Cecily was known as a fashionista in Freesia. This was because Cariote would take Cecily around town every weekend to show her off to people. Cecily also enjoyed being admired by others. So Cecily always kept an eye on the latest fashion trends and styles.
Even when Naru or Hina enjoyed getting dirty playing in the soil, Cecily would always elegantly watch her sisters from a distance with a parasol. When Naru, covered in mud, tried to run and hug Cecily in excitent, Cecily would often get angry like a cat spotting an intruder, puffing up her hair.
“You’ll get my dress dirty!”
Of course, Naru didn’t care whether Cecily got angry or not and hugged her anyway. That’s the kind of fashionista Cecily was.
But today, this sa Cecily was taking the initiative to dig in the ground. I watched her digging in the garden with a small trowel and asked.
“What are you trying to bury? The map you drew on the blanket last ti?” “No! And I told you that wasn’t drawing a map, it was Molumolu knocking over a cup of water!”
Cecily was like a very fierce cat. Of course, while she might shout like this, she was actually sowhat timid and caring beneath her prim exterior. Anyway, Cecily continued digging in the garden with the trowel.
Soon Naru and Hina appeared and started helping Cecily dig wildly in the garden, and everyone ca out to watch this scene.
“Why are you digging holes? They’re definitely trying to bury Sifnoi… Eek…!”
Sifnoi trembled in fear. The year the children turned five. When the children were at their most mischievous, they had once made a pit trap to catch nymphs. It was a very basic trap, just a hole covered with bushes. But Sifnoi, not knowing anything, had walked right into it and fallen in. That mory seed to have been quite traumatic for Sifnoi.
“Judas, did you teach the kids sothing weird?”
Brigitte looked at with drowsy eyes. She seed to think I had convinced the children to do sothing strange. Of course, in this case, I was innocent. Because I really hadn’t done anything at all.
Rustle- Rustle- Rustle— The children kept digging up the garden whether the adults were watching or not. Naru even put down her trowel and started digging with her hands.
Rustle- Rustle- Rustle- Rustle- Rustle- Rustle- Rustle- Rustle- Rustle—
“……”
Aren’t they digging too enthusiastically? The ground must be quite hard to dig since it’s winter and frozen solid. Watching this scene, Cariote made a worried “Hmm…” sound while looking at the increasingly darkening sky. Cariote approached Cecily and said.
“Cecily, it’s going to snow soon. I don’t know what kind of ga you’re trying to play, but your new shoes and dress are getting dirty with soil. There’s dust on your face too.” “……”
Cecily seed too focused to hear Cariote’s words. Cariote looked at Cecily worriedly and added.
“Didn’t you say nobles should maintain a clean and beautiful appearance? Cecily, are you sure it’s okay to do sothing so unnoble-like?” “Even gold buried in mud remains gold, so no matter how much dirt and dust gets on , my beauty won’t be tarnished!”
It was certainly true. But Cariote found it quite strange to hear such words from Cecily who usually hated getting dirt on her hands. Though at the sa ti, she seed sowhat moved.
“Then maybe we can go hunting together again!”
Clang— Just then, there was a sound of sothing hard hitting Cecily’s trowel. I thought maybe she had hit a rock, but Naru was the first to react to this sound.
“That’s the sound of pottery! As soone who has broken lots of pottery, Naru knows the sound of breaking pottery better than anyone!”
Naru was a pottery master. She loved breaking all kinds of pottery. Because of this, Brigitte had taken up pottery making as a hobby to make pottery for Naru to break. According to Brigitte, “It was difficult at first but now it’s quite fun.” As a side note, Brigitte’s pottery was of such high quality that connoisseurs would pay good prices for them. Brigitte’s pottery was one of the main sources of inco for our odds-and-ends mansion.
“Let’s… dig together!”
Hina showed enthusiasm. As Naru, Hina, and Cecily all gathered to dig together, they could see sothing like a small jar buried in the ground. They pulled it out, dusted off the dirt, and emptied its contents onto the ground.
Thud— Sothing old and worn fell out of the jar. It was a small and humble scroll, much smaller than the jar’s size would suggest.
“Wow, holy shh! It’s a scroll!” “Very suspicious…”
While Naru and Hina each showed their reactions, Cecily also exclaid “Ah!” as if rembering sothing. Cecily quickly unfolded the scroll and finally shouted even louder.
“I rember now! This scroll, it’s the one that was supposed to be opened when we turned 7! The scroll with the 7th birthday present written on it! I just rembered!”
That’s right. I knew about what was in that jar. Though it was already a story from 7 years ago.
“Has that much ti passed already.”
Even I had been starting to forget about it amid the waves of daily life. It was quite surprising that Cecily had rembered it.
# # #
Rustle— Cecily returned to the secret base and unfolded the scroll. Then they could see sothing quite peculiar written inside the scroll.
“This scroll originated in the ancient kingdom of Babylon and has brought luck to its recipients as it traveled around the world once a year, and now it has been passed to you—?”
It was strange writing. Soon Naru and Hina also gathered around the scroll spread on the table and read the letters.
An ancient secret treasure is said to be buried sowhere in Freesia. To find it, you must pass four mysterious trials.However, our expedition only discovered the first trial - that you must find the ‘Chicken Holding the Sun’ in the nearby Provence village.
That was all that was written. Rather than a map, it seed like a mysterious secret docunt. Since it seed like a well-made secret docunt, Hina, Naru, and Cecily were pleased.
“Wow, holy shh! There must be an amazing treasure hidden!” “Maybe ancient gold… from the kingdom of Babylon…”
While Naru and Hina were having hopeful thoughts, Cecily examined the scroll further. There didn’t seem to be any secret chanisms or hidden text.
“It’s getting late today, so let’s go to Provence village when the sun rises tomorrow!”
And so the next day. The children dressed warmly and headed to Provence village in the morning. Hina knew Provence village well. After all, Hina had once operated there under the na ‘Priestess of Gluttony’.
“Chicken holding the sun…”
Hina kept muttering the hint under her breath. That’s when Naru appeared. Naru was holding a large chicken in her hands.
“Could this be the chicken holding the sun?”
━Kot- Kotkot-
Staaaare-
“……”
Hina silently looked at the chicken. It just looked like an ordinary white hen. Soon Naru said.
“Let’s cut open its belly to see if it’s holding the sun!”
━Kot- Kotkot-
The chicken, sensing death, started struggling frantically. Naru let go of the chicken while giggling.
“Just kidding!”
Flutter— The chicken escaping. Soon Naru went around Provence village and brought another bird. It was a white goose. The goose in Naru’s arms was very docile. The Provence villagers smiled slightly seeing Naru who had suddenly appeared and caught chickens and geese. It was because Naru holding the goose looked very cute.
“Could this be the ‘Chicken Holding the Sun’?”
Hina and Cecily shook their heads at Naru’s question.
“Probably… not.”
All the children fell into thought. What could the chicken holding the sun be?
“Children.”
Among the villagers watching the pondering children, an old man with a white beard raised his cane and pointed at a building.
“If you have questions, why don’t you ask the 「Priestess of Gluttony」? The priestess sotis appears in this village to solve difficult problems!”
Priestess of Gluttony. It was an interesting story. The children followed the path the old man showed and stood in front of a house. It was just an ordinary looking house, but what was unique was that there was a sun and chicken design drawn in front of the door. It showed a chicken standing inside a large sun. Seeing this, Naru suddenly shouted.
“This must be the chicken holding the sun!” “No, isn’t this a sun holding a chicken?”
Just as Cecily was wondering, Hina opened the door of the house feeling like she might rember sothing.
Creeak— An easily opening door. Soon they could see a beautiful woman sitting inside, wrapped in veils all over her body. She gave off a very mysterious impression. She literally looked like a fortune teller or priestess. Naru raised her hand suddenly and shouted.
“Salo!” “…I am not Salo. I am a naless, mysterious and beautiful wanderer. So little ladies, what business brings you to this humble fortune teller?”
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The woman asked softly and gently. The children were all overwheld by the woman’s mysterious atmosphere as if they had entered a fairy tale, and Hina, who especially loved magical and mysterious things, was even excited.
“Priestess! Magician! Scroll!”
Swoosh— Hina held out the mysterious ancient treasure scroll to the veiled /genesisforsaken
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