[Hunter] Flowers and Hymns

Veronica had a dream.

In the dream, she was only 12 years old, walking alone in the long corridor, and countless portraits on the wall on one side of the corridor silently looked down at her.The half-dark shadows flowed quietly over her body, and Veronica finally found the room. She reached out and pushed open the carved wooden door.

Then she saw Cosette.

"Veronica!"

Little Cosette sat on the ground, showed her an innocent smile, and opened her hands in a gesture of hugging.The sticky blood on both hands slid down the arms because of this movement, and dripped on the white nightdress.Cosette's snow-white calf and skirt had already splashed a lot of blood.

Cosette was surrounded by a lot of toys that had been cut to pieces. These fragments were soaked in blood, and the cotton and feathers scattered from the dolls were saturated with blood, showing a soft pink color.In the center of the remains of the doll, a cat was nailed to its limbs by four nails, and it was cut into pieces and scattered on the ground. A knife was stuck crookedly in the cat's head.

Veronica walked over, took out an embroidered handkerchief from her skirt pocket, and gently wiped her face.

"How did you get it all over your face?"

Cosette stuck out her tongue a little, reached out and grabbed Veronica's skirt, hugged her waist and rubbed and rubbed, coquettishly.Veronica just smiled, not angry when she saw blood all over her skirt.

"I'm sorry, Veronica~" Cosette pouted slightly, with a bit of naive coquettishness, "I didn't notice it because I was having so much fun, please forgive me?"

"I'm not angry with you." Veronica sighed softly, she already looked like a big child at the age of 12, "Blood is easy to breed bacteria, you are not in good health, I am just afraid that you will get sick. Cosette doesn't like needles either, right? Next time, don't get it all over the place, okay?"

"Yeah, I will." Cosette leaned over and kissed Veronica on the cheek, "Veronica is the best!"

"I really love to be coquettish."

Veronica smiled and pinched the tip of Cosette's nose, then took her hand. After the blood dried up, it felt like glue, sticking to her palm.Veronica led Cosette to the sink, turned on the faucet and tested the temperature of the water before helping Cosette wash her hands.Apply a thick layer of soap, wash carefully, even the nails are washed clean, and gently wipe Cosette's cheeks and calves with a warm towel.After doing all this, Veronica kissed Cosette on the cheek and smiled.

"Go to Cherry and ask her to change into a clean set of clothes for you, huh?"

"Good~"

Cosette nodded obediently, and ran to look for the maid, Cherie.Veronica came out and squatted down in front of the pieced carcass of the cat that had been pinned to the ground, her amber eyes staring into the bloodshot eyeballs of the cat.For some reason, she suddenly reached out and touched the blood-smeared fur.

sticky.cold.Dirty.

Veronica let out a long sigh.

"It's Aunt Catherine's favorite cat... It's a little bit difficult."

She rested her cheek in her other hand and mused.

"How to deal with the aftermath..."

There was the sound of stomping footsteps behind her, and Cosette ran back and hugged Veronica from behind.Rubbing hard on her back.

"What is the matter, Cosette?"

Veronica touched her sister's head with her backhand, but was hugged even tighter by her sister.Cosette's weak voice came from behind her, looking a little aggrieved.

"I met my mother..."

With just this sentence, Veronica knew what happened.She turned around and gently hugged Cosette on her lap, shaking it slightly like coaxing a child.Seeing that Cosette was still unhappy, Veronica smiled and kissed her forehead lightly.

"Did she throw something at you again?"

"Mom called me a bad thing, a born bad seed... Hey, Veronica, is Cosette a bad boy?"

"how could be?"

Veronica smiled slightly, took Cosette's hand, and kissed gently on the bloody fingertips, and looked at Cosette tenderly with amber eyes.

"Cosette is the loveliest child. No matter what Cosette does, she is the loveliest child. I like Cosette the most."

Cosette finally laughed. She put her arms around Veronica's neck and rubbed against her sister's cheek.

"Veronica is the best person in the world, and I like Veronica the most."

Veronica smiled and hugged her sister tightly, stroked her long flaxen hair, and patted her on the back.

Yes, Cosette was the sweetest child.Even if she stepped on the dead body and hugged her waist, she was still the cutest child.

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"Hey, wake up, Veronica—wake up!"

When Qi Ya shook Veronica awake, she stared blankly at him for a while, the look in her eyes made Qi Ya feel a little hairy behind her back, and then her eyes finally got focus, as if she had finally come to her senses, She yawned a little and rubbed her eyes sleepily.

"...It's Qi Ya."

"What do you mean it's me?" Qi Ya turned his head away, "Did you just cry in your dream, did you have a nightmare?"

Veronica touched her face in surprise, and felt a wet hand. She subconsciously touched her face, her voice was a little trance.

"Am... did I cry? Strange... It was obviously a very good dream..."

"What did you dream about?"

"I dreamed about...a long time ago."

Veronica's gaze was a little erratic.She slowly lowered her hand and grasped the cross on her chest.Seeing her move, Qi Ya sneered slightly.

"Did you dream about your sister again?" He put his hands behind his head, "I've wanted to say it for a long time, your feelings for your sister are really weird. Even if sisters have a good relationship, it's as good as yours. So rare."

"Cosette is not just a sister." Veronica smiled slowly, "I took care of her alone, so it's okay to say she looks like my daughter? For me, she can Cosette is the only family member. From childhood, only Cosette belongs to me. Cosette is all my value. In that family, she is only me. So I must take care of her. Only she can."

Qi Ya choked, showing a toothache expression for some reason.

"Even if you say that, in this world, wouldn't she live well without you?"

"Yes." Veronica unconsciously touched the suitcase beside her, "...she is the cutest child in the world, who would be willing to treat her badly."

Qiya reflexively remembered the information about the nightmare puppeteer he had read, and then substituted the person in that information into Veronica's phrase "the cutest child in the world"...

He felt that he was all bad.

"You're just like a doting mother."

"Is this doting?" Veronica tilted her head in confusion, "To be honest... I don't really know where the boundaries of love are. Is this... doting?"

Because no one loved Veronica except Cosette.

So Veronica doesn't know where the boundaries of love are.

She can only blindly put all her love on Cosette's side and try her best to make her happy.

"Ah, just listening to it makes me feel like I'm going to drown." Qi Ya complained in a low voice, "Speaking of which, why hasn't Xiaojie come back yet?"

Veronica smiled with difficulty, and stretched out her hand to press her forehead.A little bit of sweat oozes from her temples, she shook her head, trying to stay awake, and said hello to Qi Ya.

"I'm going to ask for a glass of water."

Walking to the bar of this small restaurant and sitting down, Veronica took out two bottles of medicine from the cloak, carefully counted out the quantitative pills, hesitated before putting the medicine bottles back, and added three pills each medicine.I asked the boss for a glass of water, and she sat there and broke the pills one by one. I don't know if it was because of lack of strength or for some reason, she stopped several times in the middle, and it took a while to finish breaking.After swallowing the broken pills, she supported her forehead with her hand, and after a while, she slowly walked back to the original position. When she was about to reach the place, she stumbled for some reason and jumped forward.

Qi Ya held her up.

"Tsk."

Pushing her to sit in his seat, Qi Ya turned his head impatiently.

"Taking so many sedatives at one time will cause drug poisoning."

Veronica's slack pupils flickered a few times before she understood Qi Ya's meaning with difficulty.She touched her face and laughed in a trance, and slowly lay down on the table.

"...What, you can even see this. I even tore off the label of the medicine bottle."

"I can see it from your reaction." Qi Ya looked out the window with his chin in one hand, "Slack pupils, uncoordinated limbs, unresponsiveness, and tremors in the eyeballs... are all typical after-effects of this drug. Reaction. I don’t really want to ask you why you took that kind of medicine. After all, you have a damned physique, and I still feel strange if you don’t have a mental illness. But you must follow the doctor’s advice when you take medicine? If you add medicine like this indiscriminately, you will die of drug poisoning .”

Veronica laughed very lightly, stretched out her hand in a daze, and poked Qi Ya lightly on the face.

"Qi Ya is such a good boy."

"Hey—" Qi Ya blushed and avoided, "Don't touch my face!"

"...I'll sleep for a while." Veronica lay on the table and smiled at Qi Ya with difficulty, "When Xiaojie comes back, remember to wake me up."

"Understood." Qi Ya turned his head, "Go to bed with you."

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Veronica had another dream.

In the dream, she was buried under the cold graveyard.The sound of the wind blowing through the fir forest, rustling, rustling.

Cosette hugged her tombstone and spoke to her in a low voice.

"Veronica, I hate them, I hate them all."

"They took you from me, they made me lose you forever."

"But this matter is not worth mentioning to them at all. It's only been half a month, and they will forget about you."

Cosette's tears fell in front of her grave, and every drop of tears corroded the soul of the deceased like sulfuric acid. The severe pain made her want to scream, but the dead could no longer convey anything.

She could only listen quietly in the dark.

"My pain means little to them. So will your death."

"So I want to make them suffer too, and I want to make them lose the most important things, only in this way will they suffer as much as I do."

"My sun has sunk, it will never rise again, you are dead, why do they still laugh? Why do they still smile like that in front of me?"

The dead screamed silently under the tomb. She knew what her sister wanted to do and what she would do. It was a thorny road, and once she stepped on it, there was no chance of turning back.But she was already dead, and the rotten finger bones couldn't dig out the tight coffin, and she couldn't even move/body.

Cosette laughed while weeping.It was a laugh that almost burned the soul of the dead with brimstone and fire.

"I'll kill them, Veronica."

"No one can continue to laugh after taking you away."

"nobody."

The dead let out a desperate howl, but only she could hear it.

—The bitterest tears flow from the grave for the things unspoken and deeds undone.

"Good night, Veronica."

said Cosette at last.

The author has something to say: BGM: Epcia- "WhiteWaters", white water

The translation of the lyrics is as follows:

(Tony Kakko)

Isee as silhouette, liquid that moves

I see a silhouette that moves like a wave

Skinlikeapearlinthesea

The skin is like the pearl of the deep sea

I cannot resist this, her voice in the wind

I can't resist her voice in the wind

Butisitmyeyesarereceived?

But if I'm blinded

Isity you Isee?

Is that me seeing you?

(Simone Simons)

Liedowninmyarms

lie on my arm

Trust what you see

believe what you see

Smooth your brow, you will be with me

relax you will be with me

To find your relief

Let's find your salvation together

(Tony Kakko)

Gazing at white caps, coming so close

Staring at the white waves, getting closer to me

Everything's suddenly clear

suddenly everything became clear

Numb with teaching, and still I am waiting

Numb and distressed, I'm still waiting

Thewaterispullingmenear

water brings us closer

Would you welcome me?

will you welcome me

(Simone Simons)

Liedowninmyarms

lie on my arm

trynottobreath

try not to exhale

Quiet love, you are now with me

Quiet love, you are with me now

You need no words to speak

In silence

(Tony Kakko)

Formymistakes,Iamtoblame

I'm to blame for my mistakes

Never believed that it was all meant to fall

Never believe it means all is lost

I'd give my life, to have you've heard once again

I would give my life just to be near you again

Take me away, would you forgive me?

Will you forgive me if you take me away?

☆、September 2003, 9, Golicin