[Notice: There was large chunk that was not translated in the previous Chapter which talks about Camille. I will be adding it when I get the time to MTL.]
I didnât miss the old manâs little murmur and kept my ears wide open.
âWhy is Camilleâs name being mentioned here?â
Camille was Dietrichâs birth mother who kidnapped me.
Donât tell me he knows Iâm Euclidâs kid? I squinted my eyes and waited for the old manâs next remark.
âI heard the child was dead, so it canât be.â
âGrandpa only say weird things.â
âIâm sorry to give you a headache.â
He smiled vaguely and pulled a candy out of his pocket.
âAre you giving it to Anissa?â
At my question, he stretches his gray eyebrows and nods.
âYes. So will you hear my stories often?â
When I didnât answer the old manâs unexpected request, he belatedly said.
âWhen Iâm talking to you, I feel like my head is clearing. Just like when we enter the temple of Eredia.â
I was stunned by the old manâs words and nodded around.
âIf he finds out I have an ability, I will be revealed.â
* * *
After attending banquets, I often followed Dietrich in and out of nature.
I made an excuse to watch if Leon was bothering Dietrich, but I had a greater purpose which is to see Josef who provided snacks whenever I met him.
âI might be able to find out more about Erediaâs powers through him.â
Marilyn seemed to be worried that I would lose my way in the big nature, but I stuck out my chest triumphantly, saying, âI would never do that.â
âAnissa will not lose her way.â
âItâs because nature is complicated.â
âThereâs also Detrie, right?â
I turned to Dietrich and grabbed his hand. At my urging, he nodded roughly as if he couldnât help it.
âAlright. The young master is brilliant so Iâm sure he wonât lose the princess.â
Marilyn nodded briefly as if she would trust Dietrich, not me, and gave me a snack on my bundle.
âAlthough if you are here, I can make you oat cookies.â
It seems that I was too proud of the strawberry candy that Josef gave me last time. Marilynâs face was full of sorrow, so I kissed her shortly on her cheek.
âIâll be back.â
Because Joseph is a believer of Eredia, he seemed to know her abilities very well.
âDessert is dessert, but Eredia must have other skills besides purifying the aura.â
I smiled at her and then followed Dietrich.
âAre you going to the old man again?â
He didnât seem to like me hanging out with Josef. It seems he doesnât like Josef very much, but when I think about it, Dietrich doesnât like anyone.
âYep. Are you coming later?â
âYeah.â
Since Joseph usually stayed in a laboratory connected to the Garden of Nature, Dietrich took me to the garden and left.
I stared at his cold back as he went further away without looking back and knocked on the door to the laboratory.
âGranpa.â
âYou came.â
Josef opens the door as if he had waited. He was a believer and alchemist of the goddess Eredia, and according to Marilyn, it was very weird.
âAlchemists are usually unbelievers.â
I entered the room, glancing at the huge table where the statue of a woman, which seemed to honor Eredia, was located.
âWhat were you doing?â
âI was making medicine. All the people in Lagrange have severe headaches.â
âBut granpa is not a doctor?â
âItâs not a common medicine for headaches, so Iâm making it.â
Josef clicked his tongue and sat me on a huge desk.
I moved cautiously so as not to hit the bottle of glass containing the medicine or smoke-filled suspicious powder.
âBecause Lagrange was cursed instead of gaining strength.â
âCursed?â
âYes, the curse of the demon Asmodeus.â
Joseph responded slowly to my words and poured the white powder into the green jar. Strangely, nothing smells from the pots that boil in the furnace.
âAre you here today because youâre bored?â
âYep.â
As he had finished his job, Joseph, comfortably seated in the armchair in front of me, and opened the book he had read to me last time.
Her myth, the adventures of Eredia when she was still human.
âSo you like the story of Eredia. Sheâs not the god the North believes in.â
âSheâs pretty.â
I inherited her abilities but I couldnât say that so I grinned and pointed at her statue.
Joseph turns over the book with a big smile.
âAs I said before, she had the power to move peopleâs minds to a certain extent.â
âReally?â
âYes. She couldnât make a man who hated her dearly love her, but she could make a person who had no feelings for her have a good feeling.â
âSo if the person doesnât have malice against me, I can do anything that makes me feel friendly and cute.â
Josefâs aura has never been touched by my purification, so the reason he treats me well is not because of my abilities, but I thought I could try it once.
As I looked up at him with big blinking eyes, he stopped talking and put a basket full of candies next to the table.
âKyaa!â
âDidnât you come here for this? Silly little one.â
I put a piece of white sugar in my mouth and focused on Josefâs words again.
âWhy is granpa here?â
âHmm?â
âThe Lagrange donât believe in Eredia.â
âItâs because Iâm interested in the devil. Iâm not as much of an enemy as Hera, the sun god, but Eredia once fought against the devil when she was a human being.â
âUhm?â
It was the first time I heard that. I thought Eredia was a god with no fighting power at all.
âShe was able to break the curse of the devil. Iâve dealt with holy water. I used her power to destroy the devil hereâŚâ
âThe devil?â
I waited for Josefâs next remark, but he shut his mouth as if he had made a slip of the tongue.
âWould you like to see the holy water? In the north, there is a deep dark shadow under the earth where a tree has no business to grow.â
As I put a lot of question marks on my face, Josef smiled faintly and brings a small sapling near the window.
Like the liquid in the jar earlier, it was a seedling with no smell.
âThis is called Holy Water (Shin Sung Soo). It has the power to suppress curses.â
âThis could be a little help.â
I looked up at him, holding a pot of seedlings in my arms.
âIf you want to give it to me.â
I wasnât sure if this wish would really move his mind, but Josef, who made eye contact with me, nodded with a kind face as if he were really my grandfather.
âIf you want to have it, take it. There are a few more.â
âThank you.â
I bowed my head politely.
âIf you are not a person who inherits the power of Eredia, you canât make seedlings grow, but just having them will give you some energy.â
âReally?â
âYes. Though Iâm quite sure it doesnât suit your brother.â
Josef continued his speech, stroking the tender leaves of the seedling.
âBecause Eredia and Baal are polar opposites. Baal is the only demon whom Erediaâs power does not work. Isnât your brotherâs shadow that of Baal?â
Is that why Dietrichâs aura was especially difficult to read? I nodded at Joseph with conviction.
âAt first I wondered if he had no emotions.â
âOh. Theyâre doing a small fireworks display in front of the gate today.â
âFayaworks!â
âThere wonât be many, but some merchants will also come.â
âI wan eat!â*
I blinked at Josefâs words. Children in Lagrange were banned from going out freely, but couldnât they go to the front of the bridge?
âDo you want me to take you?â
âYes! Yes! Yeess!â
I nodded with excitement. Joseph hugged me and slowly left the research laboratory.
Time passed by and the garden was already dark after hearing the story of Eredia or the Holy Tree.
âDetrie, too, please bring him.â
I entered the garden and pointed to him as if he were coming to pick me up at the right time.
âAlright. Letâs do that.â
Dietrich, who finds Joseph and me, quickly approaches us. Standing next to the grown-old-adult Joseph, the blunt, mature Dietrich was just a little kid.
âWhy are you laughing?â
âDetrie is small, too.â
He often gives me a scolding, saying Iâm too small to get on his bed easily, but if you look at it like this, isnât Dietrich small, too?
With a frown looking at my smiling face, he reached out to me silently.
âLetâs go now.â
âAnissa will go see the fayaworks with granpa.â
âWhat?â
âDetrie, too, come.â
âNo.â
Of course I thought weâd go together, but he shook his head in disgust. I panicked and came down from Josephâs arms and held his hand.
âWai?â (Why?)
âBecause Iâm not a kid.â
âBut you are a kid.â
Does it make sense that a nine-year-old boy is not a child?
But he said strange things that he was not young enough to care about fireworks.
âThatâs enoughââ
âDonât be stubborn and let us three go together.â
âWhy are you going?â
âArenât you both still young and canât wander in front of the castle alone?â
âThis grandpa isnât helping matters at all.â
Dietrich hated being treated like a child the most in the world.
âAll the more why he doesnât like Josef.â
Josef was the only adult in Lagrange to treat Dietrich as a child.
âWho is a child?â
âSo do you mean youâre an adult?â
âEnough. Only I and Anissa will go.â
Dietrich, so unlike him, took my arm in a fit of anger and dragged me behind his back. Josef smiled as if he found him funny.
âWhat will we do if you lose your way?â
âI donât lose my way.â
If I leave it alone, they might fight more, so I slipped in between Josef and Dietrich.
âGranpa. Anissa will go with brother.â
âItâs dark now. Will you be okay?â
âYep. Anissa is smart.â
âEven if Dietrich gets lost, I can just find the way.â
I nodded my head without worrying about it. I smiled confidently at Joseph and said goodbye then turned around.
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*머ę¸ęşź! â Iâm not sure how to translate this since Anissa said this with her baby language. 먚ěęşź? â If its like this, it says âI want to eat!â assuming sheâs talking about buying food from the merchants. But I went with âI want to go!â although I daresay, itâs pretty far. Should I change it to âI want to eat?â Confused af. @@
â Finally decided to change it to âWant to eat since Ch.26 talks about food. She sure likes foodâŚ