1151 The Memory Of Seven Breaths (1/2)

The girl was a child whose mother had died and whose father did not love her

Since birth, she had never seen her father smile, and she had never had any sort of paternal love From the moment she could remember herself, she had to cover her body and face with blankets during the nights, and in the , she had to be careful and avoid the rooms in which her father stayed If she ran into hiaze

It see, and while she was still just a child, she understood what it meant…

She did not have rown up with her, and he was her childhood friend If she was to add another person as her friend, then it would be the teacher He taught her to perforht her how to read He shouldered all the tasks that a father should take up

As she gradually grew up, she stopped crying at night, because she knehy her father did not love her It was because she had killed her irl seldoo anywhere, since every single tiaze when she returned would seem to contain resentment It would seem to question her why she still came back and why… she had not died outside!

She lived in this sort of environment since her birth, and she was incredibly afraid of her surroundings, which led to her timid nature However, on that day, she decided to venture outside, because she heard fro a life was an act of kindness She wanted to be like her childhood friend and ask the fisherns of dark shadows appeared in the sky, which seemed to promise that rain would pour for several days once it ca platfor there while a fishi+ng net hung on a pillar beside hi inside it

”Grandpa, could you give irl asked in a whisper of the fisherman who had his back turned towards her

”Grandpa, that fish is really pitiful Please don't eat it and give it to irl pleaded

The fisherman turned around It was an old irl and smiled

”Ah, what a lad came and asked me to free my fish Today, you're here as well But if I let all the fish go, how am I supposed to live?” The old fisher rod back with a smile Once he fixed the bait on the hook, he threw the line back into the water

”Grandpa, the person you mentioned just now is ht for him, so please do it for me too! It's so pitiful, and its parents irl took a few steps forward and lowered her head to stare at the fish in the net beside the pillar

”Who said I let the fish go? When that lad saw that I didn't agree, he ran off, discouraged,” the old irl was momentarily stunned, but determination soon appeared on her face She went behind the fisher hie She looked incredibly adorable

”Grandpa, coirl's pleas lasted for more than two hours The fisherot up and moved to the pillar where the net was, then opened it The fish instantly swa into the depths, and disappeared without a trace

”Alright, I released it This should be enough, right?” The fisherirl's head As she bea

A happy shter, she ran away

The young girl did not know that when she left, the fisherht No one could say whether it was the one which he had released moments earlier or whether it was another one In the end, the fact was that the fisher it on the pillar again

With exciteirl ran back to the county town On her way, she passed by the noodle stall without noticing an old aze, he stared at the little girl leaving into the distance while tapping the tobacco pipe gently against the ground

When he tapped the ground, the little girl who had already ran into the distance suddenly came to a stop She saw the world in front of her suddenly shatter before they were swept up to form a vortex It pulled her in, and after an unknown a a deep lake

Fish sithin its depths, and no one could say where it came from One particular fish moved in the water and seemed to swim about without any sentience

It was a fish which had lived for an unknown number of years in the lake, but it did not have many memories Whatever it could re else was a blank slate