My Childhood Friends Who I Thought Abandoned Me Are Obsessed With Me

9. So you can cry now

Episode 9. So you can cry now

Tale made a surprised expression at Chloe’s words.

You want me to stay by your side?

Why?

I can’t believe this….

‘Jealousy?’

As Tail’s expression became subtle, Chloe urgently continued.

“That, that. I can’t sleep… !”

While mumbling, she eagerly looked at her tail with sparkling eyes.

With teary eyes, she said her words.

“… I need you Tale.”

She’s actually in a position to put her to sleep.

Tail was immediately convinced.

By the way.

“It’s 6 o’clock now, are you going to sleep already?”

At Tail’s words, Chloe pouted.

“A person can go to bed at 6 o’clock. That is prejudice.”

Tayl sighed at her words.

‘Cecilia will be waiting for you.’

No matter how unlikely the patient was, I couldn’t throw him away for that reason.

But at the same time he couldn’t easily knock Chloe off,

It was also because at the end of Chloe’s eyes, I could see the precarious desperation like a candlelight on the snowy field.

The biggest reason.

‘If I refuse here, I’ll lose my coins.’

Tails answered, holding her breath briefly.

“Okay.”

At the same time, Chloe’s face brightened.

“Really? Are you really going to stay with me and not Cecilia?”

“Yes. Okay.”

As if she liked that answer, Chloe put her arms around Tail’s and dragged him along.

“Then let’s go!”

Seeing her enjoyment, Tail smiled.

‘I’ll be fine if I just sleep for an hour and come back soon.’

But at that time, I didn’t know about Tails.

How foolish this choice was.

And how much pain Cecilia suffered because of this choice.

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‘I’m in trouble!’

Tayl hurriedly ran with the red bean bread in his arms.

Every time I moved quickly, the red bean bread in the basket moved wildly.

As the sun slowly set, she completely disappeared.

As I ran down the pitch-black street, Tails hurriedly looked at his watch.

It’s 10:30 in the evening.

“Damn it.”

Tail increased his running speed.

It’s late. A whole lot of it too.

‘I thought I had been overdoing it recently.’

The cause of the trouble was that while putting Chloe to sleep, she unknowingly fell on her stomach and fell asleep.

“Whoa whoa.”

Tail stopped in front of Cecilia’s tent, breathing in his chin.

“Whoa….”

After taking a deep breath, Tail calmed his pounding heart and carefully knocked on the door.

Smart smart.

“Miss Cecilia. It’s a tail. I will go in.”

No answer came from inside.

However, Tails opened the door without hesitation.

Kikii Profit.

With a dreary sound, the door opened, revealing a pitch-black interior.

A dark aura emanated from deep within and filled her room.

Go oh oh oh-.

Some unknown dark energy flowed from the room.

‘Damn it.’

Tails could tell that this dark, thick aura came from a girl with her head in her lap in the corner of her.

The girl raised her head slightly at the sudden light.

And as soon as she saw her tail, she crumpled her face in a ghastly expression, then put her head back into her lap.

When Tail saw that, he instinctively felt it.

‘Ah. It’s a big deal.’

Cecilia was properly pouting.

* * *

Tail, who had been watching Cecilia from a distance, slowly moved her steps.

Jerbug.

Jerbug.

The closer her tail came, the more firmly Cecilia buried her head in her lap.

The way she gave strength to her whole body seemed like she would never give her heart.

Tail, who had reached right in front of Cecilia, stopped her steps.

And then he carefully opened his mouth.

“Did you wait a long time, lady?”

Cecilia’s body trembled at the soft soothing sound of his voice.

‘Right.’

This means that I waited a long time.

Tale sat down next to Cecilia and spoke in a friendly tone.

“Sorry for coming late.”

However, Cecilia did not move.

He seemed very angry.

“I’ll be careful next time.”

While saying that, Tail tried to put his hand on Cecilia’s head.

Sure.

Cecilia’s head was quickly swept aside from her.

Then, in the gap, her face was lifted, and Tail met her eyes. Cecilia glared at him with sharp eyes, then buried her head again.

Looking like a wounded cat, Tail seemed to burst into laughter at any moment.

‘Let’s wait. If you laugh now, you’ll be kicked out.’

Forcing a laugh into it, Tail continued.

“I was wrong. Let go of your anger. Miss.”

There was silence.

Tails sat down next to Cecilia and waited patiently for her until she opened her mouth.

And how much time had passed.

Cecilia’s mouth moved with difficulty.

“… I was scared.”

Cecilia’s voice trembled slightly.

Tail listened to his words that continued quietly.

“I thought you were never coming back.”

Cecilia’s body trembled slightly.

Her pupils were empty.

“I thought you would never come back like my brother.”

I had never seen Cecilia talk so much.

“You’re leaving me too.”

Cecilia was trembling as if she was afraid just thinking about it.

“I thought so.”

Tale recalled what Chloe had said at the same time.

“Cecilia lost the person she cared about the most.”

Tale knew right away that the person he cared about was his real brother.

Did deed deed -.

Cecilia’s mana began to sway in the air.

The she means that the child is in jeopardy.

Even in that situation, Cecilia’s expression remained the same.

An expressionless face.

It was expressionless, as if he had forgotten how to cry or how to laugh.

‘It’s dangerous at this rate.’

Tail quickly put her hand on Cecilia’s head.

Straw-like hair was caught in her hand.

Then, she quickly used her mana to activate her ‘her brother’s weak hand’ skill.

Hwaaah-

A warm feeling settled all over Cecilia’s body.

It was only then that a little bit of life returned to Cecilia’s eyes.

“Miss Cecilia.”

Tail called for Cecilia, who had calmed down a bit.

“It’s okay.”

Tail held Cecilia’s hand with her free hand.

Cecilia’s hands were cold and hard, as if touching a piece of wood.

But Tail continued with a smile.

“I’m not going anywhere. So it’s okay.”

“I’m not going anywhere… ?”

Her lips parted and she moved hiply.

“… Will you stay by my side?”

“Of course. Where am I going?”

Cecilia tightly gripped Tail’s hand, which held her own, as if not to let go.

Tail lowered her hand from the top of her head and passed her Cecilia’s hair.

“My lady.”

Tale asked in a calm tone.

“Could you tell me about your brother?”

She continued to use her skills, and when her tail asked, Cecilia pondered and opened her mouth.

“… My brother was like the sun.”

Cecilia’s eyes widened as she thought of her one and only brother.

“Unlike me, who lags behind no matter what I do, my brother is good at everything. It was confident and cool, like the sun that shines itself.”

Tale was silent as he listened to her words.

Slowly, Cecilia continued.

“My brother was very kind. He used to do whatever I wanted to do.”

A faint smile appeared on her face.

It was Cecilia’s first smile.

“He was the best brother to me.”

She must have been her only support, her brother.

To her when she was young, her brother must have been a hero who appeared everywhere and reached out to her when she was in trouble.

“By the way….”

Her expression darkened rapidly.

“One day, my older brother disappeared. Even my dad there.”

I could tell.

‘I was dispatched to war.’

A great war between the Empire of Belenus and the Empire of Thiern.

Cecilia’s expressionless face returned to her words calmly.

“Her mother said both of them went out to inspect, and I believed her. Then one day a package came to her mother.”

Tails had a sense of what the package her Marquise had received was.

‘It was probably my son’s urn.’

My brother is dead.

“Mom cried when she saw the package.”

Cecilia’s eyes were dead.

Her time stopped at the moment she found out that her brother was dead.

“I had a gut feeling.”

Cecilia’s unfocused eyes turned to Tails.

“That her brother will not come back.”

After that, she closed her heart.

Her mother, left in her mansion, would not have been in a situation to take care of her daughter, grieving over the death of her son.

So Cecilia was dying alone, isolated.

She reached out her hand for help and struggled, but in this situation where no one answered, she continued to fall into a swamp.

‘Perhaps it is because of my presence that her marquise is now able to take care of her daughter.’

Unlike the original, the atmosphere of the monastery must have changed a lot.

‘This is it.’

This was the beginning of Cecilia’s blackening.

Since no one took care of this child’s wounds, Mattangi has to go.

Having finished her story, Cecilia shut her mouth and again put her face between her bent legs.

Dazed expression.

It was just a calm expression, neither crying nor angry.

She knows how to sharpen her claws, but it was only an attack to defend herself.

It was not an expression of emotion.

The wounds are painful and the senses and emotions are dulled.

That was Cecilia now.

It was then that Tail, who had been staring at Cecilia, opened her mouth.

“You must have been sad.”

Cecilia’s shoulders trembled.

“You must have been in a lot of pain.”

Cecilia slowly looked at her tail.

It was the first time I met eyes with a child.

I could see the red eyes shaking weakly.

“I think it must have been painful.”

Tale continued his words cautiously.

“Miss Cecilia”

Tail continued to use her skill and patted Cecilia on the head.

“It took a lot of hard work to endure until now.”

Cecilia’s body trembled at Tail’s words.

Her patting hands were very kind.

The warmth of her hand is so warm.

So, it seemed like tears welled up in her eyes.

She wanted to scream and felt something strangely boiling inside.

And that emotion exploded at Tail’s next words.

“So you can cry now.”