Chapter 493 Parting and Insights (Page 12)
Maplehara Manyo did not intend to revitalize the family. After his father's death, he sold the few remaining family properties and planned to leave here.
He is leaving.
Yae Rina watched him transform from a declining Inazuma nobleman into a traveling ronin.
It wasn't that she couldn't understand.
The thinking of monsters is different from that of ordinary people. Many people think there is nothing wrong with continuing to live like this, but Rina thinks what Maplehara Manyo did is cool.
Because of "freedom".
Maplehara Manyo said that in fact, his life is not unfree. He just wants to see what kind of sky it is outside and what kind of scenery there is in Inazuma. In addition to cherry blossoms in spring and red maples in autumn, other places in Inazuma So what?
What is the long-traveled scenery of Kaiji Island, how majestic is the place where thunderstorms are prevalent... He wanted to know.
Life is only a short few decades. Maplehara Manyo has no intention of inheriting the few remaining family assets and doing the hard work that his father has been doing all his life, so he chooses to leave directly.
Dismissing the servants and selling off the property, there is a firm desire without purpose.
...From then on, I was alone.
Rina flapped her wings and flew to the ground, transforming into a girl in her prime.
"Congratulations." She said, "You are free. Where do you want to go next?"
Where do you want to go?
Maplehara Manyo thought carefully according to his own ideas. After thinking to no avail, he simply said: "Just walk around, wherever you go is where you want to be."
"Wow, a standard cosmopolitan person."
"Yeah." He smiled and repeated, "The standard cosmopolitan family."
He packed his luggage, then went to see Arataki Yito and Yonomiya. After saying goodbye to each other, before setting foot on the boat, he turned to the little bird who had been following him carefully and said, "Goodbye, Rina."
The bird poked its head out from behind the tree.
She changed back to her original form and was a little confused: "How did you find me?"
Maplehara Manyo said: "There is a white bird behind the tree, and there are a few strands of blue on the bird's tail. We have known each other for so long, and I have never seen another one as beautiful as you." Birds.”
Normally, Yae Rina might have been coaxed into ecstasy by these few words, but this was not an ordinary time.
She felt a little blocked in her heart. She couldn't tell what it felt like. She just thought... maybe if she couldn't see him in the future, she would feel uncomfortable, as if she had been plucked by the Son of God and hung on the sacred cherry tree that bloomed most in spring. superior.
"It's no use praising me!" she said angrily, staring at him with her lake-blue eyes, "Aren't you going to leave? Come on, the boat is leaving soon."
Maplehara Manyo smiled.
He took a few steps forward, then reached out and hugged her gently: "Goodbye, Rina."
This sentence is very light.
There seemed to be some kind of lingering, Rina didn't quite understand, but she just felt that it was a little different from usual. She couldn't tell what was different, she just didn't want to do it, and she didn't know why.
"...Well, goodbye." She said dullly.
"Don't worry, if there is a chance, we can meet again, right?" Maplehara Manyo smiled, "I'm just traveling around, maybe I'll come back one day."
Rina Yae is a bird, free, and allowed to go everywhere from the very beginning.
But she has not made up her mind for a long time, maybe because she is afraid of loneliness, maybe for other reasons, maybe because she hopes that she can find a place to stay——
In any case, she has now become the current shrine maiden of Narukami Taisha Shrine, training with her senior and adoptee Yae Kamiko. And on the way to practice, Shenzi recovered the piece of Magatama.
Lord Miyaji said softly: [This magatama is to help you return here easily. Now you have grown to the point where you can easily return to Narukami Taisha Shrine without the magatama, so Rina... Magatama, it's time to return it to me. 】
So now, her and human identities seem to have been reversed. Humans travel around, while the birds stay where they are.
They even lost the means by which they could communicate.
Sounds a little funny... Yae Rina thought.
She was a little sad and a little hesitant.
In the end, she stood there and watched the boat go away. The little monster sat on the rocks and looked into the distance. She stayed like that in silence for a long time, and finally chose to go back.
Why did Yae Shenzi take away the piece of Magatama?
Rina actually vaguely understood the reason in her heart. If she hadn't made those friends, kept the third aura on the magatama for six full years, and didn't show too much care to anyone, maybe the piece of magatama would still be there now. own hands.
Rina stood on the roof of Narukami Taisha Shrine, looking at the sea with no shadow in the distance.
"Son of God, you are mistaken."
Rina jumped off the roof and landed lightly in front of Yae Kamiko.
Her white hair was already very long, reaching her waist, and finally there was a hint of the "blue" that she and Maplehara Manyo had been searching for but to no avail.
Yae Shenzi opened a pot of cherry blossom wine for himself after a long absence, and then took two wine cups. She sat under the sacred cherry tree, poured a cup for Rina, and motioned her to sit down with her eyes, and then asked slowly: "What did I do wrong?"
"You have forgotten that I am a monster and my nature is to be indifferent to emotions."
Therefore, I won't be too distracted by my emotions with mortals, and I won't be sad.
Yae Shenzi sighed: "Really?"
I remembered the first meeting with Rina in my mind. The little bird was frozen, lying on the lake with only one breath left, and insisted on refusing to go with her... He said that he wanted to wait for someone to see the cherry blossoms together. .
"Rina, you have to prove it to me." Yae Shenzi lowered his eyes and said softly, "I'm not stopping you, but sometimes..."
Don't make a connection, it will only increase the sorrow.
This sentence is not only for people, but also for monsters.
——If you have begun to feel reluctant and sad for his departure; then I want to know whether you will miss him more and more as time goes by, or gradually forget about him.
This is different.
The former is what Yae Kamiko wants, and she will give Magatama back to Rina.
The latter was expected by Yae Kamiko... If it was really the latter, Yae Kamiko would also hand Magatama back to Rina at her request, but there was a melancholy in her heart as if she had already seen the ending.
The drunk little monster hugged Yae Kamiko and cried inconsolably that night.
Yae Rina didn't have the courage to embark on a road with no future, so she could only watch Maplehara Manyo leave.
"Okay, okay..." Yae Shenzi comforted her, "You have been with me for so long, haven't you already known it? Many differences between humans are normal, there is no need to be like this..."
"This is different!!" Rina sniffed and her eyes turned red, "Miko, this is different!"
"What's the difference?"
"I used to just look at..." She said brokenly, "Everywhere is the same."
"Seeing" and "personally experiencing" are ultimately different.