Chapter 18 – 18. Birthday present
hello?
Even if you are so green and wear flowers in your ears, people around you will laugh at you and think you are cute!
My name is Emily, an 8-year-old girl!
Normally, I would be home from school and have a snack at this time, but not today.
We are currently hiking a snowy mountain!
Why?
They say he’s a director, but I’m not really sure.
Mom and Dad said we couldn’t live in Flower Garden anymore.
Oh, Flower Garden is my hometown!
Even in the Clark Republic, this town is famous for its beautiful flowers!
I like yellow flowers that match me best!
But mom and dad said I shouldn’t go near them! She shouldn’t even smell!
So I have no choice but to watch from afar. In fact, my dad is a high-ranking person at the botanical garden, so I touch him every day!
“Emily, if you’re having a hard time, would you like me to carry you on my back?”
I guess my dad was worried about me. I smiled and answered that it was okay.
8 years old isn’t old enough to climb a mountain, right?
Besides, I became a lady since yesterday.
Why?
Yesterday, my neighbor Delphine confessed to me.
I learned from a book that if you know love, you are a lady!
Of course, I refused the confession.
In the Clark Republic, dating anyone under the age of 20 is legally prohibited.
Delphine said it’s okay if you do it secretly, but if you do that, you’ll be in big trouble if your dad or mom gets taken to the concentration camp.
But since you’re moving, what if you don’t have to follow the law?
Then I think I’ll think about it again. Of course Delphine has to confess again!
“Aren’t you hungry?”
“huh! “I’m not hungry!”
“Okay, if we get over this mountain quickly, let’s have a birthday party.”
“huh! good!”
It feels good to have mom’s thick gloved hands stroking my hair!
Can I tell you a secret?
Actually, today is my birthday!
What is a gift?
I’m really looking forward to it!
In fact, the snowy mountains are too rough, the adults’ strides are so long that it’s hard to keep up, and I want to eat warm and fluffy pancakes.
Still, I have no choice but to endure it.
Surely, if you go over this mountain, you can eat delicious food, right?
Everyone will congratulate me, right?
uh?
But suddenly the people walking in front started shouting something.
“please!”
“We didn’t do anything wrong!”
“Emily!”
Everyone is screaming something with scared expressions, but I can’t see my mom because she’s hugging me so tightly.
I was scared for no reason because of the screaming, so I hugged my mom tightly.
“are you okay. “I’ll go and talk to you.”
I can hear my father’s voice. I deliberately twist my head and look to the side to see my dad smiling with the confidence he always shows.
“Little and cute Emily. Don’t worry too much. “After a little while, we can live happily and peacefully again.”
“Yes.”
“You know Dad never lies, right?”
“huh!”
Dad always gets compliments from the villagers! I’m sure Dad will figure it out!
“Earl of North Sweden! We are from Flower Garden in Clark Republic! Please, tell us our story just once… … .”
what?
Dad’s voice broke.
I want to stick out my face and check, but I can’t because my mom is holding me tighter.
“I love you, I love you Emily. “You know that Mom and Dad really love each other, right?”
“Ugh, Mom. I love you too.”
My mother, who was shaking, felt like a block that would collapse if touched even slightly. Without realizing it, I got scared.
“Don’t mention my name in your mouth, you filthy foreigners.”
A scary voice I don’t know.
Do you mean us by trash?
“Maalks Research Institute Director, capture them all and use them.”
“Yes, I understand.”
That voice was the end.
It was very cold, but strangely enough, I fell asleep.
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Kyaaaaaaaaaaa!
Oh, my head hurts.
This is the first time I’ve ever had a headache like this. I woke up to a scary scream, where am I?
I hate it because everything around me is dark and the only lights are scary green lights.
“Look, you can’t look!”
I tried to force myself to get up, but suddenly I heard Delphine’s voice next to me.
I cover my eyes with my hands, but what is this? … .
Wow! consideration! Please consider me!
“mom?”
I pushed Delphine away and jumped up. I was locked in a cage, like an animal cage, but that didn’t matter right now.
A mother outside a cage is screaming, surrounded by strange people in white clothes.
“uh?”
why?
Why are mom’s arms and legs… … .
… … why?
“Mommy!”
bang!
Mom!
Mom!
My mom is hurting!
I have to go and help!
I have to go and save him!
“Mommy!”
bang!
bang!
bang!
“You can’t hit the iron fence! Then those people!”
Delphine tried to stop me next to me, but I didn’t think anything of it. I just kept throwing her body with the mindset that I had to save her mother.
The only sound of something breaking came from my shoulder, but the iron bars did not budge.
and.
“Who is it?”
Among the people gathered around my mother, the oldest-looking person looked at me.
It was the first time in my life.
This is horror.
The man had a name tag on his chest like we had at school.
[Maalks Research Institute Director]
The one that made us all faint… … .
“It’s me!”
Delphine, who raised her hand on my behalf, was shedding tears. I didn’t understand what the hell was going on.
“I would have definitely told you to stay still.”
Director Marlks is trotting over. I was so scared that I couldn’t say anything except my teeth chattering.
“Emily.”
Delphine, who raised her hand on my behalf, smiled and gave a thumbs up.
“I will save you.”
“ah… … .”
“So, date me.”
Tears streamed down my face without me realizing it when I saw Delphine leaving the cage, smiling and proudly being held by Warden Maalks’ hand.
So I was sorry.
So, I understand.
“Kwaaeook! Oh no, it’s not me! actually! Actually, I am!”
Even though I was screaming and shouting that someone else did it, I couldn’t help but shed tears. I thought it was natural for people to curse me.
“Eh, eh! Emil! Emily! I did it! Jeba, Jebaaaaaal!”
No matter how many times I shouted that I was sorry, Delphine couldn’t even hear me.
like that.
Time continued to pass.
Every time the iron cage door opens, the number of people decreases by one.
Before we knew it, the number of people who had been so large had suddenly decreased.
“You’re the only one left.”
I was the only one left inside the cage.
My mother had already been buried among the corpses a long time ago and was unrecognizable.
Delphine was reduced to ashes by electric shock and swept away with a broom and thrown into a trash can.
Dad?
I can always see my dad.
“That was your father, right?”
There was only his neck hanging in the center of the lab. Director Marlks happily explained that he had instilled fear in us by using his father, who was the CEO, as an example.
Since I was the last one, I said I would show them around the lab.
I didn’t want to see it, but I had no choice but to see it.
In the end, me too.
I had no choice but to lie down on the experimental table where so many people died.
A large blade digs into my chest.
sick.
sick.
It hurts so, so much.
I want to eat pancakes.
I also want to see yellow flowers.
I want to go to school with my friends.
I also want to raise a dog.
I want to hold hands with Delphine and go on a date.
I want to be held in the arms of mom and dad.
There are so many things I want to do.
By the way.
“I will save you.”
What does the man in front of me want from me?
This is a man I’ve never seen before.
I can’t even remember how lost I was. It just hurt so much that I felt like I was unconscious without even realizing it.
“What is your wish?”
My plaster-like lips feel like they don’t belong to me.
Of course the voice doesn’t come out.
I feel like I have a handful of chalk dust stuck in my throat.
Even though I moisten my throat with tears, I have already cried so much that I have no tears left.
I was so dry that I couldn’t even say a word.
Phew!
Knock, knock.
Thick blood flowing through the hardened tongue. A unique fishy smell that was thick and numbing to the nose.
The man in front was stabbing his own hand with magic and pouring blood into my mouth.
“Wet your throat and speak clearly. “I will listen.”
“… … ah.”
My throat was still so stuffy that I couldn’t let my voice out.
A little bit of wind passed through the blood that flowed in.
I found out that I was only allowed to say one word.
what I want.
I told you before.
I want so many things.
There are a lot of things I want to try.
By the way.
Just pick one.
If this were the last word of my life and a birthday present that came a little late.
What I want is.
“plural.”
I want revenge.
Then the cold man gave me a smile that I thought he would never be able to make.
“Yes, well said.”
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The girl’s spirit believed in me.
Emily’s sorrow, gently seeping into me, was so excruciatingly heavy that I almost fell to my knees for a moment.
Finden Eye helped me as I stumbled. The human bone she was dealing with had become nothing more than a limp bone as Emily’s spirit, her medium, had disappeared.
“Is that the child’s memory just now?”
“Did you see it?”
“… … huh.”
Yes, you can.
“Souls with a lot of resentment often show their past. “They want someone to know them.”
“… … .”
Findeneye purses her lips.
At that time, Deia appears to have lost strength in her body and approaches me, forcing herself to keep her balance.
“Now that’s the family secret… … ”
Deia must have been quite shocked, covering her face with both hands and asking me as if she was exhaling.
“What are you going to do?”
“What do you mean?”
“I told you I would take revenge.”
“… … .”
Findeneye also looks at me, curious about that.
“You’re not trying to hold Darius responsible, are you?”
“He is only guilty of ignoring responsibility even though everything was over and he knew the truth. “It would be too much for him to take on all the sin.”
“… … Then what are you going to do? “The revenge that child wants is already impossible.”
Because they’re all dead.
A girl named Emily is at least 150 years old.
Naturally, all the people involved are already dead.
so that.
“A cane.”
As I stretched out my hand, the cane that I had dropped on the floor flew towards me.
My hand slipped while pouring blood earlier and I missed it.
[Here it is.]
Now that the soul-eating worms have disappeared, Skal, who was able to come underground, carefully places a staff in my hand.
The two women were surprised that the wand flew towards me without any mana usage.
I push Findeneye away and support myself with my cane.
The resentment is so strong that it feels like my body will be torn apart.
There is still work to be done.
“Do you remember what I said?”
“what?”
“What are you talking about?”
I take a breath and say it again to the two puzzled women.
“Every spirit whispers its regrets and regrets very secretly.”
This is the same for all souls.
Both in the past life and in the present life.
“It’s easy to think of it as a kind of quiz. “Each soul hides its thoughts like a quiz, but on the other hand, I want the answers to be answered.”
“What happened all of a sudden…” … .”
Deia tried to interrupt me, but I continued.
“It’s just their instinct. And most people take quizzes that aren’t very creative, thinking they’re great.”
I can tell because I was the one who relieved the resentment of many ghosts.
After all, they are human.
Humans who are left alone with their thoughts are less creative. Most people walk on the same rails of thinking.
“For example, there are souls who act and speak backwards. “They may act strangely and provocatively, but in reality, they are like children asking for recognition.”
Findeneye and Deia now look like they don’t understand.
A face that wants to ask what the hell I’m talking about.
But I’m not talking to you.
“So what I want to say is.”
Raise your head slowly.
He looked at him while calming down Emily, who was going crazy and threatening to attack her at any moment.
“Introducing the name backwards is a damn common riddle, Skal.”
[…] … .]
His expression is expressionless and he stiffens.
I asked with a laugh mixed with contempt.
“Did you really think you could fool me with that kind of acting?”
The first day I met Skal, he introduced himself to me like this.
‘My name is Skal Ma, and I am honored to finally be able to repay Dietros Verdi for the favor he owed me 150 years ago.’
“Did you just plan to pass it off as a butler? “Did you think I wouldn’t recognize it if I pretended to raise my voice and cleverly skipped over the previous letter?”
[her… … ]
Skal.
No, Lab Director Marlks laughs and scratches his head.
[I wonder if his head hardened when he died.]
Even though his identity was discovered, Maalx comes out very confidently.
[I never thought I would get caught by such a bastard’s second son.]
“You’re just being stupid, you idiot. “Both before death and after death.”
[So what do you plan on doing?]
Maalx shrugs his shoulders and raises the corner of his mouth and shouts at me that this is absurd.
[Are you planning to judge me? By what right? I’m Verdi! I was just following your family’s orders! In some ways, I am also a victim!]
“… … .”
[If you want to judge, judge your ancestors! The blood of the masterminds who carried it out is flowing, and the act of daring to judge me is no different from that of an asshole.]
“I decided to make that child’s wish come true.”
[Is that a justification? Are you saying you are taking revenge? Can we really say that this is revenge carried out by that girl?!]
“I’m sure you’ve seen it a few times already.”
The girl’s soul floated on my hand.
The girl who was absorbed into me through necromancy gradually turns into a large blue flame.
“The soul contains mana.”
[…] … !]
The blue flame takes the form of a small girl and stands on the ground.
“I just convert the mana contained in the soul into magic.”
Commanding a soul through necromancy is a very difficult skill.
Ordinary necromancers do not have special eyes like me and cannot see or communicate directly.
So why are necromancers able to manipulate spirits?
It’s a pain.
They are manipulated and bred by inflicting pain on their souls through magic.
“With my necromantic skills, which are just basic, you won’t be able to do so even if you want to.”
The pain continues but never ends.
The necromancer’s flame brings burning pain to the dead, preventing them from enjoying the rest they deserve after life.
Now the girl has become my flame.
So, I gently pushed his back and whispered.
“Happy birthday, Emily.”
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