Chapter 539 – Words of Good Will.
After finding the book in the carriage, Usher returned straight to Cessipia’s mansion. There was no special reason. He just thought this was the best place to hide his body.
“Galliot! Earlier than expected…?”
As he entered the front door, Ereine was so happy that she came out into the garden wearing only socks and no shoes, and stopped when she saw the two girls in Usher’s arms.
“Just out of curiosity, what about those children?”
Usher was puzzled by her uncertain expression, but he answered.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever seen it, but this is Pirika.”
“Pirika? Is that kid really that?”
When Ereine realized who the name belonged to, her eyes widened, and she looked at her girl. Pirika tugged on the hem of Usher’s clothes even as she flinched.
“Can you drop me off?”
Pirika faced Ereyn with a faint smile on her face as she carefully placed her feet on the ground as she wished.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Pirika, and I am currently working as a clerk for Mainades.”
The sight of the girl, holding the hem of her skirt with her fingertips and slightly bowing her waist along with her knees, bowing politely, was as elegant and elegant as any noble ladies, as was her pure white appearance.
“… Eraine of Cessipia, the mother of Galliot.”
Elaine looked at her with her wide open eyes as if she was surprised and then seemed to come to her senses when she saw the girl not raising her head. Her hand was holding the hem of her skirt and holding the hem of her skirt. Her hands are on her chest and her knees are bent.
“It is an honor to meet you, ma’am.”
“Okay, I’m glad to see you too…”
Only then, from the sight of Pirika raising her head, did Usher know that this was Parsiphenia’s etiquette. However, there is confusion in Erein’s eyes as she watches her.
“But I remember the girl I knew as definitely being a bit more mature.”
It was inevitable that she would react that way. Originally, Pirica took the form of a mature woman in Pasiphenia.
“I can explain, but…”
“I’d like to come in first.”
As the girl looked around, Eredo seemed to realize that this was her open garden and nodded, leading her into her mansion.
“Are you really sure it’s Mainades?”
Ereine sent out her butler Karl as well and had them sit around her table, but she looked at her girl with some suspicion and asked,
“Yes, so please keep what you see from now on a secret.”
“I will do it.”
“Ugh, ha. Ugh.”
After confirming that Erein nodded her head, Pirika stood up from her seat on the table, seemed to take a deep breath, and frowned as if her bitterness was leaking out. Just as Usher was about to get up, wondering if something was wrong.
The change had already begun. From a girl to a virgin, from a virgin to a woman, as if showing the rapid process of a flower blooming. The girl’s beauty reached its peak in the woman’s moment.
“Ugh, ugh!”
Although Pirika moaned in pain and broke into a cold sweat as her body changed, she thought that even that was beautiful because the scene could literally be called a fable.
Hehe, can you believe it now?”
“No way, you…”
As Pirika, who had returned to her full woman form, spoke, she repeatedly opened and closed her mouth as if Ereine had realized something about her, and soon closed her mouth as if she had decided to keep those words inside her.
“Looking at it, it doesn’t seem like it would normally take much effort. How about taking a seat first?”
“Thank you for your consideration… Huh?!”
Pirika accepted Eraein’s favor and stretched out her hand to find her chair, but when she lost her footing and saw her stumbling, Usher quickly went to her side and helped her up.
She was still light, but as she returned to her womanly body, her weight became more certain, the softness of her skin against her hands, and the pleasant scent that passed her nose seemed to have intensified.
“I shouldn’t have said something if I couldn’t see it.”
The banquet hall was structured so that no sunlight came in at all. She may be an element to block external danger, but for Pirica, who sees through sunlight or moonlight, it would be no different from entering her dark room.
“Okay, at least cover this for now.”
“Ah, thank you.”
Soon, after Usher had draped his cloak over her shoulders, Pirika seemed to realize that her own clothes had shrunk, exposing her bare skin. She hugged his cloak and buried her blushing face.
“Hmm, you seem friendlier than I thought. It’s hard to believe we just met.”
After seeing Usher helping her to her seat, Erain opened her eyes and looked at her suspiciously.
“That’s a bit complicated situation…”
“Could it be that the child lying in the room just now is not my granddaughter?”
“Yes?”
“Big! Kelloggakkellok!”
As she tries to explain what Usher is doing, she soon becomes speechless at Erain’s story. She was so surprised that Pirika coughed repeatedly as if she was shaking.
“It’s just a child I’m personally protecting.”
Usher patted her pirika on the back, and she wondered why Ereyn had thought of such a thing. Elkanah’s hair color is different from that of Usher and Pirika. I don’t know if she was Erica.
Hehe, it was a joke. Yes, she looked like a child who had just come of age. If she had had a child like that, she would not have become Di Macaeri long ago, let alone Mynades.”
Ereine had a mischievous smile, but she soon found Pirika looking gloomy, and her bitter smile appeared.
“So, can I call her my new baby?”
“Yes…?!”
Pirika opened her eyes wide and looked at her, as if she was startled by Erein’s words.
“Hmm, if you don’t like it, you tell me to go to your daughter-in-law?”
Usher soon sensed from the smile on her face that she was joking, but decided to leave her alone for now.
“Hi! Ugh, ah? Wow?!”
There was something cute about the way Pirika was shaking with her fingertips as if she was having a breakdown, as if it was taking her a while to understand what she was saying.
Hehe.”
Eredo must have felt the same way, so she lifted her chin and watched quietly until Pirika calmed down.
“Is it okay for me to listen to such undeserved words?”
As both Usher and Eredo were just watching her, Pirika, who soon came to her senses, bowed her head with her bright red face and chanted. A faint whisper that would have been drowned out if it weren’t for the quiet banquet hall.
“Why not? Wasn’t there anyone else my son chose? I don’t care if you’re a witch or a Mainades, so do you too.”
“But I…”
Ereine also comforted her with a sad expression upon hearing her words, but Pirika instead glanced at Usher with a guilty expression, like a downcast child.
‘Is it really bothering you?’
Although she expected it, it seems like what happened to Paris and Katen still left a scar in her heart. There were many things she wanted to say about him, but she decided to end it like this for now.
“Even if my mother said no, it doesn’t matter. I was planning on taking Pirika with me no matter what.”
“Usher!?”
Pirika was startled again by that firm voice and looked at Elain.
“… Still, you think of me as your mother.”
There was silence in the banquet hall as she smiled, holding on to the emotion of joy among the complex emotions that appeared on her face.
“This is his diary?”
Just when she thought she had opened her eyes properly. When Usher announced that he had Lancelot’s diary, Erain looked at the book he held out with trembling eyes.
“But this… Isn’t it an ordinary magic book, even if it’s a little unusual?”
She stretched out her trembling hand and opened the book as if she couldn’t believe it, but as Usher knew, it seemed to be nothing more than a simple magic book.
“That’s because you haven’t cracked the password.”
“Password?”
As Pirika watched her carefully check her book, she opened her mouth and Eraine raised her head.
“This is made so that the original cannot be known unless I decipher it myself.”
“…”
As she stares in silence, Pirika becomes restless and only purrs her lips.
“Okay, I guess I’ll give it a try.”
“Yes!”
After a long silence, Ereine opened her mouth and Pirika smiled brightly and took her book.
“‘Perth’, ‘Awaz’, ‘Verkana’.”
Soon, Pirika was using her fingertips as a pen to carve in order on the cover of her book, reciting her words and at the same time the book was floating in her hand…
-Paralalak!
“This is… Magic.”
Even though Pirika did not touch her, she unfolded even though there was no wind, and she began to turn over the pages at a rapid pace. Usher watched as Elain watched the scene and muttered as if fascinated.
‘The letters are moving.’
In the brief moment when the pages are turned, the black letters written on the books move and mix on their own, as if they are wriggling and returning to their original positions like living insects.
-Tup!
Eventually, when all the letters on the bookshelf stopped moving, the moment the book closed as if its mouth was shut, Pirika also opened her eyes.
-Boom!!
“Kyaaa?!”
“Pirika!”
“New baby!?”
However, what they did not expect was that the book that Pirika had lifted into the air fell to the floor, crushing her foot.
“Ugh, wow, it hurts.”
“Phew! Ahahaha! Galliot, you brought a really cute girl!”
Soon, Ereine burst out laughing when she saw Pirika holding her feet and tears streaming down the corners of her eyes.