I Raised Snow White!

27. Pandora’s Box (4)

[Episode 27] – Pandora’s Box (4)

After talking with the princess, I returned to my room and looked at the main body of the aincel that I hung on the wall earlier. I was worried about Ainsel, who hadn’t responded since he came out of the room.

‘…I thought it would be okay with just the alter ego.’

I let out a small sigh and looked at the mirror that was originally Ainsel’s alter ego in my room. Similar to the earrings, the powder that used to be a mirror was piled up on the floor.

…Come to think of it, what the hell was the reflection in the mirror when the king touched the angel? As if illuminating a person’s past or happy moments, Ainsel was mirroring such a scene to the king.

As if the king had touched Aincel, I spread my palm and swept the Aincel’s body. However, the mirror did not respond and reflected only me standing in front of it like a normal mirror.

“Haa… What should I do?”

I was at a loss as I didn’t know what to do with Aincell. As I let out a sigh, Sylphy, who had been flying around, climbed onto my shoulder, crossed her legs, and rested her chin on me.

I asked while stroking Sylphy’s hair sitting on my shoulder with my finger. By any chance, if it was Sylphy, the same fairy, I wondered if he would know why Ainsel became like this.

“Sylphy, do you know why Ainsel is like this?”

– Then, you know what to do.

“Then-“

When she turned her head to look at Sylphy, Sylphy looked at me with eyes that seemed to be looking for something. Ah, come to think of it, fairies don’t help her witch without a price.

Just as I learned from Ainsel, I gathered his magic and made it into a round candy. Then, when I gave it to Sylphy, Sylphy held a candy the size of her torso in her hand and smiled at her bashfully.

-Huh, yes, this is it. When asking a fairy for something, be sure to prepare a price. Something like this magical power or something that fairies like.

Sylphy, who licked the large magic candy with her tongue, covered her cheek with one hand while making an ecstatic expression as if she was enjoying it. Then, it flew up slightly and approached Ainsel.

-The reason Ainsel became like this is because of the ‘rebound’ of the contract. It’s like a punishment for fairies and witches who can’t fulfill their contracts.

“I guess it was because of the contract…”

-For example, it is still like that. If I don’t say anything even though I received candy from my baby, I will receive a ‘rebound’ like Ainsel. Although the content is slightly different.

Sylphy, who was explaining the large candy cane while gagging eagerly, came to my side and looked at me. Then, with a very small sigh, he climbed back onto my shoulder.

-In this case, it will naturally come to its senses after some time, but I don’t know when that will happen. The time the fairies feel is different from humans, so there is a possibility that they will open their eyes after the baby dies.

In an instant, I felt my heart pounding.

Ainsel seemed to know why she had been trying so hard not to talk about her first queen. Ainsel must have known that if she loses consciousness due to ‘rebound’, she doesn’t know when she will wake up.

In an instant, I remembered what Ainsel had said before entering the room.

“…Are you really okay?”

-…Yes, it’s okay. And, I have you, right?

…I couldn’t stay still like this.

She had to somehow allow Ainsel to regain her consciousness. Because Ainsel trusted me and took responsibility. So, as much as Ainsel believed in me, she had to do something of her for Ainsel.

I once again made a large magic candy and handed it to Sylphy. Sylphy nodded her head broadly as if she knew what I was going to ask, and she flew off with the candy and looked at me.

-There are two ways to fix an cell.

Sylphy turned her head to look at Ainsel, then she let out a small sigh. She then looked at me again and continued the story.

– The first is the ‘death’ of the other person. If the rag doll who put the contract on Ainsel dies, maybe it will take Ainsel her time, but she will open her eyes slowly.

The words, ‘It will take time,’ gave her an uncomfortable feeling like a fishbone stuck in her throat. It was said that the time between fairies and humans was different, so no one knew how long that time would be.

And a rag doll? Come to think of it, Sylphy called Aurora in that room ‘a rag doll covered with the corpse of Ryananshi’.

“A rag doll?”

-That’s right, she’s the woman who strangled the baby. Call it a rag doll, what do you call it? It will all rot and die anyway, so I think the first method would be good too.

“Now, wait a minute, what? Die you know? Force her soul to be patched up?”

As I continued to ask questions, Sylphy put on a puzzled expression as if it were annoying. But, she passed on then she was crazy but not now. I needed an explanation of what the heck that was.

I made two magic candies this time and handed them out to Sylphy. Then, Sylphy glared at me with an even more sullen expression.

“…One more?”

-…Two more.

It was the first time I used so much mana, so I was dizzy, but I gathered the mana in my body as much as I could and created two more in the shape of large candy canes.

Looking at the four candies in the palm of her hand, Sylphy smiled and spun once in the air before sitting down between the candies in my palm.

-First of all, to explain the rag doll, that woman is not a fairy in the first place. She is like an ‘artificial fairy’ created for someone’s bad taste. She called it a rag doll that opened the existence of the corpse of Ryanashi and the soul of a human being sewn together.

…Aurora referred to a third party at that time, saying, ‘According to someone’s words’. Did she know that someone had told Aurora about her fairies? And that someone made Aurora like a rag doll?

As I was lost in my thoughts, Sylphy climbed onto my palm and squeezed one of my fingers. The moment she felt Sylphy’s fingertips, temperature, body scent, and other things, Sylphy continued her story.

-At that time, Aga couldn’t touch her, right? That’s the difference between a fairy and a ghost. A witch can touch a fairy, but she cannot touch a ghost, a spiritual being.

So at that time, even though she struggled with her hand, she couldn’t hold her brother Laura’s arm. Now that she understood the situation, she automatically nodded.

-And those ‘ambiguous beings’ don’t live long anyway. Perhaps it was Ryanan’s ‘meal method’ that kept it alive on blood and spirits, but that will soon come to an end.

Tsk tsk, her tongue tucked away, her Sylphy sipping a large piece of candy before she let out a sigh.

-In the first place, the word ‘become one’ must have been tricked by someone malicious. If blood and spirit are gathered in one place, will they become one? That’s not even funny.

“…Are you saying there was no way for us to become one in the first place?”

Sylphy laughed at my question.

-The way Lianan City eats is just a ‘meal’. Just as a baby eats when it is hungry, Lia Nanxi simply swallows the blood and spirit from the prey that gave it talent when it is hungry. It’s just such a simple ‘meal’, nothing more or less than that.

“Then, what happens to the soul in the corpse after the meal in Ryanan City…?”

Sylphy got up from her seat and started spinning around me again, flying up into the sky. As if he said something he didn’t want to say in his mouth, it was a bonus to pretend to vomit.

-The god of death will drag you to the underworld. There will never be anything to do with rag dolls.

That story made me frown. Then, as Aurora said, it meant that there would never be a way for them to be “Together.” I was fooled by someone’s sweet lies and ended up just playing around.

When I made an annoyed expression, Sylphy fixed my eyebrows as if telling me not to make such an expression. Sylphy smiled softly as she gently touched her frown.

-So, that’s the second way to fix Ainsel.

Sylphy flew up to my dresser and opened the drawer. Sylphy entered the drawer and pulled out a letter from deep inside and handed it to me.

At that time, the white owl handed over the ‘Curven invitation.’

-Leisure I heard that there is a ‘doctor’ who treats fairies in ‘Kubn’. She has never met Yeo, but other fairies have boasted to Yeo that they went there and healed their wounds.

“A witch… A doctor who treats fairies?”

Until now, the image of a witch for me has been hardened into the image of a wicked witch like ‘Vivian’. But she is a witch who treats fairies as a ‘doctor’.

Could it be that there really is such a thing as a good witch?

-The witch’s name is…

I listened closely and focused on Sylphy’s words.

Because if there is such a thing as a really good witch, I want to meet it at least once. However, when I heard the witch’s name, I couldn’t help but open her eyes wide and round.

-They say it’s ‘Frankenstein’.

“……What?”

The ‘Frankenstein’ I know?

*

In the room where the king was hiding, Aurora was preparing his last meal.

Saying that the time for the last meal has finally arrived, Aurora even hums and sweeps the nape of the king possessed by her corpse. Now, if you stick your fangs here for the last time and suck blood.

-Haa… Finally, we can be together. Your majesty.

Aurora did not delay any longer.

Opening her huge mouth, she raised her fangs and plunged her teeth into the neck of the possessed king. Her skin wasn’t pierced, but somehow blood was sucked up through her teeth.

Chilled, tasteless blood and cold energy that doesn’t feel like passion. It was a tasteless and repulsive meal, but Aurora sucked it in even more forcefully, not allowing even a single drop to remain.

Her body trembled every time she swallowed her blood. Her corpse, which grew colder and colder and could no longer be cooled, raised her trembling hands and tried to touch Aurora’s face.

Ah, finally.

Your Majesty is finally seeing me.

Aurora was so thrilled that she swallowed her blood. Now, take a sip. Swallowing just one last sip was like sucking all the blood and essence out of this corpse.

The moment her mouth was filled with her blood and spirit, she begged in a cracked voice. At the last moment, she whispered as if she were leaving her will, like someone who knew she was going to die.

“I can’t see… I can’t… Aurora…”

Gulp.

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Aurora swallowed the last of her spirit in her mouth, then looked down at her helpless corpse with her eyes closed. Now, Aurora shed tears as she rejoiced at the moment when she became one with her Majesty, just as ‘that person’ said.

But.

-Your Majesty…?

Even after a while, no voice was heard. I could no longer hear His Majesty’s warmth, gaze, or voice. Aurora looked down at her own corpse on the floor.

Even Aurora felt her own body melt away. Her arms, which had been caressing her corpse, rotted away and she suddenly fell to the floor.

-Uh…? Why…?

The decayed parts of her body increased over time. Her arm fell, and this time her toe collapsed as if it were collapsing. Thinking something was wrong with her, Aurora cried out to her majesty.

-Your Majesty…! Your majesty…! Where are you! Your majesty…!

According to ‘that person’, she must have been by my side, His Majesty. Obviously, ‘that person’ said. If we suck His Majesty’s blood, we can live happily in ‘Fairy Land’ forever.

-Why, no! This is not it! Your majesty!! Your majesty!!!

Both of his hands had already fallen off, and his legs were crushed except for his left foot. His body began to crack, and he could no longer fly, so he had to crawl on the ground.

-Ah, no…! This is not what I was hoping for…! You said! We will truly become one…! You’re the one who said that you support our love!

Aura Laura, who crawled across the floor to her own corpse, howled. Saying that this is not, that this is a lie, she sobbed and rolled on the floor.

-It’s all you’ve helped me up until now… But why… Why are you doing this… I, I… Just… Just the two of you…

Aurora, crawling on the ground like a caterpillar, lifted her head and howled. Feeling her body rotting away, Aurora curled up over her own corpse.

-Your Majesty, Your Majesty… My, please open your eyes. Please, my-

Jerking, as she spoke, her jaw dropped. Aurora only wept her tears at the fact that she could no longer call on the one she loved. Her jaw fell off, and her tongue was pulled out by the root.

Crash, crumble.

The last person Laura, who was becoming her particle, thought of her, was neither the person she loved nor the person she hated, but the figure of ‘that person’ who helped and deceived her.

She has black hair, as dark as the night sky, like her own.

She is a woman with deep, dark eyes like the abyss.

What on earth did she do wrong, did she have to be treated like this?

Aurora couldn’t understand it, so she just shed her tears.

So Aurora, her entire body rotted away, died in her clouded consciousness, crying out her beloved Majesty and her own resentment until the end of her life.

No one was alive in her room anymore.

Only two of her corpses were left in the room.