chapter 231
231 – They Say It’s Not Over Until It’s Over! #6
231 – They say it’s not over until it’s over! # 6
Ashy Cinderella was a scary scientist.
Flash-!
Naru trembled as the thick syringe needle glowed in the fluorescent light.
“… Naru, I hate syringes!”
Naru liked many things in the world, but she hated syringes.
It was because it was sharp and stinging.
Naru said that when she was in her mother’s womb, she suffered from a very serious fever.
The disease was quickly cured thanks to the efforts of her family, but Naru had to draw some blood every year and send it to her laboratory just in case anything went wrong.
That was the reason why Naru hated science.
“Hey!”
As Naru was trembling at the sight of the terrifying scientist, Cinderella, the ash-covered scientist, smiled evilly and said,
“I am a person who uncovers all the secrets of the world. Of course, we also have hints about the treasures of ancient Babylon. But I can’t give it to you for free. You should be my assistants.”
The ash-covered scientist had many problems bothering her.
She was looking for an assistant to research science and truth, and she thought it would be great if the children who came by at the right time helped her with her experiments.
“… Good!”
Hina answered willingly.
Hina thought it was fun to help with the experiment.
But Naru and Cecily frowned.
“Naru, I hate science… !”
Naru hated science.
Science felt cold and full of stinging syringes.
Naru hated science because he felt like scientists wearing cold, cold glasses would look at him emotionlessly as he lay on the operating table.
“I’m not interested in science either.”
Cecily didn’t particularly hate science, but she just wasn’t interested in studying it.
However, when she turned 7, Cecily, who had been rolling around in the mud, felt like she would grow up and study.
Knowledge is invisible, but it is like a jewel hidden in a safe.
The ash-covered Cinderella said.
“There are problems written all over this lab. If you answer all the questions correctly, you will get a hint piece. Don’t forget to look at the boxes carefully.”
With that feeling, the children decided to look for a box in this five-story building.
There were a lot of boxes inside this building.
There was a special device installed in the lock of the box, so if you tried to manipulate it, something like a strange phrase was displayed on the screen.
“Problem. What element symbol does ‘Na’ represent?”
What a science problem!
Naru felt like her hair she was standing on end.
But if you don’t solve this problem, you won’t be able to find dad’s treasure.
Then Naru and her sisters her ‘hard work her all day would have been meaningless.
“Ugh… Element symbol… Naru, I do have memories of learning from her … Science is hard and difficult … But she needs to face it straight …”
What is Na?
“Naru’s Na? As for Naru, is she actually Na/Ru? Naru is half father and half mother… “Na is probably my dad!”
Naru wrote ‘Dad’ in his answer her
Beep-!
Of course it was the wrong answer.
“Hey!”
Brigit, the scientist’s assistant who was watching this process, had many things she wanted to say, but she just stayed quiet.
Today is the day when children have to solve problems and get through it with their own strength.
Passyuk-.
Unsure of herself, Naru crawled under her box and hid.
Cecily discovered Naru’s leg her sticking out.
Cecily said.
“Naru, do you know what 2731 times 271 is?”
“740,101!”
The answer came in less than 5 seconds.
Cecily didn’t calculate it, but she had a feeling that Naru’s words were correct.
Naru was actually the smartest among her three sisters.
But she was typically the sister who let her talent go to waste because she didn’t ‘try hard’. Of course, Naru had his own reasons
“Science… ! It’s scary! When science advances too much… If you research science, the world will be in danger! “I might have to break up with Mom and Dad again!”
Naru vaguely remembered an accident that happened in her laboratory a long time ago. It was a memory of having to be separated from her mom and dad.
When she looks at science, her memories from that time come back to her.
A memory from a very, very long time ago.
In fact, it was the same for Hina and Cecily.
As Hina and Cecily got older, many things came to mind. Some were very sad and heartbreaking memories.
Today, as she held her octopus in the mud, Cecily remembered a long time ago when she had been rolling around in the mud and forest paths.
It was a memory of wandering through a dark, dark forest with her friend and her Melody her.
“It was a scary memory, but it was also a fun memory.”
Cecily said.
Then Hina, who was touching the glass bead next to her, also looked inside her bead.
The moment Hina touched this glass bead, quite a few things came to mind.
It was a memory of struggling through the cold back alleys of the city. It was a sad and difficult memory, but like Cecily said, it also brought to mind a lot of interesting things.
I met Horohoro and visited the basement where villains were gathered.
“Naru, to you too…” ” Good memories… There will be a lot…”
Hina and Cecily pulled Naru’s legs and pulled them out from under the box. Naru came out from under her box with a lot of dust on her face and looked at the problem again, cheered on by her sisters.
What the element symbol ‘Na’ represents.
Naru recalled her memories her her her her little by little.
“If you read it as the alphabet, it’s ‘I’…”
Naru’s memories of her slowly went back a long time and she brought to mind a garden bathed in warm sunlight.
Naru was sitting in her garden and dozing off, listening to someone teach her.
─ Naru can be written as Naru in her alphabet. And there are four elemental symbols hidden in Naru’s name her her her her. Let’s take a guess.
━ Bridgette, Naru is now 6 years old, so maybe her elemental sign is she too fast?
━No, Naru is smart. Right?
“Yep… ! Naru is smart…”
Ssuk suk suk-.
Naru vividly remembered her her hand her her her stroking her her hair her her her.
It was a memory of the day Naru learned about ‘Science’ from her mother. I also remembered that her father was watching Naru next to him.
Naru said she hated science, but she loved it.
Her science took her mother and her father away, but science kept her mother and her father together with Naru.
When she thought like that, she no longer had anything to be afraid of.
“Element symbols… ‘Ar’ is argon, ‘Ru’ is ruthenium… And U is for uranium… ! ‘Na’ was sodium! Naru’s name she has many different appearances! There are many different sides to science!”
Warak-.
Raising her her hand her her her, Naru wrote ‘Sodium’ on the lock of her box. Then her box her her her her burst open.
She had something inside it that could be called a fragment or piece the size of her palm.
“Let’s open more boxes!”
Naru now got her motivation and solved the science problems written in her box.
When a lot of pieces were collected, Cecily and Hina put them together here and there.
The pieces that were finally put together became something that could be called a large painting or photograph.
It was a scene where the sun was setting.
Naru, Hina, and Cecily remembered seeing this scene.
As the sun was setting after playing hard with her children, the red sunset on the way home while holding her father’s hand was just like this.
We would each grab an ice cream or cotton candy and chat loudly about the day’s events, and when we returned home, a delicious dinner was always prepared.
“Let’s go!”
Naru shouted.
Soon Cecily and Hina followed Naru outside the building.
# # # #
White snow was falling in the world.
It was so cold that the breath came out, but the children running somewhere didn’t even know it was cold.
So we finally arrived at the park.
Perhaps because of the white snow that fell, there were few people in the park.
Among the few people, Naru, Hina, and Cecily were able to find a familiar face and were hugged towards him.
“Isn’t it later than you think?”
The man, Judah, turned his back on the setting sunset and hugged the children.
It looked like a scene from a painting.
Cecily asked.
“What about the final test?”
“Doesn’t exist. Three is the end. Rather, look at the sun setting. Now is the perfect time. “Today’s day is ending like this—do you feel the same way?”
At the words of their father, the three children watched the sun set.
It was pretty, but it wasn’t really anything special.
However, perhaps because they spent the whole day wandering around the city, the children’s hearts were full of mysterious experiences and adventures.
Naru said.
“Today was fun!”
Cecily also nodded her head obediently.
“It was quite an adventure. Although it felt a little easy for me, seven-year-old Cecily… !”
“…”
Instead of expressing her feelings, Hina looked around.
Because I had a question.
“… After all, there is no treasure from the ancient kingdom… ? Treasures are memories in our hearts… ?”
An adventure with adults who played a clumsy role for the children today. Those memories could be said to be treasures that would nicely decorate a corner of a picture frame.
When I wondered if the treasure map was for memories like this, Judah said.
“No, treasure is something like sparkling gold or jewels. Or something like this.”
Zek-.
Judas took one of her keys out of thin air.
It was a fairly large key, about the size of Naru’s palm
“This is the ‘Shadow Key’. You can plug it in anywhere there is a shadow and use it like a door. And when you go through that door…”
When Judas inserted the key into a nearby wall, a door appeared in the air.
When the door was opened, there was a wide space inside.
“It’s a cabin! It’s so spacious!”
Naru shouted and entered the room.
There was a window in the strange cabin-like interior, and beautiful stars were twinkling beyond the window.
Hina and Cecily also entered the cabin.
I feel nostalgic somewhere―, the sisters all thought.
Zek-.
Hina placed the glass beads she got today on the table. She then brought a chair and wrote her name on it with shuriken.
“This is Hina’s seat.”
“Oh! Naru, I want to find a seat too!”
Naru also took one of her chairs and carved his name her squarely in the corner.
Cecily sat on the sofa next to the window in silence.
Everyone had such a familiar attitude that I didn’t even think it was my first time visiting the house.
Judah said.
“Since you are now 7 years old, I thought it would be good to have your own hideout. Only people with the key can enter this place. The gap in this dimension is your own space.”
The children were not listening to Judas.
Everyone was busy unpacking their luggage at their seats.
The man now slowly turned his gaze to look at the stars shining outside the window. Three shooting stars that shine brighter than any other stars are inside this cabin—the children said when they thought about it.
“Thank you, Dad.”
“It’s a good gift.”
“… “I won’t forget today.”
Judah turned his head in surprise at the voice, which was much more mature and beautiful than he expected.
Then, the women, who seemed to have grown up already, were looking at Judah and smiling like bright stars.
“What!?”
SSR, the highest level of princess power.
No, it was a sparkle that seemed to surpass that.
Is this really the UR grade you were hoping for?
“… What is this!?”
Judas began, touched her eyelids with her fingers.
When I opened my eyes again after massaging them for a while, the children had returned to the form of 7-year-old children and were running around the cabin.
It was truly amazing.