16. Before the end – 03
That day, I think it was Tia’s seventh birthday.
“Happy birthday, Tia.”
“Congratulations, Tia.”
clap clap clap-
A small hut built in a secluded place on the outskirts of a village. At a table in the middle of the cabin, the family of three gathered together and had their own small birthday party. Even though there were no other guests besides the three of them, Tia didn’t mind at all. Because next to him, he had his father and mother whom he loved the most in the world.
Perhaps because it was her only daughter’s birthday, while the table was filled with various dishes prepared with care by her mother, Tia looked around the table for a long time as if she was looking for something, and then whispered quietly to her father with bright eyes. .
“Dad, by the way, cake. Where is the cake?”
Today, Tia was looking at her father with expectant eyes that seemed to double than usual, perhaps because it was her birthday. Tia is now seven years old. He was also at an age where he could clearly see how precious and precious the day of his birthday, which comes only one day a year, was. Moreover, it is also a day that can be tolerated to a certain extent even if it is somewhat grumbling or using a group.
For today, Tia had confidently whispered her request into her father’s ear for several days. It was a really cute request that I would like to try a cake at least once on this birthday. Of course, Tia didn’t know how hard it was to get sugar and cream in such a small country town. And the fact that cake is a luxury food that only nobles can eat, not commoners.
“Ummm, cake…”
He stroked Tia’s hair once, as if his daughter was just lovable, then looked at her mother and gave her a very subtle wink. Of course, innocent Tia, who had just turned seven, was unaware of the secret exchanges of glances between adults. Dad adjusted his expression once, then made a gloomy expression and shook his head left and right at Tia.
“I’m sorry, Tia, but the promised cake looks a bit difficult.”
“…yes? why? The other day, you promised that you could eat it on your birthday.”
When words with negative meaning came out of her father’s mouth, Tia couldn’t hide her disappointment and put on a sullen expression. Apparently, today, Tia’s reception of the cake that she had longed for so much seemed to be a failure.
“Dad tried his best, but in the end the little cake that our Tia wanted was not available. I don’t know what to say, but there is a present that Dad and Mom prepared for Tia in their own way. Would you accept even that?”
“…Eh, it’s okay. Cake can be eaten later. Dad and Mom have prepared a present for you, so I’ll forgive you with that. Originally, I wouldn’t forgive you at this level, but since today is my birthday, I’m specifically forgiving you. Understand?”
Tia, who is saying that with a slightly elated expression, but since she is still a child, can’t hide her gloomy expression, her father tries to hold back a laugh and carefully places a rather large box on the table.
“what’s this?”
“A present prepared for Tia by Dad and Mom. Please, I hope you like it. Tia.”
Blinking her eyes and opening the box without thinking, what came into Tia’s eyes.
“Whoa, cake!”
It was a cake. It’s not an ordinary cake, it’s a three-tiered cake. Tia, who was looking at the majestic shape of the cake in the box, ended up smiling broadly. It was a moment when the efforts of father and mother, who had kept the secret thoroughly and thoroughly maintained security so that Tia would not notice from a few days ago, really shined.
“how how?”
Since it was a gift she hadn’t expected at all because she forgot and was tricked by her father’s words, the impression Tia is receiving right now was bound to be three times the expectations she had had just a moment ago.
“Yeah, Mom worked hard to make a cake for Tia. My daughter wants to eat it, but there’s no way you can’t do that much, right?”
Tia, who smiled brightly at her mother’s kind words, soon got down from the chair and the dodo ran to her, and soon she was hugged tightly in her mother’s arms.
“After all, mom is the best. In fact, I was trusting my mother.”
“What about Dad? What do you have with Daddy?”
When Dad asks a question to Tia, who is tightly held in her mother’s arms, Tia turns her head to the side with excitement as if she’s somehow angry.
“I don’t know. Dad lied to me today too. daddy does it every day My mom never tells me lies, but my dad always lies to me and makes fun of me. I hate you.”
“sorry. Still, today is Tia’s birthday, will you forgive her father for lying to her? Because for today, Tia is the main character and our princess.”
In response to her father’s non-reflection, Tia put on a look of concern for a moment, then nodded in satisfaction.
“…great. It’s my birthday today, so I’m specially forgiving you. Promise me then. I won’t lie like this in the future. And like my mother, I won’t lie and always do good things.”
“Yes, promise. I will try to become a good father like my mother from now on.”
Listening to the conversation between Tia and her husband, she felt ashamed inside. Her daughter thinks of herself as a more caring and warm mother than anyone else in the world.
…Unaware that in fact her mother was an ugly woman who had fled from impending doom to pursue her own desires, Tia was aiming to be like her mother. As if one day she dreamed of becoming a caring mother like her mother. Why the hell does this kind of fate end up being repeated like a dodol-i-pyo? why.
Leaving behind her shame, the three of them’s birthday party finally begins. After blowing out the candles on the birthday cake with great effort, Tia whimpered and cut the cake into several pieces with her dainty hands.
“Now, this is your mother’s.”
Tia hands over the largest piece of her cut to her mother first. The cake he had been singing about wanting to eat so much, he gave it up to his mother first without even talking about it.
“yes? isn’t this too big? And my mom actually doesn’t like cake very much.”
This is a cake I made for my daughter. If you eat the biggest piece, isn’t it like the main guest becoming an evangelist? When Tia expresses disapproval at the piece of cake Tia cut, Tia smiles broadly at her mother.
“But it’s a cake my mom made. Dad did it. Originally, delicious things are more delicious when shared with family. And my mom is the nicest person in our family. So, mom eats the biggest one. got it?”
“Tia.”
Listening to her daughter’s words, she hugged her daughter who was so lovely without realizing it.
“…thank you. Both Mom and Mom think Tia is the most adorable girl in the world.”
“I swear. My mom decided to be a better person than Tia. To be the nicest person in our family. So, so-”
On that day, Ariel must have made this oath. It seems that I made a firm oath that I would do my best so that I would not be ashamed to be your mother from now on, even if I had committed a sin beyond my ability to atone for it.
so I tried It was a promise to my daughter, whom I could no longer meet, so I tried very hard not to break it.
Right after returning to 10 years ago, he ran straight to Cain and clung to him, not begging for his love, the reason why he couldn’t kill her when the princess mentioned her daughter, the reason why Kyrie didn’t want to see her daughter again. Even when whispered in my ear.
It was all thanks to the promise I made with my daughter that day that I was able to overcome all of them and choose the path I felt was right.
…but even so, there was just one thing Ariel couldn’t easily endure.
“…Tia.”
Even if she turned her back on everything in the world, Ariel couldn’t easily let go of her lingering feelings for her daughter. Because she was the mother of one child.
I hated it. No, I couldn’t help but hate it. Even though she knew full well that everything was an act that stemmed from her fault, and that everything was meaningless, she had no choice but to harbor a blind hatred for the single culprit who finally broke up with her daughter.
‘witch.’
Perhaps, this may have been her punishment. For a woman who betrayed everything she believed in and pursued only her own happiness, the experience of being deprived of the most precious thing would be a very legitimate punishment in a way.
That’s why I couldn’t help but suffer. Although he knew from the beginning what kind of choice he had to make in the end between right and wrong and right and right.
Since Ariel Thiers was a mother, it seems that she had no choice but to agonize over and over again until the last moment. Because she was once a daughter too. Because I know better than anyone else the heart of a daughter who longs for her mother and wants to become a mother someday. And because I was a mother. Because there was a time when he left his daughter who looked just like him with stomachaches and spent years only for his daughter.
– Mom is the nicest person in our family. So, mom eats the biggest one. got it?
“Tia.”
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My lovely daughter, who was once my everything.
I’ll promise. Mom decided to keep the promise she once made with Tia.
So, I-
“Ariel Thiers, what the hell are you thinking about? With your enemy right in front of you, are you feeling strange emotions surging without even realizing it?”
At Kyrie’s words, Ariel was finally able to regain her senses.
The place where she is now standing is a desolate wilderness. Originally, it was a place where a dense forest existed behind the Duke of Estelle, but after a fierce battle between the three men, all the trees that made up the forest were bent, burned, and shattered, so it was also an unfortunate place that could only be called a wilderness. .
“…Seriously, just the two of us could beat this girl…”
Ariel spat out those words as she looked at Arya, who was lying unconscious at her feet. In the past, in order to defeat this woman, it was not enough that the four people who were the absolute rulers of public interest had to work together. No matter how much I was able to pinpoint my weakness, I can’t believe I was able to subdue the ‘Witch of Winter’ so easily.
Ariel glanced at Kyrie without realizing it, but Kyrie just smiled at Ariel as if she was having fun.
“How about it, does my proposal feel a little realistic now? I didn’t lie to you That we could defeat her with just the two of us, that we had a weakness that could attack her, and—”
“…I wasn’t lying when I said I’d see your daughter again.”
yeah no lie no matter what, no
“By the way, I am a kind and pure elf who has never once spoken a lie in my life? So-“
“Follow my words. If you follow my words, I will definitely make you reunite with Tia. yes?”