Chapter 128 – Darkness (3)

One.

Maya was an unusually grown-up child even to me, who was evaluated as an old child.
Mayna didn’t get lost on her way once and she went to Bright Orphanage, which was deep in the hillside village. I’m sorry that this orphanage is not actually running. Accomplished the feat of
A six-year-old kid who had lost everyone he had a relationship with except me in a big explosion just a week ago.
Of course, I also had amnesia, so I didn’t feel as sad as Mayna at the loss of a relationship before I lost my memory.
But it was only because I had amnesia, and if I had remembered my family, there was no doubt that I would have been sad and unable to do anything as a young me at the time.
But even though Mayna had clear memories of her before that time, she didn’t seem to mind, and she acted like nothing.

As if losing a relationship was nothing.

Thinking back at this point, it’s very creepy, but at that time I was Jammin following Mayna around like a baby bird, so I didn’t feel particularly strange in her appearance.
It’s just like, ‘Wow, Mayna is really, really, really smart. She just gave a little admiration, saying, “What is dependability?”

As the first and second orphans of Bright Orphanage, we continued our life in the orphanage, following the director who was somehow clumsy in everything even though he was running the orphanage.

And two years later, Bright Orphanage has become a decent orphanage with 15 inmates.
Mayna didn’t like the increase in her alumni, but ‘because we can’t survive without support. I can’t help it.’ I persuaded the director for a very grown-up reason, and in the end, Bright Orphanage filled the minimum requirement of 15 orphanages and was listed on the list of orphanages that can be sponsored by famous families.
However, even after doing so, the support did not come in, and the number of aboriginal students suddenly increased, and the food that was not much left quickly ran out.
At that desperate moment, Meina let out a sigh as if she couldn’t help it, took her director’s cell phone, which had become her crying face, and started filming her video.

“Brother, look here and make a pitiful face. Hurry!”

Yes. May I decided to sell myself for her survival.

“A pitiful look? Like this?”

Choo Woo-wook.

Of course, at that time, ‘Mayna is God’, ‘Mayna, is she a god?’, ‘Mayna Punch! Mayna Punch!’ I believed in Mayna so strongly that I always kept thinking about it, so I followed what Maya told me to do without even knowing that my face was being sold.

After the shooting with so many requests was over, the video edited by myself on the computer in the director’s office was uploaded to Youtube…

No, now that I think about it, what is Meina really like? Are you eight years old?

Even though Mayna was precocious, she was too precocious.
Anyway, Mayna uploaded a video on Youtube that clearly captured the cute but pitiful concept, which was a trend at the time, and inserted the Bright Orphanage sponsorship account at the end of the video and in the description.
And within a day, sponsorship inquiries came in from numerous families, large and small, and the director actively accepted the opinion of 8-year-old Mayna.
At the end of the meeting, the two held hands with the Leight family, the largest of the families that sent sponsorship inquiries, excluding most of the families who said, “I want to adopt Pastor, the main character of the video, instead of sponsoring me!”

“Not a single word was said about my brother, and the Rait family recently created a welfare foundation… Of course, it was created to use for money laundering, but at least as a way to show off, we sponsored our most famous orphanage these days. It’s not unusual to do So when I received the sponsorship, I accepted it because I thought it would be the most harmless.”

It was the answer to my question why the support of the Leight family was okay. These were the words of an eight-year-old.
But at that time, she was thinking, ‘Only Mei.’
And the next day, a red-haired girl my age got out of the car with enough money to sit on the floor after the director saw it.

“Wow, people live in places like this.”

That was my first meeting with Scar.

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“I shouldn’t have been sponsored by the Leight family at that time. It was the biggest mistake of my life…!”

About six years after I met Scar, in the middle of winter in the year I turned 16, Mayna gnashed her teeth and trembled.
Since the day I met Scar, the anger that kept coming out several times every day, I sighed in full boredom with her and tapped her on the head with the blade of my hand.

“Ha. It’s time to stop that too, isn’t it, Mayna. Six years, six years, how long is the aftermath?”

Mayna didn’t get along very well with Scar.
Whenever she meets Scar, she fights with Ki, but sometimes when her emotions are excessive, she strikes and fights. Surprisingly, she shows a high level of fighting power comparable to Scar, who is said to be the hope of the Leight family.
She hates Scar to the extent that she stabs Scar without hesitation.

“And after six years, why don’t you get along with Scar? Every time you stop fighting, it feels like you’re going to die.”

So it was only natural that Mayna would get angry when I said this.

“You know nothing! If my brother knew what kind of eyes that motherfucker is looking at my brother these days…!”
“Hey, watch your mouth.”
“Ugh… Sorry.”

Quickly apologizing, May I buried her face in my arms.
I patted her on the back as I gently ran my hand through Mayna’s long, shiny black hair.
Mei, when her emotions were fluctuating, quickly calmed down when I patted her on the back with her face buried in my chest.
Then, when I took her face off, even her ears turned perfectly red, and it was a strange part if it was really strange that her face was perfectly hot even without much heat in her body.

Mei, I’m always grown-up at other times, but she gets very emotional when it comes to me. Is this just puberty?

As I looked down at Mei, who was breathing heavily with her face buried in my chest, she suddenly remembered a story she had to tell her.
Now, only the director knows about my career path.
Even though I buried her face in her chest, her ears weren’t blocked, so I opened her mouth as I continued to pat her on the back, leaving her Mayna as it was.

“Mayna, next year I will go out to society. Sooner or later, I will have to help the orphanage…”
“Eh?! No! You can ask Scar Rait for money! I don’t like borrowing a hand from her, but if it was my brother, I’d give away hundreds of millions!”

As soon as I said I was leaving, Mayna cut me off and screamed like a child, all without her usual adulthood.
It was a reaction like Maya, who became a child of her age when it came to things related to me.
I raised her head and stroked her hair as she looked up at me with her anxious eyes.

“Mayna, as you said, asking Scar for help will make things easier, but it will end there. To Scar… No, I don’t want to live a life of only receiving help from others.”
“Brother, I don’t mean to live like that for the rest of your life. I am asking you to wait until I am 17, the age at which I can engage in economic activities unhindered. Just three years, no. Next year isn’t far off, so if you wait for two years, I’ll feed you. Until then, as long as you stick to Scar Rate…”

She looked up at me with trembling eyes as if she was bewildered, and Meina, who held onto the end of her T-shirt, even looked somewhat desperate.
However, the future plans that came out of Maya’s mouth were far from the life I was aiming for, so I gently removed her hand from my T-shirt.

“Mayna, I don’t like the life of receiving help from others. And you are included in that others…”
“Brother.”

I was speechless again.
I had to say something strongly as an older brother at the repeated rude behavior, but for some reason, our lips didn’t come apart as if they were glued to each other.
The black eyes of Mayna looking at me were cold and sunken, and those eyes were the same as the eyes I saw when I was caught by Mayna while playing house with Scar as a child.
She was young at the time, so she didn’t know what those eyes meant, but now that she’s sixteen, she seems to know.

Fuck this.

And Mayna’s words further strengthened my intuition that I had been fucked.

“Are we strangers?”

It was a question with a fixed answer.
And if I didn’t spit out the answer correctly, my life was no different from not existing.
Of course, Mayna wouldn’t do anything to me, but I felt keenly that she would get into real trouble if she got angry, so I couldn’t help but tremble and give her the answer she wanted.

“Oh, no. Go, we are family.”

Then Mayna opens her eyes kindly as usual, heh. She smiled incredulously and stabbed my chest with her thin index finger.

“Wrong. We are not family They are close brothers and sisters.”

What are you saying

Still, I was glad that the anger seemed to have subsided.
After all, it was reminded in my heart that it is better to suppress all problems at an early stage.

“Well, since there’s not much left to be a real family, maybe it wouldn’t be bad to just call it a family? Hee hee hee.”
“…”

Meina, who fell into her own world while picking up her index finger stabbed in my chest, was so cute.
That’s why I had to be more financially independent.
Ever since I lost my memory, I have always been helped by Mayna. To a child two years younger than me.
I didn’t want to live like that anymore.
As an older brother, she shouldn’t have lived a life only receiving help from her younger sister, Mayna.
That’s why I had to slightly push away Mayna, look into her eyes and say this.

“Mayna, the reason I want to be independent is also for you. I’ve only received help from you so far, so now I want to be in a position to help you. As you said, I am the closest person to you and a close brother. So…Would you like to support my independence?”

Holding her by the shoulder, meeting her beautiful eyes like obsidian, he spoke sincerely.
Then Mayna blushed at her, averted her gaze and said, ‘Proposal what? It’s still early. We’re still underage,’ she murmured.
And then, as if she had made up her mind about something, she met me straight in the eyes and replied,

“Ugh! Instead! Have to come back every holiday! No, no. Is it okay if we live together in the room your brother will save? Yes, that will work I would love that! Right brother?”

At that, I replied with a smile, do whatever you want, and Meina smiled like the happiest person in the world, looking forward to life outside her orphanage for her age.

“Yes, lovers said that they try to live together before marriage. We can assume that we feel that way too, don’t we?”
“I have no idea what it is.”
“What is that! If you’ve been around for eight years, it’s about time you noticed, you idiot!”
“This is a fool to see my brother. Do you want to go back?”
“If I fight, I win! Will your brother die?”
“No!”

That night, as always, after a wild day with Maya, I informed Scar of the independence and the next day I was forcibly admitted to the academy.

And I haven’t met Mayna since.