Adela stopped in place and wrapped her arms around her arms.
Saaaa-
A blizzard that seeps deep into your bones.
A pure white snow field unfolds before your eyes.
Adela remembered the hell she felt when she was five years old, walking down the street aimlessly.
[Adella. I’ll be back soon, okay?]
The sight of his father smiling and stroking his head as usual.
[Just for 3 days. I’m just waiting alone for 3 days. huh?]
And he remembered his mother’s embrace that hugged him tightly before leaving.
But before I knew it, those memories gradually faded away.
‘I am… … .’
Even when I ate cold soup a day later. Even after two days had passed while I was still hugging my teddy bear. Even after the promised three days had passed, my parents did not return.
A week has passed.
A month has passed.
When Adela couldn’t even remember her own voice, changes were taking place little by little inside her.
And time passed and another month passed.
Adela no longer missed her parents. She waited three days and she couldn’t even remember the taste of the bean soup she had eaten.
I couldn’t remember my mother’s face, my father’s face, or anything else. She wasn’t sad anymore.
[…] … I’m sorry. Adela. If only I had stayed in Italy. This would not have happened.]
Is it because of that?
Even when his grandfather was on his knees and crying. Adela lost her parents. She said this with such calm eyes that she was five years old.
[are you okay. grandfather.]
After that incident, Adela rapidly became less talkative. He didn’t laugh anymore. And on the anniversary of her parents’ deaths. Adela, now 10 years old, told Aden, as she placed a vase of flowers by the window.
[…] … grandfather.]
Adela spoke slowly in a weak voice.
[I’m actually not sad. I don’t feel anything when I look at the picture.]
Adela, who said that, took the seat next to the vase. She was fiddling with an old teddy bear sitting by the window.
[That’s why I hate it so much.]
The only treasure left in Aden.
Hearing Adela’s expressionless story, Aden’s heart became heavy, as if it was about to sink.
[Adella… … .]
Adela touched the teddy bear’s arm with an indifferent face to Aden’s sad expression.
[grandfather. … … What does it mean to be alive? Am I alive?]
Aden silently approached Adela and held her two delicate hands.
[Adella. I swear on my name. you are alive Go out into the bigger world. [Meeting many people and experiencing heart-pounding experiences.]
Aden’s hands were warm.
Adela, who was young, felt like her frozen hands were melting from the warmth.
[…] … You will find someone precious to you. When you’re happy, I laugh with you, and when you’re sad, I cry with you. He will quietly protect your side on lonely days.]
[so… … . How you feel now. limit… … Don’t be hasty in jumping to conclusions. So don’t rely on anyone’s answer. Please wait slowly until that time comes.]
[When that moment comes, you have to ask yourself.]
What it means to be alive.
Ask yourself if you are alive. Just wait until that moment comes.
Adela, who was young, did not understand Aden’s words. She didn’t know what ‘that moment’ Arden was talking about would come.
I was just living a boring, dull life in a gray, frozen world.
but.
Thump thump!
just now.
Adela’s heart was beating like crazy. Adela was confused by her own feelings, which were similar to her fears, but were not at all intelligible.
Sigh.
Adela placed her hand on her chest. The fast beating beat was like that of a herbivore being chased by a predator.
Are you afraid?
So what are you afraid of seeing?
Making my feet freeze.
What is the fear that prevents us from opening the door and moving forward?
Seeing Adella’s frozen appearance, Shin Yu-seong slowly approached the door.
Then he placed his hand on the huge door and spoke to Adela.
“… … Whatever lies ahead. “You have no choice but to open the door yourself to check the results.”
Someone else could open the door.
I can’t make the choice for you. All that is needed to approach the truth that has been ignored is your own choice.
Jump and jump.
Adela walked towards the door at a slow pace.
There was a slight hesitation in stopping Adela before opening the door. But Adela shut her mouth and pushed open the ice door with both hands.
Gooooo-
The door opens.
Inside the ice castle, a cold air like a harsh winter emanated.
Unlike before, Adella could see ice statues placed sparsely.
The number of statues decreases as you get closer to Louis’ throne.
Amidst unknown tension, Adela slowly walked towards the end of the road with an expressionless face.
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Adela did not pay even a single glance to the statues placed next to her. He was walking as if he had seen the correct answer.
And at the end of the road were two familiar yet very different statues. Adela looked at the statue’s face with a nonchalant expression.
My mother was spreading her hands with all her might to use her characteristic barrier. Her father was glaring at something in her, clenching his fist.
‘… … ‘I already knew this.’
Mother and Father fought a battle with Lewis and were defeated. The statue that is now frozen was just the result.
This statue is just a block of ice.
It is nothing.
Even if you mourn in front of a statue, the dead do not come back. Adela’s mind was very rational.
But for some reason, even when she tried to reach out toward the statue, Adela’s hand did not move.
I couldn’t stop shaking.
‘why… … .’
Adela was frowning and looking at her shaking right hand.
And then.
Shin Yu-seong looked at Adella and opened his mouth.
“Of course. Adela.”
Adela was acting as if what she was feeling for the first time was strange. But Shin Yu-seong knew.
What Adela feels is not strange, it is a completely natural emotion. That’s why Shin Yu-seong held Adela’s trembling hand.
“… … “Of course?”
Shin Yu-seong’s warmth transmitted through his hands. Adela felt the warmth of her Aden, something she had forgotten, like when he held her hand.
Shin Yu-seong smiled at Adella who was looking at him.
“huh. If this happens, it’s sad… … . It’s natural to feel like crying. Adela.”
Adela looked at the statue with a blank expression. More than 10 years have passed since Adela’s time passed, but the time of her frozen statue was still the same.
Adela looked into her father’s eyes reflected behind the transparent ice.
[Adella. Mom and I are hunters.]
My father’s voice comes from forgotten memories.
[A Hunter is a person who fights hard to protect the world.]
Even if my father dies in the process. He has no regrets, he said.
[Dad, don’t you miss me? I can’t see you when I die.]
When Adela, who was less than four years old, tilted her head and asked, her father smiled and said,
[…] … I fight because I want to see that.]
Now I remembered.
I didn’t forget it. That’s such a stupid story. There was no way I could forget these memories.
Adela had been deceiving herself. Once she realizes that she really loves her parents.
Because it was too painful to admit that I couldn’t see it anymore.
Because I couldn’t handle it.
He deceived himself into thinking that nothing was wrong. Because I didn’t want to be broken anymore, I broke myself.
Pop. Drip.
Adela grabbed the statue’s frozen hand. There was no way I could feel any warmth from the frozen statue.
There was no way the frozen statue could feel its own warmth.
Despite this, Adela was taking it upon herself to do something she had dismissed as foolish.
“I am… … .”
Adela opened her mouth with her eyes fixed on the statue.
“Both of you…” … . “I didn’t want you to go.”
Pop. Drip.
Adela shed tears endlessly, without even the usual sobs.
“Just, if you’re next to me… … “I thought it would be good.”
My house is too big for me to be alone. Because it’s so cold.
That’s why she.
“I missed you so much… … .”
I missed those two people.
I hadn’t forgotten those two people. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the choices the two people made. It wasn’t that I wasn’t happy about the time we spent together. She just gave up because she knew there was no going back.
The cruel truth that I faced only after seeing the frozen statues of my parents more than 10 years later.
“… … “I want to go back.”
Shin Yu-seong bowed his face like the wind of Aden and stayed silently by the side of the sobbing Adela.
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