No. 272
I looked at the Duke Amity with a quivering expression. I was forced to come out because of the deal. Wouldn't it be nice to hate it?
The Duke was silent. After staring at me for a long time, he immediately took the lead. I followed him from behind. There was only an awkward silence between us.
The seat is uncomfortable. In addition, my legs were short, but the Duke's legs was so long that it was difficult to pursue it.
“Are we going to Audi?”
“To the old black tree.”
Black old tree.
It was, to be precise, a dead tree with only its root left behind, and was called an old tree with only its name. There is a legend in the old black tree.
One day, thunder struck a tree that had lived a thousand years. The tree was burnt black, leaving only the base. Surprisingly, however, a sprout grew from the base of a dead tree someday. The buds spread little by little, and this Wenton forest was created.
Because of such a legend, people regarded the old black tree as sacred, and mothers with children, those who were about to be tested, those who were sick, etc. would gather to make a wish on the sacred tree.
'Why are you going there?'
I grumbled inside. It was because it was a place that only me did not have good memories.
The Duke and I came to the front of an old black tree. As always, there was a shallow water pit around the old tree. In the pit, there is money left behind by people making wishes.
The Duke of Amity threw a silver coin into the pool.
'Silver?!'
I was amazed and quickly picked up the silver coins thrown by the Duke.
“If you take out the money here, you are cursed.”
Duke Amity said strictly, and I snorted him inside.
What is the curse.
“I mean everything. The forest keeper always rescues me.”
“I will make the most unfortunate one as the forest keeper.”
“I’m the most unhappy person right now, so I’ll save it.”
“Are you unhappy to be with me?”
“That's also bad...…”
I stubbornly turned my head, biting my lips tightly. Duke Amity stared at me. As if you were trying to check something.
“……”
“……”
There was a long silence between us.
Oh, I really hate this forest. To be precise, I hate memories in this forest. Because this is the place where I have the most cherished memories of my first life.
[Father, what is this tree?]
[It is a sacred tree. It is a place for those who are troubled and those who have wind. Parents sometimes visit this place to pray for their children's luck. My father also brought me here and wished me happiness.]
[……]
[I wish your happiness.]
[……]
[So that you don't get sick, so that every day is supremely happy, so that the misfortunes that you may encounter sometimes become just the stuff of tomorrow's conversation.]
At that time, the stupid LeBlaine didn't know what to do, just staring at the back of the Duke Amity.
She couldn't say thankful or happy, and she came back to the mansion late at night, put on a blanket, and cried without fail.
I'm so happy. It was so overwhelming that I also have a father and that I have someone who wishes my happiness.
The foolish LeBlaine of her first life died holding only that memory, so I hate this place.
I hate that I don't like to think of the stupid me of that time, I hate that I still hold on to a few memories, and I hate to realize that the Duke Amity's footsteps slowed down in line with the child's steps.
After all, I hate myself for not completely hating that person.
“In my fantasy, I knew you who didn't know what to do with my words, but I couldn't read it all over.
“……I want to go.”
“Because I don't know how to approach my first daughter.”
“You said you were going to go.”
“I still don't know how to get to you.”
"I'm going!"
I shouted loudly.
I'm going. I'm going to my dad. Not the Duke Amity, but my dad. I'm going to my dad who doesn't make me sad!
Knowing that this should not be said, the child's body screamed before thinking. I was sorrowful and sad that I kept crying. I cried ugly with my lips pouting out.
Why did you do that?
I was just a child whose family was desperate. I was just a kid who didn't know what to do because I didn't want to disappoint my first-born family. Why didn't you ever look back at me?
Why didn't you smile sweetly in front of me? The only thing that stupid LeBlaine at that time wanted was his father's smile.
He said to me, staring at me with a resentful face.
“Look at it. I'm so sorry for your tears, how could it be just an illusion.”
* * *
I looked at the sausage the Duke had bought from the Wenton Forest store with a fat look. I felt like I wanted to cut off the sausages that the Duke gave out, but I was crying for a while and screaming in my stomach.
'Because it's a big deal if you can't get into an adult's accident. That’s why I receive it.’
As I was hesitant, I quietly reached out my hand and said.
“……It’s not that Duke Amity receives it because of Joah.”
"Okay."
“It’s because I’m hungry. Because the child has to eat a lot and eat a lot.”
"I know."
I received the sausage as if it was a scoop. Then, I glanced at his glance and put my sausage in my mouth.
He looked at me with a surprised face. It seems surprised that the manners of meals are not aristocratic. He would have seen me perfectly familiar with the nobility's dining manners in fantasy.
I didn't know that I desperately endured me with a special appetite because I wanted to be a proud daughter to him.
The Duke was almost certain. That illusions aren't just illusions.
'I wasn't crying there. Foolish.'
I must have brought it to Wenton Forest to see what I am like in front of an old tree.
I know, but I was resentful, so I couldn't hold back my tears. The ancient body is more sensitive to emotions than my original body.
'Besides, who would believe it just because the Duke was sure?'
I ate the sausage and glared at the Duke.
“I am going home now.”
"Okay."
The Duke raised his greasy hand to wipe it off with his handkerchief and snapped his hand away. Somehow, I had the illusion that he seemed to be gloomy.
I went out of the Wenton Forest with the Duke.
I couldn't go back through long-distance movement. The public eye is on the Duke of Amity, who became the head of the curse case investigation team. Any child he meets, who is busy without his eyes, is forced to take time to meet, but if he knows that long-distance movement is also used, he will try to investigate me in various places.
“What about the wagon?”
“I am waiting at the shopping street. If you communicate, you will come.”
“I will go to my carriage.”
“It’s Joa standing up.”
“If you don’t wait together.”
“If someone sees it, ottoke?”
“Is there something I need?”
“……”
I pondered for a moment.
'Okay. It's better to end it today than to ask to see you again on the excuse of giving you what you want.'
It wouldn't be easy to cry out for crying outside in broad daylight, but let's ask them to cry in the carriage.
With a trembling expression, I headed for Duke Amity's carriage.
'Was the wagon so shabby?'
Seeing Duke Amity's carriage in the distance, I was amazed.
I didn't even know it was shabby in my first life. My dad, who has only the things that are far superior to others, gave me the best of what he had.
The carriage of Duke Amity looks shabby when I ride my carriage, which is made of ebony wood and has some magic.
It was then.
"Master."
The coachman of Duke Amity family approached him with frequent steps.
“What is it?”
“So it’s…… That……”
It was the moment when the coachman was agitated with an embarrassment.
“Duke.”
I heard a familiar voice.
'Mina?'
She seems to be chasing only Duke Amity.
'Because I was an irreplaceable woman in my first life, it's deserving to be sad. …But has her hair color returned to its original color?'
At the time of the shopping street wave, the color of her hair clearly changed to blond, but it returned to its original black.
'Did the color change for a while in the aftermath of the wave? But her hair isn't a mana sensor, and her color changes quickly?'
While thinking so, Mina looked at me and Duke Amity alternately. I didn't look good.
“I heard a story yesterday that there was a fire near the building of the investigation team. I was worried so I kept contacting you, but there was no answer...…"
“……”
The atmosphere of the two was strange. It was a completely different airflow from what I saw in the shopping street.
'Because you're not the only one who sees me in a fantasy. I guess you also saw that you loved Mina so much.'
She asked as Mina squeezed the hem of her chita.
“The Duke might look weird for me. But I was so worried...… You're okay, but I'll go if I check...…”
“There is nothing to worry about.”
"What a relief. She heard that she was smoky, so she asked for medicinal herbs at the temple. They say it's good for a broken neck. I put it in her carriage, so...…”
Tears ran in Mina's eyes. He, the Duke Amity, who looked at her, carefully reached out his hand.
“It was lean.”
“……”
“Is your meal doing well?”
I shook her head with an uh, haha expression.
It was the “Woman's Only World” that she always experienced in her first life. It has nothing to do with me, regardless of how much afflicted woman they become, but I would like to be pitiful after returning it.
Meanwhile, my correspondence seat flickered. I fell a little away from both of them with the improved communication stone in my ears.
[This is Trigon.]
"Huh."
[I found the reason why the young lady's condition was weird when the shopping mall was shaken.]
“Monde?”
[The divine powers of the two were mixed inside the lady.]
“I don’t know? I don’t say anything!”
Divine power cannot be mixed. Would you not know if you had a special quality of divine power that could match your opponents like Adrian. The reason why priests cannot share divinity with each other is that they cannot all have the same divinity.
Cheol Su said, ‘It shouldn’t be mixed like blood of different blood types!’
[There is no such case. …… If it is between parents and children.]
'What is this sound? I mean, I gave birth to Mina...… Wait a minute.'
I looked back at Mina.
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