95 – Resurrection, Spring
Did you hear Ella’s cry?
“Rabbit yaaa!”
Ia Lin, who was eating her, ran over and hugged Ella. Then, as if it was uncomfortable for her to hug her, she carefully put Ella’s self-proclaimed older sister on top of her body on her bed, and she hugged Ella again.
“No, sleep! Wait! Let go! Let go! I am now! I am now!”
“Rabbit! Do you remember me?! Huh? Huh? Are you fine? There’s no strange place?! Thank goodness!”
“No! No! Let go! I’m not wearing anything right now! Let go!”
Ella struggled to free herself from the arms of Arin, her body hugging her own. It was because she felt threatened and ashamed when Ia Lin, whom she thought might be a lesbian in her heart, hugged her body.
She put aside all of her many questions and did her best to keep this Arin away from her.
However, witches cannot defeat warriors by force.
She had no choice but to be helplessly held by Ia-rin like a sleeping doll.
“Ugh.”
Lee Celine, who came in belatedly, sighed at the sight and looked at her child lying on one side of her bed.
“That. Well, I don’t know what to call it… That… I’ll start with this one…”
Seline, who was lying on her bed, put on the T-shirt and pants she had saved for her and headed to Ella. And then she hit Arin on the top of his head.
f*ck!
“Evil!”
“Stop shaking, get away! You fool!”
She forcibly separated Arin from her Ella. She then put her t-shirt and shorts on her, picked her up just as she was, and set her on her bed. As she sat down on the bed, she leaned against her headboard to see if she had the strength to move her body, and the child she had dressed earlier also writhed and laid her head against Ella’s legs.
“It’s comfortable~”
Ella tried to open her mouth with her angry face as if she was deftly arguing with her child who was lying on her own leg, but then her true face was revealed with her babbling sound. Revealed He was walking slowly towards the bed with a friendly smile, and strangely, not feeling reassured or friendly, but feeling reluctant, as if he wanted to run away.
As soon as he reached the bed, he smiled at the child and put his hand on her head.
It was a gentle touch, like blessing a baby.
And the child who felt the touch laughed and shouted.
“Derge Barter Todd!”
Hearing those words, Jinseong slightly hardened his expression.
“Hmm.”
Der Gevatter Tod.
It was the German name for the story Godfather Death.
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Jinseong narrowed his eyes and looked at his child.
“That’s strange.”
Knowing that in itself is not strange.
The Grimm Brothers, the authors of ‘Death That Became Godfathers,’ were German, and Ella lived in Germany, so she couldn’t have known the story. And, of course, Marten, who gets information from Ella, must have been familiar with it.
However.
It’s strange to say that now.
Saying thank you or who are you, not even the same question.
Does it make sense to spit out that right after meeting?
Even he is goodIf you knew the character of Dambi, you would never say something like that in the first meeting.
Jin-seong had his doubts.
“Why did you suddenly say that?”
Then, the dambi laughed bashfully and said.
“An old man I met in my dream told me to say this first when I meet a benefactor.”
“Grandfather?”
“Neng! He told me that it was a trick!”
Grandfather?
Did you meet in a dream?
Jinseong could think of someone in his mind.
“Have you ever been tall and not handled a flame?”
“Yeah~ I did!”
“Are you too skinny?”
“Yeah~”
Big stature.
Skinny body.
A shaman who handles flames and explores the depths of the mind.
Ashutosh Singh.
He was a respected shaman called the sage of flame in leader, and he was also a great man who became famous around the world as the story of his struggle to save helpless children during World War III spread. But, unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to meet Jin-seong because I couldn’t connect with him, and I felt sorry for that fact…
Now, the image of the sorcerer came out of the dambi’s mouth.
Jinseong asked while looking into her eyes.
“Derge Barter Todd. Did you just say that?”
“Yeah~ I said I would just say that~”
Jinseong looked at the dambi quietly.
‘It’s death that became a godfather.’
* * *
A long time ago, there was a father.
The father, who had been raising 12 children in a poor household, got the 13th child, and left home to find a godfather and ask for the child, thinking that they would all starve to death while raising this child.
While he was looking for someone to be his godfather for a long time, the man saw an existence that offered to be his godfather.
[I will be your godfather. ]
[ Who are you? ]
[I am the sunlight that shines down from the sky, and I am the existence that makes the grain grow. It is also the light that circulates in the sky and gives rest, and it is also the earth from which everything grows. I am the raindrops falling from the sky, the flowing river, and the vast expanse of the sea. From a small flea to a large beast, there is nothing that my hands have not touched. I have no form, but you are what you serve. I am God, your idol. ]
The man rejected God’s offer.
[ I will decline. Do you give to the rich but not let the poor go hungry? You are kind to the strong above all else, but you can be infinitely cruel to the weak like me. The fruits and grains that are coveted go only to the rich, and they do not want to give even a single grain to the poor. The great beast preys upon the poor instead of the rich, who are protected by spears and knives. You are infinitely cruel to us. I can’t make you my child’s godfather. ]
So the man set off again.
Then he met another, and the behavior was really bizarre.
[I will be your child’s godfather. Let him do something dangerous for the child, and let him gain wealth and fame later. ]
[ Who are you? ]
[I am what you fear, what you call a demon. As long as your child serves and serves me, I willIt will make you rich and give you endless honor. ]
The man also refused this time.
[You cheat, harass, and do bad things. If you become a godfather, my child will also be stained with evil. ]
The last thing the man on the road saw was death.
[Death, please be my child’s godfather. You are a being who does not discriminate between rich and poor, administers justice impartially, and declares an end justly, regardless of what is good or good. You are the right person to be my child’s godfather. ]
Death readily agreed to the man’s request.
And finally Death became the godfather, and wholeheartedly supported the child.
And the year the child becomes an adult.
Death is a gift from the godfather, who promises to make the child a famous doctor.
If he was at the patient’s bedside, he would brew the herb he had taught him and make him drink it.
As soon as the child followed the godfather’s words, he soon became a famous doctor famous in the country, and the child lived a happy life with wealth and honor as a gift from the godfather.
Then one day, the king called the child to the castle because of his illness. But his godfather stood at the king’s feet, and the child was torn between the huge reward the king promised and the promise he made with his godfather.
And in the end, the child broke his promise with death and made a decoction of his herbs and made the king drink it, and the king came to life even though he was destined to die.
The godfather was furious.
[Hey! How dare you break your promise to me and save someone from dying! I want to cut your throat right now and take you away, but I’ll take a look. I’ve watched you grow as my godfather, so I’m only watching you this once. If you really think of me as your godfather, you will never do this again! If you violate it, I will not consider you a godfather and will take you as it is! ]
The child shuddered at the godfather’s wrath and promised and promised again that he would.
And how long has it been since he made his promise.
[My daughter is sick. She would do anything if it would make her sick. If only her princess lives, I will make you her daughter’s husband and pass on the throne! ]
When the princess was seriously ill and was bedridden, the king asked for her child who had healed him.
The child, who entered the bedroom to see the state of her princess, saw her and fell in love with her at first sight.
The appearance of a beautiful princess came like fate to a child who had not yet found a match.
But unfortunately, his godfather was standing at his feet, not at his bedside.
It was that the princess was destined to die soon.
The child was troubled.
To save the princess or not?
The trouble didn’t last long.
The child, blinded by his love, has taken away the weight of his godfather’s previous warning and has become more optimistic that he will be forgiven this time too. As he had done to the king before, he brewed herbs and fed them to the princess, and the godfather, despite his warning, took the child who had broken his promise again.
Only then did he realize the weight of what he had done and begged the godfather.
[Please take a look. No one else, are you my godfather? ]
Then death dragged the child to a place full of candles.
[Look. That’s a person’s lifespan. The longer the candle, the more life left, and the brighter the flame, the stronger the vitality. ]
[Where is mine in the middle? ]
[ That’s it. ]
The candle Death pointed to was unattractive.
The length was short, and there was not much left, and the flame was small, as if it would go out at any moment.
[Ah, godfather. Please keep me alive ]
[How do you mean? ]
[Please move this flame to another candle! ]
Death placed a candle in the pleading child’s hand.
The child was delighted that death had granted her request, but she soon realized that something was wrong with the raging flames.
The flame instantly melted all the remaining candles and went out.
* * *
What we can see from this story is that being a ‘godfather’ has a huge impact on a child’s life.
The father, who was searching for a godfather right away, rejected the previous two requests for the future of his child, and said that death as a godfather was a gift, and made her child walk on the path of a doctor. And she let the ‘fairness’ she emphasized so much on the godson and let her die.
In this story, the ‘godfather’ was a person who influenced the child’s entire life.
‘Influence.’
And it also contained a theme that penetrated what Jinseong was trying to do.
Jinseong tried to exert her influence over her by giving her name to be bound to herself so that her sable could not risk her life carelessly.
It would become an intangible leash and the formless shackles of destiny to restrain the marten, but in return it would have given him safety and a happy future.
Ashtosh Singh noticed Jinseong’s plan and threw a hwadu (話頭) to Jinseong through her dam’s mouth.