44 – 8-The Unlet Down
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In this world, people with developed senses that can feel magical power are said to have received the ‘blessing of mana’.
Using that sense, they choose one of the two paths: becoming a knight by storing mana in the dante, or becoming a mage by creating a circle in their heart.
It was understandable that the ability to feel mana was called a blessing because it was possible to rise in status if the conditions for proper training were met.
However, a problem arises when the ability to sense mana is extremely developed.
This is because mana instinctively accumulates anywhere in the body first during infancy, before the short circuit or the heart is still ripe.
In this way, the case where mana dwells excessively in a certain part of the body at the same time as being born and becomes a disability is called ‘mana curse’.
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Della von Lauren was a princess cursed with mana.
A monster that turned into a sapphire due to excessive condensation of mana in her left eye.
At least she was on the lucky side.
Her parents weren’t so lowly that they threw their children out on the street because they were cursed.
Her family was wealthy enough not to starve even if she couldn’t work.
Above all, the cursed place was one eye, so it didn’t interfere with daily life.
However, a handicapped child usually occupies a hidden corner of the house.
It was only because he was a child of a high-ranking family that he was rich and the space was large.
The princess was confined to a villa owned by the duke’s family and grew up without the love of her parents.
On the day she was kicked out of her villa after being beaten for accidentally breaking an expensive bowl, the nanny first learned that the duke had a daughter.
Oh my face is hurt, it’s too much.
These were the words she spoke to her nanny on her first day with her princess.
At that time, the nanny was afraid of her princess and could not even meet her eyes.
It was because of the pale skin like a corpse, black hair as dark as pitch black, black pupils that seemed to devour the world, and the blue blood vessels sprouting from the center of the left eye covered by an eyepatch.
The nanny saw the princess applying the ointment to her and thought.
She’s like a witch from a fairy tale.
A being that kills crops and makes people sick by cursing them.
Even with her hands caressing her wounds with the expensive ointment, the nanny worried that she might be selling her soul to the devil.
That’s how the nanny’s villa life began.
The villa was smaller than the duke’s mansion and had only one person to attend to.
The people I worked with were kind, and the surrounding scenery was beautiful, so it was better than working at the duke’s mansion.
Everything was perfect except for Princess Gongnyeo, who was afraid to even make eye contact with her.
The princess really looked like a witch.
Because she noticed that the nanny was afraid of her eyes, and whenever she bumped into her, she took off her eyepatch and enjoyed the reaction.
Are my eyes scared? If I avert my eyes, will I get hurt?
It was difficult to say that the princess’s left eye was beautiful even in empty words.
It was because the blue mass was settled where her eyeballs should be, as if someone had stabbed them.
The blue blood vessels around him pulsated in time with the beat of his heart.
Whenever the princess did that, the nanny didn’t know what to do and she couldn’t help but cry.
By the time the eyes of the princess got used to her, the princess had changed from a witch to a naughty girl in the nanny’s perception.
Contrary to her first impression, Gongnyeo was a bright girl with no wrinkles. She
She was just a tomboy who liked to tease her servants.
She would go up on the roof and watch the servants stamp their feet.
Listening to that giggling sound, you could tell that one of the servants was playing tricks again.
Since her nanny was not afraid of her princess, her princess always took her nanny by her side.
Because there was only a nanny who was the same age as her at the villa.
Since the nanny didn’t speak well, most of the talk was the princess.
Since the princess spent most of her day in the garden of her villa, the nanny also stayed in the garden for a long time.
In a place with a glass roof where no ashes would fall, the princess looked up at the blurry sky above the garden flowers that took her gaze.
Isn’t this villa like a cage?
Looking at the sky with grid patterns formed by the ceiling bars, you might have thought that way.
But the nanny thought that if it was a cage like this, I would also like to be locked up.
A gorgeous old house overlooking the sea located in Okstantium, a garden that blooms without having to clean up her ashes, delicacies from the mountains and seas pouring out every day, and even her servants who look after her.
In her nanny’s ears, the princess’ words sounded like the complaints of a well-fed noble lady.
Everyone in the world lives with pain.
From the point of view of the nanny, the princess was enjoying too much for a sick person.
She thought so.
Until she was told that her duchess had dug a tomb for her on the hill behind her villa, and that she had never visited her villa.
The day the curse fell on my left eye, they confined me here and didn’t say a word. Oh, was there anything more to say?
Because the grave is enough.
Gongnyeo smiled as if she were talking about other people and said to the nurse.
I’ll give you everything you need.
Luxury that others do not dare to enjoy.
But you can’t get out of here.
Let’s live happily chirping like birds for the rest of our lives and die here.
It wasn’t too difficult to guess the duke’s will.
To be satisfied with the sun reflected in the bars and wither day by day.
That was the life allowed to the princess.
The nanny realized how her princess had grown up bright in such an environment.
She didn’t want to live according to the Duke’s wishes.
At that moment, in the eyes of her nanny, the princess was no longer a witch or a prankster.
She was just a little girl abandoned by her parents.
But I really hate that. Since you treated me like a bird, I’m thinking of pecking at you with my beak.
Still, the princess smiled brightly.
Like a bad boy who remembered a funny prank.
The nanny felt sorry for her princess, but she thought that there was nothing the princess could do.
If the duke said so, then she would do as he wished.
It took her only a year to realize that she was mistaken.
From that time on, the princess lifted her eyepatch and looked up at the sky with her left eye open in her garden on sunny days.
She looked up at the sky with her eyes sparkling in the sunlight for a while, and like an astrologer, she foretold the future that would come to her servants.
My left eye. You can see the stars even during the day.
The servants quickly recognized that it was her princess’s new prank.
However, whenever she was told to be careful because something bad would happen in the future, she couldn’t help but feel embarrassed.
Because she was staring at the blue jewel, it wasn’t easy for her to listen to her words.
Since the nanny no longer considered her princess a witch, she thought she was lying to her.
However, contrary to her nanny’s expectations, a few days later, a servant cried to her princess on her knees, saying that the prophecy had been correct.
According to her princess’s prophecy to watch out for her wheels, her mother was hit by her carriage and seriously injured.
Beginning with that servant, people started to believe in the astrology of her princess.
Then the nanny thought.
Even if the princess’s left eye can’t see anything, her words have the power to attract and seduce people.
She is said to be a unique talent that no one dares to imitate.
As the nanny guessed, people came one by one to the quiet villa, led by her talent.
The fisherman who was catching fish in the sea right in front of him, the gardener in the mansion next door, and the general merchandiser and druggist who were doing business nearby heard rumors spread by servants and sought the princess first.
Gongnyeo received it regardless of who came to see her fortune.
The princess’s astrology became more accurate day by day, and it matched surprisingly well.
No, it’s not astrology.
People acted as if they had lost their souls at her princess’s left eye and her speech skills.
They arbitrarily interpreted her princess’s words according to her own circumstances, and when something good happened, they credited her.
Some of the people around the villa who came to see her fortune heard her prophecy and saved her life.
Someone else boasted that he had won a thousand gold.
The rumor was exaggerated several times more than the truth and spread throughout the Octantium.
I heard that the daughter of the von Lorraine family does fortune-telling at the villa?
Did the Duke have a daughter?
It must have been cursed with mana and hid it. The Princess reads her star with her special eyes during the day when the sun rises and sees her fate to come.
No, I heard she sold one of her eyes to her devil and got a future vision in return.
About a year after the princess began reading her fortune, people called her a daytime astrologer or a witch who sold her eyes to the devil.
It doesn’t matter what she is called, the princess said.
If she can’t get out of her cage, she’ll call the world into the cage.
Then the nanny noticed her princess’ plan.
The fact that the princess pretends to be her astrologer with her special eyes is to reveal to the world her true self, which she had to hide because she was the von Loren family.
She was imprisoned because of her eyes, and with those eyes she was taking revenge on her ducal family.
The more successful she is, the more she suffers from unsolvable problems, and then she wants to resort to superstition.
As soon as rumors spread in the capital, the capital’s merchants and influential people came with gold to take a look at her face.
The princess didn’t pay attention to the riches that were piling up in her mansion one by one, but she didn’t look out for people like before.
Among the people who came that way was the Duke of Lorraine.
At the request of a merchant who hated waiting to meet her princess, her father, the duke, came forward.
Even though she was likely to refuse, the princess faithfully looked at the divination of the merchant who had followed the duke.
Sorry, I was wrong.
Could she have wished for such words?
Or was it that she was happy that she had succeeded in revenge?
The princess wept as she watched the duke leave silently with the merchant who read her fortune.
It was the first time the nanny saw tears in her blue eyes.
After that day, the princess did not accept anyone into her villa.
The garden, which used to be crowded with high-ranking officials who came to see her fate, was unusually quiet.
Like a flower in a flower bed, the princess withered day by day.
She no longer smiled or looked up at the sky, and she was only thin because she wasn’t eating properly.
Then one late night, an uninvited guest came to the garden after breaking the ceiling.
He hasn’t fully grown yet, but he has a strong body and an inverted triangle body that cannot be covered by clothes.
Lion-like golden hair, prominent cheekbones and well-developed chin muscles, an angular face with a harmonious aquiline nose, and three hundred eyes set in slanted eyes.
The smell of her alcohol wafted through the mana that shook as much as the strong impression.
The uninvited guest said as he fell into the garden with the pouring shards of glass.
Are you the famous astrologer?
This was the first meeting between the successor of the kingdom who wanted to become a knight and the princess who wanted to become a witch.
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