Volume 2 Chapter 21 Part2 (1/2)
Book 2 Chapter 212 - Can You Hear My Heart Beating?
Madeline placed the mask on the chair's armrest and then slowly sat down ”Pepe, how old are you now?”
This was quite an abrupt question, leaving Peperus a bit stunned Wasn't all of her inforhest level of authority in the Trials Division's cohtshadow', there was no way Madeline didn't have access to this information However, since she asked, Peperus obediently replied, ”24”
”How did you spend your childhood?” Madeline asked her another question Fro with an intimate childhood friend
However, what Peperus felt was naturally a different story She did her best to uished self knows that I was born in the wilderness Everything I still reme before that I have already forgotten The only er, and pain What came after I became a bit older were all different types of men My first man hen I was seven years old, and because he was my father, I remember it quite clearly The three years after that involved hunting, work, and sex to obtain food When I was ten, I was fancied by an arbitrator of the Trails Division and was brought into the Black Dragonriders Then, at the age of thirteen, I killed him and became an on-the-job arbitrator”
”Quite a norave her past In the wilderness, this was truly quite a common way of life However, the question she asked afterwards immediately left Peperus in a stupor ”Do you kno I spent my childhood?”
Fine droplets of sweat continuously seeped out from Peperus's forehead and slid down her delicate face Her fiery red hair appeared disordered andJust as she felt like she truly didn't knohat to do, Madeline didn't wait for her answer and said on her own accord, ”My childhood, right, based on the childhood you all experienced was quite strange Before the age of eight, all of my memories arm, safe, and full of hope Back then, the wilderness was full of sunlight Even though the clouds full of radiance blocked the sunlight froh in the sky, I could still see and sense its warmth”
Peperus had never heard Madeline speak in such a soft and warm tone, let alone hear about her past However, based on the Trials Division's logic, war to this world of darkness When it did appear, it would signify even greater terror When it ca would immediately be raised to its peak
”Based on this world's way of speaking, I ae where one has just barely entered adulthood and becae to be shown contee and e this point in their hearts to increase their own confidence They e as an excuse to see me as a fool There are quite a few people like this, a?” Madeline didn't turn around, nor did she look at Peperus
The last bit of strength in Peperus' body seeth to show a reaction There was one thing that Madeline was not wrong on, and that was that Peperus was always thinking about her age
”Fro I saw, heard, and sensed is still clear in h Madeline's voice was soft, it resounded through Peperus' ear like the ru of thunder!
Madeline opened the instrument case The inside of the dark black, unpolished metal case was covered in dark red fabric What laid inside was a cello that was full of history, its wine red surface polished to a shi+ne It was unknown just how reat masters' hands it passed to
Peperus had seen this instrugage Madeline brought into the Town of Trials other than the primitively shaped Death Prison She also knew that what rested inside was a cello, but she had never heard Madeline play anything on it before