The seconds kept moving slowly or fast.
Even a broken watch would tell the truth twice a day.
Today it was all about happiness.
"Look at me, little witch.''
Aldrich laid his black hair stiffly back with his rough-looking hand. He raised his head slightly upwards and spoke with his sharp eyes, looking into the haughty and cold-looking eyes of Elfida.
"We are all slaves to something. Did Thomas the Hobbit say that? I can't remember which philosopher said it. Anyway, in a general sense, we are slaves to a system similar to the philosophy of the social contract. But we also have things that we are slaves to in an individual sense. It was an interesting definition to have. Yes, it is strange to own what enslaves us, to think that we own it..." Aldrich had a frank tone of voice as if he were telling a little sister.
Elfida looked at Aldrich, squinting her cold, appealing eyes. She didn't like the way Aldrich talked to her at all. She was born with high social intelligence. Deep down, she felt a little suffocated by the emotions that were secretly continuing to grow. She could understand that Aldrich did not consider her a person of the opposite sex. It didn't bother her that Aldrich knew that he was in love with her older sister Silvanna. For some reason she didn't know, Aldrich's attitude was bothering her.
" Aldrich! ''
''You selfish idiot. You're going to talk nonsense again. I don't know what you're talking about, but I think I got an answer to my question. I have already understood that if you admired Silvanna's beauty, physique, or wealth, you should not have come here until now. ''
Her voice rose a little, then lowered, making it difficult for him to speak properly. It was the most obvious manifestation of her emotions.
''Unlike you, the bond named Family did not come here to visit her during the time she was ill. Haha, look at this, there's a guy who's in love with Silvanna and he's coming to marry her... There will be a hospital at your wedding place. Haha~"
"Hmm? You come here a lot, too, little witch. Aren't you, her family? And It is unclear what happened to the uncle and aunt. We don't know where uncle and aunt are now. Since they disappeared after Silvanna got sick... Look. You know most of what I'm going to say, and I know it too. What's your decision? " Aldrich made a small mimic gesture by raising one eyebrow slightly.
"I came because I wanted to see what situations the woman I once envied was in. Because I came here..." After Elfida spoke sarcastically, she took a quick breath and continued to speak, gently pressing her delicate lips together.
" Little witch, don't fool anyone, you're here because you love her. For God's sake, you're scientifically bound by blood.''
'' Huh. I wanted to see how the woman who took away the man I loved was doing. It was purely to satisfy myself! ''
What the phuc? Aldrich stood for a few seconds in amazement.
" Elfida." There was a slight rebuke in his voice when Aldrich looked at the extremely sexy girl three years younger than himself. It didn't matter if most of the things Elfida said were true or false. It didn't matter what her feelings were.
But...
Today should have been the happiest day for two birds and words that could have prevented happiness would not have been said.
And Aldrich's happiness was Silvanna.
'' Why do you want to marry her? Why are you so insistent on marrying her? Even when they clean Silvanna's sick body, they wear masks suitable for nuclear explosions. Why give the brightest smile you can every day to someone who can no longer see your face? Why do you tell a story every day to someone who sleeps half the time you talk? She can't even clean up her mess anymore, let alone satisfy the man she loves. Silvanna... Even we have difficulty with withstanding the rotten smell that forms on her body, how can she withstand this life!''
" Silvanna's body is rotting. You know that! ''
"Even her sister has a hard time looking at her face! How can you withstand the small and large yellow pus that forms on your face and the smell of rot that surrounds you every time you talk every day? I can barely bear to look at the spots on Silvanna's face, but you've been standing next to her for hours... ''
" Leave her alone. ''
''Please.''
''I beg you.''
"Let her be free. I'm as beautiful as Silvanna. No, now she's not even that ugly! Calling her ugly is nothing but flattery. ''
" L-witch. ''
" NO! Silvanna, what spell of charm has she cast on you that you won't let her be free! You're making her suffer.''
The sound of slaps.
'' !!!! ''
The sound of slaps.
As the two hands slapped each other, applause echoed in the dim light of the hallway. It wasn't too loud as the clapping sounds were so soft. Aldrich laughed quietly but strongly. Contrary to his facial expression and movements, the spirit in his eyes was not amused at all.
It was since that day.
"Bahahaha.''
"If you have values and principles, raise the level of your words. I'm not saying this because I'm thinking about Silvanna. It bothered me. You know I hate the ugly and the beautiful. " Aldrich told Elfina in a rather cold tone.
''I don't like when someone tells me what to do. You know that too.''
"You! Is everything I'm saying a lie? My sister is suffering more because of you. I'm in a lot of pain because of you, too. If it wasn't for you, we'd both be out of pain! I can't take anymore! " When Elfida bit her lips tightly, a small drop of blood fell to the floor. Dark darkness had covered the bottom of her eyes.
" Silvanna is a great magician. " Aldrich spoke, twisting his words while letting out a light breath.
"Ugh-!" Elfida clenched her beautiful hands tightly and made a fist. The contours of the face, which were outside the boundaries of beauty, were slightly wrinkled.
''Didst-''
" We, humanity marry as slaves and raise children. We encourage them to live knowing that they will also become slaves. We are trying to make the children happy, we are doing our best to make them happy slaves.''
"Aldrich-"
''Shhhh!'' Aldrich placed the tip of his index finger on his lower lip, making a silent sign.
"I know why the little witch of the Ismarelda family came here, and you know why I call you here. So I'm talking to you. So you're talking to me. Today is the happiest day for me and Silvanna. Please remember that." Aldrich found in his heart to force himself to speak, for he knew he took pity on Elfida's words.
Was true.
Silvanna's life was slipping away. She had admirable willpower, being one of thirty people who have so far been able to fight the disease called 'unidentified chaos', according to doctors.
He did not know how much Silvanna was suffering.
The person who fell from the donkey will understand the situation of the person who fell from the donkey better than the doctor. [1] ( Adage/Proverb )
"I was talking about the children, wasn't I? Children are a miracle of life. Why can't we see that when they become happy slaves, they will enter into a more and more intractable system? Why can't we think that as long as they can, along with a lot of happy slaves who think they are free, they will try to protect this situation that they think is good?''
" Nowadays, a free person is, more accurately, the closest person to freedom, an unhappy person. Because he is aware that those who walk happily around him are slaves, and he is also alone in this awareness. Freedom also requires being alone, both unhappiness and loneliness. ''
Elfida murmured faintly as if she had realized something. " You said today was the happiest day... You.''
"My selfishness is Silvanna.''
"It's not selfishness that happens between the opposite sex, who are satisfied with a coffee or decadent item, as in high school years. It is not selfishness that is satisfied with the objects that are in the concepts of wealth, such as vehicles, houses, gold, in adulthood. This is not selfishness based on subjective or objective judgments. It's not childish selfishness. It's not greed that involves disgust or beauty. ''
" It's not a matter of taking sides ...''
"Ha ha sounds a little like the words to be said in middle school, but '~"
"What I feel for Silvanna is a selfish love.''
"Elfida. You came here to witness Silvanna's happy day. And you know it. ''
"I know too. " Aldrich felt his heart stop beating for a moment when he said this sentence.
When did it become possible to be happy at such heavy costs?
"I am not so stupid as people who think that they are fighting fate. What can we do but leave everything in the hands of fate? People want eternity, but they don't know that eternity is nothing but a prison. Sometimes a person wants to find peace. Silvanna will... ''
Aldrich took a deep breath. As he looked at the girl of heavenly beauty, who was snorting in front of him and her eyes were reddening, he muttered.
"You two sisters really have strange things. As sisters, you must have watched a lot of drama movies and TV series.''
" Today is my happiest day. I will smear my happiness like perfume to everyone around me. Come here.''
What strange sisters. Silvanna had done many little and naive tricks to drive him away. When Silvanna fell ill and her illness was beyond recovery, she tried to associate her younger sister with him. After many strange events that had happened, Elfida was somehow obsessed with him, or so it seemed. The 'confession' that Elfida made today was perhaps her last move. He somehow felt like the main character in a story.
Feeling and being are two different concepts.
And Elfida was slandering the man she loved for not leaving Silvanna, her sister alone. She was like big wives gossiping. Every time they met, she would try to explain her sister's 'bad' behavior. But she hadn't said any of that in front of Silvanna.
She bites her lips so much that she bleeds because she talks badly about her sister, and she gets angry when she speaks that the man she loves is not interested in her. Sometimes he thought that Elfida had misled herself to take him away from Silvanna.
But the two sisters were also thinking about each other ... It was stupid.
Seriously, these two spirits had somehow exhausted him. Since they are the colors that exist in his colorless life, he could not find the right to complain much. Now one of those two beautiful colors was disappearing...
It's Very Stupid.
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[1] One day a man fell from a donkey in the middle of the village. The earth writhes on the ground. The people around him quickly gathered around him. Everyone is saying something.
"Put your weight on your right side, it won't hurt…"
"Put your weight on your left side, it won't hurt..."
"Stand up, it won't hurt…"
The man who fell from the donkey is getting tense with the advice around him.
A wise man finally asked, "Shall we call a doctor?"
"No, my condition is not a doctor, but moments falling from a donkey... You better bring me someone who fell from a donkey..." He said.
That day, to this day, this story also settled in the society. It goes on for generations as well, "Anyone who falls from a donkey understands the state of a person who falls from a donkey."