chapter 211
211 – Wedding Feast in the Desert #1
211 – Wedding Feast in the Desert # 1
Daily life went on without change.
The same was true for the class Salome was in charge of.
“It’s quiet because there’s no ferry, right?”
“Yep. Hina also drew a lot of pretty pictures for me.”
The children occasionally felt the absence of their mysterious sisters, but their days were essentially like waves crashing in from all directions.
The place where someone left was bound to be quickly submerged in the waves of each day.
Cecily was also having a fairly normal day.
She goes to school, talks to her friends, and strokes the fur on her anvil.
It was a fun day.
However, without Naru and Hina, I couldn’t help but feel a little lonely.
‘I never thought Cecily would be left alone!’
Cecily felt alone.
However, there was a girl who felt more alone than Cecily.
It was Erzsebet.
Erzé Bette was Naru’s best friend, but she became the most depressed after Naru was gone. Also, Ty Win, who was Hergé Bertrand’s enemy, disappeared somewhere and did not go to school.
‘Going to school is no fun!’
Ergé Bett was losing her desire to attend her boring school. During her summer vacation, she worked hard to make bread.
Ding dong ding dong-.
Before you know it, it’s after school.
Cecily said to Erzébet, who was feeling depressed and trying to return home.
“Erzebet, do you want to go see Naru and Hina?”
“Really?”
Erzsebet was surprised.
The answer was, of course, positive.
“Good!”
Cecily and Erzsebet headed to the miscellaneous mansion.
Even though summer is over, it was a little hot this year, so I was sweating profusely as I walked down the street in the warm sunlight.
Of course, Erzsebet was excited to see Naru and Hina.
That’s how we arrived at the mansion.
As she looked around, thinking, “The garden is always so beautiful,” She saw two women relaxing on a mat under a parasol in the garden.
They raised their eyebrows when they saw Erzsebet.
“Erzebet?”
“What happened?”
It was Brigitte and Salome.
Soon Cecily spoke.
“I brought you here to meet Naru and Hina!”
It was literally.
Erzsebet approached Brigitte and Salome and said politely, “Hello.”
And she asked carefully.
“Can I say hello to Naru and Hina?”
Brigitte and Salome were both equally perplexed.
Because I didn’t know how to accept this.
But soon I started nodding my head.
“Yes.”
When Brigitte nodded her head, Erzébet very, very carefully held out her hand. Her her hand her her her her, delicate as a small fern, touched Brigitte’s stomach her her her.
Brigitte asked, thinking it tickled.
“How is it? What do you think Naru is saying?”
“I don’t know.”
Erzsebet honestly couldn’t read Naru’s meaning.
That’s because Naru isn’t even a one-year-old baby yet!
However, Erzsebet could feel Naru’s warmth of her.
Naru definitely existed here.
‘Naru is right next to me and we can’t talk to each other.’
Erzsebet was very sad.
However, Erzsebet was the girl who hung out with Naru and learned from the side the strange power of positivity. Erzsebet decided to think positively.
‘I can be the first to be by Naru’s side since he was born! Then, Naru’s lifelong best friend will be Erzsebet!’
It was a great plan.
Erzebet promised that she would come to her mansion every day until Naru and Hina were born.
# # #
Cecily’s morning started a little later than the other children.
About 10 minutes.
It was Cecily who went to bed early and woke up late.
Cecily took a lot of naps.
“Ladies usually sleep a lot.”
It was like that.
Cecily slept more time than expected.
So what does Cecily do when she’s up?
I didn’t know how she spent her days at school, but at her mansion, Cecily lived a generally languid and idle life.
Cut dessert with a fork and eat it while drinking tea.
Or her hair was combed by her aunt, her mother, or her maternal grandmother who often came to visit.
Thanks to that, Cecily’s hair was always shiny and shiny.
“Cecily, is there anything you want as a baby item?”
“I’m telling you to prepare for that yourself! I, Cecily, am the honorary duke of Steg Maia! A noble among nobles! “I want you to prepare a fancy room!”
Cecily was quite picky in her tastes.
It took quite a bit of money to make Cecily’s her room her her her, but luckily she had most of it covered by her mother’s family her her her, the Ragdoll family.
“Cecily, can’t I go? She said let’s stay with her aunt. Her aunt will stroke her hair every day and braid her hair beautifully! Huh? “Let’s stay with my aunt!”
Zek-.
Dina hugged Cecily from behind.
Of course, Cecily didn’t like being held by others, so she struggled.
“Let go of this!” I’m drinking tea right now! Ah, the teacup is overflowing! Hehe!”
Cecily has been a very mean person ever since I met her.
She had felt it for a long time, but Cecily resembled a cat.
That was my style of being calm, relaxed, and doing whatever I wanted.
What about Cecily’s mother, Garot?
Garot was a slightly larger cat.
A cougar, a cheetah, something like that.
Garot’s days were also a continuation of laziness and peace.
Garot was sitting on a chair in her garden, reading several books about prenatal education and childcare.
She also learned how to change diapers and what to do when the baby is sick from Lady Rione, who often came to visit her.
She seemed to have learned more than she thought, and before she knew it, Garot’s notebook had gone beyond one volume.
It suddenly became fascinating.
Even though I graduated from college, I realized that I had not really learned anything about how to treat a baby.
I knew very little about how to handle babies. I didn’t know how to adjust the temperature of the formula, how to put her to sleep, how to make her burp, what to do when she was sick, etc.
How does everyone become a parent?
Do I go to an academy or something to become a good mom and dad?
As I was thinking about that, the afternoon was already drawing to a close.
Lady Leone, who had been teaching Salome, Brigitte, and Garot about how to become a mother, suddenly approached me and said.
“When she has a child, her husband her her her’s role is important. “Women can become sensitive in many ways when they have children, so we have to be careful.”
It was a small voice.
But the meaning was clear.
It meant that the next year until the baby is born would be such an important moment that it would determine my long, long life.
Early on, when my father married my mother and had me, she said my mother once said, “I want to eat grapes.”
However, because my father was at odds with my grandfather and almost disowned him in order to marry my mother, he had no money and had to work until dawn every day.
“I’ll buy you some tomorrow,” Said the father, who was so tired that he forgot to buy grapes. I had to hear that story from my mom every year on my birthday
In other words.
It meant that if something made you sad when you had a child, it would not be forgotten and you would be punished for the rest of your life.
Should I think that I am really dead for about a year and become a slave to pregnant women?
But I have three children.
How can I please all three people on my own?
# # # #
Someone woke me up while I was sleeping.
It was Cecily.
“Why?”
What time is it now?
It was one o’clock in the morning.
Why did Cecily, who always falls asleep at 10 PM, wake me up this early in the morning?
“What’s going on?”
“…”
Cecily did not answer, but she puffed out her cheeks and averted her gaze. The way she showed off her pride seemed somewhat familiar.
I asked.
“Did you draw a map on the blanket again? Do I have to clean it up secretly?”
Cecily had been drawing maps in her sleep at night since Narurang Hina disappeared. Cecily asked me to do it secretly, so I did it secretly.
Because handling this and that without other people knowing was my specialty.
However, Cecily was angry.
“No! And last time, it was Morumoru who spilled a bottle of water on Cecily’s bed!”
“Okay. Then why today?”
One o’clock in the morning.
It was time for Cecily to be asleep.
Beautiful women sleep a lot.
While I was worrying for no reason that being awake at this hour would make her a little less beautiful, Cecily said hesitantly.
“… I had a scary dream! “I can’t sleep!”
I see.
She had a nightmare.
It often happened.
I also often had nightmares when I was young.
Zek-.
I got up and laid Cecily on my bed.
And I talked about a nightmare I often had as a child.
“When I was young, I often dreamed of a scary man standing in front of my door holding a knife. “It was a dream where they knocked on the door and finally broke into the house and harmed my family.”
Why did I have such a dream?
When I was 6 years old, my family was a bit poor.
My father had barely begun to settle down, but his grandfather’s men came to our house and mistreated us.
“Not long ago, I sometimes had scary dreams like that.”
“… Even as an adult, do you still dream of a mean man standing in front of your door?”
“Okay. But now in my dream, I am the man standing in front of the door. It’s a dream where I go to other people’s homes and mistreat them. “This too is a scary nightmare in its own way.”
Of course, after defeating Nocturne, I stopped having nightmares like that.
These days, I sleep very well.
Zek-.
Cecily covered her head with the blanket on my bed.
Are you scared?
I asked Cecily.
“What did you dream about?”
“… “I don’t remember.”
I guess so.
Dreams tend to become blurry after waking up.
Zek-.
Then Cecily lifted the blanket and revealed her face.
“Do mom and her dad love each other?”
It was a sudden question.
I scratched the bridge of my nose, feeling very embarrassed.
“Yes. At least I think so.”
“Could that Cecily be reborn?”
I see.
I could see what Cecily was afraid of.
For a small child, the future was so big and uncertain that it was natural to be scared.
“What if that reborn Cecily forgets everything that happened until today, like it was a dream of hers? Can the newly born Cecily really be called the current Cecily?”
I thought Cecily was just taking a leisurely nap, but it seems she had a lot on her mind.
Actually, we were all curious about what Cecily was curious about.
Will the newly born children be the children we knew?
Even if they have the same face and voice, but go through the same experiences and grow up the same, are they really the same children in the true sense?
Maybe the Naru, Hina, and Cecily we knew will actually be separated forever.
We were actually curious about that too.
Barrrr-.
It was quite pitiful to see Cecily shaking.
I said that to Cecily.
“Okay, then do you want to make a promise to me?”
After picking up Cecily, who was lying in bed, I headed towards the garden where the moonlight was shining beautifully.
Morumoru was basking in the moonlight in the garden, and when I showed up, it quickly moved out of the way.
━Meow.
It was a place bathed in wonderful moonlight.
I dug the soft soil with my hands.
Then he took out a small scroll from the shadow and buried it inside.
“This is the treasure map I was going to give you when you turned seven. I haven’t told anyone yet, but I have a one-of-a-kind treasure. “I’ll bury it here and never tell anyone in the future.”
“…”
“Cecily, if you remember this, I want Naru, Hina, and you to come visit us together.”
“… What if I don’t remember?”
“No, I will remember. “Obviously.”
When will that day be?
The day when children go together to find the treasure written on the treasure map.