Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
After hearing the news that Jill had returned to the mansion, I carried Andrea and Guy, who had ended up falling asleep, to their rooms before heading to the office.
I was familiar with the mansion, but I didn’t often come to this floor where the office was located. After walking across the spotless carpeted floor, the door finally loomed in front of me. I lifted my hand to knock on the door, when I heard them.
“You’re saying they saw corpses?”
“After putting the story together, that should be it.”
“….Do you believe this information is credible?”
“Seems like other people in the territory also saw it.”
From the other side of the door, I overheard a disquieting conversation.
The ones talking seemed to be Jill and Seth, but I hesitated to interrupt them.
I tucked the jewelry box I had been holding in my hands close to my chest. I turned on my heel and headed back to the children’s room.
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“Pa rtbeiv yf olcf ab ulnf la ab tlw ijafg.”
P kjr gfraifrr klat atf vfrlgf ab ulnf la ab tlw jr rbbc jr qbrrlyif, yea cbk kjr qgbyjyis cba j ubbv alwf.
Ccskjs, kbeivc’a atlr yf j ubbv bqqbgaeclas? P mbeiv mbbx jujlc, wjxf j atlcu bea bo la. Ycmf Jsgli uba yfaafg, atf atgff xlvr mbeiv tfiq wf bea abb—kf mbeiv tjnf oec mbbxlcu rbwfatlcu abufatfg.
Thinking such things, I entered the room where the two kids were sleeping. But something was wrong.
The bed where they were supposed to be sleeping on, had only one lump.
“Andrea? Guy?”
I looked at the bed and rolled up the blankets to find only Guy sleeping in the middle. Andrea was nowhere to be found.
He must have woken up to go to the bathroom. I just had to wait. He would come back soon enough. There was no need to worry—was what I tried telling myself, but my heart grew cold with a bad premonition.
“—Soul which bears his name, illuminate your path.”
Urged by my bad feeling, I casted a spell and a dim, translucent light took shape after Andrea, not unlike a water-mirrored reflection. Then, it imitated the actions taken by Andrea previously, showing me what had happened.
“As I thought.”
When I followed the light, I knew Andrea had slipped out of the mansion through the courtyard window, running towards somewhere away from the mansion.
Careful not to be left behind by the light, I teleported to where the light was guiding me.
The place I arrived at was a road not too far away from the mansion, leading to the town. However, there were no lights placed around here, so once the sun set, this whole area would be submerged in pitch black darkness.
I had to find him before that happened……
I was about to cast the spell again to track Andrea down. But when I turned around, I saw two figures right beside the forest that shocked me. I screamed:
“—Sister?!”
If.
If it had just been the warm scene of a chance encounter between an estranged pair of parent and child? How much better that would have been.
My voice rang—somewhere between a scream and a shriek—as I instantly teleported in front of Andrea, tugging him to me and casting a barrier spell. Just seconds after, impact upon impact staggered against the barrier, blowing hot winds that singed my skin.
Lightning crackled. The attack spells left behind a reddish-black residue that rose into the sky.
“…..My, my. The night is closing in quickly, it seems. Even the ghost of the departed has come to visit me.”
“Cut that shit out! Just now, you—do you understand what you almost did?!”
“Why are you in such a temper? I was simply trying to clean up after myself. More importantly, I haven’t seen you in so long, but you haven’t even given me a hug. You’ve grown colder, Lilius-chan.”
Translator note:
Update 1/2
This bi*ch… she wanted to kill her own son?! EXTERMINATE HER!!!
Thank you for this chapter, going to read the next.