svetikya Chapter 868 A Life of Ordinary Yet Painful
Chapter 868 A Life of Ordinary Yet Painful
"I'm too late. This is my friend. She waited for me for a very, very long time, believing until her death that I could come to save her..."
That poor friend believed until his death that his destined person would arrive with a prophecy of salvation, that winter would end, that everything would be filled with beauty, and that the warmth and flowers of the past would return to this world once more…
But how long will this belated salvation have to wait? No one knows the answer; if there truly is one, it will be over 2000 years later in the story…
Will it take more than 2000 years to accomplish what you want and to find peace of mind?
What has over 2000 years of waiting brought? Nothing at all...
It's normal to have nothing, isn't it? I'm sorry, my friend, you've waited for me for so long, but I can't give you the response you deserve. I'm not a good friend, and I don't deserve such high treatment from you...
"What kind of person is Mom's friend?"
Bruno Briggs didn't know the friend his mother was talking about. For a long time, his mother relieved her stress by staring blankly at the portrait.
"She's a very lovely girl. The first time I met her was when I was very young. At that time, I was just an ordinary flower shop owner. I wanted to come here to find an ice flower that would never wither..."
The voice was still so gentle and sad, but it seemed to have disappeared, leaving behind a beautiful feeling, with a faint smile. The corners of her mother's mouth did indeed turn up slightly, and her eyes also contained joy.
"Then I went to the snow mountain. To be honest, I wasn't very strong. I was very weak back then, unable to even defeat a few Hilichurls. Going to the snow mountain was a bit like courting death, but I wanted to see this place... For the legendary flower, I came here despite the possibility of death. I did all the work, but it was terrifying..."
The snow-capped mountains are terrifying places; I felt this acutely the first time I visited. The immense winds caused me to fall several times, and I almost couldn't open my eyes anymore, almost becoming a permanent fixture there. But I also saw so much…
"To be honest, I didn't know why I made that choice at the time. Maybe life was too mundane for me, and I needed a little excitement... For me, an exciting life would make me more courageous. This excitement might hurt me or cause me pain, but I still chose it. For me, that's part of the magic. Yes, that's my choice, a choice I couldn't escape no matter what."
This is the choice, the choice that one would make even at the cost of one's life: a peaceful life is far more painful than a blade.
The routine is unchanging; you get up at the same time every day and do everything at the same time. This sense of routine can be reassuring, but it's too peaceful; there's nothing there...
Everything you love blossoms before you, but... nothing has changed. In 100 years or 1 years, your love may change in some ways, but the past remains unchanged.
"Mom...you enjoy the changes that come into your peaceful life, right?"
Bruno's words hit the nail on the head. Although he liked a peaceful life, he felt suffocated by a life that never changed. He loved change, even if it was just a red rose today and a white rose tomorrow. Such changes would make him happy for a long time. Even the smallest changes would make him happy.
"I craved change, so I came here. The Ice Flower was my goal. I had many ideas at the time, a large part of which involved thinking about how to preserve the Ice Flower permanently. Later, I discovered that the Ice Flower was an excellent alchemical material. Hmm, at that time, my ideas started to grow again..."
Keep moving forward, keep searching for ways to change – that's what life is all about.
"After that, I searched and found a wonderful child, a very gentle child. That child is my friend. A princess of the snow mountains, the daughter of a snow mountain priest, she is a very beautiful child, and also a very strong child with a resilient heart..."
"So Mom's friend is a very good person, a strong yet gentle person?"
"Well... in fact, they are not strong. They are children who secretly cry because they are too tired from their classes, children who cry because they are unhappy, children who are unhappy because they have no friends, and children who suffer because they are lonely."
"Like a very ordinary person..."
"Hmm... He was a very, very ordinary child, but fate imposed a lot of unnecessary suffering on him."
A child who should have been happy, but was forced into suffering.
"An ordinary yet suffering life... I can feel my mother's pain..."