reverberation-3
The firecrackers exploded like that for a long time, and then gradually disappeared, revealing the original night sky.
Since the afterglow from earlier is unlikely to disappear so easily, I slowly lower my head, still lost in thought.
I didn’t expect to see fireworks here. What I saw at the Full Moon Festival seemed to be strongly embedded in Adele’s impression.
However, what I saw was not the fireworks, but Adele under the light of the fireworks.
You don’t have to tell her.
This episode deserves to be called an episode that has completely passed the singularity since breaking off engagements with Theresia.
I’ve already been through it, but isn’t it the first time that I’ve been involved with Adele, Adrian, and Mirazen at the same time.
What if he had set expectations for Yuria and Theresia from the beginning?
If only he had held his breath by digging into the Crown Prince without expecting anything to change.
Maybe I shouldn’t have faced the memories I’m recalling now.
“You look in a bad mood. For what I said was pretty.”
When I raised my head at the sudden voice, Adele was looking at me with a strange expression.
It was the same for me that what Adele just said sounded meaningful.
– A long time ago, I thought I wanted to show you this.
That word just now sounded like he was remembering the previous episode.
Even though I thought it couldn’t be, I wanted to reveal my return just in case.
If I were to say my 100 lives, 300 years.
Will Adele really understand that?
When I looked at his face with such thoughts, I suddenly felt fear when I saw the faint smile on the corner of my mouth.
Wouldn’t they see me as a strange person?
He sighed and parted his lips slowly.
“I feel fine. I just remembered something.”
“What came to mind?”
“Should I say it was a thing of the past?”
In terms of time zone, it would probably be a few months later, but to me it was already several decades ago.
The North that Adele visited before and after she died.
The reason I was reluctant to be with Adele at first was that I wouldn’t be too happy to see a situation like this come back.
Of course, knowing that it was irreversible now, I just watched Adele with a mixed feeling.
Adele, who frowned at the word “a long time ago,” opened her mouth again, twisting the corners of her mouth.
“It seems like there are too many old things that I don’t know about. After all, wasn’t I older?”
“It is. Aren’t you three years older than me?”
“There are many secrets on that subject. It’s embarrassing.”
That’s what he said, but it didn’t seem like he had any intention of asking me more.
Adele seemed to live on her own, but she had her own line.
It was a problem that it only applied to her favorites, but fortunately I met that standard.
Adele liked me quite a bit. I didn’t know it before, but now I know why.
It must be because her father’s and mine are quite similar.
The reason Adele formed the mercenary group in the first place was to find her father.
To find news of her father who left Adele when she was young, and to give her a slap on the cheek.
There were many who threatened the girl with a sword.
However, Adele’s talent was so brilliant that it took only five years for her to become the leader of a mercenary group that was unmatched in the North.
By the time Adele led the mercenaries and received the title of grand duke, Adele gained many things, but lost one thing.
-I thought I got everything, but I couldn’t find my father.
Adele’s expression looked calm as she said that.
As if nothing had happened, Adele’s expression was expressionless as she said it was just an old story.
However, that insensitive expression was proof that she was agitated.
He is superimposing his father on me.
I’ve heard that before, that one day I feel like I’m going to disappear without a word.
– I was always afraid that you would disappear. My father was like that too, with blank eyes like yours.
It was the same scenery, but what Adele said then and now was quite different.
Maybe it was the difference in time zone. In the rounds I was in the North, I always stayed here regardless of the season.
However, I am a body that must leave now. I had to leave the North and go to the South, and finish what had to be done now.
Clearing out the memories that have lingered in my head, I make eye contact with Adele again.
For two days, he thought not only about Theresia, but also about how to bring up the story of treason with Adele.
However, I couldn’t bring it out of my mouth.
It was because I was afraid that if I took it out of my mouth, I would not be able to control my emotions from the old memories.
So, it was better to write down what I thought in a letter, and read it later, although the shape might be quite strange.
It will take a long time to explain her death.
It was strange to mention death out of the blue in such an atmosphere, so it would be better to give her time to think on her own.
If you read everything written in the letter, I think you will at least be able to understand it.
Even if you didn’t believe it, it didn’t matter.
If Adele still goes to the imperial palace, I will stop her even if she revises her plan.
“I have something for you too.”
“Are you going to give it to me?”
“Are you reading the letter?”
As I took out a carefully wrapped letter from my pocket, Adele stared at me.
Reading shame from his shaking eyes, he put the letter in Adele’s hand with a small smile.
“Read when I leave. I wrote down what I wanted to say.”
“…You’re doing something useless. Do you think I will read it if you give it like this?”
“I want you to read it. please.”
Adele wrinkled her brow at my slightly earnest voice.
I think you probably won’t be able to refuse.
You might not know when you first met, but now you can’t help but pay attention to this letter.
Anyway, this is a letter from me. After looking at the letter in her hand for a while, Adele accepted it with a clear cough.
“From now on, don’t write letters like that. Better to wield a sword or something more at a time like this.”
“I probably won’t see you for a long time if I go this time, but it’s my own goodbye.”
“long time? hmm, yes I won’t be able to see you for a long time.”
Adele smiled meaningfully and slowly stood up. The night sky, after all the firecrackers had exploded, regained its calm.
The light that had spread around had also completely faded, and it was time for the forest to begin to darken again in the shadows of the night.
Maybe I should go back now, Adele quietly pursed her lips as if she had the same idea.
“Let’s go back now. You should be sleeping too.”
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Bassrock.
Every time Adele moved, the sound of the leaves being trampled could be heard.
As she strode forward, as if her shoes had gotten used to it, she turned her head when she realized that I was far behind.
“You shouldn’t be later than me. What if I’m later than the woman in the shoes?”
“I’m going late on purpose.”
Take a small step forward and take one step. I take another step and stand next to Adele.
“If you fall, you have to catch them from behind.”
“I don’t fall. I am completely used to it now.”
“I bet you would.”
Now if you walk a little further, you will see the true nature.
When I realized that when I had been walking like this, I had walked a lot more from my nature than I thought, I let out a drool.
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Judging by the time, it should be close to midnight now.
The people waiting under the bell tower waiting for the new year to begin soon were invisible, but the bell tower standing tall in the distance was clearly visible.
“Isn’t it New Years yet? I set off the firecrackers a little ahead of time.”
“Originally, the most important thing to greet the New Year is paper. I think it is natural.”
“I hate ringing the bell. My ears hurt.”
The reason why she still doesn’t clean it up is that she cares about the northerners in her own way.
It seemed that soon the bell would ring.
The priest on top of the bell tower prayed to the people, and then he was seen preparing for the ringing of the bell.
After stopping for a moment and looking at it, Adele quietly opened her mouth.
“…Come to think of it, I haven’t even apologized to you yet. It’s before the New Year, so it’s better to say it now.”
Thin fingers pulled my sleeves, and I turned my head at the slight touch.
Hesitantly, Adele, who blinked several times as if slightly embarrassed, bit her lip.
The word apology was questionable.
I just remembered how it had been angry with me the last time, and I just waited for Adele to speak up like that.
After some time passed, it was time for the priest, who had almost finished ringing the bell, to reach out for it.
“sorry. I am angry with you.”
The fingers that had lightly pinched the sleeves became the palm of my hand.
He wrapped around my collar and held me there as if telling me not to run away.
It was as if Adele’s hand was holding her arm.
Adele, who held my wrist tightly and stared at me like that, spoke again.
“The fact that I cut my throat the first time we met, and the way I acted a little bit as I pleased. I’m sorry…that’s what I think.”
“Haven’t you already apologized before?”
“I feel like I have to tell you now.”
When I raised my head at the sudden words, Adele took her eyes off me and was looking at the bell before I knew it.
It was a look that reminded me of something.
Even so, as if he was not sure, he could see his wrinkled face.
“If I don’t tell you now, I won’t be able to tell you.”
It was clear that he was anxious.
However, I didn’t know what to worry about, so I just slowly squeezed the hand that was holding my wrist.
The hand that had been holding on for a while slowly loosened up.
And my fingers dug between the falling hands.
Body temperature overlaps under the cold wind.
It was only an overlapping area the size of a palm, but it was enough contact to feel each other’s warmth.
It was closer to just holding it than grabbing it.
It was to reassure her anxiety a little, but instead, Adele’s startled eyes widened.
Facing the wavering blue eyes.
A moment of silence, a moment that felt like a very long time, passed.
dang-
The sound of the bell announcing the new year began to fill the surroundings.
“I am here.”
“…know.”
“I was here last year, and I am here again this year.”
Didn’t the sun change because the bell struck?
20-year-old Robert and 21-year-old Robert, being by Adele’s side did not change one bit.
Even if Adele’s feeling of insecurity is her own, even if it’s the foreknowledge of her own death.
That was no reason for her to be anxious.
“Is it because you don’t like me going?”
“Don’t talk nonsense. It’s just that I feel that way.”
“If so, make a bet with me. About whether we will be able to see the bell ringing together next year or not.”
Adele, who didn’t know what that meant, looked at me strangely, but I knew what Adele was going to be like next year.
Adele wasn’t there the next year.
In the episodes so far, Adele always died this winter.
It was a fact that only I knew, so saying that it was a bet was actually the same as a word thrown to myself.
“Which side would you like to be on?”
However, he does not express himself and throws a question.
I believed that maybe Adele would bet on what I would be next year.
And just like that thought, Adele replied without any hesitation.
As if saying something obvious, with an indifferent expression.
“Let’s bet on the side we see together. If so, what is the wrong side doing?”
“I do not know.”
The answer to this bet would probably come down to one.
The way Adele chose, to watch the ringing of the bell together.
Adele wasn’t going to die.
Even if the future was determined like that, it was natural that I would not just watch it.
“Let’s make one wish come true.”
“Not bad.”
It seemed that she had to think about what she wished for.
Adele Ygritte will definitely survive in this life.
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Just like Adele’s habit of saying, I decided that.