I Raised Snow White!

03. The Mad Queen Talking to the Mirror (2)

[Episode 3] – The Mad Queen Talking to the Mirror (2)

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After some time passed, the ‘mirror’ in the form of Vivian, who seemed to have no energy to cry anymore, was lying on the floor, trying hard to avoid my gaze except rounding her body like a bean worm.

She had the appearance of a ferocious Vivian that was scary to even look at, but her actions were childish. How on earth did Vivian bully her, how could she start a fight like this with just one word?

“Whoa… Mirror? Mirror? I don’t know what to call you… Would you like to hear my story first?”

-……

“…First of all, I didn’t call you with the intention of getting your appearance evaluated. I just said that because I can’t think of any other way to call you.”

-…Really?

Only then did the ‘mirror’, which had crouched over her body, raise its head and met her eyes. I didn’t miss this moment and spoke to the mirror in the softest and most soothing way possible.

“Sure. I called you because I needed help. Unlike ‘that woman’ who only used you to evaluate your appearance, I really need your help.”

-……

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“You know what happened to me..? To be honest, I’m so confused right now about this situation. When I open my eyes, it is a funeral hall… When I came to my senses, I saw that I was in this woman’s body…”

On second thought, I was even more confused.

I decided to accept this reality, but I still haven’t accepted everything. If I had memories of ‘Vivian’, I would have accepted it much more comfortably…

No memory of Vivian remained in this body.

All I remember is that this world was a ‘parenting simulation game’. However, that alone was not enough to live with Vivian’s body.

So, I needed something to fill the void of help that memory gave me. For example… ‘Someone’ who has been by Vivian’s side for a long time and knows her every move.

“Please. Can you help me?”

I desperately asked the mirror.

Now, the only person I can trust and rely on is this mirror.

To what extent was my sincerity conveyed? Mirror, which crawled on the floor curled up, now cradled his knees in his arms and looked up at me. However, he has not yet been able to lift his eyes of suspicion.

-…Ainsell.

“Yes?”

-My name is Ainsel, not Mirror. She is the irreplaceable servant of ‘Vivian, the witch of the Coven’ and a mirror fairy.

Fairies.

Hearing the word fairy, I could feel that I was possessed by this world. Shall we call it spiritism? In this world, various fairies and spirits existed.

Fairies are beings who seduce humans with sweet words, play pranks on them, and sometimes help those they like. It was explained in the game.

The ‘Seven Dwarfs’ who later helped Snow White belonged to this category. If it was a dwarf, I thought of a stocky being with a bushy beard, but these dwarfs were small and cute, perhaps because they were fairies.

‘Will there be a day to meet you later..?’

And beings that can share and handle ‘contracts’ with such fairies and spirits are called ‘witch’. Ordinary people feared the existence of witches who commanded fairies because they could not see fairies.

In addition to Vivian, another witch appeared in the game. Well, he’s the one who meets the princess only in the second half.

Anyway, that’s not important right now.

I smiled at Ainsel and held out my hand to the mirror as if to shake hands. The mirror didn’t have hands, so I couldn’t shake hands, but my intentions seemed to have been conveyed.

“Please take good care of me. Ainsell.”

-…You can stop talking to me. I get goosebumps when I see him use respectful words with that face.

“…Please take good care of me. Ainsell.”

Wow-

As if seeing Vivian using honorifics with her face was really disgusting, Ainsel retched again. What kind of relationship did Ainsel and Vivian have to make Ainsel react like this?

-But aren’t you surprised? By any chance, did you already know that I am a fairy?

Awkward.

Unbeknownst to me, my shoulders were shaking.

Ainsel asked me, tilting her head in wonder. What do we do? Should I tell her that she already knew?

As far as I know, this world was a game? So what you know about fairies, and that you can predict the future to some degree?

I closed my eyes tightly.

After letting out a small sigh, I answered Ainsel’s question.

“…That, I think I saw it in a dream. When I heard the story, it seemed that I vaguely remembered it.? Ho, could this be Vivian’s memories..?”

-Well? It’s the first time I’ve seen anything like you, so I can’t give you an exact answer.

As a result of my quick head rolling, I decided that there was no need to talk and scratch to make a boil. Even if someone later asks me, ‘How do you know about this?’, I can just answer ‘I saw it in a dream.’

“Ah, anyway..! It’s really difficult because the memories don’t come back perfectly. Because I have no idea how Vivian was normally as queen, and what kind of people she was friends with.”

-Vivian doesn’t have any friends?

“…There can be at least one person..?”

-No? Vivian has no friends.

I felt a bit sad and bitter at the words of Ainsel who spoke so firmly. Vivian, who is known for being a b*tch even in games, doesn’t even have friends…

Unlike me who was bitter, Ainsel didn’t lose her smile even while swearing at her Vivian. Rather, she looked at me with a smirk as if she had been relieved of a thousand sorrows.

“Yes, yes. Then I’m worried about the way I talk. Right now, everyone thinks I have ‘amnesia’… but I can’t pretend I lost my memory forever.”

-I’m sure… Vivian doesn’t speak like you. She’s a bit more arrogant, uses an off-topic tone and acts like she has no place above herself.

Certainly, Vivian in the game felt that way.

She is infinitely arrogant, overly selfish, cheekier than a king, cunning like a snake, and meaner than anyone else. That was the image of Vivian in my mind.

-Hmm…

As if thinking hard about something, Ainsel stroked his chin with his finger, then he clenched his fists tightly as if making a promise and looked at me.

-Okay, you. Um… It’s hard to call her, so I’ll just call her Vivian from now on. I’ll stay here anyway, so I’ll help you until my job is done.

“Really?”

-Sure! Fairies don’t lie.

After receiving the confirmation of helping, her worried mind went down. It’s a condition of setting a period, but what’s the point of helping? I sighed in a relieved mood and lay down on the bed as if toppling over.

‘Now I can ask what I wanted to ask.’

I jumped up from the bed and looked at Ainsel and asked what I wanted to ask from the beginning. What the hell happened to the body of ‘Vivian’ in the first place, and why I am here.

“Then can you tell me? What the hell happened to Vivian? And how the hell did you recognize me right away?”

-That’s right…

As if contemplating what to say, Ainsel narrowed her eyes and looked down at her. And she seemed to hesitate for a moment, then looked straight at me again.

-Because I was watching Vivian die.

“What?”

I furrowed my forehead involuntarily at that answer. Ainsel let out a small sigh and continued the story.

-Vivian was a very jealous person. He was selfish, he was greedy. What he thought he wanted was a human being who had to have it unconditionally.

For the first time, Ainsel made a bitter expression when he thought of Vivian. Whenever she talked about Vivian, Ainsel, who always frowned at her or stuck out her tongue, put on a look of pity.

-In a way, he’s a great person. Because it was Vivian who rose to the position of queen of a country only with that jealousy and greed. However, as a result, no one considers Vivian her queen.

“…”

-Anyway… Vivian, who was overly greedy, ended up coveting even what she could never have. What do you think it might be?

I was troubled by the sudden question.

In the game, the opponent Vivian was jealous of was ‘Snow White’. Princess looks, princess personality, princess face. Vivian was jealous and envious of everything about the princess.

Vivian, who was so jealous of the princess, eventually came to the conclusion that if he couldn’t have it, he had to get rid of it in front of her eyes.

That was the reason why the princess kept dying in the game and the reason why the parenting simulation game was turned into a roguelike game.

Come to think of it, during the training event-

“Couldn’t it be… the other person who was jealous..?”

Ainsel gave a fishy laugh at my answer.

As if that was the correct answer.

-That’s right, the other side. Vivian wanted to be the person she was jealous of. I was jealous of the other person’s appearance, the other person’s voice, and if that wasn’t enough, the other person’s life itself.

“……”

As expected, it was an event that happened in the game as well.

Vivian, who was jealous of ‘Snow White’, performs a ritual using a curse to switch bodies with the princess.

However, there was no need to stop Vivian at this event.

After all, it was a lottery-like event where Vivian would self-destruct. It was an event that appeared with extreme odds so that the number of people who saw this event did not exceed 5 times in more than 340 trainings.

If you only saw this event, the game was easy enough to take for granted the happy ending.

“So… Vivian was jealous of the princess and tried to switch bodies with the princess, and the ritual failed, so I possessed it… You mean?”

– Yes? Are you a princess?

Ainsel opened his eyes wide as if surprised by my words, but waved his hand as if he wasn’t.

Isn’t Snow White the one Vivian was jealous of?

-The human that Vivian was jealous of is the first queen.

“The first queen?”

-Yes, Vivian was jealous and envious of the first queen who was loved by the king. Then, in the end, he failed because he performed a ‘body-changing ritual’ that was nothing short of a curse. That’s why Vivian died. Maybe… This is why you entered Vivian’s body.

After hearing all of Ainsel’s story, I shut his mouth and fell into deep trouble. Because it was a little different story from what I know.

‘The first queen? No way..?’

In the first place, the reason Vivian was able to become the second queen was because of the death of her first queen.

When the pathetic king declared that he would not bring in a new queen, the council of elders pleaded with the king, shouting extreme opposition.

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‘Please! Please let in the new queen!’

Since there is only one heir to the princess, it was because he needed a queen to give birth to a prince. It was Vivian who penetrated the gap, harmed her numerous rivals, and became her second queen.

So, the story of Ainsel was quite different from the story I knew.

Neither the person Vivian was jealous of nor the person Vivian bet her ceremony on, because she was her daughter, Snow White, not the first queen.

‘Couldn’t it be that the first queen isn’t dead? How could she get Vivian to become her queen when her first queen is alive and well? The king… What is his condition now?’

Smart.

As she thought, her head wrapped around her head as if it were going to burst, she heard a loud knock on the door.

I wasn’t even told to come in, but a maid who showed a lot of annoyance came in and opened her mouth almost as if informing.

“His Excellency the Prime Minister requested an audience with Her Highness the Queen.”

“A chancellor?”

Why is the chancellor suddenly…?