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"Why don't you tell Alicia?"
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"......Alicia is a bright girl, maybe she'll figure it out."
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Jichan looks out the window.
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Everyone is thinking about Alicia in Laval. Even if they don't want to think about her, they can't stop thinking about Alicia.
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Cather Liz is no different. In the end, she has always been tied to Alicia.
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"But she won't be coming back here for that reason."
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"Why not?"
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"Because you know better than anyone that I don't want that."
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Jichan smiles gently, his eyes narrowing. It's the kind of look he would give his beloved grandchildren.
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"But Alicia, you know? How can she be so compassionate and not come back?"
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"He's not coming back."
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Jicchan said it clearly, as if he was covering my words.
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I don't understand how he could be so sure that Alicia would notice something was wrong with her and not come home.
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She must respect him more than anyone else. He is like family to her.
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Alicia will come back to him. Because that's who she is.
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Maybe she can help Jicchan. She might be able to cure this disease.
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I have a glimmer of hope. Then Jicchan, perhaps sensing what I was thinking, opens his mouth.
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"Jill, Alicia may indeed be a saint. But just because she is a saint doesn't mean she can do everything. She can't save a dying person."
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"But, but..."
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"Alicia knows what she has to do. This is not the time to turn to me. There's nothing more I can do for her.
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"That's not true! Besides, what about me? There's still so much I want Jicchan to teach me."
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"Jill doesn't need me anymore. Look around you. It's not just Alicia, it's Duke and Henri, there are so many people you can trust, aren't there?"
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I felt like I was really going to pass away soon. It sounds like a goodbye conversation with me.
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...... Don't worry, I'm not dead yet. Grandpa will never leave until he has done his job.
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I tell myself desperately.
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"It's been an interesting life, by the way."
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The morning sun rises high in Grandpa's eyes. I just listened to his story in silence.
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"I never imagined that I would lose my magic, that I would lose both eyes, that I would be exiled to a poor village, that I would meet Alicia, that I would raise a child named Jill, that I would rebuild the poor village, and that I would return to my own world. Thanks to meeting Alicia and Jill, I have decided to try to live again."
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"Live?"
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"It is extremely difficult to define what it means to be alive. If you can breathe and move your arms and legs, does that mean you are alive? Or is it living when you have set a goal and are selflessly working toward it? Interestingly, different people define life differently. One person may find the meaning of life in falling in love, while another may find the meaning of life in working."
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I think about Grandpa's words for a while.
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I was dead in that poor village. I had been dead all my life until I met Alicia.
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I'm sure he was, too. When they banished him to the poor village, he gave up everything. It's a place where the human concept of life is erased.
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Not long ago, we were all just waiting to die.
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