I woke up the next morning listening to footsteps across the bedroom. When I opened my eyes, I noticed Lisandra walking around the bedroom while looking for sothing. I got up and started looking around confused.
"Good morning, Lisandra." I said as I wiped my eyes with my arm.
"Good Morning." She just responded directly, as if she didn't feel like talking. So I didn't say anything and I left her alone, she didn't even seem to want to look in the eye.
I got up and went into the bathroom to clean my face. Since I didn't need to go to school, I was acting lazier than I normally am.
As soon as I got out of the bathroom, I felt a lot better. Lisandra also seed to have found what she was looking for, it was those needles and fabrics from yesterday, so she put them in her bag that she was going to take to school.
"Do you intend to sew during class?" I asked curiously.
"It's not that. It's Taciane's needles and thread, so I thought I'd give it back."
"I understood..."
After that, silence took over the room.
Lisandra didn't say anything else, but that silence couldn't go on for long, so I decided to say sothing.
"Listen, I'm leaving today."
"Serious?" Lisandra replied looking nonchalant.
"Yeah, our mom rushed things a little too fast, so it went a lot faster than I thought it would be."
"I understand." Lisandra still looked nonchalant about it, like she didn't care. But even as I did, I could see that her voice was a little shaky, showing that she was in the mood to cry.
What an emotional girl.
"To be honest, I didn't want to say goodbye to you," Lisandra said before I could say anything. This took by surprise.
Lisandra walked over to and looked into my eyes. After that, she smiled and said, "I didn't want to say goodbye because I knew I was going to cry, do you understand?" Tears started to appear in her eyes.
But soon she began to wipe away her tears with her own hands.
"And I didn't want to say goodbye for another reason."
"And what would be?"
"This isn't a farewell, is it? Let's just stay away from each other, let's not stay away forever. Wouldn't it be an exaggeration to treat this as a farewell?"
"…" Lisandra looked at in surprise. After that, the tears stopped coming out of her eyes, and she started laughing: "Hahaha, it's true." She looked happy now and relieved too.
"Wait, don't tell you were treating this as a farewell?"
"Well..."
"Calm down, I'll be back to see you as soon as possible," I said smiling at Lisandra.
"And I will also go to the village when the vacation starts." Saying this, Lisandra approached and hugged : "I have to go to school now, I hope you have a good trip."
I returned her hug with great affection: "Thank you. I hope you can keep studying."
"I'll do this, I'm not like you." Lisandra let go of and then grabbed her bag: "Now I have to go, tell our mom I was so happy to see her after so long... Wait, maybe she's downstairs."
"Okay, but if she's not down there, I'll tell her what a cute daughter you are."
"Urg..." Lisandra looked embarrassed and then left the bedroom.
I chose not to tell her that until yesterday I was also treating this as a farewell. But on second thought, this trip is no big deal.
It's that famous saying that a lot of people use: "You're making a big deal out of nothing"
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After about twenty minutes, I had already taken a shower and prepared to go out. I didn't take my things and went down to the main Inn hall for breakfast.
Since Lisandra left now, it's still too early and there were still so adventurers around here.
My mother was also sitting here at one of the tables. She only had a cup on the table, she wasn't eating anything. As soon as Sara saw , I asked her to bring my coffee and then sat down with my mother.
"So, did you talk to Lisandra?" I asked as I leaned my body over the table, I'm feeling tired. Since yesterday I'm feeling more tired than usual, I don't know what's going on.
"Yes, she left a short ti ago."
"I understand. What she said?"
"Hm? She just told to have a safe trip and said she was happy to see after such a long ti. On second thought, she had already told the sa thing when I arrived in the capital."
"Did she also tell you to have a safe trip? Does not make sense."
"Moron. She said she was happy to see ."
"I understood." I smiled at my mom and then straightened my posture in the chair as I waited for my coffee to arrive. After just a few minutes, Sara delivered my coffee.
A bread stuffed with at and cheese, I've never seen it here before. It also had a lot of fruit and also several types of sweets.
"Isn't there too much here?"
"Well, you're leaving, so I thought it was a special occasion."
"I'm leaving the capital... is a special occasion? Wow, you're making sad." I said in a playful tone, but Sara didn't look happy at all.
"You know exactly what I ant, now eat this and enjoy it." Saying that she turned and went towards another table to et so adventurers who were there.
"Hey, Noah." My mom started a conversation.
"What was it?" I replied while biting into the bread.
"When the festival took place a while ago, do you rember having so people talking about a blacksmith?"
I searched my mind when sothing like this had happened. And I rembered so adventurers who were talking here at the inn about it. I never heard about it again.
"I rember so adventurers talking about it, why?"
"Is nothing. It's just that normally that guy would open a tent in the middle of the festival, and there seems to be no news that he showed up this year."
"Did he show up every year?"
"Yes, last year I ca to the capital during the festival and he was here. Don't you rember that?"
"Well, you went out so many tis last year that it's hard to know when that happened." But even though she left the village, Lari watched most of the ti, so I still couldn't go out and kill monsters.
"I didn't co to the festival this year, and you know it."
"Yes."
"I was after this blacksmith because I need a new sword. When I asked so adventurers around here earlier today, they all told that blacksmith didn't show up, which is weird."
"Are you saying sothing happened to him?"
"Of course not, he maybe has given upcoming this year. But even so, it's strange that a person who shows up here every year suddenly decides not to show up."
"You're right, but why are you talking about this to ?" I wanted to know the reason behind this. Was there anything I could do?
"For no reason. Since you were here at the ti of the festival, I thought I'd confirm that he hadn't shown up. And nothing better than asking my son, right?"
"You an you don't trust other adventurers?"
"Yes."
"You're pretty straightforward... But about that, I only went out a few tis during the day at the festival, but I didn't et any famous blacksmiths."
"I understand."
"But how did you intend to order a new sword if you weren't coming to the festival this year?" I asked confused.
"I have a contact here in the capital and I asked that person to place the order for , but that sa person did not contact again. She didn't even tell the blacksmith hadn't co."
"This person just disappeared?"
"Yeah, so I figured sothing had happened."
"And why didn't you co to the capital right after this person didn't get in touch?"
"Well, I was a little busy." My mom had a smile on her face.
That was the weirdest conversation I've had in a long ti. And since my mom ca here last year, maybe she knows what happens at night during the festival? If she knows, why hasn't she told about it?
This is weird. But if she didn't tell , I think she must have a good reason.
I think not wanting her kids to know about people being cut and tortured is a good reason for a mother not to talk to her kids about it.
'But I should stop thinking about it.' I was eating a loaf of at now. Thinking about it wasn't a very pleasant thing to do.
I continued eating and my mother was watching with her chin resting on her right hand. She looked happy as she watched eat.
When I finished eating only the bread, the first thing she did was stand up as she said, "All right, the carriage is ready for us at the door of the adventurers' guild. Let's get going?"
"Sure.." It was so sudden that I could only agree.
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