
A beautiful morning in the village of Sora. As usual, Mirai comes to Sora Hospital for work. For a long time he did not enter work, due to being busy in the Mission of Fuu village. Mirai begins to enter one of the rooms in the hospital, seeing Yuhee's condition improve and is treated in the room.
The little girl just looked out the window, different from her condition last time, now she was much better.
"What are you thinking? " mirai said starting to approach Yuhee
During this Mirai only surrounded by cold people like the Tengu team, of course in terms of communicating with others Mirai is not very understanding. Even he did not know, what kind of conversation to start for the gloomy looking little girl in front of him. He just wanted to express his concerns, but ended up with a cold-sounding question. Yuhee looked only at Mirai, then continued her daydream.
Mirai tried to sit next to Yuhee's bed. Knowing someone was sitting next to him, Yuhee started to open her mouth.
"Why did you save my life? "say Yuhee cold. Mirai had expected, that was what Yuhee would say to her. Mirai mencoab answered Yuhee's question as best she could
" How could I not save a weak little girl like you. That has become my duty" Mirai said flatly.
"Did? You don't look like you're gonna save a kid like me. The look in your eyes is no different than what I have! " said Yuhee while looking into Mirai's eyes.
Mirai was aware, Yuhee's eyes were radiating the darkness of her heart, the exact same look as hers. Eyes that show how much suffering he is going through. Mirai began to close her eyes, honestly was the best way to give understanding to the girl
"It's true, I didn't mean to save a kid like you"
Hearing Mirai's reply, Yuhee only snorted softly. His guess is right.
"But, someone has persuaded me that I must trust you in the future" Mirai said
"The future? Is that there for me? After hearing that Fuu Village was wiped out, somehow my heart was very happy. Those people only look up to a girl like me with one eye. The girl without parents, the only one in the grandmother's house. There were no people who would even help me" Mirai just stared at the figure of the little girl in front of her
"How can a 6-year-old girl think like that? "
" hey! A 6 year old girl? You're on the medical team, not even knowing your patient's age? I'm 10 years old Ms. Nurse! "
Mirai could only quack at his mistake. Yuhee does not look like a 10-year-old girl, her body is small and thin, she looks really have poor nutrition.
"But your body doesn't look very well developed"
"Well sure. I have to take care of my sickly grandmother, the villagers excommunicate us, I even have to work to find medicinal plants in the forest to sell and give to my grandmother.
Even until my grandmother died, not a single villager would help me. Even I myself had to bury my grandmother's body, without a proper burial. That's why I hate the people of Fuu village so much"
Mirai stared fixedly at Yuhee's face, knowing that everything the boy said was not as strong as his feelings
"You can't really hate the villagers, can you?
Because only they are people you know and only Fuu Village is the hometown where your memories with your grandmother are" said Mirai
"Don't you think you know everything" Yuhee said beginning to get angry. Pa dangan Mirai softened, once again he tried to make Yuhee understand
"You can't lie to me, I've been to Fuu village and seen the forest around it. If my guess is correct.....
When you were trying to find a cure in the woods, you saw something suspicious. You tried to tell the villagers, but it was too late and the incident happened, and you even became one of the victims, right? "
Mirai recalled, around the cave where the bodies were found, there were quite common medicinal plants growing around Goa. He knew that medicinal plants could not grow anywhere in the forest.
Mirai just guessed, Yuhee had been there and knew all about it. Therefore, only Yuhee was found far away in the corner of the village, while the people busy with the important Festival were attacked.
"B-how did you know? " said Yuhee surprised. How could Mirai read his mind?
" I'm just a prankster, with all the things I've seen and learned. "
"Even though you knew the village was in danger, you didn't run away. Even when you were alone in excommunicating the villagers, you still cared about them. You're trying to save them Yuhee"
Yuhee started to duck, after all Mirai said she could not lie anymore
However, I remember my grandmother's last advice. He told me never to hate the villagers. For that I tried to save the villagers, even though I hated them so much. "
" In spite of all that I'm also sure you want to save the lives of the villagers purely because of your own wishes, right? "
Yuhee was just pensive, lying if she didn't admit to that as well
" If I also ignore those people, I'm not much different from the person who excommunicated me. I want to prove that I'm so different from the people who excommunicated me"
The soft-spirited child, however, wanted to end his own life because of the cruelty of the people.
Mirai understood how Yuhee felt, her childhood was not much different from Yuhee's. He even thought about dying.
" Yuhee's.... Hearing you like that, I remembered the story of a poor girl like you.
He lives by having cursed blood, blood that can increase strength and also heal wounds. Therefore, they killed the father of the child and tried to harness his power.
The girl was taken advantage of, she was taken to the middle of the battlefield and there was no one who looked up to her human, they only needed her blood and were treated like a healing machine.
He also wanted to die and run away from this cruel world. What do you think he should do? "
" Of course, it's better for him to die than to be treated like that" Yuhee said
"No. Precisely at the last second when he was about to attack, he actually begged to be saved. He wondered why only he suffered, did he not deserve to live, just because he had a curse in his blood? "
Yuhee simply fell silent, she also felt unfair to the story Mirai was telling.
" In that last second, someone saved his life. A person who doesn't even know who the girl is, saves the girl by risking her life.
It means Yuhee, there are still good people in this world, only you haven't met them.
It would be very unfair if you had to die under these circumstances, in the future you also deserve to be happy" Mirai said
"What your grandmother told you, you can't grow up to be the one who hates the one who makes you cry,
Instead you have to live and meet the person who will make you laugh without any grudges in your heart. That's what your grandmother wanted to teach you"
Yuhee began to cry, the little girl who grew up from her suffering tended to be far-sighted and would rather hide the sadness of her heart. Mirai hugged Yuhee, she stroked her hair gently
"The color he knows, hatred will give birth to other sufferings. He doesn't want you to suffer more than you currently do.
That's why I saved you, I want you to forget your past and just look at your future. Regardless of your past it's a good thing or a bad thing though"
"Thank you Miss nurse" Yuhee said as she continued to cry in Mirai's arms.
"Keep crying, for crying will lessen as little as your heart hurts.
Oh yea..... From now on you better call me brother. I see you've improved, I'll take you out for some fresh air in the village, do you want? "
" Certainly" Yuhee nodded. Mirai began to stare at Yuhee's face, gently wiping the brim water that flooded the girl's cheeks
"alright. As an adult, I take care of everything. You just have to behave like a kid your age, you don't have to hide your feelings anymore.
Laugh if you're happy, cry if you're sad" Mirai said with a smile to Yuhee
Yuhee. I will be an adult for you.....
All you need to do, forget your sadness and smile like a child at your age......
I don't want you to be like me, my childhood that I spent in the dark