Chapter 194 – Chapter 187 – Dream Demon’s Daughter (6)

“Ella!”

Ella, carrying her storybook she had read with her mother the previous night, turned her head towards the sound of her own name.

“Are you Carine’s mother? I had a good breakfast…”

“Follow me for a second.”

Karine, with an urgent expression, glanced around her and put Ella around her side.

“Wow!”

“Shh!”

Carine took Ella and rushed to her laundromat.

Perhaps this morning, laundry was piled up as high as a person’s height on one side of the laundry room, probably because he was thinking of doing the laundry.

Carine, who moved between the blankets, immediately urged Ella.

“Didn’t you hear anything from the demon king yesterday?”

Ella frowned and replied.

“Devil?
You mean mom?”

“Okay. Have you heard anything from your mother, Shafikara?”

Are you talking about the jewel in the necklace?
Do I have to tell you that I was going on a treasure hunt yesterday?

“I heard they were on a treasure hunt.”

“A treasure hunt?”

Hearing that, Carine closed her eyes tightly and touched her forehead.

“I noticed too! Why is your mother so quick-witted?”

Carine muttered a few more words to Ella, who had nothing to answer and only wiggled her hands.

“L seems to have noticed too. It shouldn’t be like this. I’m sure there will be an uproar…”

“Hey, Carine’s mother?”

Ella opened her mouth while holding her children’s book.

“The jewel. Her dad had a lot, can’t she just ask for one more? Wouldn’t it be okay if I said sorry to her mother and gave it to her?”

“No! No way!”

Carine freaked out and put her finger on Ella’s lips.

“Never say that in front of others!”

“Why? Is only that jewel special?”

Karine, half-reclining on the puffy duvet stacked beside her, muttered as she bit her nails.

“Sharpie was obsessed with that mana stone. Besides, if Hernan found out that her magic stone was lost…”

Carine’s voice now has a slight cry mixed in with it.
She seemed so distracted that she even forgot that Ella was in front of her.

“Why can’t I do anything like this? Are demons really playing with my life? To always embarrass me?”

The posture and expression that had always been upright were disturbed, and the firm momentum that wrapped around her carine disappeared in an instant.

Seeing Carine like that, Ella felt her heart pounding.

“Karine’s mother.”

“How can you be so unlucky? I’ve always tried, but things always go wrong like this, right? I prayed often to you who drank! Now stop…”

“Mom!”

Only after Ella cried out did Karine come to her senses.

“Oh, I’m sorry. You called me and I was dumbfounded.”

“Ella will help!”

“Help me? What are you?”

Her mom said she was talking to Karine separately yesterday.
Maybe we’ll see you soon

Before breakfast, my mother called Karine for a moment and her whispers seemed to be trying to make an appointment with her.

“Didn’t your mother ask to see you separately? Then Ella will help her.”

A complex expression of hers appeared on Karine’s face.

“I will be grateful for Ella’s heart. But have you really seen anything better than that? Did you see Potty pick up the jewels?”

I’ve seen it, but I can’t tell you.
If I say it, I’m sure this time it’s not the desk, but the Potty Mom.

“Huh… Ella, I want you to trust me. Ella is so smart and brave.”

Holding onto her skirt and wagging her tail and body, Ella met her eyes with Carine’s.

Seeing that, Carine wiped away the tears that were forming in her eyes.

“Don’t even dream of a strategy that goes beyond bottomless cuteness.”

She replied, puffing out her cheeks in response.

“Isn’t it like that?”

“So what?”

Only then did Carine reveal her interest.
Ella covered her mouth with her tail and smiled at her eyes.

“Before that, do you want to make one more secret promise with Ella?”

A laugh burst out from Karine’s side.
However, Ella did not lose and tilted her head and asked the same question.

“Before that, do you want to make one more secret promise with Ella? It’s a perfect opportunity.”

“I wonder who isn’t Shafikara’s daughter… You’re born with dream blood. I see you seduce people like this.”

Upon hearing her words, Ella smiled even more and was satisfied.

“That’s right. Ella is the daughter of a dreamer, not a demon king.”

“Do you know what a nightmare is?”

“I don’t know! Still, she’s better than the demon king”

Karine’s face, which had been showing a serious expression until now, leaked a little smile.

“You smile with satisfaction without even knowing that?”

It was a laugh that soon disappeared, but Ella etched the reaction into her memory, revealing her confidence.

“So, are you going to explain what a nightmare is? If you don’t like it, hurry up and make a secret promise with Ella!”

“Monma…”

Karine, who opened her mouth with the word “Dream”, Soon became embarrassed.
Ella, watching her, could see the displeasure in her face in her eyes.

But when Ella’s heart eyes intertwined with her gaze, her displeasure quickly dissipated in those eyes.
Instead, Karine awkwardly brought her words out.

“The beloved race. You just need to know that far.”

“Good!”

Beloved species.
Ella agreed that her experience and she fit perfectly.
Ella, more assertive, moved on to the next subject with her shoulders wide open.

“The dreamer’s daughter, Ella, will make sure Karine’s mother doesn’t get scolded. In return.”

“Would you like some coffee cookies?”

Cookie?
Ella cleared her throat, resisting the distraction of her moment.

“Kuhm! Of course you have to do that!”

“Then what are the conditions? Are you asking me to make you some pretty clothes?”

Before uttering her words, she took a deep breath.
She and she put on the most serious expression she’d ever put on in her life.

“You can’t be a hero!”

“… What?”

Looking straight into Karine’s blue eyes, her black heart-eyed half-dream declared.

“You can never become a hero who defeats the demon lord!”

Karine, who was standing leaning on the futon, looked around her, and then she squatted down.

The two of them were at eye level and were talking to each other.

“I told you not to defeat the demon lord?”

“Huh. You have to get along with Sharpie’s mom.”

“I am…”

“You can’t do it like a children’s book.”

Ella handed her the children’s book she was holding.
When she received and picked up the children’s book with the word demon king erased from it, Karine was silent.

“Will you?”

“I’ll try.”

“A promise? You’re not just trying, are you going to do it?”

Karine, who alternately looked at her storybook and Ella, nodded her head subtly.

To be honest, it was an unsatisfying answer.
But Ella decided not to bother her any further and she just leaned her back.

“Side!”

“Ugh!”

Carine stomped on his buttocks and stroked his lips against Ella.

“If you only learn this…”

“Hi-Hi! I made a promise to Ella!”

Picking up a book that had fallen on her floor, Ella waggled her tail from side to side.

“Then see you later, Carine’s mother!”

Ella placed her book in Carine’s hand and ran through the laundry.
Karine could only stare blankly at that quick movement.

After a while, Ella’s footsteps completely disappeared.
Carine, who was alone among the piles of blankets, touched her lips, where her child’s high body temperature remained.

“She’s not necessarily just like her mother.”

Fidgeting with her storybook, Karine remembered the father of the children here.

* * *

After exiting her laundromat, Ella started moving in haste.

The time her mom decided to meet with Karine was probably before she set out for lunch.
After lunch, she decided to meet everyone in the garden, so that’s the only time.

So, about an hour left?

“Because I said an hour is the time to eat three or four times.”

Ella, roughly estimating the time, stood in front of Potty’s room.
And she opened the door slightly, as quietly as possible.

“Huh?”

Then she immediately met Ouna’s eyes as she was collecting her clothes on her floor.

“Sister?”

As the voice grew, Ella hurriedly brought her index finger to the middle of her lips.

“Shh!”

Una followed Ella’s actions and came to her door.

“Sister? Una will go too. Wait.”

Oona seemed to think Ella had come to tell her to go to her training room.
But, of course, Ella didn’t come with that intention.

“Who is Potty’s mother?”

“Our mom? Cool sleep.”

Potty was invited to the garden as well, so it must be that he was conserving his stamina in advance.

“Good. You are sleeping too.”

“Why? Are you here to see my mother?”

“No. Worse than that!”

Ella hurriedly dragged Una by the arm and came out into her living room.

“Hee! Ooh, ooh, I’m still ready to go down…”

“Oona!”

Ella lowered her voice as she entered with her brother under her cracked dining room table.

“Have you ever seen a shiny stone?”

“A shiny stone?”

“Huh. You know what adults used to hold when they used magic.”

Oona crouched down with her ears covered, and an immediate answer came out of her mouth.

“Aunt Karine’s? That blue stone?”

“Saw?”

As the information came right out of her sister’s mouth, Ella pressed her face together with a gleeful expression.

“Huh… When Ella rubs her cheeks, she feels weird. Stop.”

“Where did you see it? If you tell me, I’ll suck your ears!”

“I hate that… Hey!”

Oona trembled as Ella’s tongue ran through her bunny ears.

“Where are you? Lab? Forty mom’s room?”

“I-I don’t like that…”

My tongue pierced the ear of the lying younger brother once again.
Moreover, Ella’s tail, which had reached her ear on the other side of her before she knew it, was giving a gentle stimulus.

“Hick! Oops, oops! Uh, mom’s room!”

“Where is the room?”

Ella asked, twitching her hair in her mouth.

“Mom is wearing the pockets of the clothes she’s wearing right now… Hey!”

“Whoa! Thank you.”

After thanking her by blowing air into her ear, Ella pulled her nearly fainting sister from under her table.

“I’ll touch Oona’s tail later! Oona is downstairs now.”

A proper answer did not come.
Only the twitching ears twitched.

As Ella stumbles toward her hallway, she is back in front of Potty’s room.

I blew air into her lungs and slowly opened the door to silence her.

Upon entering her, a dark room greeted Ella.
The dark room smelled of Potty’s regular, feeble breathing and fur.

“Clothing bag…”

Ella crept to her bed with her heels on her heels.

As she moved her feet, she could see her pale pink bunny ears and her Forty complexion much better than before.
Yesterday, she was standing there screaming with Karine, so it seemed that she would be able to completely recover her normal physical condition soon.

In other words, if I can’t find it this time, it will be impossible to secretly search her room like now.

-Gulp

Startled by the sound of her spittle, Ella stopped her movement for the moment.
But then she caught her breath again and held out her tail.

Her lithe tail tucked under her blanket.

“Turn it off!”

Fortunately, the thick blanket Potty usually sleeps in was in her laundry room, so she could pull it off with her frail tail.

As her tail lifted the blanket, Ella’s hand reached into the pocket of Forty’s clothing.

“You can’t wake up…”

Every time I rummaged through one of my pockets, I struggled to see if Potty’s breathing wasn’t hoarse, or if her bunny ears weren’t popping out of nowhere.

“Yes… Cold.”

“… !”

In particular, when Potty talked in his sleep in the middle, I almost collapsed.

But as she thought of Carine and her mother, Ella began to rummage through her pockets for the last of her leftovers.

A small pouch located in the center of the belly.
The pouch, which was closest to Potty’s bare skin, was filled with hot warmth.

And there was nothing but that warmth.

“What?”

Embarrassed, Ella recalled Oona’s words.

Apparently Ouna said it was the clothes Potty was wearing right now.

It doesn’t look like Potty changed this outfit from last night until this morning, so there’s no way Una was mistaken.
Besides, Ouna doesn’t lie very well, and if she does, it shows too much.

“Somewhere else without Una’s knowledge?”

If so, you should hurry up and search for other clothes or drawers.

Feeling her cold sweat running down her back, Ella decided to put her blanket back on.

But is it because I’m too nervous?

“Eek!”

Her tail and legs pulled out of the blanket got tangled and she fell to the floor.

-Bang

“Huh?”

Hearing Potty’s voice, Ella hurriedly crawled under her bed, holding back her pain.

“Who, who are you? Rain? Are you Tori or Schnee?”

When she heard the sound of Forty pulling her body up, Ella stopped her moaning by holding her tail in her mouth.

“Now, did you hear me wrong?”

Between the bed and the floor, I could see Potty’s slender ankles.

“Boo, I could definitely hear it…”

You can see Potty’s feet wandering around.
Sometimes I look at clothes that have fallen on the floor, and sometimes I look around the door.

“Weird…”

If you’ve found this, you might as well stop looking!

Ella fervently prayed to the demon god to please Potty to sleep again.
However, Potty continued to circle the room, trying to find the source of the sound.

It seemed that the Demon God had no interest in this.

“Chi, I think there was a noise near the bed.”

Tears came to my eyes as Potty came back to bed.

In fact, she was caught and scolded. How could she pass it on?
However, it was very disappointing that the plan to secretly take her magic stone from Potty and return it to Karine failed.

Will this opportunity come again?

“Ho, by any chance downstairs?”

In Ella’s field of vision, the tips of the drooping rabbit ears began to appear.
It must be Potty trying to bend her back to look underneath her.

Ella drank with her first taste of despair in her birth, and instead remembered her object of prayer.

“Dad…”

A father who always listens to mothers’ wishes.
A father who always grants the wishes of Ella and her younger siblings.

To Hernan, her father, Ella made her wish.

‘Let me find the magic stone!’

That was the moment.

“Oooh!”

Ella saw her descending bunny ears swish up again.

“Boy, ship!”

I heard Potty fall on the bed.

“Aww! Go, the stability is suddenly broken…”

Complaining of a sudden stomach ache, Potty began to roll on the bed.

Ella was taken aback by the sudden situation.

Did Dad really hear my prayers?
Is your dad a god like he drank?

Aside from the surprise, the situation soon began to change for Ella’s benefit.

“Huh, huh.”

Potty exhaled heavily and lay down completely on the bed.
Then he mumbled something incomprehensible, and then his breathing calmed down.

It was as if I had fallen asleep again.

“Ouch…”

Only then did Ella get out from under her bed, moaning from the dull pain that came over her.

As expected, Potty was in the same deep sleep as before.

It really only makes even breathing sounds without any slight movements.
How can I fall into such a deep sleep so quickly?

Ella took a step back from her, wiping the tears away.
And she just got out of Potty’s room.

“Ah, it’s a big deal.”

Ella, who had slipped out of her room, frowned at her empty hands and tail.
According to the plan, the blue mana stone should be here.

“How do you keep your promise?”

The time for Karine and her mother to meet is getting closer.
Maybe you really don’t have time.

Ella groaned, clutching her tail.

“In this case… If this…”

Ella, who had been rolling her head, immediately put her tail down and stood upright.
After wiggling her foot a few times, the child swallowed her breath.

“I can’t help it!”

Ella just started running.
Towards the garden, where her dad told her not to come up until this afternoon.