[Episode 107]
“I see.”
Dad calmly opened his mouth to me, as if he had already expected it. On the contrary, it was me who kept my mouth shut even more in response.
He lightly stroked my cheek with a calm face, and then opened his mouth again.
“Thank you for your honest answer.”
“…Aren’t you angry?”
“Everybody has something to hide, right?”
“…Will Dad believe anything I say?”
“If parents don’t trust their children, who will they trust?”
I felt moved by the kind words I had never heard in my life and always wanted to hear.
I had to smile, forcing the corners of my eyes to curl.
“Actually, I…”
I opened and closed my fists several times.
“I have memories of my previous life…”
I said, swallowing saliva and closing my eyes tightly. I didn’t even notice that I was unknowingly holding the hem.
“Memories of a previous life…?”
Dad, too, was a little flustered. I bowed my head.
I know what’s hard to believe. However, I still opened my mouth, hoping that you would believe me.
“I am not lying. I actually grew up in a different world from this place… but somehow I ended up here.”
I couldn’t bear to say that I came in while reading a novel. I couldn’t even say that this world might actually be a novel.
‘I think I came in while reading a novel from memory, but I’m not sure.’
I can’t remember how I came to this world at all.
“What if I didn’t die there and was reborn here… so wouldn’t that be why the test results came out weird…?”
As I finished speaking, my voice gradually became quieter.
It was because my dad was frozen as if he was surprised, and it didn’t feel normal for me to bring this strange phenomenon out of my mouth.
“So what I want to say is…”
“I know you weren’t lying.”
Dad, who was looking at me, said sternly.
“I was a little surprised. Because I never thought that such a thing would happen.”
With me in his arms, he sat down on a bench not far away and sat me on his lap.
“I see.”
Dad stroked my hair.
“That’s why you were so smart.”
Dad smiled and stroked my hair.
“I think I know a little bit about you now.”
Dad just stroked my hair and patted my back for a while as if thinking about something, but didn’t say anything.
“Have you ever had a dream?”
“A dream?”
“Yes, the dream of that world in which you lived in your previous life.”
I widened my eyes and shook my head. I dreamed of something, but when I opened my eyes, I couldn’t remember anything.
“I don’t know. I have dreams, but I can’t remember them.”
So I wasn’t sure if it was a dream of me swimming in pudding or a dream of the world I had lived before.
“Eirin.”
“yes?”
“If you don’t remember, that means you’re not ready for that dream.”
My eyes widened at my father’s unexpected words.
“So don’t think too deeply. The time will come when you can handle it.”
I nodded my head involuntarily at the friendly voice. It felt good to bury my face in Dad’s shoulder and rub my cheek.
“No matter what happens, you are my daughter.”
Even if you don’t want to handle it, you will definitely come when you can handle it, so my dad, who already added that I shouldn’t be nervous, hugged me and got up.
“And when the time comes, be sure to tell me too.”
“…yes.”
Dad kissed me on the forehead and leisurely headed to the restaurant.
The banquet was just after the third day.
* * *
As a result, I attended the banquet on the third day and missed the banquet on the fourth day.
And today was the last banquet day.
In the meantime, I was able to learn quite a few noble faces with the help of the Etams.
And…
‘I’m exhausted and I want to go back.’
For a while, I didn’t even want to show my face at the banquet. Dad said this was a special case, so it’s fortunate.
A few Ethams, including Callan and Silian, did not attend from the third day. From what I heard, it seemed that something meaningful had happened on the Hatar side.
It was evident that the wide-spread spider webs were slightly swaying.
‘Now that it’s the 5th day, many of those crowded nobles are gone.’
In addition, few nobles approached me from the 3rd day onward, perhaps because the Etams put up an iron wall and prevented them from approaching me.
“Everything is fine, but I’m bored.”
I murmured softly.
“Lady Etam?”
I was thinking about going to the terrace, but someone called me. When I turned my head, it was Phil Rosemont.
“…Phil?”
“Yes ho… will I ever have time?”
Phil Rosemont asked shyly from a few steps away, blushing.
There was a boy one head taller than me, so somehow it looked cute.
‘The summit still exists in this world.’
I felt a sense of joy and pride.
“of course.”
I was bored, but it turned out well!
“I didn’t come out yesterday…”
“Yeah, I said I couldn’t go because I was too tired.”
After being soaked in fatigue for three days in a row, I felt like I would get sick of it on the fourth day.
“I see…”
“Why? Did you find me?”
“Yeah, I wanted to talk to you.”
“Which one?”
“That… have you seen my uncle, too?”
Phil Rosemont smiled brightly and asked, looking a little embarrassed.
“huh.”
I nodded, thinking of Albion.
“I like my uncle. I… I haven’t had a family since I was little.”
said Phil Rosement with a shy smile.
“My parents died early and my older brother and I lived together, so there was no adult guardian. All the people around us were just money seekers.”
Phil Rosement mumbled softly, “My brother hated it.” Phil Rosemont, who wiggled his fingers and flushed his cheeks, finally opened his mouth.
“Even hyung doesn’t say anything, but he seems a little happy…”
Hill Rosemont?
I hope it didn’t look like that at all.
‘is not it?’
Considering the gaslighting when Albion was said to be returning, he may have wished for it implicitly.
“So I wonder how I can keep my uncle from leaving… You look like you have a lot of family…”
So, Phil Rosemont’s face, whispering that he’s here to ask for help, showed a little bit of anticipation on his face.
“The director is going back because he has a place to go back… There are so many children waiting for the director at the nursery school.”
“…But we really do have blood.”
That’s true, but…
“How can it not work? My older brother could kill my uncle.”
“Probably won’t die easily…”
…I was going to say that, but I had some doubts. Come to think of it, Albion has always lived with guilt towards the children.
‘Even if he found his daughter’s grave, his personality wouldn’t have changed easily.’
That means there is a chance that he will die even knowing Hill Rosemont’s intentions. No matter how you think about it, that’s not going to happen.
have to live
I quickly shook my head.
“Uh… wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of the reason to go back?”
At my words, Phil Rosement’s eyes widened and he clapped his hands.
“I see.”
“I’m not asking you to get rid of it at all, but move the nursery school to the capital city… or allow the children to be adopted into good families, or something like that.”
Somehow, if Phil Rosemont relayed these words to Hill Rosemont, it seemed that the orphanage would be swept away by a mysterious explosion at that moment.
“Because the director thinks the children of the orphanage are important…” He
hurriedly added a comment to eliminate any potential danger.
“Yeah thanks for the advice! Tell your brother…”
“Huh? What do you mean, sick and orphaned bastard is here?”
The vulgar and vulgar words heard from behind naturally wrinkled the impression. Phil Rosemont’s expression darkened.
“Look here. The country boy came. Ugh, don’t you think it smells like that?”
Wherever you go in the world, there are low and cowardly people.
“Would you get sick if you were with someone like that, Young-ah?”
“Right, how about playing with us? I know a lot about the latest trends and fun games.”
do they know
That this comment is outdated and rotted because it couldn’t grow mold.
At least that is for me.
And then, even now, I wasn’t the type to avoid the fights that came my way.
I had to keep my mouth shut and protect myself when my younger brothers got tangled up, but if not…
“Where does Phil get rotten fish from?”
You don’t have to be patient.
“uh? Ah, I don’t think I’m…”
I smiled broadly at Phil’s naive words. Then, the faces of the Youngsik group who were watching me turned red.
“What the stupid Lady says is all right.”
“Yes, and it’s actually me, right? in your body.”
I was not in a good mood to see young people with no dry blood on their heads giggling.
“Lady, we liked her very much. Would you like to join us?”
I know what my parents did. He must have told me to open a kite with him somehow.
“hey.”
“yes…? Is that us?”
“huh.”
When I nodded, the spirits looked at me with puzzled faces.
“It comes from your mouth. My rotten fish. Don’t talk to me, idiots.”
I really hated school violence from before. I don’t like social violence either.
“I don’t talk to kids dumber than me.”
I took Phil Rosemont’s hand and left the terrace.
“Can you help me lock the door?”
“uh? of course.”
Phil Rosemont locked the terrace door.
“Yo young lady?!”
“Did you like me?”
“yes? Yes…”
“Then you’ll like that too.”
I imagined with a broad smile.
Then something like a dark cloud appeared in the empty space, and soon something fell.
“Huhhhhh!”
“Quaaaaagh! It’s disgusting!!”
“What is this? Move! It’s all in the kitchen! Ive dragged…!”
Hundreds of lizards descended like rain, clinging to their bodies and piled up like mountains on the terrace floor.
“Eirin, you were like a warrior!”
said Phil Rosement, eyes twinkling. Phil’s cheeks turned even redder.
It was the finale of a delightful banquet.
* * *
And the next day, the fake hatar we made began to be distributed in earnest just like the real thing.
