To. My beloved disciple
Are you well? This teacher is fortunately well.
By now, it must be the season when the grains are ripening there. On the other hand, the Great Forest is hot and humid year-round, so I just wait for time to pass with a bored heart. A world without any change is this tedious yet peaceful.
So it feels even more unfamiliar.
All of me has changed, but only this Great Forest remains the same. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve fallen into a sweet delusion and haven’t returned. If you release a dog that’s been chained its whole life into the yard, would it look like me?
A life that has taken the narrow world reached by the leash as home. Each step outside feels so unfamiliar and fearful.
Isn’t it funny? The Great Witch who supposedly mastered all principles of the world is actually this clumsy and lacking woman.
If you want to laugh, laugh.
Just know that in this world, the only person I can rely on is you. The only one on the entire continent I don’t have to put on airs with is you alone.
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