Chapter 177 – The Cursed Child
The girl’s morning was monotonous.
When I open my eyes at dawn, I immediately come out of the crumbling shack.
After that, play hard on your short legs and head to the only well in the village.
-Gulp.
As winter passed and spring came, the bugs were floating around, but the girl brushed them away without thinking and drank her water to the full.
Until her own teeny belly plump.
It was a daily life to starve for food, but it was very painful if you couldn’t even drink water with a young body.
Someone shouts at the girl who was in such a hurry to hide her appearance.
“Hey, witch!”
Turning her head, her scruffy boy was pointing her finger at him.
If an ordinary human faced a witch, it was clear that they would fear her.
But now the boy’s face was not afraid, but contempt.
It seems like you saw something very dirty.
Then the boy’s parents show up, crumple her face, and scream at the girl to drive her away.
“I haven’t had any luck since morning… Get out of here!”
In response, the girl runs away with her pale face.
After running for a while, she sat down, letting out her panting breath.
“I am not a witch.”
Because her mother died when she was born, she was raised with all sorts of terrible curses and contempt.
The fact that she was sad was herself, but why were they angry?
The girl was too young to understand that.
Witch today.
Monsters tomorrow.
The next day is a baby devil.
The girl was also called many other hateful things.
And most of all, I heard
“Cursed child.”
Yes, that was it.
The words that came out of someone’s mouth suddenly drove a dagger into the girl’s chest.
Originally, she would have run away when she heard the voice, but the girl was particularly weak today.
“Curse… No…”
She always had to hide from other people’s eyes until the sun went down.
But even when she is hiding like this, if she finds herself, what should she do?
As those thoughts passed through her small head, the sadness and solitude she had always endured amplified.
“Heh, heh, heh… !”
I burst out crying, befitting my age.
The girl hated the outside, the world.
Rather… She really wished she was a witch.
Then at least she wouldn’t be offended.
―Suddenly.
For some reason she stroked her own little head, where her grown-up, who called herself Cursed Child, was crying.
Even her soft and warm touch did not fool the girl.
I’m going to grab her by the hair.
It was clear that he would punch her in the face, scare her and threaten her to disappear out of town.
―Suuck, snuck.
However, her touch did not stop.
A being who simply stroked her hair without saying anything.
A warmth she had never felt before.
It was too sweet for the little girl to take.
She knew very well that sooner or later she’d nail herself, but she’d take just a little bit longer.
It’s okay to hit me, just ten more seconds…
Someone hinted at the girl who began to weep even more sadly.
“You are not a cursed child, Sophia.”
Is it really?
The girl wanted to ask.
But the girl, exhausted, collapsed and closed her eyes.
The sight of her man’s face right before she closed her eyes was enough to relieve her girl’s tension.
* * *
-Thud!
How long have you waited?
―Coooung!
Even though I gave control of my body to the ego of the evil spirit, I also spent the same amount of time as eternity.
Comparing the years I spent, it would be about enough to work.
The problem is that the work will take thousands of years.
―Coooung!
I’m really feeling alive now for the first time in a long time.
My heart pounded in my chest more violently than when I first encountered pornography in my life.
‘In this town… Sophia drin is there.’
A precious existence to me, whose face has now faded as I waited for an uncertain time.
Of course I know.
Sophia Drin in this town is not the existence I remembered.
It may be the same soul, but Sophia, whom I bonded with, has already lost all memories.
However, as time passes, Sophia Drin will become the lonely witch in the hut that I remembered.
Even so, we won’t be able to meet again at that point… Does not matter.
I haven’t slept again since I paid her toe.
Traveling around the world that developed rapidly, I came across various rumors and stories. Then, one day, an evil spirit came to me and pointed me to this nameless village.
He convinced me that Sophia Drin was here.
Before I was thrown into this world, several hundred years had passed.
If there was anything I could do in the human village at this time, there was no other than Sophia.
After thinking about that, I stood at the entrance of the village, and my heart beat faster and I was short of breath.
I am… I haven’t heard much about her past.
All I know is that I was a bit unlucky and became a witch to live.
‘You…’
What kind of life was you in the past that I don’t know.
* * *
Little Sophia, like a cornered rabbit, was full of her wariness, and she was small and fragile.
When I stroked her hair, she accepted my touch even though she was afraid.
How hard was it
The movement of her body was unbelievably dry, and there were scars everywhere.
-Kooung.
My heart beats faster than before.
It was not because of positive and warm emotions such as excitement and longing, but because of thoroughly boiling anger.
‘All… Shall I kill you?’
It was not something that would be done to a small child who had lost his parents, who had not sinned even by neutrality.
When young Sophia suddenly collapsed, probably because of her lack of nutrition, she couldn’t control her anger, so she took a deep breath and held her in her arms.
It’s pitiful.
However, in order for this child to meet the future me, I must leave it alone.
‘Do not be ridiculous.’
It was clear that young Sophia would be in a moribund state in a few days.
You want me to watch it quietly?
Until one day someone comes to this child and makes her a witch?
She closed her eyes and fantasized for a moment about the future she would face if she didn’t act as planned.
Sophia Drin she is not a witch.
She will disappear before the me of the past is thrown into this world.
Since you were born as a human, aging will inevitably come.
I thought about it for a while.
That worry was over after a little time had passed.
He walks with the young Sophia Drin in his arms.
The destination was located not too far from here.
A place lined with large trees.
The specific location where the trees were intertwined and rose up, looked empty somewhere.
Sophia Drin was always waiting for me in the hut built over there.
-Sue.
I set the poor, tender child down on the soft grass.
A blonde who was dwarfed and hungry, but never lost her brilliance.
I carefully brush my forehead and close my eyes, wondering if my fragile body would get hurt by my touch.
And, as an evil spirit, I earnestly wish for someone.
Share my power with this child.
It doesn’t matter what the efficiency is, so please pick one and pass it on to this child.
-Giying.
It didn’t take long for the change to come.
An energy too clean and bright to be created by an evil spirit forms on my right hand, and I instinctively place my hand on young Sophia’s forehead.
As if a hole had been pierced in his body, his strength began to drain and his breathing quickened, but he did not stop.
Sophia’s face, which had been pale, gradually regained vitality, and even her breathing stabilized.
When the light on my right hand faded, I got up and crossed my arms.
‘Power is… It’s not bad enough.’
It was difficult to accurately measure how much power was transmitted to Sophia.
After trying a few light moves, my body is definitely heavier than before, and the explosive power I always felt seems to have shrunk a bit.
‘It feels like about half of it.’
This was enough for me to do what I had to do in the future.
I clench my fists and sprint forward to break the tree.
I recall the shape of the hut that exists in my memory, and start repetitive work by trimming the trees.
Be careful not to wake the child.
By the time that little Sophia wakes up, the perfect cabin will be waiting for her.
Along with the materials she used frequently before.
* * *
The girl thought that she was dreaming that now, she herself.
So will it be,
“Star Anus”
“Yes, yes?”
A kind adult who stroked her hair in her dreams.
It’s because that adult brought him somewhere.
When she came to her senses, Sophia, embarrassed that she had to run errands for nothing, opened her mouth wide and blinked her eyes.
The girl didn’t know what the situation was or why she brought her here, but she realized one thing.
That an adult is a real adult.
It’s not meant to harm you, it’s meant to help.
She was easily understood as a young girl who had been hated and scorned by everyone.
“There, it’s a star-shaped fruit on the shelf.”
Besides, that warm voice.
There was a lot of kindness that a girl had never experienced before.
“Hey, this is it… ?”
At that the little girl twitched her lips and stretched out her short arms,
-Cudangtang.
Ingredients that had been randomly placed on her shelf went to the girl’s face.
“Ah, aww!”
She then closed her eyes and instinctively raised her arms to cover her face, but
-Teouk.
In an instant, her man ran up to her and hugged her.
Thanks to this, precious-looking ingredients fell to the floor and were shattered or crushed, and her man’s back was soaked in all sorts of ingredients and started to emit a musty smell.
“Sorry, sorry… Sorry…”
Her man reached out his hand to the weeping little girl who reflexively apologized to her.
Naturally, Sophia, who thought that the violence would begin, closed her eyes tightly in fear.
But,
“Are you okay?”
-Sue.
There was no violence from her, only her warmth was transmitted to her.
Her touch, caressing her hair as if she were handling something precious and precious to her, was not the type of thing her girl could resist.
“Take a good look. This is the oil of an insect called a bee.”
Then, as if to teach him something, he picked up materials that were at least intact and told them their names and uses.
“The thing that has this corrupt but refreshing scent is mountain spice. The moon is a grass that is often used because it is good for energy.”
“Sah, mountain incense…”
Her man held her girl in his arms and explained her ingredients.
The girl, who had experienced someone’s arms for the first time, twitched the corners of her mouth at the unfamiliar yet warm warmth, and unknowingly dug deeper into her man’s arms.
‘This is a strange man.’
The old man stroked his hair for a very long time.
“Sorry, you became a witch. Unfortunately, I can’t go out of this cabin.”
Then, out of nowhere, she said that she had become a witch, and she told many stories.
He was a really strange uncle.
If that’s true, she can live in this hut herself, and she can even use her magic.
She didn’t have to notice her anymore, and she didn’t have to be hit by anyone.
Why do you say such a happy story in a sad voice?
‘Uncle… You made my wish come true.’
The girl chewed over the story of this strange man many times.
