Chapter 11 Miss Lina's Real Friends
"So, what the hell are you doing?" Panis fell into deep distress.
Since the two female clergy met, things have developed in a strange direction. In the original plan, after the two came to the temple to report, they had to hold a meeting with the affiliated investigators to discuss during the night. The next day, they had to meet with the survivors to investigate clues. However, the plan never changed quickly. As soon as the two women met, after a few minutes of a small dispute, Cynthia pulled Lina directly into the small room. The two closed the door and whispered, leaving Pannis alone outside, waiting laughed and crying.
After nearly half an hour, the door of the room was pushed open, and Cynthia walked out of the room with red eyes. Lina, who was following behind, had a normal expression, and the smile on her face was as calm and peaceful as when she was with believers on weekdays.
"This... Mr. Pannis." Cynthia restored the manners that a clergy should have and bowed to Pannis slightly and said, "If you are convenient, can you talk alone?"
"Talk alone?" Panis turned his eyes to Lina, but Lina shrugged indifferently, sat down on the side, took out a book, and then nodded, and walked into the cottage with Cynthia.
"I'm sorry for the delay of your time." Cynthia made a gesture to sit down: "Black tea? Clear water? Juice?"
"Just clear water." Panis took the cup handed over by Cynthia, but just put it aside: "If you have any questions, just ask."
"How much do you know about Lina?" Cynthia asked straightforwardly: "About her past, what happened between her and Betty."
"Betty refers to her sister. She basically told me." Panis scratched his head and recalled: "Well, most of the content, what she didn't say, can be a rough idea by guessing."
"Since that's the case, it's easy. I don't need to worry about what I want to say below." Cynthia said: "You should know about her mental abnormality now."
"Of course, the few people who are close to her know it," said Panis. "This is too easy to see."
"I always felt that the blow that happened to her was very big, but I didn't expect it to be so big." Cynthia sighed and said distressedly: "I never thought that she would... actually... if she hadn't seen her for more than ten years."
"No one would have thought of this, it's not your fault." Panis comforted: "And this situation has not had much impact on her."
"But this is abnormal after all." Cynthia rubbed her forehead and said with a headache: "I hope you can help me get her back to normal. It's no longer like this...so...changeable."
"Oh?" Panis said without comment: "What are you going to do?"
"I think the fundamental reason for her to be like this is still the past of her and Betty." Cynthia said hesitantly: "I haven't figured out what to do, but I think that as long as she can get out of the shadow of that matter, all problems will be solved."
"Do you think so?" Panis still refused.
"Yes, I just said that I watched her grow up and I know her too much. She is definitely not the one who attacks her sister because of jealousy. Unfortunately, I was too young and had a low status at that time. No one paid attention to my opinions at all." Cynthia clenched her fists tightly and said unwillingly: "Although Betty has always lived with us, I don't like her. Her scheming is too deep and too practical, and it is not as good as a child's heart. So, if I make a choice, I will definitely choose to believe Lina instead of Betty. I think we can start from this aspect. Find out the truth at that time and relieve Lina's heart. We will completely get rid of the shadow this incident caused to her. In this way, her psychological abnormality should naturally disappear."
"Uh, I don't deny that you are very good to Lina and care about her. Everything you want to do is for her good." Panis finally stopped silent and whispered: "But I have to say that you made a few mistakes, or you have a few misunderstandings. These misunderstandings may eventually make the results you get are completely opposite to your original purpose. You must know that there are always some people who do something for him because of the reason for doing something for him, but they can only gain blame and resentment."
"My misunderstanding?" Cynthia did not refute, and looked directly into Panis's eyes and asked, "I hope you can point out what misunderstandings I have. After all, I have been separated from her for more than ten years. When I saw her for the last time, she was an eight-year-old child, and there was no way to misunderstandings."
"The first misunderstanding, since you met just now, you always felt that she exiled herself because she hurt her sister." Panis asked, "That's right."
"She must be wronged." Cynthia immediately retorted: "When the incident happened, she was unconscious, which means she herself didn't know what happened at that time. The only person who knew was Betty. Isn't it that Betty said that?"
"Calm down, calm down." Panis smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "I didn't say that it must be her doing it, I just simply discuss the reasons for her self-exile. You think it was because of her hurt, no, someone lied to her that she hurt her sister, that's right."
"Yes, it must be the reason." Cynthia said affirmatively: "Someone has deceived her."
"This is your first misunderstanding." Panis raised a finger and said shakingly, "Although I have known her for less than a year, I know her ideas very well after spending a long time together. When I just heard this past, I also wanted to clarify her from the perspective you proposed, but soon I found out that I was wrong. In fact, whether she did it or not, whether someone lied to her was not important. What's important is that during the time when the incident happened, she did feel jealous and she really wanted to hate her sister to die. This is where she couldn't forgive herself."
"Everyone will have such a momentary impulse...." Cynthia said halfway, and she couldn't continue.
"Look, you also understand that not everyone will have this kind of hatred for their only relatives in the world." Panis said with a wry smile: "Especially because of jealousy. This is the reason why she punished herself."
Cynthia bit her lips hard, and the teeth marks left on her red lips expressed her confusion: "Even if you punish yourself, this punishment is too severe."
"This is the second misunderstanding." Panis raised his second finger: "She would lock herself in the library, not only for self-punishment. According to my analysis, in her young mind, she was afraid that she would be controlled forever by this demon named jealousy, so she completely isolated herself from the outside world. Perhaps she naively thought at that time that without the temptation of the outside world, the demon would have no chance to control her anymore."
"What's this?" Cynthia said in confusion: "The mentality of jealousy, even if it's isolated from the outside world for a long time, it can't escape when it should appear."
"The truth is right." Panis nodded and said, "But did you understand this when you were eight years old?"
"Oh." Cynthia patted her forehead lightly and said weakly: "You keep going."
"Misunderstanding 3, your last misunderstanding." Panis did not raise his finger this time, but looked at Cynthia very seriously and said, "It is also my advice to you, don't do extra things. Don't let her hate you."
"What's unnecessary?" Cynthia's eyes immediately widened: "Is it unnecessary for you to say I want to help her get her back to normal?"
"Very redundant." Panis nodded, "How do you think her abnormality is caused?"
"Isn't it because of guilt?" Cynthia heard what Panis meant: "You mean, what else is there?"
"It basically has nothing to do with guilt. She told me in person." Panis said with a wry smile: "You should understand too. At most, guilt will choose to escape self-deception and will not be like her."
"Why?" Cynthia asked.
"You can try to think about yourself, what would you do if you threw you into an environment when you were eight years old." Panis asked back, "A closed, dark, huge libraries, ancient buildings, decay smells. Silent environment, occasional weird sounds, only a candle or an oil lamp to provide light. If it were you, would you go crazy?"
"I should go with her." Cynthia covered her face and choked up, "Even if there is an archbishop's ban, I should rush in and accompany her."
"She won't accept it. Don't forget that it was the path she chose." Panis spread his hands and said helplessly: "So this problem is unsolvable. If she would accept you going in, she would have walked out by herself. No one stopped her, she refused to walk out by herself."
"Even if that's the case." Cynthia was still making her final efforts: "There is no need to say that this is a redundant thing."
"Of course it's redundant." Panis said mercilessly: "In her heart, those people, those books, and each of them is her friend, or every one of them is her relatives. Every friend of her has accompanied her through a long time of fear, and each of them has accompanied and encouraged her, and shared the pressure in her heart. To put it too much, even you may not be closer than those who do not exist. And what you have to do now is to snatch those relatives from her side one by one in the name of her good, and even to completely disappear from the root. What do you think she will think? What do you think she will treat you?"
"What do you think you will do?" Cynthia had no choice: "There must be a solution to the matter."
"Let it go." Panis sighed: "Actually, this is not necessarily a bad thing now. And recently I found that things may not be as you and I imagined. Her current state is not just about going crazy. It may be related to some of her special physique or special state. Those friends may not only exist in her imagination. So, let's leave everything to her to solve, she has the ability to handle it."
"That's not that I'll do nothing?" Cynthia said dissatisfied.
"Believe her, as her friend, you should believe her." Panis persuaded: "What she can solve by herself is just naive and innocent, not stupid, well, probably not... right?"
"I heard it." The door of the room was pushed open a crack, and Lina stretched her head in like a ghost: "I heard it all, including this last comment, hehehehe."
"Hey, don't you express your disregard for our conversation?" Penis shouted in horror: "Shouldn't you sit there and read quietly?"
"Yeah." Lina nodded vigorously, her smile brightly, but she threatenedly showed a white teeth: "I pretended."
Chapter completed!