My mother hugged tightly. Mother’s back was burned by the gray flas, but she still looked at with a smile. Seeing my mother’s smile, I didn’t feel calm. I was getting more and more scared, afraid that my mother would leave this ti. Mother fell beside , the fire still burning on her back trying to burn my mother.
“No!! Mom, mom I don’t want you to leave too.”
“No Alice, don’t co here!!”
I tried to approach my mother. But she pushed away, Mother was afraid that I would be hit by a fire on her back.
Mother had a painful expression, beads of sweat showing on her face. But she seed to persevere, without showing any pain in her back, she tried to endure this even if it hurt.
A mother who has taken care of , a mother who has given love, a mother who has protected from any danger that will befall . Mother is the most precious person I have, but right now she looks miserable. If she will die too I can’t accept it I don’t want sothing like this to happen I will feel guilty for the rest of my life.
I stood up, looking at the robed man with hatred. I couldn’t do anything but follow what the robed man asked.
“Just take !! I want you to let go my mom,”
“Alice!! Do not do it,”
Mother tried to stop my decision, but because of the pain, she was receiving from the gray fire. She couldn’t even stand up properly. I just looked at my mother with a smile. This ti I will protect mother, I don’t want anything terrible to happen to her.
“Hehehe, that’s a good choice, little girl, co here,”
The man said while snapping his fingers, the fire on my mother’s back disappeared after that. Seeing my mother’s current state, I feel relieved. I suddenly felt the robed man, lifting my body on his shoulders.
I didn’t rebel at all, because if I did, I was afraid he would hurt my mother again.
“Alice!!, don’t take Alice away!!”
I looked at my mother, smiling but tears falling down my cheeks. Mother tried to get up, but it was all in vain. She couldn’t get up properly because of the wound on her back.
“Goodbye,”
The robed man said, then he bring to jump onto the roof of a house. It seems he took to the town center, I knew it from the direction the robed man was heading. I don’t know what the robed man wants from .
….
We are currently in the town center, here it looks more crowded than where we lived earlier. Here we can see a big tree, in the middle of town. The tree is very tall, maybe about 100 ters. The man took off his shoulder when he arrived here, it seems he didn’t want anyone to know, he kidnapped .
I felt like calling soone for help, but that man threatened , he would kill my mother if I scread. I felt hope for soone to save was gone.
“Do you know, You have innate skills? That’s why I kidnapped you and brought you here.” The robed man looked at the tree in the middle of town.
“I don’t know at all,” I answered expressionlessly.
“That’s right, no one knows if soone has an innate skill, even owner himself, it takes sothing to awaken it, except for nobles, they are already confird to have an innate skill, isn’t that unfair?”
“….”
I don’t know what to answer for this problem, because for family is the only thing that matters to .
“But our group just discovered a thod to find the owner of an innate skill, we also found a thod to awaken it.”
The man explained, even if he told , I don’t care at all. What’s the point of having an innate skill? If my own family is in danger.
“And now, I will help you, to awaken your innate skills,”
The man took sothing out of his robe, it was a red stone and oval in shape. The man held my face and put it on my forehead. This ti I could see the face behind the hood he was wearing. I will rember this man’s face until I grow up, that face will haunt for revenge.
“Good luck, if you survive, you will beco strong, maybe you can take your revenge on after that, hahahahah…”
The man said after that disappeared into the crowd. Suddenly I felt sothing hot enter through my head. I felt my mind torn and burned, then my body started to beco strange, I felt excruciating pain. I couldn’t stand the pain and scream.
“KYAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!”
The people around were shocked and turned their heads towards , they were scared when they saw . Vines grew from under . The stone road let out a cracking sound, after that giant roots like vines, ca out from there.
My body is wrapped in vines right now, people seeing my current state think I’m a monster. My body looks like a mummy wrapped in vines. I feel terrible pain in my body.
Guards started arriving trying to deal with the situation, but they were all butchered by the vines to death. In an instant entire town was almost covered in vines.
I saw that my hands were completely covered with vines, at every place on my body I felt a lot of pain, like the roots of a plant trying to unite with .
{P-please soone help , anyone}
I tried to walk but couldn’t, because the vines had tied up and lifted into the air. My voice sounded very strange at this ti, It sounded like a monster’s voice. People are looking at like a monster and the sound I make hear terrible. They got scared and ran in the opposite direction from .
{No!! Soone please, anyone help , it hurts, it is very painful, mom help }
…..
Sowhere, to be exact, where Mila was currently. She was currently sitting there like soone who had lost sothing precious in her life. Her eyes were like dead fish, she didn’t know what else to do now.
But suddenly there was chaos in the town, Mila tried to see what was going on. She looked towards the town center, the direction the robed man was going when carrying her daughter, there were vines that almost covered the entire town. She felt that these vines had sothing to do with her daughter. Mila was scared, she rushed over there to see what was going on.
Sure enough, after she arrived at the town center. She saw vines covering the entire building here. In middle, to be precise in the air, a mummy figure made of vines was seen being tied there.
The mummy’s eyes glowed red, however, Mila knew that this mummy was her daughter. She could feel the connection they had, even though her daughter looked like Monster.
“Alice!! No, what happened to you?”
Tears fell down Mila’s cheeks, she saw her daughter had beco a monster, couldn’t help but cry.
…..
I heard my mother’s voice, I looked down, from where I was.
{Mom? Help , this is so painful AAAHHHHHH…}
Mother climbed slowly using the thorny vines, to reach where I was. Mother’s body was covered with vines, but she struggled to save .
Arriving in front of , she hugged even though she knew my body was covered with thorny vines. I felt the feeling of pain in my body is replaced by a warm feeling. All the suffering I was experiencing seed to disappear.
“My daughter, I want you to stay alive, I don’t want you to suffer like this,”
{Mom!}
Mom looks at with a smile, her smile calms down. I feel protected now in my mother’s arms, all the vines on my body begin to disappear. I don’t feel pain anymore. Mom and I slowly fall down.
All the vines that covered the town, began to slowly beco weathered. I saw my mother who hugged but her face looked pale, when I looked again, her body was covered in blood.
“NO!! Mom what happened to you!?”
My mother lay smiling in my arms, tears falling down her cheeks. Her right hand touched my face. I can’t hold crying, looking at this.
“It’s not your fault, my daughter, I really want to see you beco a beautiful woman when you grow up, have a happy family and cute grandchildren,”
I cried hearing this, mother wiped tears from my eyes, she also smiled while crying. Seeing her daughter going to live without her parents was a painful thing in her life. But there was nothing she could do anymore, her body had reached its limit.
“NO MOM!! I don’t want this to happen, please mom, stay alive.”
I was crying really hard, but my mother just smiled at . I felt my heart shattered into many pieces, seeing my mother didn’t answer at all.
“Alice, I believe, one day you will surely find soone who will accept you as you are, he will be your family, he will protect you from harm, he will overco all your loneliness, but mom won’t be there to see it all. Alice, I hope you’ll live happily even after mom’s gone.”
“NO!!! MOM!! MOM!!!!”
Mother smiled, taking her last breath. Her eyes looked lifeless, but she still smiled even when she died. I felt that soone who had protected , cared for , ward was gone in this world.
“MOM!!!!!”
These were Alice’s worst mories, mories of the last ti she saw her parents smile. These mories would always bind her and haunt her until she grew up.
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SFX: Hido iyo…Hido iyo… Moo isso boku no karada o (Kokoronashi)
[A/N: Author
I didn’t think, making a chapter for Alice’s past would be so long.
I felt sad while making this chapter, you know. Even my tears are coming out T_T.
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