Water Element Swordsman

Chapter 19 [Hope]

Siu…

Booms!! 

Booms!! 

Sparkling fireworks dotted the sky colourfully welcoming a beautiful night at the end of the year substitute, Hito only looked upon him for life in the silent world he faced before. 

"Hitto. Don't hesitate or fear, but you should be grateful for a beautiful day tonight. You have to show your smile for the freedom you've been silent about, throw it away." Obviously Uncle Erio hit Hito's back slowly. 

"You know, it's this event that we get once a year. Because memories can't be repeated at the same time and it's impossible to happen again,"

"Therefore, the reason Uncle brought you here, Hito. Uncle just wishes you could understand the meaning of memory and sincerity,"

"In the future, Uncle won't be with you anymore, Hito." Uncle Erio said a small smile restrained his sadness. 

The phrase Uncle Erio hid an implied meaning for Hito, Hito turned to Uncle Erio to feel what Uncle Erio said. That as long as Hito has stood alone to be able to take the desired path, then Hito will know what suffering he must go through. Therefore, Hito knows what Uncle Erio revealed in the future. 

"Why did the new Uncle reveal what would happen in the future? Did Uncle predict it first or have you planned?" hito replied to Uncle Erio. 

Uncle Erio just froze up not answering what Hito was asking, so it became Hito's own question mark. What that expression meant was thrown at Uncle Erio himself. 

Booms!! 

Booms!! 

Fireworks that are still soaring up into the sky followed by other fireworks bring the atmosphere to be awkward, Hito did not think again what Uncle Erio revealed himself. Instead it is an expression in the story character Uncle Erio who Hito remembered working on a mission of release and herding on his game computer. 

Indeed, time separates the distance between togetherness, but do not have to forget all the services that exist. Hito will still remember the games he played, even though armed with his memory. And the changes in the course of life change as fate sets in on Hito's own path. 

After the fireworks are all released, at this moment the lanterns are flown. Before being flown, the lantern must be written a wish or prayer. So that hope or prayer can be granted and accepted on another day. 

Hito is initially confused as to what he is doing, then Uncle Erio gives a lantern to Hito. 

"Hitto. These lanterns uncle prepared, before flying write down hope or prayer for the coming year," the smile knotted Uncle Erio looked at the bewildered Hito.

Without long, Hito received the lanterns given by Uncle Erio. Here Hito remembered his wish that he wanted to write, although in his mind it branched. Hito kept silent for a moment thinking about the word he wanted to write. 

Only this, Hito expressed his hope on a shabby paper because the cost of buying a good quality lantern is very expensive. Finally, Uncle Erio chose an affordable price and could fly up only. 

As people write their hopes and begin to fly their own lanterns, Hito begins to write his wishes with the help of Uncle Erio giving Hito black ink. 

Little by little, Hito began to write slowly what he hoped for in the coming year. With the seriousness of Hito writing, Uncle Erio watched him from behind while monitoring what Hito wrote. From here Uncle Erio knew, that Hito had studied independently without the need for direction or guidance on how to write. 

Learning to write is something that must be prioritized in learning, sometimes many people consider writing on a piece of paper or writing anywhere is considered easy and ordinary. But they do not know the meaning of writing that can show the character of a person and the art displayed in a writing. 

Hito wrote his wish on a scrap of his lantern paper in the hopes of. 'In this coming year, I hope I am accepted for who I am. Without thinking about life is bitter or difficult, make that day the thing that makes me rise and start standing. Hopefully someday, I get people who want to think of me.' Write Hito on his lantern with straight ink. Hito breathed a sigh of relief what he expected. 

Hito turned to Uncle Erio and nodded his head handing over the lantern. 

"When these lanterns will be flown upwards. Hito, help uncle hold this lantern so that uncle can turn on the fire of his wick." Obviously Uncle Erio took the match. 

Hito finds out, then helps his uncle by holding him. After that Uncle Erio took the fire and lived it into the lantern axis. A moment of the lantern was already expanding and began to feel like flying up into the sky, without feeling Hito began to see the seconds of lanterns will be flown simultaneously. 

And the sound of a large clock tower in Caliburn City Park rang again indicating that the release or flying of the lantern began. Together some of the residents began to release the lanterns with love for the light, so Hito released the lanterns flew up followed by the lantern Uncle Erio also flew. 

New Year's Eve and the snow still falls with small details bringing an atmosphere full of light that symbolizes purity and the joy of the residents celebrating this event. Do not escape the sky in your arms hope lanterns flying in the sky in the hope that all prayers for the coming year can be fulfilled. 

"Uncle. What hope did you write on the lantern?" ask Hito who wants to know. 

Uncle Erio who was still looking up at the sky said the hope he wrote. 

"Uncle's Hope is. Hopefully Uncle can live a long, healthy life always and can live freely with family in Shei Village," said Uncle Erio expressed his hope in the lantern. 

Hito then fell silent to think that Shei Village was his destination to find a mystery that he was looking for, is Goa Herk that Hito sought there. However, how could Uncle Erio live there. Do they know about this Goa Herk. Hito thought hard here.

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In the Kingdom of Helium in the outer garden of the palace full of servants and troops welcoming the new year's replacement night, a warm crowd enveloped the sense of kinship in the Kingdom of Helium. Eugenia A princess of the Kingdom and one of the last children in the Helium Kingdom wants to fly her lantern, when Euge returns home from a cold ceremony held by the City of Caliburn. 

At that moment, Eugenia was being watched by her father behind with eyes glaring at Euge. 

"Euge, are you still following the traditions of the people there?" asked, Euge's father furrowed his brows watching Euge's behavior. 

Euge feels his father does not understand what he wants and then he silences with the word not wearing.

"Dad. All this time, Euge had hope in his pent up heart, but Dad didn't know what to expect at the Palace and thought something was trivial and just grinned at it," euge said calmly about his father behind him. 

Euge no longer cared about the condition of his being left behind in the Palace or residence, he believed the words of a boy opened his heart to dare to convey what Euge was damning. 

After Euge says hope in his heart, his father freezes without saying anything, until the maids around feel Euge change and some fear his father doing something to him. 

But Euge kept writing hope in the lantern with a lively spirit and friendly smile, even though the situation was comfortable for him. 

His father, the King of the Kingdom of Helium felt that his daughter had already sensed what it meant to have a bold opinion. Then his father left his own Euge in the garden of the Palace with the feeling of a smile knotted, that his beloved son could argue what he lacked to his own father. 

"Euges. Your words amaze me as much as what you've been waiting for all this time, so that's what I want," said his father walking into the Palace upright and authoritatively smiling knot behind his body leaving Euge. 

Euge knew his father would leave him the other time, and Euge remained steadfast in writing his wishes. Hope written by Euge in a paper lantern engraved with the coat of arms of the Royal Palace of Helium is. 'I wish I could meet the boy back and be friends. I'll remember what you said, until your wool scarf becomes a memory I keep until fate finds us next time.' The hope that was written by Euge then he independently flew himself using the fire provided by his servant. 

Without a message or saying. Euge flew by himself and stared at the sky full of lanterns, Euge felt himself very happy to meet the boy. Even though he doesn't know his name. He would remember giving a wool scarf around his neck gently, until Euge closed his eyes in light of the look of the boy holding his wool scarf.