
"You are not a monster" Stephen said in a serious tone, indicating he did not agree with Feronica's words. Stephen could understand what people meant even to call Feronica like that, but there was something she could not accept when Feronica agreed to this.
A typical person who is discouraged and gives up on the situation agrees with the bad opinion of people. Stephen believes Feronica is not a weak girl because indeed she has seen the evidence with her own eyes.
So why do you have to act hard and have a victim mentality? Maybe in this way one will feel better because no longer need to defend themselves because it is tiring. But this way can not be done for all things.
Little is there a weak mind then surely it has an impact on the way he looks, Stephen does not Feronica live from what others say.
Feronica who was contemplating deeply now looked at Stephen meaningfully. He did not really expect understanding from others, because it was rare for him to be understood except by his own mother.
So what he said earlier was a reflection of himself who was tired of the feeling he had felt all along. Sometimes he needs to agree with people's opinions and do not bother, but in the end still he needs encouragement to be able to get back up.
Which turned out to be the encouragement he could get directly from Brother Stephen.
"Ah, thank you brother...." Feronica was a little comforted because she knew that not everyone was the same as she thought.
"I'm sorry for everything, brother...." Feronica finally realized that what she was doing was wrong. He is unable to overcome the feelings that exist in him that cause him to lose control.
Stephen shook his head a little. "It's okay, it's okay to be honest with yourself." Stephen himself could not judge Feronica did the wrong thing, all this happened not because of intentionality.
"I didn't expect to hurt my friends...." Feronica thought about the thing that Stephen had told her.
The first time in his life he has come this far, not to mention the problems that occurred after he had broadly injured Yelena, now with both of his close friends equally also injured, no longer imagined what it would be like.
"It's okay, everything's gonna be okay...." Stephen surprisingly returned to Feronica who was re-thought, at once Feronica smiled slightly because she was comforted by the words.
In the end thinking about this excessively will not make the problem immediately resolved. Now Feronica tried to control her mind so as not to go anywhere else.
"So what happens if you're not there...." Feronica is aware, the existence of Stephen who always appears at the right time has helped her a lot lately.
Because it was before he always dealt with every thing he experienced, hiding his problems from his mother with the aim of not overloading his mind.
And this time when getting help at the right time makes Feronica feel different. It was like discovering and knowing something new that made him not think the same as yesterday.
"Are you okay now?" Stephen saw how the condition of Feronica that does look ordinary from the outside, but what is seen from the outside can be wrong.
As before, Stephen did not feel any different from Feronica from the beginning, but who would have thought in his heart raging things?
"Ah, I'm good... What about big brother?" Feronica answered what she was because she felt nothing strange in her, her heartbroken feelings had passed and now she felt as usual.
Stephen was speechless, even with so much strength he put out this girl stayed fit as usual and that was a good thing of course. If it wasn't for the power that had arisen within him, Stephen felt it would have taken a long time for one to reach this level of strength.
"Ah then we are the same." Stephen smiled, his energy that was pretty much drained earlier is now starting to fill up again. He is in good condition now.
"Aahaha...." Feronica held her head and it seemed like there was something lacking there.
"Well...." Feronica was aware of what it was lacking, and instantly her expression changed.
"My hat's gone...."
"Hats?" Stephen did not even pay attention to the small details, he had only focused on how to stop Feronica from raging it.
Feronica did not consider Mr. Jack's gift to be ordinary, which was given to her was the hat she had always worn long ago. Not caring even until it disappears after a while is certainly not too good.
"Mr Jack sorry.." muttered Feronica, he felt guilty for not being able to keep the precious gift, but in the end what else could he do?
"I'm sure Mr. Jack would understand...." Stephen tried to convince Feronica who now looks gloomy. He understands that no matter how simple a thing is, there must be something that makes it valuable.
*
After a while, Stephen finally let go of his space change technique and now they returned to their original place, in front of the Academy gates.
Feronica saw the surrounding conditions, it was already night. "Geez I must be worried!"
Feronica panicked right then and there, making mother worry was one of the things she tried to avoid. Who is a child who wants to worry their parents?
"Don't worry, the time stays the same when we get into my magic technique." Stephen spoke up, he sounded proud and reassuring.
"really?" Feronica stared in admiration at Stephen, how not? The technique of moving places by manipulating time is a great thing!
"Then let's go home, your mother will be waiting at home." Stephen was walking while Feronica was still seen standing there. She knew Stephen would take her home.
"Going home is fun." muttered Feronica with a small smile.
*
in the room of Feronica's room, on the same day
Feronica stared at the light lamp above her, for some reason tonight she was not sleepy, but it was clear she was experiencing many things throughout the day.
But Feronica could not protest much, she now took the time to reflect on what really happened to her.
'The red mark appeared again, even worse than before....'
Feronica was aware of this, if this fiery red mark only appeared before, now even more so, until she completely mastered herself.
This made Feronica unable to take the strange mark trivially, because it was unpredictable that the sign appeared, and moreover she was afraid of the same thing happening as before.
He did not want to be called a monster by his colleagues, so all he could do was to overcome the strange sign so as not to reappear.
Feronica got up and looked towards the window of her room, in the sky that tonight there was not a beautiful full moon that gave her a bright light.
'Ah right too, why didn't I ask you about this sign to Stephen?' inner Feronica in her heart.