Chapter 168
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I’m Lutz. It’s spring time now, so I will be 8 years old.
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Mine and Turi were attacked by a strange man on the way home, and he just fled to Otto’s house, the husband of Corinna.
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“Otto, Lutz, what happened! Speak within the range that you can speak, considering confidentiality!”
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Husband ran up the stairs and said so. Otto sharpens her eyes and rubs her husband.
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“Benno, don’t make a loud voice. Renate wakes up”
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“Oh, bad, bad. Lutz, Otto can be neglected.
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When Turi came to pick up, on the way home, everyone met Otto who was searching for a noble family and was attacked while talking. The other party seems to have aimed at Mine, but even though I thought “Which !?”, I thought that I was an opponent who didn’t know Mine well. Mr. Damuel stopped the raider, and Mine and Uncle Gunter headed to the temple to report to the chief priest. Then explain that the Knights have already been called by Darmuel.
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“Speaking of which, Mine seemed to be calling for help.”
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When Mr. Otto whispered, everyone’s gaze concentrated on Mr. Otto. I didn’t realize that Mine was calling for help and was running after Uncle Gunter’s back.
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“I was pushing my blood pressure on the amulet that had been hung from my neck. Someone would help me if I had a bad situation.”
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“Too early! Damn!”
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What is it? Unlike me who thought, my husband was aware of it, turned around and tried to return to the store.
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“My husband, what on earth …”
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“The greatest confidentiality!”
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I don’t know who I am, but my husband runs down the stairs, spitting out curses. I didn’t know what was going on and I bite my lips. There is nothing that can be done for Mine, even though something so dangerous is happening. There are walls that I cannot overcome no matter how hard I try.
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“Here, Renate cries out in Benno’s yell. He’s a scary uncle. Yoshiyoshi”
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Corinna-sama started to move to Renate-sama’s cry, and Turi’s strong expression began to move. He talked about Kamil and asked him to bring the rattle he made with Mine, but he ran down.
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Otto-san’s bragging story of Renate begins, and Turi counters Kamil’s bragging story. To be honest, I’m tired of listening to either story.
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“Turi, now we are heading to the temple. Come.”
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Uncle Gunter, who came to meet Turi after a while, had a great burn-like wound on his left arm. Turi’s face turns pale with the reddish scar.
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“Dad, what happened to this wound !? Mine !?”
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“I’m in the temple. I’m going”
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Uncle Gunter, who always smiles against her daughter, made a low voice with no smile at all to Turi. Behind the uncle, there is a figure of Aunt Afa holding Kamil. There must have been something in Mine that the whole family was called to the temple.
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“Uncle Gunter! I …”
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“I will come to the explanation later. Please wait”
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No matter how close you are to Mine and your family, I can’t go to the temple, and I can only wait at the store.
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“… I’m at the store or my husband’s house on the second floor”
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“Is it a store or a room on the second floor?”
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銇?銇?銇?銇?Just about the anxious Turi, I don’t need to be in Corinna-sama’s house. If you’re still anxious and frustrated, it’s more reasonable to get rid of one of your jobs.
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Uncle G眉nter and Kolinna-sama went out of the room and headed to the store, uncle G眉nter turned around and scolded Otto, who was hugging Renate.
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“Otto, you must hurry back to the gate. Tell the chief that I went to the temple on command from the knight.”
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“Huh!”
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When I returned to the store, my husband and Marc were talking seriously about the printing studio. After a quick glance at it, I start calculating the balance of the Mine workshop. It’s still not fully entrusted to Gil, so a review is necessary.
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“Why should I let the guy in the workshop do it? It’s bad if you make a mistake and lose it.”
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Leon looked into me and gave up his shoulder. Leon says I’m overworking the Mine studio. From the viewpoint of Leon, who works with other workshops and shops, it seems that the Mine workshop is overkilled.
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鈥淭he launch and management of the Mine Kobo Orphanage Branch is a practice for the next time we create a new printing studio, so I can’t get rid of it.鈥?
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“Next workshop? Do you do such a job?”
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Leon was astonished as surprised. I crawl big.
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“If you don’t help the husband’s job to set up the workshop, it’s useless and you can’t take me to the rest of the city. I’m told to practice because I can get it. “
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“Hmm, practice table …”
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It was when I had almost completed my paperwork and got my husband’s approval. Suddenly, a lump of light came in through the window. It pierces through the walls and windows, and starts going around the room.
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“What, what !?”
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Over the head of my husband, Marc and I, who peeled my eyes, the lump of light turned around and turned into light powder and began to pour. The light that falls from above us avoids wonders and Leon.
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The smaller light slowly disappeared, and silence as if nothing had returned.
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“… what was it?”
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“I just avoided it, that”
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Even if I looked at the palm where light powder was on for a while, now it feels like it has melted into me, and there is no light powder left.
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Uncle G眉nter returned to the store while leaning over why Leon alone wasn’t powdered and what it was.
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“Lutz made you wait”
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Everyone has a dark expression with eyes crying and swollen. I just thought that I was picking up at the temple, but my heart moved to the fact that Mine was not there. When I hear it, I feel like I can’t go back and close my mouth when I asked “What is Mine?”
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Investigating another story, I noticed that the arm of an uncle who should have been so severely burned was restored.
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“Uncle, wound on arm …”
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“Mine’s final blessing. Healed when the light came down.”
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I saw Tuli and Aunt Efa in the uncle’s regretful voice that bites the back teeth and the word “Mine’s Last”. My body shakes with a bad feeling and my throat moves. 鈥淲hat does that mean for the end?鈥?Marc struck hands faster than I spoke.
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“Then, wasn’t the light dust just a blessing of Mine?”
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“… Did you come here too?”
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Uncle Gunter was lightly astonished. I whisper lightly and report that the powder of light has jumped in and that it has fallen on the three to avoid Leon.
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“It seems like I’m flying to someone who is important to Mine. My wounds will heal. It’s a pretty strong blessing.”
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Uncle Gunter sadly laughs. I realized the smile that I gave up. Everything was out of reach of me and it was already over.
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“… What’s wrong with Mine? Why not?”
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“Mine is gone. It has been taken by a nobleman and no longer exists”
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While Turi sheds tears, her husband squeezed her eyebrows and narrowed her eyes.
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“I want to hear Ms. Gunter, does Mine Kobo continue to live?”
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“My husband, what do you do when you’re gone?”
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“Shut up! It’s important. If you die, your shop has to buy it and keep it alive, and if it is taken into the nobility, you need to deal with it.”
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I didn’t understand my husband’s words well and I leaned my head, but Uncle Gunter seems to have understood it.
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“… Benno-san, do you know?”
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“I don’t know in detail, but Otto said he pushed his blood on the amulet. So if I wasn’t really dead, I know what would happen. I think it was taken in by Aub Ehrenfest. What is the name of the new studio manager? 鈥?/p>
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Uncle Gunter mourns her husband with scary eyes.
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“A senior aristocratic daughter Rosemine. That’s a new name. Mine died. That’s it.”
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“That’s what …”
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Uncle G眉nter strokes my head as if it were against Mine.
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“To protect our family, Mine became a senior aristocrat’s daughter. By making a prestige that was to protect the senior aristocratic daughter, we and Mine’s life were protected. Instead, we were forbidden by contract magic to interact as a family.You too are deeply involved with Mine. You should be careful not to be disposed of. “
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“Thanks for advice”
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After giving a light thanks, the husband dropped his shoulders with a sigh.
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“But I thought there was a grace period for about two years, but it was a lot steep.”
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“My husband, you’re gone!”
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I was screaming unintentionally, saying, what do you mean when you were taken up by a senior aristocrat and were unable to meet as a family?
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However, it was a cold line of sight that returned.
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“That’s Lutz. I’m not dead. I’m going to be alive as Rosemine. I think it’s so easy to change the essence of being when you become a daughter of a senior nobility. 鈥淚f you start a runaway as much as you have power, you might be afraid!鈥?
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Even though Mine still seems to run away, no one can be stopped if it runs away with the power of a senior aristocrat.
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“And if the name just changed, Rosemine continued to be a co-founder of an Italian restaurant. The Gilberta Chamber of Commerce, whose transactions with middle-class aristocrats have finally increased from lower-class nobles, suddenly became a purveyor of senior aristocrats. If you have time to hang out, you can work, whether you’re Mine or Rosemine, what do he want !? “
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Favorable book lovers who did not heal even when they became dead, but when they became a senior nobleman Rosemine, there was no way to heal them. Only one thing is desired.
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“It’s a book!”
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“That’s right. Even if the other person’s position and way of contact changes, there is only one thing we do, the business. As long as the lord’s approval has been received, the Gilberta Company will also interact with Rosemain.
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Picri and Mine’s family moved.
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“You can talk to Rosemine as a business without having to meet a senior aristocrat or speak a word. There is a document exchange. It’s easy enough to hide a letter in it. With that in mind, Lutz and Mine have already exchanged contract magic, so you can get a minimum amount of contact. 鈥?/p>
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Even if I couldn’t call my family face to face, I wouldn’t have been banned from writing letters. Masters distort their lips, saying that there is a loophole in contract magic.
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“Lutz, can you give me a letter?”
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“Let me leave it”
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I greatly sang the words of Turi. There is still something you can do for Mine. It 鈥檚 still okay, at least because I 鈥檓 not dead
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Leave the store and go home. From here on, Mine has died. As soon as I return, I have to have a funeral for Mine.
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“Lutz, Mine was killed by the aristocrats who came in. Explain to the family, so get ready soon.”
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Uncle Gunter crawls the emptiness with a deeply carved face between the eyebrows. Mine had no choice but to become a noble because of the arrival of other nobles. Given that, Uncle’s explanation is not a lie.
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“I understand”
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When I got home, I reported that my parents had a funeral for Mine, and ended the dinner as if they were stiff. The parents who finished the meal first rolled black cloth around their arms and started running away, and I asked Ralph to wrap the black cloth around my arms. This indicates that it is related to a funeral.
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“… Why Mine died? How was it lately?”
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“I heard from Uncle Gunter that I was killed by a nobleman, but I don’t know the details because I didn’t look at the scene.”
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In the same way, neighbors gathered together with black cloth wrapped around their arms. Originally, a dead body should be placed on the board so that it can be carried to the cemetery, but a mine without a dead body cannot do it.
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In front of everyone is a small wooden box, not a body. Inside, there is only one mine dress and one bag that I usually wore.
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“What does it mean if there is no body?”
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Neighbors gathered are stunned by unusual funerals. Uncle Gunter distorted her face with pain and groaned.
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“Mine … attacked by a nobleman from the rest, killed, and deprived of his body”
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“… that was a disaster”
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Nothing stolen by the nobility will not return. This neighbor knows that Uncle Gunter was annoying and loved the weak Mine. You can see how painful it is that even the dead body will not return. Since nobles were involved, nobody could ask further questions.
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“I was finally getting well …”
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While gazing at the wooden box, everyone in the neighborhood began to talk verbally when they remembered Mine’s baptismal ceremony and Kamil’s unveiling.
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It is said that the door of the dead country opens is the dawn when the God of Darkness meets the Goddess of Light. When the morning sun rises safely, you are welcomed to the land of the dead under the guidance of the couple gods. Until the deceased is safely welcomed into the land of the dead, we will spend the night talking about the memories of the deceased.
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However, there is little to say about Mine, who had little relationship with the neighborhood.
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“… Lutz, did you get along with Mine? Tell me something”
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I remember two and a half years spent with Mine. Mine who could not walk to the gate. Even if you want a book, you don’t have paper or ink, weaving grass fibers, making clay plates … I finally made paper, but I couldn’t make a book right away.
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“If you do something, Mine will fall quickly, but I was doing my best for what I wanted. At first, Mine, who was out of breath to go to the well, was in the forest. I was able to go “
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“Speaking of which, I was messing with the soil, cutting trees, doing something strange.”
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“Did you boil a tree in a pot with Lutz?”
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“… I was making paper”
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Talked about Mines in the forest one after another, as Faye, who had been to the forest together, remembered. As I was told, my family spilled words.
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鈥淭he food that Mine thinks was delicious鈥?
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“Mine helped Gunter’s gate work, learned the letters and calculations, and taught them to Lutz. I was smart.”
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“Hey, I didn’t know that”
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After the baptism ceremony, I became a merchant apprentice and Mine became a shrine maiden apprentice. The apprenticeship of the shrine maiden is bad, so don’t bother to say it. Therefore, very few people know the main after the baptismal ceremony.
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Mine made a workshop in an orphanage, made ink, and made a book. I became Johann’s patron, got metal type, and supported the research of Heidi’s color ink, trying to build a printing machine through trial and error. Mine is amazing.
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… I wanted to say that, but I couldn’t. I don’t know how far I can talk about making books.
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“Mine was a weak and slow-growing child who was worried about when he would die. Turi was either 2 or 3 years old and told him that he wouldn’t do it. But when Mine was five years old … “
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Aunt Afa screams that she was just crying and crying that she was just fine and that she could go outside. It seems that her aunt was hard as a mother because she was accused of not being able to give birth to health.
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That is probably the story of the previous Mine. My mine doesn’t cry “sly”. I was struggling to get some physical strength. I was often idle, but I put all my energy into reading books.
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“I’ve been tired all the time after I stopped crying, and this time I became angry. I’m crying out, my body is no longer good! If you dance a strange dance, you will fall down, eat this saying it is good for your body, break your stomach … “
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Aunt Afa laughs small. That’s Mine I know. Yeah, Mine 鈥檚 miracle comes to mind.
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“By the time Iwiya who suddenly crys or gets angry for reasons that I don’t understand, I was able to go to the forest with Lutz. I can’t hope to be like an ordinary child But even though I was able to go out and participate in festivals, I can’t be like this … “
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After that, Mine’s family was crying and seemingly unable to speak anything. However, the surroundings whispered that the daughter who was finally getting well was killed by a nobleman and there was no body left.
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In the light of the fire, Uncle Gunter shaved the board silently, making tears and making a tombstone for Mine.
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Rotate the night while taking a nap. By the time the second bell rang, his wife gave out bread and tea. The meat must not be consumed until the funeral is over.
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After a simple breakfast, everyone in the neighborhood carries a light board and heads to the temple. You must report that you died and get the medal necessary for burial.
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Talk to the temple gatekeeper about death and ask them to enter the prayer room. When a city man died, the gray priest usually responded, but this time the priest came out.
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鈥淚 was born in the summer of 7 years old and it 鈥檚 called Mine?鈥?
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After waiting for a while in the prayer room, the chief came back with a white and flat medal and gave it to Uncle Gunter. This is a medal that was registered by Mine when he was baptized. This is also a burial permit, and will be used in place of the gravestones for the poor who cannot afford to prepare gravestones and tombstones.
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After getting a medal at the temple, head to the cemetery outside the city. The nearby uncles only carry a wooden box on the board, so it’s light, so everyone’s feet are naturally faster. And since there are few memories about Mine, there are inevitably few words.
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bury a wooden box in the corner farthest from the entrance. It is a wooden box that is not so big, so it can be filled quickly.
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Uncle Gunter slammed the medal against the gravestone that had been shaved. Then, the medal sticks to the board and cannot be separated. Just like the surrounding graves, this board is used as a grave marker and is deeply inserted into the soil.
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The rich tombstones are engraved with various words, but the poor tombstones in this area are rarely engraved with words because few people can read them. It was only confirmed by the shape of the shaved tree and the attached medal, but the gravestone of Mine was engraved with “a beloved daughter”.
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Once the burial in the cemetery outside the city is complete, the funeral is over. If the family is dead, there will be discussions about inheritance and a statement of succession to support the future, but there is nothing about Mine who has just finished the baptismal ceremony.
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On the next day after the funeral, the surrounding people return to their original lives. I returned to normal life.
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Leave the house, run down the stairs, go through the well square, and run up the stairs again. When I hit the door with the concon, Turi saw me with a mysterious face.
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“Good morning, Lutz. What happened?”
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“What is it … Oh!”
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Mine who has become Rosemine is no longer going to the temple together. You don’t have to watch the mine walking around. There’s nothing to walk with Mine’s physical condition, to make something together, to be lonely and to cry in trouble.
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“… Mine, I really don’t”
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Even if I became Rosemine, I thought it was still there. But Rosemine, who has to live as a senior aristocratic daughter, is no longer Mine. I don’t know, it 鈥檚 not Mine that I 鈥檝e been with.
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Really understood that Mine was gone. The body trembles and tears that did not come out at the funeral are overflowing.
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Turi stroked his head slowly as if comforting Mine until I settled down.
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“Lutz can still talk to Mine at work?”
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“… I can talk, but I’m no longer mine”
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“That’s right, but Mine didn’t have to talk, so I wanted to see just the face, so I said to the end”
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Turi taught me the last exchange between Potpori and Mine. Even if I can’t claim to be my family, I want to see just how it looks. If Mine wanted to do that, he would like to talk to me about business alone.
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“Hey, Lutz. Take me to Gilberta today”
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“Turi?”
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“I want to fulfill my last promise with Mine”
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Saying that, there was a bag that Mine always used in Turi’s hand, which was once retracted into the bedroom. It has a rattle that was made with Mine for Renate and a writing board used by Mine.
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“I entered Corinna’s workshop, became a top-notch needle, and promised that I would make clothes. I would go to meet in my own way.
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In the words of Turi, I remembered many things I talked to Mine. I promised to make and sell books with Mine. I promised that I would make what Mine thought.
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“… I didn’t have to cry”
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I have to make as many books as Mine can read and spend all day.
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Wipe my tears, and when I had my baggage, I opened a heavy entrance door with Turi.
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