Chapter 341
As the war continued to rage on, life in the capital of Berdonia remained never changing . The people of Berdonia knew that a large scale war was happening, but they weren"t that bothered by it . In the history of the world, there was never a time when the war between countries has ended . There was always constant war, this predates the establishment of the Granado Empire, which was the oldest existing country in the current world .
Not only that Berdonia has always been fighting against the Granado Empire, but they have yet to fall . Even if they did fall, the pride they had as Berdonians would never falter . They truly believed that they would win the war . So they were thinking of what will happen next . Even if the war continues on, and many brave men and women have died, life in Berdonia would continue .
This was the reason, that even now the children needed to go to school .
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Niki was absentmindedly walking to school as she couldn"t stop thinking about her brother . Usually every week her brother would call her and keep her updated about his situation . Yet for the past few weeks, her brother hasn"t called .
This made Niki extremely worried as she felt something bad had happened . She knew that her brother"s line of work was dangerous, and it was entirely possible that he was in an area where he couldn"t make calls . Her parents had explained that to her multiple times, but that didn"t stop Niki from worrying . While she was absentmindedly walking she heard someone calling beside her .
"Niki! Niki! Niki!" The one shouting right at her ear was none other than her best friend Lilitth . Niki finally got out of her dazed state and looked at Lilitth .
"Sorry, did you say something Lilitth?"
"Niki, we already pa.s.sed the school gate . " Lilitth was holding Niki"s hand and pointed at the school gate behind them .
"Oh," Niki finally regained her senses and walked towards the school gate .
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All throughout the morning cla.s.ses, Niki was in a dazed state and wasn"t able to listen properly to anything that teachers said . So during lunchtime, Lilitth forcefully brought her best friend to the back of the school building to confront Niki about her situation .
"Niki, can you please tell me what"s bothering you . " Lilitth looked really distressed this time . The moment Niki started acting weird Lilitth asked her if there was something troubling her . At first, Niki answered by saying, it wasn"t anything big . After a few more days Niki became even more absentminded, which made Lilitth worry even more, so she tried to ask again . Niki then responded by telling Lilitth to not ask her again, and she just needed time to think about things .
A little girl saying something like that was weird, but both Niki and Lilitth were more mature than other ten-year-old girls . So at first Lilitth decided to respect Niki"s wishes and left her alone, helping her here and there . Yet now she couldn"t help it anymore, Niki was getting worse every pa.s.sing day . This made Lilitth extremely uncomfortable and worried .
Niki who saw her best friend in so much distress because of her, finally spoke about what happened to her brother . Lilitth listened to Niki without saying a word, once Niki was done talking Lilitth suddenly hugged her .
Feeling Lilitth"s warmth made Niki who was suppressing herself suddenly cry .
"Nii-nii! Nii-nii! Nii-nii!" Niki kept on repeating this as she cried on Lilitth"s shoulders . Lilitth who heard Niki cry for her brother remembered her own brother . She was in a similar situation as Niki, but she didn"t feel as depressed like this .
"Is it because onii-sama isn"t related to me by blood? . . . No that can"t be it! I"m sure it"s because I believe in Tou-chan and Nii-sama! I"m sure that two of them will come back and give me lots of hugs . "
When she thought of that, tears suddenly came falling down and she started crying too . Lilitth then noticed the tears falling from her cheeks, and got a bit confused .
"What"s this, why am I crying? I don"t understand? . . . I know I believe that onii-sama and tou-chan will return safely, I understand, I do . So why am I crying? Tou-chan told me to protect Yuuki and Mirai, how can a big sister protect his younger sibling while crying? This isn"t right, onii-sama never cried and he protected me with that huge back of his . "
Lilitth then remembered the time her onii-sama saved her from her h.e.l.l, and then protected her from thereon . It was the same with Carlo and Michel, even though they weren"t related by blood, the still treated her as a daughter and sister .
When Lilitth suddenly imagined a world were Alex and Carlo wasn"t there, tears started to flow down her cheeks harder than before .
"Why am I thinking of such things? That"s impossible! Onii-sama and tou-chan will never lose! Tou-chan promised that they"ll come back . I just need to believe in tou-chan . I"m sure onii-sama wouldn"t abandon me as well . I"m sure he"ll come back and pat my head telling me I"m a good girl . "
Lilitth who was spiraling down to depression could no longer hold it in, and started crying as hard as Niki .
The two little girls who were crying behind the school building, were noticed by a teacher who was pa.s.sing by and heard them crying . The teacher that found the two girls, didn"t know what to do at first, and tried to calm them down . It took him several minutes to be able to calm down the two little girls .
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The school day pa.s.sed rather quickly after Niki cried her heart out . As the two were heading home, Lilitth suddenly spoke to Niki .
"Hey Niki want to have a sleepover?"
"Huh?"
"Let"s have a sleepover, I"m sure that"s going to be fun . " Without waiting for Niki to respond, Lilitth took out her phone and called her mom . After a short conversation with Michel, Lilitth looked at Niki with a wide smile on her face .
"Kaa-chan said you can come over and play, she also said that she would call your parents and tell them you"re staying at our place tonight . "