CH 4

“Hey…”

Astonished by the man’s cruel behavior, even my tongue shriveled. Humans sometimes fight wildly, but this wasn’t a fight. It was an abuse that the strong inflicted on the weak.

Don’t hit my human!

I need to stop it. But how?

I still only know how to bloom.

Ah, right!

All he wants is my smashed body!

“Let it go…”

The moment I struggled and cried to let go, the child’s hand grabbed me so tightly that I couldn’t even breathe. Then he pressed his thumb against my face to cover my mouth.

He pushed me deeper into his arms and curled up his body a little more. In this situation, I couldn’t understand why the child was acting like this.

Are you doing this to protect me?

Even in a situation where it’s painful for yourself?

Tears welled up.

You stupid! That person can’t see me unless I allow it. He can’t even touch me. You don’t have to protect me like this!

“Let go! Let go!”

No matter how much I shouted over his finger to let me go, the child wouldn’t let me go. Rather, he gave more strength to his fist.

“Hah hah hah hah.”

Exhausted, the boy gasped and stopped his movements.

“Hey, bastard, I should just kill you.”

What? Kill?

As soon as the man slammed the door and left, the child scrambled to his feet.

“Whew.”

Gastric juice spilled from the child’s mouth. Everything he ate had been digested for a long time, so the only thing that came out of him was sour stomach acid. He cried because it was so painful that his fingers were numb.

“Let go!”

The child only held me tighter.

It felt like my stomach was going to explode.

This kid can’t hate me.

He just doesn’t understand what I’m saying.

I made up my mind to make a decision.

Just get out of this situation. I will teach you from the beginning.

Step, step.

All of my senses focused on the sound of the man’s dirty footsteps running wildly down the stairs. When he came back, it was clear that the man would torment the child more severely than before.

“Wahhh!”

In the end, I was so sad that I burst into tears. Then, at the same time, his hands lost strength for a brief moment.

Taking advantage of the gap, I jumped out quickly and fell to the floor in a hurry.

I took a deep breath on the cold floor. The light that came out of my breath flashed once.

Shaaa.

Grass grew on the floor where the light hit it.

I pulled the grass with all my might and then threw the grass into the child’s vomit. Then I climbed on top of it and ripped it to pieces and pounded it so hard that one couldn’t even recognize the shape. There was no time to explain, even as the child moaned blankly.

“Hah, hah, hah.”

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The man entered the room, waving a large stick.

“Hah, hah, hah.”

I couldn’t get up because my core felt like it was going to explode due to sudden overexertion. I lay face down and looked up gaspingly into the man’s gleaming eyes. I didn’t avoid the man’s eyes.

Creatures not permitted by the fairy cannot see the fairy.

The man looked intently at me and frowned.

“As expected, you ate it.”

Okay. People like you will never see me. He looked back at the child, who was clutching his aching chest. The child was staring blankly at me, not the crushed grass.

“Look carefully.”

I opened my eyes wet with tears under the shadow of the palms that covered me.

“He can’t see me, he can’t touch me. Only you can see and touch me. So don’t get hit to protect me.”

The man’s hand passed right through me.

“Ugh. Dirty.”

The man frowned and swirled at the vomit and grabbed the wreckage. As soon as he confirmed that he had all the pieces, he glared at the child and went out with a thud.

“…”

I was angry and all kinds of emotions were rising, and at the same time, the tears that had been accumulating in my eyes poured out again.

Bad guy. Why do you need grass that has already been trampled down? Why do you go after vomit? Why are you keeping this kid here and tormenting him so much? Why can’t this kid understand or answer me?

Painful doubts hit my core. As I listened to the sound of the man’s footsteps moving away, I rolled my eyes and headed towards the door.

Let’s find out why. If I follow along, I will find out everything. It was time to make up my mind to follow the man and try to cross the door.

Cling!

The sound of chains from behind could be heard as something grabbed my wings. When I turned around, the child came forward, reaching out to me. His messy, broken fingers were barely the size of a nail and struggled to hold onto me.

“Ugh.”

I couldn’t possibly go. The expression on the child’s face…

Without hesitation, I turned around and grabbed the child’s finger.

As soon as I touched him, the kid grabbed me with both hands and took a step back. He leaned against the wall as if he had been pushed hard and slumped down.

The child’s hand trembled. An uneasy breath hit me like a typhoon.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m not going.”

I traced the child’s chin and lips with consolation.

“Relax. I am by your side.”

~*~

I am a fairy

Fairies are omniscient and ignorant beings. They are born knowing the meaning of every word in the world, but in fact, it is as if they do not know it at all.

Just as you could know the dictionary meaning of the word happiness, you must experience it directly or indirectly to make your knowledge completely unique.

From the time I was a drop of water, I already knew that the feeling of experiencing something that I only knew is amazing. So when I imagine the time to get to know the world in the future, I should be very happy, but now I am depressed.

I glanced at the child with his head down as he grabbed me.

He is a human child.

The metal that bound his limbs was a restraint sphere. What the child has just suffered was violence. The sensation the child must have felt when being hit is pain. When I see a child like that, the emotion I felt was pity.

The narrow world I encountered for the first time as a fairy was the opposite of the pleasant world I encountered when I was a water droplet.

Deep underground where even the wind does not blow. It was so deep that the air was so thin that it was difficult to breathe. I was born as a flower in the middle of winter, so it was very cold here even though I had little resistance to cold. It was fortunate that the human child did not freeze to death.

I wiggled my body in his warm hands. Do you have a body with a lot of heat? Fortunately he does.

I glanced at it and, as it turns out, the child’s arm was covered in black bruises. What about the place that has been hit the most? I couldn’t even imagine.

“Let me go. Okay?”

I wanted to get some medicine. But it’s been a while since he was beaten and he didn’t let me go.

Patares.

It was then that the fairy’s powers came to mind. Even if a child catches me, I can escape with Patares.

However, I did not want to get out of the hand of the trembling child because he was afraid, so I gave up on being released and relaxed my body.

“Human.”

“…”

“Just say ‘yes’ once.”

“…”

“I want to hear you answering me.”

“….”

“I want to hear your clear voice. Don’t make a noise of groaning in pain.”

I tried to talk to him, but he was still holding me tight with his shaky hands, but he didn’t say anything.

His messy fingertips drenched my body with a damp red fluid.

…A dizzying fear was felt in the blood. After some time had passed, the boy was still in a state of panic that he couldn’t control himself.

The tremors of his hands hit my core like waves. I looked at his hair soaked in cold sweat with a strange feeling.

“You must’ve been really afraid that you would lose me.”

You didn’t mind getting hurt because you wanted to protect me. You are afraid of losing me.

“Cute…”

Even after I said that, I moved my body because I was sorry. But the pleasant tickling that spreads from the core to the top of my head made me honest.

It was pitiful to see the child frightened.

But to be honest, I really liked the heart that was the source of his fear, the heart that cherished me.

The feeling of realizing that I am also very precious to the person I like is an emotion in itself, making my body heat up and my breathing become rough.

What can I do? It is an undeniable fact that he has a good heart to care for me. So I’m just going to be a crooked fairy. And I will love you much more than you love me. Read only at pm tl.

I let out a big snort and grabbed the child’s finger.

“Relax! I am a great fairy. No one can take me away from you.”

Even though I knew he didn’t understand, I opened my chest and shouted loudly.

“I’ll wait until you’re relieved. When you calm down, let me hear your voice. Got it?”

Again, the child does not answer “yes” this time, but I can’t help it.

I’ve said all I have to say now. As soon as I was born, I suffered from all sorts of things, and I used too much energy to grow weeds in a hurry, and then I suddenly became tired. I had just been born so I needed to sleep.

I have to sleep a little bit and then wake up and tell the child to answer me.

I quietly buried my head in the boy’s hands.

The child’s trembling stopped.

The pale blue eyes that were hidden like a tortoise hidden in the shell are staring at me again. I smiled, blinking my heavy eyelids.

“Pretty boy. Thank you for protecting me.”

The hand of the child who protected me was very comfortable even though it was dry. I fell asleep for the first time in my life, in his hands that smelled like a child’s blood.