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Anna…
Toulouse, can you keep reading its sequel?
Er?
If this is a myth of a ghost, there must be a sequel.
Myth of a ghost.
Let me see… “At that night, the music of the piano was continuing all night long…for the attachable loved one.”
The piece of music that Mister William used to played for her.
If you go to a market in Scarborough
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme…
Give a message to a woman who lives there.
To the woman who I loved with all my heart.
And tell her to make a white hemp shirt for me.
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme…
Tell her to make one with no seam with no needle.
Then we will be true lovers.
This was a song written by a man who was thinking of his lover in a far place, with his hope that they could be together if many unrealizable matters could be solved.
Mister William…his love for her will not come true.
But he tried to tell Anna that he still believed that a miracle would happen someday and they would be together again. And Mister William was trying to make it happen.
What…?
Love gave an impossible-to-solve problem to this couple.
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme…
All strong love will be tested by its destiny.
And I was convinced that she was my true love.
He wrote a letter to Anna. And as they used to do always, he put it in a vase that Anna always polished.
Next morning, Anna woke up earlier than everyone else as usual, got ready, and did her last work, And she took the vase up with a little hope.
Mister William.
Dear Anna
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme…Scarborough fair. They were lyrics of the song.
Mister William tried to tell her that he would not give up for a miracle with a secret words that only she could understand.
Then…
Farewell, forever.
What? Why? The letter is different…
I replaced it.
Why!?
They were going to break the rules of the manor house. To protect this house was my role. That was my position.
Anna left the house while no one saw. Mister William thought Anna gave up the love with him. The next day, he decided to engage to marry a second daughter of the Jones Family.
Anna…even wind did not carry a rumor of the scullery maid….perhaps she killed herself at somewhere.
Anna…
And then…in this house
Terrific phenomena stated happening in this house. Every early morning, we heard noise from everywhere in every room. The floor was flooded, the windows stayed open, and then vases always got broken.
…No one mentioned it, but everyone in the house realized that it was her. Because everything was just like she was working as a maid.
Top of that, the Smith Family fell 20 years after that incident.
What? The young master did not marry?
He did…but the disappointment ruined his life and health, and he passed away 3 years later.
Of course, there was no heir. Sir Smith, Madam Smith and the servants fell in to ills. The rest of them got horrified and left the house….and Sebastian.
It’s absolutely a curse.
After having such an awful treatment, it’s understandable to curse and kill them.
I wonder if we will be cursed by doing like this.
Stop.
We are not doing anything wrong.
From the ghost’s perspective, we invaded this place with no permission.
Perhaps, she would thing that we are playing.
Stop talking like it’s a curse or a Noroi!
Anna?
It must not be true that Ms. Anna cursed the house.
Why are you getting serious.
That’s alright, Anna. Because it’s true.
What? Did you curse the house?
I am always a blunderer and dull turtle.
Hah?
People often called me dull Anna. I know I’m so Noroi (slow).
Oh, that Noroi (slow). You haven’t noticed it yet?
What?
You are acting weird, Anna.
No, nothing is wrong.
Indeed. The fall was not caused by a curse but by the age.
The myth was fussed by Ghost-stories-loving British people and that’s all. I may say that the butler might felt guilty that he ruined the house.
You know very much about it just like a real butler.
Because he is a teacher.
…I cannot be a real one. Well, playing time is over. Back to work.
Yes, sir!