Chapter 296 Probably Because of Her Laments (2/2)
[……However, my despair…… started at that moment.]
[……Eh?]
As if to interrupt such an atmosphere, speaking in a heavy and pained voice, Alice lowered her head for a moment…… before looking up again with a smile on her face, as if she was about to cry.
[……From the moment my body was transformed…… I had become “immortal”.]
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[Wha…….]
[That’s right. Now, just as Kaito-san imagined…… while the people I love and cherish with all my heart and soul are getting old…… My body remained this way for a long, long time.]
[……………….]
Now, I finally understand. I understood the despair Alice has been experiencing……
The story told so far is the story of a girl who was called a hero, and “defended those important to her”…… And now, it was the story of the girl “who lost them”……
[My mother died, my father died…… The cruel passage of time took away my loved ones one after another. Over and over again, I experienced the death of my loved ones. When my little sister, the most important person in the world, died of age while still worrying about me…… I cried so much that tears won’t come out anymore.]
[………………….]
How much…… grief has she felt? For the people she protected, even fighting an outrageous being like an Evil God…… How much grief did Alice’s heart has experienced, having to see their deaths……
[…… I…… thought of myself as “invincible”. As long as I have people to protect on my back, my heart will never be broken. That I can be as strong as I want, and I can beat even the mightiest of opponents…… And it certainly was true.]
[………………]
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[My heart would never fall as long as my loved ones were around…… But losing those people…… My heart, it broke into very small pieces…… broke so much that it was laughable.]
I can’t say anything. The pain of being left along, I know a little bit about it.
When I lost my parents and was left alone, I felt a terrible emptiness in my heart…… and I’m sure Alice felt that too……
At the same time, my question was answered. Why did Alice manifest such a tremendous fury for Eden-san…… Perhaps, she is afraid of losing her important people more than anything else.
Because she definitely experienced so much of it……
[……When a loved one dies, a cold, dark hole is left in your heart where the person should have been before…… The hole may be small, but it will never go away…… That hole will remain in your heart, forever and ever.]
[……Alice.]
[I couldn’t bear the thought of being left alone. I didn’t have the confidence to carry their deaths with me…… So, when all my loved ones are gone…… I thought that I couldn’t live anymore.]
[ ! ? ]
Her heartbroken voice, her tear-filled eyes…… They were telling us that Alice’s words aren’t an exaggeration.
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However, if that’s the case, then why is Alice still living in front of me now? Did something happen that changed her mind?
[……The last one left was my best friend. She’s amazing. She apparently “doesn’t want to leave me alone”, and that thought alone kept her alive for much longer than the others…… However, her limits still arrived.]
[……………….]
[A future where I am left alone to mourn for others, and where I would take my own life…… My best friend must have sensed this. Therefore, on the verge of my best friend’s death…… She placed a “curse” on me.]
[……A curse?]
[Yes. A gentle, yet painful curse…… And it still binds my heart today. A curse I couldn’t go against, namely “my best friend’s last wish”…… I still vividly remember the conversation I had with my best friend at that time.]
Slowly as if she was reflecting each of those words, painfully as if lamenting her heartbreaking fate, Alice began to quietly say the words of her last remaining memories with her best friend.
Dear Mom, Dad———– Alice’s past, the details that continued to torment her, were finally revealed. At the same time, it was also the answer as to why Alice has shown such fury. At that time, Alice’s anger might have been———– because of her laments.
? ? ? : [Whoa there, that’s it for the meantime. As expected, we’d want to break it up in a way that would make the readers curious. Next chapter, the curse left behind by the girl she lost, the important person she had protected…… The climax of Alice’s arc is finally arriving! Eh? No, I’m just Alice-chan’s fan, you know?]
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