Chapter 19
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 19: Writing That Moves Human Hearts
A sea of tears.
A bucket of tears.
A situation perfectly fitting such expressions unfolded before Noel’s eyes.
A young girl is watching.
But three grown men cannot cry!
So no matter how sad and touching it is, we will endure.
Hold on, tear ducts!
Making such a resolve pointless, the three forgot Noel’s existence and ended up wailing after reading 「The Diary Inside My Heart」.
This was a story one truly couldn't help but cry at.
Tear-jerkers are like that.
Although there were already existing romance novels with themes of terminal illness… this was more severe.
Terminal illness has an immutable end called death, so it makes one organize their feelings with effort, but this wasn't that.
Alzheimer’s.
No, the memory disorder called by this and that way without a clear name in this place yet.
Death would rather be cleaner; this is too tragic and sad.
To think the person you love is erased from your head.
Nevertheless, the story of a man and a woman who do their best in their own ways and do not give up loving the partner was a story that would squeeze tears out of even a person with dry sensibility.
Especially for those who have families like the three people here, 「The Diary Inside My Heart」 approached with a special meaning.
Suddenly they missed their wives and recalled the days they were dating.
‘It’s this much for us men.’
‘If this story is published, surely….’
‘The ladies of the whole world will turn upside down again.’
Sniffing and barely calming their crying, the three thought so amidst the lingering feeling of intense emotion that still wasn't controlled although the tears were stopping.
Leaving other things aside, the three had to admit this one thing.
That the pink-haired girl in front of their eyes, Noel Grace, is a master of writing that makes people’s emotions fluctuate.
And… it might be a coincidence, but there were several parts to pay attention to in this story besides simply being sad and beautiful.
‘Fog Disease… Come to think of it, there was someone among my acquaintances who showed such symptoms.’
‘The heroine Enya is a truly charming yet unconventional image of a woman. If such women increase, the expansion of women’s rights won’t be a dream.’
‘To be a woman who is not passive but active like this…. Perhaps Enya in the story might be an existence representing the New Woman of this era.’
Attaching the expression ‘Fog Disease’ to a disease that didn't even have a clear name, making people pay attention and think about it; and the image of a woman that seemed to transcend the era shown through the character called Enya.
A woman who is only modest, passive, and devoted is now a view of women of the past.
The composition seemed to say that now is the era of the New Woman who is active and knows how to pioneer her own life like Enya….
‘The moment this story is made into a book and spreads, truly diverse repercussions will occur.’
‘Changing the world with writing…. Was there another author in the world who embodied this expression as well as that girl?’
‘Noel Grace. That girl is not just the material for a great literary figure. She is a giant who will become a writer representing the literature of this era…!’
They felt they had no choice but to admit it.
At first, they just thought she was a peculiar noble young lady who was communicative and worthy of being recognized as an author, but she wasn't.
She is a literary person deserving of respect, and they should be grateful to live in the same era as Noel Grace.
One might wonder why they are suddenly acting like this after reading just one romance novel, but from the perspective of the adapter trio, it was understandable.
How many writers were there who wanted to bring change to the world with writing?
But among them, how many properly achieved that?
Needless to say, the reason is that writings written in such a way were always shunned by the public.
A dogmatic feeling inevitably enters the writing strongly, and people instinctively take such writing unpleasantly.
But how is this novel?
It was thoroughly armed with fun, but the subject doing that arming was the message.
It is using a method where the reader gets influenced by the work and comes to think without even noticing.
They have never seen such writing.
The adapter trio shuddered, thinking it was more terrifying than any propaganda.
They are doing this because they also once tried to write such texts to change the world.
‘It is a great luck and honor to work with this girl this time.’
‘If you can’t beat them, you have to join them.’
‘When the old fogies of the literary circles are swept away, we will stand by this girl’s side and sing a song of peace.’
Naturally, Noel didn't know the inner thoughts of this trio.
Because she didn't write it with such intention!
They say originally a work is interpreted according to the public’s will the moment it leaves the author’s hand, but….
Presentation of a New Woman image fitting the new era?
That leads to the expansion of women’s rights?
Inducing interest in a disease that doesn't receive attention?
If she knew this fact right now, how absurd would Noel feel?
Noel just wrote it.
She just referenced works from Earth and reborn them into her own story, thinking about how to make it fun and how to extract tears.
In a way, a hodgepodge of clichés.
But considering the process of how those clichés were born, it isn't strange that Noel’s writing feels like it transcends and leads the era.
Considering how values taken for granted on Earth and in the future would be accepted in this era, it is in a way natural for the adapter trio to show this reaction.
Noel wrote without realizing how heterogenous things that are trivial to a soul from Earth are here.
This is certainly worthy of hearing the sound of a writer who will change the world.
“Lady Noel── no! Author-nim! Please allow us to call you Master!”
“Pardon? What do you mean all of a sudden….”
Allow us to call you Master.
This can be interpreted in this way and that depending on the situation, but usually in this situation,
“M-Me too! I also want to enter as a disciple!”
“The First Disciple is me, you things! Where do you think you’re cutting in line!”
It means please take me as a disciple.
The adapter trio making a fuss that they are first.
Seeing them, Noel,
‘Haha, it’s a dog pound.’
Stopped thinking, deciding there was a limit to being out of the blue and bewildered.
Is this exactly what love is?
At the lingering feeling of intense emotion, Rosalyn held back tears that seemed about to flow.
When Princess Lydia, with eyes swollen and red from crying so much at first, said things like “Do those who haven't even read 「The Diary Inside My Heart」 even know what love is?”, she just thought ‘Is she starting again?’
It wasn't just a day or two that Princess Lydia made a fuss after becoming a fanatic fan of Noel’s works.
She wondered how touching it could be if it was more touching than other existing romance novels──.
“Sniff….”
Eventually, making her endurance pointless, Rosalyn ended up shedding tears too.
A person who had never reddened her eyes no matter how painful the injury during training was crying reading a romance novel.
She couldn't stop them trickling down as if her tear ducts were broken.
Actually, she had a hard time enduring her vision blurring due to tears pooling in her eyes from the moment she read the book.
But seeing the end of the story, the appearance of them living by building a family without giving up loving, overcoming the Fog Disease in their own way, she absolutely couldn't endure it anymore.
Seen from afar, it could be a tragedy, but to Lawrence and Enya who were close, it was clearly happiness and a comedy.
Rosalyn had no history of empathizing with stories about crying from being moved by reading a novel in her life until now… but today she finally experienced what that felt like.
‘How can you… not cry at this!’
Rosalyn wiping her eyes with a handkerchief.
It seems to be the first time wiping something other than sweat shed during training with this handkerchief.
To think that is tears, not blood.
She really never imagined such a day would come.
So Rosalyn felt that her life was changing significantly since she learned of the novels written by Noel.
Before, every time the Princess tried to act like a fangirl, she only sighed at that incomprehensible behavior, but now it was different.
There was herself inwardly empathizing while still thinking it was awkward.
Truly a surprising change.
“If this novel is published──.”
She had a thought that maybe people changing like herself would increase.
The appearance of the heroine Enya shown in the novel caused a great resonance in Rosalyn.
Should she say it felt like she showed what a proactive woman’s life is like?
Some big change wouldn't happen right away.
Still, she felt there would definitely be women who get influenced and become more active in relationships between men and women.
She wondered if women, who were like shoes on display regarding dating, would break the show window and actively win love.
Not only that, but it seems there will be great national interest in the illness of the mind that hasn't received much attention compared to the pain.
‘Fog Disease, huh.’
Right now, even Rosalyn became interested in what was named ‘Fog Disease’ in the work, where memories are erased.
What if this happened to her, or her precious person?
She thinks it would be sadder and harder than most incurable diseases.
“Perhaps a ‘Saintess’ could cure it?”
So, wondering how to cure this terrible disease, she even had such a thought.
Saintess.
The pinnacle of healers.
Wouldn't a Saintess, who performs healing to the level called a miracle based on vast divine power, be able to cure Fog Disease?
Or is it an impossible task even for a Saintess?
She was really curious.
“Come to think of it──.”
She heard that for some reason, incredible VIPs are scheduled to enroll in the Academy in large numbers next year.
Royals from other countries coming to study in the Empire are basic of basics.
Big shots that make Royals look like nothing are also scheduled to study abroad.
Among such big shots, not only the ‘Warrior of the Great Grasslands’ but even the ‘Saintess of the Holy Kingdom’ is included, they say.
To assist the Princess, Rosalyn is also scheduled to go to Gran Ark Academy, and if there is a chance then, she wanted to ask the Saintess once.
If the miracle of healing caused by the Saintess can completely cure a sad disease like ‘Fog Disease’.
Having such a thought itself was something impossible for Rosalyn in the past.
Because she would have thought about swordsmanship one more time or cared about assisting the Princess in the time to think such useless thoughts.
But now she does.
She just lacks self-awareness, but Rosalyn was already changing beyond her own thoughts.
The female knight who was only rigid had disappeared long ago.
What exists is the Princess’s Literature Mate, the Literature Girl Rosalyn.
Still, Rosalyn was lacking in many aspects compared to the Princess.
Especially action power.
I should ask the Saintess when she enters the Academy next year.
Rosalyn naively thought only to that extent, but the Princess didn't wait.
“Saintess-nim, a letter has arrived from the 7th Imperial Princess of the Empire.”
“Pardon? Not to His Holiness, but to me?”
Unable to endure asking if she could cure Fog Disease, and if she couldn't cure it, if she could at least improve it── no, without enduring, she sent a letter.