Memoirs of the Returnee - Chapter 88



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＃Returner’s Notepad Episode 88

Before the festival (2)

The lakeside behind the old building.

[Thank you for using.]

I completed the request with a reply.

“Oh, my neck hurts.”

La Vricet. In common language, you are lonely.

I imitated the voice of the famous musical actor I remembered singing the same song as best as I could.

Of course, it won’t be completely the same. My tone and his tone must have been mixed half and half. Instead, my pronunciation will be much better.

“What are you doing?”

Suddenly a voice came from the bushes. I was startled and looked back at that place.

Solliet was standing there. He had the same expressionless expression as usual.

“… … “Did you hear that?”

“What do you mean?”

Fortunately, I don’t think I heard it.

Solliet came striding over and sat down on the stone chair across from him. She was used to it as if it were her own from the beginning.

“… … .”

She looked at the lakeside without saying anything. I quietly followed the moonlight scales that swayed slightly as if they were about to break on the waves.

After a while, he quietly muttered like a sigh.

“… … “To track down Nightmare, we must also investigate the people he killed.”

That’s what I said one day. I looked at her and nodded her head.

“yes.”

“yes.”

She clenched her fists. Crackling – I gritted my teeth.

“Let’s do that. But… … .”

The lips that were about to say something pompous quickly stopped mumbling.

“But… … .”

She lowered her face, not daring to continue. I hid my expression like that, but I felt like I knew why.

Perhaps, Javed and Felix might have a ‘secret’ that she herself doesn’t know about.

I’m afraid that some ugly side like Berio Tan might be exposed.

“You don’t have to worry about those two people.”

I spoke casually and picked up a rock in the forest. Solliet hurriedly raised her head. I asked with a trembling voice.

“Surely you did a background investigation?”

“no.”

A stone was thrown into the lakeshore. It flew away and created an insignificant puddle of water.

“I know those two people.”

Javed and Felix.

When I was a freshman, they were seniors who were considered six-star prospects.

When I was an outcast, they were the idols everyone looked up to.

“They are such good people.”

They are people who do not carelessly ignore others, do not judge them arbitrarily, and can see the most beautiful light in even the most insignificant person.

“… … “Like you know.”

Some people can brighten the surroundings just by their presence. Like a star that emits its own light and spreads warmth to other planets.

Javed and Felix were such stellar people.

“Those two are everything you know.”

I looked back at Soliet.

Only when I said them did Solliet look into my eyes. She only looked at the person called ‘me’. Her blue eyes were filled with memories.

“There’s no need to research someone you already know.”

“… … Is that so. “Thank goodness.”

Solliet got up from the stone chair. Immediately she turned around. Pretending to stretch her, I ran my sleeve over her eyes.

“Then let’s go first today.”

She walked down the forest path without showing her face.

I looked at the lakeside again.

I heard her footsteps leaving.

Suddenly, a scene from a long time ago came to mind.

Soliet smiled brightly like a child when she was with Javed and Felix.

I saw it once by chance, but it is still vivid in my memory.

At that time, I found the scenery amazing. It seemed a bit like a fantasy.

Because it was a story from a world that was too far away for me.

“… … .”

I picked up the stone without saying a word. I threw it into the lake. Pop – Small water droplets splashed.

“… … “It’s barely this much.”

I’m barely like this.

A rock that creates tiny ripples in a lake.

“I shouldn’t have done that.”

I shouldn’t even have tried to replace them. I shouldn’t have even dared to have the desire to do that.

Overcoming a person is ultimately up to that person.

Because overcoming a person doesn’t mean you can become that person.

Because I am not a star.

* * *

Soliette felt like her heart would break. It felt like her heart would be torn apart. Her face was distorted arbitrarily, and her limbs kept falling apart.

It was so painful because it had been so long since I felt this pain. It had been so long that I hated it so much.

Javed and Felix came to mind.

The time I was with them was longer than the time I was alone.

I thought we would be together forever.

The faces of those who left before me bloomed before my eyes.

All the moments I took for granted back then cut into my heart like a knife.

“… … “Fuck you.”

Things that should have been memories became pain. Stories that should have been shared with laughter turned into tears.

they are dead

Killed by Nightmare.

Now we can never meet again, we can never see each other again.

Solliet loved them.

The breakup made me realize the love I didn’t know when we were together.

He loved Javed, his own blood relative, and adored Felix, his old friend.

“Fuck… … .”

You must be in pain.

Even if they resurface and prevent you from doing anything, you should not avoid them.

You should not bury it because you are afraid of pain. We must endure this razor-sharp wind and rain.

Because, as Sion Askal said, they are good people.

Because he is too precious to just forget or bury… … .

“Heung.”

Solliet blew her nose. She touched her swollen eyes. Her tears flowed from the tip of her nose.

She wiped it off and smiled involuntarily.

It was a cow-like laugh like “heheheungheung”.

Then I cried again. I grabbed my face with both hands and buried it in the ground. I trembled without making any sound.

Shake-shake- Shake-shake-

At that time when I was in a bad mood, I heard a handwriting coming from somewhere.

The sound of a pencil being used in a notebook.

Solliet raised her head in a daze. She couldn’t see what was in front of her. The sand on the ground stuck to the tears and turned into mud.

Soliet rubbed her arms. The dirt on her arms further messed up her face and hair.

“Fuck you.”

She cursed and pulled up the horse body. The heat burned everything that was clinging to her body. Only then did I see the front.

There was a fallen notebook on the ground.

[Let’s meet again on Thursday. I’ll tell you Latinel then. Please teach me martial arts.]

[Well, I’m off work this week, so I’ll only get 3/4 of my salary. There will be no discounts like this starting next week.]

“… … ah.”

Looking at it, her heart sank slightly.

It’s payday soon.

In other words, I have to get another 20,000 Ren. Of course, you can sell the luxury goods you have accumulated at home, but if you lie about your identity, you will continue to get kicked out. Anyone can tell that you can buy a 30,000 ren suit for 3,000 ren… … .

Well, I can’t help it.

I’ll have to try my best not to get hit.

“Heung.”

Solliet blew her nose and walked again.

* * *

monday. Festival D-2.

This is Endex’s Palette Theater. In a theater with 2,300 seats, staff are installing silver curtains and other ‘properties’.

“There are so many.”

These are the items for [Bard], the highlight of the Endex Festival on Friday.

Especially that silver curtain. If you put that at the back of the stage, you can make plays look like dramas or movies.

That curtain is a piece that sprays mana three-dimensionally around the area, so the entire background of the stage becomes very vivid, just like the real thing. Scene transitions become very free.

If you turn it on, the scenery here will change to look like it’s a real royal palace?

“Hey. “If you’re not going to work, just go.”

Someone’s voice sometimes feels like being pricked by a needle.

I already have calluses, so it doesn’t hurt or sting, but it pricks me like a needle, so I can tell who it is just by listening.

“what.”

Of course it’s Elise.

“Can’t you see everyone is working now?”

“I know. “There’s a lot to do in high school plays.”

“Just go. “Get out.”

Honestly, I don’t want to be here next to Elise either.

But it can’t be helped. If you do it wrong, you could get all your hair cut off.

Then, I become a regressor and an idiot who can’t even keep the promise I made to my benefactor.

“… … Hey, but. “Can I ask you one thing?”

But before that, let’s think about it. Let’s try a guess.

If the underworld plans to exploit the vacuum of public power that occurs during festivals, they will target the times when the crowds are the most concentrated.

Anyone can see that it’s Friday.

After the play ended on Friday, fireworks and a masquerade ball followed immediately. From 7pm to midnight.

If Elise has a schedule to leave outside of Endex before then, it is almost confirmed.

“Do you have any plans after the play?”

“… … .”

Elise had no answer. I asked her as she pursed her lips.

“Do you have a schedule?”

“… … .”

Elise glanced back at me. Her face was full of irritation, but there was also some disgust and suspicion mixed in there.

“As soon as the play ends, I’m going to go experience the magic tower. For 2 nights and 3 days. Even if it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t have time for you.”

“… … Tsk.”

I clicked my tongue.

Elise is right.

After listening to it, I am sure.

Reservations are basically required for the Magic Tower experience. At least a few months ago.

Elise deliberately reserved the Magic Tower experience during the festival season, that is, during the rest week, and that information was leaked.

Most likely, Berhalsey will aim for Elise’s path to the Magic Tower.

“Before you go. “Can you give me a moment?”

I asked that. If you give me even 5 minutes, I can somehow hold on to it as much as I can.

“If you have nothing else to do, just go and post leaflets.”

Elise stretched her hand into the air. Then hundreds of her flyers flew in and stuck.

“go. “If it’s not convenient, you can rent a doll mask somewhere.”

“… … .”

I first accepted the leaflets handed to me.

“If I do everything, will you give me 10 minutes? “After the curtain call, in the waiting room.”

Then Elise looked at me with contemptuous eyes. How dare you? Well, it’s that kind of face.

Oh, I’m pissed. Should I just hit him?

“What are you talking about?”

– That was when I said.

widely-!

Suddenly, the lights went out in the Palette Theater. Soon the silver curtain grew bigger.

“… … oh.”

I was unconsciously impressed. Elise also nodded with satisfaction.

—That’s it~

—Clap clap!

—I heard this is the latest, and it is true. Even our theater is not this clear.

The entire stage had turned into a royal palace. It’s almost a magical space, right?

“Go and put up flyers. Starting Wednesday, I will start soliciting customers. “Then I’ll think about it.”

Elise said that and went up to the stage. I looked at the leaflet in my hand.

[Friday 7 p.m., Palette Theater.]

[Come see the play ‘The Bard.’ The Bard himself tells a story that will surprise everyone.]

“… … okay. “I have to do something.”

Anyway, if the play does well, it’s good for me. Because there will be more money to support orphanages.

I put the bundle of leaflets in my arms.