How Can You Pay Back The Kindness I Raised With Obsession?

“Huh?”

 

“From above, it looked like a piece of broccoli thinner than your little finger.”

 

“Wow, is that right?”

 

Was that why no one has come to rescue them yet? The poor broccoli might be drying out on the cold floor of the basement… 

 

“Wait a moment! Then the people up there haven’t known we were alive for several days.”

 

They both became thoughtful. It was Elliot who found his composure first.

 

“Daniel is gone, so he will tell them the news.”

 

“But why haven’t I heard from him yet?”

 

The young shaman from Billund, who had gone out, decided to give the contact to the old woman. However, the old woman only patted her grandson and drank alcohol, and showed no sign of receiving any communication at all. She was sure he got out safely, right? Would it take a long time to confirm that the war was over? Well, it might not be easy to persuade them since it was full of imperial troops who thought Billund was the enemy.

 

‘Let’s wait for now. He was tearing off delicious grilled mushrooms and putting them in his mouth.’

 

“Hammoni, Iannis, I’m sleepy.”

 

The child sitting on the old woman’s lap began to struggle to sleep, rubbing his eyes.

 

“Let’s talk about Yannal.”

 

“Oh, I want to hear it too.”

 

If it’s an old story, she also couldn’t use Sajok. This was especially true if it is an oral fairy tale that was not in a book but was only passed down through the mouths of grandmothers. She leaned closer to her in anticipation, and the old woman looked at her like that, lost in thought, and opened her mouth.

 

“Then let me tell you a story where the people of the empire are the main characters. “It is also a story about Billund’s first shaman.”

 

“Yes, I like it.”

 

“A long, long time ago, the Brillant Empire suffered from war for hundreds of years. Those with sacred powers not only oppressed those with magical powers by calling them blasphemous beings, but even committed massacres.”

 

“Oh my god…”

 

As she listened to it, it felt more like a historical story than an old story. It was a story she vaguely knew, having read in the history book that Luna and Luca were studying that a war had occurred about a thousand years ago. Anyway, it’s an interesting story to me, but wouldn’t it be a bit difficult and heavy to tell to a four-year-old? She was worried and looked at Yanis, who was already dozing off in the old woman’s arms with his eyes closed. It seemed like it was just a story told to her to listen to.

 

“It was a time when a war continued for a long time between wizards and those who called themselves messengers of God.”

 

The story goes that a male wizard and a saint who met as enemies on the battlefield unexpectedly fell in love. A forbidden love between a man and a woman who met as enemies. She didn’t hear stories like this because she didn’t have them!

 

“Huh, so? What happened?”

 

Suddenly the story became exciting and exciting. She stopped eating and listened to the old woman’s story.

 

“Eventually, the paladin who had a crush on the saint found out about their forbidden love and reported it to the Pope.”

 

“Wow, that’s really mean.”

 

No, but the paladin had a crush on the saint. Was this place too bad?

 

“So the Vatican tried to punish the saint, calling her a fallen sinner.”

 

“That’s too much.”

 

“If the saint was captured like that, she would be interrogated for heresy and destined to die. So the two of them ran away from the chase and ended up in this barren frozen land.”

 

“That’s too bad.”

 

If she had been born these days, it would have been a happy ending. Marriage between a person with magical powers and a person with holy powers was still rare and something people didn’t like to do, but it wasn’t something that would risk their lives.

 

‘The Pope also said he would gladly allow our marriage…’

 

Of course, even if the unlucky lovers in history were born today, they would not have been able to have children… 

 

“Then, among the children born between those two, the youngest daughter…”

 

“…yes?”

 

“She was born with special powers. A power other than holy power or magical power…”

 

The old woman continued to tell the story of the origins of the Billund shaman. What the first shaman went through, how she became an indispensable part of the tribal society here, and how she founded the family. It turned out to be about the history of the old woman’s family… No, he was bragging, but she couldn’t respond at all a little while ago. It was because she couldn’t hear anything.

 

“If you think about it, the shamans here are descendants of the empire.”

 

“Oh, well, by the way.”

 

“But how did those two have a child?”

 

Elliot asked the question she was about to ask first.

 

“Isn’t it known that children can’t be born between someone with holy power and someone with magical power?”

 

“That’s right. It is a combination of two forces that disappear when they become one.”

 

“After all, a folktale is just a folktale.”

 

“This is history, not a tale, Your Majesty.”

 

The old woman angrily refuted Elliot’s statement that it was just fiction.

 

“There is nothing impossible in this world. Our family’s founder found something that made it possible for forces that could not coexist to coexist.”

 

“What is that?”

 

“Egg bones and such…”

 

She had only heard of it as a legend, but she had never seen it in real life.

 

“Hot ice or something…”

 

She had never heard or seen this either.

 

“Snake’s legs…”

 

“Omg!”

 

Her voice echoed in the cave.

 

“Snake’s legs?”

 

At that moment, Mr. Harold’s voice, which she had heard a long time ago, repeated in her head.

 

“It’s a snake’s leg.”

 

When she had just gotten a job as a nanny at the Grand Duke’s residence, Harold apologized for misunderstanding me and gave me a gift.

 

“It’s a rare item that only appears once in a hundred years.”

 

The legs of a snake.

 

“Miss Hazel is a witch, so I’m giving it to you because I think she can use it for something useful.”

 

Yes, it has been really useful to her. In fact, the snake’s legs were of no use to her until then. 

Even after searching through books and asking academies and associations, she could not find the purpose or use of snake legs. So she put it in the herbal medicine cabinet in the cabin and forgot about it, but in fact, it was the solution that the two of them had been searching for all over the continent. After all, it is dark under the lamp. There was one more benefit from this strange adventure. All of Billund’s collateral royal families, who accepted that Billund had been defeated and that the dynasty had collapsed, accepted Elliot’s proposal.

 

“I promise to treat you as my master and be loyal to you.”

 

They decided to become the provincial governor of Billund and rule this area on Elliot’s behalf. They have earned the respect of the people of Billund, so the people will follow the new governor. All collateral royal families were destined to be exterminated if they were defeated in war. However, this was not a bad deal for them as they not only saved their lives but also became officials. Before parting ways with Iannis and his group, she gave him a farewell gift.

 

“It’s a cookie!”

 

She thought the reason he liked carrots as a snack was because there were no snacks. When she came up to the ground and gave him a cookie, Iannis threw away the carrot he was holding in his hand and grabbed the cookie. Elliot and she smiled happily as we looked at the happy child. One day, they would be able to see the happy smile of a child who would look like them, right?

 

* * *

 

“That woman, it’s not enough that she hasn’t accepted my marriage proposal yet…”

 

The parchment was cruelly crumpled in the witch’s hands.

 

“She left the Grand Duchy?”

 

Her face was also unattractively distorted, like parchment. The Empress, in the guise of a prince, looked at the witch in her true form with her piercing eyes.

 

‘I’m telling you, don’t make such an ugly expression on my face. You get wrinkles.’

 

Even just a few months ago, it was something she would have done out of thin air. But now she couldn’t say it out loud. Meanwhile, the witch increased her magical power at an alarming rate. The idea that if you don’t listen to her, you’ll be turned into a frog at the touch of a wave is no longer a bluff, but a well-founded threat.

 

‘You use other people’s bodies as you please without even knowing how grateful they are. Bring this, give me that.’

 

Lorraine, who could not overcome the witch’s bullying, regularly received information about the movements of the Archduke and Hazel, who were currently in the hands of her witch. By the way, she quit that fake witch, her nanny, so she thought she was doing it to become a grand duchess, wasn’t she? After visiting Billund, the number of sightings in the downtown area near the Grand Duke’s residence gradually decreased, but these days, they don’t appear at all. Instead, they are frequently seen in cabins in the woods and nearby villages, a few days away from the Grand Duke’s residence. It seemed like he had completely left the Grand Duke’s residence. There was no news that the Grand Duke had even broken up with her or that she had left the Grand Duke’s residence and visited the witch’s hut.

 

‘Is it true that the rumor that she abandoned the Grand Duke in love with another man is true?’

 

She was constantly looking for the secret to having a child with a man with holy power.

 

‘Anyway, when will I get my body back?’

 

Lorraine glanced again at the witch with one piercing eye. To get her body back, that witch must get her body back.

 

‘Surely that doesn’t mean she won’t keep her promise?’

 

Her soul could be trapped forever in her son’s body, and her son’s soul in the frog’s body. A terrifying thought made her shudder. Any thoughts of enlisting the help of a witch to promote her son’s reputation as the next emperor were dashed as soon as her body was taken. She worried every day and night that she would never be able to get her body back. She even thought about finding a warlock more powerful than that witch to chase the author away and get her body back. Of course, she also put it into practice.

 

‘The seeds were dry.’

 

She failed to find a competent warlock. But there was one final way.

 

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