Chapter 90: Sacred Place (1) (1/2)
The storm passed, and it was not as worse as I thought in my area. Anyway, here’s the chapter!
Terms used in this chapter:
Satan lost his job today – Korean meme about human acts that are so evil and vicious that it makes Satan lose his job. This meme has a lot of variations and is not limited to ‘Satan lost his job today.’
The Wild Fairy Queen, Eonelle, raised her head.
The beautiful light shone down from the colorful glass ceiling.
The sunlight was scattered and diffused according to precise calculations, giving off a sense of fantasy and mystery to the viewer.
“Wow…”
A childlike voice came out of Eonelle’s mouth.
Surprised by her voice, Eonelle blinked and looked at herself, and she realized that her limbs were much shorter than usual.
She wasn’t a Fairy Queen.
She was now her younger self before she became the queen.
It was during the time when her mother was still alive.
Eonelle blinked her eyes and smiled.
She thought like a fairy, not a queen.
Whether she was in a dream or not now, she thought that she should enjoy this moment.
“How exciting.”
Instead of an elegant smile, Eonelle had a cute and adorable smile before she looked around again.
And she soon remembered where she was now.
This was the greenhouse of the High Elves located deep in Endymion.
Besides magic, the High Elves of the magic kingdom Magellan also attained outstanding achievements in various fields of study.
They created a much more beautiful garden in the underground than the one they had above the ground, and the fairies who were fond of pretty and lovely things would visit their gardens with the permission of the High Elves.
“Pretty.”
Flowers of numerous colors filled her sight. There were so many varieties that if it was a garden made by humans, it would have looked disordered because of the too many varieties, but this was the garden of the High Elves.
Numerous flowers and trees were arranged together, but there was harmony in their arrangement.
Far from looking disordered, the flowers and trees complemented each other, forming a very beautiful sight.
“It smells good.”
Eonelle closed her eyes and enjoyed the garden’s fragrance. And then came into her ears a voice that she had long missed.
“Eonelle.”
“Mommy!”
Eonelle reflexively shouted as she jumped from her position and turned around.
There stood her beautiful and caring mother, the previous Fairy Queen, with an elegant smile.
“Mommy!”
Eonelle ran like a child and hugged her mother’s waist.
“You’re still a child.”
“Yes, that’s right. I’m a child. Hehehe.”
How long had it been since she acted cutely like this?
It had been a while since she spoke and acted like a normal fairy.
The former Fairy Queen had a bit of a lonely smile when she looked at her daughter’s face.
Because in her eyes that could see beyond time and space, she saw the grown-up Eonelle, her daughter who had become the Fairy Queen.
The previous Fairy Queen caressed Eonelle’s cheek with emotions that could only be described as proud, regretful, and affectionate.
“Eonelle, do you like this place?”
“Yes, I like it. It’s very pretty.”
“Yes, when Magellan’s High Elves left Endymion…they especially asked us to take good care of it.”
The High Elves had already left Endymion when Eonelle was born.
However, the previous Fairy Queen remembered the time when the High Elves lived in Endymion.
“Mommy was a friend of the High Elves, right?”
“Yes, I was. The High Elves were friends of us wild fairies. They let us use the hot springs and the garden to our heart’s content.”
“I like the hot springs too.”
“You’re truly my daughter.”
“Hehehe.”
The previous Fairy Queen stroked Eonelle’s head, and Eonelle enjoyed her touch.
This moment was just a dream, but as a fairy, she didn’t care about distinguishing reality from the dream.
“Eonelle.”
“Yes, mommy.”
“This place…take good care of Endymion. Someday…on the day when the High Elves return, we can be proud…we can say that us fairies have never neglected our friendship with the High Elves.”
It was impossible to manage the entire Endymion.
Even the High Elves had given up taking care of it.
So just the places where the High Elves and fairies shared their friendship, which were the hot springs and gardens, were what they could preserve well.
“Yes, mommy. I’ll definitely do it.”
“Fufufu, that’s a good girl.”
“I promise. Definitely. Pinky promise.”
“All right, it’s a pinky promise.”
“Yes, mommy.”
Eonelle prettily smiled, and the previous Fairy Queen hugged her tightly. They shared each other’s warmth under the sunlight shining down from the colored glass ceiling.
“Mommy.”
Eonelle opened her eyes.
And she realized that she was the Fairy Queen now.
But for a moment, she was engrossed in her dream. Instead of facing reality, she chose to escape it for a while.
Tick tock. Tick tock.
She suddenly stood up and left her room, with the hem of her dress trailing on the ground.
She faced the sight in front of her.
“Haha…hahaha…”
Didn’t they say that laughter sometimes comes out when one faces a very absurd situation?
The sight in front of her did not change.
The scene in her dream only remained in her dreams now.
It was completely ruined.
The site where the great collapse took place could only be described as ruins.
The Fairy Queen struggled to maintain her elegant smile.
She soon felt faint again but turned around and firmly stood. But she couldn’t stop her weak voice from coming out of her mouth.
“It wasn’t…a dream.”
It would have been nice if it was a dream.
If it was just a dream…
If it was just a lie…
“Mommy, I’m sorry.”
Eonelle couldn’t keep her promise.
I’m a bad child.
I’m sorry.
When tears streaked down the Fairy Queen’s cheeks, there were some who were watching the scene secretly.
“Ju-Jude. What should we do? She’s crying.”
“…Then should she not cry?”
Endymion was completely destroyed.
When Jude spoke with narrowed eyes, Cordelia pouted her lips, timidly pushing her index fingers against each other.
Jude sighed again when he saw her with that appearance and then said.
“Haa…in addition to that…are you a real demon? How could you say that?”
“W-what…”
“Endymion is gone, so no more demons will appear on Endymion… Such words made Satan lose his job today.”
It was such a diabolical idea.
No, apart from having such an idea, she put it out of her mouth and said it. And with such a lovely face and expression.
“Uhhh…”
Jude’s remarks made Cordelia shrink even further, but she had something to say in her defense.
“Y-you taught me.”
“What?”
“I mean, that…when we broke the bridge…”
Cordelia was talking about the time when they broke the bridge to defeat Lacto.
Jude was the one who originally said that statement, not Cordelia.
However, Jude clicked his tongue at Cordelia’s timid rebuttal and said with narrowed eyes.
“Is this the same as that? And isn’t there something like a time and place?”
He was correct.
Cordelia shrank even more, and Jude pulled the cheeks of such Cordelia with both of his hands.
“Ugueu…”
Cordelia would normally be angry and resist it, but this time, she didn’t.
She just accepted her punishment with a bleak face.
But that did not last long.
“I know you’re watching. Come forward.”
At the Fairy Queen’s call, Jude and Cordelia flinched at the same time before they cleared their throats and stepped forward.
“Jude, Cordelia.”
“Your Majesty.”
Jude answered in a small voice, and Cordelia bowed her head after looking at the Fairy Queen’s eyes.