Vera and Renee found Friede. It was because of Renee’s suggestion that we should ask him directly about his relationship with Neuer.
Vera was of the opinion that there was no way to tell the truth, but Renee laughed a little at that, and replied, ‘If Friede is really in love, I will admit it with my own mouth.’
questionable words.
However, Vera trusted Renee who had awakened him. If Renee said so, there must be a good reason.
With that thought in mind, Vera, who came to Friede’s front, asked straight-forward.
“Do you know where Neuer is based?”
sudden words.
Friede narrowed her eyes at those words, then nodded her head.
“Yes.”
Surung-. Vera’s sword was drawn out. Renee raised a hand to stop it. Until then, Friede had only watched the two of them act.
Renee said ‘just’, pointed the cane, took a step forward, and asked Friede that question with a smile on her face.
“Are you talking to Neuer?”
“It is not.”
This time, the cool answer comes back. Vera frowned at Friede’s answer.
what are we going to do It was because of that thought.
Tension filled Vera’s heart. Facing a person whose intentions are unknown is a sign of growing hostility.
However, the reason why he did not proceed more aggressively was because Renee was there.
It was because René had a calm face that seemed to know something.
Rene realized that her prediction was correct at the words she heard, and then asked a question.
“You don’t care how things go here, Frieden? Even if Adrin-sama’s essence is stolen, even if Neuer dies.”
If it was Friede that he had observed in the past, it probably would. Because Friede doesn’t know emotions. Because all of this is one of those things that have to happen. For Friede, the outcome of this conflict would not matter at all.
Friede’s answer was an answer that confirmed René’s conjecture.
“Um, the saint has a good eye, isn’t it?”
It was more of a laugh, but it was also empty.
Renee felt the sadness she felt every time she talked to Friede again.
I didn’t ask if I really felt anything. It was a meaningless question to Friede.
So, Renee continued.
“Which one do you think is right, Frieden-nim?”
“What do you mean?”
“Aedrin-sama’s death and Neuer’s death. Which of the two do you think is more correct?”
These words were spoken because he wanted to know the direction that Friede’s reason was headed. He vaguely knew the answer, but nevertheless wanted to get a definite answer.
“None of it is worthwhile.”
To that, Friede gave the same answer as Renee had thought.
Renee knew it too.
There is no better side in this dispute. However, there are different positions.
That is why fairies and Neuers are moving on what they consider to be worthwhile.
Among them, Friedeman, who had no emotions, was only isolated like an isolated island.
“Then, are you really going to do nothing, Frieden-nim?”
“Surely, my mission is to protect my mother from enemies invading the Great Forest. I will continue that mission until the moment of my life.”
Frieda smiled and said so.
“Well, if Gili kills me, the mission will end in failure.”
Words that recite natural rules that you know.
Friede looked at Renee and Vera’s countenance as they chatted. I understood the reason for the emotions they recalled.
‘Angry’ and ‘Angry’ appeared on Vera’s expression. Perhaps he felt threatened by his actions, which did not take sides on either side.
Friede understood it. Then he looked at Renee.
The things that came to mind on Rene’s face were ‘sadness’ and ‘sympathy’.
Friede… .
‘why?’
It didn’t understand.
The accident passed quickly. Friede thought of all the mechanisms of action she knew to try to figure out the cause of that feeling. I couldn’t find where Renee’s feelings came from.
Accidents continued. Friede couldn’t find a suitable emotion, so she substituted ‘fairies’ instead of herself.
So I got the answer.
“Ah, are you sympathizing with the fairies?”
thought it came out
“no.”
Friede’s head tilted. A blind saint named René, who was in sight, turned her empty pupil to herself, and put her face in the empty space and continued.
“I sympathize with you.”
For the first time, the expression on Friede’s face disappeared.
*
Friede’s movements were not at all due to emotion.
It was natural. Friede doesn’t know how to feel, so she can’t respond emotionally to the words of sympathy for her.
Why did Friede stop here? If I had to add an analogy to express it, I had to think of it as the reaction of the machine that could not find the input value.
Friede couldn’t feel anything. However, I could learn.
Friede knew. What emotions come to mind with what words and actions. how to deal with it.
Friede’s experience accumulated over thousands of years made him possible.
Thus, Friede never once had any doubts about the emotions that reached her.
Because all emotions can be understood with logic. There must have been a clear reason behind that.
‘why?’
So, this was the first time that Friedero had encountered an emotion that he could not understand.
Friede didn’t say anything and waited for Renee’s answer.
“Frieden.”
“Tell me.”
A smile crept across Renee’s lips. It was a very small smile that seemed to disappear quickly.
“I want to help the fairies.”
“I see.”
“I want to help Frieden-nim too.”
“… .”
This time too, Friede did not answer.
Friede looked at Renee’s face, expanding her thinking more than ever, like a scholar longing for an answer to an unsolvable problem.
So I just asked that question.
“why?”
“Do you need a reason?”
“Could there be no reason? I’m sorry, stupid I need more clarification.”
“Um, I don’t know.”
flinch. Friede’s fingertips trembled.
“I just want to.”
Friede remembered that the word ‘just’ was too irresponsible.
What he came up with was a word he had never said before in his life, something he never thought he would utter.
“That cannot be a reason.”
It was a rebuttal.
It was a word I had never said before because I had never felt the need for it.
Friede didn’t even realize that he was reacting irrationally now.
“Did you say you want to help the fairies? But why don’t you think you want to help Neuers? They have the righteousness they deserve, and they struggle to live, so why is the saint indifferent to them?”
Renee pondered for a moment about the words that followed, and then spat out such an answer.
“I don’t believe in righteousness that is kept by someone’s sacrifice.”
He said what he believed in.
“It is not righteous to make a sacrifice that the sacrificer does not want.”
He said the most natural thing to do.
“Because that’s not righteous. I do not want to stand on the side of the unrighteous.”
Friede added such a question to the next sentence.
“Am I righteous then?”
“I am not righteous.”
“But why do you want to help me?”
“Because it’s not bad.”
Friede’s expression began to wrinkle slightly.
Meanwhile, Renee spoke again.
“Because you haven’t done anything yet. I think Friedenim can be anything.”
Friede couldn’t understand.
Those words, those feelings.
He couldn’t understand anything Renee saw.
Suddenly, something that even Friede herself did not know began to sprout in her heart.
A wish that Renee had once achieved, a miracle seed the size of a millet germinated in Friede.
It was located in a mysterious land.
It was sprouting from the growing chaos.
The very short rain that fell on the dry desert, and the rain that did not cool the heat, stimulated growth.
The stupid man who knew how to get dry all his life and didn’t even know he was dry felt that the rain that fell briefly and the rain that couldn’t get rid of the dryness was not enough.
This turned inside out, it should be called emotion.
The unanswered question, the feeling that Friede realized for the first time in her life, is what makes her upset because she doesn’t get an answer even though she wants to know.
“… barely.”
It was thirst.
“Is that the reason?”
Friede was not satisfied.
Such an answer could not quench Friede’s thirst.
“Do you need more reasons?”
“I need it. do you know Even if we stop Neuer, we can’t do anything to the saint. What awaits us is extinction.”
“I think it’s better than dying like this.”
Renee said so, making the smile on the corner of his mouth deep and then added.
“No one knows if a miracle will happen and you will survive, right?”
Friede couldn’t understand the words, so he began to denigrate René’s inner feelings with what he knew, as is usual for those who encountered unfamiliar things.
this is called pretense. It is the fault of those who exalt themselves by pretending to be good.
It was cut down that way, but it wasn’t enough.
Friede lost control of her expression in a chaos she had never experienced in her life, and recalled the thought that she had to get rid of that pretense somehow.
The hand was pointing towards the beginning of the great forest.
Even that Renee couldn’t see it, now Friede had no time to care.
“Prove it. Just in time, Gili is entering the great forest.”
“… Gilly?”
“The head of Neuer.”
rattle. Vera and Renee’s bodies shook.
It was something that Friedero had already felt before, but it was a fact that he did not say because of the confusion from Renée’s words.
Friede continued with a confused look on the face of the examiner looking for proof.
“Come on, if the saint really wants to save the fairies, let’s go with them to stop them.”
Friede wished.
I hope Renee gets scared and runs away.
Let’s change our attitude and hang out.
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Of course.
“… Hurry up.”
Friede’s wish never came true.
*
Gili let out a deep sigh at the rustling sound she heard with every step she took, and the landscape of the dry forest.
“It’s gone.”
In the land of abundance, all the greenery that seemed to last forever is gone.
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Only these dying plants remain.
Gili felt a burning pain in her stomach.
why do you have to fall like this
I haven’t done anything wrong, but why does it have to end here?
Why must the history of the brothers have such a tragic end?
Burning pain into groaning, groaning again into anger.
Gili felt tears flowing through the stream of emotion that gnawed her entire body.
Gili walked.
They walked on the land where they played with their brothers in the past, where they gathered fruit together, went hunting, and took care of new vegetation.
Now, I walked through the land where only the torment of the brothers remained.
In the place where Gili had walked, fallen leaves that had become ashes were scattered.