Can I See You Again
My brother's killer, the Crown Prince?
Seeing the crowd at the tavern where Youra worked, Jun immediately ran over fearing something bad might happen to Youra.
“Excuse me, excuse me,” Jun broke through the crowd.
Jun becomes relieved when he sees the lover turned out to be working and looks fine. He turned his body towards the gathered people.
“Sorry, what was it?” june asked those people.
“Tadi, there was a young man with a covered face who almost hit someone here. Thankfully, the girl helped him,” the person said as he pointed at Youra.
Jun smiled at it. He approached the lover.
“I order the stew noodles, Buk,” Jun said to busy Youra.
Youra stopped her work and immediately turned her head.
“Kak Jun?” youa asked surprised.
**
Jun and Youra were sitting not far from the tavern enjoying the mountain view.
“Kakak not working today?” ask Youra.
Jun nodded slowly.
“I came here because I heard there was a great girl who became a hero to the weak people,” Jun replied smilingly.
Youra pinched Jun's waist because she knew she was being mocked.
“Aduh,” says Jun surprised.
“I didn't expect, you really look like your brother. Truly a hero,” Jun said.
Instantly, Youra's once happy face turned sad. Jun who was aware of what he had just said tried to divert the conversation.
“Hey, earlier when I was teaching, there was a little boy who looked a lot like you,” Jun said trying to switch the atmosphere.
Youra bowed lethargic as if unconcerned. At that moment, the atmosphere became very quiet, until Youa finally pulled something out of her shirt bag.
The thing that hurt me, though,
Youra took out something wrapped in a handkerchief. He opened the handkerchief, took out a stone and looked at it.
.. It's not just the fact that my father and mother's killers are in the palace.
Jun who saw it was shocked.
But, uh,
“Youra, where did you get this?”.
With his serious face, Jun pulled the stone from Youra's hand. Seeing Jun's response, Youra's heart was beating unruffled, as it was the first time Jun seemed to be in such a panic.
Jun's worry was drawn from his extremely shocked face. Youra tried to prepare herself, against the fact she was about to hear.
“Why?” youa asked seriously looking at Jun who was very surprised.
Jun turned to all sides where they met, making sure no one saw them. Jun swiftly put the stone back into Youra's handkerchief.
“It's a precious stone, not a haphazard stone. It's a badge,” Jun said with his nervous face.
“This rock, courtesy of Crown Prince”.
Jun's words that slapped my entire heart, shattered all the rubble left over regarding the hope for revenge.
Youra was shocked with teary eyes. He could not believe what he had just heard.
The murder that happened to my brother,
“Youra? Where'd you get it?” ask Jun once more.
Youra could not answer. His mouth seemed to be locked by the bitterness of the suffering that was slashing his heart.
“What does it mean?” youa said slowly.
The murder of my brother,
“That rock, usually given a palace official to someone, as permission to run an order,” Jun explained once again.
… is the Crown Prince's order?
“Cannot”.
There were no words left from his lips other than disbelief. His heart was pounding so fast that his breathing was being decapitated.
Clear water flows by itself from both of Youra's eyes. Jun who was being shocked grew even more surprised to see Youra's response to what she just said.
“Youra, what happened?” ask Jun.
Youra turned to her, with a look of surprise, her tears just kept flowing.
“Leave me alone,” replied Youra.
Jun who did not understand anything, tried to understand the situation. With all the question marks in his head, Jun finally let Youra calm down.
From that moment on I came to believe that not only did I deserve to be hated, that Crown Prince, more deserving of torment, only to die.
**
Crown Prince…
**
Afternoon greeted Youra and Nana who were finished working. At that time, the birds returned home to say goodbye to the sun. Youra looked at the twilight sky with teary eyes.
“About what my brother is doing there?” youra said as she looked at the darkening sky.
Nana, who hurt her heart, tried to look fine. At least in front of Youra.
“He was always mad at me this naughty one,” continued Youra whose eyes kept staring at the sky.
Nana looked up at the sky with Youra.
”Young Master...,” muttered Nana in her daydream.
There was a stream of water flowing from the corner of Youra's sparkling eyes.
“Teach me how to stay strong,” asked Youra in her pitiful soft voice.
Nana disperse her own daydream turned to Youra.
“Nona...,” call Nana soft.
“He hid something very important from me,” Youra added.
Youra crouched down and closed her eyes with both knees.
“What has he been hiding from me? Why did he tell me to hide all this time?” her tears broke at that moment.
Nana crouched down with Youra.
“Nona?” call Nana back.
“Nana, I want to go to my former residence”.
Youra held Nana's hand with both her hands.
“Please,” Youra's face looks full of tears.
Nana who was very worried, could not bear to see that pitiful-looking Youra.
“Alright, but we're only for a moment. It would be very dangerous if anyone saw us,” pinta Nana.
Finally, they walked together towards Youra's old residence. Youra and Nana walked over covering their heads and faces with a thick cloth.
Arriving at Youra's old residence, they paused for a moment in the courtyard of the house, making sure no one was there. The location where Youra lived, was really very quiet and empty. No one else dared to go back there, given the terrible events of a few years ago.
Youra moved her extremely weak legs slowly. He felt the wall he was standing on as he watched his father and mother die. He walked slowly down the courtyard of his house, where he always waited for his father to come home.
A chair in the courtyard of the house, where he used to sit waiting for his father and brother to come home was weathered and destroyed. Her tears that kept flowing accompanied her busy eyes explored the entire courtyard. He looked at the wall next to his house, where his brother always jumped in.
He crouched down to feel the shattered wooden chair, and finally burst into tears.
Nana couldn't stand to see him anymore. He kept his mouth shut so that Youra could not hear his sobs.
Slowly, Youra stepped into her house. On the porch of his house, the mother's blood that was dragged was still there. Youra sat down to feel the floor of the porch of her house.
“The devil of the palace, dragging my poor mother's body here,” said Youra sobbed.
Youra got up and rushed into his house.
“Here, where we were kidding each other back then, do you remember?” youra asked Nana looking very depressed.
Nana approached him sobbing helplessly.
“Nona, please, stop all this,” said Nana crying pity.
“In this place, we usually eat together,” continued Youra who did not care.
Youra stood down the room of the elder sister. He rushed into his sister's room.
“This is a liar” room.
While standing in the room of the elder sister, Youra sobbed sobbing hitting her chest many times.
“He always lied to me,” Youra said once again, falling weakly down on the floor.
Nana cried after Youra and helped her stand up.
“Nona, see me”.
Nana shook Youra's body by holding both her shoulders.
“Remember, you currently have Teacher Jun. Young Master Young does not want you to continue to grieve like this,” persuaded Nana while crying.
Youra continued to cry, as hard as possible bowing withered on the floor of the brother's room. He would occasionally hit the floor and scream. However, not long after, Youra fell silent. He got up from his place and approached Nana.
“How? How can you keep pretending?”.
Youra looked at Nana's face solemnly.
“How can you pretend not to get hurt, see the person you love, get killed before you?”.
Nana is surprised to be in disbelief, as it turns out that Youra knows her feelings.
Brother, don't you pity?
“Nona, i...,” Nana's words were interrupted when Youra directly hugged her. Finally Nana cried in the arms of Youra sobbed.
… Currently, there are two girls crying out for you. Can't brother hear it?
