The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 150

The Fairy Kingdom, a vast Phantasm Domain [a realm of illusions and dreams], was breathtakingly beautiful.

The landscape, teeming with flowers, trees, and diverse plant life, resembled nature’s most spectacular moment frozen in time.

A space crafted entirely from natural elements, devoid of any artificial structures.

The stark white chain that suddenly intruded upon this idyllic scene felt jarringly out of place.

Chesha knew all too well who wielded that chain.

The one who had relentlessly pursued her had finally breached the Fairy Kingdom.

Chesha was stunned.

‘No, how on earth did he find me?!’

Even Chesha, a fairy herself, had struggled to locate this hidden sanctuary for a long time.

While marveling at Hylon’s [referring to the chain’s owner] tenacity, she also felt a strange sense of relief.

He always found Chesha.

No matter where she sought refuge, even if she was lost in a fantasy detached from reality.

‘I truly believed no one could reach me here.’

The slightly intimidating feeling of isolation lessened, if only a little.

It was as if she no longer felt entirely alone.

However, unlike the relieved Chesha, the other fairies were growing increasingly hostile.

They glared at the chain with animosity.

Lia, in particular, who had previously suffered under the Chain of Atonement [a magical binding artifact], fixed it with an especially fierce gaze.

Chesha observed their aggressive demeanor, as if they were poised to shatter the chain into a million pieces, and thought to herself.

‘Weren’t fairies supposed to be pacifists……?’

It seemed to contradict everything Chesha understood about them.

A chilling aura emanated from the chain.

A cool energy slowly permeated the soft, warm air.

It was an energy that made the skin prickle.

Rumble, a deafening thunderclap echoed once more from the dark clouds overhead.

It sounded as if another chain might plunge down at any moment.

The rabbit doll hanging from her arm flailed its limbs erratically.

Its blunt cotton feet struck her repeatedly, causing a dull ache.

She tugged on the rabbit’s ears to silence it before it could start spouting nonsense again.

“The Queen has a Queen’s duty to… Keuk.”

The rabbit doll emitted a garbled noise and fell silent.

After roughly repositioning the doll on her shoulder, Chesha reached out and touched the chain.

Flower vines sprouted at her feet, twisting and snaking their way up the chain.

Butterflies materialized and fluttered around Chesha.

As a dazzling light shimmered, the vines tightened their grip on the chain.

Creak, the chain emitted a harsh, metallic groan.

“…….”

Chesha frowned slightly and exerted even more force.

A gust of wind whipped up, causing her hair and clothes to billow wildly.

The flowers swayed, and the fallen petals swirled around Chesha like a miniature tornado.

And the moment the vines constricted the chain with overwhelming force.

A sharp cracking sound reverberated through the air, and the chain shattered.

The chain crumbled into motes of white light and dissipated.

Chesha, after releasing a soft exhale, slowly turned around.

The fairies stared at Chesha, bathed in the sparkling light, as if entranced.

“Ah…….”

Someone gasped softly.

It seemed that Chesha’s display of fairy power had deeply impressed them.

What had been mere admiration now bordered on worship.

Chesha, feeling awkward under their intense gaze, said.

“I’ll take responsibility since this happened because of me.”

Hylon was someone she had clashed with more than anyone else.

He would likely realize that Chesha had broken the chain.

‘He’ll know I don’t want to leave, so he’ll wait for a while.’

Of course, his patience wouldn’t last indefinitely.

“As I said before, I can’t remain here forever.”

Chesha said soothingly, making eye contact with each of the fairies in turn.

“Because there are people waiting for me. Those people might do something that endangers the Fairy Kingdom, like what just happened.”

This place was the fairies’ last sanctuary, a refuge from humanity.

She didn’t want to jeopardize such a precious space, so she pleaded with them with genuine sincerity.

“I’m not saying I’m abandoning you forever. I’m just…….”

Chesha paused, lost in thought.

A problem that had plagued her for a long time.

A crossroads where she could only choose one path.

Whether to live as Richessia [her human name] or as Chesha Basilian [her fairy name].

She now understood the answer.

“I don’t want to sacrifice either part of myself.”

She had known from the start that it was an impossible desire.

But she wanted to try as hard as she could to make it work.

Because both sides of her life were too precious to relinquish.

“So, help me.”

Chesha requested with unwavering resolve.

The fairies fell silent, considering Chesha’s plea.

Lia quietly spoke.

“…The Queen grew up among humans.”

She murmured in a voice tinged with sadness.

“So, you have come to love them as well.”

Lia smiled, though her eyes seemed on the verge of tears.

“If we demanded that you only focus on us, it would be like a child throwing a tantrum.”

She whispered in a gentle and understanding tone.

“What do you need from us?”

“I want to learn about my mother.”

She asked if they had ever seen a fairy who resembled her, but they all shook their heads.

Chesha hesitated and rephrased her question.

“Then… what was the previous Queen like?”

If she truly possessed the Queen’s bloodline.

The previous Queen would have to be connected to her somehow.

But Lia shook her head once more.

“Hundreds of years have passed since the previous Queen disappeared.”

Although fairies possessed long lifespans, they were not immortal.

A new generation had risen in the intervening years.

None of the remaining fairies had any memory of the previous Queen.

“However…….”

Lia carefully gestured towards the tree at the heart of the kingdom.

“The Fairy Tree was grown from the seeds left behind by the previous Queen.”

It was the pillar that sustained the Phantasm Domain and the very root of their kingdom.

She said, gazing at the colossal tree known as the Fairy Tree.

“It sometimes triggers inexplicable phenomena, so perhaps you will find what you seek there.”

Chesha looked up at the tree.

Even with her head tilted back as far as it could go, she couldn’t see the top of the tree that pierced the sky.

She looked at the verdant tree and smiled at Lia.

“Thank you.”

She was impatient to begin.

Chesha eagerly placed her hand on the Fairy Tree.

A small hand pressed against the giant tree.

The fairies joined hands and formed a circle around Chesha and the Fairy Tree.

They began to sing, and flowers bloomed around them.

As the songs and flowers accumulated, light began to emanate from the Fairy Tree.

Chesha glanced at the rabbit doll.

The rabbit doll had been uncharacteristically silent.

“…….”

She was unnerved by the chattering doll’s eerie quiet.

The rabbit doll, breaking its silence, raised its short arms and covered its button eyes with its long ears.

It looked as if it was wiping away tears.

No tears appeared, as it was just a doll, but it conveyed the image of profuse crying.

Suddenly, the rabbit doll spoke.

“I’m not sad. I’m not in pain. I’m not lonely.”

Chesha, who had been blinking slowly at the rabbit doll’s words, shuddered.

A cracking sound echoed, and the tree trunk split open.

Before she could even gasp, Chesha was pulled into the Fairy Tree.

In the midst of the pitch-black void, only the rabbit doll’s voice could be heard.

“There is joy because there is pain. There is birth because there is death.”

Ticking, ticking, the faint sound of a clock ticking echoed from somewhere and then vanished.

At the same moment, Chesha opened her eyes.

She knew instinctively, a tingling sensation washing over her.

She had crossed into the past, hundreds of years ago, piercing through the cracks of time.

For a moment, she believed that the Fairy Tree had transported her to the past.

But that wasn’t the case.

Rather, the Fairy Tree had merely helped Chesha awaken her ‘senses.’

‘The Fairy Queen, so, I am…….’

Chesha realized, feeling the new senses flooding her body.

‘I can travel through time.’

The visions she had witnessed in the white room of the Holy Empire [a powerful religious organization] or in the passages of the Phantasm Domain were not simply fragments of memory.

They were all moments when Chesha had journeyed back to the past.

Before she could even revel in her newfound understanding.

Chesha covered her mouth at the horrific scene unfolding before her.

A bloodied blonde woman lay on a cold, white experiment table.

She saw it clearly this time.

The woman with the same pink eyes as her.

Chesha’s mother and the previous Fairy Queen…….