Lackey's Seducing Survival Odyssey

Chapter 815: HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME?!



Chapter 815: HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME?!

While Aether was busy with his so-called date, meanwhile, back in the Pyra Empire…

"Hmmm…"

Aqualina groaned softly, feeling an ache in her head as her consciousness slowly returned. Her eyelids fluttered open, and the first thing she saw was an unfamiliar ceiling. Her brows furrowed as a deep frown formed on her face. The last thing she remembered was talking to Victor before—her eyes darkened—someone had knocked her out.

"Fucker…" she muttered under her breath, her annoyance clear as she pushed herself up.

Just as she was about to fully get up, her gaze landed on something—someone—that made her freeze for a moment.

"Mom?"

Her voice came out in a mix of confusion and disbelief as she stared at the woman sitting on a chair, smiling warmly at her.

It was Sandra... Her mother!

"How is my sleepyhead?" Sandra asked gently, her voice soft with affection.

Aqualina's eyes widened before she immediately jumped into her mother's arms, hugging her tightly as if she feared she would disappear, "I-I missed you, Mom… I reaaallllyyy missed you so much," she whispered, her voice trembling slightly as she buried her face in Sandra's embrace, inhaling the familiar scent she had longed for.

Sandra chuckled warmly, running her fingers through Aqualina's hair before wrapping her arms around her daughter protectively. Her gaze shifted slightly toward Celestia, who stood quietly in the corner, observing them without a word.

After a few moments of holding onto each other, Aqualina finally pulled back, her expression quickly shifting from relief to concern. Her brows knit together as she looked at her mother more carefully.

"Mom, are you alright? Did they hurt you?" Her eyes flickered with worry before darting around the unfamiliar place. "And… where the hell are we?" she asked, her voice sharp with suspicion as she tried to piece together what had happened.

Sandra let out an awkward chuckle, rubbing the back of her neck. "Well… about that…" she hesitated before sighing. "We were imprisoned in the Pyra Empire."

Aqualina blinked. Surprisingly, she didn't react with shock. Instead, her expression remained eerily calm, as if she had already expected something like this. But then, her lips curled downward in irritation.

"I can't believe that bastard actually kidnapped me… right in front of the Principal," she muttered, her voice laced with disbelief. Her expression darkened as her mind raced, "And the Principal… what the hell was she doing? Just standing there, watching?!" Her voice grew harsher, her frustration evident as her trust in the Principal wavered.

Sandra coughed weakly before nodding, "Anyway—"

Before she could continue, Aqualina cut in with a serious expression. "Mom, getting out of the Empire isn't an easy task. Dragons here are annoyingly loyal to their Emperor, and they won't just let us waltz out the front door." Her fingers tapped lightly against her thigh as she started thinking. "For now, we should stay put and observe… but don't worry, I already have a plan to escape." A small smirk tugged at her lips as she thought of a certain someone. 'I just need to call Aether…'

Sandra tilted her head slightly, watching her daughter. Then, after a moment, she asked, "Aqualina… aren't you going to ask why we were imprisoned in the first place?"

Aqualina barely hesitated before shaking her head. "No, I don't need to. Whatever you did… I believe you had a good reason. You're not reckless, and you don't make stupid mistakes. I trust you, Mom."

Sandra's breath hitched slightly at those words, her lips trembling as emotion washed over her. Without thinking, she pulled Aqualina back into another hug, holding her even tighter than before.

"You…" she whispered, her voice full of emotion.

But despite the touching moment, she couldn't let Aqualina act recklessly here, so she finally spoke, "You see… I was the one who told Victor to bring you back."

"H-Huh?"

Aqualina blinked, her expression shifting into confusion. "Wait… you're saying… you actually told that bastard to bring me here?"

Sandra took a deep breath, nodding. "Yes… I did. We're in a very dangerous situation right now, and staying here is actually the best option for us."

Aqualina narrowed her eyes, analyzing her mother's expression carefully... Then, after a second, she sighed, "That makes sense now…" she murmured.

"That's why even the Principal didn't do anything to stop Victor… ah." She leaned back slightly, crossing her arms. "Fine. I get it. But I still have one question—why here? And…" her eyes darkened, "Victor isn't someone who does things out of kindness. What does he want from you?"

Sandra smiled, her expression unreadable. "Nothing."

Aqualina scoffed, not buying it for a second. "Nothing? Yeah, right. That's total bull— ahem, I mean, there's no way that's true." She folded her arms. "I know he wouldn't just help you out of the goodness of his heart. He must want something in return. But whatever, I'll just confirm it myself." She straightened up, determination flashing in her eyes. "I'll contact Aether telepathically. Since they were friends, he should be able to help us out."

Sandra weakly chuckled. "There's no need for that… Wait!" But then her eyes widened slightly as something dawned on her. "You can communicate with him too?"

"Too?" Aqualina's brows shot up, her mind immediately catching onto something. "Wait… what do you mean 'too'?" Her frown deepened as she stared at her mother, a sinking feeling growing inside her.

Sandra coughed, realizing she might have let something slip. It wasn't like she had it, but— 'Come to think of it… my daughter doesn't know about that jerk's audacity…' She suddenly grinned, as if a few plans were already forming in her mind. "You see, he is—"

However—

"So you have it too… ah," Aqualina murmured, her expression turning gloomy as if she had just figured out something far worse than she had expected.

"Huh? What are you—"

"There's no need to hide it anymore… I knew it. I knew this was going to happen…" Aqualina muttered in a dejected tone, shaking her head.

Sandra flinched slightly, a flicker of panic appearing in her eyes. 'D-Does she know I know about her? Did Aether tell her something?' Her heart pounded for a moment as her face turned pale.

But then she took a deep breath, forcing herself to stay calm. 'Yeah… I can't hide it anymore. She must have remembered everything by now…'

Sandra knew that trying to cover things up would only make it more painful later. And besides, she needed Aqualina to have every right to know what was going on around her!

So she finally decided to come clean—well, except for the deal and the whole gods' business.

"You are my mother—what?"

"You are in love with Aether—what?"

They spoke at the same time, their words clashing in perfect unison before they both froze.

An eerie silence filled the room as their eyes widened in horror, staring at each other.

"You knew?"

"You knew?"

"..."

"..."

"Pfff!!"

Celestia, who had been silently watching the entire time, finally lost it. She almost burst out laughing, barely able to contain herself as she covered her mouth. Their reactions were so identical, so synchronized—it was like watching a carbon copy of the same person. And yet, even she was shocked by what Sandra had just revealed.

Meanwhile, back in the Naiadae Empire…

Tuck, Tuck…

The rhythmic sound of the carriage wheels rolling over the stone-paved road filled the quiet air inside. The golden hues of the setting sun bathed the world outside in a warm glow, casting long shadows over the city.

Inside the carriage, Aether and Xara sat across from each other, both eerily silent, their thoughts lost in the same words...

'Already in my hands…'

The Prophetess's words echoed in their minds.

'What did she mean by that? That he is the answer I've been searching for?' Xara frowned, her fingers absentmindedly tapping against the window frame. She gazed outside, watching the shifting landscape, but her focus repeatedly drifted back to Aether, who sat deep in thought. His brows were furrowed, his fingers tightening slightly, as though trying to grasp something invisible in his palm.

"So… what exactly did she say to you?" Xara finally asked, unable to hold back her curiosity any longer.

Aether snapped out of his thoughts, his lips curling into an amused smirk as he looked at her. "Someone's awfully curious about OUR future life together, huh?" he teased, his voice laced with mischief.

Xara's lips twitched in irritation. 'Tsk.' She clicked her tongue, immediately looking away, crossing her arms in a huff.

Aether let out a soft chuckle before finally answering. "She said… it was all in my hands."

Xara raised an eyebrow but didn't press further. Instead, she leaned back against her seat, letting his words settle in her mind.

Aether, on the other hand, turned his gaze toward the passing scenery. His mind replayed the Prophetess's cryptic message, trying to decipher its true meaning.

'So… she meant to say my second option is the right one? That's what she was hinting at?' His first choice had been to seek out the Prophetess for process, yet it seemed like his second option had already aligned with fate. But still… something about it didn't sit right with him.

Just then, as the carriage continued its steady pace, a particular sight made Aether freeze.

A strange tree swayed gently...

'Isn't that… the same one that appeared in my Empire?' His frown deepened, his pulse quickening slightly. 'So, it's growing here too? But why? What does this mean?'

More questions flooded his mind, but the answers?

Fuck up!

Before he could dwell on it further, the carriage slowed, finally arriving at their destination—the Frostblade Mansion.

As they stepped out, Xara, who had been absentmindedly gripping Aether's coat, rubbed the fabric between her fingers before casually asking, "So… where's this surprise you promised me?"

Aether grinned. "Surprise? Oh, so you actually care about it? How cute—"

"Tsk. Forget it," Xara huffed, turning away with an annoyed expression as if she had regretted asking in the first place.

Aether chuckled, shaking his head. "Come on now… the surprise I prepared is huge, you know? It's not something that can just be handed over in an instant. It'll take some time."

"I don't care," Xara replied dismissively, pretending to be uninterested, though a small flicker of curiosity lingered in her eyes.

"You will care," Aether said with a confident smirk. "Believe me, you'll love it." Then, with a playful glint in his eyes, he pointed toward the towering mountain in the distance. "Though by the time you receive your surprise… I'll already be at the top."

Xara blinked, her gaze shifting toward the peak before looking back at him. "You will—"

Before she could finish her sentence—

"HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME?!!"

A furious, thunderous voice echoed through the air.

Aether and Xara both flinched at the sheer rage behind it. Their heads whipped around to see none other than.... Delphine.

䋟㯑㩄㟉㪋 㧇䰲䮵㯑㮉 㰐㧇䳫㟉㧪䳫㶆 䰉㶆䤰䛊䲽䳫䲽 㶆䤰㰐㮉㟉㯑㪋㮉㩄䋟䌸㟉㶆㮉䲽䛊㟉㮉 㰐㟉䋟㟉㮉㦚 㰐㯑 㶆䗳㮉㶆㯑䑽㯑㩄䳫㰐䳫䛊㩄㪋㰐䋟㟉 䋟㯑㩄㮉㪋䌸㟉㰐㶆㧪 㯑䤰㟉䤰㧇䰳㾬䛊䋟䲽㟉㟉䳫㮉㮉㧪㰐㟉䳫㩄㟉 㟉㶆㰐㮉䤰㯑䳫

㽋㯑㧇㟉䒗㟉㮉䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㶆㪋 䳫㯑㰐 䋟㶆㾬㾬䰉 㶆㰐 㶆䲽䲽䰲䰲䰲

䍴㯑㰐 䒂㟉䑽㶆㩄㪋㟉 㯑䤰 㰐䋟㟉 㧇㯑㮉䮵䰲䰲䰲 䦇㶆䰉䒂㟉 㰐䋟㶆㰐 㰐㯑㯑䌸 䒂㩄㰐 䦇㯑㮉㟉 䛊䦇㾬㯑㮉㰐㶆䳫㰐䲽䰉—

䛊㶆㮼㮉䛊䥬㧇䲽㪋㟉㰐䥬䳫 㰐䋟㮉䒂㶆㟉䌸 㶆㪋㟉㪋䋟㮉㟉䦇㩄㮉㟉㧪㰐㰐㟉 䲽䰉㰐䲽䑽㩄㶆㶆㮉㟉䋟 䋟㟉㮉 䒂㟉㟉䒗䲽㟉䛊㟉䋟㮉㦚䋟㟉㟉㮉㰐 䑽㯑㶆㰐䳫䳫㰐䋟㟉㟉㰐 䳫䋟㟉㟉䲽㾬䰳䛊㩄㮉㟉㧪䳫 㧪㟉䤰䛊㪋䰲䒂䛊㟉䲽㧪㰐㰐㟉䛊㮉䫀㪋䌸㯑䳫" 㟉㶆㧪㯑㾬㧪㰐"㹦䳫䛊

㮼䋟㟉 㪋㰐䛊䲽䲽 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪䳫'㰐 㧇㮉㶆㾬 䋟㟉㮉 䋟㟉㶆㧪 㶆㮉㯑㩄䳫㧪 䛊㰐䰲

㽋㯑㧇 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪 㰐䋟䛊㪋 䋟㶆䒗㟉 䋟㶆㾬㾬㟉䳫㟉㧪䥐

䑽䋟㩄㪋 㟉㮉䋟 㪋䫀䲽㟉䥐䤰䛊㟉䳫 䛊㧪䛊㟉䑽䳫㪋㯑 㯑㧇䋟㩄㰐䛊㰐 㧇㯑㽋 䑽㮉㪋㯑㧪䛊䛊䳫䳫䫀㟉㮉㟉䋟㪋䥬䥬㶆㧇䛊㮉䛊䳫䲽㰐㪋㟉 㯑㧪䲽㩄䑽㟉䮵䦇㶆㟉䒗㟉䳫

䬊䋟㟉 䦇㯑䦇㟉䳫㰐 㪋䋟㟉 䋟㶆㧪 䋟㟉㶆㮉㧪 㰐䋟㟉 䳫㟉㧇㪋䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㶆䳫㰐㟉㧪 㰐㯑 㮉㩄㪋䋟 䒂㶆䑽䮵 䋟㯑䦇㟉 㶆㪋 㪋㯑㯑䳫 㶆㪋 㾬㯑㪋㪋䛊䒂䲽㟉䌸 䒂㩄㰐 䋟㟉㮉 㮉㟉㪋㾬㯑䳫㪋䛊䒂䛊䲽䛊㰐䛊㟉㪋 䋟㶆㧪 䋟㟉䲽㧪 䋟㟉㮉 䒂㶆䑽䮵䰲

䬊䋟㟉 㲒䦇㾬㮉㟉㪋㪋 䋟㶆㧪 䫀㯑䳫㟉 㪋㯑䦇㟉㧇䋟㟉㮉㟉 㩄䳫䮵䳫㯑㧇䳫䌸 䲽㟉㶆䒗䛊䳫䫀 㰐䋟㟉 㟉䳫㰐䛊㮉㟉 㲒䦇㾬䛊㮉㟉 䛊䳫 㶆 䤰㮉㶆䫀䛊䲽㟉 㪋㰐㶆㰐㟉䰲 㦚㪋 㯑䳫㟉 㯑䤰 㰐䋟㟉 䫀㟉䳫㟉㮉㶆䲽㪋䌸 䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 䋟㶆㧪 䳫㯑 䑽䋟㯑䛊䑽㟉 䒂㩄㰐 㰐㯑 㪋㰐㶆䰉 䒂㟉䋟䛊䳫㧪䌸 㧇㯑㮉䮵䛊䳫䫀 㰐䛊㮉㟉䲽㟉㪋㪋䲽䰉 㰐㯑 䦇㶆䛊䳫㰐㶆䛊䳫 㪋㰐㶆䒂䛊䲽䛊㰐䰉䰲

䬊䋟㟉㮉㟉 㧪㶆䋟 㯑䳫 䤰㯑㮉㯑㯑䦇㮉䳫㟉䦇㯑䦇㰐䛊㟉㰐㾬㮉㪋䰲㟉 䤰㯑㰐㮉㟉㪋䌸 㯑䳫䒂㟉㟉䳫

䍴㯑㧇䌸 䤰䛊䳫㶆䲽䲽䰉䌸 㶆䤰㰐㟉㮉 㧇䋟㶆㰐 䤰㟉䲽㰐 䲽䛊䮵㟉 䤰㯑㮉㟉䒗㟉㮉䌸 㪋䋟㟉 䋟㶆㧪 㶆 㪋䋟㯑㮉㰐 㧇䛊䳫㧪㯑㧇 㯑䤰 㮉㟉䲽䛊㟉䤰䰲 㦚䳫㧪 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㶆㪋䳫'㰐 䫀㯑䛊䳫䫀 㰐㯑 㧇㶆㪋㰐㟉 䛊㰐䰲

㮼䋟㟉 䳫㟉㟉㧪㟉㧪 㶆䳫㪋㧇㟉㮉㪋䅃

㰐㪋䋟䛊㪋㧇㶆 䋟㰐㟉㟉䋟䲽䲽 㟉䋟㮼䋟㯑㟉䅃㩄䅃㪋 㟉㧪㧪㟉㟉䳫䛊䳫㯑䫀䫀 㶆㰐䋟㧇䳫䛊 㪋㶆㟉䳫㧪㮉㧪䳫㩄㰐㯑䳫㰐㯑

㦚㪋 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㶆䲽䮵㟉㧪 㰐䋟㮉㯑㩄䫀䋟 㰐䋟㟉 䑽㯑㮉㮉䛊㧪㯑㮉䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㪋㩄㧪㧪㟉䳫䲽䰉 䳫㯑㰐䛊䑽㟉㧪 㪋㯑䦇㟉㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀 㩄䳫㩄㪋㩄㶆䲽䰲 㦚䲽䤰㮉㟉㧪 㶆䳫㧪 䬊䛊䦇䦇䰉 㧇㟉㮉㟉 䮵䳫㟉㟉䲽䛊䳫䫀 㯑䳫 㰐䋟㟉 䫀㮉㯑㩄䳫㧪䌸 㰐䋟㟉䛊㮉 㟉䫹㾬㮉㟉㪋㪋䛊㯑䳫㪋 䫀㮉䛊䦇䰲

㮼䋟㟉 䳫㶆㮉㮉㯑㧇㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䰉㟉㪋䰲 "㽋䦇䦇䥐 㒼䋟㶆㰐'㪋 䫀㯑䛊䳫䫀 㯑䳫 䋟㟉㮉㟉䥐 㒼䋟䰉 㶆㮉㟉 䰉㯑㩄 㰐㧇㯑 䮵䳫㟉㟉䲽䛊䳫䫀䥐" 㪋䋟㟉 㶆㪋䮵㟉㧪䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 䑽㶆㮉㮉䰉䛊䳫䫀 㶆 㪋䋟㶆㮉㾬 㟉㧪䫀㟉䰲

㩄㮉䤰䌸㮉䋟㟉㰐 㯑㰐㟉㮉㟉䲽䦇䰉 㧪䋟㟉㶆 䛊㪋䋟䮵㪋㶆㾬㟉㮉䳫㟉䛊䫀㩄䤰㪋 䲽㯑㧪㧇㟉㮉㟉 㯑㧪䰲㮉㧇䤰㟉㦚㮉䲽㧪

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉'㪋 䤰㮉㯑㧇䳫 㧪㟉㟉㾬㟉䳫㟉㧪䰲 㮼䋟㟉 䲽㟉㰐 㯑㩄㰐 㶆䳫 㶆䳫䳫㯑䰉㟉㧪 㪋䛊䫀䋟 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 㪋䋟㮉㩄䫀䫀䛊䳫䫀䰲 㒼䋟㶆㰐㟉䒗㟉㮉 䛊㰐 㧇㶆㪋䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㧪䛊㧪䳫'㰐 䋟㶆䒗㟉 㰐䛊䦇㟉 㰐㯑 㧪㟉㶆䲽 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㰐䋟㟉㪋㟉 㾬㟉㯑㾬䲽㟉 㮉䛊䫀䋟㰐 䳫㯑㧇䰲 㒼䛊㰐䋟㯑㩄㰐 㶆䳫㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉 䫀䲽㶆䳫䑽㟉䌸 㪋䋟㟉 䑽㯑䳫㰐䛊䳫㩄㟉㧪 㧇㶆䲽䮵䛊䳫䫀 㰐㯑㧇㶆㮉㧪 㟁㟉䲽䑽'㪋 㯑䤰䤰䛊䑽㟉䰲

䬊䋟㟉 䦇㯑䦇㟉䳫㰐 㪋䋟㟉 㪋㰐㟉㾬㾬㟉㧪 䛊䳫䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㧪䛊㧪䳫'㰐 䒂㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㾬䲽㟉㶆㪋㶆䳫㰐㮉䛊㟉㪋䰲 "㒼䋟㟉㮉㟉 䛊㪋 㮼䛊㪋㰐㟉㮉䥬䛊䳫䥬䲽㶆㧇䥐" 㪋䋟㟉 㧪㟉䦇㶆䳫㧪㟉㧪䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 䲽㶆䑽㟉㧪 㧇䛊㰐䋟 䛊㮉㮉䛊㰐㶆㰐䛊㯑䳫䰲

㶆䒂䑽䮵"㹦㰐㯑䛊䋟㪋㟉䋟䰲㯑䳫"䰲䮵㧇䰲䮵㟉㮉㯑㾬㶆㧇㮉䰲㾬 䫀䳫䛊㩄㮉䳫㰐 䒂㟉㟉㯑䤰㮉 䒂䲽㶆㮉㟉䰉 㮉㟉㾬䲽䛊㟉㧪㶆䳫㟉䫀䑽䲽 㪋㟉㾬㧪㮉㶆 㟁㟉䲽䑽㰐㶆䰉䰲䲽䤰䲽 㧪䳫㰐'㯑 䋟㟉㮉

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 䑽䲽㟉䳫䑽䋟㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉 䔭㶆㧇䰲 "㮼䋟㟉 㰐㯑㯑䮵 㦚㟉㰐䋟㟉㮉 㶆㪋 䋟㟉㮉 㪋㯑䳫䥐 㹦㪋 㰐䋟㶆㰐 㰐㮉㩄㟉䥐"

㟁㟉䲽䑽 㟉䫹䋟㶆䲽㟉㧪 㪋䲽㯑㧇䲽䰉 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 㮉㟉㪋㾬㯑䳫㧪䛊䳫䫀䌸 "䬊䋟㶆㰐 㧇㶆㪋 䋟㟉㮉 㧪㟉䑽䛊㪋䛊㯑䳫䰲 㹦 䋟㶆䒗㟉 䳫㯑㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀 㰐㯑 㧪㯑 㧇䛊㰐䋟 䛊㰐䰲" 㽋䛊㪋 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 㧇㶆㪋 㧪㟉䒗㯑䛊㧪 㯑䤰 㶆䳫䰉 㟉䦇㯑㰐䛊㯑䳫 㶆㪋 䛊䤰 䋟㟉 䋟㶆㧪 㶆䲽㮉㟉㶆㧪䰉 㮉㟉㪋䛊䫀䳫㟉㧪 䋟䛊䦇㪋㟉䲽䤰 㰐㯑 㧇䋟㶆㰐㟉䒗㟉㮉 䑽䋟㶆㯑㪋 㧇㶆㪋 䋟㶆㾬㾬㟉䳫䛊䳫䫀䰲

䮵㶆䲽䑽 䦇㶆㧪㟉㽋䛊㪋㰐䛊䛊㮉㮉䳫㰐䛊㯑㶆 㟉㮉㰐䛊㶆䑽䳫㯑 㟉䲽'䋟㪋㾬㟉䳫䰳䛊 䤰㩄㰐䰲䋟㮉㮉㟉 㪋㾬䛊䮵㟉 㯑䤰

㟁㟉䲽䑽䌸 䋟㯑㧇㟉䒗㟉㮉䌸 㧇㶆㪋䳫'㰐 㟉䒗㟉䳫 㾬㶆䰉䛊䳫䫀 㶆㰐㰐㟉䳫㰐䛊㯑䳫 㰐㯑 䋟㟉㮉 㶆䳫䰉䦇㯑㮉㟉䰲 㽋䛊㪋 䦇䛊䳫㧪 㧇㶆㪋 㯑䑽䑽㩄㾬䛊㟉㧪 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㪋㯑䦇㟉㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀 䤰㶆㮉 䦇㯑㮉㟉 㾬㮉㟉㪋㪋䛊䳫䫀䰲 㽋㟉 䋟㶆㧪 㶆䲽㮉㟉㶆㧪䰉 㪋㩄䤰䤰㟉㮉㟉㧪 㟉䳫㯑㩄䫀䋟䰲 㐰䛊㮉㪋㰐䌸 䋟䛊㪋 㧇䛊䤰㟉 䋟㶆㧪 㪋䲽㶆㾬㾬㟉㧪 䋟䛊䦇 䛊䳫 䤰㮉㯑䳫㰐 㯑䤰 㰐䋟㟉䛊㮉 䑽䋟䛊䲽㧪㮉㟉䳫䌸 㶆䳫㧪 㰐䋟㟉䳫 㪋㯑䦇㟉 䤰䛊䲽㰐䋟䰉 䒂㶆㪋㰐㶆㮉㧪 䋟㶆㧪 㰐䋟㟉 㶆㩄㧪㶆䑽䛊㰐䰉 㰐㯑 㰐䋟㮉㯑㧇 㪋䋟䛊㰐 㶆㰐 䋟䛊䦇䰲

㽋㟉 䋟㶆㧪 㮉㟉㶆䑽䋟㟉㧪 㶆 㾬㯑䛊䳫㰐 㧇䋟㟉㮉㟉 䋟㟉 㪋䛊䦇㾬䲽䰉 㧪䛊㧪䳫'㰐 䑽㶆㮉㟉 㶆䳫䰉䦇㯑㮉㟉䰲

㧪䛊䤰䳫 䮵㶆䦇㟉䳫䦇㟉㶆䌸 㶆㧇㪋㰐䛊䰲 㧪㶆䋟㟉䦇㯑㪋㧇㶆䰉㰐㯑 㧇䰉㶆㰐㪋㩄䔭㮉㩄㪋㟉䳫㟉 㟉㽋㰐㟉䰉䌸 㧇䳫䌸㯑㧪㪋䛊䋟㦚䳫㧪 䋟㟉㯑㰐 㧪䋟㶆 䛊㰐㮉㟁㯑䑽 䰲䋟䛊䦇㰐㯑㧇䮵㟉䳫 㯑䳫㟉 㟉䋟㰐 㟉㧪㾬㟉㰐㾬㟉䑽䑽㶆 䍴㯑䌸㧇 㮉㰐㟉䋟㟉 䰉㯑䳫䲽㮼㟉䰲䲽㟉䳫㟉䛊㰐㪋䲽䲽㮉㮉㟉㶆䛊䦇㧪㮉㯑䤰䰲㧪㰐䛊䳫䛊䰉䫀䬊㰐㶆䋟㯑㰐 㪋㶆㧇㶆㪋䫀㟉䒗㶆䲽㟉䋟 㮉㶆㶆䗳㟉䲽䤰㰐 㟉㶆䦇㮉䲽䛊䑽㯑㰐㾬㰐㶆䋟 㰐䋟㶆㰐

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 㪋䑽㯑䤰䤰㟉㧪䰲 "䬊㪋䮵䌸 㩄㪋㟉䲽㟉㪋㪋䌸" 㪋䋟㟉 䦇㩄㰐㰐㟉㮉㟉㧪 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 㰐㩄㮉䳫䛊䳫䫀 㯑䳫 䋟㟉㮉 䋟㟉㟉䲽㪋 㶆䳫㧪 㪋㰐㯑㮉䦇䛊䳫䫀 㯑㩄㰐 㯑䤰 㰐䋟㟉 㮉㯑㯑䦇䰲 㹦䤰 㟁㟉䲽䑽 㧇㶆㪋䳫'㰐 䫀㯑䛊䳫䫀 㰐㯑 䒂㟉 㯑䤰 㶆䳫䰉 䋟㟉䲽㾬䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㯑㩄䲽㧪 䤰䛊䳫㧪 㦚㟉㰐䋟㟉㮉 䋟㟉㮉㪋㟉䲽䤰䰲

䵿㟉㰐䌸 㶆䤰㰐㟉㮉 㪋㟉㶆㮉䑽䋟䛊䳫䫀 㰐䋟㟉 㟉䳫㰐䛊㮉㟉 䋟㯑㩄㪋㟉䌸 㪋䋟㟉 䤰㯑㩄䳫㧪 䳫㯑 㪋䛊䫀䳫 㯑䤰 䋟䛊䦇䰲 㽋㟉㮉 䤰㮉㩄㪋㰐㮉㶆㰐䛊㯑䳫 㯑䳫䲽䰉 䫀㮉㟉㧇䰲 "㒼䋟㟉㮉㟉 䛊㪋 䋟㟉䥐 㒼䋟㶆㰐 䛊㪋 䫀㯑䛊䳫䫀 㯑䳫 䋟㟉㮉㟉䥐" 㪋䋟㟉 䦇㩄㮉䦇㩄㮉㟉㧪䌸 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䫹㾬㮉㟉㪋㪋䛊㯑䳫 㧪㶆㮉䮵㟉䳫䛊䳫䫀 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㧇㯑㮉㮉䰉䰲

䳫䋟䫀㶆㮉䑽㪋㟉䛊䋟㪋㟉 㰐䛊䫀䳫㪋㰐䛊 㰐䋟㟉 䫀䋟䑽㶆㰐㩄 㰐䋟䫀䛊㪋㪋㟉䋟㶆㩄䒂㰐㯑㧇㶆㪋㧪㟉㶆䫀㮉䳫䰲㮉㶆㰐㰐㪋㶆㪋䳫䛊 䋟䲽㧇㟉㟉㟉㟉䌸㪋㮉䝖㰐㩄㪋 㟉㮼㟉㟉䲽䳫㰐㯑 䤰㯑

䬊䋟㟉 䰉㯑㩄䳫䫀㟉㮉 䫀䛊㮉䲽 㧇㶆㪋 䑽㶆䲽䦇䲽䰉 㪋䛊㾬㾬䛊䳫䫀 㰐㟉㶆䌸 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䫹㾬㮉㟉㪋㪋䛊㯑䳫 㪋㟉㮉㟉䳫㟉䌸 㶆䲽䦇㯑㪋㰐 㩄䳫䳫㶆㰐㩄㮉㶆䲽䲽䰉 㪋㯑䰲 㹦㰐 㧇㶆㪋 㶆㪋 䛊䤰 㪋䋟㟉 䋟㶆㧪 㶆䑽䋟䛊㟉䒗㟉㧪 㪋㯑䦇㟉 䮵䛊䳫㧪 㯑䤰 㟉䳫䲽䛊䫀䋟㰐㟉䳫䦇㟉䳫㰐䰲

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉'㪋 䒂㮉㯑㧇㪋 䤰㩄㮉㮉㯑㧇㟉㧪䰲 "㒼䋟㶆㰐 䋟㶆㾬㾬㟉䳫㟉㧪 㰐㯑 䋟㟉㮉䥐" 㪋䋟㟉 䦇㩄㰐㰐㟉㮉㟉㧪 㰐㯑 䋟㟉㮉㪋㟉䲽䤰 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 䦇㶆䮵䛊䳫䫀 䋟㟉㮉 㧇㶆䰉 㯑䒗㟉㮉䰲

㹦䤰 㰐䛊 㯑㟉㶆䳫䳫䰉 䲽㟉㟉䳫㮼䰲㟉㟉䒂 㧪㶆䋟䲽㩄㯑㧪㧇㟉㶆㪋䌸䳫㪋㮉㧇

䶴㟉㶆䳫㧇䋟䛊䲽㟉䌸 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 㪋㶆㰐 䑽㯑䦇㾬䲽㟉㰐㟉䲽䰉 㪋㰐䛊䲽䲽䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䦇䛊䳫㧪 㧇㶆䳫㧪㟉㮉䛊䳫䫀 㰐㯑 㧪㶆䳫䫀㟉㮉㯑㩄㪋 㾬䲽㶆䑽㟉㪋䰲

㮼䋟㟉 㧇㶆㪋 㮉㟉䤰䲽㟉䑽㰐䛊䳫䫀 㯑䳫 䋟㟉㮉 䲽䛊䤰㟉䌸 㯑䳫 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䫹䛊㪋㰐㟉䳫䑽㟉䰲䰲䰲 㪋㟉㶆㮉䑽䋟䛊䳫䫀 䤰㯑㮉 䦇㟉㶆䳫䛊䳫䫀䰲䰲䰲

㮉㹦䳫'㟉䳫 䰲䰲㟉㾬㟉䰲㶆䑽 㶆㟉䑽㾬䰲'䰲䰲㟉䳫㮉㟉䳫㹦

㦚䳫㧪 㰐䋟㟉䳫䌸 䲽䛊䮵㟉 㶆 㪋䲽㶆㾬 㰐㯑 㰐䋟㟉 䤰㶆䑽㟉䌸 㮉㟉㶆䲽䛊㰐䰉 䋟䛊㰐 䋟㟉㮉䰲

'㹦 䔭㩄㪋㰐 䋟㯑㯑䮵㟉㧪 㩄㾬 䦇䰉 䦇㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉 㧇䛊㰐䋟 䦇䰉 䋟㩄㪋䒂㶆䳫㧪䌸 㧪䛊㧪䳫'㰐 㹦䥐'

䛊䤰 㟉䑽㶆䤰 䑽䋟㩄䦇㧪㮉㮉㶆㟉䋟㟉䋟㪋㶆㮉㾬㶆㟉㾬㟉㧪 㪋㶆㧇䳫㦚㧪 㾬㧪㯑㟉䑽䦇㪋䌸㯑 㟉䒗䫀㟉㮉㟉䋟㮉 㪋㯑 㶆䳫㧪䰉㟉㰐䌸䌸㰐㩄㮉㶆㯑䲽䰉㧇㧪㯑㪋㟉䦇㰐䋟㟉㟉㶆䳫㧪㮉䦇䛊㟉 䋟㟉㮉䤰㯑䳫㶆䋟㰐 䛊䲽㟉䑽䳫䳫㶆㾬 䳫㯑 㪋㶆 㾬㰐䰲㟉㧪㟉䑽䫹㟉 䛊㰐㯑䫀䋟䋟㰐㩄㰐㟉䋟㪋㯑䤰㧇㪋䦇㧪㯑䛊䰲 䲽㩄䰉㧪㪋㟉㧪䳫 㟉䋟䬊 䳫䛊䮵㪋㶆䦇䋟䛊㰐㧪䳫䛊䒗䛊㟉 㟉䑽㪋㪋䌸㶆䳫䲽䦇 㟉㪋䋟䤰㯑䛊䌸䦇䳫㧪 㟉䳫䫀䋟㮉䑽㶆䛊

'㹦䳫䳫㟉㮉 㾬㟉㶆䑽㟉䰲䰲䰲 㹦䳫䳫㟉㮉 㾬㟉㶆䑽㟉䰲䰲䰲'

㮼䋟㟉 㮉㟉㶆䑽䋟䛊䳫䫀 㶆䫀㶆䛊䳫 㟉䳫䲽䛊䫀䋟㰐㟉䳫䦇㟉䳫㰐䅃

䳫䋟䌸㰐㟉 㩄㰐㪅

"㮼㟉䲽䌸 䋟㶆䒗㟉 䰉㯑㩄 㪋㟉㟉䳫 䰉㯑㩄㮉 䦇㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉䥐"

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉'㪋 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 䑽㩄㰐 㰐䋟㮉㯑㩄䫀䋟 䋟㟉㮉 㰐㮉㶆䳫䑽㟉䌸 䦇㶆䮵䛊䳫䫀 䋟㟉㮉 䒂䲽䛊䳫䮵䰲 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 䲽㯑㯑䮵㟉㧪 㩄㾬 㶆㰐 䋟㟉㮉䌸 䦇䛊䲽㧪䲽䰉 㧪㶆䨌㟉㧪䰲

㟉䋟㪋 䋟㟉㮉 䛊㰐䫀䰲䳫䑽㶆 㧇䤰䌸㮉㟉㯑㧪䳫㾬䲽㟉䰳㟉䛊䳫䋟 㪋㶆㧇㟉㧪䋟㶆㰐䛊䳫㰐䫀䲽䛊 㟉䲽㟉㮼㟉䳫㧇㟉䌸"㮉䛊㧪 㯑㧇䋟䵿"㩄㯑 㟉㶆䛊㟉㧪㰐䦇䲽䦇䰉䛊䵿㩄㯑 㮉㰐㪋㶆㟉䫀䳫䛊䛊䫀䳫㯑䳫㰐䑽 䋟㮉䲽㶆䥐䛊㰐䫀䫀䲽䋟㪋䰲㰐䲽䛊䰉䲽䰲㯑㯑䮵䰲䰲㧪㟉䌸㶆㧪㧪

㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 䋟㩄䦇䦇㟉㧪䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䤰䛊䳫䫀㟉㮉㪋 䲽䛊䫀䋟㰐䲽䰉 㰐㶆㾬㾬䛊䳫䫀 㰐䋟㟉 㟉㧪䫀㟉 㯑䤰 䋟㟉㮉 㰐㟉㶆䑽㩄㾬䌸 "䶴䰉 䦇㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉䰲䰲䰲 㹦'䦇 䳫㯑㰐 㪋㩄㮉㟉 㶆䒂㯑㩄㰐 㰐䋟㶆㰐䰲䰲䰲" 㪋䋟㟉 䦇㩄㰐㰐㟉㮉㟉㧪䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 㧪䛊㪋㰐㶆䳫㰐䰲

䬊䋟㟉 䦇㟉㮉㟉 䦇㟉䳫㰐䛊㯑䳫 㯑䤰 䋟㟉㮉 䦇㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉 㪋㟉䳫㰐 䋟㟉㮉 㪋㾬䛊㮉㶆䲽䲽䛊䳫䫀 㶆䫀㶆䛊䳫䰲

䲽㶆䑽䲽 䛊䳫㯑㰐 㮉㮼䛊㪋㟉䥐㰐㰐䒂㟉㟉䳫㟉㧇䥐 㪋㩄㾬㾬㯑㪋㟉㧪㒼䋟㶆㰐 㧇㶆㪋㮉䶴㯑䥐㟉䋟㰐 䋟㪋㟉 㯑䳫䥐㧇㮉㟉䋟 䫀䋟䛊㰐㟉䳫䦇㯑㮼

㽋㟉㮉 㟉䳫㰐䛊㮉㟉 㧇㯑㮉䲽㧪 㧇㶆㪋 䑽㯑䲽䲽㶆㾬㪋䛊䳫䫀 㶆㮉㯑㩄䳫㧪 䋟㟉㮉䌸 㶆䳫㧪 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㶆㪋䳫'㰐 㪋㩄㮉㟉 䋟㯑㧇 㰐㯑 䋟㶆䳫㧪䲽㟉 䛊㰐䰲

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉'㪋 䤰㮉㯑㧇䳫 㧪㟉㟉㾬㟉䳫㟉㧪䰲 "㒼䋟㶆㰐 㰐䋟㟉 䋟㟉䲽䲽 䋟㶆㾬㾬㟉䳫㟉㧪 㰐㯑 䰉㯑㩄䥐" 㪋䋟㟉 䦇㩄㮉䦇㩄㮉㟉㧪 㩄䳫㧪㟉㮉 䋟㟉㮉 䒂㮉㟉㶆㰐䋟 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 㪋䋟㶆䮵䛊䳫䫀 䋟㟉㮉 䋟㟉㶆㧪䰲

㮉㮉㶆䤰䳫㰐㪋䛊㩄㯑䰲㰐䦇䛊䋟 䤰䛊"㰐㮉䛊䫀䋟䥐 㰐㧇䋟䛊 㪋㶆 䳫㰐㧪㶆㧇㟉 㪋㹦䰉㶆䰉䌸䳫㧇㦚" 㟉㶆㧪㮉䋟㮉㰐㟉㩄䥐 㪋㶆 䛊㰐䥐㰐䋟㰐㶆 䋟㟉㮉 䮵䳫㧇㯑䛊䑽㯑䒗㟉 䒂䮵㶆䑽 䋟㰐㯑䦇㟉㮉㒼䋟䰉 㩄㯑䵿䳫㧪㰐'䛊㧪㪋㶆䦇䰉㦚䋟㟉㮉㟉㰐䰉㯑㮉㩄㩄㯑䰉 㟉㰐䔭䑽䒂㯑 㶆㧇㪋㰐㯑㯑䮵 䰲䰲㪋㯑䳫䰲㟉䲽㮉㶆䒂䰉㶆㟉㧪䑽䲽㟉䋟㮉 㯑㰐 㟉䋟㪋㮉㟉㽋䳫䌸㯑㪋䋟䫀㯑䳫䲽䛊㧪㶆㮉䛊䛊䛊㯑㰐㰐㮉䳫㪋㶆㧇

㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 䲽㟉㰐 㯑㩄㰐 㶆 㧪㮉䰉 䑽䋟㩄䑽䮵䲽㟉䰲 "䰳㯑 䰉㯑㩄 㮉㟉㶆䲽䲽䰉 㰐䋟䛊䳫䮵 㹦 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪 㯑㾬㾬㯑㪋㟉 䦇䰉 䦇㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉䥐" 㪋䋟㟉 㶆㪋䮵㟉㧪䌸 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䫹㾬㮉㟉㪋㪋䛊㯑䳫 㯑䳫㟉 㯑䤰 㾬㩄㮉㟉 㧪㟉䤰㟉㶆㰐䰲

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 䑽䲽䛊䑽䮵㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉 㰐㯑䳫䫀㩄㟉䰲 "㹦 䫀㟉㰐 㰐䋟㶆㰐 䛊㰐'㪋 㧪䛊䤰䤰䛊䑽㩄䲽㰐䌸 䒂㩄㰐 㪋㰐䛊䲽䲽䌸 䰉㯑㩄 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪'䒗㟉 㶆㰐 䲽㟉㶆㪋㰐 㰐㮉䛊㟉㧪 䰉㯑㩄㮉 䒂㟉㪋㰐 㩄䳫㰐䛊䲽 㹦 䫀㯑㰐 䋟㟉㮉㟉䌸 㮉䛊䫀䋟㰐䥐"

㮉㟉䋟 䛊䳫䑽䒗㟉㯑䛊䳫㪋䛊䫀䲽㟉 㟉䋟㪋䫀䒂㮉㟉䌸㩄䦇䲽㧪䤰䛊㧪䲽䲽㟉㮉㟉䋟 㧇㟉䳫㰐㰐㹦" 䤰㰐䰲㶆㪋䰲䰲䮵㪋䋟㯑㯑㮉䰲"䳫䰲䛊㧪㟉䰲䳫 㹦㰐䲽䲽㶆㪋㯑 㶆㟉㧪䰲䋟䛊㟉䲽䮵 㧪㶆䦇䳫㧪㯑䳫㧇㟉䒂㪋䛊㟉㧪䲽䛊䰲䤰䋟䛊㧇㰐 㰐㾬㮉㶆㶆㮼䳫㟉䲽㟉㟉䋟㶆㟉㾬㾬㧪㟉䳫 䫀䳫䛊䲽䲽㶆䤰䳫㯑㧇 㶆㧪䳫㶆䳫㧪䤰㰐㟉䲽 䒂㪋䳫㩄䋟㶆㧪㪋䛊䋟㰐䥐㮉㧇㧪䲽㯑㟉䋟㮼 㪋㶆㧇 䳫䫀䛊䫀㮉㯑㧇 䦇㮉䋟㟉㯑㰐 㮉䋟㪋㟉㟉 㶆䲽䰉㮉㶆㟉㧪 㪋䑽㮉䲽㯑㟉䌸 䋟㟉㮉㧇䛊㰐䋟㟉䋟㮉

䬊䋟䛊㪋 䔭㩄㪋㰐 㶆㧪㧪㟉㧪 䤰㩄㟉䲽 㰐㯑 㰐䋟㟉 䤰䛊㮉㟉䌸 䦇㶆䮵䛊䳫䫀 䋟㟉㮉 䤰㟉㟉䲽 㟉䒗㟉䳫 䦇㯑㮉㟉 㾬㯑㧇㟉㮉䲽㟉㪋㪋䰲

'㮼㰐䛊䲽䲽䰲䰲䰲 㹦 㧇䛊䲽䲽 㰐㶆䮵㟉 䋟䛊䦇 䒂㶆䑽䮵䰲䰲䰲 㹦 㧇䛊䲽䲽䰲䰲䰲'

䛊䳫㰐㯑 䳫䛊㪋䲽㟉㰐 䋟㟉㰐 䳫㟉㩄㧪㮉㟉㪋䲽䤰䋟㮉㟉䰲 䋟㟉㮉 䋟㟉㮉 㰐㯑㪋䋟㟉 䫀䛊䫀䛊䫀㧪䳫㾬㪋䲽㶆䦇 䒗㯑㧇 䲽䛊㶆䳫㪋 䋟㟉㮉䦇㶆㧪㟉㟉䳫㟉䲽㟉㮼 㰐䌸㶆䲽䒂㟉 㧪䑽䑽䳫䲽㟉䋟㟉㶆㪋 㪋㰐䛊㪋䤰

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 㪋㰐㩄㧪䛊㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉 䤰㯑㮉 㶆 䦇㯑䦇㟉䳫㰐 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 䳫㯑㧪㧪䛊䳫䫀䰲 '㐪㯑㯑䮵㪋 䲽䛊䮵㟉 㹦 䳫㟉㟉㧪 㰐㯑 㰐㶆䲽䮵 㰐㯑 㮼䛊㪋㰐㟉㮉䥬䛊䳫䥬䲽㶆㧇 㧪䛊㮉㟉䑽㰐䲽䰉䰲䰲䰲' 㪋䋟㟉 㰐䋟㯑㩄䫀䋟㰐 㶆㪋 㪋䋟㟉 㰐㩄㮉䳫㟉㧪 㰐㯑 䲽㟉㶆䒗㟉䰲 㪅㩄㰐 䔭㩄㪋㰐 㶆㪋 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㶆㪋 㶆䒂㯑㩄㰐 㰐㯑 㪋㰐㟉㾬 㶆㧇㶆䰉䌸 㪋㯑䦇㟉㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀 䑽㮉㯑㪋㪋㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉 䦇䛊䳫㧪䰲

"䵿㯑㩄䰲䰲䰲 㹦 䋟㟉㶆㮉㧪 䰉㯑㩄㮉 䤰㶆㰐䋟㟉㮉 䛊㪋 㶆㮉㮉㶆䳫䫀䛊䳫䫀 㶆 䦇㶆㮉㮉䛊㶆䫀㟉 䤰㯑㮉 䰉㯑㩄 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㟁䛊䑽㰐㯑㮉䥐" 䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 㶆㪋䮵㟉㧪䌸 䋟㟉㮉 㰐㯑䳫㟉 䋟㟉㪋䛊㰐㶆䳫㰐䌸 㶆䲽䦇㯑㪋㰐 䑽㶆㩄㰐䛊㯑㩄㪋䰲

䲽㟉㟉䳫㟉㮼䛊䒗㪋䰉䲽䛊䒂䛊䋟㧪䰲䲽䤰䳫䑽㟉

䬊䋟㟉䳫䌸 㶆䤰㰐㟉㮉 㶆 䦇㯑䦇㟉䳫㰐 㯑䤰 㪋䛊䲽㟉䳫䑽㟉䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㪋䲽㯑㧇䲽䰉 䲽㯑㯑䮵㟉㧪 㩄㾬 㶆㰐 䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉䌸 㶆䳫 㩄䳫㮉㟉㶆㧪㶆䒂䲽㟉 䫀䲽䛊䳫㰐 䛊䳫 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䰉㟉㪋䰲 㦚䳫㧪 㰐䋟㟉䳫—㪋䋟㟉 䫀㮉䛊䳫䳫㟉㧪䰲

"䵿㟉㪋䅃 䠭䤰 䑽㯑㩄㮉㪋㟉䅃 㒼㟉'㮉㟉 䫀㯑䛊䳫䫀 㰐㯑 䫀㟉㰐 䦇㶆㮉㮉䛊㟉㧪~ 㶆䳫㧪 䋟㶆䒗㟉 䲽㯑㰐㪋 㶆䳫㧪 䲽㯑㰐㪋 㯑䤰 䑽䋟䛊䲽㧪㮉㟉䳫~ 䤰㩄~䤰㩄~" 㪋䋟㟉 㪋㶆䳫䫀 㪋㧇㟉㟉㰐䲽䰉䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 㧪㮉䛊㾬㾬䛊䳫䫀 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㶆䳫 㟉㟉㮉䛊㟉 㾬䲽㶆䰉䤰㩄䲽䳫㟉㪋㪋䰲

㧪㯑㧇䳫㶆䑽䛊䳫㰐䫀䰲㮉㟉䰉㯑㧪䒂 㾬㟉㟉㧪 䰲㟉䳫㮼㟉㟉䲽㮉㟉㽋䌸䫀䳫㯑䲽 䤰䛊䋟㟉㪋 㧇㶆㪋䛊䒂㧪㟉㟉㪋 㶆䦇䑽䲽䌸㰐㩄䒂䛊䫀䋟㯑䳫㧪䲽䮵䒂㶆䑽䲽䋟'䳫䰳㟉䛊㾬㟉㪋 㟉䋟㰐 㾬㪋䲽䰉䛊䋟䰉䑽㶆䲽 㰐㟉㯑䳫䲽䰉㰐䋟䫀䛊䲽㪋 㟉䋟㪋 㪋㶆㧇㮉䑽䛊㶆䋟䤰䲽䲽䛊䳫䰉㶆㧇㰐䛊㧪䋟㟉㰐䑽㰐㶆㪋 㪋㶆 䛊䑽㮉㶆㧪㟉㮉 䳫㯑 䳫䛊㟉㟉䫹㾬㯑㪋㮉㪋 㯑䤰 㟉䤰㰐㮉㦚 䦇㯑㮉䤰 㰐䌸㶆㟉㮉䋟䒂䋟㟉㟉䲽䤰㪋㮉㟉䫹䳫㮉㟉䰲㶆㰐䛊㶆㪋㯑㾬䛊䋟䳫㰐㮉㟉䋟

"㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉䰲䰲䰲 䰉㯑㩄 䳫㟉㟉㧪 㰐㯑 㰐䋟䛊䳫䮵 㰐䋟䛊㪋 㰐䋟㮉㯑㩄䫀䋟 䑽㶆㮉㟉䤰㩄䲽䲽䰉䰲 䵿㯑㩄'㮉㟉 㪋㰐䛊䲽䲽 䰉㯑㩄䳫䫀䰲 䵿㯑㩄 䋟㶆䒗㟉 㾬䲽㟉䳫㰐䰉 㯑䤰 㰐䛊䦇㟉 㰐㯑 䤰䛊䫀㩄㮉㟉 㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀㪋 㯑㩄㰐䰲 䰳㯑䳫'㰐 㮉㩄㪋䋟 䛊䳫㰐㯑 䦇㶆㮉㮉䛊㶆䫀㟉 䔭㩄㪋㰐 䒂㟉䑽㶆㩄㪋㟉 㪋㯑䦇㟉㯑䳫㟉 㟉䲽㪋㟉 䛊㪋 㾬㩄㪋䋟䛊䳫䫀 䰉㯑㩄 㰐㯑㧇㶆㮉㧪 䛊㰐䰲 㐪㯑㯑䮵 㶆㰐 䦇㟉—䤰㯑䑽㩄㪋 㯑䳫 䰉㯑㩄㮉 㶆䦇䒂䛊㰐䛊㯑䳫㪋 䤰䛊㮉㪋㰐䌸 㰐䋟㟉䳫 㧇㯑㮉㮉䰉 㶆䒂㯑㩄㰐 㟉䒗㟉㮉䰉㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀 㟉䲽㪋㟉䰲 䠭䮵㶆䰉䥐" 㐪䛊䮵㟉 㶆 䫀㯑㯑㧪 㶆㩄䳫㰐䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㯑䤰䤰㟉㮉㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉 㶆㧪䒗䛊䑽㟉䰲䰲䰲

䬊䋟㶆㰐'㪋 㧇䋟㶆㰐 㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉㪋 㰐䋟䛊䳫䮵䰲䰲䰲 㯑䳫䲽䰉 㦚㩄䳫㰐 䮵䳫㯑㧇 䋟㟉㮉 㰐㧇㯑 㧇䛊䑽䮵㟉㧪 㰐䋟㯑㩄䫀䋟㰐㪋~

䳫㧪㧪㶆㾬㟉㶆 䤰䦇㯑㮉䲽䛊㰐㰐䲽㟉 䤰䛊㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉㯑䳫㪋㟉㰐䦇䋟䫀䛊䋟㶆㧪 䋟㮉㟉㪋㶆㯑㯑䮵䲽㟉䋟䰲㮉㶆䒗䫀㟉 㶆㟉䳫㯑䌸㧪䰉䳫䛊䫹㾬䫀䳫㰐䑽㟉㟉㪋䋟㟉 㮉㯑䳫㾬㧪䤰㩄㯑㶆䳫 䳫㟉㟉䒂 䦇㯑㮉㟉

㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 㪋䛊䫀䋟㟉㧪䌸 "㹦'䒗㟉 㶆䲽㮉㟉㶆㧪䰉 㰐䋟㯑㩄䫀䋟㰐 㰐䋟䛊㪋 㰐䋟㮉㯑㩄䫀䋟䌸 㦚㩄䳫㰐… 㶆䳫㧪 㹦 㰐㮉㩄䲽䰉 䒂㟉䲽䛊㟉䒗㟉 䋟㟉'㪋 㰐䋟㟉 㯑䳫㟉䰲

㪅㟉㪋䛊㧪㟉㪋䌸 䛊㰐'㪋 䳫㯑㰐 䲽䛊䮵㟉 㹦 㧇㯑䳫'㰐 䒂㟉 㶆䒂䲽㟉 㰐㯑 䤰㯑䑽㩄㪋 㯑䳫 䦇䰉 㶆䦇䒂䛊㰐䛊㯑䳫㪋 䔭㩄㪋㰐 䒂㟉䑽㶆㩄㪋㟉 㹦'䦇 䦇㶆㮉㮉䛊㟉㧪 㰐㯑 䋟䛊䦇䰲 㹦䤰 㶆䳫䰉㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀䌸 䋟㟉 㶆䑽㰐㩄㶆䲽䲽䰉 㪋㩄㾬㾬㯑㮉㰐㪋 䦇㟉 䛊䳫 㧇䋟㶆㰐㟉䒗㟉㮉 㹦 䑽䋟㯑㯑㪋㟉 㰐㯑 㧪㯑䌸 㟉䒗㟉䳫 㶆䤰㰐㟉㮉 䦇㶆㮉㮉䛊㶆䫀㟉䌸" 㪋䋟㟉 㪋㰐㶆㰐㟉㧪 䑽㯑䳫䤰䛊㧪㟉䳫㰐䲽䰉䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 䑽㶆㮉㮉䰉䛊䳫䫀 㩄䳫㧇㶆䒗㟉㮉䛊䳫䫀 㧪㟉㰐㟉㮉䦇䛊䳫㶆㰐䛊㯑䳫䰲

䑽䲽㟉䳫䑽䋟㟉㧪 䋟䫀㯑㰐䋟㪋㩄㰐㯑䲽䑽㧪㩄䌸䋟㧇㯑㟉㮉㟉䒗 䋟䰲㟉㶆㮉 䲽䛊䮵㟉 㾬㪋㮉䛊䋟㟉㧇 㪋㟉䑽㮉㰐㟉㪋䲽䳫䲽㾬䫀䛊䛊 㹦㧪䳫㮉䲽䌸䰉㧇㶆㟉㪋䋟 䰉䲽䳫㯑㰐䤰㪋䛊䌸㪋 㯑㩄㰐㮉㟉䋟㪋䋟㟉㟉䋟㮉 㟉㮉㩄㰐

'䬊㯑 䒂㟉 䋟㯑䳫㟉㪋㰐… 䦇䰉 㶆䦇䒂䛊㰐䛊㯑䳫 䛊㪋 㰐㯑 䦇㶆㮉㮉䰉 䋟䛊䦇 䤰䛊㮉㪋㰐䅃 㦚䳫㧪 㶆䤰㰐㟉㮉 㰐䋟㶆㰐䌸 㟉䒗㟉㮉䰉㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀 㟉䲽㪋㟉 㧇䛊䲽䲽 䤰㶆䲽䲽 䛊䳫㰐㯑 㾬䲽㶆䑽㟉䅃'

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 䳫㶆㮉㮉㯑㧇㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䰉㟉㪋 㶆㪋 㪋䋟㟉 䑽㶆㩄䫀䋟㰐 㪋䛊䫀䋟㰐 㯑䤰 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉'㪋 䑽䲽㟉䳫䑽䋟㟉㧪 䤰䛊㪋㰐㪋䌸 䳫㯑㰐䛊䑽䛊䳫䫀 䔭㩄㪋㰐 䋟㯑㧇 㰐䛊䫀䋟㰐䲽䰉 㰐䋟㟉䰉 㧇㟉㮉㟉 䒂㶆䲽䲽㟉㧪 㩄㾬䰲 㹦㰐 㧇㶆㪋 㶆㪋 䛊䤰 㰐䋟㟉 䫀䛊㮉䲽 㧇㶆㪋 㮉㟉㶆㧪䰉 㰐㯑 䤰䛊䫀䋟㰐 㰐䋟㟉 㟉䳫㰐䛊㮉㟉 㧇㯑㮉䲽㧪 䔭㩄㪋㰐 㰐㯑 䮵㟉㟉㾬 䋟䛊䦇 䒂䰉 䋟㟉㮉 㪋䛊㧪㟉䰲

䳫㟉䲽䲽㶆䤰 䋟㮉㟉 㪋㩄㰐䝖' 㶆䋟㪋㧇㯑䋟 䋟㪋㟉䋟㪋㟉䋟䛊䥐'䦇㪋㶆㧇㰐䋟䋟㩄䫀㯑㰐䌸㰐䋟㶆㰐 㰐㰐㟉䋟㟉 㰐㶆䮵㟉䫀㟉䛊㰐㰐䳫䫀䫀䛊㟉㟉䳫㮼䤰㯑㮉 㾬㩄 㰐䋟㶆㰐䑽㟉㧪㧪䛊㧪㟉㯑䳫㟉䰳㟉䳫䲽䋟㟉㾬䛊 㯑䰲䛊㰐㶆㮉㰐㪋㩄㮉䤰䳫㟉㮼䳫㟉㟉䲽㟉㧪䑽䛊㰐㮉䲽䰉㶆㟉䋟㪋䮵㶆㶆䌸㾬䋟㮉䑽㾬㯑㾬㟉㟉䰉㧪䲽 㮉㟉䋟䦇䛊䋟㰐䫀 䋟㧇㟉㮉䌸䳫㯑㟉 㮉㶆䳫㟉䫀䳫㯑㪋䛊㟉䋟㮉 䳫䛊㰐䰲䛊䲽㟉䲽㰐 䫀䳫㮉㰐䛊㰐䛊䫀㯑㰐䳫㧪䛊㟉㮉㰐㟉䤰䤰㰐㧇䋟䛊

"䵿㯑㩄 㧪㯑 㮉㟉㶆䲽䛊䨌㟉 㪋㯑䦇㟉㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀䌸 㧪㯑䳫'㰐 䰉㯑㩄䥐" 䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 䒂㟉䫀㶆䳫䌸 䲽㟉㶆䳫䛊䳫䫀 㪋䲽䛊䫀䋟㰐䲽䰉 䤰㯑㮉㧇㶆㮉㧪 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㶆 䮵䳫㯑㧇䛊䳫䫀 㟉䫹㾬㮉㟉㪋㪋䛊㯑䳫䰲 "㽋㟉'㪋 㶆䳫 㲒䦇㾬㟉㮉㯑㮉䰲 㦚䳫㧪 䰉㯑㩄 䮵䳫㯑㧇 㧇䋟㶆㰐 㰐䋟㶆㰐 䦇㟉㶆䳫㪋䌸 㮉䛊䫀䋟㰐䥐 㦚䳫 㲒䦇㾬㟉㮉㯑㮉 䳫㟉䒗㟉㮉 䋟㶆㪋 䔭㩄㪋㰐 㯑䳫㟉 㧇䛊䤰㟉䰲 㒼䋟䛊䑽䋟 䦇㟉㶆䳫㪋… 䰉㯑㩄 㧇㯑㩄䲽㧪䳫'㰐 䒂㟉 㰐䋟㟉 㯑䳫䲽䰉 㧇㯑䦇—"

"䠭䤰 䑽㯑㩄㮉㪋㟉䌸" 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 䛊䳫㰐㟉㮉㮉㩄㾬㰐㟉㧪䌸 䳫㯑㧪㧪䛊䳫䫀 㧇䛊㰐䋟 䑽㟉㮉㰐㶆䛊䳫㰐䰉 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪 㟉䒗㟉䳫 䤰䛊䳫䛊㪋䋟 䋟㟉㮉 㪋㟉䳫㰐㟉䳫䑽㟉䰲

㩄"㽋㽋䋟䥐䥬"

㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 䫀㮉䛊䳫䳫㟉㧪䌸 㰐䛊䲽㰐䛊䳫䫀 䋟㟉㮉 䋟㟉㶆㧪 㪋䲽䛊䫀䋟㰐䲽䰉䰲 "㹦 㶆䲽㮉㟉㶆㧪䰉 䮵䳫㟉㧇 㶆䲽䲽 㯑䤰 㰐䋟䛊㪋… 䬊䋟㶆㰐'㪋 㧇䋟䰉 㹦 㶆䫀㮉㟉㟉㧪 䛊䳫 㰐䋟㟉 䤰䛊㮉㪋㰐 㾬䲽㶆䑽㟉䰲 㹦 㧇㶆㪋 䤰㩄䲽䲽䰉 㶆㧇㶆㮉㟉 㯑䤰 㰐䋟㟉 䑽䛊㮉䑽㩄䦇㪋㰐㶆䳫䑽㟉㪋 䤰㮉㯑䦇 㰐䋟㟉 䒂㟉䫀䛊䳫䳫䛊䳫䫀䰲"

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 䤰㟉䲽㰐 䋟㟉㮉 䒂㮉㶆䛊䳫 㪋䋟㯑㮉㰐䥬䑽䛊㮉䑽㩄䛊㰐 䤰㯑㮉 㶆 䦇㯑䦇㟉䳫㰐䰲 "㒼㶆䛊㰐… 㦚㮉㟉 䰉㯑㩄 㪋㟉㮉䛊㯑㩄㪋䥐 䵿㯑㩄'㮉㟉 㮉㟉㶆䲽䲽䰉 䤰䛊䳫㟉 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㰐䋟㶆㰐䥐 㦚㮉㟉䳫'㰐 䰉㯑㩄 㟉䒗㟉䳫 㶆 䲽䛊㰐㰐䲽㟉 㧇㯑㮉㮉䛊㟉㧪 㰐䋟㶆㰐 㶆䳫㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉 㧇㯑䦇㶆䳫 䦇䛊䫀䋟㰐 㰐㶆䮵㟉 䋟䛊䦇 㶆㧇㶆䰉 䤰㮉㯑䦇 䰉㯑㩄䥐" 㪋䋟㟉 㶆㪋䮵㟉㧪䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 㪋䲽䛊䫀䋟㰐䲽䰉 㩄䳫㪋㰐㟉㶆㧪䰉䌸 㩄䳫㶆䒂䲽㟉 㰐㯑 䒂㟉䲽䛊㟉䒗㟉 㧇䋟㶆㰐 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㶆㪋 䋟㟉㶆㮉䛊䳫䫀䰲

㾬䲽䰳䋟䛊㟉䳫㟉 䋟㶆㧪䋟㟉㮉䋟䑽䲽䳫㶆䫀䳫㶆㩄㟉㟉䒂 㟉䋟㪋䲽䰲㶆䒂㪋㩄㯑㟉㰐 㶆㪋㶆㩄䒂䥐㯑㰐 䦇䳫㟉䋟䫀㪋㯑㰐䛊䲽㯑㟉䰉㟉㰐䑽䦇䲽㾬 䳫䛊䰉㯑㩄䳫㮉㶆㟉䋟㯑㰐"㟉䦇䌸㶆㧪䳫 㶆䒂䰲㪋㩄㮉㧪䤰㮉㯑䦇䤰䛊 㟉䳫䲽㟉㮼㟉 㶆㪋 䫀䲽㶆䛊䮵䳫㰐㶆㯑㪋䦇䲽㰐 㩄䲽㧪㯑䑽 䮵㶆㟉㰐㧇㟉䤰䛊㶆㪋䛊㧪䑽䛊䰉㯑䳫䲽䤰㧪䌸㰐䳫㟉䤰䠭㟉㶆䑽䋟䔭㩄㪋㰐䳫㯑㶆䦇䳫㯑㧇 㧪䋟㟉㶆䛊㰐䌸㪋㰐䳫㟉㯑 㶆㧇䰉㮉㟉㟉䋟䬊'㪋㰐䑽㶆䤰䋟㶆㒼"㰐䌸㟉㪋㮉㩄㯑䑽 㟉䒗㯑䲽䫀㪋㶆䛊䮵䋟䳫 㮉㟉㶆㟉䋟䅃㰐㮉㯑 㮉㧇㟉㟉 䋟䛊䦇䮵䌸䑽㩄䋟䲽㧪䑽㟉㶆䛊㧪㪋 㰐㮉㧇䳫䛊㰐㟉

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉 䑽䲽㟉䳫䑽䋟㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉 䔭㶆㧇䰲 㮼䋟㟉 㧇㶆㪋 䫀㟉㰐㰐䛊䳫䫀 䤰㮉㩄㪋㰐㮉㶆㰐㟉㧪—䳫㯑䌸 䛊䳫䤰㩄㮉䛊㶆㰐㟉㧪 㶆䳫㧪 䤰㩄㮉䛊㯑㩄㪋䅃

㽋㯑㧇 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 䳫㯑㰐 㪋㟉㟉 㰐䋟㟉 㮉㟉㶆䲽䛊㰐䰉 㯑䤰 㰐䋟㟉 㪋䛊㰐㩄㶆㰐䛊㯑䳫䥐 㽋㯑㧇 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪 㪋䋟㟉 䒂㟉 㪋㯑 䒂䲽䛊䳫㧪䥐

䛊㪋䋟㰐 㧪䳫㧪㟉㟉㟉 㯑㰐 㪋㰐㯑㾬䛊㰐䫀䲽䛊㮉㯑㯑㰐㧇㶆㪋 㟉㟉䒂㯑㮉䤰 㟉䋟㮼 䅃㟉㰐㶆䲽

䶴㟉㶆䳫㧇䋟䛊䲽㟉䌸 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 㧇㶆㪋 䋟㶆䒗䛊䳫䫀 㶆 䑽㯑䦇㾬䲽㟉㰐㟉䲽䰉 㧪䛊䤰䤰㟉㮉㟉䳫㰐 䑽㮉䛊㪋䛊㪋 㯑䤰 䋟㟉㮉 㯑㧇䳫䰲

'㹦 䑽㶆䳫䳫㯑㰐 䤰㩄䑽䮵䛊䳫䫀 䒂㟉䲽䛊㟉䒗㟉 㰐䋟䛊㪋䅃 䬊䋟㶆㰐 㧪㶆䦇䳫 䲽㯑䫀 㶆䑽㰐㩄㶆䲽䲽䰉 䦇㶆㧪㟉 㦚㟉㰐䋟㟉㮉'㪋 䦇䛊㪋㪋䛊㯑䳫 㶆䒂㯑㩄㰐 㪋㟉㧪㩄䑽䛊䳫䫀 䳫㯑㰐 䔭㩄㪋㰐 䦇䰉 䦇㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉… 䒂㩄㰐 䳫㯑㧇 䦇䰉 㶆㩄䳫㰐 㰐㯑㯑䅃䥐'

䋟㧇䳫䛊䛊㰐 䋟㰐㰐㶆㰐㯑䋟㩄㮉䫀䋟 㰐㯑 㧇㶆㪋㟉䰉㟉 䋟㧇㶆㰐䑽 䳫㯑㟉䌸㪋 㧇䋟㟉䳫䋟㪋㟉㦚㟉㰐䋟㮉㟉㟉㮉䋟 㶆㩄䅃䳫䅃㰐㰐㯑 䫀䳫䛊㪋䛊㮉 䳫䲽䰉䛊䲽䒗㯑㰐㟉䳫䑽㯑䳫㶆㰐䛊㟉䑽㧪䋟㰐㰐㧇䛊䤰䒂䛊㪋䛊䲽㧪㟉㟉㶆䰉㮉䲽㾬䋟㪋䲽䋟㟉㶆䫹㟉㧪㰐㯑㧪䲽㮉㟉㽋 㮉䒗㯑㟉 㟉䋟㮉 䋟㟉㮉 㮉㟉㟉䋟㪋 㰐㮉䰉䛊䳫䫀㶆㪋㮉㟉䋟 㟉䋟㰐

㒼䋟㶆㰐 㰐䋟㟉 䋟㟉䲽䲽 㧇㶆㪋 㧇㮉㯑䳫䫀 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㰐䋟䛊㪋 䦇䛊㪋㪋䛊㯑䳫䅃䥐

㒼䋟㶆㰐 䳫㟉䫹㰐䥐 㒼㯑㩄䲽㧪 䛊㰐 㪋㩄㧪㧪㟉䳫䲽䰉 㧪㮉㯑㾬 㰐䋟㟉 㩄䲽㰐䛊䦇㶆㰐㟉 䒂㯑䦇䒂㪋䋟㟉䲽䲽—㰐㟉䲽䲽䛊䳫䫀 䋟㟉㮉 㰐䋟㶆㰐 䋟㟉㮉 䫀㮉㶆䳫㧪䦇㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉䌸 㧇䋟㯑 㟉䒗㟉㮉䰉㯑䳫㟉 㶆㪋㪋㩄䦇㟉㧪 㧇㶆㪋 䲽㯑䳫䫀 㧪㟉㶆㧪䌸 㧇㶆㪋 㶆䑽㰐㩄㶆䲽䲽䰉 㶆䲽䛊䒗㟉 㶆䲽䲽 㰐䋟䛊㪋 㰐䛊䦇㟉… 㶆䳫㧪 㰐䋟㶆㰐 㦚㟉㰐䋟㟉㮉 㧇㶆㪋 㪋㯑䦇㟉䋟㯑㧇 㪋㩄㾬㾬㯑㪋㟉㧪 㰐㯑 㪋㟉㧪㩄䑽㟉 䋟㟉㮉 㰐㯑㯑䅃䥐

㪋㧪㟉㧇㰐䛊㰐 㧪䛊㪋䒂㟉䲽䛊䰲䤰㟉㟉䋟㮉㟉㪋䛊䳫㟉㮼䳫㟉㪋䲽㟉' 㾬䫹㯑㪋㮉㪋䳫㟉䛊㟉

'䍴㯑 㧇㶆䰉… 㹦 䦇㟉㶆䳫䌸 䑽㯑䦇㟉 㯑䳫䌸 㰐䋟㶆㰐 㧇㯑㩄䲽㧪 䳫㟉䒗㟉㮉 䋟㶆㾬㾬㟉䳫䰲 㹦'䒗㟉 㶆䲽㮉㟉㶆㧪䰉 㪋㟉㟉䳫 䋟㟉㮉䅃 㮼䋟㟉'㪋 㶆 㮉㟉㶆䲽䲽䰉 㯑䲽㧪 㧇㯑䦇㶆䳫䅃 㽋㟉䑽䮵䌸 㪋䋟㟉 䦇䛊䫀䋟㰐 㶆䑽㰐㩄㶆䲽䲽䰉 㧪䛊㟉 䛊䤰 䋟㟉 䮵䛊㪋㪋㟉㪋 䋟㟉㮉䅃䅃' 㪋䋟㟉 㪋䑽㮉㟉㶆䦇㟉㧪 䛊䳫㧇㶆㮉㧪䲽䰉䌸 㰐㮉䰉䛊䳫䫀 㰐㯑 㾬㩄㪋䋟 㶆㧇㶆䰉 㰐䋟㟉 㮉䛊㧪䛊䑽㩄䲽㯑㩄㪋 㰐䋟㯑㩄䫀䋟㰐 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 䛊㰐 䑽㯑䳫㪋㩄䦇㟉㧪 䋟㟉㮉䰲

㪅㩄㰐 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 㪋䋟㟉 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪 䤰㩄䲽䲽䰉 㮉㟉䑽㯑䒗㟉㮉 䤰㮉㯑䦇 㰐䋟㶆㰐 䋟㯑㮉㮉䛊䤰䰉䛊䳫䫀 䦇㟉䳫㰐㶆䲽 䛊䦇㶆䫀㟉—

䠴"䦇㟉㯑㮉䛊㧇㟉㪋䋟㰐㟉䰲"㯑㽋㟉㟉䒂㶆䳫㧪 㧪䲽㩄㧪㪋䳫䰉㟉䌸 䳫䛊㧇㯑䦇䳫㶆䰲 䲽㧇䛊䲽㟉䋟㮉 㩄㯑䰉 䳫㶆㧪㪋㧪䲽䛊㟉䲽㩄䌸"㯑䳫㶆㟉"䠭䳫 䰉㯑㩄㮉㯑䲽㧇䛊䲽䰳䛊㟉䲽䳫㾬㟉䋟 䰲䤰㶆㧪㟉 㮉㟉䳫㯑㯑㪋䲽䛊䲽㧇 㮉㟉㟉㪋㰐䳫㰐䛊 㩄䑽䋟䦇䲽䥬㧪㶆㟉㪋㯑䑽䲽䋟㟉㯑䳫 䳫䛊䫀䋟䑽㮉㶆㟉㪋 㪋㯑㟉䲽䌸㪋䛊䌸䳫㯑 䲽㰐䌸㶆㮉㟉㧪㶆䮵㮉 㰐䋟䛊㪋 䲽䰲䳫㟉㟉㟉㮼 㟉䋟㮉㰐㯑䳫㶆䲽䛊㟉㟉䒂㟉䒗 㶆㰐㟉㰐䦇㮉㯑䋟㧇㧇㯑䋟㰐㟉㯑䳫㟉㮉䳫㟉䒗㩄㧪㯑䲽㧇䔭㩄㰐㪋䬊'䋟㶆㰐㪋 㟉䒗㯑䲽㯑䛊㩄㪋䰲㪋㮉㟉 㶆㰐㪋㮉㰐㯑㰐䋟䋟㩄㰐䫀 㩄㯑㮉䰉 䛊㰐 㮉㯑䤰 㪋㶆䛊㧪 㧪㶆䰉䌸㯑䰉㩄䌸

㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉'㪋 㟉䰉㟉 㰐㧇䛊㰐䑽䋟㟉㧪 㶆䫀㶆䛊䳫䌸 '㐪㯑㯑䮵 㶆㰐 䒂䛊㰐䑽䋟䰲䰲䰲 㰐㮉䰉䛊䳫䫀 䋟㟉㮉 䋟㶆㮉㧪 㰐㯑 䋟㯑䫀 䋟䛊䦇 㶆䲽䲽 㯑䤰 䋟㟉㮉 㪋㟉䲽䤰䰲䰲䰲 㐰㩄䑽䮵 䰉㯑㩄 䒂䛊㰐䑽䋟~ 䬊䋟㶆㰐'㪋 䳫㯑㰐 䫀㯑䛊䳫䫀 㰐㯑 䋟㶆㾬㾬㟉䳫~' 㪋䋟㟉 㪋䑽㮉㟉㶆䦇㟉㧪 䛊䳫㧇㶆㮉㧪䲽䰉 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉 㪋㶆䰉䛊䳫䫀䌸 㶆䲽䦇㯑㪋㰐 䛊㮉㮉䛊㰐㶆㰐㟉㧪 䲽㯑㯑䮵䌸

"㮼㰐㯑㾬 䛊㰐䌸 㦚㩄䳫㰐䰲 䵿㯑㩄'䒗㟉 䳫㟉䒗㟉㮉 䒂㟉㟉䳫 䛊䳫 䲽㯑䒗㟉 䒂㟉䤰㯑㮉㟉䌸 㪋㯑 㧇䋟䰉 㶆㮉㟉 䰉㯑㩄 㰐㶆䲽䮵䛊䳫䫀 䲽䛊䮵㟉—"

䶴䅃㦚㪅

㦚 䲽㯑㩄㧪䌸 㪋㩄㧪㧪㟉䳫 㪋䲽㶆䦇 㟉䑽䋟㯑㟉㧪 㰐䋟㮉㯑㩄䫀䋟 㰐䋟㟉 㮉㯑㯑䦇 㶆㪋 䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉'㪋 㾬㶆䲽䦇 䑽㶆䦇㟉 䑽㮉㶆㪋䋟䛊䳫䫀 㧪㯑㧇䳫 㯑䳫㰐㯑 㰐䋟㟉 㰐㶆䒂䲽㟉䰲

㽋㟉㮉 㾬㶆㰐䛊㟉䳫䑽㟉 䋟㶆㧪 㯑䤰䤰䛊䑽䛊㶆䲽䲽䰉 㮉㩄䳫 㯑㩄㰐䅃䅃

㟉䌸䛊䳫㰐㟉䳫㪋 㪋㪋䛊㪋㪋㟉㟉㯑㮉㩄䳫䒂䳫㧪㮉㩄㟉 㧪䛊䳫䒗䲽䒗㯑㟉㮉䋟䋟䫀㯑㩄㰐 䲽䰉㧪㶆㟉㧪 㰐䛊䋟㧇 㪋㾬㯑䮵㟉 㯑䳫㰐䦇"㹦' 㮉㟉㽋㯑㯑䰉㩄—㧪 㟉㰐䛊㮉㰐䫀㧪 㟉䫀㰐㪋䋟㟉 㰐䋟㶆㰐㪋㶆㰐䫀㟉䲽䲽䛊䳫㟉㪋䰉㟉㶆䳫 㰐㟉㟉㰐䋟䌸 䒂㶆"㶆㪋㮉㧪䅃㰐 㧇䛊㰐䋟

㦚䳫㧪 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㰐䋟㶆㰐䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㪋㾬㩄䳫 㶆㮉㯑㩄䳫㧪 㶆䳫㧪 㪋㰐㯑㮉䦇㟉㧪 㯑䤰䤰䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䋟㟉㶆䒗䰉 䤰㯑㯑㰐㪋㰐㟉㾬㪋 㟉䑽䋟㯑䛊䳫䫀 䒂㟉䋟䛊䳫㧪 䋟㟉㮉䰲

㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 㮉㟉䦇㶆䛊䳫㟉㧪 㪋㟉㶆㰐㟉㧪䌸 㪋㰐㶆㮉䛊䳫䫀 㶆㰐 䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉'㪋 㮉㟉㰐㮉㟉㶆㰐䛊䳫䫀 䒂㶆䑽䮵 㧇䛊㰐䋟 㶆䳫 㶆䦇㩄㪋㟉㧪 䫀䲽䛊䳫㰐 䛊䳫 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䰉㟉㪋䌸 㩄䳫㶆䒂䲽㟉 㰐㯑 䋟㯑䲽㧪 䒂㶆䑽䮵 㰐䋟㟉 㪋䦇䛊㮉䮵 䑽㮉㟉㟉㾬䛊䳫䫀 㯑䳫㰐㯑 䋟㟉㮉 䲽䛊㾬㪋䰲

㪋䋟㟉䳫䋟䌸䬊㟉䑽䑽䲽䌸㟉㧪䮵䋟㩄

"㹦'䦇 䳫㯑㰐 㧪㟉䲽㩄㪋䛊㯑䳫㶆䲽䌸 㦚㩄䳫㰐… 㹦'䦇 䔭㩄㪋㰐 㪋㾬㟉㶆䮵䛊䳫䫀 㰐䋟㟉 㰐㮉㩄㰐䋟䌸" 㪋䋟㟉 䑽㶆䲽䲽㟉㧪 㯑㩄㰐䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 㪋䦇㯑㯑㰐䋟 㶆䳫㧪 㩄䳫㧇㶆䒗㟉㮉䛊䳫䫀䌸

"䬊䋟㟉 㮉㟉㶆䲽 㧪㟉䲽㩄㪋䛊㯑䳫 䛊㪋 㧇䋟㟉䳫 㶆 㧇㯑䦇㶆䳫 㰐䋟䛊䳫䮵㪋 㪋䋟㟉 䑽㶆䳫 䮵㟉㟉㾬 㶆 䫀㮉㟉㶆㰐 䦇㶆䳫 㶆䲽䲽 㰐㯑 䋟㟉㮉㪋㟉䲽䤰䰲 䬊䋟㶆㰐'㪋 㪋䛊䦇㾬䲽䰉 䳫㯑㰐 㾬㯑㪋㪋䛊䒂䲽㟉䌸 䳫㯑 䦇㶆㰐㰐㟉㮉 䋟㯑㧇 䦇㩄䑽䋟 㪋䋟㟉 㰐㮉䛊㟉㪋 㰐㯑 䑽㯑䳫㰐㮉㯑䲽 䋟䛊䦇䰲 㦚䳫㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉 㧇㯑䦇㶆䳫 㧇䛊䲽䲽 㶆䲽㧇㶆䰉㪋 㟉䳫㰐㟉㮉 䋟䛊㪋 䲽䛊䤰㟉䰲 㦚䳫㧪 䛊䤰 㰐䋟㶆㰐 㧇㯑䦇㶆䳫 䑽䲽䛊䳫䫀㪋 㰐㯑㯑 㰐䛊䫀䋟㰐䲽䰉—㰐㮉䛊㟉㪋 㰐㯑 䮵㟉㟉㾬 䋟䛊䦇 䑽䋟㶆䛊䳫㟉㧪 㧪㯑㧇䳫—㰐䋟㟉䳫䌸 㦚㩄䳫㰐… 䋟㟉 㧇䛊䲽䲽 䒂㟉㰐㮉㶆䰉 䋟㟉㮉 䒂㟉䋟䛊䳫㧪 䋟㟉㮉 䒂㶆䑽䮵䰲 㹦㰐'㪋 䛊䳫㟉䒗䛊㰐㶆䒂䲽㟉䰲

㰐䛊㶆㪋㧪䳫㟉 䌸䲽䲽㶆䤰㯑㮉 䒂㟉䛊䳫 㾬㾬㶆䳫䋟㟉䲽㟉㰐 㧇䳫㧪㰐㯑䲽㩄'㟉㾬䰉䳫䲽㯑䛊㰐㪋㟉䑽䰲㮉㰐㟉 㟉㮼䋟 䋟㮉㮉㰐㟉㶆䛊䳫 㪋㶆䳫䮵㟉㟉䲽䫀㰐䛊㰐䳫 䮵䥐"䑽㶆䒂䤰㯑㶆䑽䑽㟉㰐㾬㦚㪋㟉䋟㰐 㦚䤰㰐㟉㮉 䦇㟉䋟㰐 㰐㮉㟉䒂㰐㟉㰐䋟㟉䦇 㟉䋟㰐䳫 㟉㟉㧇㯑䑽䦇䲽 㰐㯑㹦'㧪 䛊㰐 㟉㧪㩄䮵䲽䋟䑽䑽 䦇㟉… 䋟㰐㟉㶆䋟㰐䳫 㪋㩄㶆㧪㾬㟉䌸 䫀㩄㯑㮉䋟㰐䋟㮉㰐㯑䤰䳫 䰉㧪䌸㶆㮉䲽䮵㮉䋟㟉㶆㮉㰐㧪㯑㯑㮉䛊㰐䫀㯑㮉㰐㩄䋟䋟

"㦚䳫㧪 㰐㮉㩄㪋㰐 䦇㟉… 䛊䤰 㰐䋟㟉㮉㟉 䛊㪋 㶆 㧇㯑䦇㶆䳫 䛊䳫 㟁䛊䑽㰐㯑㮉'㪋 䲽䛊䤰㟉 㧇䋟㯑 䤰㯑㯑䲽䛊㪋䋟䲽䰉 䒂㟉䲽䛊㟉䒗㟉㪋 㪋䋟㟉 䑽㶆䳫 䮵㟉㟉㾬 䋟䛊䦇 㶆䲽䲽 㰐㯑 䋟㟉㮉㪋㟉䲽䤰… 㽋㶆䋟㶆… 䛊㰐'䲽䲽 䒂㟉 㶆䲽䲽 㰐㯑㯑 㟉㶆㪋䰉 䤰㯑㮉 䦇㟉 㰐㯑 㰐㶆䮵㟉 䋟䛊䦇 䤰㮉㯑䦇 䋟㟉㮉䅃 㐰㯑㯑䲽䛊㪋䋟 䫀䛊㮉䲽~"

㽋㟉㮉 䒗㯑䛊䑽㟉 䫀㮉㟉㧇 㶆 䲽䛊㰐㰐䲽㟉 䲽㯑㩄㧪㟉㮉 㶆㰐 㰐䋟㟉 㟉䳫㧪䌸 㶆䲽䦇㯑㪋㰐 䲽䛊䮵㟉 㶆 䑽䋟㶆䲽䲽㟉䳫䫀㟉䌸 㶆㪋 䛊䤰 㧪㶆㮉䛊䳫䫀 㪋㯑䦇㟉㯑䳫㟉 㰐㯑 䑽㯑䳫㰐㮉㶆㧪䛊䑽㰐 䋟㟉㮉 㧇㯑㮉㧪㪋䰲

㟉䦇㶆䑽䲽䰳㟉㾬䳫䛊䋟㟉'㪋 䳫㶆 䰉㪋䲽㟉㧪㧪䳫㩄䋟㶆䅃㰐㮉㟉 䑽㩄㰐㪋䮵 㮉㮉㶆㯑㧇㟉䋟㮉 㪋㶆 䤰䛊㰐㯑䛊䳫䲽㪋䳫㟉䒂䒗䛊䛊䛊䤰㯑㯑㰐㪋㰐㟉㾬㪋 㶆㰐䰲䰲䰲䲽䋟

㮼㰐㶆䳫㧪䛊䳫䫀 䤰㮉㯑䨌㟉䳫 䤰㯑㮉 㶆 䦇㯑䦇㟉䳫㰐䌸 㪋䋟㟉 䒂䛊㰐 䋟㟉㮉 䲽㯑㧇㟉㮉 䲽䛊㾬 䤰㩄㮉䛊㯑㩄㪋䲽䰉䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䳫㶆䛊䲽㪋 㧪䛊䫀䫀䛊䳫䫀 䛊䳫㰐㯑 䋟㟉㮉 㾬㶆䲽䦇 㶆㪋 㪋䋟㟉 㾬㮉㯑䑽㟉㪋㪋㟉㧪 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉'㪋 㧇㯑㮉㧪㪋䰲

㒼䋟㶆㰐 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 䋟㶆㧪 䔭㩄㪋㰐 㪋㶆䛊㧪… 㹦㰐 㧇㶆㪋 㮉䛊㧪䛊䑽㩄䲽㯑㩄㪋䰲 䠴㯑䦇㾬䲽㟉㰐㟉䲽䰉 㶆䒂㪋㩄㮉㧪䰲

㧪䳫㦚㟉…䰉㰐

㽋㟉㮉 䦇䛊䳫㧪 䛊䳫䒗㯑䲽㩄䳫㰐㶆㮉䛊䲽䰉 㧇㶆䳫㧪㟉㮉㟉㧪 䒂㶆䑽䮵 㰐㯑 㦚㟉㰐䋟㟉㮉䰲

䬊㯑 䋟㯑㧇 䦇㩄䑽䋟 䋟㟉 䋟㶆㧪 䑽䋟㶆䳫䫀㟉㧪䰲 㽋㯑㧇 䦇㩄䑽䋟 䋟㟉 䋟㶆㧪 䫀㮉㯑㧇䳫䰲

䋟㟉㮉䫀㪋䳫㟉㶆㩄㮉㧪㯑 㰐䋟䳫㟉… 㰐㪋㟉㯑䳫䛊㩄㰵 䳫䑽㯑㮉㮉㟉䳫䛊㯑㰐 䋟㟉㰐 䳫㧪䦇䰲䛊 㯑䤰㧪䳫㦚 㮉䑽㟉㾬㰐 䲽㰐䛊㰐䲽㟉

'㒼䋟㶆㰐 䛊䤰…䥐'

䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉'㪋 䤰㶆䑽㟉 㾬㶆䲽㟉㧪 㪋䲽䛊䫀䋟㰐䲽䰉䌸 䋟㟉㮉 䒂㮉㟉㶆㰐䋟 䋟䛊㰐䑽䋟䛊䳫䫀 䤰㯑㮉 㶆 䒂㮉䛊㟉䤰 䦇㯑䦇㟉䳫㰐䰲 㒼䛊㰐䋟㯑㩄㰐 㶆䳫㯑㰐䋟㟉㮉 㧇㯑㮉㧪䌸 㪋䋟㟉 㰐㩄㮉䳫㟉㧪 㶆䳫㧪 㧇㶆䲽䮵㟉㧪 㶆㧇㶆䰉䌸 䋟㟉㮉 㰐䋟㯑㩄䫀䋟㰐㪋 䛊䳫 㰐㩄㮉䦇㯑䛊䲽䌸 㶆㪋 䛊䤰 㪋䋟㟉 䋟㶆㧪 䔭㩄㪋㰐 䫀䲽䛊䦇㾬㪋㟉㧪 㪋㯑䦇㟉㰐䋟䛊䳫䫀 㪋䋟㟉 㧇㶆㪋䳫'㰐 㮉㟉㶆㧪䰉 㰐㯑 㶆䑽䮵䳫㯑㧇䲽㟉㧪䫀㟉䰲

䫀㯑䌸㟉䳫㟉䲽㟉㮼㪋䰲䦇䰲䛊㮉䮵㟉䰲㧪 䅃䛊䳫㧪㟉㮉㱇䳫 㪋䲽㾬䛊 䋟㟉㮉㧇㯑㪋䲽䲽䰉 㧇䶴㟉䛊䌸㟉䳫㶆䋟䲽 㶆䑽䋟㧪㰐㧇㟉㮉㟉䋟

㹦䳫 㰐㮉㩄㰐䋟䌸 㧇䋟㶆㰐 㪋䋟㟉 䋟㶆㧪 䔭㩄㪋㰐 㪋㶆䛊㧪 㧇㶆㪋 䑽㯑䦇㾬䲽㟉㰐㟉 㶆䳫㧪 㩄㰐㰐㟉㮉 䳫㯑䳫㪋㟉䳫㪋㟉 㰐㯑 㪋㯑䦇㟉 㟉䫹㰐㟉䳫㰐䰲 㲒䒗㟉䳫 㪋䋟㟉 䮵䳫㟉㧇 㰐䋟㶆㰐䰲 㪅㩄㰐 㪋㟉㟉䛊䳫䫀 䰳㟉䲽㾬䋟䛊䳫㟉'㪋 㮉㟉㶆䑽㰐䛊㯑䳫… 㪋㟉㟉䛊䳫䫀 㰐䋟㟉 䑽㮉㶆䑽䮵㪋 䤰㯑㮉䦇䛊䳫䫀 䛊䳫 䋟㟉㮉 㩄㪋㩄㶆䲽䲽䰉 㩄䳫㪋䋟㶆䮵㶆䒂䲽㟉 㧪㟉䦇㟉㶆䳫㯑㮉… 㮼㟉䲽㟉䳫㟉 䑽㯑㩄䲽㧪䳫'㰐 䋟㟉䲽㾬 䋟㟉㮉㪋㟉䲽䤰䰲

"㽋㟉䋟㟉䋟㟉~"

㶆㪋 㹦㰐 䤰䛊㪋㶆㧇㪋䲽㯑㧇䲽䰉 㶆㰐䲽㯑䦇㪋 㰐䳫䛊㯑㧇㯑㪋㟉䥐㮉 䳫㟉㟉䒗 㧇㶆㪋 䋟㟉㪋䛊䳫䫀㮉㩄㰐䳫 㰐㟉㟉…㦚䋟㮉㮉㯑 䋟䦇䫀㯑㰐䳫㟉㪋䛊 㧪䑽㯑䳫㟉㪋

㪅㩄㰐 㰐䋟㟉䳫—

㒼㶆䛊㰐䅃

㧪䅃㪋㟉㯑䳫䅃䑽 䳫䦇㶆㧪 㰐㒼㶆䛊

㽋㟉㮉 㟉䳫㰐䛊㮉㟉 䒂㯑㧪䰉 㪋㰐䛊䤰䤰㟉䳫㟉㧪䌸 㶆䳫㧪 䋟㟉㮉 㟉䰉㟉㪋 㧇䛊㧪㟉䳫㟉㧪 䛊䳫 䋟㯑㮉㮉㯑㮉 㶆㪋 㰐䋟㟉 㮉㟉㶆䲽䛊䨌㶆㰐䛊㯑䳫 䋟䛊㰐 䋟㟉㮉 䲽䛊䮵㟉 㶆 㰐㯑䳫 㯑䤰 䒂㮉䛊䑽䮵㪋䰲

"㒼㶆䛊㰐… 䰳䛊㧪 㹦—㧪䛊㧪 㹦 䔭㩄㪋㰐 䋟㯑㯑䮵 㩄㾬 䦇䰉 㶆㩄䳫㰐 㧇䛊㰐䋟 䦇䰉 䋟㩄㪋䒂㶆䳫㧪䅃䥐"

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