Devis brought the file he had received into his room. After placing it on the table, he stepped back out of the room.
Devis walked forward along the corridor. As he passed Darren's room, he felt something inside.
There was still light in Darren's room. Devis realized that Darren was generally not up this late, and he hadn't slept even though it was so late today.
Devis gently knocked on the door.
"Darren..."
Devis called.
Darren came and opened the door.
"What is it?"
Darren asked. Devis paid attention to Darren but he looked into the room. Darren was writing something.
"What is it, Devis?"
He inquired again.
"Nothing... I was just thinking of going for a walk, so would you like to come along?"
Devis asked.
"Ha... Wait."
Darren went inside the room, picked up his sweater, and came out.
The two of them stepped out and started walking forward.
As they walked along the long road, every sight on the side gave him a new awakening.
After covering some distance, Darren sat down on a bench by the roadside. Devis also sat down with him.
Breaking the long silence, Darren started speaking.
"Devis..." he called out to Devis.
"Do you have anything you want to ask or tell me?"
Devis remained silent for a while, but then he also began to speak.
"Why did you decide to help me so quickly? A help you hadn't shown all this time."
Darren looked away without saying a word.
"You never believed what Shino said, not even once. You were pretending not to hear everything she said many times, right?"
As Devis asked one question after another, Darren remained silent.
"Darren, you are hiding something from me, I know that clearly."
As the anger and sadness of Darren not answering intensified, Devis got up to leave.
"I believe everything. Everyone," Darren replied.
"Then why did you pretend you knew nothing, Darren?"
"I don't know," Darren replied without emotion.
"What... what don't you know?"
Darren slowly got up.
"Devis... some things we just have to pretend not to see, and there are several reasons for that. How can I explain all that?"
He put his hand on Devis's shoulder and spoke.
"Then why did you come to help now? Why did you give me that file?"
Darren started to turn and walk away without saying anything.
"If you intended to stand aside, pretending you saw and heard nothing, then why did you come to help me? What is your intention, Darren? To run away, scared of everything?"
Darren, who had walked a little ahead, stopped right there.
"I helped you so that you wouldn't feel the pain of losing the people you wished to have with you," he turned back towards Devis.
"The pain of those you deeply wished to have with you until the end of life leaving you halfway through, that pain will never leave us, Devis. I don't wish to see you in that situation."
Devis looked at him, confused.
Coming back closer to him and sitting on the bench, Darren continued.
"Everyone has someone in their life they always wish to be with, and we would be ready to do anything for them. But they will leave us forever one day, and that pain will always remain with us, Devis..."
"Who?" he asked.
"Laura," Darren said slowly. As he spoke that name, Devis could see the pain of losing something in his eyes.
"Laura, she was someone I deeply wished to have in my life. Laura was a human being who understood me, the 'me', the most and was intertwined with me. I have met so many people, but I had never seen the beauty I saw in her anywhere else on this earth. Her eyes showed me a new feeling, which she called love. Her eyes, like glistening dewdrops, always soothed my mind."
Devis listened with wonder, and Darren continued.
"She came looking for me in this busy medical life of mine, with a feeling called love.
The first time I saw her, she was a patient, in the attire of a mentally ill person.
Her case offered a novelty in my career.
She was in a state where the balance of her mind was lost due to extraordinary dreams.
Initially, I didn't get a chance to talk to her. But one day, I got that chance.
What she told me then were things similar to what Shino had said. She was easily able to execute everything she spoke of."
For some reason, Darren stopped halfway.
"What happened next?" Devis asked anxiously.
"She left, just like Shino vanished. I tried hard to find her, but someone had taken her away to a distance from which she could never return.
When I first saw Shino, the face that came to my mind was Laura's.
I knew then that the problem in her was not a part of medicine. But despite that, I stood pretending I knew nothing to dissuade her from it.
In the first treatment, I saw a change in her, but later she went back to her old ways.
I realized that we wouldn't be able to bring her back as a normal human being. What is in her is not cruelty, Devis, it is a power born out of pure love.
That ability I once saw in Laura, I later saw in Shino.
I only wish that no one should lose Shino, like I lost Laura."
Darren slowly got up from there and started walking back.
"Darren," Devis called from behind and walked up to him, hugging him.
"I couldn't understand you, Darren. Sorry..."
He affectionately hugged his brother.
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Nancy was examining the wound on her leg. The injury she sustained on her leg during the attack by the murderer was not small at all.
Nancy slowly untied the cloth wrapped around the wound.
As she untied it, the cloth began to disappear a magical cloth.
After completely unwrapping it, she slowly looked at the wound on her leg.
But...
There was no wound there. Seeing that, Nancy was stunned and examined her entire leg.
There wasn't even a scar from the cut. She couldn't believe it because she had seen it firsthand and felt the pain of it.
She slowly stepped down onto the floor and took a step forward. She could walk effortlessly.
Confused, she first went and stood in front of the mirror; there was no change in her body.
After returning to the room, she took two boxes out of the cupboard.
Red boxes.
Yes... they were the same boxes someone had given Shino. Nancy had brought them from Shino's room to her house.
She began to examine everything inside the boxes the pictures Shino had drawn of the things she saw in her dreams, the organs removed from the dead girls, and everything else.
Nancy found something else in that box, which she put in her cupboard.
Nancy came outside the house again. Outside, it was raining incessantly, accompanied by thunder and blinding lightning in the persistent darkness.
Nancy slowly stood there, watching the rain.
"You see many things that no one else sees, and hear many things that no one else hears. I know you saw everything that happened under the cover of darkness."
"Unable to reveal anything, you finish it by crying and frightening," Nancy said, touching a raindrop.
Suddenly, a loud thunderclaps shattered the silence...