episode_0422

I’ve heard it said that extremely old wine sometimes turns into vinegar.

I never expected that I would see that phenomenon now.

CC, who had been confidently pouring wine into a glass, was squatting on her chair with a sad face.

The C.S. said that there was nothing else to treat him with.

What kind of life did you live that you had nothing else to offer your guests?

Even CC said he thought the wine was fine.

“cc.”

“Yeah…”

“When did you bring that wine?”

“So…”

At my words, CC began to spread out her small, cute fingers one by one.

She spread out all ten fingers and tilted her head and muttered.

“I think it’s been about 100 years.”

I frowned at CC’s words.

That means that CC’s age is at least three digits.

Can I believe this?

Of course, considering Kelly and Lily’s cases, it didn’t seem entirely impossible, but it was still hard to believe.

“Then how old is CC?”

“Umm…”

CC started to spread her fingers again.

The number of fingers that had been increasing one by one has now stopped at seven.

“It looks like it’s about 700 years old.”

I decided to think of CC’s age as 7 years old.

I nodded in agreement, but Lily, who was sitting next to me, shook her head in disbelief.

As time passed, CC, who had been crying, came to me and Lily, as if nothing had happened.

No, to be exact, it came towards me.

CC approached me with shining red eyes and circled around me, examining me.

“Hey, it’s a little burdensome…”

Despite my words that it was burdensome, CC did not take her eyes off me.

After looking at me for a while, CC nodded.

“You are not of sound mind.”

I frowned at CC’s words.

What are you looking at in me that makes you say things like, “I’m not in my right mind.”

I was perfectly normal.

But CC continued speaking as if to tell people not to misunderstand.

“It’s tattered. It’s a total mess. It looks like someone haphazardly kneaded it, tore it apart, and put it back together. ”

CC muttered softly, but crossed her arms as if surprised.

CC’s and my gaze meet in the air.

The eyes were red and looked like they were flowing with blood.

“You. You weren’t originally this small, were you?”

With those words, CC’s gaze disappeared.

I kept my mouth shut without answering.

I felt like I had been caught in a secret I had never told anyone.

It didn’t feel like my mind was invaded by any psychic abilities.

CC simply looked at me with her own eyes.

And that feeling was expressed as is.

A very heterogeneous power, fundamentally different from psychic abilities.

This little girl had such power.

I nodded slowly to CC’s words.

She knew too much to be dismissed as the words of a crazy girl who thought she was 700 years old.

After reading my answer, CC returned to her original seat.

“Did you say Lily? Tell me about the outside world.”

“Outside story?”

Lily and Cissy started talking.

Although most of the questions were from CC’s side, Lily answered everything CC asked without showing any sign of annoyance.

Most of the questions CC asked were related to herself.

Questions about the House of Vlad and whether anyone knew him.

And the names of the old nobles of District 1 came out of Cici’s mouth.

However, CC couldn’t get the answer she wanted.

“Jeong, it really seems like everyone has forgotten me…”

CC sighed sullenly.

How much time has passed like that?

CC jumped up from her seat as if she had made up her mind about something.

“Okay! I’ll go out with you guys.”

“Huh?”

“What’s the problem?”

So CC joined the group.

We were going to wait for Kelly to come find us, but the little girl grabbed my arm and Lily’s as if she wanted to get out of the room right away.

I tried to dissuade her from doing that.

Because it was better to wait for Kelly to find us than to just walk out of there and walk down the hallway.

“Uh, Uh. Actually, we got lost…”

“Don’t worry about that!”

But CC stretched out her hand forward with a confident expression, as if she had thought about everything.

That was the moment.

A black shadow flew out of CC’s hand and swallowed the door.

Lily and I were so shocked that we started trembling and hugging each other.

As expected, as expected, this little girl was definitely a ghost.

Squeak-

The door that had been swallowed up in shadows began to slowly open.

I squinted my eyes at the bright light coming in from beyond, but then I saw Kelly looking at me from beyond the door with a bewildered expression on her face.

“Huh, Kelly?”

When I said that in surprise, Kelly looked over and muttered.

“Jeff… Lily… and that kid…”

CC grabbed Lily’s and mine, who were just standing there blankly, and led them to the room where Kelly was.

Clearly, clearly, beyond this door was a black corridor.

That means it wasn’t the room Kelly was in.

What on earth happened?

I noticed an unidentifiable shadow.

The moment it slipped out of CC’s hand and swallowed the door, it must have distorted space.

“I was looking for you… but I didn’t know you’d come first… and there was an unidentified kid too.”

Me, Lily, Cissy and Kelly stood facing each other.

In this gathering of small people, whose average height combined was no more than 140 cm, only CC was smiling.

“Jeff. Lily. Is this the person you were looking for?”

I kept my mouth shut at CC’s words.

Because Lily and I never told CC that we were looking for someone.

Was it a guess? Or did he read my and Lily’s memories like a psychic ability?

It didn’t matter how, but it didn’t feel good.

Kelly crossed her arms and glared at CC.

CC also glared at Kelly without giving in.

“Thanks for bringing the kids.”

Kelly was the first to speak.

She said so and raised her hand.

“But those who are not invited cannot enter the Black Palace.”

“Allow?”

“Yes, allow it. Our nobles.”

Kelly’s words seemed to have touched Cici’s nerves.

It was the moment when CC’s eyebrows twitched.

thud-

A heterogeneous force began to emanate from CC and Kelly’s bodies simultaneously.

Heterogeneous, intangible energies collide.

The moment two shapes, interlocked in the air, appeared vaguely, Kelly’s figure disappeared in an instant.

And the shape that had vaguely appeared also disappeared.

It all happened in an instant.

“Oh, Mom?”

Lily looked around in confusion at Kelly’s disappearance.

“Don’t worry. I just threw it a little far away.”

A cold sweat runs down my back.

In a situation where we couldn’t even guess what Kelly’s abilities were, an opponent stronger than Kelly appeared.

CC’s unexpected power was enough to make me nervous.

“Really, really, it seems like no one knows…”

CC muttered blankly and looked around the room.

I looked at the little girl’s back and thought.

CC was also a transcendent being.

That means you might be able to help me.

At least I was disappointed. This little girl was more likely to help me than Khan, who just said and left.

I swallowed dry saliva and approached CC.

“Hey, CC.”

“Huh?”

“Room, that thing just now…”

“What did you see just now?”

CC’s red eyes capture my face.

I nodded, very nervous.

At the look in his eyes that seemed to ask what he saw, he recalled the blurry shape he had just seen.

“Hmm… Looks like you want to know.”

A playful smile suddenly appeared on CC’s face.

While I was taken aback by the sight of her laughing like a little girl, I nodded and took a step forward.

But CC bounced back twice.

“With your mouth closed?”

I hurriedly rummaged through my pockets at CC’s words.

But there wasn’t really anything I could give her.

There was only one small chocolate bar in his pocket.

I took out the chocolate and showed it to Cici. She pouts and snatches the chocolate from me.

“It’s delicious.”

CC said with a bright smile, as if she liked chocolate.

But that was the end of it.

CC never mentioned anything about transcendence.

CC, who was looking around the room, nodded and left the room.

Beyond the wide open door, a black hallway was visible, and CC was bouncing up and down like a bouncy ball.

I followed Cissy, leading Lily, who was sobbing and sitting on the floor.

“Let’s go together!”

Fortunately, CC didn’t go far.

I followed behind CC, out of breath.

“Huh. Will you follow me? If you stay there, that Kelly kid will come back…”

“Oh, is your mother okay?”

“I told you. I just threw it away for a moment. I’ll be back soon.”

Lily sighed in relief at CC’s words.

“Okay. Allow me to follow you.”

The moment CC finished speaking, the shadow beneath her feet began to move and covered Lily and me.

I sat down on the floor, reeling from the strange sensation.

“Heeek…”

“Jeff?”

Lily looked at me with a puzzled expression, as if she didn’t feel anything.

Could it really be that Lily didn’t feel this sensation?

This alien feeling?

It felt as if something from another dimension recognized me.

I felt as if someone was watching me from far away.

CC nodded at us and started walking forward.

But the distance did not widen.

For a moment, I felt puzzled by the sight of CC continuing to walk forward as if marking time without moving away.

The moment I tried to get up from my seat and put my hands on the ground, I realized that the floor was moving on its own.

“Gasp…”

“Jeff Yang…”

Lily also seemed to notice this phenomenon and clung closely to me.

Even if you don’t move, you move forward.

It felt like I was being dragged by CC.