Chapter 11: The Past
Colorful lights, vehicles and pedestrians who can't see their faces clearly are all flashing outside the window.
Comfortable and stable, almost undetectable vibration in the car, the young girl was gently held in her mother's arms.
She didn't know what was going to happen, and she didn't know what was going to happen, but all of a sudden, she was woken up from her sleep by the butler, and then she was picked up by her mother and rushed to a place she didn't know with her sister, father, and other people close to her.
However, even if she didn't know anything, the girl could probably guess that something bad was going on based on the tense and grim atmosphere that she felt in the front passenger seat and her father's words.
So, frightened and uneasy, the girl pressed her thin back against her mother's body, closed her lips hard, clasped her fingers together, carefully closed her eyes and breathed, listening, trying to hear something from the conversation
"Pedestrian, you calm down, don't make such a reckless decision on the spur of the moment - you are not familiar with life in the UK, and if you go past with Nagi, without our protection and help, not to mention that it is difficult to move an inch, at least it will be a waste of your talents"
The person who spoke was the girl's father, and his tone was different from the usual unfluctuating tone, at this time, he was obviously bitter, and he was persuading the person on the other side of the phone from the bottom of his heart.
But pedestrians? Nagi?
The two names, one for the girl's brother and the other for the brother's friend—and in the evening, the girl's brother told the family that he was going to find the friend and that he would probably stay there tonight and not return
But although the other party is a friend of her brother, the girl has never seen her in reality, and the girl's brother has no intention of introducing her to the other party.
"Help? Protection? From the other side of the phone, there was a somewhat childish, but calm, rhetorical question—which confirmed the girl's suspicion that her brother was the only one she had ever seen who could speak in this tone and style.
"Nagi and I have already found the reason for what happened last time - if that's the way you said about help and protection, then, thank you, thank you."
The father in front of the "pedestrian" was silent for a moment, and then sighed, "No matter what you think, your grandfather and me, as well as Nagi's grandfather, all our actions are to protect you. You are our children, our future, if we don't protect you, who else can we protect? ”
Although she didn't understand it, the girl could still feel the sincerity of her father's words.
"In this sentence alone, we are not the only ones who are your children. And we don't just want to be your kids. ”
"If you put this sentence aside, at least from my own point of view, I can still find many things that are as important as your 'children', or even more important, such as wife, parents, career, and so on, based on my observations, in short, you know, whether intellectually or emotionally, I can't agree with your statement."
The words conveyed from the other end made the girl even more incomprehensible, and the brother's tone as if he was out of the way made the girl's bad feeling even stronger
"You misunderstand us too much"
It seemed like a long time, and it seemed like a short time, and after a long time, my father sighed again and said.
"I understand you, son. I know why you think that—but I can swear to Amaterasu that your grandfather and I did that for your own good. You're too young to understand."
"You're annoying, uncle!"
A sudden, equally childish, but more indulgent, high-minded girl's voice came from the other end, interrupting her father's words.
"Protection you mean? Is it a lie to protect our 'property'? You say help? Is it to help our friendship with betrayal? Now it sounds so good, at the beginning, it was tempted by rhetoric and various ways. When we step into the trap, why do you say it so sincerely? When that kind of result came later, why didn't you tell us the truth like this?! Now that the matter has been revealed, do you dare to admit it secretly?
What is the trust we have in you? What did our feelings for you get in exchange, uncle, did you think about it in your heart when you said these words?! ”
After saying this in one breath, the girl on the other side stopped speaking, but the girl could still faintly hear her somewhat rapid gasp.
Then, not long after—maybe five or six seconds, maybe a dozen seconds—the unwavering voice of my brother came from the other side again.
"What Nagi just said is what I probably want to convey - no matter how you explain it now, and whatever your reasons are, what you have done and how you have done it in this matter is not in line with your role as a father and a relative. Of course, Grandpa and Nagi's grandfather, and some others, they do the same.
So, even if I have a misunderstanding about you, it's because of you"
"If I apologize to you now and make amends, will the matter be reversed?"
As if he had made some important decision, the girl's father suddenly said solemnly.
"Sure enough, father, you still don't know anything!"
After a chuckle, from the opposite side came the breezy voice of my brother that had never been seen tonight, with an inexplicable smile.
"It seems to you that I have a misunderstanding about you—whether it is true or not; So, do you think you don't misunderstand me? ”
"It's hard to know what I care about, what I want, what my dreams are, but if you look closely, you can still get a little clue - even Saori's stupid guy is better than you!"
“”
"Nothing more? So you don't understand anything! But it's not interesting to say that now - anyway, Nagi's plane and I are about to depart - because we said hello in advance, so you don't want to stop the flight temporarily, and in the past, we also sent someone to make the front stop for us there, and some of the preparations that should have been done in the early stage have been made, and we have been in contact with the local families there, so you don't have to worry about what problems we will encounter - although I accidentally fell for your trick last time, I promise, Nothing like this will happen again, absolutely. ”
"So, tell Saori, my mother, my sister, and the others for me, that I'm going to pursue my freedom and fulfill my promise—I'm a little scared if I say it directly to them!"
"By the way, I would like to add here - if you are okay in the future, don't come to us, if you have something, well, don't come to us."
"Bye-bye, then."
Although she was too young to understand most of the words in the conversation between her father and her brother - such as career, recklessness, dreams, and preparations, when the brother spoke at the end, her mother was only trembling slightly, and her body, which she had ignored, suddenly shook more violently, and the warm arms hugged her tighter—and along with it, there were silent tears and surging sadness.
Perhaps, I will never see my brother again.
——When the last 'bye-bye' sounded in the car, the girl's heart suddenly instinctively had such a thought.
PS: This is the story of Saori, I believe everyone can see it, Sakuraso will put it aside - because this is the need of the drama.
In addition, because I'm already a social person.,It's still a budding newcomer.,So the update or something won't be too stable.,From today.,Try to keep three to five more a week.。