69 . Revealing the past (1)
Summary for underage readers who didn’t see the first part because it was 19 gold: Noah and innocent love, Yasu Jo-jim
●
The moment I spent an unforgettable time with Noah and walked out with her arm in arm, I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Is it still a dream? To the extent that I had such an illusion, a sense of alienation came over me, as if the entire relationship I had with Noah was covered up with a fleeting dream.
Surely the Great Forest was not covered with a green forest that gave me ecstasy? The Great Forest reflected in my eyes was dyed red like blood.
The scorching heat, the urgent cries of the elves that can be heard here and there.
It seems that what happened while I was unconscious was not a dream.
The existence of raiders has come as a clear reality, and the scars they left behind in the great forest cannot be said in empty words.
I was suddenly attacked and lost my mind, so I couldn’t confirm their identity, but if I had been a little bit awake, this tragedy could have been prevented in advance.
With this situation outside, what the hell was I doing?
Would it be right to have s*x with Noah leisurely, leaving behind the doubts I felt?
I don’t regret it, but I hated myself for facing the immediate chaos.
In my confusion, someone approached me from behind and spoke to me in a friendly voice.
“Oh, Dad. Woke up?”
When I turned my head at the familiar voice, Elia was standing there with a worried expression.
“Elia….”
Elia saw her me and Noah holding her hand tightly, and she smiled slightly in understanding.
“Did you do it with Noah, too?”
A blatant question, as expected.
I nodded my head slightly averting my gaze at Elia’s words, which seemed to have no intention of hiding it anymore.
You can talk about this later when you go home. There are more important things to do now. I looked Elia straight in the eyes again and was about to ask her to explain the situation, but before that, Elia opened her mouth.
“Dad, we have something to show you.”
After finishing her words, Elia suddenly dragged my wrist and started heading somewhere.
She had no intention of resisting, but Elia’s power was much stronger than usual. Like a pig being led to her slaughterhouse, she was being led helplessly by Elia’s hand.
I wanted to ask a question, but Elia didn’t give me a chance to come up with my question, and she quickly moved on with her steps.
Elia seemed unwilling to talk, so I naturally asked Noah, who was next to me, a question.
“Noah, who raided the great forest?”
“Yes, we already took care of it.”
“Really? That’s good.”
It was fortunate in the misfortune that the raider was dealt with. Did he walk about a minute after Noah’s words brought some peace to his mind?
“This way.”
Elia, who had been silent the whole time, arrived at the large open space behind Sharon’s house.
A beautiful garden full of colorful flowers and trees with various fruits. There was a place that didn’t fit well there, where the fire of the assailants hadn’t reached yet, and Elia’s feet were heading there.
The locked door was hidden by the thick bushes.
It seems like everyone is telling them not to open it, but Elia naturally tore the lock with force, opened the door, and moved her steps first.
Is it okay to go in like this?
After I stopped following and stood still for a while, Elia tilted her head and asked, as if wondering.
“Dad? What’s the matter?”
“No… Don’t you have to ask permission from Sharon?”
Elia answered my question with an innocent smile.
“Dad, you know now, right? That we’re not the kind of beings that deserve the permission of those elves. And it’s okay. This lock is ours.”
Elia finished her speech, and she headed back down. On the stairs leading to the basement where not even a handful of light came in, I followed her with the belief that Elia could not harm me, even though I was dubious.
When did you find out about this place?
As if they knew everything about Daesoorim from the beginning, and they created a secret space and were active, they felt different, but it wasn’t surprising anymore.
In the first place, isn’t the existence of God beyond the scope that a mere human can understand?
Elia was on her way down the stairs when she opened her mouth in a brightened voice.
“All the other sisters are waiting here.”
‘I thought I couldn’t see Stella or Olivia for some reason….’
After following Elia humming her song down the road for a long time, I can see the light shimmering to her left and right.
Although the other children were nowhere to be seen, Elia raised her voice slightly as if to inform Stella and Olivia, who were below her, in advance.
“Stella, Olivia. I brought Dad.”
At the same time, the air in the basement began to change.
The basement, which had been as quiet as a morgue, became cluttered and made me swallow my saliva and maintain a sense of tension.
Underneath the cellar was another door illuminated by dimly flickering lights, but Elia didn’t open it straight away like before. As if she was waiting for someone’s permission.
Read at nob lemtl.com
Followed by Stella’s voice from inside.
“Come in.”
Stella’s voice felt awkward as she sat down as cold as the air in the basement.
Right before I opened the heavy iron door, my instinct gave me a warning.
Knowing that what lies ahead may be something that weak human will cannot handle.
However, the fault caused by these children’s choices was entirely mine. My role as a parent who raised them.
Engraving that promise again, I turned the doorknob of the iron door and greeted the children waiting for me.
The faces of the children welcomed me as always, but my heart stopped when I saw the horrors behind them.
At first, I mistook it for pork or cow meat. That would be the case, too, because the severed limbs of Cassandra were dripping with her ghastly face.
On either side of it, Stella and Olivia clung to me with bright expressions in stark contrast to Cassandra, who was tinged with anguish. But I couldn’t afford to keep my eyes on the children.
My gaze was fixed only on Cassandra, and I even had the illusion that the pain she felt was vividly conveyed to me.
The sight of Cassandra dangling in the air like meat at a butcher’s shop made her queasy immediately.
“Ooh!”
In the end, seeing me throwing up on the floor unbearably, my four daughters approached me with worried eyes.
Patting my back, Olivia cut her speechless.
“Dad, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Didn’t you hate this woman?”
After that, it was Stella who showed pure malice.
“Didn’t this girl give her dad a hard time? So we scolded him instead.”
In scolding? Are you saying that you can say that you scolded this?
Cassandra narrowed her eyes and looked at me. In that expression, she could even see her pleading to be taken out of here.
“Cool!”
Looking at me, Cassandra vomited blood from her mouth and complained of her pain as she groaned as if her body was suffocating.
Read at nob lemtl.com
Fortunately, her life seems to be on the line, but isn’t it worse than being dead?
“Dad, don’t you have much to say to this woman? Daddy can do whatever he wants.”
“Yes, we will be by your side to protect you from doing nonsense.”
‘Even if you tell me to say something….’
What can I say in this atmosphere….
I had no intention of asking the dying person about their past, and even if I were to have a conversation, I wanted to have a conversation in a more normal environment than this.
However, the children prepared this situation for me, and I did not know what would happen if I ignored the favor, so I decided to follow their wishes for now.
“Cassandra, long time no see. Is this the first time since you attacked us that day?”
Cassandra wriggled her body for a moment, and before she could answer, blood poured out of her mouth.
Cassandra shrugged her shoulders and smiled, then lifted her head and looked straight at me.
“Khehehe…. I don’t know, I’ve given up on everything now. Ain, what do you want from me? Maybe an apology? Then you are really sick. Are you saying that you don’t know me even though you’re looking at me like that? I feel sorry for these crazy bitches and you, but I don’t really feel like apologizing even if it comes to this situation.”
Cassandra spits out her spit mixed with her blood, and she has a characteristic mean, confident smile.
She didn’t want an apology, but she was quite offended to hear it herself.
Yeah, you’ve always been the guy with this attitude.
A guy who puts his own pride above all else, even when his life is at stake.
And with that pride, the guy who always ignored me when I was just a porter.
Even the slightest bit of sympathy she had for her gruesome appearance vanished like snow due to Cassandra’s arrogant behavior.