11 – Farewell (3)

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-Patter.

Transparent raindrops just fall endlessly toward the ground.

To wet the ground, permeate the ground, and flow back to the sea.

However, before reaching the ground, the raindrops scattered with a pop sound.

It was because when the raindrops fell, they fell on the princess instead. right over her head.

Again.

The raindrops that flowed down her hair slowly flowed as if she were surrendering to gravity, and landed on her eyes.

… like tears.

No, in fact, her tears might have moistened her eyes more than the raindrops gathered like that.

The eyes of the princess are already… It’s been a long time since I turned red because I shed so many tears.

“Pin…Pin…for me…eyes…”

She is.

Lilithiana.

His attendant, Finn… What did you sacrifice to save yourself who was in the middle of the day.

What resolutions have you made up until now for yourself who collapsed without being able to overcome the shock?

What humiliation, humiliation, and disgrace had to be endured just because of this stupid princess.

That effort, that pain, that pain… This foolish self who couldn’t count even the slightest… .

“…Not enough to tell you where that precious elixir is, you sacrificed your eyes for the elixir… and even lied like that… in order to raise me from the dead…?”

“A pin…for me…?”

Why were you looking at me with those eyes?

Why are you so full of desire… No, I realized that I was looking at her with eyes falling in love.

By none other than his own father, the emperor.

“…In summary, that’s right, Lily.”

… ‘to sum up.’

If he had negotiated with the elixir, the boy would have been able to obtain the rank of a count.

If he had revealed that he had sacrificed his eyes for the life of the princess, he might have gained wealth that a commoner would not have.

The fact that he gave up even his own life, even the life he could live like a human, for the sake of the princess… He could have become a great man to be recorded in the imperial history books.

But the boy did nothing. He left without even revealing that he had done the favor.

Therefore, even though these three things just listed are unrequited favors, the emperor came to the point of adding the word, to summarize even those three things.

… What kind of steps did that boy take for about two years… Because I thought I knew everything.

So the emperor said. all facts. All the footsteps of the boy he knew.

“I once asked if I was really okay, because the boy’s behavior seemed so painful.”

the emperor remembered.

The blood and ooze that flowed out of the boy’s ugly appearance, and all kinds of small and large wounds.

“…but the boy answered my question like this…with a very pervasive smile on his face.”

the emperor remembered. And I realized

– I’m fine, Your Majesty! Rather, I am glad to see that the princess is becoming more and more prettier these days!

… You won’t be sick like before anymore!

Why did the boy always look for the girl, even though he knew he would end up in such a mess?

The girl wept. Again.

Because I knew the truth I didn’t know. No, maybe you could have known.

The truth that he didn’t want to see, the truth he didn’t want to dig into… because it was so cruel.

But despite her sad tears, the emperor… Abby didn’t stop opening her mouth.

It was because she thought that for that boy, it was the right tears to shed.

If they didn’t even do this, it was because they thought they were a tribe that had to give up being human.

“One day, a boy brought me a hairpin. A brilliant-looking hairpin that I would have to spend several months saving on a servant’s salary.”

Emperor’s gaze

headed for the girl’s head.

To be exact, it depends on the girl’s hair… that light purple.

In response, the girl stroked her hair with trembling hands.

Wet in the rain and bathed in the moonlight, shining brilliantly… Depending on your own silver hair… A hairpin adorned with jewels that match your eye color.

One of the birthday presents the emperor gave me on his birthday, asking him to cherish it more than anything else.

“I hope this is…”

At the girl’s choked cry, at the shrieking sound that she couldn’t help but spit out her stuffy chest.

… The emperor simply shook his head.

Then he opened his mouth and told the truth.

That gift is you, the princess, the girl… It’s a gift that should be cherished above all else, a boy’s heartfelt gift.

“That’s Finn’s birthday present for you. Not me.”

-dump.

“Ha…ha…ha…!”

The girl couldn’t overcome all the overflowing emotions and sat down in the mud.

He doesn’t seem to mind at all that his favorite clothes get dirty with mud.

For her now, like this dress.

It really has become so irrelevant that the word ‘something’ fits.

For her now, just accepting the love felt in the act of the boy’s sacrifice itself… Because it wasn’t hip enough.

That’s why a girl’s love like that of a boy… A sacrificial boy’s love… I was so happy.

Also thank you

It hurt.

It was painful.

It was frustrating.

It was bitter.

It was sad.

and… I’m sorry.

“Ughhhhh”

a girl

With that slender hand, she began to rub her chest, the place where her heart was.

My stomach is full, this overflowing emotion, the voice that seems to explode because of it.

It was because it was blocked by something thick and couldn’t come out.

because it didn’t flow.

That’s why the girl, with the hope that she will be able to let out this feeling, her own voice… He rubbed and smacked his chest relentlessly.

If I do this, I wonder if this dark something will disappear.

“uuu!!”

but nonetheless,

“Uhhhhh…”

that dark… The feeling of regret… .

“…Huh…”

He did not forgive himself for actions other than crying. didn’t allow

Like to yourself, anything else.

As if telling him that he couldn’t do anything other than cry for him.

… but nonetheless.

‘… pin… pin… Pins Pins Pins Pins Pins… pin… !’

Still, the girl wanted to shout out the boy’s name.

The name of the boy who saved him from an incurable disease.

The name of the boy who willingly gave up an eye for himself.

The name of the boy who saved him from a situation where he almost lost his father.

To myself who lost the meaning of life in shock,

The name of the boy who gave meaning to his life again, even at the cost of himself.

and… .

Now this… The name of the boy who could no longer bear the evil himself and left.

“……Fin.”

And the name of the boy the girl had been wanting to shout out finally came out.

Unfortunately, not from the girl who was hoping for him, but from the emperor’s mouth.

“They say they are going to the Holy Kingdom through the southern forest.”

Would you like to pursue him now? Will you seek him out and ask for his forgiveness?

The emperor said so to the girl who only shed tears and let out shuddering breaths.

Fortunately, this time his daughter did not faint from shock.

Rather, if you miss him here and now,

If we were to part forever here.

It was because he thought that his daughter might lie down on the bed again and lie down sick, waiting endlessly for the attendant.

The girl nodded with a trembling body.

From the start, the girl had only one option left. To somehow find the attendant who gave him grace.

and begging for forgiveness.

and… .

‘… … Wait a minute.’

The girl’s body trembled.

And soon, as if she had witnessed something terrible, the girl was tearing at her silky hair and screaming furiously.

“Ah…aaa…!!!”

Because the girl realized that she had given a very terrible order, one that was outrageously cruel to a human being.

-Catch him right now!! right now!!!

The attendant he was looking for… I realized that it had been a long time since I had already given an order to find and capture him.

-Still, if… If he resists to the end… It’s okay to kill him then.

That attendant… This time, the target to repay the favor… No, maybe the boy who gave me the grace that I couldn’t repay even if I repaid him for the rest of my life… I realized that it had been a long time since I gave the order to kill him.

“AA AA AA…!!!!”

“Lily…? Lily…?! Lily…!!! Where are you going! Lily!!!”

The girl hurriedly moved. no, ran

Because somehow he had to cancel his stupid order in time. because it had to be stopped.

Because I needed someone to convey that fact.

“Haa…! Haa…! Haa…! P, Prius!!!! Prius!!!!!”

The girl shouted the name of the captain of her direct escort unit, the only person who had directly heard the order she had given, saying that it was okay to kill.

It’s also very loud. A scream-like sound so loud that even the screaming girl’s eardrums were torn.

“Prius!!!!! Prius!!!!”

The regret that had been blocking the girl’s voice until just now had long since disappeared.

No, even if that emotion was still blocking the girl’s voice, it didn’t matter at all.

If you do something wrong, you will regret more than that.

It was because I thought that I might really regret it irrevocably.

“…Prius!!!!!!!!!!”

The girl’s voice resounded in the thick darkness and heavy rain. like an echo. Continue.

‘please… ! please someone listen… !! anyone, anyone… !!!’

But the girl knew too.

That he wasn’t the one he really wanted to come to.

That he was someone who could stop the captain of the escort unit leaving to fulfill his orders.

But the girl had no choice but to shout that name.

That that was the only name of the strongman that came to mind right now.

With the hope that he would hear him calling and not appear in front of him.

‘… please… Please don’t appear in front of me right now… please don’t do that… Not yet… no… .’

Of course, several hours have passed since the girl gave the order.

In this situation, the fact that he appears in front of the girl… .

“…Her Highness the Princess?! What’s wrong!!”

“………ah.”

he.

“Her Highness the Princess…?”

the task he was given.

“Do you have any additional assignments to give?”

Because it means that it has been completed and returned.

“We’ve returned with our mission accomplished. I witnessed with my own eyes that he tripped while trying to escape our pursuit and fell into a cliff with no bottom in sight.”

a boy

“Don’t worry about the possibility that you’re still alive.”

Because it means he might be dead.

“It’s a height that can’t survive with the body of that weak boy servant, and below that is the den of ferocious monsters and wild beasts.”

But maybe… doing… I wondered if the boy had been captured alive.

The girl’s sad and earnest hope that the boy might still be alive…

“So don’t worry. He’s definitely dead. And tomorrow morning, the troops will go down to check his body, so don’t worry too much.”

“…I can only find a few pieces of bone if I try.”

At the man’s confident report that the boy was surely dead,

The man’s assurance that even the body will not be recovered properly… It turned to powder and disappeared.

… It has become a powder that has been shattered to such an extent that even its traces are unrecognizable.

“No…no…no…no…no!!!!! Finn!!!!!!!!!!”

girl’s.

A girl who lost someone important to her again.

A girl who realizes that her precious person has died because of herself again.

A voice calling out the name of the person who had sacrificed endlessly for himself.

It seems to represent the girl’s heart in despair… It was raining and filled with darkness.

slowly… Even so, it reveals a very blatant despair.