Chapter 753 – Day 85 – Father and Daughter
‘It’s never a good idea to eavesdrop like this, but as a mother and wife, I need to know in advance what I’m talking about.’
In the room where Ceres showed her, Hedone carefully puts her ear to the wall and closes her eyes.
“Huh?”
Hedone must be able to hear a voice clearly, but when she can’t even hear the normal sound of biting and sucking, Hedone looks at Ceres.
“Mr. Ceres? I can’t hear any sound. Could it be the wrong room?”
“Huh? That can’t be possible. This ball was created from the beginning just to eavesdrop…”
Alas, Ceres, with a cold expression on his face, quickly turns around and runs out into the hallway. Hedone also had a passing thought in her head, so she quickly follows her.
─Knock!
“I am sorry, princess. I will go inside the room for a moment.”
No words are heard from the room, but Ceres takes the risk of being rude and turns the doorknob with her magic to open the door.
“What is this…”
Hedone follows behind her, opening her eyes wide and examining every nook and cranny of her room.
“Hey, Mr. Ceres? How did this happen?”
As Hedone speaks, she stares blankly at the wide open terrace door, and then, improbably, she opens the bathroom door and looks inside.
She looked under the bed and in the closet just in case, but the princess and Minos were nowhere to be found.
“I’m sorry. I don’t think you are in this room.”
“Then isn’t it a serious matter? The princess probably won’t give permission, but would you please use it, like usual, to find out her location?”
At Hedone’s request, Ceres takes her bright red ruby and inserts it into her glove, which she naturally wears.
“Oh my…”
“Mr. Ceres?”
When Ceres was confused and did not disappear into the shadows like usual, Hedone wondered if it could be possible.
“The princess…”
You’ve never had anything like this before.
Ceres, with a bewildered expression on his face, carefully approached the bed and saw that several ornaments with runes engraved on them were rolling around.
“Princess, what on earth are you thinking when you do something like this?”
The princess does not know Minos’ physical condition.
When Minos smiled and asked her to play somewhere other than here, could she refuse?
Ceres, who was worried about many things, grabbed the rune-engraved ornament with his hand and squeezed it tightly.
* * *
“Like Abama said, I quite like this place.”
Minos held his back and looked left and right with a truly satisfied expression. There was no need to talk twice about the pure white hallway that felt clean and clean.
The surprisingly soft sofa was Minos’ favorite, and when he lifted his head slightly, he could enjoy the sparkling night sky without feeling the cold.
“I’m really glad you liked Minos.”
“You came to this secret place for cute Minos, right?”
With her eyes sparkling, Minos clutches her beloved father’s hand.
“How did you know about this place? This is the first time Minos from the future has been here.”
“There is various wisdom and knowledge that was taught to me by the ancient demons. If you use it, you can even enter this wonderful basement of the demons.”
At the princess’s words, Minos made a happy snort and placed his face on the princess’s shoulder.
‘It would be nice here.’
Minos suddenly had that thought. If she continues to receive Ceres’ injections, she may apparently be able to keep her eyes open ‘longer than expected’.
However, staying awake for a week without ‘sleeping’ even for a single day is not something a person can easily do. Every time she lost her mind, she had to feel in her limbs that she was terribly broken, so Minos looked at the princess and opened her mouth.
“Abama, can you please do me one favor from Minos?”
Minos opened her mouth while fiddling with the hem of her pink dress. Her heart was heavy, but she really wanted to say this.
“Do you want to say that you are taking good care of Minos, who will be born in the future?”
“Ah, ah, dad?”
“Why are you so surprised? Haha! As Healthy Minos said, aren’t I the omnipotent and wonderful Abamama?”
It was nice to have her warm and large hands wrapped around her waist, but Minos was very embarrassed by the princess who spoke as if she knew everything from the beginning.
“Ah, Dad, since when did you know?”
“I knew it right after I rescued Minos.”
“B-But Dad doesn’t have the ability to know such things or have magical talents…”
“Do you need such a thing to know whether your daughter is in good or bad condition? If my eyes can recognize the physical condition of a loved one, then I am good enough to understand my daughter’s antics as she tries to have a good day in front of me.”〈 Br〉
After finishing her words, the princess lowers her head and kisses her.
“It could be my last moment with my precious, lovely daughter, but I can’t just spend the whole day losing my mind to her.”
“S-sorry. Abama.”
“Are you saying you’re sorry because you think I lied? Don’t say that. I think I would have done the same if I were in the same position as Minos.”
The princess makes eye contact while gently hugging her daughter’s waist.
“Minos… I want to remain as a good daughter with good memories until the end.”
“Minos, whom I love, will always be remembered as such.”
“Really? She says Minos is always… She’s a bad boy, she’s arrogant, she calls herself cute, she lies and says she’s healthy when she’s sick?”
Minos was shedding tears as she spoke, holding her beloved father’s hand tightly.
“Isn’t Minos the one who did the painful thing of leaving his lovely daughter alone in the imperial palace to meet her wicked father who died. I feel sorry for not being able to fulfill his desire to look the prettiest at the last moment.”
“Oh, my dad is really… Hehe, hehe, he’s such a fool. He knew everything, but he pretended like he didn’t know anything.”
“Wouldn’t Minos be more happy that way?”
Minos looks at the face of his father, whom he had longed to meet for a long time, and smiles once more.
“Minos is such a fool.”
“Is that possible?”
“Why did I think that someone who tried to understand and love Minos in some way had abandoned Minos?”
Minos, speaking as if in her confession, pressed his lips to that of her beloved Abamama. Minos touched his beloved father’s shoulder and made up his mind.
“Abama.”
“I’m really fine, so don’t overdo it. I’m not going anywhere, and I don’t plan on getting angry.”
“That’s not it. Minos from the future wants to help.”
The princess smiles a very small smile. A being from the future can never change the past.
The princess, who had traveled through time several times, knew that fact painfully better than anyone else.
“I have a story I want to tell Abama.”
“Don’t overdo it, Minos. I know what you’re saying.”
“Abama!”
Minos, who shouted at her, took the princess’s hand and touched it to his chest, then grabbed the princess’s pocket watch.
“Minos and Abamama are different.”
“… Are you saying that the concept of time travel is different?”
The princess was a little surprised because it was literally impossible to predict or see through up to this point.
“Minos can’t go back. She goes back like Abamama, and the world that was disrupted will never be put back in order.”
Minos took a deep breath and grasped the princess’s hand.
“Minos never had a world to return to from the beginning. So, Dad, Minos will tell you.”
Minos says, holding tightly the hand of his beloved father.
“Where have the gods gone in the twilight?”
* * *
“Awesome Abama… You must remember this, right?”
“How could anyone who became a father have such a miraculous opportunity given to him by the beloved Minos? He will remember it even to the moment of his death.”
Minos let out a small laugh at the sweet voice he heard, wrapped his hands around his neck, slightly lifted his upper body, and kissed him.
“But, wonderful Abama, you really are as you wish. Minos… A healthy Minos is really fine…”
Minos, who was handling his father’s body while enduring the drowsiness that was coming, was hugged by the princess and heading to her deep underground.
The room we finally arrived in had a pure white bed. It was not an ordinary human bed as Minos knew, but a demon bed, but all explanations had already been given by the princess.
“Really cool, great dad… Minos doesn’t need this.”
The moment her soft buttocks touched her bed, the princess stroked her daughter’s cheek and kissed her forehead.
“What are you talking about? Isn’t Minos just sleeping because he’s feeling drowsy?”
The princess strokes her beloved daughter’s head and prepares for her approaching end. Minos laughs a little.
“This wasn’t the last thing pretty Minos thought of. I wanted to dance with Abama until I die at a fancy party venue that sparkles a little more…”
Minos let out a small laugh and grabbed the princess’s arm tightly with her last remaining strength.
“Minos… Lord, I don’t want to die.”
“It will be so.”
The princess gently hugged her daughter with both hands and whispered.
“Minos is just sleeping now. She sleeps and when she wakes up, she dances happily at the party with this Abama.”
“Hehe, hehe, will you play at the amusement park again?”
“When my lovely daughter wakes up, it will be the largest and most luxurious place in the empire.”
“Do you have to play with your precious Minos all day? Do you have to make love to him, give him kisses, and go on dates with him?”
Minos, holding her father’s hand, lay down on the bed, enduring the coming sleep until the end.
“Abama, please say thank you to Arisa’s mother Lang Diana and her little mother instead.”
“I’ll be sure to tell you that Minos had a lot of fun.”
“Dad… Please continue to remember Minos as the prettiest and most loving person.”
Minos, who held the princess’s hand with all his strength, could not bear the closing eyelids.
She eventually fell asleep. Her body, brimming with health, will rot and decay just as the emperor wishes.
“Minos, my beloved daughter… I will remember you as your most loving and beautiful self until the day comes when you can wake up again.”
The princess kissed the back of her beloved daughter’s hand and slowly stood up.
「────.」
The bed where Minos is lying closes with a faint mechanical sound. White smoke flowed out for a moment, and the princess clenched her molars when she saw that she had maintained her perfectly healthy appearance.
“Forgive me for my incompetence…”
This was the best choice the princess could make.
Right now, at this moment today, there is no way to save Minos. She has no chance to go back to the past or go to the future.
In that case, she has no choice but to resort to the most despicable and cowardly move.
There is no harm to Minos’ body as he falls into a deep sleep with a happy expression like the princess in Sleeping Beauty. The princess, who had been cowardly forced to run away, falls on her knees in her alone room and exhales until the day comes when she wakes up.
‘The method is…’
If there is one, there is only one.
The princess, who knew this better than anyone else, clenched her fists and held back her anger that threatened to overflow.
─Quarring!
The moment I hear the sound of thunder that cannot be heard deep underground, the stairs collapse, followed by the sound of the roof being shattered.
“My incompetent daughter.”
The princess does not respond to the emperor’s voice coming from behind her.
“Why do you make such foolish choices? You only choose things that are truly inefficient and emotional.”
The emperor who clicks his tongue clicks his tongue.
The father didn’t know what emotions her daughter was enduring right now.
The daughter can’t even imagine what kind of verbal abuse her father will spit out from now on.
“Stop being stupid.”
“I don’t like it.”
“Don’t you know that she is a gift from the future? The perfect body of God is right here before us.”
Emperor Jupiter clenches his fist.
“Eat, Venus Holympia.”
“Are you telling me to eat my daughter?”
“Don’t ask me obvious questions, foolish daughter. Take it! Take the power of a god from the future.”
The emperor shouted as if giving a command and closed his eyes tightly as if it was a waste.
“Now that I can’t even use it as a seedbed, isn’t that the only way to use the gift from the future efficiently?”
