9 . The truth of that day (2)
This was the first time I wished for the darkness to spread even a little faster.
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Finally, the long-awaited night came, and Rihanna headed to the back mountain, where she had gone with Ain during the day, at a much faster pace than usual.
Her stamina is not very good, but she was not short of breath, rather her steps were light as if she had wings. She
She held in her arms a small hope that at last she could be forgiven.
But when she arrived at the cherry tree, no matter how much she looked around, Ain was nowhere to be seen.
‘Did I come a little early?’
Rihanna finally caught her breath and carefully called her child’s name.
“Ain? I’m here.”
She had no answer coming back.
She came too soon, thinking that, Rihanna sat down with her back against a cherry tree.
After 10 minutes, I could feel her presence. Rihanna jumped up from her seat in her delight and looked towards the sound.
“Are you here?”
A woman’s voice with a thick voice that seemed to melt her eardrums, Rihanna gasped when she saw the presence that greeted her.
The momentary sound was so loud that it echoed through the silent night sky.
At the bewildered Rihanna, Olivia laughed out loud as if she was having fun.
“What, did you think Dad would come? Daddy can’t call a traitor like you at night.”
Her breath stops. Memories of that day come to mind, and her thighs, stabbed by her dagger, ache again.
Rihanna looked at her elves, touching only her bloodstained bandages.
“I bet you guys called me… ?”
She pretended to be as calm as she could, but there was nothing to stop her learned fear. Rihanna’s voice quivered pitifully from the moment she faced her elf.
“Of course not.”
Rihanna hurriedly pulled out of her arms the note she had received during the day and opened her mouth in a puzzled voice.
“Yeah, but this is Ain’s handwriting….”
Yes, this is Ain’s handwriting. Such crooked handwriting is not easy to follow. She could confidently say that Ain was the worst handwriting person Rihanna had ever seen, and her handwriting was unmatched.
Stella came over to her side and snatched her note from Rihanna’s hand before she said it insignificantly.
“This? All of my sisters have this typeface.”
“What?”
She blushed as if Elia was reminded of her child, twisted her body slightly like her girl, and added her explanation.
“My dad, other things are all-around, but one handwriting is really cute, isn’t it? So I wanted to write the same way from before, so I followed it every single day without missing a beat.”
Rihanna looked at them in silence. Short of breath? It was such an indescribable atmosphere.
Madness, yes, this is madness.
She was so dizzy that it couldn’t be wrapped up in the word affection, and a thick madness was visible.
“You are crazy.”
Rihanna’s words flowed out of her mouth and her elves burst into laughter.
“I’m not crazy. Don’t people call this kind of love?”
“Because we love our father, we want to be like him in everything.”
Rihanna shook her head and backed away.
I can assure you that if this was love, the world would have gone crazy long ago.
She asked the elves cautiously in a voice full of fear.
“Why did you call me?”
“Ah, why did I call you?”
Almost as soon as she finished her words, Elia’s fine chalcedony glowed for an instant, and in the blink of an eye pierced Rihanna’s forehead like a dagger.
“Uh… uh huh?”
Rihanna, her forehead pierced without a chance to react, struggled with her hand, with only one word flowing from her mouth over and over again.
Her thighs couldn’t compare to the ones pierced by her sword. Everyone knew what it meant to have her head pierced, one of the vital organs of human beings.
Are you going to die like this? Not even a day out of the week had passed yet, so couldn’t a mere person understand the elves’ intentions?
If the purpose was to make people have hope by saying that they would give it a week, and to reap it, it was undoubtedly a success.
If she knew it would be like this, the first time she met the elves, she would have poured out cursing in a cool way.
The last thing that popped into Rihanna’s head was Ain.
She shed tears and repented of her past.
‘Still an apology… She couldn’t even properly apologize to Ain….’
There is a myth that hearing remains until the end when a person dies, but it seems to be true.
Seeing that the voices of the annoyed elves can be clearly heard even in this situation.
“What? Why are you doing this?”
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Followed by a tingling pain in the cheek.
What is this sharp pain?
Rihanna opened her carefully closed eyes and saw four elves still standing in her field of vision.
Are you saying it’s not the underworld yet?
Like someone who saw Olivia having fun, Rihanna laughed out loud as she pointed to her face.
“Look at his expression.”
Stella let out a deep sigh and shook his head from side to side.
“Did you really think I was going to kill you? I don’t like you, but at least I keep my promise. Don’t worry, I won’t touch you until the week is over.”
“There is something strange in your head, so Elia is specially removing it. Thank you.”
After hearing her words, Rihanna looked right in front of her again.
Elia was muttering something to her, closing her eyes.
She was still unfamiliar with the sensation of her fingers digging through her hair, but she felt no pain apart from it.
Elia finally opened her eyes and spoke in a bright voice.
“All right.”
Elia pulled something out of Rihanna’s head and threw it to the floor at her.
Took.
Before Rihanna made sure she fell to the floor, she touched her forehead.
She thought it must have been punctured, but she didn’t have a single minor scar on Rihanna’s forehead.
After exhaling her relief, Rihanna shifted her gaze to the mysterious object wriggling on her floor.
What Elia pulled from her forehead was a gray caterpillar.
A larva that is too large and hideous to be called a parasite common in the human body.
The snout was pierced in a circle, as if looking at a death worm, and sharp spines protruded from the body.
“This has been in my head all this time?”
Just thinking about it made me gag.
Elia, who was wiping her hands with the pink handkerchief that Noah gave her, spoke nonchalantly.
“It’s a kind of black magic. I didn’t know that a human could write something like this to a human. No, is it possible because you are human?”
“Dark Magic… ?”
“Rather than that, do you have time to talk to us now?”
At her incomprehensible words, Rihanna looked straight into Elia’s blue eyes.
Her ruthlessness could be seen in her beautiful eyes, which were hard to think of as human.
“What?”
“The things you forgot since you betrayed my dad will pour out from now on, will it be okay?”
Rihanna knelt on the floor before Elia finished speaking, tearing at her hair and letting out her screams.
‘What… ! What the hell is this… !’
It flows.
Waves of emotions, fragments of memories.
The sadness of betraying her significant other, the guilt of forgetting him, began to run through Rihanna’s head.
Her 4 years was longer than she thought, and the emotions she recalled during that time were more vast than that.
Her oblivion is sometimes said to be a blessing, but if it goes too far, she will return as a poison one day.
The experience of having forgotten memories and emotions come in an instant due to the will of others, not one’s own will, was difficult for a weak human mind to handle.
Nevertheless, Rihanna clenched her teeth and endured it.
The pain Ain felt all this time must be worse than this.
The last thing that popped into Rihanna’s mind as she took in all her memories from recent events was the most recent.
Yes, that is the day.
On that day, the sky was overcast with dark clouds and it was about to rain.
She heard Leon’s request that she had something to say at night, so she went to his tent.
She didn’t like it because she was in the middle of a pleasant conversation with Ain, but she couldn’t help it because it was Leon, the leader of the party.
As she opened Leon’s tent with a grim expression, the last thing Rihanna saw was Cassandra’s mean-spirited grin of gray.
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From that moment on, everything changed.
Her feelings for Ain turned negative, and she stopped feeling guilty about him.
No, on the contrary, being at a party made me annoyed.
Emotions changed so naturally that there was no time to wonder.
All that hurt her child was false emotions and false memories that were not mixed with her own will.
Having stopped pulling her hair, Rihanna slowly raised her torso and looked at her elves.
She said, “I remembered everything. But why are you telling me this? You hate me….”
Wouldn’t it die if I just left it alone without having to do such troublesome things? Why would he do such a favor to someone who was supposed to be dumped in a goblin cave after a week?
After wiping her hands, Elia spoke in a still nonchalant voice.
“I am not the only one who dislikes you. We just hate every girl who comes up next to our dad. All of them except for the grandmothers who have taken care of us with my dad since we were little.”
“Do you think we bother you because we are bored? How trash do you see us.”
Rihanna kept her mouth shut. It’s a subjective opinion, but from Rihanna’s point of view, they were trash enough.
Olivia trampled to death her caterpillar wriggling on her floor, then opened her mouth.
“Because Dad is the most important thing to us. It’s the hardest to see my dad sad or in pain.”
“If you are a person who knows how to apologize properly, so that the burden on your heart that Dad feels is relieved even a little bit, this much can help enough.”
“Right, it’s better to do this in a fair situation.”
This was an opportunity.
It was the first time the elves showed such a friendly attitude when not in front of Ain.
“Then can’t we just give it a little more time? Then apologize to Ain… !”
But Stella firmly refused.
“If you can’t even get a proper forgiveness within a week, there’s no hope. Wouldn’t you know if you’ve been together all this time? My dad, he’s pretty affectionate.”
That’s true, but there’s no way I can fill the emotional gap that has developed over the past four years in a week….
Elia gently caressed Rihanna’s shoulder as she was immersed in her troubles.
“Sister, this is a new opportunity. The cave where the goblins live, I’m in the middle of looking into it, so I guess I’ll have to work harder than before?”
The smiles of the elves, who seemed to be teasing Rihanna by mentioning goblins, were still cruel, but Rihanna’s eyes were brighter than before when she noticed the goodwill that had blossomed between them.