himself with a face his age… …
“… When did you grow up like this, Yuri? Now it doesn’t seem that much different from this older brother. How old are you this year?”
“… … 17 years old.”
seventeen.
… … is it.
ten years?
“… … Still, you can still call me brother.”
Still, he was two years old. The right to call himself brother-in-law was still there.
Eidel suddenly raised her hand and tried to tear the strands of hair from Yuri’s cheeks, but remembered that only her left wrist was left on her wrist. Even that was wrinkled and dirty. With these ugly hands, he couldn’t touch his younger brother’s pretty face.
Suddenly, Yuri was holding Eidel’s hand. Carefully wrapped it with both hands and brought it to my face. A pale hand touched the warm cheek. Even though it was cold, I felt my brother’s touch with a worldly comfortable face.
“… your face gets dirty Take it off.”
“… no.”
“Until resistance… ”
It’s a minor rebellion, even though I’ve done it often in the past.
A younger brother who is so selfish, really… It was the first time.
Yuri was holding back the shudder that was about to burst from time to time, and tilted her head to rest her forehead on Eidel’s chest again.
thump- thump-
A faint heartbeat ran through his forehead. His pale complexion brightened up a bit. For a brief moment, Eidel was really alive. the warmth of life. Swallowing up the overwhelming emotions, Yuri digs into Eidel’s arms a little more like a fool.
“… don’t stick It gets dirty.”
Eidel pushed her brother away with words like that, and wrapped her arms around Yuri’s head. The top of the glass was clearly visible through the edge of the field of vision.
Seventeen is the age of eating whatever you eat. You’d hate to be petting your older brother. As I said above all, dirty hands…
Yuri picked up Eidel’s hand that had been removed from her cheek and wrapped it around her again. And then gently carried it over my head.
small head. smooth hair. The feel of the ribbon on the back of your hand. All of that was familiar, so squawk— sulk— Eidel silently stroked Yuri’s head. Yuri closed her eyelids with a sad smile that suddenly appeared. Eidel opened her swollen lips.
“… … Next time, I wanted to buy a prettier ribbon.”
“… … ”
“… … But, Yuri, I’m glad you liked the design. Keep buying the same decorations… … ”
“It’s not new.”
“… … ?”
“A gift from my brother. I kept having it.”
“… … ”
“If you have this… … ”
Because you said you would be watching me anytime, anywhere.
Yuri struggled to swallow those words.
“… … ”
“… … ”
Already, more than half of the time has passed.
Intuitively, Eidel asked quietly.
“glass.”
“… yes. brother.”
“Mother, Father.”
“You are alive. Hello.”
“… kingdom.”
“Go well. In fact, it rolls so well that it’s embarrassing. It is a country that I may one day lead.”
“that… I’m worried.”
“it’s okay. I’m fine on my own now. somehow… It will lead you well. Without my brother.”
“… … Boy, you’ve grown up really well.”
I know how to say strange things.
The last words are somewhat heartbreaking, but… …
“Right now, I left the kingdom and went to the academy.”
“… … Academy.”
Yuri did not even add reassurance that she attended the Imperial Frontier Academy, and that it would be the safest place in the world. Because this happened there. He could have lied otherwise, but he didn’t. As for the last… Because I only wanted to keep the truth.
Eidel didn’t ask any more details. He didn’t even wonder about how the older brother and younger sister finally met after going back ten years.
Yuri whispered in Eidel’s arms.
“… I made a lot of good friends there, and I will go there for about 4 more years. maybe.”
Those friends are standing behind me.
Eidel would have noticed that popularity. But now he doesn’t turn his head. To say thank you to each one… There’s less than a minute left.
“… … that’s a nice voice He looks happy.”
“Yeah, I’m happy.”
“… … ”
… … If so, you’re lucky.
Eidel applied a little more force to her quirky little brother’s head, pressing it down and stroking it. Below that, Yuri said softly.
“The war is over. U.S… I won.”
“… That’s very fortunate.”
Yuri shook her buried head slightly.
“Yeah, I’m glad. all… Because my brother took care of me.”
“… … ”
“… … ”
“… … ”
“brother.”
“Yes, brother.”
“… … brother.”
“… … ”
“brother… … ”
“… … ”
“brother… … ”
With only one thought in her head, Yuri let out a continuous mutter.
You can’t stop talking
I have so much to tell you.
“… … me… … ”
To hate him for leaving first.
That time is so short.
“I have an older brother… … ”
To resent why you came now.
That time was too short.
“Thanks to my brother… … ”
So, thank you.
Above all–
“Because my dear older brother protected me… … I was able to grow up like this.”
──I also said that I loved you.
“So, your brother kept his promise… … ”
He raised his head and smiled faintly. But there were tears in Yuri’s eyes.
“Because you protected me back then… … Because you came back to me like this… … ”
In the end, it rolls down one drop at a time. He wet his cheeks and chin and dripped. While laughing and crying at the same time, Yuri gently embraced Eidel’s body, which was full of soot and scars, and said.
“It’s okay now… … You have no regrets.”
“… … ”
… …
Lips falling off and sticking repeatedly.
“… Would you have any regrets?”
A brother must not show his sister tears. He placed his hand on the head of Yuri, who was hugging him, and twisted it with a slightly stronger force than before. He smiled hard.
“I was able to protect you with this one body. You have grown wonderfully like that… Now he says he can go on his own. Here is the proof that this older brother lived hard. How could you not be happy? Never, never regret… … ”
After confronting her younger sister who had grown into a dazzlingly pretty lady, Eidel had long since put down all regrets.
For her sake, the regret of not being with her for the rest of her life was taken away. I reaped the guilt of not being able to protect any more. Of course, it’s because my brother doesn’t want it. In the end, I hope I can send you a smile… it’s because you’re waiting
And, he asked quietly.
“glass.”
“… … yes.”
Eidel von Artina.
Yuri von Artina’s older brother is–
“I do my part… … Are you done?”
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Did you faithfully fulfill your brother’s role?
“… … He was my brother, so I was happy.”
—Of course.
“… … Ahaha.”
Breathing becomes shallow.
The sensation gradually fades.
Stopped in for a while, then left.
“After all, you are my greatest… It was a blessing.”
In the eyes, the light of the red flame fades.
Glass can’t be seen. I can’t raise my head. To remember the ephemeral warmth until the very end. He hugged Eidel’s body even tighter.
At that moment, Eidel turned her head with a slow gesture.
A young man was standing in a distance not far from the diagonal.
Seeing his face, Eidel opened her mouth slightly for a moment, then closed it again.
… … This too must be fate.
Rather, it was fortunate.
Eidel looked at the young man.
The young man also saw Eidel.
… …
It is not transmitted through language.
So I could understand.
momentary question.
The young man thought.
Until the day I die, I can’t say with certainty.
Because he might die before her.
However…
─Nod.
The young man gave Eidel a sufficient answer.
… … Eidel smiled faintly.
Now, three seconds.
“… … glass.”
The light gradually fades away.
The miracle is over.
“… … Black, whoops.ぅ.”
Eidel made Yuri raise her head.
was drenched in tears.
“… … always be healthy.”
this second.
Eidel gently stroked Yuri’s bangs.
Side- I kissed her forehead.
It was a short, sweet kiss.
“love.”
one second.
Idel smiled brightly.
“My little brother.”
… …
… …
… …
let my brother laugh
My brother smiled too.
“yes.”
Until the end.
They were laughing at each other.
“… … I love you too, brother.”
so that.
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“──Ugh.”
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… … … … … … … … …
“… … OMG. oh eww… Huh, black, bub, ugh, black… Ouch, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, no, uh… … … … … … Brother aa … … … … ”
I couldn’t see Yuri sobbing as it collapsed as if untied… … With a smile on your face, perhaps at ease, so forever… fell asleep