Chapter 136 – Coming Things (5)
Feeling a small hand touching her cheek several times, she carefully hugged Ran.
“This is how the child who held my hand without even opening his eyes came back.”
Quivering tone. Ran slowly brushed Marey’s back. Recalling her mother’s warmth, which was now fading, Marai involuntarily leaned her chin on her shoulder and closed her eyes tightly.
No matter how much time had passed, Ran grabbed her Marey by the shoulder and carefully pushed her away. Ran, who was holding her breath several times, brought her hand to the red bandage that covered her own eyes. And the moment her hand went towards her knot, it tore open her space and her hand in her white glove jumped out and grabbed her Ran’s wrist. I didn’t know if caught was the right expression.
“Ran-nim, don’t you know better than that?”
At the same time a new voice bursts out, the tearing space expands in size and a woman walks out.
The first thing that caught my eye was her long, emerald-colored hair that reached down to her thighs. A tall height that can look down on Ran and Marey. Holding Ran’s wrist, the profile of the woman looking down at her was both familiar and unfamiliar.
“Labella… ?”
“…Tsk.”
She called out Ravella’s name, but the woman she thought was Ravela looked at Marey, frowned at her, and clicked her tongue loudly. And she looked at her column as if nothing had happened. At Ravela’s sudden appearance of her, Marei blankly looked at her Ran and her.
“Ran. Calm down.”
“Marie’s child has come to visit. Can’t she just for a moment? Lauren?”
At Ran’s words, Marei took a closer look at the emerald haired woman standing in front of him once again.
If labella is a ripe fruit, Lauren could describe it as a sap that bursts with just the slightest touch, as if it were thick and lethal. Much taller than Labella. Even though she is wearing a coat over her uniform, her hips show off their presence with an extremely large curve.
“Can’t you just give me some time? To the point where she couldn’t even wear her clothes properly in front of Marie’s child? It’ll take a while. Please…”
“It’s not possible.”
When she said that she couldn’t even wear her clothes properly, Marey’s eyes naturally turned to Ravella. No, her eyes went to Lauren’s chest. A white brassiere sneaks out from between the buttons that haven’t been closed yet, and huge huge breasts that form a deep valley above it are visible.
“… Look away from her, before digging it out.”
Perhaps conscious of Marey’s stare, Lauren casually spat out scary words. When Marey looked at her, she immediately lost interest and continued her conversation with Ran.
“Ran. Please calm down. You are moving emotionally right now. Why are you showing such a weak side unlike you? They are just human children.”
“Not just a human child, but Marie’s child. She’s calming down, so she’s asking for your permission. Lauren. Please. I don’t want to hurt you Even for a moment, even for a moment, I want to see that child’s face. Please…”
Lauren let out a long sigh. Then she turned her gaze to Marey. When she first met Ravela, Marey couldn’t even breathe properly with purple eyes that looked more stubborn than her expression, which she thought was hard, and yet felt menacing.
“A nasty thing. Why is that child… This…”
It might be accurate to say that she was more like a doll than a human being. Nothing could be seen above the dark purple eyes, and she felt as if she would vomit at any moment from the unconcealed disgust that was about to drip down her face.
“Lauren. You’re talking to me, why are you harassing him?”
“…Yes.”
Lauren completely turned her back on Marey. The green dragon, a pattern unique to Parwenga that Ravela had told me about, was shining brightly on the back of her coat hanging over her shoulder. To keep her coat from falling off, a gold chain looped behind her back around her shoulders.
“Even if I get hurt, it is not okay. Ran. It is also my mission to protect you.”
“It’s your job to keep my seal, not mine, Loren.”
“Marie, that dirty bitch is so important…”
“Lauren. Please don’t make me angry.”
Lauren bit her lip. Ran was biting her lip. She might be accurate when she said that she was holding back her anger.
“Is he so important that he hurt me? Does anyone who knows how much I’ve conceded that the child is here right now are saying that?”
Lauren let out a long sigh at Ran’s silence.
“If you knew it was forced…”
“What can I give you?”
Lauren pursed her lips. And she glanced at Marey. In her purple eyes, too many things that Marei couldn’t understand or read passed by.
“Look away, I will rip out one of your eyes if you want to read me one more time. Tsk. It’s like her child… She’s inherited a dangerous talent. But she is more dangerous than that child.”
“Lauren?”
“I know that the seal weakens over time, and that a seal that has been there for tens of thousands of years cannot bind you. A seal containing the essence of far-off knowledge that neither I nor the former Lord, who has already returned to nature, knows about. Do you know the original of this magic circle, which has now become unknown knowledge?”
“Yes.”
“With your power, seal yourself once again. As much as this child is worth.”
Marey couldn’t keep up with the conversation between the two. However, Ran was being pushy, and Lauren wanted a price. That was all there was to this story. Ran spat out her words that she would know without any hesitation and reached out her hand towards Lauren.
Loren opened her palms, and her metaphysical patterns intertwined, creating clusters of patterns in the air so densely packed that they appeared to be a sphere. There was a sphere large enough to overturn her heavenly body, and Ran thrust her hand into the sphere with the pattern without hesitation. At the same time, a large light covered the surroundings.
“There is not a single part of her, her lineage, or any part that I like. Ran… Why…”
Lauren muttered dejectedly. Her lamentation, barely audible, barely reached Marey’s ears.
“Is this okay? Lauren?”
A child’s voice came from in front of Lauren. Lauren let out a long sigh and moved her own body, which had been blocking between Marei and Ran, to her side.
A little more than Marey. Where did the little fox girl go, and there stood a child barely touching Marey’s chest? Unlike a human child with a large head compared to her body, like xenos (like philiana, mrende.), Like an adult just having a small body. There was a little fox girl in front of me that looked like something out of a comic book or novel.
“…You look like your mother’s childhood.”
“Ran…?”
The little boy smiled broadly. The amulets attached to her ears crumbled black and were swept away by the wind, and the red bandages that had covered her eyes flowed down and hung around her neck.
The pupil that was torn up and down contained Marey. In golden eyes, countless pieces of metal are clumsily attached, giving me the idea that it is both bizarre and mysterious, and at the same time fascinating.
“Come here. Let’s hug, my baby…”
The girl who looked a lot like her Marei just before had become her child, but Marei unknowingly got down on one knee and hugged her. Her nostalgic scent emanated from her. The nostalgic warmth of hers was transmitted from her, and it contained the comfort that would make her fall asleep if she closed her eyes.
“You’ve grown a lot.”
At Ran’s murmur, Marei involuntarily made her body tremble. I couldn’t tell if I was sad or happy. However, she silently rubbed her head against the chest of a small child who was a lot longer than herself.
“Did Ran know I was coming?”
“Yes, but not today. Next few years. I thought you would come around the age of majority. It was several years ago.”
Ran was sitting on her lap. Lauren also sat beside her, saying nothing, so Marey had no choice but to get on her knees and sit neatly in front of the two of her. She couldn’t feel anything in her legs, but she couldn’t express anything as Lauren looked at her in silence.
“About my mother’s death…”
“I learned of Marie’s death when the blue star, her life partner, lost her light and wandered. She saw the star that should have lost its light and left the celestial body shine once more, and saw that your destiny passes through this place when you become an adult… A pleasant mistake.”
Ran just laughed. She never took her eyes off Marey. Lauren glanced at Ran and started glaring at Marey again. There was an unknown hatred and disgust in her expressionless gaze.
No, maybe not, but she felt that way. In front of Lauren, Marey seemed to become wary of even her breathing.
“Lan-sama, since that child is also Pawenga’s child, would it be all right if I intervene?”
“Yes, of course. Lauren, in a way, you are more like family to Maray than I am.”
Marey was very uncomfortable with Lauren. She didn’t know if it was the right thing to say to an adult, but she was expressionless. She felt an unknown fear in the way she looked at her. While she resembles Ravella, she is different. Should I say she’s more attractive. Should I say it’s dirty? When she sees her like that, she doesn’t know herself…
“When she met Ravella with the elder of her family, did she not learn what to do?”
“Oh, no. Lo, Mr. Lauren… Greetings from Marey de Parwen. I’m sorry that I greeted you late because I wasn’t in a hurry.”
Embarrassed, he couldn’t even greet her properly, but Maray greeted Lauren in a clean manner. She was nervous and stuttered her words, but Lauren didn’t mind that.
Mostly it was Ravela educating (?) Marey over her bed. She was also steadily teaching basic etiquette and courtesy.
“It must be time to be at school, so why are you in a place like this?”
“I got lost in the middle, and when I passed the red torai, Ran-nim was there…”
“Are you saying that I should believe that I lost my way and jumped over that barrier?”
I don’t know if there was a barrier on her part, but Marei let out the words of her apology and bowed her head.
Every time Lauren’s purple eyes stared at her, Marey was overcome with unknown fear. Her outburst of feelings for her mother who insulted her also quietly rose up, and when she saw those eyes looking down at her, she couldn’t resist. Marei shrugged her body even more.
“Please don’t question the child too much, Lauren. Marey is also Marie’s child. If she had inherited even half of the child’s talent, it wouldn’t have been so difficult for her.”
If I were to trace her memory, a name I hadn’t heard a few times since coming to Baltaire, wouldn’t it be the first time I met Ravela? In a small village in the countryside where I often had time alone, why does the existence of a mother that I think of every day sound so unfamiliar?
Every time her mother’s name came out of Ran’s mouth, Marei wanted to get out of here right away. When her name, Marie, flowed from Ran and Lauren, she felt guilty that the other two knew her mother better and thought of her more than she did, her only son. .
“It’s not that I don’t understand it, but then what do you think of the holy relic that has the blessing of a vulgar woman so sticky?”
“Hmm…”
Ran, who was exchanging her answer with Lauren, bit her mouth tightly. Golden eyes glanced at Marey, drawing a round arc. She smiled once, as if she knew everything, as if she was okay, and then Ran looked up at Lauren.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a personal friendship? Upon examination, it contained nothing but protection or healing. Isn’t that the kind of thing you’d hand over as a genuine favour?”
“Did that crazy girl do someone a favor… ? Ran-sama, the saintess of this generation is really insane…”
“I recognized it too. I watched. Although he was immature, he was a child with a talent that was hard to see even when I existed in the sky.”
“As a being before talent, it is a flawed being.”
The Erden Pavel Marey saw was very friendly, but she was infinitely kind to herself, and while she was full of mischief, she was the kind of person who would always do what Marey asked for.
However, as Marei, who didn’t even know her own mother properly, she didn’t even have the courage to refute what they were talking about about Erden Pavel. She didn’t like Lauren’s gossip about the person she liked, but even if her blood wasn’t connected, she was definitely an adult in her family, and she was the governor of Balter, and also the president of the school.
To Marey, she was just a distant existence that felt higher than the sky.
“If there is a problem, wouldn’t Lauren-sama protect you? In this form, with this power, it is difficult to handle other gods and demons.”
“Ran… I am the dragon who protects your seal, not the one who protects you.”
“The only thing I can trust is Lauren. Please consider our relationship. Am I just a god sealed by Lauren?”
Ran was looking at Lauren with her eyes wide open as if she had been hurt.
