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"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."
-unknown
Your POV
'It didn't have to end like this' was all that was going through my mind.
"Her last words were that she wanted a normal life...with the both of us." Guren sat down at his desk and looked at me with sad eyes. The atmosphere changed drastically when he said that Mahiru Hiragi was dead. It was suffocating.
"We couldn't do anything to save Mahiru..." He let out a long breath, before he leaned his head in his hands and started to shake it slowly.
"We knew that one day it would end like this, but to hear it is actually more painful than I hoped it would be," my mouth opened on its own while my mind was still busy with processing the new gained 'information'.
"It is a loss for both of us. I just hope we don't end up fighting over Mahiru again like we did when we were younger."
A small smile stealt itself on my face and in my stomach was beside the sadness a tiny spark of happiness and relief.
"That really was a bit childish when you look at it now..." My brother looked up and started to chuckle a bit.
"How is it that you can stay so calm in some situations and make them less sad? That really isn't fair..." The chuckle vanished but instead a tiny smile sneaked on to his lips.
"Maybe because I am the one with the calmer nature?" I shrugged my shoulders and took a seat in front of his desk.
"Besides that, she wouldn't want that we sulk in our own sadness, anger or whatever you feel currently. Mahiru would have wanted that we exchange old memories with each other and be happy for her that she can finally rest in peace now. Remember the pressure her family put her under or the other things she went through after that. She even asked you if you could kill her and these words relief me to be honest, because it was her desire. I think that she was tired of being a 'monster' all the time and wanted this nightmare to have an end."
Guren looked at me with small sparks in his purple eyes and that was the reaction I hoped for. Of course I couldn't take away all the sadness and of course my sadness gave me the feeling that I was choking, but my little brother needed me now. The older sibling will in most cases put the needs from the younger ones in front of theirs and that was exactly what I was doing now. Mahiru and the other Ichinose were the people I made the most memories with in my teenage years and it felt like a part of me was dying with her and shredded into tiny pieces.
"Let's go take a walk Y/n," the male stood up and went to his door were he waited for me to stand up and follow him.
