“Dad, I hate you!”
Cecily curled up in her blanket, fuming with anger.She was soone who had always been adored and treated preciously by people wherever she went.
If Cecily were to say, “Bring the moon,” people would normally at least pretend to fetch it for her.But Judas, her father, who should have been the first to grant Cecily’s wishes, had refused her request.
“…I even massaged your shoulders!”
Cecily’s begging technique, 500x Filial Piety.In her mind, it was an incredibly powerful technique that could defeat any opponent.It was clearly a move that would deal massive damage, especially to blood relatives, but as expected, her dad wasn’t so easily swayed.
“…Fuck!”
She resolved not to speak another word to him from now on.As she was swallowing her anger with such thoughts,
“Fuck!”
Soone echoed Cecily’s curse in a small voice.Who else could be in this room besides her?Startled, Cecily threw off her blanket and got up.
“Is soone there?”
As she walked around the spacious room in her slippers,Knock— Knock—Soone tapped on Cecily’s window.When she turned, she saw a flower blooming in the moonlight beyond the glass.
“A flower?”“It’s , Cecily! Open the window!”
The voice was oddly familiar.When she opened the window, a child about Cecily’s age with a flower on her head Poof— entered the room. Then Whoosh— she hugged Cecily, releasing a fragrant flower scent.
“You are…”“It’s ! lody! Cecily’s friend!”
lody!Cecily rembered her too!The Childrake lody she t that day in Pandemonium!
“lody! Weren’t you only able to live in Pandemonium’s Dark Forest?”
Surprised, Cecily looked lody over. She saw her familiar blonde hair with a large flower like a ribbon, and those red eyes.However, unlike her previous outfit of leaves and vines, this ti she wore a leather skirt and shirt, as if an ordinary country girl had dressed up.She looked remarkably human.The flower in her hair seed like a pretty decoration.
“Cecily, I missed you so much, I had to co see you!”
lody smiled, Hehe—.Cecily recalled her mories with lody. Though many were terrifying, the Childrake lody was Cecily’s first friend from the wild.
“Cecily, I heard you saying you hated soone. Should lody punish them? lody is strong! When that bright light shot into the sky recently, lody got even stronger! Now I can go to places other than the Dark Forest!”
lody clenched her fist.Cecily seed to now understand how lody had escaped the forest, but she had to shake her head.
“The person is too strong for you to punish! It’s my dad!”“Dad? Then there’s nothing we can do. Actually, lody used to fight with Dad often too. I’d say ‘I won’t talk to Dad—‘ just like that! Whenever I said that, Dad always listened to what I was saying!”“Really?”
Cecily found it interesting that lody had sothing in common with her. She was also surprised that lody had a dad, having thought she was an orphan.But thinking about it, it wasn’t so strange.Everyone born into this world has a mom and dad, after all.
lody said.
“You know, lody wanted a bluebird! But Dad said he didn’t have money, so he couldn’t buy one. He said he’d get a sparrow instead.”
lody rembered a ti long ago.The days when she longed for a bluebird.The promised sparrow was, as expected, ordinary and boring, so she didn’t like it.Like always, lody said “I won’t talk to Dad!” and ran out of the house.If she wandered around for about half a day and returned ho, Dad would surely say “lody, I’m sorry” and present her with a bluebird, as always.But that day, it didn’t happen.
While wandering the streets, lody was caught by bad people who planted a flower on her head.Fortunately or unfortunately, when a pillar of black light shot high into the sky, all the bad people died, and lody barely managed to escape.When she finally returned ho, among the broken debris, lody found a rusted birdcage and a letter from her Dad.“lody, I bought the bluebird. Where are you now?”Contrary to the letter’s contents, there was no bluebird in the cage.Where could it have flown?
“lody really couldn’t talk to Dad anymore. It makes sad to think about it! But after crying so much, I can’t even shed tears anymore!”“……”
Cecily shed a few tears listening to lody’s story. She understood well the pain of being separated from one’s parent.Suddenly, Cecily felt a little scared, wondering what would happen if she really couldn’t talk to him after getting angry and saying she wouldn’t.Of course, it was a needless worry.Cecily’s dad was the strongest in the world, so he no longer had any enemies.Cecily, her heart softening a bit, complained to lody.
“But, Cecily wanted to et her maternal grandmother, and Dad said no. Even though grandmother has passed away, I thought Dad could sohow make it happen…”“…Cecily, do you want to et soone who has died?”
lody asked.Her voice was sowhat subtle and eerie.
“lody actually knows how to et dead people. lody studied hard because I wanted to et Dad too! But it’s a difficult task.”“You know how?”“Cecily, have you heard of ‘other worlds’? Actually, this world isn’t by itself, but made up of dinsions of many other worlds. There are lots of different worlds! Though lody hasn’t actually seen them.”
At the ntion of ‘other worlds’, Cecily thought of where her paternal grandparents had lived. A world with apartnts and strange cars traveling on straight roads.It was a world that Cecily quite liked for its orderly appearance.
lody continued,
“I overheard bad n talking about it long ago. They said when a person dies, their soul goes to these different other worlds! They beco residents there and live on. If we want to et dead people, we have to go to these other worlds! But they said it’s extrely difficult!”
lody emphasized how extrely difficult it was.And those words were the absolute truth.After all, lody had tried many tis to go to this other world to et her Dad, but always failed.But when the black light split the sky again recently, lody beca strong enough to leave the Dark Forest without struggle.And with Cecily’s help, it might not be impossible to reach the other world.Of course, it would still be difficult, if not still impossible.
“…What’s this thod you’re talking about?”
Cecily asked lody.lody quietly recalled her mories. The easiest way to go to the other world was to lose one’s life. But lody didn’t want her friend Cecily to die.So the second thod should be used.
“We open a door with a spell! lody has opened the door a few tis. But there were terrifying guardians protecting it, so I couldn’t cross over…”“I’m good at sneaking around! Let’s try going!”
Cecily exclaid.lody nodded, then took flowers from a nearby vase and poured the water on the floor to complete a circular magic circle.
# # #
“Cecily, it’s ti to go to the plains. You need to wake up.”
Knock— Knock—, Knock— Knock— Knock—Cariote knocked on Cecily’s door.It was unusual for Cecily to oversleep, as she usually woke up on her own without needing to be roused.
“Cecily?”
Click—When Cariote opened the door and entered,Cecily was nowhere to be seen.Even when asking the mansion’s staff, they just shook their heads, saying they didn’t know where she had gone.Of course, I had an idea of where Cecily had disappeared to.
Swish—With a light gesture, the water droplets that had evaporated into the air regained their form and stuck to the floor.It was a magic circle.
“Cariote, this is the troubleso and annoying thod I ntioned yesterday.”“……”
Cariote was a woman with good intuition.She seed to have noticed that sothing unexpected had happened. After opening the window, Cariote also realized that soone had entered Cecily’s room from outside.
“…A demon? It’s a creature with a small presence. Because Dina was here, we didn’t notice a small demon infiltrating the mansion! Dina, it’s your fault! It’s because your presence is unnecessarily imposing!”
Slap—Cariote slapped her younger sister’s back with her palm.Of course, Dina, who had been standing still, protested, “How is this my fault? That’s unfair!” Dina looked at .
“Judas… no, Brother-in-law! Say sothing! You actually knew Cecily had disappeared, right?”“Well, you know.”
I knew that a small being had approached Cecily. It was a being without malice and full of goodwill towards her.In other words, it was like Naru’s friend Elizabeth, and Hina’s friend Horohoro. It was probably Cecily’s friend.So I just left her alone.
Of course, I was also slightly flustered now.Who would have thought the little ones would cross the ‘dinsional wall’.Although I had transcended, I wasn’t at the level of seeing through everything in this mortal world, so I didn’t think this would happen.I’m just a pseudo-god, not a real one after all.But well, I wasn’t worried.
“Molumolu is in Cecily’s shadow. Nothing bad will happen.”
Molumolu was one of the strongest among the various Demiurges.I don’t know why Molumolu, born from children’s toys, is so strong, but its power was enough to seal Nocturne alone for several hours, which had taken 12 Demiurges working together to seal before.With Molumolu around, Cecily wouldn’t co to any harm.Still, it was a bit troubleso.I’ll have to make an unscheduled dinsional trip.
“They say the well-behaved cat climbs onto the kitchen stove first. Cariote, let’s go.”1
1. Basically the idea that the quiet ones are the most dangerous.
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