episode_0021
by fnovelpiaMisunderstandings arise from minor twists.
Whether it’s big or small.
If you find it early, you can just laugh it off and fill in the gaps. But what happens if the small gap gradually widens to the point where it cannot be filled?
For example, what you thought was an act of abandoning yourself turned out to be to save yourself.
I tried to inflict pain on him while planning the revenge of a lifetime, but he had already died after being tortured so horribly.
In order to buy a little more time, I bit my lip and held on to my fading sanity.
What if that person is even family?
By then, the small gap will have become a bottomless pit, and once you fall into it, you will never be able to get out.
And, you will regret it.
It would be better if I didn’t know.
***
“Ah… ah… .”
Mirabelle gapes.
Blurry syllables come out suddenly.
Hot tears roll down my cheeks.
“I don’t have time to be like this right now. Please leave Praxhu with Mirabelle. Please earnestly.”
In front of you, you can see Harold kneeling down to Karami and ejaculating.
Even though he died horribly because of himself.
Even though in his timeline, he had just woken up after experiencing torture.
Even though there wasn’t enough time to perceive reality.
Mirabel put them aside, considering them ‘trivial’, and couldn’t say anything as she watched Harold begging to get her out of this place.
That was a very far cry from the inhumane person who abandoned his daughter.
Quite the contrary.
The image of a father who loved his daughter dearly. It matched the Harold in my memory, something I tried hard not to remember.
“Wow.”
Mirabelle, who suddenly lost strength in her legs and sat down, couldn’t stand it and started gagging. I was disgusted with myself for thinking of Harold as an object of revenge and all because I knew nothing about it.
“Mi, Mirabel! what’s the matter. Where does it hurt?”
Harold flies in a month later and checks on Mirabel. Mirabell couldn’t bear to make eye contact so she lowered her head.
Karami was like that.
The reason the slave girl’s soul disappeared could be because time passed, or it could be because she had no regrets about this life.
However, Harold’s soul, who died on the same day, is intact. If so, it would mean that there are still regrets. What exactly is that regret?
… .
Mirabelle was not immature enough to not know such a thing.
“Mr. Harold, you don’t have to be so embarrassed. Not only do I take the best care of my slaves, but Mirabelle is also different from the past when she was helpless.”
“You’re not powerless. What do you mean?”
“I have become a proper witch. A great witch who can easily destroy a kingdom. Even if dozens of knights come running, he won’t give up.”
Harold looks at Mirabel with surprised eyes.
“Is that real?”
Mirabell paused, then slowly lowered her head.
“Did you feel any pain or difficulty?”
Nod.
Harold rubs his chest.
“Yes, then I am very fortunate. When Naredi woke up, there was no chaos as the current was flying in all directions.”
Mirabelle’s head lifted up as she heard her mother’s story.
“Mom… Also… ?”
“Okay. When witches just awaken, they have a hard time controlling their abilities. You mean you couldn’t even hold hands? But Naredi keeps trying to hold my hand, and gets upset if I don’t. There was no chaos.”
“Did you?”
Harold smiles and nods.
“That’s right? What happened to Mirabell when she became a witch?”
“I thought there was a thunderstorm… .”
“Haha, thunderstorm! That’s amazing. No, maybe you guessed it. Because I was confident that Mirabelle would become a great witch.”
“Really… yo. this? It’s not a lie?”
“It’s true. Mirabelle had a lot of magical power ever since she was in her mother’s womb. There were times when it leaked outside. My witch friend also says that Mirabelle will become a great witch in the future? At that time, Dad told Mom.”
Harold continues, recalling nostalgic memories.
“This child will create a world where we don’t have to live in hiding. This is a child who will bring a miracle to our family. A person who works miracles. Mirabelle, named after Miracle. What do you think, Mirabelle, isn’t your dad really good at coming up with names?”
Tears filled Mirabelle’s eyes.
When your vision is blurred by tears and you can’t see what’s ahead.
“… … Yes.”
I confirmed in a small voice.
Tears that I couldn’t hold back flowed down my cheeks.
After that, Harold smiled and told the story in a calm voice, and Mirabelle also pricked up her ears and took the story to heart.
Like telling a baby a fairy tale before putting him to sleep.
Under the softly shining starry sky.
However, since the meeting between the living and the dead could not last forever, Harold’s spiritual body began to gradually fade. Even this was maintained for a long time due to Mirabelle’s excellent magic skills.
“Oh my, it’s already time to break up.”
“Yes, yes?”
“It’s a pity that we have to part ways, but seeing that Mirabelle is safe will be enough. I don’t think there will be any major problems in the future, so I can leave with peace of mind.”
“Well, I… .”
Mirabel thought she should say something, but she didn’t know what to say, so she just kept her mouth shut.
Because I was too busy to have a normal conversation.
Harold smiles sweetly and places his hand on Mirabelle’s head. Not being touched, but as if being touched. Stroke it with a gentle hand.
“You had a hard time alone, right? I’m sorry for making you experience something scary.”
“Well, I… .”
“If you live as a witch, you will face many difficult times in the future. But Mirabelle will definitely overcome it. That’s right, because she’s our daughter.”
A tone full of confidence.
Harold’s eyes were very soft as he said those words, so Mirabelle overlapped them with the memories she had buried in a corner of her mind.
That day, the look in Harold’s eyes that I saw in the carriage moving away.
There is a cliff where not even light can reach.
If you fall into that place, you cannot get out by yourself, and no one will come to save you. If you try to reach into a dangerous place, you may also fall.
That’s why a person who falls into a cliff gives up trying to escape.
What follows is endless despair.
However, sometimes it does exist. A person who plunges himself into a cliff that even the person himself had given up on climbing, without even caring that he himself would fall.
And the one who reaches out and pulls from the darkness into the light.
“I love you, my daughter. No matter what the world says, Dad is always on Mirabel’s side.”
The man’s name was Harold.
Another name is Mirabelle Dad.
We call such relationships family.
“My daughter, can you cheer up?”
“Ugh.”
Angtal-like answer.
Harold smiled with satisfaction.
I got up and turned my attention to Karami.
“Please take care of your daughter.”
“You are truly a different species, asking a slave trader for your child. Well, I guess he married a witch.”
Karami shrugs.
Harold’s spiritual body, which had begun to blur, soon reached a level where he could not be seen. Mirabelle quickly stretches out her hand, but she doesn’t catch it and slips away. The spirit turns into smoke and disperses into the air.
-Dad is always watching Mirabelle.
With those words, Harold’s soul disappeared without a trace. Even if Mirabell used magic again, Harold did not appear.
As if there were no more regrets.
***
The square where Harold disappeared.
Mirabelle was squatting with her back against a pillar. She held her father’s skull dearly in her arms. The eyes were cluttered as they stared at the floor.
Not only was the current situation confusing, but I didn’t know what to do.
Revenge was the driving force of life.
My father was the target of revenge.
It turned out that his father loved him. It was not that they abandoned it, but that they chose to sacrifice themselves to save it.
It wasn’t something to take revenge on.
So what should I do now?
… I’m not sure.
“Why are you so downcast? I just said that my father is watching.”
“Lord, master… .”
Karami, who was wandering around, approached. He also had a skull in his hands, belonging to a slave girl.
“That… .”
“Are you embarrassed because you came for revenge and it’s different from what you expected?”
“Yes… I don’t know what to do now⋯.”
Mirabell hits the nail on the head and answers obediently. Karami asked as if he didn’t understand her attitude.
“Wouldn’t it be okay to take revenge?”
“Ha, but Dad… .”
“Does that person have to be the father?”
“… Yes?”
Karama, with an incubus-like smile, mutters words that deceive people.
“You saw it in his memory. Those who harassed Mr. Harold. The people who made him like this.”
I saw it.
The people who took Harold to prison and subjected him to terrible torture.
Even though he was writhing in pain, the people who smiled and thrust blades into his body without heeding anything.
“Don’t you want to get revenge on them?”
I want to do it.
I want to bring the same pain he suffered to the people who tormented my father.
“Then let’s do it. Miss Mirabell deserves it and has the power.”
Karami’s plausible words penetrate Mirabelle’s mind. As it becomes weaker, it interferes with the weakened thinking.
… … .
Mirabelle was sitting quietly.
Rise up slowly.
I hold my cane and get lost in thought.
Wooow.
A sinking atmosphere.
A skull rises into the air.
The air screams in fear.
The stars that shine in the early morning sky disappear behind the clouds.
Whirling.
A black haze that came from somewhere gathered on Mirabelle’s hand, and there floating there was Mr. Ko’s magic book of great tips that had been incinerated and disappeared.
When Mirabelle opens her eyes again, a strange light shines from her pupils. Eye lights of the same color emanate from the skull’s eye sockets, filling the square with light.
thud.
As Mirabell struck the floor with her staff, a dark blue wind swept around the skull. Where the wind disappeared, a reaper wearing a robe made of magic and holding a huge scythe was floating.
Agent of the Reaper.
Mirabel, the Witch of Judgment.
“People who hurt my dad. People who do not know grace.”
The witch passes judgment.
“Get rid of everything.”
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