The Power Enthusiast

MINERVO 108: Involved Debt

"There's something on your nose, Rara."

Lizzie instantly removed the small dirt stuck to Rara's nose, then looked at the boy's eyes with a bright smile.

"What's in my nose, Lizzie!?" Rara became restless, worried that there was something terrible in her nose.

Because lately he was often found a small insect that perched on the nose without realizing it, even the most severe case, insects get into the nostrils and successfully make Rara sneeze-sneeze a full week. Rara does not want it to happen again, she is already kapok.

Lizzie smiled and shook her head slowly. "It's nothing, really. Just a little shit-Oh! Looky!" Lizzie was stunned when she saw something jumping up and down on the surface of the sea.

Now, the two of them were sitting on the dock, with their bodies facing towards the sea while swinging their legs, trying to hold a chaotic mind. Ah, it turns out that something that jumps around is a herd of dolphins, Lizzie and Rara can not hide their pleasure when watching the animals jump on the surface of the sea. The city of Barasta is famous for its sea which holds many cute animals. Even for the class of predatory sharks, the shape is very adorable, such as there is a heart mark on his back or can dance on the surface, anyway things that can attract tourists to visit.

Lizzie and Rara never get tired of looking at dolphins jumping on the surface of the sea, although almost every day they see it, but it still feels like fun as the first time they see it.

The sun begins to set and Lizzie invites Rara to return home. By the way, Rara is not the real family of Lizzie, the child is just her neighbor. From childhood, Lizzie and Rara always played together, despite their age apart, but the two girls did not think about it and remained friends.

On the way home, Lizzie asked in an agitated tone. "Is it all right," Lizzie gulped her saliva furiously. "play with me like this?" Rara turned her head immediately upon hearing the question. "Didn't they forbid you to play with me? What I mean is your family. I don't want my existence to be a problem for you, Rara."

"Again like that!" Rara looked upset. "I told you, don't think about it, Lizzie! I don't want to part with you! I want to keep playing with you! I've considered you my family!"

"Yes, I know!" Lizzie called out a little. "But, right? I can't let you continue like this! Dissenting the family order was not a good thing! You have to obey him, Rara!"

"I'm not defiant! I have been following their will all along! I'm good at singing! Good at painting! Clever dance! Good at communicating! And so! I was a kid! But they always forced me to do this and that! And as her reward, for having become an obedient girl, I want to play with you! But they're scolding me! Saying that Lizzie is not a good girl! And other bad things! I'm sick! Hence, I secretly always come out of the house to play with you!"

Lizzie flicked a step as Rara revealed all her gibberish. Lizzie did not expect Rara to do that just to play with her, whereas what the girl's family said was the right thing. Lizzie is not a good girl, she is not a worthy person to be a friend or family. And Lizzie herself realized that, she did not deserve to be accompanied.

"For tomorrow, you don't have to do that anymore, Rara."

Instantly, Rara was wide-eyed, her eyes rounding wide like a circle. "W-What!?" Rara never expected Lizzie to tell her to stop, but she had been fighting desperately to play with him. "Lizzie! Don't act like that! I don't want to! You look like them! The people in my house! Stop acting like that!"

"But you're my family too!"

"No," Lizzie shook her head softly with a wry smile. "I'm not your family. I'm just a guy who happens to be close to your house. Just that, Rara."

Rara clenched her hands tightly by holding back a cry. "W-Why are you being so mean, Lizzie!?" Her tears were so disappointed. "Have you never thought of me as your family? Or at least, as your friend or friend!? You don't think I do!?" Rara's lips shook. "You're evil! Lizzie! You're mean!" Rara immediately ran away from Lizzie. "I hate you!"

Staring at Rara's back that was getting further away, Lizzie lamented him with a heart of grief. Exhaling for a moment, Lizzie stepped back to go home.

Not noticeably, the day was getting darker, the white clouds and blue sky had been replaced with a deep black color. Small stars are scattered in the darkness of the night sky, adorning the atmosphere of a creepy night.

Lizzie had arrived at the door of her house, she pushed the wooden door and there was the sound of a row from the open door. Silence began to feel, he stepped his feet to enter the dark room from inside his house. Don't forget to lock the door back. Lizzie walked and walked alone, in the darkness of a quiet room. After entering his private room, he immediately jumped on the mattress and buried his head in a soft pillow.

"Living alone in a house is pathetic, shit." Lizzie cursed her poor life. "But it's better than having to live with those two people!" Lizzie immediately woke up her body to sit on the bed. "What are they doing now? Enjoying her glittering life for taking everything away from Mom!?" Lizzie gritted her teeth. "They're! I'll kill him one day!"

Originally, Lizzie lived in this house with her father, mother, and older brother. Every day this house is always crowded, filled with jokes and laughter. Lizzie still vividly remembers her, when her father always hugged her when she was sad. When his mother always made his favorite food when dinner together. When his older brother always invited him to watch movies together at midnight. All of that, still imprinted in his memory. Fun and moving things. However, all of that changes when a problem arises.

One day, the mother was in debt to a loan shark, and the amount of debt was enormous. As a result, all family members became involved in the problem, the father, the brother, trying to find a way to pay off the debts. They work day and night to cover all the family debt. However, for many years they worked, the debt was never paid off, on the contrary, the interest even more swollen.

As the father and brother felt at the point of saturation, they were both tired of working their bones but did not get good results. What is, the problem is growing. Everything they do is useless, there is nothing more to do because anything will surely be in vain.

Then, out of anger and annoyance, the father and brother blamed the mother, scolding, yelling, yelling, cornering the woman with very cruel words. Lizzie heard all that, they always did it non-stop to her mother. In fact, Lizzie knew the mother owed a loan shark, it was for the needs of the family, a lot of needs to be met. And actually, the mother's debt is not too much, only about 5000 lumion alone, but what makes it crazy is the interest of the debt. More and more days, as long as the debt is not paid quickly, the interest will continue to soar, and it is truly terrible.

At one time, Lizzie witnessed a stifling event, which had happened once in her lifetime. An event he does not want to see, which he does not want to know, which he does not want to remember.

It was when the mother was killed in her sleep by her father and sister, and Lizzie looked at her from the cracks of the door, because it happened at night, when he should have fallen asleep to dreamland.