No matter how hard you look, you won’t find anyone who would give you a steady place.
People are naturally unsteady things.
Even if you found somebody that will give you peace, that person might someday change.
But there is just one way that you can have an unchanging place for yourself.
— You yourself should become an absolutely unchanging place for others.
Decide who you want to protect, and vow to be the pillar of support for them.
It’s not an easy thing.
Because people change easily, it’s really hard to not change and continue to protect others. They won’t be so thankful of you, either.
But, at the end of it lies true unchangingness — you won’t find stability anywhere other than at the end of that road.
You don’t look for it, you make it yourself.
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Kirisha listened to his words and thought.
She should aim to make herself a stable place for her twin little sisters.
Those who were weaker than herself.
The girls who were driven to isolation like Kirisha once was.
If she abandoned the girls, she could never face her mother in heaven.
Thes one of the twins timidly opened her mouth.
“Onee, chan…”
“Yes, onee-chan desuyo! I’ll be your big sister forever and ever and ever!”
Not to look for a pillar but become the pillar of support herself —
The childhood days of looking for people to rely on were over.
This was Kirisha’s growth to adulthood.
“— I will be the pillar for the two of you”