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[Episode 127] – Poison Apple (2)

Titania choked on the overwhelming emotion.

Because she couldn’t believe the feel and warmth of her mother’s touch under her fingertips, Titania was a little bolder and stroked her mother’s face with her palm. Titania’s fingertips began to tremble slightly with emotion as she felt the sense of reality through her entire hand.

5 years.

It was my first time seeing my mother in five years.

Titania smiled and stroked Vivian’s cheek as she felt the deep sense of loss in her heart slowly being filled. Is it because it’s been a while? As I pressed myself close to my mother and took a deep breath, a familiar scent passed my nose.

As she inhaled the scent of her mother whom she had longed for, Titania finally felt that she was alive. I felt like I was going to cry because of the feeling that my heart, which had stopped, was starting to beat again, as if I had never lived without my mother.

‘I really, really, missed you.’

Titania looked at Vivian, who was lying unconscious, and said hello to her in her heart. I originally didn’t plan on doing it like this, but I really had no choice. If I don’t do this, my mother will run away again. This was really the best way to hold on to my mother.

If I release the royal knights and force her to come, my mother will be hurt, and if they spread the rumor that she is a witch, I don’t know what the villagers will do to her. So, Titania thought this was the only way for her mother.

“Now go back. mother.”

Titania placed one hand on Vivian’s neck and held her with the other hand behind her knees. I held my mother in my arms in the commonly known princess hug position. Titania, seeing her mother in her arms, smiled as if she were the happiest in the world.

The moment I was about to go back with Vivian in my arms-

“Now, wait, wait a minute…!”

Katarina, who was dumbfounded next to her, grabbed Titania’s ankle.

Titania turned her head and looked down at Katarina coldly. When I explained it like that, Katarina looked at me sharply as if asking why I was interrupting her, so she swallowed her dry saliva and continued speaking.

“Uh, uh… Well, I mean…”

Katarina was shocked by this sudden situation. Vivian suddenly collapses after eating an apple. The previous customer came as if he had been waiting for this moment. Moreover, for some reason, he treats himself like a thief.

The reason I was able to come to my senses in an incomprehensible situation was because Titania called Vivian ‘mother’. Katarina had also heard stories about Titania a few times.

I said I was sorry for leaving without saying anything to that child. Even when I come here, I always want to see it. Vivian, who returned from seeing Titania last winter, cried to the point of being sick for almost a week.

Katharina had no intention of interfering with Titania and Vivian’s family relationship. Because I was in no position to intervene. All I had to do was keep my ‘contract’ with Vivian. But no matter how you look at this…

Katarina looked up at Titania in astonishment. When Titania tried to shake off Katarina’s hand as if she had nothing more to say, Katarina held onto Titania even more and shouted.

“Ah, even if she is my daughter, I don’t think this is right…!”

“what?”

“Hi! Well… I-I made a ‘contract’ with Vivian…! Vivian works here for me, and I, I protect Vivian…”

“Ha, protection?”

Titania burst out laughing and shook off Katarina’s hand that was holding her ankle. Then he glared at Katarina, who was lying on the floor, and answered in a low, growling voice.

“If you really wanted to protect your mother, she wouldn’t have taken the medicine I prepared. is not it? Why can’t I protect my mother properly? contract? “Don’t be ridiculous.”

“Ah, that’s…! Oh, I can’t send it anyway! I can’t go…! I don’t want to use magic on people either…! So, quickly put Vivian down…! “I, too, get scared when I’m angry…?!”

“…under.”

Seeing Katarina whimpering while holding onto her ankle, Titania let out a helpless laugh. He then hugged Vivian in his arms even more tightly and glared at Katarina as if she were going to kill her. The feeling of wanting to shake it off right away rose up, but Titania quickly held back and continued speaking.

“…My mother. She’s my mother! This is my mother who left on her own without saying a word to me!! I just came to get my mother back, so why are you bothering me…? Do you have the right to stop me?! Is it just because of that ‘contract’?!”

“B-but… a witch must not break a contract…”

…Now that I think about it, there was a story like that.

This is what my mother said a long time ago when she made her first promise by linking her fingers. Witches shouldn’t lie. I thought it was definitely a lie, but seeing Katarina crying and holding her ankle made me think it wasn’t true. but…

“I’m sorry, but I don’t intend to keep my mother here. In the first place, the ‘contract’ with you ended when your mother took the medicine I prepared. is not it? “You failed to ‘protect’ your mother.”

“Oh, shit…”

“So, let go of this right now.”

Titania rocked the ankle held by Katarina back and forth. However, Katarina did not let go until the end, crying and shaking her head. The moment I really wondered if I should use violence-

“Well, then can’t I go with you…?”

“…what?”

Katarina smiled brightly and looked up at Titania.

“I-I don’t want to go back to the days of being alone like this…! I can’t go back to those days anymore…! I don’t want to go back to the days when I lived alone in a garbage house…! I want someone to be with me… I want someone who isn’t a fairy…! If possible, I want to be with Vivian…!”

“you…”

Titania looked down in bewilderment at the sight of Katarina, who was no longer holding her ankles, but was instead hugging them and trying not to fall. Titania sighed as she saw that it looked similar to an animal called ‘koala’ that she had seen in an animal book when she was young.

Titania felt frustrated and a little relieved to see Katarina hugging her ankle. That’s right, Katarina just liked her mother as someone who helped her. He did not see his mother as a woman like he did. furthermore…

‘Because I know the pain when someone you can rely on suddenly disappears.’

But, no matter what…

-Why not just bring him? Instead, make sure you have a ‘contract’ in place.

“…Sister Veronica?”

-Even though she looks like that, she is a ‘Kirven’ witch. It will be helpful someday. Besides, I also have something I’d like to ask other witches… Instead, make sure to not be ‘bound’ by the contract. Even for me.

As Titania was wondering what to do, Veronica’s voice came from the mirror necklace. Titania let out a long sigh at Veronica’s tone as if she was okay with bringing in an abandoned puppy. Anyway, anyway…

“…Ha, I understand. Instead, make a ‘contract’ with me. Don’t tell ‘anyone’ what happened after signing with me. From now on, you will listen to me first. “If you sign the contract like this, you can follow along.”

It was for Veronica’s sake that Katarina was ordered to remain silent. Titania issued a silence order for Veronica, who was still being chased by the Great Witch, and since there was nothing else to do, she presented a contract that said, ‘I will listen to her first.’

Katarina nodded without any hesitation. Titania looked down at Katarina and wondered if it was really okay for her to be like this, but what could she do when she said she liked Katarina herself? In the end, I had no choice but to give up.

Besides, it wasn’t Katarina that was important.

Titania would be happy if she could take her beloved mother with her. Titania, looking at her mother sleeping peacefully in her arms, smiled happily and walked out of the store.

“Sister, since you came on your own when you came, please open the ‘door’ when you return, as you promised.”

-…okay. You know that you have to prepare for the coronation ceremony as soon as you come back, right?

“…I know. thank you, Sister.”

Suddenly.

When the store door opened, I could see my room beyond.

The room where I stayed with my mother my entire life. Titania continued to occupy the room even after Vivian left. So that my mother can come back and use it at any time, so that it’s okay if my mother comes back at any time.

Titania walked one step and returned to her room through the ‘door’ that Veronica had connected. Then, he gently laid his sleeping mother on the bed and looked down at her calmly.

As expected, Titania smiled and stroked Vivian’s sleeping hair, saying that her mother suited her best here. I wanted to wake my mother right away, but I couldn’t do that just yet.

That’s right-

“Are you back?”

“Yes, sister.”

“Then get ready quickly. “The maids will be arriving soon to dress up for the coronation ceremony.”

Tomorrow, Titania had to attend the coronation ceremony to become queen. The reunion after five years had to be postponed until after the coronation ceremony.

Veronica, who was looking at Vivian lying on the bed, sighed softly and asked Titania.

“…Vivian, leave it like this?”

“ah. “My mother…”

Titania looked at Veronica with an extremely happy smile, saying she had a really good idea.

It was her sister’s smile that she hadn’t seen in a long time, but for some reason Veronica got goosebumps. That’s right…

“There’s a room upstairs here with a view, great for watching the fireworks. “Take me there…”

Unlike his expression of being the happiest in the world.

Because the words that came out of my mouth were filled with extreme obsession.

“Tie him tightly to the chair. “So that you can enjoy the fireworks display tomorrow.”

“……okay.”