Chapter 192 – Chapter 185 – Dream Demon’s Daughter (4)

When Karine asked if she hadn’t seen her necklace, Ella quickly rolled her eyes.

“Did you see the jewel on my necklace, exactly?”

When Karine took her hand away, she saw a necklace with only her rope remaining.
Originally, there was a pretty stone that glowed blue at the bottom of the rope.

And Ella felt that she had seen that brilliant blue light earlier.

“That blue stone…”

“That’s right. Did you wear it when I entered the lab?”

“I guess so…”

Ella slurred her words.
At that uncertain attitude, Carine showed her slight impatience.

“You really don’t remember? Think carefully. Didn’t you see something flying when you clung to my leg on the way to the lab and moved a little wildly?”

“Well…”

She honestly wanted to say that she saw the light right down her throat in the lab, and that she saw Forty pick it up.

“Or remember when you were leaving, I saw you off? Was I wearing it properly then?”

But with that being said, I have to sneak in and say that I saw Carine and Potty fighting.

If he told the truth like that, how would Carine or Potty’s mom treat him?
Wouldn’t he be cold to himself when he saw the two people he didn’t see well?

“At the time, it seemed like I was wearing it properly…”

And there was one more decisive reason that made Ella’s mind uneasy.

“I can’t believe that 40-year-old… ?”

As Carine clenched her fists, Ella felt the hairs on her tail stand out.

As we saw in the lab earlier, the relationship between the two mothers actually seemed to be very bad.

But if they found out that Potty took the necklace’s jewelry, wouldn’t the two of them fight big again?

Besides, that necklace…
It seemed like a thing her mom cares about too.

“Ella. Didn’t you see Potty picking up something when I saw you and kicked you out of the lab?”

When Karine asked again, her expression was dark and cold.

If I tell the truth like this, something else might break like a lab desk.

Ella finally opened her mouth, remembering the old desk where everyone ate tea or snacks.

“Is Potty’s mother still?”

With her usual smile, Ella kissed Karine, who was at eye level with her.
She hopes that the things she loves won’t break more.

“Ella wants to eat the meal that Karine’s mother made! I’ll find her necklace later.”

Carine, who was quietly watching Ella’s smile, eventually closed her eyes and opened them.

“I will find it myself. Would you mind telling someone else?”

“Huh! Is it a secret?”

“Yes, secret.”

Karine reached into her arms, and she pulled out a small, tightly sealed pouch.
Opening the pouch, she smelled the smell Ella and her mother loved.

“Oh! Does this smell like coffee?”

What was on Carine’s hand was Ella’s favorite coffee-scented cookie.

“How do you have this?”

Since some time, Karine rarely bakes and distributes her own cookies.

She very occasionally goes with her dad or Silnia’s mom, but Karine made cookies, and she always had her dad or Silnia share them once she finished making them.

I wondered if it was because it was a king or queen, but no one gave me a clear reason for such a complex behavior.

Everyone was just saying what Karine was saying now with a troubled face.

“Shh. This is also a secret.”

Seeing Karine putting her finger to her mouth, it’s hard to hear why it worked this time as well.

“Instead of keeping it a secret between us, we’re giving it to you. If you keep your promise, I will give you more.”

“Yep!”

Anyway, Ella’s favorite cookie is now in front of her eyes.

“Ella, keep your secret!”

I haven’t told you anything I’ve seen before, so I’m sure you’re keeping a secret.

“I will keep my promise, Ella. And if I ever find a jewel, I’ll give it to Carine’s mom first!”

“Good. Open your mouth wide.”

“Aang!”

After Carine looked around her, she carefully put the cookie into Ella’s mouth.

“Sigh!”

The cookies in her mouth were fragrant.
And the sweet and slightly bitter taste balances it out.

“Delicious! I want to eat it every day!”

Ella gazed intently at one of her mothers who made this with her heart eyes.
Karine also looked into those heart eyes and she smiled a little.

“Devil… No, Sharpie originally told me not to feed coffee to kids. I’m sorry, but I can’t give it often either. It’s hard to find anyway.”

Carine continued to look around as she added the rest in turn.

“Eat everything and brush your teeth right away. If it smells, the elf, no, Sylnia will notice it.”

“Ugh!”

Ella was ecstatic as her cheeks puffed up.
Seeing her face, Carine sighed lightly.

“The happy expression on her face oddly resembled her parents.”

Ella said she was happy with what she said, and she vowed that she would never tell her memories of seeing her earlier.

For peace between this fragrant cookie and her loved ones.

* * *

“Today… Do you have a lot of rice?”

Ella, already full, stared blankly at her table.

There are meals given by the devil and food made by mothers.
And it was full of strange dishes that looked very crude.

Even the coarseness was so varied that it was difficult to take one’s eyes off her.

“What’s this?”

Surprisingly, Hernan, her father, looked at Silnia and Karine, who made today’s meal, as well.

“I don’t know! I almost died because I had a hard time grilling meat.”

Silnia shook her head as she ruffled her slightly singed hair.

“Okay?”

Her father, who would normally have cautioned Silnia for her harsh words, said nothing.

Looking closely, he had a very tired expression.
Did you do something tough in the garden?

“Does Karine know anything?”

“I don’t know. I was busy this afternoon.”

Carine, who usually wears pretty and revealing clothes in front of her dad, came out with her body covered a lot today.

Ella thought she was probably trying to hide that she had lost her necklace.
And she didn’t know if that would work, she felt.

No matter what kind of clothes she wore, the necklace was always exposed.

“Voila!”

The surge of anxiety was overshadowed by the belated cry of the sharpie.

“Last dish of the day!”

“Cooking? Sharpie you?”

Everyone’s attention was focused on the sharpie who put down another monstrous food.
To be precise, it can be said that only the attention of adults was focused.

“This is what we each made with our firstborns today!”

It seems that this was the meaning of spending a hot afternoon with the children.

“Can you see the food in front of each of us? The food the firstborns made was placed in front of the mothers!”

“Lenny’s this stew?”

First Marina opened her eyes and saw her Lenny next to her.
Lenny smiled shyly and pointed to her liquid, whether it was water or stew.

Marina’s expression hardened for a moment, but she immediately gave her a gentle smile.
After she, of course, put the stew in her mouth, she couldn’t avoid the momentary hardening of her expression.

“My son made it?”

On the other hand, what Silnia received was a simple meal of dumplings made of ground meat stuck on a tree branch.

Silnia, with her relatively normal shape, tried to make a touching expression, but her expression became shaken by her son’s words that followed.

“Even if you put it in the middle of the meat, you eat it!”

“Twigs… ?”

“She said Mama said that if she only eats meat, she also feeds trees, right? But you only ate mom’s meat!”

“Ah…”

While Silnia was silent, Karine was also accepting the food her twins had made.

“Mom, this.”

“We made it.”

What Carine accepted was a cake topped with whipped cream.
However, the cream had a rather bizarre shape to say that it was simply applied.

“This… Did you guys decorate it?”

Carine’s face, which was usually strict with her twins, was now full of surprise.

“Huh! We sculpted like mom.”

“With this hand!”

The brother and sister’s hands are glistening with grease that hasn’t been thoroughly cleaned.
Carine’s eyes narrowed slightly when she saw that, but eventually, her eyes softened again.

“Ok, thanks. Really.”

While Ella turned her attention to Karine, Una led Potty out of the room.

“Mi, I’m sorry, Una. Mom, eat in the room only until today…”

“Mom! Come on, here!”

Pretending not to hear, Oona jumped up and down.
The child with her bunny ears wide open dragged her mother to Potty’s seat, opposite Carine’s.

Ella caught her breath and studied Carine and Potty’s expressions.

“What is this?”

Potty doesn’t even look at Karine’s side, as Una is watching her pie.
In comparison, Carine glanced at Potty with her head slightly bowed.

Ella felt her stomach grow thick and she looked at Forty.
It was an attempt to find out if there might be something shiny.

“I made a pie for my mom!”

“I, really? And! Uh, her mom’s favorite candies are packed in pies?”

No matter how much you look at it, the only thing that sparkles is the terrifyingly many candies in the pie.
Ella felt her taste buds run away as she watched Forty open her mouth.

“Huh?”

It was then.
The sharpie stopped moving as her younger siblings placed the food they had made in front of her father.

The sharpie next to Ella tilted her head and looked towards Potty.

Did you see something

Ella also saw Potty again, just in case.
But Potty seemed to have no jewels whatsoever, his ears trembled at the murderous sweetness his son had made.

Even the clothes were pajamas, so there were no pockets.
Still, Sharpie continued to look at Potty with her puzzled face.

“Sharpie, in moderation! Lighten up a little!”

When Una’s candy pie fell into Lenny’s watery stew, a voice of surprise was heard from her father’s side.

“Uh, huh?”

Only then did the Sharpie come to her senses and raised the corners of her mouth.

“Oh? How come you seasoned it?”

With a smile, Sharpie said she made it instead of the busy Ella, and she handed out the spice-soaked chicken.

“I’ll cook Ella’s homemade dish later!”

Unlike the women, Hernan, who had to taste all the dishes the children made, just nodded his head.

Ella raised her spoon, thinking of comforting her poor father later.

And now, she thought, let her eat a little so that her mother wouldn’t suspect it.

“What? This feeling…”

Ella moved the spoon, trying to keep her eyes off her mother, who kept tilting her head.

* * *

Ella, who was tidying up her kitchen table and about to enter her room with her mother, heard her father’s voice.

“Sharpie. Will Ella come too?”

“Why? What is it?”

Sharpie brought Ella to Hernán.

“Dad. Does it hurt a lot?”

After eating her food, Hernán’s tired expression turned into a grin.
Sharpie also asked her if she was okay with her shy expression, but her father, Hernán, opened her mouth saying that it was always delicious.

“I’m going to the garden tomorrow after a long time.”

“Really? Can you finally go?”

Adults have recently banned children from going to the garden at all.
Thanks to that, she couldn’t even see the rain, and Ella was in a state of dissatisfaction.

“Huh. I’ll come tomorrow when Dad calls. You can’t come before then.”

“When? When do you call Are you eating breakfast?”

“Well… ?”

Hernán slurred her words and met Sharpie’s eyes.

“Tomorrow, I’m going to wrap things up with Silnia and Karine.”

“Oh? Isn’t it our saintess?”

“Marina isn’t very good at helping.”

“Then why did I take so many saints with me lately?”

The Sharpie smiled and wrapped her tail around her father’s thigh.

“El gets helpless when he goes to the garden. Besides, Marina isn’t very talented when it comes to using her body, right? But why did only the two of them go? Even Elle is sucked on her side and Marina is full of life?”

“Isn’t that what you think?”

“That’s right!”

Just in time, a saintess who was passing by her interrupted.

“What the hell are you guessing in front of the kids? Please take care of yourself.”

“No?”

Sharpie untied her tail from Hernan’s thigh and gently covered Ella’s ears.
Of course, her ears weren’t completely blocked that way, so Ella listened in silence to the conversations of her elders.

“If you deny it because you’re shy, you don’t have to do it too much. We’ve already seen each other, haven’t we?”

“Am I? That would be between you and Hernán.”

“I understand this harsh reaction. You say that in human society it is very embarrassing for a woman to ride on top?”

“Yes?”

Marina gave a blank voice for a moment, and a short sigh came from Hernán’s side.
And immediately Marina let out her mangled cry in her realization and shame.

“Oh no! No! Well, I’ve never been on top of Hernan…”

“Marina. Just don’t reply.”

“Oh…”

Instead of Marina, who was red from her neck to her ears, Hernán opened her weary mouth.

“The saintess and I went because we had something important to do. It doesn’t always happen when there are two men and women together, so please don’t think of me as a dreamer.”

Her mother’s tail stiffened for a moment as soon as the word “By the standards of a dreamer” Came out.
Ella noticed that her mother was in a bad mood when she said that she was a dreamer.

Following the demon king, should I be careful with the word dreamer?
What else is that?

“Ah… I’m sorry for what I just said. It doesn’t mean bad at all.”

Dad also wiped his tired face and shook his head.
Apparently, what I did in the garden today was really draining Dad’s energy.

“Are you okay? It’s not something to hide that this body is a dreamer.”

Sharpie turned her around with his usual smile.

“Then what exactly did you do? I’m not the kind of person who would be so tired just because I used my body, L.”

“Later.”

Dad and Marina’s mom made strange faces.

“I will tell you later. All I can tell you is that it matters.”

“Death! Are you playing secret games just the two of you?”

Ella felt a prick inside as the sharpie stuck out her tongue.

She couldn’t help but feel anxious when she brought up the word that her mother was mean to her in the position where she made a secret promise to Karine.

As Ella resisted the desire to place her hand on her pounding chest, the sharpie turned her words away.

“Anyway, I hope you don’t send Carine up tomorrow.”

“Carine? Why?”

“I’m going to have a long conversation with this body tomorrow. Anyway, the detailed work has already been done, right? All that’s left is the help of an elf with a light body like Silnia.”

“A long conversation?”

Hernan and Marina looked curious.
And Ella felt her heart sting again.

Could it be because of the jewelry on the necklace?

“What is that? Can’t you come for a while?”

When Dad asked a question with his arms crossed, Marina next to her actively clung to her Dad’s side.

“What on earth do you and Karine have to talk about like that? If you are going out, wear Hernan.”

Even in Ella’s eyes, the feeling that Marina’s mother was on guard was vividly conveyed.

Her father, Hernan, must have sensed it too, and tried to warn Marina about something.

“Secret.”

But the sharpie whirled around first and pulled her tail from Ella’s ear.
A sharpie holding her free tail to her mouth made her red heart eyes glow.

“I’m going to play secret games with Karine too.”

In an instant, the words disappeared from the mouths of Dad and Marina’s mother.
Seeing that, Sharpie smiled and hugged Ella.

“And tonight, I’m going to play secretly with Ella, right?”

“A secret game?”

“Huh!”

Ella asked as she watched her father and Marina walk away.

“What is that?”

Sharpie brought her lips to Ella’s ear as she cradled her in her arms.

“Kinigi Sisabour.”

What her mother spoke was demonic language.
It means…

“Treasure hunt.”

Ella seemed to know what the treasure was.