The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 152

I knew the rabbit doll was no ordinary object.

Just the fact that it could talk was already far from normal.

The remarks it threw out one by one while playing the philosopher also had a strange way of piercing through Cheshire’s situation.

So, I expected it to be some kind of mysterious being.

‘It was the crown.’

Cheshire hugged the rabbit doll tightly.

It might sound a little funny to say this…….

But it felt like receiving something inherited from my mother.

The soft cotton doll looked up at Cheshire with its round button eyes.

As if to comfort her with its clumsy paws, it patted Cheshire’s arm awkwardly.

Being comforted by the soft patting, Cheshire thought.

‘Does the crown know all the truth?’

It was unlikely.

Because after her mother went berserk and disappeared, the crown had been sealed in the Holy Empire for a long time.

Even if it knew all the truth, it didn’t seem willing to tell Cheshire honestly.

The rabbit doll ultimately did not answer Cheshire’s questions clearly.

It only vaguely laid out cloudy and ambiguous words.

‘It might have crossed time.’

Circumstantially, that was the most plausible hypothesis.

But if so, who on earth was Cheshire’s biological father?

She had always guessed that she was born from an unwanted relationship in the lab, but the priests’ attitude toward her mother was dry.

She even felt a hint of fear.

Judging from the fact that they tried not to make any unnecessary contact, it seemed that Cheshire’s biological father was not among those who were crushed to death in the thorny bushes.

Thinking about the empty space in the puzzle that had not yet been filled, Cheshire slowly looked down at her palm.

It would be best to find the time period her mother might have gone to.

But the newly awakened power could not yet be used freely.

It might be because Cheshire had not yet fully awakened as the queen, but more than that, it felt like it was not a power that could be used at will from the start.

‘There are still so many things I don’t know.’

But she knew much more than before.

Cheshire now knew her mother’s face and voice.

And the fact that her mother loved her…….

That alone gave her the energy to keep moving forward.

Cheshire pressed down on the rabbit doll’s head with her hand and said.

“Let’s do well, Rabbit.”

When she thought about the various things the fairy queen’s crown had done to her, she was honestly furious.

But in the current situation, it was the existence that could help Cheshire the most.

Now that things had turned out this way, she was going to forget the past and try to get along well.

When she stroked its head with her hand, the rabbit doll fluttered its ears in protest.

“I am the crown of the fairy queen. Although I have taken the form of a humble creature, my essence is that of a great fairy……!”

“Are you going to announce to the whole neighborhood that you’re a crown?”

“…I will allow you to call me Rabbit.”

Of course, the protest was immediately suppressed.

Cheshire chuckled at the drooping rabbit ears and placed the rabbit doll on her head.

The rabbit doll’s arms and legs drooped from her head.

It was a slightly funny shape for a crown, but she didn’t care as long as it functioned properly.

Cheshire closed her eyes and drew up the power flowing from within her body.

She felt the sensation of intricately intertwined times passing by.

Soon, she broke through the darkness with a blooming flower, escaped from the cracks of time, and returned to the present.

***

Cheshire slowly opened her eyes.

She had been in the dark for a long time, so her suddenly brightened vision could not adjust.

She frowned slightly and waited for her eyes to get used to the light.

After some time, the surrounding scenery gradually became clearer.

“…?”

Something had been strange since she couldn’t see properly.

Because she couldn’t hear any of the voices of the fairies who should have been happily welcoming her back.

None of the fairies who sang and surrounded the fairy tree were visible.

At first, she thought they had all left for a while, but…….

“There are no flowers at all.”

It was a fairy kingdom full of countless flowers.

Not a single flower could be seen in this place, where the dense floral scent used to surge like a wave.

Cheshire looked up at the fairy tree she had been sucked into.

The fairy tree, where various flowers had bloomed, was also clean with all its branches and stems.

As if it had never bloomed with various flowers, it had simply returned to being an ordinary tree.

In the fairy kingdom where fairies and flowers had disappeared, only blue fields stretched out endlessly.

Cheshire, who was awkwardly looking at the desolate space filled with only green, pulled down the rabbit doll that was still on her head.

She shook the rabbit doll, making its long ears flutter, and asked.

“Don’t you know anything?”

“…….”

It was a rabbit doll that remained silent when it was disadvantageous.

This time too, it shut its mouth and pretended not to know.

Cheshire stared at the rabbit doll with absurd eyes and asked.

“Am I going out of here?”

“…….”

Judging from the fact that it kept silent, it seemed like she could act as she pleased.

Cheshire decided to leave this place for now.

‘Because it seems like no one is here.’

She didn’t know where they had all gone, but it seemed much better to go out and look for them than to wait in a place where no one was around.

She was also anxious in case something had happened…….

‘Hylon didn’t do anything bad, did he?’

Recalling the chains of condemnation that had struck the fairy kingdom before she fell into the cracks of time, she couldn’t wait quietly because she was so uneasy.

Cheshire approached the golden gate.

When she placed her hand on the huge door, it opened willingly, unlike her first entry when she had hacked it with an ax.

Squeak, light poured through the opening door.

As soon as she took a step, she was immediately connected to the Phantasmagoric Realm [a dreamlike, surreal dimension].

Since it was her second time, she wasn’t flustered this time, and she went back up the rabbit hole-like passage.

She looked for the pocket watch among the floating objects from time to time, but it was nowhere to be seen.

Was the watch she saw really Kiernan’s?

She thought she should subtly ask Kiernan to show her his watch later.

She was also curious about what the word ‘ROSE’ written on the inside of the lid meant.

“Whoa!”

Cheshire finally came out of the Phantasmagoric Realm and took a deep breath.

It was reality.

She had stayed in the Phantasmagoric Realm for a long time and had even traveled to the past hundreds of years ago through the cracks of time.

So, she was very happy to be back in reality after a long time.

“But where is this?”

Cheshire blinked her eyes in confusion.

That’s because usually when you enter and exit the Phantasmagoric Realm, you return to the place where you were last.

Normally, Cheshire should have returned to the square of the Holy Empire.

That’s where she was dragged to the Fairy Kingdom by the crown.

But the scenery in front of Cheshire’s eyes was completely unfamiliar.

A forest lush with greenery.

This was a place she had never been to before, where the chirping of mountain birds could be heard clearly.

Tilting her head, she first took a leisurely stroll.

After walking for a while, she heard a sound of seagulls from somewhere.

And not long after, her vision cleared and a blue, undulating horizon unfolded.

Cheshire was completely embarrassed and muttered.

“The sea……?”

A forest located on a high hill, a harbor town located below it, and the blue sea.

She stared blankly at the surging sea.

She had no idea how she had fallen near the sea.

‘Could it be that the Holy Empire has been submerged in the meantime?’

While imagining something absurd for a moment, she stuck the flower that hid her presence on her forehead.

And she carefully went down to the village.

The seaside village was very lively.

The salty smell of seawater filled the air, and seagulls flew in the sky.

The market was selling fresh, wriggling fish and various seafood.

In the islands located inland, most people ate salted fish, so it was hard to see something this fresh.

Cheshire, who was looking around with curious eyes, stopped in front of a store.

Through the window, she could see a calendar hanging on the wall inside the store.

Cheshire checked the date on the calendar and rubbed her eyes with her hand.

But the date on the calendar remained unchanged.

“…N, no way.”

Denying reality, she quickly looked for another store with a calendar hanging.

But they were all the same.

Standing blankly in the middle of the market, Cheshire muttered with a pale face.

“This is a disaster……”

After Cheshire disappeared from the Holy Empire Square.

A whopping year had passed.