Chapter 2 (1/2)

“It’s time to go back.”

The knight, who watched my mother’s death with me, held my hand tightly.

‘No, I haven’t seen her yet!‘ Even though it was a miserable and horrible figure, I wanted to see her until the end to keep it in my eyes.

Since this is the last time, after this i won’t be able to see you anymore!

‘A little more; a little more!’

At least, I wanted to wipe away the tears that were in my mother’s eyes.

But my desperate defiance was just one of the little annoyances for the knight.

The knights wanted to dispose the body even faster.

I gave my body strength to try to move forward. Then the knight, with a strong grip on my arm, looked down at me with an irritated face.

I saw that he was trying to yell out loud as if he wouldn’t hold back his anger, so I hurriedly asked him before he even got angry.

“What’s going to happen to my mom now?”

“……”

The knight’s gaze immediately became strange at the question. A very slight sense of bewilderment seemed to remind him that I was only seven years old.

He didn’t know what to say so he just stayed silent.

Well, I’m just a seven-year-old kid.

Since I’m not old enough to understand what happens, so now how will you explain me that?

The knight kept his mouth shut a few times, and he soon raised his lips. There was scorn in his eyes.

“Your mother will be punished now. “

“…..”

Punishment… so you’re saying it wasn’t a punishment she recieved untill now?

Yeah, I didn’t even expect you to comfort me.

To them, I am not a seven-year-old child, but finally,

Because she’s the daughter of a dead evil woman!

The knight’s eyes glanced back. My mother’s body was covered with a larger white cloth than before.

I saw my mom’s cold body being moved by someone to somewhere else. And the knight threw a terrible look at her side and looked at me. His hateful eyes were no different than when he looked at my mother.

“Your mother was punished by going to hell for doing bad things.”

“…bad things?”

“Yes, bad things! So don’t do any bad things and live a good life.”

The knight wanted to add something else, but he turned his head and shut his mouth again.

Maybe he wanted to say otherwise, you’d turn out to be like your mother.

The knight dragged me out once again. The disdainful glance which were seen a liitle while ago, couldn’t be erased from his sight.

I turned my head back as I struggled along the knight’s fast steps. A narrow, grayish-colored spire was seen above the high stairs.

‘Living was like hell, but you’re going to hell even if you die?’

My mom only did it to protect her, and you kept her locked up in a place like this until she died.

What did my mom do to you guys so badly?

What did I do to you guys?

Because I couldn’t eat properly, my small size body is now being dragged away by the knight. I can feel the gaze from behind.

Is it a malicious or a reproachful gaze? What is certain is that none of them feel sorry for the daughter who lost her mother.

Neither sympathetic nor comforting gaze exists. That was the reality given to me.

The novel did not elaborate on the death of the wicked woman and her daughter. I guess it was enough to mention such a dark story in one line after a happy ending.

But-

What if the heroine didn’t disturb the couple in the first place?

What if she hadn’t touched a man with a wife?

If she had fallen in love with another sub-man, It wouldn’t be like this!

History is said to be recorded from the winner’s point of view.

My mom will be remembered as a loser and a wicked woman who will never be good even if she is burned to death forever.

And I will also be recorded in the story as an extra who died miserably.

‘I don’t like that.’

My mother’s death was the intended ending of this novel.

My death is also scheduled.

I’ll be surrounded and beaten to death by many people tomorrow according to the flow of the novel.

‘Because I’m the daughter of a wicked woman?’

That’s not funny.

Even if I raise my head, there is no good look at me. Even though i am just a child and have just lost my mother.

I tried to keep my composure and gave strength to my body, but failed to withstand the force of the knight who dragged me and fell down.

I fell down with a pretty loud noise, so I could feel the eyes of the people around me again. I slowly raised my head and tried to stand up without even thinking about the prickly and negative gaze around me.

I can’t see the faces of the people around me.

The sky was so clear that it looked strangely grayish.

And in such a grayish world, I could see people dyed black.

They looked down at me with sharp eyes as if they wanted to tear me to pieces.

They were looking at me as if I was a monster.

But to me, they were the real monsters.

***

“Oh, my God! Daphne!”

I turned my head when I heard the sound of running and a sweet voice that didn’t fit in here.

The only woman who was nice to me in the nursery was running fast towards me.

‘….was it Ulinee?’

I searched through my hardened mind and remembered her name, then i called out her name.

“..Ulinee”

“Yes, Daphne. my God. You’re just gonna watch her fall like that?”

An angry voice made the knight standing next to her had a wry look.

Then the knight stared at me from behind Ulinee, who raised and supported me. He glared at me as if it was my fault that I fell so why should he be the one hearing that and turned his head away.

I didn’t even want to deal with it.

“Oh, my God. Your knees are all scraped.”

“…..”