Chapter 190 – Chapter 183 – Dream Demon’s Daughter (2)
Ella looked at Silnia with a bored expression.
The elf was reading a storybook written in human characters.
“So the king… The bad bastard far away from the prince… No, I told you to defeat them and come.”
Sylnia, who was still unfamiliar with human texts, focused on the book, breaking out in a cold sweat.
Fortunately, the other children except for Ella were quietly listening to the clumsy reading.
“Kid… I keep trying to change it, so I’m going to look for it.”
The elf looked hard at the book while chewing her hair.
“Hero, no, the prince is the demon king… Ah, no, not this, but to the elven king…”
“Mom! Last time Marina said she was the king of the neighborhood.”
As Ethan raised her arms and shouted, Silnia scratched her head.
“Is that so? Well, the elf shouldn’t play a bad role. And why is Marina the older sister?”
Ella listened to the hat’s conversation and stroked her hairy tail on her hip.
“As expected, the demon king seems to be a bad role.”
“Sister Ella? What did you say?”
When Una next to her asked a question, Ella smiled and shook her head.
“Oona, I want to suck your ears!”
“Huh!”
Una freaked out and pulled herself over to Silnia.
When Una, who was at least left by her side, disappeared, Ella touched her long tail again.
A long, slender tail that her mother also had.
“Devil… The king of demons.”
Adults don’t seem to know it yet, but now they can read most of the words in books.
In most of those fairy tale books, the demon king appeared in a bad role.
Adults always called the demon king by another name and pretended not to know…
“Huh…”
Ella felt that her chest was strangely heavy and she began to creep backwards.
Silnia, who would have noticed this sign as it was originally, was not paying attention at all.
Perhaps it is because she struggles with reading books that do not match her own aptitude.
“Seed… Are there any books written in elven characters?”
Hearing that, Ella sneaked out of her training room.
“Where should we go? Mom won’t answer.”
I had already asked Sharpie what a demon king was, but Ella never got a proper answer.
Only to be silenced by passionate kisses.
“Then…”
She is a smart looking and kind woman.
Ella immediately thought of someone who would answer anything.
“Does Marina’s mother know a lot? Yes?”
The child walked down her hallway wagging her tail.
* * *
“I added as much flour as I was told to add…”
Marina was surprisingly very close.
Ella peeked through the crack in her kitchen door as Marina prepared her lunch.
“Did Karine tell you differently…”
In front of Marina were shattered cookies and distorted cakes.
“I can’t help it. More practice later… Huh?”
As Marina sighed, she turned around and met the black heart eyes she was watching.
“Mother Marina!”
“Ella? Isn’t it time to be with Sylnia now?”
“Lol!”
Ella didn’t answer and picked up the cookie in front of Marina.
“It failed…”
Before Marina could finish her sentence, Ella swept a piece of her cookie into her mouth.
It tastes sweet, but the texture is horrible.
It’s frankly tasteless compared to what Karine grilled.
“… Delicious!”
“Oops. If you lie, you will get scolded.”
Marina’s tone was scolding, but her expression itself was that of fun.
“As expected, isn’t it terrible compared to what Carine made?”
“Yes… It’s too hard. So hang yourself.”
“The milk…”
When Ella coughed up her cough, Marina quickly looked around her head.
And she hurriedly served out a little yellowish milk.
“Now, hurry up and drink before you choke.”
“Huh!”
Ella tilted her head as she swallowed the milk, which tasted sweeter than the milk she normally ate.
“Something tastes familiar.”
Only then did Marina check the liquid she had given her.
“Maybe it’s the milk, not the flour. After all, it might not be possible to just use it because it is commonly found…”
Marina clears her throat as she closes her slightly loosened forehead.
“So why is Ella here? Isn’t it time for her to read a storybook with Lenny and her little brothers?”
“I’m tired of hearing it every day. There are many books, but they all repeat the same story Ella knows.”
“Is it so? But her brothers say they like it.”
“It was boring, so Ella came out alone!”
Ella sat down on a bag of flour on the floor.
“Ella will taste it, so will Marina’s mom keep making it? She shouldn’t even fail at lunch!”
At the bold excuse, Marina smiled bitterly.
“Don’t come close to the shelf. Because there are many dangerous things.”
As her child nodded her head, Marina began to prepare the still-not-so-slight lunch.
Soon, her kitchen filled with the sound of clattering knives,
The sound of a bubbling pot,
And it was filled with the sound of the demon king’s daughter asking questions.
“Why are you making rice?”
“Because if you don’t eat, you’ll be hungry.”
“No, why do moms and dads make them?”
Marina put her ladle down to look at her liver and turned her head.
“What do you mean? Are mom and dad making them?”
“Does the rice come out on its own?”
Ella extended only the index fingers of her two hands and pointed to her ceiling.
“The devil gives you every meal!”
The saintess was silent for a moment as if her words were choked.
But soon she smiled and opened her mouth.
“Isn’t the rice you make yourself better than the rice that comes out there? And rice won’t come out of there forever.”
“Karine’s mother’s rice is delicious! And doesn’t it keep coming out?”
Set time.
Fixed place.
Fixed meal.
From the time she was born, she grew up eating rice from the living room.
To Ella, it was strange that she might not be able to eat.
“It is. When you get out of here.”
I was speechless for a moment.
Marina added some more of her salt to her stew before continuing her words.
“I have to make this every time I go out. The demon does not give food.”
“I see… Then go out and Ella will cook for you!”
“Ella’s mother must be very happy.”
“No! I’ll make it for Marina’s mom too!”
There was no answer.
Marina just stirred the contents of her saucepan with her strangely hard face.
Ella just shrugged her shoulders at that uninteresting response.
And soon she brought up another subject.
“What is the king?”
“He is someone who helps a lot of people.”
To the new question, Marina answered in a voice no different from before.
I guess I’m trying to answer this question.
“Are you a good person then?”
“That’s right. Isn’t Ella’s father also the king here?”
Ella thought about her dad for a moment and her heart eyes twinkled.
But that’s not what she was trying to ask now.
“Are kings and kings the same thing?”
“Yes. It makes no difference.”
Stirring the saucepan, Marina smiled her eyes.
However, she turned to a puzzled look at Ella’s question that followed.
“Then the Demon King is also a good person?”
“… The devil and the king are different.”
“But are they both kings?”
The warm heat itself was still the same, but the atmosphere in the kitchen had changed to a strange prick on Ella’s skin.
Maybe Marina’s mother doesn’t like this question either?
“Even the demon king! Just a king, even a king! And the king is a good man.”
But Ella didn’t stop asking her questions.
“The Demon King is also a good person! Right?”
A question mixed with a feeling of being a little desperate.
Hearing that, Marina lowered her head slightly.
“I feel it every time, but Ella has a really good brain. Just like she is Ella’s mother.”
“Really? Does my mom like her hair too?”
Marina nodded her head and whispered quietly.
“I would rather have a better future if those bloods weren’t mixed…”
“Huh? What did you say? I can’t hear you.”
Ella didn’t understand for a moment and tilted her head.
Marina didn’t answer the question, but she quickly turned her words around.
“Who does Ella like better, her mom or her dad?”
After being asked the question of her life, Ella completely forgot the question she had just delivered.
I rubbed her chin with her tail and tried to ponder with her fingers on the side of her head, but she still couldn’t answer.
Because the question was so ambiguous.
“Who is your mother?”
“Yes? I’m talking about Ella’s mother.”
All mothers
Ella lived up to Marina’s expectations, holding back her attempts to stick out.
“Both are good! But why?”
“How would you feel if mom and one of her dads asked you to go on a long trip alone? Oh, do you know what travel is?”
“Hmm… Is it like an adventure?”
“Similar. Well, we used the word adventure more than travel.”
Leaving the muttering Marina behind, Ella crossed her arms.
Traveling far away with either mom or dad?
Then you can’t meet the other one?
“Ella won’t go on a trip then.”
Marina smiled bitterly at her stern reply.
“Is that so. Well, I have a question…”
“Marina’s mom only has one of her mom and her dad, but if she has to go on a trip, who will she go with?”
Marina’s expression was colored with bewilderment at her reverse question.
“Me? Are you talking about my parents?”
“Huh!”
Laughing, Ella looked up at Marina.
I’ve never seen it, but I’m sure Marina’s mom has a dad and a mom.
That would be a tough question.
“I don’t know.”
“Why?”
“Yeah, I’ve never met either of you…”
Marina’s voice faded bitterly.
“I, like Ella, will not go on a trip.”
“Yes? It’s good to be with mom and her dad.”
“Yes. It will.”
Ella placed her hand on her waist triumphantly.
“And Marina’s mom will be there too, right? Ella likes all her mothers to be together!”
Marina struggled to turn her head to her side, heading for the pot where her stew was boiling.
“It’s about time. I still have more to prepare, so Ella go back to Iman Silnia. She might be looking for her.”
“Oh!”
After all, it took too much time.
At this rate, there is a high possibility that an enraged Silnia’s fist will stick on her head.
“Then see you later!”
Ella waved her hand and ran out of her kitchen.
“Whoa…”
Marina let out a sigh as she saw her tail disappearing last from her sight.
“She has become a terrible adult.”
She remained silent, leaving only those words.
And she stirs up the slow-cooking food.
* * *
In the end, she didn’t get a proper answer from Marina about her demon lord.
Ella set the spoon down, brushing her swollen brow for her last night.
And she sat still, feeling uneasy.
“Our Ella! Did you eat it all?”
Sharpie praised her daughter for finishing her meal, and she called out each girl’s firstborn.
In the morning Silnia took care of the older children, and in the afternoon it was Sharpie’s turn.
“Are all the kids gathered to spend a hot afternoon with this body today?”
Sharpie laughed as she stroked her tail under the chins of her children in turn.
Then she always laughed, saying that all the children tickled, and she clung to the sharpie.
Normally, what would her father have said about her mother’s words and actions, but now she is busy.
“Understand? Then I’ll ask you a favor.”
“Huh. See you later, El.”
Hernan, who was talking to Karine, nodded her head a few more times, then disappeared across the corridor with Marina.
Ella, who followed her with her eyes, grabbed her tail as it came under her neck.
“Haha!”
When her mother lay in her bed with her father, she opened her mouth with a moan.
“Ella! Didn’t I say you shouldn’t hold her by the tail?”
“Mom. Ella, I want to rest today.”
“Huh? Are you resting?”
Holding her mother’s tail with both hands, Ella looked sideways as Carine finished tidying up her table.
“Ella is free today.”
“Freedom? Ella, has she recently learned the word freedom?”
“Huh. Ella is free.”
Sharpie laughed like he was having fun.
“Okay. Instead, you must not go to the garden.”
“Why?”
Maybe a garden?
I have to go to my dad too.
“That’s going to be a hot spot today…”
“Stop talking nonsense to the kids and go down.”
Carine, who had approached me before I knew it, spat out her words hard.
Sharpie looked at Karine and raised her eyebrows.
“You look pretty today too.”
With that, Sharpie kissed Carine’s necklace, which she always wore.
“Both the necklace and Carine.”
“Are you my lover? Stop fooling around in front of the kids and come down.”
Carine pushed away such a Sharpie.
Sharpie giggled and pulled away from Carine.
“Karine shouldn’t do bad things, okay?”
“What…”
Karine, who was frowning at her, noticed Ella in front of her and looked down at her words.
“Are you not going?”
“Ella is free!”
Karine only narrowed her eyebrows slightly and ran her silver hair down her back and brushed it behind her.
“Not me.”
Karine, who was moving her steps, placed a small piece of bread in front of her demon altar.
And she said to Ella, who still followed her baby.
“I am busy. If you want to eat snacks, ask your mother who has gone down. If you want new clothes, I’ll give them to you in a few days, so don’t waste it.”
“Is your mother a warrior?”
“Why is your mother a warrior? Your mother don’t…”
Karine, who seemed to be about to say that she is the Demon King, swallowed her words.
Ella also opened her mouth, thinking that her mother was the devil.
“It’s Karine’s mother! Karine’s mother is a warrior, right?”
“Who is it?”
Karine stepped back in front of her altar with her face severely annoyed.
“I don’t know! If you’re going to play, go to Potty, who is alone in the room. And she keeps calling me mom too. You’re confused!”
She was a Karine who was rarely angry with her children, although somewhat cold.
But she looks very angry now.
However, Ella clung to Karine more without hesitation.
“Kary, your mom often plays with her mom, right? Is she good?”
“Rather than playing…”
Carine, who stopped her words, sighed and touched her forehead.
“Why? What do you want to ask?”
Ella smiled and opened her eyes wide.
“Is the Demon King a good person?”
“I am not a person.”
“To… ?”
Ella looked at Karine with her blank face.
Karine looked at Ella and shook her head.
“I’ll let you know when I grow up.”
Ella had a hunch that Carine wouldn’t answer any more after her words.
But as she pushed that intuition away, she clung to Karine’s legs even more.
“Ella is already grown up! You can read books by yourself, and eat alone! Besides, you can do it alone!”
“She always calls me to be wiped up and what does she say she is all grown up with? And she knows how to do that, so you think everyone is an adult?”
“The only thing Ella lacks is her height!”
The two of them quarreled and arrived in front of one of the special rooms.
“I really have to go to work now, so I’m leaving.”
“Ella will help!”
Ella put on a pitiful expression as best she could.
“Do you hate Ella?”
“Under…”
Karine now covered her eyes with her hands.
After remaining in that state for a moment, she let out a weak voice.
“I don’t like it, so get off my leg.”
“Wow!”
Ella, with her cheers, went into the special room in front of her with Karine, who had a sullen look on her face.
“There are a lot of dangerous things here, so don’t touch anything. They’ll find what they need anyway, and there won’t be many.”
“Ella, I know you here! I used to come often with her mom. I’ll help you find things too!”
Potty’s special room with accumulated dust.
The two of them crossed the lab that had been abandoned for a long time.
And soon I met the most suitable and unexpected person here.
The woman sat down in her seat, sobbing.
“Huh…”
Ella pondered for a moment whether or not to say hello to her, but as Karine continued walking away, she finally spoke up.
“Forty Mama!”
Potty, crying in front of a rose bush, raised her ears.
Forty’s face came up along those soft ears that were always popular with her children.
“Eh, Ella? And yo, hero?”
Carine’s voice changed completely from when she was with Ella.
“Why are you here?”
“Hey, this is my special room…”
“Get out.”
Carine that feels like an ice field.
Ella is surprised by her voice, which Carine never uttered when dealing with her children.
The child held his breath and grabbed Karine’s pants tightly.
“After you made it, you can’t come in here alone.”
However, despite Ella’s hold on her, Karine only exhaled cold.
“Get out of here, rabbit.”
Rabbit didn’t answer right away.
Instead, she looked at the rose bush that had always been fresh in Ella’s memory.
Now the roses are all withered.
“No… I’m not going out.”
The cold air flowing from Carine became more intense.
Seeing the faces of her two mothers, Ella placed her hand on her chest.
Her heart was beating loudly.
“I want to see Dad…”
