CaptainUdon00

Love exist in many form almost in all relationship. 
There are love as sweet as honey, as bitter as kale, as sour as pickled lemon, as salty as salt.
There are love as deadly as a black hole, with no future. 
There are love as passionate as fire unable to be extinguish.

People always have different meaning and understanding of love.
Some people say, “love is when you build up each other.”
Some people say, “love is when I press myself into your back at night and feel our future.”
Some people say, “love is comfort in uncomfortable places.”
Some people say, “love feels like coming home.”
Some people say, “love is when someone starts to take up space in your mind.”
Yet, none of them could really describe what love is. 

Love exist and yet it meaning remain unsolved.
While it is simple in word, however it is complex in action.
Love make a person happy, sad, and mad at the same time.
The obsession, the burning and mixed emotion that one felt when they are in love will always remain a mystery. 

How do you fall in love?
How do you fall out of love?

Aretha, the fruit of love between her mother and her father, blessed by the Angel of Death, grew up among the dark reality of the world. The love she has to go through filled with thorn, walking the long path away from happiness. Yet she earn for a love as warm as sun. The same love she used to feel with the family she love. 

“Ella, I know how badly I had hurt you, but I love you so much to let you go. I rather die than to be apart from you.”

“Then you should just die.”

“Aretha, anything you want, I will give it to you. I shall grant your wish however you pleased. If it the world that you want, I will bring the world to your feet.”

“I don’t need it.”

“Aretha, do you really have to leave? Can’t you stay, here, with me?”

“There are people I need to protect.”
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The Nameless Puppeteer

Three days vacation ended in a blink of an eyes. After they went back to the castle, Aretha went to Marquis Adad's mansion to visit Minerva and to bring the children back. She was greeted by Minerva's maid, Audrey at the main entrance and was brought to Minerva's room.

"Lady Minerva, it was great to see you after quite a while." Aretha sat on the sofa opposite from Minerva.

"It was a delight to meet you too. I was worried when I heard you fell sick right after the banquet and was even more surprised when I heard you were going through manifestation period the next day. I could not visit you at all fearing that I might disturb you. Right when you had woken up and regain your strength, that man just had to bring you out for vacation. Finally, today I could see you."

"Oh~ Lady Minerva, truly, I do not know what goodness I had done to be blessed with a good friend like you."

Minerva cheeks flushed red. "You do not have to flatter me that much."

Chapter 31