62 – Mother and daughter
Swoosh── Swoosh──.
Kente, a village with beautiful golden wheat fields.
The season has passed fall and is now approaching winter.
The wheat, a proud specialty of Kente Village, had a warm energy as if it would never wither, and was just swaying in the wind, leaving itself to the wind.
“Lala lala!”
And in the middle of that beautiful village, there was a girl who gave herself up to the wind with a passionate energy that seemed to know nothing about getting tired.
“Kid, you’re crazy. Stay still.”
“hehehehe, I don’t like it! Nope!”
“… In this way, I should have taken after my mother, not my father… No, wait a minute… Now that I think about it, is it the same for my mother?”
A young girl with golden hair imbued with incomprehensible artistry, as if made of melted gold, and clear walls containing a vast expanse of space.
Leila Tapnell was shaking her tiny body back and forth and bobbing her legs in a frantic manner right before Cryil’s eyes.
“hahahaha, Leila. “Are you that excited for the welcome ceremony?”
“Yes yes! Oh, I’m really looking forward to it. “Her heart was pounding, her head was pounding.”
And here she is, a woman with classical elegance who is looking at the sight with pleasure and playing with her hands. Rosa, the owner of her clothing store, just opened her mouth happily as she watched the cute child’s antics that made you want to bite her.
“Rosanu, don’t be too talkative to the little boy. “She’s already such a cocky little girl. If you tell her whether to come or not, she might end up in a serious accident.”
“… Cryle, the major accident was caused by you and Julius when you were young. “Our cute Rayla doesn’t do things like that.”
“Ma, Maza! Oh, no. “Because Layla takes after her dad… Fix it!”
“… Phew, Phew… hahahahaha! Who would have thought that Julius would have been hiding such a cute daughter, wow! “I really want to bite you.”
“hehehehe, thank you.”
“… ….”
When and how did he pull this trick? After her noisy commotion in the market of her village, Rosa, who was completely captivated by Leila’s cuteness in that brief moment, nodded her head in time with the little girl’s antics, her face relaxed. He was nodding.
“… Rosanu, you really look like a grandmother now.”
“Mr. Ajo, you can’t use that as a grandmother to a lady.”
“Yes, that’s right, it’s our Ray. “Cryle, you need to follow Julius’ example.”
“… Is making fun of me her pleasure in life? That’s right.”
The gray-haired interrogator, completely absorbed in the caustic remarks of the two ladies(?), Simply shook her head, forgetting the cynical smile that always adorned the corners of her mouth.
-Beep.
“… Yes, but it looks like the guys still have something in common. “After all, you’re on my side, right?”
-Piyaaa!
Sigh───!
To soothe her depressed mood, Leila’s demonic familiar descended from above her head and cavorted near her.
Cryle talking to Piyak.
However, upon hearing the interrogator’s words, the chubby sparrow was so angry that she flapped her small wings vigorously and knocked on the man’s head.
In the end, Crail, who was abandoned by everyone, left the place muttering something to himself.
“Huh, Bpiyak was a female? “It looks exactly like a male.”
-Beep, beep!
One of the two strongest interrogators in Lyriam.
A cataclysmic incident occurred in which Guillotine Krail was defeated by a mere familiar of the devil.
The blonde-haired girl, who was immersed in her own world as if she didn’t care about anything, began talking hesitantly to the mature woman who was drawing on a piece of parchment right in front of her.
“Well, that’s why.”
“… Well, is there anything you need? “Layla.”
“Well… There is something I want to ask you.”
“What do you want to ask?”
Where has the momentum from before gone? Seeing Leila cowering and lowering her head and continuing to mumble, Rosa, the general manager of Kente Women’s Clothing and the mother of her two sons, tilted her head and listened to the girl’s words. .
“My, my mother….”
“If it’s your mother… Miss Cecil?”
“Ma, Maza! Cecil Lionelta! “Uh, uh…”
“Hey, Leila. Do you want to hear about her mother?”
“!”
Her wide eyes widened and her body flinched at Rosa’s sharp remark after ten years of trying to pay off her bar debt by finding the gold coins that her husband, her pin, had buried. The distance is Rayra.
He looks mature and dignified, but is he still a child?
Rosa, who was looking with a bitter smile at the pitiful sight of the child who became restless and even got red-eyed whenever she talked about her mother, recalled the conversation she had with Krail earlier and started playing with her hands again.
‘Cryil, Rayra. Why are you looking for Miss Cecil so desperately? ‘Didn’t we live together when we were in the capital?’
‘… What did Julius say?’
‘Uh… Didn’t you say anything in particular?’
‘Hmm… I didn’t say anything.’
‘Why is he like this now that he’s older? ‘Don’t be so frustrated and tell me something.’
‘Well, Julius’ wife. So Cecil isn’t feeling very well. ‘I haven’t seen Leila since her childhood because I was taking care of her because she had a chronic illness that couldn’t be cured even with her divine power.’
‘Miss Cecil, who seemed so lively, had a chronic illness? So, are you sure your illness is cured?’
‘Yes, whatever. It was definitely better… Definitely, it was better.’
Cryle’s expression looked strangely depressed as he said that, so Rosa couldn’t ask him anything more.
“… ….”
“You lose, you lose? “Aunt Rosa.”
“… Uh, okay. So how much did we talk about?”
Rosa wakes up from her fleeting thoughts and raises her head when she hears the girl’s voice hesitantly speaking to her again.
Rayra looked at her from a distance for a moment, and then she nodded her head vigorously, holding her small hand tightly as if she had made up her mind.
“Oh, you said you would tell me about her mother.”
“Um, okay. “She said she would tell me about Miss Cecil.”
Rosa paused for a moment in her busy teasing and nodded her head in response to her child’s words, crossing her arms for a moment and furrowing her brow. She jerked her head towards Leila.
“So, what do you want to hear? Well, even if you say it in such a boastful way. “I’ve only seen and talked to Miss Cecil a few times.”
“Well, that’s enough. “What do I want to know?”
“Hmm… ….”
“Oh, Mom. Did she seem to get along well with her dad?”
Rosa closed one eye and tilted her head at the question, which seemed a bit puzzling for a question she had thought about for a long time.
If you ask her where her mother is now, or if she has said anything about herself. I thought she was going to ask something like that.
I never thought I would ask about her marital status first.
Roza, curious as to why this precocious little lady would ask such a question, stroked her chin and asked Leila quietly.
“Why are you asking that first? “Aren’t you curious about anything else?”
“Well, I’m curious about other things too. “Well, the most important things are dad and mom.”
“Huh…”
A girl with her head down, wriggling her little fingers and muttering words,
Layla could only glance at the woman in front of her, trying to push the ominous imagination that was in her mind to the corner of her head.
‘Dad… Every time I talk about mom, I cry in front of Layra. Did you have a fight with mom and dad? ‘What if she’s fighting because of me?’
Just like Cecil when she was imagining something sinister, Leila was crouching down and staring intently at the lips of the woman in front of her.
Rosa, who was moved to tears by the girl’s pitiful appearance, tried to put on a lively smile, lightly pinched her child’s cheek, and then slowly opened her mouth.
“You mean Julius and Miss Cecil? Hmm, how was your relationship?”
“Sha, how was Shai?”
“hehehehe, honey, there’s nothing to worry about. “Julius and Miss Cecil seemed to get along better than any other couple I’ve ever seen.”
As a gift for reunion, the fact that Julius bought all the clothes in his store and gave them to his wife as gifts is already a famous incident that no one in Kente Village knows about.
“You put a platinum coin in my hand?”
“Pear, platinum flower!”
“hehehehe, why? Are you upset because Julius spent too much money?”
“hehehehe, hehehehe. “I’ve never heard my dad spend that much money.”
If it were any other child, she might have whined and asked why he didn’t buy her a present, but despite the outrageous story that her father spent the entire price of one or two houses on his wife, the girl with blonde hair just smiled with a sparkle in her eyes. I just smiled.
“And what? “Are there any more?”
“Hmm… Ah! “After the return of Julius, there is another story that could be called a legend.”
“Hey, a legend! After all, dad. “My dad is the best in the world.”
His father.
When the story about Julius Tapnell came up, Layla expressed her father’s greatness with her whole body, bouncing back and forth on each foot as if she was dying of joy.
I haven’t seen many faces due to work, so what’s so great about it?
If Cryle had seen this, he would have been feeding him honey chestnuts and gossiping about Julius, but Rosa, who did not know the details, simply nodded happily and opened her mouth in an eloquent voice.
“What about this story? “This is exactly what happened right here where we are sitting.”
“Yes? W, what happened here?”
Layla’s already large eyes widen even further and she begins to look around.
At the table in front of the bakery where she was sitting, something ‘legendary’ happened between her father, whom she loved dearly, and her mother, who wanted to see her face just once.
Rayra, who felt her small heart pounding, gently squeezed her hands and placed them in front of her chest, as if praying to her god. Immediately after, I almost fell backwards when I heard my parents’ ‘legendary’ actions coming out of Rosa’s mouth.
“Hmm, right there. Yes, right where you were sitting, Rayla, Miss Cecil gently stood up.”
“Yes, yes? “My mom was sitting here?”
“It was a little embarrassing, but he sat astride your father’s legs and made really deep love.”
“Ji, Jinhan. Sa, love!”
“Then, Julius grabbed your mother by the waist, held her as if she were holding a princess, and walked down the street. Even though she had grown old, seeing her like that made her heart flutter. “It was.”
“!”
Unfortunately, Cecil’s dark history, which she wanted to hide, ended up in the ears of her daughter, Leila, through Rosa’s mouth.
After hearing the story of a couple who was better at magic than she could have ever imagined, Rayra blushed and began clenching her fists and shaking them.
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‘I’m glad everything happened. Because dad and mom didn’t fight. ‘I’m so glad Dad doesn’t have to cry anymore.’
Rosa, who was in a good mood at the sight of the girl thinking amazing thoughts and being happy as if it were her job, even more excitedly played with her hands and drew something on a piece of parchment.
When Leila’s excitement finally calmed down, she put the piece of graphite in her hand down on the table, cleared her throat, and carefully spoke to the girl in front of her.
“Layla, do you feel good listening to her mom and dad?”
“hehehehe, hehehehe. I really like it. “Mom, I can’t believe you were really here.”
“… You miss Miss Cecil a lot?”
“I want to see you. Because mom is traveling with her dad right now. Leila, she will be waiting bravely alone.”
“… Yes, it is truly magnificent. So… a child who does such a great thing should receive a gift, right?”
“Uh, huh? “A gift?”
At the words of the woman who was stroking the little lady’s head and smiling slightly mischievously, Laira tilted her head, not knowing what she was talking about.
Into the girl’s hands, Rosa gently placed the picture she had drawn on a piece of parchment without the child knowing, and began to open her mouth in a voice full of kindness.
“I heard it from Krail. “Layla, I heard it’s been a while since she’s seen her mother?”
“… Well, I don’t remember. She definitely knows it by heart. “My mother’s name is…”
“Yes, you are a very smart kid. Still, she said, the child must at least know her mother’s face. Should I memorize this well? “Because she is confident in her drawing skills.”
“… That picture?”
When the word ‘picture’ came out of Rosa’s mouth, Rayra hurriedly unfolded the piece of parchment in her hand and held it in front of her eyes.
Her blue eyes, filled with a clear and pure energy that seemed to contain the sky, even spread divine energy, steadily engraving the picture of a woman drawn on her parchment into the girl’s mind.
The blond-haired boy forgot to close her mouth and just stared blankly at the picture in her hand.
Drawed with black graphite on a piece of yellow parchment.
An exquisite sketch of a woman.
The appearance of a very beautiful woman with a quiet and elegant appearance, smiling at her child as if she were alive and breathing.
Layla Tapnell’s only mother.
Cecil Lionelta.
Gently touching her mother’s face, which she had been separated from a very, very long time ago and could not recall no matter how hard she tried to think about it, Leila ended up crying, unable to hold back her tears.
“Huh-heh-ah, thank you….”
-Beep, beep? Beep, beep!
“Huh, huh? This isn’t it. It’s me, Leila. Stop it! Should I do it? “If you cry like this here, you might catch a cold.”
“Oh, I’m not crying… Sniff.”
───Sigh.
Wow.
“Hey! “Everyone gather here, our Lady Rosa has made Julius’s daughter cry!”
“What? Rosa, did this woman cause an accident?”
“Shut up, Finn! Uh… Rayla? Just stop now! Should I do it? Uh… what should I do with this?”
A girl with blonde hair who can’t stop crying and starts wailing loudly for the entire village to leave.
Roza, who was fidgeting by desperately patting and caressing the girl’s back, felt cold sweat running down her cheeks and recalled her conversation with Cecile, who had come to her a few days ago and asked for a favor before going on a trip to Aran. My eyes were shaking slightly.
‘… Can I ask you a favor?’
‘Three, Miss Cecil? ‘What are you doing this early in the morning?’
‘I’d like you to make me some clothes.’
‘What… Clothes?’
‘Layla.’
‘Leila?’
‘My lovely daughter. ‘I want her to make Leila Tapnell’s clothes.’
It was like that. In fact, a few days ago, she was a woman who spoke in a strange way and had a creepy fear. Cecil Lionel Tarr asked me to make a gift for her Leila, and I completed it today.
Before her welcome ceremony, she planned to take Leila to her own clothing store and give her girl the gift that Cecil had asked for.
‘Oh, what should I do? If she had known this would happen, she would have given Miss Cecil a portrait along with the gift she requested. If I cry like this, maybe it will be good to give you a gift later.’
Looking at Leila, hugging her mother’s portrait in her own arms, crying as her world left her.
Rosa Marie Thecal, the owner of a luxury clothing store, is going through the biggest ordeal of her short life right now.
She ended up receiving a gift from God.
“Hwaaa!”
“What, what? Who made the little boy cry? “Who made our little boy cry?”
“… ….”
Krail, who belatedly noticed this and came running, saw Leila crying and her face turned red and she jumped up, causing another gray hair to grow on Rosa’s hair.
This is probably an unimportant aside.
***
“… Our Rayra. “You cry so sadly because you have an ugly mother…”
A corner of the dreamy and incomprehensible world where the ‘dreams’ of all beings in the world are mixed and colored.
In the middle of a huge mansion that looks like a grotesquely inflated version of Mila’s mansion in Kente Village.
The Great Devil, who was being attended to by shadows with the shape of a woman and trying to fit into a black uniform resembling mourning clothes, suddenly looked at a scene flowing into his mind through his familiar, and his eyes turned red. I just hung my head down.
“… I’m sorry, Leila.”
She is the only child she gave birth to because she had a stomachache.
Leira Tapnel.
A token of eternal love that won’t hurt even if you put it in your eyes, which was born after a night of playing with fire that was committed in order to secure her marriage to Julius.
‘Cecil! Can not be done. Absolutely not! If you give birth to that child, you will eventually die. That child is cursed!’
A man’s shouting echoes in my mind, mixed with a child’s crying.
One day, around the time her own belly swelled. One word that came out of Saint Erman’s mouth only after receiving the revelation of death.
[Leira Tapnel is a cursed child.]
She was still the daughter of a noble saint, not a devil. She thought.
This child, who received all the angels’ blessings, why is she cursed?
Isn’t the sky also congratulating Julius and me for our future?
Her thoughts like that, after giving birth to Leila, she grew weaker and weaker, crumbling and falling apart.
Finally, around the time of her last breath.
‘I… I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die! Now that I’ve finally connected with Julius, I can finally be happy. Why, why, why!’
-Abu Babu, hehehehe.
Ah, Dad… Maybe it’s okay.
You should never have such naughty thoughts.
Because I am a mother, because I am a parent. It’s only natural that I would willingly sacrifice my life for that child.
I saw that bright smile.
I ended up remembering it.
Things that should never be thought of, words that deserve to be cursed
… I ended up thinking about it…
.
.
.
-… Innim, master.
“… Ah, yes. “What happened?”
Her cries reminded her of her beloved daughter, Leila, but her young woman’s voice awakened her from her terrible nightmare.
Standing behind her, holding a cloth made of black shadows, was a familiar in the form of an attendant,
She tilted her head, walked towards her, bent her back, and opened her mouth.
-I don’t think it’s good to keep God’s servant waiting any longer… No, my husband.
“Oh, yes. Yes. We shouldn’t make Julius wait too long. Yes, good job. “Just rest in peace.”
-Okay.
With those words, the nightmare familiars disappear one by one in a strange place where countless clothes are floating.
After confirming that all her shadows had disappeared, Cecil sat down on the spot, held on tightly to her lovely brown hair, curled her body up as much as she could, and slowly closed her eyes.
“… ….”
My love with Julius blossomed into a beautiful flower again.
Anxiety about being abandoned still lingers in a corner of my heart, but as time passes, this too will fade away without a trace in front of his brilliant smile.
But, Layra is different.
The situation is completely different from the interrogator who loved his wife dearly.
Angels and demons are essentially beings with the same origin.
So, surprisingly, the devil’s hatred towards angels or the angels’ hatred towards devils is not that deep.
However, it is a being that only inherits the power of an angel. The representatives of angels show unconditional loathing for devils.
He feels repulsed by beings called archvillains, whose powers are eerily similar to the power within his own heart.
So, according to nature, Julius Tapnel should have despised the resurrected Cecil Lionelta and torn apart Cecil, who had become the great evil, at once.
Of course, that didn’t happen because the hatred flowing from the heart collapsed in front of the love that constantly bloomed.
So, how will Rayra, who possesses the power of the four great angels, unlike other agents, react to her mother who has been resurrected as an archvillain?
-Mom! I love you!
-Dirty devil, how dare you tarnish my mother’s name!
That is definitely a truth that can only be known when mother and daughter face each other.
“… But that’s because I’m a coward. “I just can’t meet Layla.”
If you have the same blonde hair as Julius and the same blue eyes as me.
I told that child that it was dirty, that it was terrible, that I wanted him to die.
If you end up being treated with such contempt.
Because my heart will break.
Because you will be suffocated by the cursed words of that day that you should not dare to keep in your mind.
“… ….”
Even though we have lived for thousands of years, even though we have repeated eons of time. Her memory, broken into pieces, did not give her her answer.
Cecil, her poor coward, uttered her last words, staring blankly at the innocent flame rising from her own fingertips.
“I am not the devil in front of you. I want to be an angel. So, please wait a moment, my dear daughter.”
Even if it means making a deal with the devil.
I will become a suitable woman for you and Julius.
So, just a little, just a little.
Be patient and wait patiently.
My one and only precious baby.
Layla.