Casual death

One day, Elena is preparing some food.
She wants to prepare something special today.

Suddenly she hears a lound shriek.
This must have been Mira.

Elena! Come here quickly! Please!

What happened? Is something wrong?

Yeah, just come! You have to see yourself! I need you!

Elena immediately runs toward Mira.
First she doesn't notice what's wrong.
But when she looks closer at Nera, who is still lying on the ground, she immediately realizes what happened.
Nera isn't moving at all.

Look! Do you see?
What happened to her?
Is she really...?
Did she...?

Elena inspects Nera.

Yeah, I see. You're totally right.
But don't worry. That's totally normal, you know.

She's been my best friend. And now she's dead.

After hearing it out of her mouth, Elena starts to realize the severity of this.
Even if she knew that Nera was important to her, she didn't think she was so important to her that she would get sad when she died.
It looks like Nera did this out of her own choice.

So she didn't tell you about it in advance?

Not really.
Sometimes she seemed really unhappy, as if she didn't want to live anymore.
But when I spent time with her, she always became happy again.
So I didn't expect, she'd really...

Yeah, I know. You already told me about that.

She must really have been bored.
From time to time, she told me how bored she was.
She sometimes asked me to do something different once in a while, but I didn't want to. I never tried new things and I never left home.
It's my fault she's dead now.

Mira starts crying.

Don't beat yourself up about it.
These things happen. It's nothing to be sad about.
She wanted it this way. Else she wouldn't have done it.
Unlike you, I've known a lot of people before, and this isn't the first time I experience this. But to you this situation must be very new.
You never left this place for hundreds of years after all, and in a peaceful place like this, people don't get killed that often.

I guess, you're right. Maybe I'm just not used to it.

Mira is still really sad. That's pretty obvious.

You know, after hundreds of years, some people just get bored of life. There's nothing you can do about that.
You should be happy that it turned out this way.

It could have been worse?

She could have caused you a lot of trouble as well, but she didn't.
She just did it herself without bothering you about it.

I wouldn't care about the trouble if I was able to prevent it.

In the end she would probably just have killed herself anyway.
She obviously wanted you to be happy. She wouldn't have wanted you to be sad about it now.

I still would have liked if I had the chance to talk to her about it.

At least we'll have a feast tonight!
Are you in?

You know, I'm not really into meat.
But it's Nera, so I'll make an exception.

She's been your friend? Do you want to cook her yourself, or can I?

Normally I don't like cooking, but today I'd prefer if we could cook together.

Nice, I'm sure this will be a lot of fun.