Chapter 191 – Chapter 184 – Dream Demon’s Daughter (3)

The woman called the hero opened her mouth with a cold expression.

“I won’t talk too long. Get out now.”

The woman, called Rabbit, raised red, bloodshot eyes from her cries.

“Why? Uh, there’s nothing I can do in the lab anymore.”

Like the white rabbit in a children’s book, her red eyes turned around.

“I put all the tools and materials in a box and sealed it so I couldn’t open it… All the plants that were there were withered.”

Potty had a badly cracked end.
She didn’t even clear her throat, staring at the pot of roses next to her.

“This rose too…”

The rose bushes in huge pots, the size of a flower bed, were discolored.

“This rose has also withered…”

Even to Ella, who doesn’t know much about plants, the black roses didn’t look like they were alive.

It was probably because the other adults didn’t visit often and the owner, Potty, was neglected because he had been bedridden for a long time.

In front of the corpse of the rose he cherished so much, Potty gritted his teeth.

“There is nothing that can be made here. But, you mean you can’t come to the lab on your own? Rather, the hero is…”

“Get out.”

As soon as the word hero came out, Karine’s cold words came out again.
But Potty didn’t lose and continued her words.

“Yo, the hero, please get out of my special room. I, yo, my lab that I couldn’t take care of because of the hero…”

“What do you mean?”

Ella lifted her head to Carine’s face, who interrupted her again.
Then she saw her expressionless face in her eyes.

“Is it because of me that you couldn’t take care of this place?”

Carine’s words contained only simple questions instead of emotions.
But to Ella right next to her, she was more frightening than her angry shouts.

Forty felt a bit embarrassed when she saw Karine’s face, but she soon calmed down and said with a more ferocious face than before.

“Because I had to lie down because I was sick!”

“It’s my fault that you fell down while touching El’s head…”

Unable to see Karine’s increasingly expressionless face, Ella hurriedly pulled her hand.

“Karine’s mother!”

Carine stopped her talking as Ella pulled her skirt.
She lowered her head to check on her child, then frowned and made a face.

Seeing her liveliness, Ella was rather relieved and waggled her tail.

“Are you here to pick up our stuff? What is it? Can’t we find Ella and Potty’s mom?”

Karine is one of the busiest adults here.
So I don’t know what it is, but I’ll have to find it and do something else.

Besides, Ella had reasons that worked for Carine and all of her other mothers.

“Shouldn’t you do what Dad asked for quickly?”

“Dad… ? Did you come here because of El’s request?”

Although the words were directed at Carine, Fortido raised one ear in response to Ella’s words.
Ella went on with her words, thinking that she could end up laughing this time too.

“Huh! Dad asks with a serious face…”

“Get out, Ella.”

At her sudden interruption, Ella widened her eyes.
As she hurriedly looked up at her, she met Carine’s blue eyes.

“It is too dangerous here. The heavy boxes are stacked higher than your height, and there are many things and plants that she shouldn’t touch.”

Karine said, gently releasing Ella’s hand from her darling and her clothes.

“If you get hurt, I’ll be in trouble for bringing you, right?”

“But Ella can avoid all of that!”

“Me…”

Karine gave her a slightly awkward smile after she cut her off briefly.
And Ella brought out the name she always had on her lips.

“Are you going to get her mother in trouble? Kari, your mother doesn’t intend to scold her father, do you?”

She’s speechless, like something is stuck in her throat, and her head feels like it’s getting tangled up.
I came up with several excuses to stay here, but at the same time I feel like they all disappear.

Since Ella was born, she tasted the first sensation.

“Come on, let’s go.”

Carine gently pushed Ella on the back.
Ella, pushed through the doorway, could only ask one question.

“What about Potty’s mom? Will Forty’s mom go looking for things together?”

Her strange insecurities prompted the question.
Carine was silent for a moment after being asked, then opened her mouth.

“See you tonight. Oh, and don’t go to Dad. You will be very busy.”

It was an odd answer, but Ella quietly shut her mouth.
The child stared at Carine, who walked him to her door and disappeared over her crate again.

Seeing her back, Ella felt intense anxiety.
Ella was only a little over five years old, though her sensitive childish intuition and her clever mind, inherited from her mother, warned her of danger.

In other words, because of her lack of experience, it is not clear what the hell is dangerous.

And children always want to fill in the lack of experience.

“Curious…”

Curiosity.

The particularly intelligent and curious girl swallowed her saliva and focused on her intense curiosity.

Ella, hesitant, eventually raised her heels.

After that, she secretly took a step to the center of the lab…

“Come on, open the door and go!”

Carine’s sharp voice cut through the air.
At the same time, Ella’s long tail soared toward her ceiling.

“Yes? How did know…”

Surely it’s far enough that I can’t see this side?
How did she know you were coming?

But soon he got a clue from Karine’s words.

“The sound of a door opening and closing!”

The child with her dark heart eyes realized her mistake.
And she quickly ran to her door.

Her deliberate footsteps spread, and soon there was the sound of a door creaking open.

-Bang

Finally, the sound of the door being slammed rang through the lab.

A situation where anyone can see that she has left the child.

Immediately after that, Karine’s high voice came out.

“A bitch who doesn’t even know the subject is framing me again? Dare?”

And Ella, who had only opened and closed her door, ran between her boxes with her breath.

* * *

Boxes and withered plants scattered all over the place.
And the dimmed lights helped Ella hide right behind the giant rose bush in the center of the lab.

Of course, if it were just those things, it wouldn’t have fooled the senses of Carine and Potty, who had gone through a rough adventure.

“Everyone, don’t come closer! Hitting is forbidden!”

“I was patient because El told me to restrain myself… She has the audacity to say things like that in front of her child without even knowing her subject?”

Ella poked her head over her potted plant to see the two exuding her bloody aura.
The overgrown rose bushes had now lost all their leaves, and I managed to see the center of the lab.

“Don’t come closer!”

No sooner had Ella lifted her head than she saw Potty backing away in terror of her.
In front of him, Karine, who clenched her fists, was slowly approaching.

In a more serious situation than expected, Ella gasped and breathed in.

Could it be that Karine is trying to hit Potty?

However, she has never hit anyone.
She was often irritable, but no matter how many mistakes the children made, she never raised her hand.

But now, it looks like he will hit Potty at any moment.

“What can I do?”

Ella bit her lip at the sight of her for the first time and held on to her tail.
Inside her child’s head, she was thinking of the most reliable person she knew: her father.

“Should I call my father…”

But what if Carine hits Potty in the meantime?
Wouldn’t Potty, who is already weak and not fully recovered, be in great pain?

No, maybe Karine doesn’t intend to hit her, but isn’t she calling her busy dad for no reason?
In the meantime, she’s never had Karine hit anyone before, so maybe she’s just scared of Potty?

Potty is very timid.

“Okay…”

Ella was troubled, even shedding the first cold sweat of her life.
Meanwhile, Potty walked backwards to the desk in the center of the lab.

“Don’t come any closer! Do you think El will stay still if you hit me again?”

Also?

Ella stopped her feet as she stumbled upon the meaning of that one short word.

“Yeah, back then she looked after El because she was still the hero’s lover, but now she’s combined with the trap gun on her head and she’ll never let go!”

Forty’s words sounded like Karine was really violent.
Besides, she seemed to be saying that it was all because of Carine that Potty fell down recently.

It even feels as if the woman Karine, whom I have been experiencing, and the woman Poti is talking about are completely different people.

“It’s not human level to be shameless. Asmodians, no, at the level of beasts.”

Karine approached Potty, slightly lifting the long skirt she often wore when working.
Potty, who had already driven all the way to her desk and had nowhere to back down, bit her lip.

Standing in front of such a potty, Karine pulled her skirt up to her thighs with her hands and let her words out through her mouth.

“Besides, I don’t even notice. You have no idea how things are going right now, right? So she’ll tell Elle that I’m the culprit of the trap magic in her head.”

Long, white, and strong legs slightly lifted off the ground.

The muscles in her calves and thighs tightened as if she was about to kick the target in front of her at any moment.
As Forty saw those muscles twitch, he quickly grabbed his side.

“When, don’t hit…”

Through that act, Ella realized that Potty had really been kicked in the side by Carine.

Carine continued her words coldly, as if she had no idea that she liked her and that the child she loved was watching over her.

“Well, you’ve been locked up in the Mage Tower for the rest of your life. A human relationship itself is nothing other than a warrior party, right?”

“What are you talking about?”

“That means you won’t change at all when you leave. Because if you leave, there is nothing precious for you to get back. In fact, you are an environment that is no different whether you are here or out.”

As soon as she finished her words, her legs swung like lightning.

“Kyaaak!”

“Hick!”

-Thud

Ella’s moans were drowned out by Potty’s screams and thumps.
Ella didn’t even have time to judge whether it was a good thing or not, as she hurriedly pushed away the bushes that were blocking her view.

“Ah…”

The rose’s thorn pricked her hand, causing pain, but her vision was clear.
This allowed Ella to breathe a sigh of relief.

“Ji, vs, what the hell are you doing…”

Karine’s leg, which had kicked her desk, moved slowly to the side.
And she tapped Potty on the side.

“Hey… !”

Frightened, Potty slumped to the ground as if his legs gave out.
Looking down at Potty, Karine raised her leg again.

“The only thing that matters to you is Hernan. Yes?”

Potty clenched his teeth and looked alternately at Karine’s face and at her legs.
Carine nodded her head following her crackling sound and continued.

“So when you go out, you will still cling to my man. Unlike other women, you only have Hernan.”

Karine’s legs were driven back toward the desk.

-Pajik

Unlike before, the blackened, precisely kicked desk made a rupture sound.

“And that goes for me too.”

At that moment, Ella realized that what Ella was aiming for was the desk, not Potty.
And Potty realized what that action meant.

“Stop kicking! Even if the relationship between L and I changes because of this… Wow!”

The desk, which had already been burnt and weakened once, shattered once more with Karine’s kick.

However, a tree is a tree no matter how weak it gets, so Karine waved her foot and frowned.

Potty took advantage of the gap and tried to raise his weak leg somehow.

“Please stop it! What on earth would change by destroying the radish containing L and me’s memories? Rather, I’ll break this. If I say it’s a hero, something bigger will happen!”

“Will my lover believe what the rabbit said?”

Carine found a tool to replace her leg with a strangely confident tone.

“If I had gone to this desk when burning the magic tower, these unpleasant things would have been less.”

The heavy chair in front of her desk was lifted by Karine’s hand.
Forty could only pull it off, but when the chair, which could not be lifted, aimed at the desk, Forty opened its mouth in fright.

“No!”

-Bang

The chair knocked on the desk, and a sound different from her legs echoed in Ella’s head.
Resisting the urge to cover her ears, Ella watched as the desk collapsed.

“No, no, no, no!”

“It’s unpleasant. Every time you and El drank tea here, she must have laughed while chewing on what happened at the Mage Tower.”

Karine, who hit the desk in succession and left it in tatters, took her breath away.
Her gleaming eyes seemed to be looking for something to break even while resting.

“Rose.”

Her deadly eyes were on Ella’s hidden rose-pot.

“… !”

Ella hurriedly bit her tail into her mouth to stop her screams from coming out.
Sensing the salty taste of her blood on her hands, Ella worried that Karine might be approaching.

If she’s going to break the flowerpot too, she’ll have to run away.
And it seemed to her that if she ran away this time, she would have to call her father.

“Has the rose that you mocked me and gave to L already withered?”

Fortunately or not, Carine only shed her sneer at the condition of her rose.

“I guess your love won’t last forever, Potty.”

“Stop…”

Forti shed tears and managed to stand in front of the desk.

“Stop it!”

With his bunny ears trembling, Potty let out an angry noise.

“As the hero said, what else do I have? My life is barely… I barely met the man I love and it finally started! But how can I give it up!”

It was a word spoken without stuttering.

“Do you think I will give up because of this? I’ll work even harder to get L’s love! I will get it by any means!”

There was no answer from Carine.
Instead, she snatched Potty’s rabbit ears.

“Quaaaaa! It hurts! Sick!”

“Go away.”

Carine pushed Potty aside and grabbed the chair like a prince in a fairy tale.
In other words, she held the back of the chair like a sword.

And she slammed the chair against her desk with all her might.

“Ah…”

The sight through her bushes made Ella let her moan out of her tail and out of her lips.

The desk where Potty, Una, and her mother often had tea could no longer withstand the impact and began to collapse towards the floor.

Perhaps because it had a shelf rising toward the ceiling, the desk fell toward the floor as if a person was tipping over backwards.

Thanks to this, the fuel supply line of the heating device that was covered by the desk was exposed.
The problem was that even the supply line could not overcome the shock and fell out.

“Ugh!”

Carine backed away from her unidentified gas that suddenly spewed into her face.
Ella could immediately smell the gas shot into Carine’s face.

It was a very disgusting smell.

“Coke! Heuk, Coke!”

Carine, who was gassed head-on, soon fell to her floor, coughing wildly.

“What is it, Coke, this?”

Carine fell flat on the floor to avoid the gas rising above her.
And she repeated her cough in pain.

“Up, it’s dangerous!”

Meanwhile, Forty also sniffed her and hurriedly grabbed her fuel line with her contemplative face.
She quickly brought her string to her fuel filler neck.

It seemed to try to put it back on, but the strong gas was enough to easily push Forty’s hand away.

“Daddy, we have to get out of here quickly! Otherwise… Uh?”

As Potty brought out the word run, the sound of a gas leak suddenly diminished.

“Ah! Drink God!”

Potty looked at the inlet where the gas stopped slowly, as if realizing something.

“Phew… Eh, it looks like the Demon God has stopped supplying fuel.”

Potty sighed and then glared at Karine.

“Saw? Ma, the Demon God always cares for me and helps me! It’s no use even if Karine interferes!”

“As you like, Coke, there should be a degree of interpretation.”

Carine staggered and got up from her seat.
She grumbled in a voice so low that Ella couldn’t hear her clothes or her hair messed up.

Potty did not provoke such Karine further, and hurried her foot to the place where Karine had been wallowing.
Seeing the bunny ears approaching her, Karine widened her eyes.

“Know your subject and act. You’ll find out later anyway.”

Then Karine pointed to her desk, which had been shattered.
Forty, who had regained her self-confidence just now, immediately dropped her shoulders and ears when she saw it.

“Huh, my first memory…”

Looking at her face with tears streaming down her face, Karine barely put on a satisfied expression.
Then she turned and came to her rose-pot.

Ella, who had been watching her blankly, hurriedly ducked under her flower pot.

“I will give you a rose. This time I am with El.”

Rose?
But she was all skinny and dead?

Ella glanced up at her, but no matter how she looked at it, there were no roses.

But when Carine asked, she said in a steady voice, as if she had inhaled gas.

“Forty, I’ll give you something you can never play with.”

There was no answer from Potty.
Karine didn’t want an answer either, so she left only those words and headed outside.

Ella let out a small sigh and took her hand, which was pricked by her thorns.

“If you go to Marina’s mother… Surely you will ask why is she hurt? I have to go to my mother too.”

Thinking of asking her mother to cast a healing spell on her, Ella poked her head out to the side of her flower pot.

As Ella had to get out soon, I was thinking of checking if Potty was looking this way.

“Huh?”

All Ella could see was Potty standing still with her head bowed.

She must have had such a fierce fight with her sick body, so she would like to rest soon.
But Potty just looked at his feet and silently wiped away the tears.

Ella, in a way, thought she had a good chance, and moved her body toward the shadow that fell between her boxes.

Then he saw Forty’s foot lifted off the floor before he disappeared from sight.

Glitter.
Only a tiny twinkle shone in Ella’s eyes.

Ella remembered that brilliant light of hers, and she hurried outside before Forty came to her senses.

* * *

“Ella.”

“Huh?”

The living room where dinner is being prepared.
Ella suddenly saw her Carine, who was talking to her.

She honestly said that after seeing such a sight, when Karine spoke to her, unlike her usual, there was discomfort in her chest tightening.

In particular, I kept thinking of her broken desk.
I always enjoyed spending time at that desk…

But Ella did her best to shake her head and brush away her memories of her lab.

“Why? Kari’s mom also called Ella to help her hurt her hand?”

At her lively voice, Karine first looked at Ella’s hand.

“Is your hand injured?”

Instead of her healing magic, Carine saw Ella’s hand healed with a sloppy bandage.

“Huh! Her mother said she couldn’t use her magic, so she worked hard together!”

Seeing her bandaged hands, Karine sighed, and she took Ella’s hand.

“I will tie it up again. Sharpie still doesn’t like her dexterity.”

The bandage that Karine retied was neat and didn’t put any pressure on her hand.
Ella laughed out loud, feeling that Karine liked her as well.

While watching Ella’s smile, Carine quietly opened her mouth.

“Ella. Do you remember going to the lab today?”

“Ugh!”

Ella stiffened her tail and squinted at Carine.

“Why, why is that… ? Why are you asking that?”

“Have you ever seen anything that fell on the floor?”

It seemed that she hadn’t seen Ella, who was hiding.
Ella was relieved and her heart eyes twinkled.

“Thing? Come to think of it, Karine’s mother originally went into the lab to look for things, right?”

“I went to find a watering can. I’ll go get it again tomorrow, and the one I’m asking now is much smaller.”

“What?”

Karine confirmed that no one around cared about this place.
And said secretly, holding her clothes near her chest.

“Did you see my necklace?”