"Dalina, let me tell you the truth. When I left the army and returned to my hometown, I actually thought of committing suicide..."

“I can’t fall asleep every night.”

"Even if you fall asleep, you will always dream of the faces of the common people who died at my hands..."

"I can't stand such a life, and the idea of ​​suicide has emerged in my mind many times..."

Although Lina's words were said in a joking tone, Darlena, who was beside her, couldn't laugh at all...

Darlena knew how heavy the fact that was said was under the appearance of Lena's joke.

And Lina's narrative continues.

"I hesitated for a long time between committing suicide and continuing to grit my teeth and living..."

"Until... one day when I was going to the city to do business, I met a mother and daughter on the street."

"That was for the poor mother and daughter, with unclothed clothes and pale face and thin skin. She begged along the street."

"Looking at this poor mother and daughter, I had an impulse at that time--I want to help them."

"I want to help them as much as I can."

"So, I bought some bread and gave it to them."

"I'm until now... no, I may never forget the expression they had when they received the bread I gave."

"I will never forget their expressions at that time..."

"When I saw the excitement and excited expressions on their faces, my thoughts of committing suicide were reduced a lot..."

"I say that, Darlena, you might find it exaggerated."

"But when I received the gratitude from the mother and daughter, I really felt like I had gained 'redemption'..."

"I want to be saved like this..."

"So at that moment, I had the idea of ​​building an orphanage that specializes in adopting orphans..."

Lina chuckled a few times as if she had thought of something interesting, and said:

"In the years before me, the work I did was to kill people."

"And the years I have done, the work I have done is to raise others."

"I feel very happy that a butcher like me can end up like this."

Speaking of this, Lina paused again.

After this pause, the smile on Lina's face dissipated.

As the smile dissipated, a few melancholy expressions replaced the smile where it was.

"Although... I know myself that I'm just deceiving myself..."

"I just want to help others and raise their sense of accomplishment to relieve the guilt in my heart..."

"I... killed so many innocent civilians..."

"How can this kind of sin be compensated by raising a few children..."

"Besides... repaying sin is ridiculous in itself..."

"Sin is sin, not debts and repays money. How can there be a reason to repay..."

Lina's tone was strange.

It seemed like asking Darlena, or asking herself.

Listening to Lina's words, Darlena's face changed.

She clearly felt that after Lina said this, her emotions began to become weird.

Darlena scoured her stomach and tried hard to think about what to say, so that Lena could cheer up again.

Just then—a very noisy footsteps suddenly sounded outside the kitchen.

Darlena and Lina are extremely familiar with the footsteps.

After all, they have been listening to the footsteps for a while.

So they could hear it all at once - it was the three little guys they adopted, Marien, whom they came.

The two turned around and looked at the kitchen door in the sound.

Sure enough, Marien and the other three guys were running towards the kitchen excitedly.

Darlena noticed-Marion was holding a red flower in her hand.

Sarah was holding a yellow flower in her hand.

Before Darlena and Lena could ask what they were doing in the kitchen, Marion, who was rushing to the front, excitedly handed a red flower in her hand to Lena.

"Miss Lina! Miss Dallena! These are the three of us picked out just now! We think these 2 flowers are very suitable for you! So give them to you!"

As soon as Marien finished speaking, Sarah, who was introverted, walked slowly towards Darlena and handed a yellow flower in her palm to Darlena.

Looking at the yellow flower in Sara's palm and the red flower in Marien's hand, Darlena felt a sense of laughter and crying.

He said in his heart: It's indeed a child...

I excitedly gave the picked flowers to others - this should be something that only children can do.

But - Darlena was still very happy.

Although what they gave was just wild flowers picked from the wild.

But Darlena had already felt the feelings of Marien and the others through this wild flower.

"Thank you..." Darlena's face was filled with a gentle smile, "Thank you... I'm so happy to receive such beautiful flowers."

As Darlena said, she solemnly took the yellow flower she handed over from Sarah's palm.

As soon as he took the yellow flower, Darlena suddenly noticed from the corner of her eyes that something strange seemed to be happening to Lina beside her.

Lina... is crying.

After Marien handed the red flower in her palm to Lina, Lina was stunned.

After looking at the red flower in front of her in a daze for a while, two lines of clear tears suddenly rolled out from her pupils.

Lina, who suddenly shed tears, not only scared Marien and the other three, but also scared Darlena.

Before Darlena could speak out and ask Lina what was wrong, Lina suddenly squatted down and hugged Marien in front of her.

"Thank you...thank you..."

While hugging Marien in front of him, Lina thanked Marien and the others over and over again while crying.

Although she was crying, there was no trace of sadness on Lina's face.

Some have only the most intense and joyful colors.

And - the big stone in my heart seemed to have fallen into the ground...

"Miss Lina, what's wrong with you?"

"Miss Lina, are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Let's help you to the room."

...

I can't figure out why Lina suddenly felt like this. Marien and the other three surrounded Lina, constantly saying their concerns.

Only Darlena on the side - after a few glances at Lina who was crying, a smile of relief appeared on her face.

Unlike Marien and the three - Darlena knows why Lina suddenly did this.

This little red flower may be just an ordinary flower and an ordinary gift for Darlene, to Marien and others.

But for Lena, it was redemption.

Although this idea is strange.
Chapter completed!