A soul that sparked hope (P.3) - Chapter 7
After finishing her cleanup, Aya took two bags that Hiroki had prepared and left the area in silence.
"How… can you be so calm?" Aya looked at the relaxed ghost on her side.
"If you are still scared about me taking control of your body for a slight moment, then I apologize. At that time, I had to make sure that you were safe. So I didn't really have any other options." Hiroki explained while looking at the worried girl.
"..n-no, I'm talking about before…. Couldn't we just have run away? Did I really have to kill them?" Aya's eyes, which fully showed her emotional condition, continued asking.
The fact that Aya took credit for killing some of the assassins, proved to Hiroki that Aya admitted to her act of killing them rather than blaming this on the ghost, who took control of her body for only a split second.
"I understand what you mean…. But there was no option for us there. Even if you managed to run away, do you really think that they would simply forget about you?"
Aya's eyes showed sorrow as she accepted the fact that there was no other option for her at that moment. But she still felt guilty at the fact that she had taken the life of another human being.
Hiroki noticed this as well, which is why he decided to calm her down somehow.
"Aya. Look at me."
Hiroki called out the gloomy girl.
"Do you really think that those garbage human beings deserved to live? They have probably killed so many other girls like you before, or even worse… raped them. I understand that you are worried about taking the life of another human, but you need to understand that if you hadn't made a decision, then they would've continued doing their dirty crimes for as long as they could live. What you did there was justified by the act of preventing evil in this world."
Aya listened with great care to the ghost on her side, with perplexed feelings inside her. She wasn't sure how to feel… She didn't know how to feel…
"And the fact that you accepted what you did, means that you have gotten stronger. What it means to be strong. So keep your head high and keep walking forward. Because what matters in the end, is your victory."
Aya's eyes widened once again at the words that came out of the boy's mouth. She knew that he was telling her the truth in order to make her feel better.
But the fact that he was saying them with emotion in them gave her hope.
"....thank you…. I feel better." Aya softly smiled after embracing the truth that was shoved in front of her.
But was she truly feeling better?