Chapter 92. What makes my child afraid2020.12.19.
“You can leave now, Casey.”
As I spoke while looking at the quiet bush, Casey came out with a bunch of leaves in her hair.
“Your acting skills are really great, Master.”
“This is normal.”
“I was going to step out, but it’s a pity that I didn’t have to. It was an opportunity to show my cool side to Master.”
Since I was curious about Casey’s fighting ability, who is said to be a magician and also good at martial arts, I was also disappointed.
“But you didn’t really lay a hand on me. It seems that Ravid’s purpose was only the essence of the tree of creation.”
“hmm. When I saw it, I think it was for a different reason.”
“What profit?”
“The master is so very cute and cute, how can I touch him? It’s nonsense! There is no human being capable of that.”
It looks like Casey’s eyes have been badly stained with bean pods.
“Casey. Are you taking a walk? It would be nice to eat three full meals and do some light exercise from time to time…”
“I am very healthy?”
“no. It must have been stuck in the lab too long. Casey is rotten now.”
“Am I blue?”
I even thought that the lab was created for no reason to see people being so impoverished.
“So Casey. How is your research progress? Did you make everything I asked for?”
“Even if it’s not the case, I got a call saying he was coming today and brought a prototype.”
I received the box that Casey triumphantly handed over. When the lid was opened, two flat jewels engraved with a magic circle were placed side by side.
“It is a magic tool for communication. Due to the lack of materials, only short-distance communication is possible. Apparently, the Devlin Empire is the only place where you can get Forint, which is a material for communication magic tools. I could only get a small amount through the dark route.”
“Ugh. Are you Devlin again?”
“There are a lot of ingredients in Devlin. It’s like a monopoly. It didn’t become a magical nation for nothing. Historically, there is no exchange with the Ermano Empire.”
Somehow, it seemed strange that there were no artifacts with communication magic even though it was a world where magic existed. But Devlin was monopolizing everything.
‘One more reason to break Devlin.’
Take them all and make the Ermano Empire rich and strong. Casey asked insinuatingly as I was laughing at my perfect plan.
“Are you going to share it with the foreign master?”
“huh. I want to contact you soon. But what is that ambiguous title?”
“It’s because there are two masters and I don’t know what to call them.”
“In case you don’t know, call Aidan the Master.”
“Then who is the real Master?”
“Call me as you please without identifying your identity.”
“Okay, ma’am.”
As if she had been waiting for it, Casey, who called out quickly, looked up dumbfounded. Then the boy proudly shrugged his shoulders.
“The other magic tools you mentioned are currently under development. All of them are interesting, so you don’t know how much fun it is. Can I contact you via the communication magic tool when it’s finished?”
“huh. Don’t worry about research expenses and charge as much as you like.”
“It’s nice because it’s hot. … Oh. By the way, can I just leave the man named Ravid? What if she confesses her identity?”
“I let them run away to find out if there are other colleagues, but it seems like they are incompetent. You won’t be able to cross the Devlin border anyway. I have contacted Aidan.”
“Haha, be thorough…”
Casey, who was laughing as if he was tired of it, suddenly looked up at the sky. Before I knew it, the curtain of the dark night was hanging.
“Can you be away for so long? Your name is gone.”
“are you okay. I pretended to be in class with Franz and came out!”
***
‘…Franz.’
Entering the imperial castle through the dog hole made by Aidan, I immediately ran into difficulties. I was a fool for believing only Franz!
“Eggu….”
It seems that I was caught outside the imperial castle in that short period of time, and the entire imperial castle was upside down and there was no uproar. He was caught by the soldier he was searching for, and he followed him like a criminal, eagerly trying to come up with an excuse.
‘I didn’t plan on taking it.’
It’s like incompetent Franz. He had escaped under the pretext of supplementary classes, taking advantage of the gap where the boundaries were lax. At least it was never caught outside the imperial castle.
‘Then Daddy might imprison me…’
I returned to my bedroom with a throbbing heart. Everyone was there, including her father and her nanny, Oscar Lisandro and Larimar Xavier. Franz was in the middle of receiving his father’s gaze intact with his head bowed like a criminal.
“…Mabel!”
After a month, my father ran over and locked me in his arms. What the hell happened in that short time, Dad’s complexion was not good.
“Do you know how surprised I was when he suddenly disappeared?!”
Dad grabbed me by the shoulder and shouted with a pale face.
“I’m sorry.”
I didn’t expect to get so angry, so I was terrified.
“Where the hell were you without an escort!! If anything happens then! What are you going to do!”
I knew in my head that the person in front of me was my father, but my body reacted first.
‘…again.’
I couldn’t even think about it for several years, so I thought I’d completely forgotten the look of my dad from my previous life. Even the scene where he yelled at me with a loud voice and shook me by the collar.
“Damn it. If you open your mouth, it’s a lie!”
“Yun Winter. You have to be right to come to your senses.”
My brain went blank.
“Wrong…”
“…Mabel?”
“sorry. sorry.”
He held his trembling hands and begged for forgiveness. That way, even one less hit. It was because I was hit enough to bruise all over my body on the day I talked back.
“…Mabel. Why are you trembling like this?”
“sorry. sorry.”
“Mabel. Mabel?”
I knew someone was calling me, but I didn’t hear anything. Because now I was poor and cowardly Yoon Winter.
“Emperor. Maybe Mabel’s condition is strange.”
“Look at Mabel’s mind. Are you surprised that Daddy screamed? Don’t do that.”
I could hear the conversation between the two. The loud voice died down, and when he spoke in a low voice as if soothing, his thumping heart gradually calmed down. Eventually, when I opened my tightly closed eyes, I saw my father looking at me with a worried face.
“…dad.”
“Yes, Dad. I’m sorry to scare you, Mabel.”
It was me who had done something wrong and surprised everyone by suddenly disappearing, but it was none other than my father who apologized to me.
‘Stupid Mabel. You are no longer Yun Winter.’
He caused everyone to worry and even showed an embarrassing appearance.
“I’m sorry everyone. After playing hide and seek with the sheep for a while, I fell asleep.”
“Why did you go out without an escort, Mabel?”
Daddy’s voice was soft, perhaps because he was worried that I would be surprised.
“Because no one should know about hide and seek…”
“Still, always carry an escort with you. No matter how fun hide and seek is, the most important thing is Mabel’s safety.”
“huh. Okay…”
He nodded silently, and his father’s frozen expression softened. My disappearance case, which was so short, seemed to come to an end.
***
Esteban made sure that Mabel was asleep and went out of the bedroom. Outside, the soldier who first discovered Mabel was waiting.
“I have something to report.”
“yes. I found a small dog hole in the castle wall.”
“It’s a dog hole.”
“yes. It seems that His Majesty went out through that place.”
“…Is Mabel out of Hwangseong?”
“yes. There were traces of it coming and going until just before. Because it is a small hole, even a child can come in and out.”
Apparently, Mabel said that she fell asleep while playing hide-and-seek with Shin-soo.
‘But even though I searched the palace like teeth, I couldn’t find Mabel.’
That fact confirmed the soldier’s words. However, Esteban did not make hasty judgments because no one had seen him enter and exit correctly.
“First of all, let’s watch more. Please don’t tell others about it.”
“I understand, Your Majesty.”
“If the story leaks out, you will have to be prepared.”
“yes!”
After thoroughly cracking down on the soldiers, Esteban returned to his bedroom. It was not possible to see the documents at all.
‘Mabel is strange.’
Ever since I was very young, I had a strange feeling for Mabel. It was like that even today.
‘What is it that frightens my child?’
Esteban knew the identity of Mabel’s behavior. It was fear. A fear that is deeply embedded in the bones and cannot be shaken off. I had seen people immersed in fear when they were on the battlefield.
‘How can a child who has never been outside the imperial castle know such fear?’
Until now, I had been covering it up thinking that it would be okay, but I decided that it would not work. Even for yourself. And for your beloved child too.
***
“Caw-!”
A crow roaming the air landed on Aidan’s arm. Aidan unwrapped the note tied to the bird’s ankle with one hand.
“Cut!”
Perhaps a newcomer who didn’t know Aidan’s personality yet, the crow clattered and shouted for food.
“Just disappear.”
“Caw…?”
After a while, the black energy flowed around Aidan, and the startled crow flew away. Aidan opened the note from Mabel, not paying attention to whether the crow was weeping or not.
‘He’s Devlin’s spy.’
This time, it seemed that the method of conciliating the people of Ermano was used rather than the method of planting people of Devlin in Ermano. Aidan clicked his tongue, took care of the note, and turned around. Then the crow that had disappeared crying sadly wandered around and flew over Aidan’s head. It was a pitiful crow who came to tell Aidan the location of Rabid at Mabel’s request, but was devastated.
“noisy. Quiet. If discovered, kill.”
“Chaaaaaaaaaaaaa…”
The crow, whose words had decreased, silently guided the way. Even if it wasn’t, it wasn’t difficult to find the fleeing Rabid because he was near the Devlin border.
“Hey. You’re going to be rich!”
Not knowing that the necklace in his arms was an imitation, Ravid was full of dreams. The Emperor of Devlin promised him unlimited wealth and honor within the Devlin Empire if he brought the necklace.
‘No one will ignore me now!’
It was the son of a marquis, but the only thing left for him was the debt he incurred from gambling. It was the emperor of Devlin who extended a helping hand to him. He did not see his face, but through his henchmen he gave orders. An order that if you bring something, you will get a corresponding price. All that was left was to cross the border. Then, someone appeared in front of Rabid.
“Devlin’s Demon?!”
“Since you betrayed Devlin, do you still call me by that nickname?”
Aidan grumbled, but none of that reached Ravid’s ears.
“Did Emperor Hua send you?”
Ravid, who faced Aidan on the verge of success, was greatly taken aback. I didn’t dare to touch the emperor who was crying after falling down and ran away, but was that a wrong decision?
‘But it was so cute that I couldn’t touch it.’
Although he was a traitor, as an aristocrat who belonged to Ermano, Ravid also felt a crush on the lovely little emperor.
“Please pretend you don’t know me… Then I’ll give you anything.”
“anything?”
At Aidan’s question, Rabid nodded enthusiastically.
“anything! I’ll give you anything I can!”
Aidan nodded as he looked at Ravid, who was only looking for an opportunity to run away with a nervous face. As soon as Ravid’s expression brightened, Aidan opened his mouth.
“Then take your freedom.”
“Ouch…!”
Rabid fainted in an instant. Aidan, who lightly lifted the sturdy man, moved on. Mabel’s only request to Aidan was to capture Ravid, but he didn’t mean to let it go that way.
‘Because I can’t show Mabel a bad look.’
As long as his hands are already stained with blood, he will replace all dirty things.
