...AM I REALLY GOING TO BE LIVING IN A PLACE THIS BEAUTIFUL...?
I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT...
HM? A NEWSPAPER DELIVERY?
I HAVEN'T REQUESTED FOR A DELIVERY YET...
VALHEN AIR FORCE LAUNCHES A CONCENTRATED AIR RAID ON THE ALLIED FORCES' MAIN COMMAND.
...THAT'S WHERE HEINER IS.
THE ENEMY FORCES DISCOVERED THE COORDINATES OF THE ALLIED COMMAND,
AND THE VALHEN AIR FORCE CARRIED OUT A FOCUSED BOMBING OF THE AREA.
HOWEVER, DURING THIS RAID, OUR ALLIED FORCES ACHIEVED A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY AT CHESHIRE FIELD.
THERE'S NO MENTION OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
IS NO NEWS GOOD NEWS... OR NOT?
GOOD MORNING!
ARE YOU MS. ANNETTE ROZENBERG? DO YOU RESIDE HERE?
AH, YES. THAT'S ME.
I HAVE A DELIVERY FOR YOU.
SHALL I BRING IT INSIDE FOR YOU? IT'S A BIT HEAVY.
HEAVY?!
ARE YOU SURE IT'S FOR ME, AT THIS ADDRESS?
HM...?
AH, YES. BOTH THE NAME AND ADDRESS MATCH.
YOU CAN CHECK THE PACKAGE, AND IF IT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU, YOU CAN REQUEST A RETURN PICKUP.
AH... ALRIGHT.
I'LL TAKE IT MYSELF.
IT'S NOT A BIG BOX,
BUT IT'S QUITE HEAVY.
...BOOKS...?
THEY'RE ALL NOVELS.
AH, COULD IT BE...
HERE.
A NOVEL?
FOR YOU TO READ.
OBVIOUSLY. THAT GOES WITHOUT SAYING.
WHY CAN'T HE JUST SAY HE BROUGHT IT BECAUSE I SAID I WAS BORED?
IT SOMEHOW REMINDS ME OF THAT TIME.
AH.
I DIDN'T REALIZE THE TIME...
EVER SINCE THE REVOLUTION, IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT FOR ME TO FOCUS ON ANYTHING FOR LONG.
I HAD SUFFERED FROM HEADACHES AND MEMORY LOSS...
...AND EVEN MY WRITING AND EMBROIDERY HAD BECOME A TOTAL MESS.
TO THINK THAT I COULD ENJOY READING BOOKS FOR HOURS AGAIN, LIKE I USED TO...
...I WONDER...
...WHEN HEINER'S LETTERS WILL ARRIVE...
Episode 70
A WEEK LATER, TWO LETTERS ARRIVED IN THE MAIL.
RYAN SENT ME A LETTER TO SEINSHIRE.
I SHOULD WRITE BACK WITH MY NEW ADDRESS.
AS FOR THE LETTER FROM JOSEPH...
HM? THAT'S ODD.
WHY IS HIS ADDRESS LISTED AS THE RONCHESTER RESIDENCE...?
hi annette. I'm Joseph.
I'm doing well.
I go look at the fish at the garden everyday.
did you have a house here?
the house is
I miss you Annette.
mister scary is not
good at reading.
bye bye!
mister scary
ples read me books again
HOW ADORABLE...
I WONDER WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO SAY ABOUT THE HOUSE...
AND MISTER SCARY?
HE ENDED UP RUNNING AWAY THAT TIME. DOES THIS MEAN HE READ TO JOSEPH AFTER I LEFT?
HOW DID JOSEPH END UP AT THE RONCHESTER RESIDENCE...?
OH? THERE'S A NOTE.
DEAR MS. ANNETTE ROZENBERG.
THIS IS MARTIN ADOLPH, THE CHIEF STEWARD OF COMMANDER WALDEMAR'S RESIDENCE AT RONCHESTER.
...AH.
AS PER THE COMMANDER'S INSTRUCTIONS, JOSEPH HAS NOT BEEN SENT TO AN ORPHANGE...
...BUT IS TEMPORARILY STAYING AT THE RESIDENCE.
SHOULD YOU AND JOSEPH BOTH WISH IT, YOU ARE WELCOME TO TAKE HIM INTO YOUR CARE.
HOWEVER, IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO DO SO, JOSEPH WILL EITHER REMAIN HERE,
OR WE WILL BEGIN LOOKING FOR A SUITABLE ADOPTIVE HOME FOR HIM.
...GIVEN THAT IT IS BEST THAT THE DETAILS OF THIS MATTER BE DISCUSSED IN PERSON, I HOPE YOU WILL CONSIDER VISITING THE WALDEMAR RESIDENCE SOMETIME.
HAA.
...THE RESIDENCE...
I HAVEN'T VISITED THE RESIDENCE SINCE MY DIVORCE.
I NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE COMING HERE AGAIN.
WE HEARD THAT YOU HAVE MOVED RECENTLY, MS. ROZENBERG.
WE WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW,
THAT THE ITEMS THAT YOU USED PREVIOUSLY ARE STILL HERE AT THE RESIDENCE.
PERHAPS YOU COULD COME AND TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, IF YOU'D LIKE.
BUT I WANTED TO SEE JOSEPH...
...AND RETRIEVE MY BELONGINGS AS WELL...
...SINCE ALL OF MY CHERISHED BELONGINGS ARE STILL HERE.
HEINER. IT'S TOO WARM OUT. AREN'T YOU GOING TO LET GO OF MY HAND?
DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU WANTED TO HOLD MY HAND EARLIER BECAUSE IT WAS COLD?
YES, BUT NOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN HOLDING MY HAND FOR A WHILE, IT'S GOTTEN WARM.
YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND TOO EASILY.
ONCE YOU HOLD MY HAND, THAT'S THE END OF IT.
SO ARE YOU GOING TO HOLD MY HAND FOREVER?
THAT'S NOT A BAD IDEA.
MEMORIES OF OUR BLISSFUL HONEYMOON DAYS, WHEN IT SEEMED LIKE THEY WOULD LAST FOREVER...
...COME TO MIND.
WHAT DID YOU JUST DRAW?
THE FOUNTAIN.
...DON'T TELL ME THAT THE PERSON NEXT TO IT IS...
YOU, ANNETTE WALDEMAR.
...TURNS OUT THERE'S SOMETHING YOU CAN'T DO AFTER ALL, HEINER.
EVEN THOUGH ALL OF OUR HAPPIEST MOMENTS EVENTUALLY CAME TO AN END...
...THIS PLACE, WHERE LOVE AND HATE INTERSECTED...
...REMAINED UNTOUCHED, AS IF IT WOULD LAST FOREVER.
WELCOME, MS. ROZENBERG.
...IT'S BEEN A WHILE.
HAVE YOU BEEN WELL, MS. ROZENBERG?
YES. AND YOU?
OH, I'M THE SAME AS ALWAYS.
JOSEPH'S LESSON ISN'T OVER YET, SO YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A WHILE.
IN THE MEANTIME, FEEL FREE TO LOOK AROUND YOUR ROOM AND CHECK THE ITEMS YOU'D LIKE TO TAKE.
...THEN, I'D LIKE TO GO LOOK AT MY ROOM, IF THAT'S ALRIGHT.
OF COURSE.
IT'S ALREADY BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE OUR DIVORCE...
...YET, THIS ROOM HASN'T CHANGED AT ALL.
IT FEELS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM MY ROOM AT CATHERINE'S HOUSE.
IT'S AS IF SOMEONE HAS LEFT THE ROOM PRESERVED...
HM? DID I HAVE A LEATHER POUCH LIKE THIS?
WHAT IS IT?
...AH.
IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I LAST SAW THEM...
THE KNICKKNACKS I COLLECTED BY THE BEACH IN GLENFORD.
HEINER HAD THROWN THEM AWAY AT THE HOTEL...
...AND I RETRIEVED THEM AGAIN.
THE FRAGMENTS OF THE MEMORIES I LEFT HERE IN DESPAIR...
...AND THE DAYS WHEN WE WERE EITHER INEXPLICABLY HAPPY, OR INCONSOLABLY MISERABLE...
...DID HE STORE THEM ALL HERE?
ARE YOU WELL...?
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU'RE DOING.
HEINER...
As Annette settles into her new home in bewilderment, she reads in the newspaper that the Valhen Air Force has bombed the Allied headquarters where Heiner is stationed and grows worried. She then receives a heavy box addressed to her; novels come out of it. Losing herself in the books, she realizes her old trouble focusing has lessened. A week later, letters arrive from Ryan and Joseph; she learns Joseph is staying at the Ronchester mansion. On a note from butler Martin Adolph, she goes to the Waldemar mansion two years after her divorce to see Joseph and her belongings, confronting memories of the past.
