"Yu, you idiot. I told you to come quickly."
"I apologize."
"Okay, I forgive you this time."
Yurine ran to him when he arrived and took his hand again.
"You're going to have your hands full from now on." Maron Martin was sitting at one of the tables reading a book. As far as Yu could see, medical books were stacked on the table. "But I didn't know you were so uncomfortable being around me. All I did was sit quietly in my corner."
Maron's table was not even close to the one Yu had chosen, he had indeed moved to a far corner.
"Sorry to interrupt, but if you don't mind me asking, why did you want access to this place?"
Maron looked at Yu and took a deep breath.
"Did you notice the ring on my finger?"
"Yes."
Yu looked almost every person up and down and examined what they were wearing, as long as it didn't bother his eyes. Maron wore a wedding ring on the ring finger of his left hand.
"As you understand, I am married and I love my wife, but things have not been going well for the last six months. Don't get me wrong, she loves me as I love my wife and we are both happy to be together. We were happily married until six months ago, but suddenly she got a difficult illness. She can't even get out of bed because of the disease. I have tried everything to cure her, but I have always failed, and you cannot imagine how much it hurts me, Mr. Valarfin, not being able to help her. My last hope was this library, but Salery wouldn't let me in here. Perhaps if he had, my wife would never have suffered so much and I would have already found a way to cure her."
He had thought that Maron's only goal was to gain power, and now he saw that he had been wrong.
"I hope you cure your wife as soon as possible."
He felt really sorry for her and wanted her well-being. Yu realized today that many things happen because of love.
Salery assisted in the murder because he loved his family, Sony kidnapped Nana because he loved her, Sharley went mad because he loved her, and Maron wanted access to the library because he loved his wife.
"And I help Yurine because I love her." A bittersweet smile appeared on his lips. "Everything happens because of a man's love for a girl."
Yu wondered if Rie's death was also for love.
He sat down at the table to read the books he had bought and began to make notes in his diary as he read the first book. Meanwhile Yurine was sitting on his lap, reading the pages he was reading.
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A few hours later, when Maron left, Yurine got up from Yu's lap and walked to the shelves and disappeared for a few seconds. When she came back a few seconds later, she was holding a book.
"Yu, I didn't want to show this when that guy is here."
Yurine put the book in front of Yu and opened it, there were some folded papers inside.
"Yu, it looks like your writing, so I thought you could read it. Yu, can you read it?"
Yu picked up the papers and lined them up, the words written in the Latin alphabet.
"How can this be?"
Yu couldn't hide his surprise, Yurine started jumping in her seat and shouted excitedly.
"Yu! Yu! Can you read?"
Yurine sat back on Yu's lap and looked at the paper in Yu's hand as Yu began to read.
"Even though I don't want people to hear this story, it somehow bothers me that no one knows it. To ease my conscience, I put these words on paper and write them in my own language so that only people like me, and not everyone else, can read them. I must warn the reader; these are words that contain what lies behind this world, our world, and every world that exists. You may think that everything that happens is meaningless and you may fall into emptiness, read it knowing this."
When Yu finished reading what was written on the paper, he and Yurine were looking at each other.
"##### #####, Yu Valarfin."
"Yurine, Rie was a pretty girl."
***
A few days later Sivina woke up. Yurine was in the bathroom and Yu was bored reading a book when he found out that Sivina had woken up. So he thought it would be good to talk to them and arrange the work that he and Yurine had agreed on earlier.
"I hope I'm not disturbing you," Yu knocked on the door, even though it was open.
"No, come please."
Sivina invited him. Although she was awake, she found it difficult to move her body, so Ana helped her to eat. According to the doctors, her body would soon be back in shape.
"Welcome back, Raul. We haven't spoken since you arrived, have we?"
Although he checked on Sivina every day, he hadn't spoken to Raul, who had arrived two days ago. Yu saw no problem in talking to him, but Raul avoided talking to him, just like now.
Yu turned his face back to Sivina rather than deal with his demeanor.
"You should get out of bed as soon as possible, I am sure the people of Rechapel are waiting for you to show their gratitude."
Sivina had done what no one else had been able to do for years, and by killing the Red Chappel Killer, she had finally put an end to a time when people went to bed in fear. This was certainly an achievement to be celebrated.
"I didn't do it alone, we did it because of you."
"I know, you're welcome," he said, sitting on Sivina's bed, at her feet.
"Ana, how are you?"
"I'm glad Sivina is awake."
"There's something I'm curious about, Ana." He was going to talk about the wind spell that hit him the night they fought. "Was it you who cast the wind spell that came out of the tunnel that night?"
"Yes."
"I almost died, I saw the wind coming towards me and I said oh my God."
Yu said this with a laugh, but Ana felt embarrassed and apologized, thinking she had made a mistake.
"No, no, no. You don't need to apologize because if you hadn't sent the spell I would have been dead for sure. Your spell saved our lives, mine and Yurine's. Thank you, Ana."
"I-I'm glad it worked out."
Ana now had a sweet smile on her face.
"I don't want to belabor the point, I have a proposal for you. Are you looking for a job?"
Sivina and Ana looked at each other for a while, they had already forgotten Raul's presence when he reminded himself in an irritating tone.
"You said that after this was over, everyone would go their own way!"
"What's this reaction?" Yu looked at Raul and smiled. "Couldn't I have changed my mind?"
Raul clenched his fists. Yu couldn't understand why he was angry with him.
"Uh... Actually, I understand. He's jealous. He's scared."
"Raul, let Mr. Valarfin speak."
After Sivina's words, Raul sat down on a chair and Yu began to explain.
"I'm looking for people to serve the Cardinal of Virgo, you can rest easy about the salary and you won't have to pay for food and lodging."
They were both surprised, they never expected to get such a job offer from Yu. They still didn't even know who Yu was in the first place.
"I think serving the Cardinal of Virgo is a much more suitable job for a knight than adventuring. Ana can also be knighted by Her Eminence, isn't that the start of a great career?"
"But I've never heard of such a person, who do you mean by that?" Ana asked.
"Who else, the daughter of the previous cardinal, of course! Yurine!"
Yu smiled and opened his arms.
"I'll be honest, the Cathedral and the Cardinalate of Virgo are not very important, as you would have heard if they were. But that's just for now, I'm looking for trusted comrades to make this world a better place. Together with you we can strengthen the cathedral and change the Mora."
Yu kept smiling, waiting for their answer.
"I don't think that's right. We'll only get in trouble. Sivina, we're fine."
He hadn't even asked Raul, but Raul had interrupted their conversation again.
"For me... I mean, Sivina was only adventuring because I wanted her to, right?"
Sivina didn't refuse Ana, who started talking without paying any attention to Raul.
"Yes, I knew that," Ana said, smiling politely. "I think Sivina wants it as a knight. If she wants it, it's fine with me." Sivina hadn't even spoken yet, but Ana had decided she wanted it.
"But..."
Yu turned to Raul this time, he couldn't stand it anymore when he interrupted him every now and then.
"I'm not asking you a question, Raul. I'm talking to Sivina and Ana."
"But!"
"Raul!" Ana shouted and shushed him. "You and Satoshi were always trying to make decisions for us, why? We can make our own decisions."
After this answer Raul fell silent for good and Yu looked at Sivina for the final answer. Her sea green eyes were really beautiful.
"I... We still have a lot to talk about, but I'll take it."
"Good. We'll come with Yurine at lunch to discuss the details."
He left Sivina's room with a satisfied smile on his face.
He believed they had proven themselves in their mission. They were also true to Yu's word. With them, Yu and Yurine's dream could come true.