Isshiel and Chesha stared, wide-eyed, at the small, white flower.
The flower floated in the air, scattering a faint light.
They looked at the sparkling flower, then simultaneously turned to look at each other.
Both their eyes were wide with shock.
Their hearts sank.
‘The twins can’t know I’m a fairy!’
Originally, a secret wasn’t a secret anymore when too many people knew it.
Kieren had only told Belzeon, the heir to Vasilias County, about Chesha’s secret.
It wasn’t that he would keep it a secret forever; he would have told the twins later.
However, since they were currently participating in the Holy Prayer Meeting within the Holy Empire, only a minimum number of people were sharing the truth to maintain confidentiality.
So, Isshiel, who didn’t know anything, suddenly faced a situation where his younger brother’s body glowed and a flower bloomed.
“…!”
Isshiel, momentarily stunned, hurriedly hugged Chesha.
He wanted to hide the light flowing from his body.
He didn’t know what the situation was, but he instinctively felt that it wouldn’t be good for Chesha to be noticed.
However, Isshiel’s small body couldn’t completely cover Chesha.
It was then.
Hata opened his mouth wide.
Then, he snapped up the flower and swallowed it whole.
As the shining flower disappeared, the surroundings became dark again.
Chesha and Isshiel stared at Hata with dumbfounded eyes.
“Myaong!”
Hata pretended not to know, making a prim and innocent puppy face as if nothing had happened.
Unfortunately, eating the flower was in vain.
Soon, as if showing off, three more flowers bloomed again.
It was a pure white flower, as pure as the divine power used by the holy priests and holy knights of Hildeerd [a fictional religious order/nation].
A fragrant floral scent spread through the poisonous energy of the monsters.
The newly bloomed flower seemed so full of life that it felt like moisture would seep out if touched.
Isshiel, looking at the fresh flowers, suddenly murmured.
“…That flower you made back then, too.”
When Isshiel’s clothes were covered in juice stains at the banquet hall.
Chesha had created a flower to cover the stains on his formal attire.
Thanks to that, Isshiel was able to become the center of attention at the banquet hall.
Isshiel, realizing the truth behind the past, slowly closed and opened his eyes.
Long, platinum blonde eyelashes fluttered along with his moving eyelids.
Trembling lips uttered a small whisper.
“You were a fairy.”
“What are you doing, idiot! Are you going to stand around here all night?”
Karha shouted and approached.
He was frustrated that they weren’t looking for Kieren and were just standing still.
Karha, running with a sword dripping with monster blood and a fierce expression, widened his eyes.
“What, what… flowers?”
Theo, who had followed Karha, also opened his eyes wide.
Isshiel didn’t have time to explain anything to them.
Flowers began to bloom one after another.
Chesha was already holding a bouquet of white flowers in his arms.
Hata, buried in the flowers, flailed his front paws.
Karha hurriedly brushed the flowers off Hata and asked urgently.
“What are these flowers? Did the baby make all of these?”
Chesha was also flustered and couldn’t give a proper answer.
He was embarrassed by the flowers that had sprung up on their own without using fairy power.
Then suddenly, everything became quiet.
The rampaging monsters all stopped moving at the same time.
The ear-piercing screams also stopped abruptly.
In the eerie silence, the monsters all looked at Chesha.
Theo gasped for breath and looked around frantically.
“The monsters… I can’t believe it……”
Unlike him, who kept muttering to himself, the twins kept their mouths shut.
They were just staring at Chesha with hardened faces.
“……”
Hugging a bouquet of sparkling flowers, Chesha faced the monsters staring at him.
The pouring gaze of the monsters was so eerie that anyone would be afraid.
But Chesha wasn’t scared.
It was because those eyes felt more like a plea for help than murderous intent.
In this vast Holy Empire, Chesha was the only one who could understand the emotions of the monsters.
The monsters don’t want to kill humans.
What they want is just the peace of death.
His heart was pounding.
A thought kept stirring in his head.
He felt like he could give the monsters peace…….
No, he had to give it.
It wasn’t a thought that came to mind because of simple pity or compassion.
This was a duty.
The duty that Chesha had to do.
The duty that only Chesha could do.
“Monsters……”
Chesha moved his lips and spoke before he even realized it.
“Must get rid of monsters.”
The words that flowed out of his mouth became clear.
The hesitant voice became confident.
“It’s what Chesha has to do.”
But the twins didn’t answer.
A gloomy aura swirled in Vasilias’s red eyes.
“…Does it have to be you?”
Isshiel, who asked a quiet question, bit his lower lip.
He bit down hard until the blood drained and it turned white, then continued to speak.
“Other people can do it. Father and brother are killing monsters, and the priests and knights of the Holy Empire are also dealing with monsters.”
Isshiel looked like he was about to burst into tears.
The tearful voice asked resentfully.
“Why does it have to be you?”
Perhaps the twins instinctively sensed it.
That Chesha was now at a crossroads of change, and that once he chose, he could not turn back.
“Isshiel.”
Karha called Isshiel quietly.
But Isshiel shook his head wildly.
Isshiel hugged Chesha a little tighter and said to himself.
“What if my brother disappears like Mom?”
“That can’t happen. We’re family.”
“But, if it’s known that you’re a fairy and have this power……”
Isshiel’s breathing was strange.
He was about to hyperventilate.
Karha threw his sword down carelessly and covered Isshiel’s nose and mouth with his hands.
Isshiel closed his eyes tightly and took a breath.
The rapidly heaving chest slowly subsided.
Karha, who checked his condition, scolded him briefly.
“You’re so weak.”
Fortunately, Isshiel, who quickly recovered, glared at Karha.
Regardless, Karha took his hand away and made eye contact with Chesha again.
Karha pursed his lips for a moment.
He frowned and then sighed deeply.
“Do what you want to do, Baby. Well, Kieren and Belzeon might not like it, but I’ll protect you no matter what you do.”
The boy kissed his little brother on the forehead.
“Because I took up the sword for you.”
The eyes that held the little baby were serious.
Soon, Karha glanced at his twin brothers and added.
“And Isshiel… learned magic for you.”
Karha said jokingly that he should do that much as an older brother.
“Actually, Kieren will stop you from doing anything, right? Father has that much power.”
“…That’s right.”
Isshiel, who had only been listening, added a small word.
Karha paused for a moment and then whispered, staring at Chesha.
“So promise me you won’t leave.”
Chesha bit his lip.
He felt like he would say something strange if he didn’t.
Instead, he slowly nodded.
Karha smiled silently and then picked up the sword he had put down.
Chesha quietly reached out one hand.
The white flowers that filled his arms spread out like fireflies in the middle of the night.
Flowers bloomed around Chesha, and his body floated into the sky.
Butterflies began to flutter around Chesha, who was standing on the flowers.
The power of the fairy spread out, breaking through the darkness.
Now it was irreversible.
The fact that the adopted child of the Vasilias family was a fairy would be known to everyone.
But Chesha was also prepared.
Chesha whispered softly.
“Chesha will protect family, too.”
If he was kicked out of the Holy Prayer Meeting and Vasilias turned his back on the Holy Empire.
He would steal the Fairy Queen’s crown and bring it to Kieren.
He would fulfill his duty as a fairy, Richexia.
He would also fulfill his duty as Chesha Vasilias, the youngest and a member of the family.
Chesha burst out his power like an explosion.
Thousands of pure white flowers appeared in the night sky.
A dazzlingly beautiful rain of flowers began to fall.