The answer came immediately.
“Good.”
“…Huh?”
“Let’s do that.”
“……”
She answered without a moment’s hesitation, which made Belzerian even more concerned about the fairy.
“Don’t you need to think about it a little more?”
“About what?”
“No, I mean… releasing the fairies.”
Belzeon couldn’t help but chuckle at her question of whether he could decide so arbitrarily and if he was really okay with it.
The lips that had been tightly closed twisted up slightly.
Belzeon answered slowly.
“It’s not worth considering.”
The fact that the three brothers were working in the underworld by changing their appearances to adults.
The fact that Basilian had been holding the fairies captive were all strictly confidential matters.
Yet, the Enchantress knew everything.
If they had acted as subordinates of the underworld master and as Basilian, the twins would have already torn down the barrier and started fighting the Enchantress.
They would have used any means to subdue the Enchantress and brutally interrogate her until she confessed how she found out the secrets.
If necessary, Kiernan would have used mind control.
However, the three brothers persevered.
It wasn’t because the Enchantress was now the lover of Hylone, the traitor of the Holy Empire, not an Inquisitor.
They were enduring it because she was Chesha’s mother.
He suppressed the urge to tear down the red curtain and ask where Chesha was, and said.
“Because it’s about saving family.”
The Enchantress was silent for a moment.
Breaking through the thick silence, Karha took a step closer to the barrier.
“Why did you abandon her?”
Belzeon and Ishuel looked at him in surprise.
Karha stared straight at the fairy beyond the cloth.
“You abandoned her in an orphanage. Such a cute kid…”
A grinding sound was heard.
The eyes in his sharp gaze were as red as blood.
“You don’t want to play the role of a mother now, do you?”
Karha licked his fangs once with his tongue and asked again.
“You kept not showing up, and now you’re taking the baby to save the fairies, and making this kind of offer!”
As his voice rose, Ishuel grabbed Karha.
However, Karha immediately shook off Ishuel’s hand.
“Listen carefully, Enchantress. We don’t care what you’re thinking or why you suddenly disappeared.”
Karha took a deep breath.
“I’ll give you what you want. Fairies, money, someone’s life, anything.”
This time, neither Ishuel nor Belzeon stopped him.
Karha continued slowly.
“So, let the baby, Chesha… live as Basilian. Let that child live as Chesha Basilian, not the Enchantress’s daughter.”
It was clearly a threatening remark.
But because of his slightly trembling voice, it sounded like a desperate plea.
“You’re okay without Chesha, but we’re not.”
After speaking, Karha gasped for breath.
The other side of the barrier remained silent for a long time.
Just before the impatient Karha couldn’t stand it and tried to push it away with his hand, the Enchantress slowly opened her mouth.
“Don’t worry, this will never happen again. And…”
She spoke as if she had lived through hundreds of years.
“There is a destiny that you cannot avoid even if you don’t want to.”
Then, Hata, who had been quietly listening in the corner, suddenly sobbed.
The three brothers glanced at Hata, who was trying to hold back his tears, and then looked back at the barrier.
“It’s not up to me to decide where that child will stay, but… let me tell you just one thing.”
The Enchantress whispered with undisguised affection.
“Chesha also… likes Basilian a lot.”
***
The fairies were being held by Hylone.
It was already expected.
Only the Chains of Judgment could restrain so many fairies.
Belzeon promised to contact Hylone immediately.
However, since Hylone was hiding as a traitor, it was not easy to contact Basilian.
It was a week later that they had arranged to contact him.
Around the time of the Imperial Family of Palen’s birthday celebration, he promised to contact them then and release the fairies.
Basilian didn’t think he would break his promise.
He would definitely keep his promise for Chesha’s sake.
“…So.”
After all the agreements were over, Ishuel asked anxiously.
“Where is my sister?”
Chesha swallowed nervously.
She remembered the moment when she first planned this and told Jahan.
“I’m going to ask my mom to help me.”
Jahan, who knew who Chesha’s ‘mom’ was, turned pale.
However, he had no choice but to cooperate with Chesha.
As Chesha ordered, he first went to Hata’s hat shop to contact the Enchantress.
Hata, who had gone ahead and transformed into a beastman, greeted Chesha and Jahan politely.
And he had orchestrated this whole situation.
Now that he had rescued the fairies as planned, only the final emotional reunion remained.
Chesha fiddled with the flower on her neck.
It was a flower attached to modulate the voice of ‘Lichesia’.
She looked at the three brothers beyond the red cloth.
She was unfamiliar and awkward with them in the form of adult men, but she didn’t feel dislike at all.
No matter what their appearance, the fact that the three brothers were Chesha’s older brothers was immutable.
“Wait here behind the store.”
Chesha glanced at the cabinet set up in the back.
“Then I’ll leave… Please take care of me.”
After leaving her last words as Lichesia, she quickly took off the flower and ran into Hata’s laboratory.
Before the three brothers, whose patience had run out, destroyed the store, Hata quickly guided them.
“Come this way! Hata will open the door for you.”
Hata, who was nervous, had his tail tucked between his legs.
He lifted the curtain and placed his hand on the cabinet.
With a *thump* sound, the cabinet split open to the sides, revealing a hidden wooden door.
The door was too small for the three brothers, so they had to bend over a lot to enter.
Ishuel, the smallest, took the lead and grabbed the bronze door handle without hesitation.
Clang.
Clang, clang.
“…Uh.”
Ishuel, who was pulling the door, turned to Belzeon and Karha in embarrassment.
“The door is locked…”
Karha was about to draw his sword right away.
Just before he was about to smash the door, Belzeon pushed his brothers away.
And he carefully knocked on the door.
“Chesha.”
The three brothers held their breath and waited quietly.
After what felt like an eternity, a voice was heard.
“…Older brothers.”
It was clear pronunciation.
It wasn’t Chesha, who had difficulty speaking with a short tongue.
The three brothers were momentarily frozen by the fact that it wasn’t the young baby they remembered.
The first to come to his senses was Belzeon.
Belzeon quickly knelt down in front of the wooden door and asked.
“Chesha, is that really Chesha?”
Following him, the twins also squatted down on either side and waited for an answer with their ears perked up.
“Yes. But…”
A very dispirited word flowed out.
“I suddenly grew up. I’m not a baby anymore, I’m a child now.”
Chesha’s voice became even lower.
“It’s weird.”
Beyond the closed door.
Chesha was quietly pressed against the wooden door.
She debated about how to explain the reason why she didn’t appear to the three brothers right away.
After much deliberation, she came up with the excuse that her appearance suddenly changed and her strength disappeared, so she went to find her mother.
She had resolved to put on a show.
“I guess it’s because I’m not human.”
The more she spoke, the more her heart felt strange.
“Because I’m the only one who’s weird.”
No sound came from beyond the wooden door.
Feeling the silence, strange emotions swirled.
It was like pouring out not smoke but real innermost feelings….
The daughter of a crazy fairy.
A being that everyone feared and avoided, not human.
Chesha involuntarily blurted out.
“I feel like I’ve become a monster.”