Volume 17 Chapter 7 (1/2)
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Chapter 7: Soeur Vanessa[]
Five days passed in the blink of an eye
Louise finally reached Gurabir after a three day journey froe, Gurabir was complete with rustic charm Sanbailey Monastery was built on a small hill just beside the port
Even though Father Marthis looked shocked to ed his expression after reading the letter from Jack
”Wh-what theNo, but”
However, aed everything necessary After preparing the dragon cage, he started to preach to Louise, as still at odds at her decision
All the wo to meet there also have their own unspeakable reasons to live there
Don't dig too deep
Also
Louise lowered her head and looked at the holy cross(T/L:??) on her neck It was a nor cross that could be found anywhere but nowso incredible happened Louise's face and hair colour started to shi+ft
It seeic
”Never forget this” Father Marthis' tone turned serious before telling her never to tell anyone her real na to live is a place filled with unspeakable secrets Meh, if it wasn't so it wouldn't do any good to hide there, would it?
Stepping into the dragon cage, Louise thanked Jeanette profusely She had been in her debt from the start
”Good bye Thank you so much”
Even though she said that, Jeanette still shook her head
”Goodbye Even though I've got a feeling we'll ain”
”Isn't it said that it's forbidden to go out again?” Louise asked
”Yeah, I know, but I've just got that feeling” Jeanette replied, her tone hovering between serious and joking
After going through so erita's was suited for her
”The sea breeze feels so good” Louise sighed as she gazed at the silvery waves of the ”outer sea” She had been here for two days already
”I can't believe there's actually such an aenia”
”This is really the ”Lone Island of the Mainland”(T/L:?????)
The church, which stood erected on the steep cliff of the peninsula, is completely isolated from the mainland save for a narrow spit of sharp rocks The treacherous sea cliff forced shi+ps to stay away If somebody were to come here, they would have to fly here like her In other words, nobody can come here
This is really a suitable place for hiding The winding blowing into her pores, the hair that tickled her face was silky black Even though she had seen this in the ed to black, her nose the same as all the others
This was all thanks to the nize her as Louise now
It was as if she coained enlightenotten how she looked likeonly then she could forget about the deep pain in her heart
”Soeur Vanessa”(T/L:??·???)
Louise turned to the call She had continued to use the fake naiven to her by Jeanette Here, Louise is called ”Sister Vanessa” Apart from that, no other identification is required
”Yes” Saying that, Louise turned seeing the abbess looking intently at her She was a kind wo around, after confir that they were alone, the abbess moved closer to Louise and said softly, ”Then, please allow ainsince you've co I won't ask you how you know of this place so don't go nosing around for the past of the other sisters”
”Of course I'et” Louise said
When Louise arrived, the abbess did not ask about her past In other words, she didn't want to know anything extra
”Also, about the cross on your neckaccording to the rules here, you must never take it off I'irls who had been staying here since birth know nothing about the secret of the cross Thus, the secret about the ic on the cross must never reach anyone else's ears”
Louise nodded
”Very well Then I have nothing else to say Let us serve the Founder here quietly Until our bodies turn to dust”
Leaving her words like that, the abbess left Louise surveyed the place she was going to live in froarita's Monastery The delicate monastery and the dormitories built on the narrow peninsula In between the wavy outline of the rocks, there was a reservoir and a few farms
These were packed into a land about the size of the acade here Every week, a relief shi+p would descend from the skies and deliver daily supplies and foodstuff
”Living in holy prayers every day”
Twelve days before, she was still living leisurely in Des Onieres, but today she was looking out to the sea in the church at the end of the world
Fate is really such a strange thing
Just as she alking while thinking deeply
”Miss Vanessa! Miss Vanessa!”
Three young sisters run to her froirls in an instant, while they started to make a ruckus
”Where did Miss Vanessa come from?”
”Hey, that's my line!”
”What were you doing before this?”
The three co that the abbess just said to her While Louise was toiling with a hurricane of her own in her head, the young sisters continued their barrage of questions
”Hey!”
A sister angrily yelled from behind
”Miss Vanessa!”
A girl with long silver hair walked straight to her The girl, called Josette, placed her hands on her waist, her face serious
”You guys reallyDidn't the abbess always tell us 'not to be interested in earthly things'?”
Just after she finished, a secretive sirls
”Ala You don't sees to Miss Vanessa You're the one who's so interested in earthly things”
”What are you talking about What do you mean, huh?”
”Oh, nothing Becausena”
The girls ran away bickering under Josette's fierce glare
Facing Louise, as at a lost of words, Josette hastily apologized
”Sorry, they aren't bad children It's just that, well, you know, living in a place like this for so longmakes one so bored”
”Yeah”
Louise accepted the apology She slowly realized that there were two kinds of woet about everything
The ed women were like that They created an untouchable aura around the everyday
On the other hand was the younger sisters Maybethey ca unable to expose themselves publicly, bastard children of noblesit should be like so Now that she thought of it, she heard cries of babies in the other room when she had her breakfast
They don't even knohy they lived here since they were young Thus, they were as lively like the young girls that she has just met
Just as Louise was once again ihts, Josette stretched out her hand ”I'm Josette I'm in your care”
”I'm called Va-vanessa I'm also in your care, Sister Josette
”Just call me Josette This way no one has to bother with the troublesome formalities” Josette smiled
In the next few days, for unknown reasons, Josette followed Louise around like a puppy dog
In thewhen they took their meals at the fixed time, Josette always sat beside Louise like she was up to so
Not only that
Josette also became the caretaker of Louise, who had just arrived Their beds were even linked together
Even Louise began to feel irritated Thinking that she could finally get soy?
On that night of beco Louise's roo and everything in particular
”Na, Vanessa I didn't snoop around your past, right? Because that's the rules! But, if it was just about soht?”
”Outside?”
”Yeah Na, what do the young girls outside wear?”
”Ask the others about this kind of stuff”
Louise's cold answer did not crush Josette's enthusiasm
”Then, have you ever dated a boy? You wouldn't ht?
A familiar's shadow surfaced in Louise's ly started to get angry, began to speak in a sharp tone, ”mind what you say! I'm very troubled!”
”What? You don't have to be so angry about that” Saying that, Josette started to slip into her bed
Next every time she reached her ”sanctuary”, as she started to feel comforted
Her vision was filled with Saito
Even though she abandoned everything and come to this hidden place
If she lived here, she'll never meet Saito
Thinking back, she has always slept with Saito If she didn't do so, she couldn't sleep at all Even though she could have used wine to bring her into drea of sorts here If she had thought of Saito when she akeher chest felt as pain as if someone pierced her with sword
Being unable to link her heart with her fa She had always thought that even if he strayed a little soirls, the one that he really kept in his heart was her
Howeverlooking at Saito's expression, she didn't think so anymore
”The girl that Saito likesisn't irl called Henrietta de Tristian”
”Thewoman in the whole country A queen above all nobles, the powerful woman”
Co like this made her aware of how small her existence was
Little Louise Louise the Zero A girl with a thin body and bad temper
”wu Eru” After she noticed that, Louise leaked out a sob She hid her crying sounds with the blanket She can't let the girls she was going to live with from today see her cry like this
However, Josette who had been sleeping beside her seeot up and crawled into Louise's blanket sneakily
”What happened?”
”N-nothingsowu”
”Sorry, did I say anything I shouldn't have?”
Her caring voice e
”R-reallyit's nothingwu”
Just then, Josette silently hugged Louise's head
”Never mind Just cry it all out”
”I don't want to”
”Why?”
”I-it'll be euit'll make me look like a coward Wuwu”
”There's nothing bad about being a coward anyway I'm also one”
Josette just kept caressing Louise's head
The next ot up fro could be heard beside her
Seeing her like that, she still had the face of a child However, her face was also changed by the cross on her neck, right
”This childshould've been sent here since birth”
That's why she was so curious about the outside world
Except for the daily activities here, she knew nothing else Maybe she never even ht that she was the unluckiest girl in the entire world
However, Josette and the other girls, who have been living here since birth, didn't even know about their misfortune She was comforted by such a child
She then noticed hoillful, unthoughtful of her to cry yesterday
What's so bad about talking about the outside world?
Josette slowly got up
”FuaaahGoodSorry, I fell asleep on your bed”
Louise shook her head
”Never mind About yesterday, sorry about that If you're still willing, I can tell you so about the outside world I'm bored anyway”
Hearing this, Josette's eyes started to glow
”Really?”
Louise nodded hard
Life in Saint Margarita's Monastery is bound by a strict ti, the sisters have to pray in the hall They had their breakfast after daily cleaning Fars would continue until three in the afternoon
Then it was a period of leisure until the evening, when they'd have their dinner
Following a prayer after dinner, they will go to sleep It could be said their lives start at dawn and end at dusk This simple lifestyle was inconceivable to Louise, who had been spoilt by a rich noble lifestyle from birth
Thus, Louise used her sparse leisure time to tell stories about the outside world to Josette and the girls Every sister's eyes was sparkling radiantly, it was as if Louise was a heroine from ancient myths
As usual, the girls gathered on Louise's bed, enchanted by Louise's stories Four girls wrapped in blankets chatted surreptitiously They'd have to do that to prevent their excited voices fro out
There wasn't even a candle around It was pitch black
”Yup We 'll go out during days of rest”
”Go out?”
”Yeah Going around in horse-drawn carriages, to faraway places It's quite fun”
”Nana, what's a horse?”
Josette, who took lead airls didn't even knoas a horse Come to think of it, there wasn't a horse anywhere in the small monastery
”How do I put itan ani?”
”Bigger than a dragon?”
”Of course the dragon's bigger”
”I knohat a dog is! I saw one on a shi+p once”
”A horse, can itfly?”
”There's so and can fly, like the Pegasus' and the griffon”
”What's that! What kind of animal is that?”
Her daily life, food, the streetsthings like these were the things thatstrange while they were chatting