The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 97

As expected, the black magic on the fairy was released.

However, Chesha couldn’t be entirely happy.

She glanced at Kiern.

His face was as grim as ever.

“…Hah.”

He let out a short laugh.

It was a laugh that concealed a whisper: ‘I should have killed her.’

Kiern looked as if he was about to commit murder, but upon feeling Chesha’s gaze, he immediately smiled.

“Chesha.”

He drawled her name, his voice dripping with honey.

“What did you just do?”

Just as Kiern had done earlier, Chesha pretended not to know and brazenly replied.

“You looked like you were in pain, so I healed you.”

“Oh, is that so.”

Kiern’s eyes narrowed.

It was pointless to try mind control again, so he was contemplating what to do.

The gaze fixed on the fairy was as eerie as a snake’s eyes.

His eyes alone seemed capable of tearing the fairy to pieces.

‘To go as far as mind control to hide something…’

The fairy’s condition didn’t seem normal.

As she gradually regained consciousness, her emerald eyes filled with despair.

The fairy looked at Kiern with fearful eyes.

And she despaired as she looked at Chesha in his arms.

“Why would the Queen be with such a person…?”

Chesha tilted her head.

‘Did she just call me Queen?’

Just as she was bewildered whether she had misheard, the fairy glared at Kiern and spat out words in a voice filled with resentment.

“Vile creature. You have blinded the Queen and blocked her ears.”

The fairy bit her lip and pleaded with Chesha.

“Please, come with me to the kingdom. Everyone is eagerly waiting for the Queen.”

She looked as if she would burst into tears at any moment.

“The throne has been empty for far too long.”

Queen? Throne?

Chesha opened her mouth without realizing it.

In the history of the continent, there was only one official record of the Fairy Queen.

Hundreds of years ago, the Queen offered her crown to the Holy Emperor of the Holy Empire.

That was all.

The rest were all fairy tales, legends, and unofficial histories that humans had made up as they pleased.

So Chesha vaguely thought that after offering the crown to the Holy Emperor, the Queen had also hidden in the kingdom created in the Reverse World [a hidden realm accessible through specific portals or magical means] with the other fairies.

To suddenly be called Queen was bewildering.

Chesha was blinking, unsure of what to say in this unexpected turn of events.

“The fairy is talking strange nonsense…”

Kiern whispered, holding Chesha closer, saying she must be like that because she was in a lot of pain.

“Don’t listen, Chesha.”

The fairy, who had been teary-eyed since earlier, finally shed tears.

“You don’t believe me.”

“No, that’s not it…”

Chesha was even more at a loss, fidgeting her hands at the sorrowful words.

She quietly shed tears and requested.

“Please, listen to my story.”

Kiern scoffed.

To prevent the ill-tempered man from tormenting the fairy, Chesha held onto his arm tightly.

And she listened to the fairy’s story.

***

Hundreds of years ago, the Fairy Queen was captured by humans.

The fairies tried to retrieve the Queen.

In the process, many fairies were hurt, disappeared, captured, and annihilated.

The effort was abandoned when they learned of the Queen’s death.

Fairies are beings made of spirit, and their center was the Queen.

Because the Queen and the fairies were connected, they felt the Queen’s death and wept in sorrow.

There was no time to recover from the sadness.

Because a new Queen was born.

The fairies wanted to protect at least her.

However, for some reason, even though the birth of the new Queen was clearly felt, no trace of her could be found.

Despite all efforts, the fairies who failed to find the Queen hid from humans.

In the kingdom created in the Reverse World, the fairies lived without a Queen.

In the absence of the Queen, their power gradually weakened.

Suddenly,

Strange things appeared in the human world.

They were neither human nor fairy.

The energy of those things gradually grew stronger, so much so that it was felt even by the fairies who had left the human world and were hiding in the Reverse World.

The situation where the world was shaking could no longer be ignored.

The fairies had been coming out of the kingdom little by little to investigate since a few years ago.

She was also a fairy who was conducting investigations in the human world.

She was concentrating on the investigation…

At some point, her consciousness was cut off.

When she regained consciousness and opened her eyes, she was on an unfamiliar street.

With no memories, like a blank sheet of paper, and with wounds on her wrists and ankles as if she had been tied up somewhere and barely escaped.

Since she had lost all her memories, she initially thought of herself as a human.

She wandered the human realm and became a target of bad people, and just before she was about to be subjected to terrible things, she used the power of a fairy and some of her memories returned.

Once revived, the memories quickly returned.

But the misfortune started then.

For some reason, her mind was damaged.

She could feel herself going crazy, but she couldn’t recover on her own.

She was just gradually collapsing.

In the meantime, the fact that she was a fairy became known, and she was relentlessly chased by slave hunters.

In the end, even her consciousness was not clear.

She lost all reason and moved only according to instinct.

Then, at some point, she felt a pull and chased after Chesha.

Spreading the Reverse World was the last of her power.

“Meeting the Queen is fate.”

The fairy said with joy and conviction.

Her eyes shone with the hope that all the twisted and distorted things would be set right.

“Please return to the kingdom with me.”

Too much information was pouring in, and she felt like her brain was paralyzed.

Chesha calmly pointed out to her, who was rejoicing with hope for a rosy future, that the previous Queen had died hundreds of years ago, so her mother couldn’t be the Fairy Queen.

“The Queen’s blood must have continued somewhere. If you return to the kingdom, you will be able to know the details…”

The fairy smiled, looking at Chesha quietly.

“Logic is not important. Didn’t you feel it too? The intuition that we are connected.”

The fairy, trying to persuade Chesha in any way, was desperate.

But Chesha couldn’t listen to the fairy’s plea.

“Not yet.”

“Why…?”

“I have work remaining.”

Hope and despair crossed between the human and the fairy at the firm answer.

But a promise was a promise.

Chesha had to hand over the Fairy Queen’s crown to Kiern.

‘And even if I’m really the Queen, it’s funny to suddenly go to the kingdom and act like a Queen overnight.’

Chesha was far from such an elegant position.

Because Chesha’s true nature was the Enchantress Richessia.

Chesha patted Kiern’s arm with her hand, who was busy smiling brightly because he was so happy.

Because it was time to say something he would hate.

“But I’ll definitely go someday.”

Hope and despair crossed again, and this time the fairy had a happier face.

It was a place she had to go to solve the body that had been fixed as a baby anyway.

‘Of course, even if I go, I won’t stay in the fairy kingdom forever.’

She swallowed the words that didn’t need to be said now.

Kiern’s shadow under his feet had been ominous since earlier.

The way it kept wriggling and lengthening looked like it would run wild at any moment.

There were still many things she wanted to ask, but it seemed like she had to quickly release the innocent fairy and send her away before she disappeared.

‘She said she started coming out of the kingdom a few years ago, so she wouldn’t know about my mom.’

Specific things could be asked when she visited the fairy kingdom later.

Chesha, having finished thinking, gathered her strength.

The vine flowers that bloomed from the floor wrapped around the chains of condemnation.

The sacred object containing divine power was wrapped in flowers and emitted a white light.

However, as long as the owner, Hylon, was far away, it couldn’t withstand Chesha’s power.

Chaeng, with a clear sound, the chains shattered into pieces.

Amidst the scattering chain fragments, Chesha stared into her eyes and firmly swore.

“I’ll definitely go. I promise.”

The fairy’s freed body floated in the air.

Her hair fluttered in the room where not a single breeze blew.

Small flowers bloomed at the fairy’s feet.

It wasn’t as fancy as Chesha’s magic, but it was as peaceful as a meadow full of wildflowers.

She gathered her hands together.

Light swirled in her clasped hands.

The fairy carefully held out the flower she had created.

It was a bright yellow sunflower.

“I will be waiting.”

The fairy, holding a sunflower in her arms, left a kiss of worship on Chesha’s hand.

Chesha’s eyes widened.

A butterfly pattern shone on the back of her hand.

The pattern flashed briefly and then disappeared without a trace.

As if to prevent anyone from touching it.

“It is a token to find the kingdom.”

The fairy glanced at Kiern and whispered.

“Whenever… whenever you want. May the time of parting be short, and the moment of reunion be eternal.”

The fairy’s body was wrapped in small flowers and butterflies.

Just before disappearing completely.

“Be careful of that man.”

The fairy left a final warning.

“He is as cunning and vicious as a black viper…”

She disappeared.

All that remained was the scent of flowers.

Kiern had been silent until then.

He licked his dry lips with his tongue, then grabbed Chesha’s hand.

And he stared at the small back of her hand.

As if looking for something already invisible.