The Letter She Kept Waiting For/Triangle

"I want a reply to that letter."

- Old Nun

The Letter She Kept Waiting For is a song released by Akuno-P on December 28, 2011 in the Triangle -vol.1- album. It tells the story of an old nun and the efforts of the orphans she raised to fulfill her last wish before death.

Plot
A boy relates how he was abandoned and ended up in an orphanage when he was young, and was helped by a kind nun who all the children loved. Now the old nun has contracted a disease, and will soon pass away. The boy and the other orphans gather around her death bed and tell her that they will grant her any wish, no matter how absurd it may be, in return for her kindness. She tells the orphans that she had sent out a letter as a young girl and is still waiting for the response.

She wants to know if her sins had been forgiven and if her wish had came true, but tells the orphans they can just forget about it if it hadn't. Wondering who she sent the letter to, the orphans split apart, traveling far and wide to grant her request. During their search, the boy finds an old painter who tells them the truth, that the nun once killed many people and that the person she sent the letter to is already dead. The boy notes that, even so, she will probably wait for that response indefinitely.

As the time arrives for the nun to die, the boy hands her a fake response to her letter, which he wrote the day before. She looks upon it with a glance and says "thank you" as she dies, with a smile still on her face. The boy remarks how they only learned of her sins after it was all over.

Lyrics

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The Daughter of Evil
The events for The Daughter of Evil were the original backstory set to occur prior to The Letter She Kept Waiting For, describing the acts for which the nun wished to repent.

Regret Message
Regret Message details the originally intended situation prior to The Letter She Kept Waiting For, describing the letter the nun desired a reply for.

Appearances

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Conceptualization and Origin

 * The song was originally intended to be a continuation of The Daughter of Evil Series, but was later scrapped by mothy as a dead plot point.
 * Although not being part of the official canon, Epic of Evil: The Daughter of Evil Fanbook describes the fates of some characters that parallel the song's events, showing traces of the original concept.
 * The orphan's comments at the time of the nun's death are reminiscent of The Daughter of Evil and The Servant of Evil; similarly his words regarding realizing her sins when it was already over paraphrase Riliane's line in Regret Message.