Obelia's Rose

Chapter 16

-OBELIA'S ROSE, CHAPTER SIXTEEN, BY VIICERENE

"CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY. YOU'D BE DEAD EVEN IF I GOT THERE A MOMENT LATER." He said to me. Athy was sitting beside me. She was looking at Lucas with a disappointed look.

"Seriously, why are these so good? Ask the maid for more when she comes in." He said. Lucas, you should tell me and Athy why are you in this room, or to describe it more, my room.

"Oh yeah, it turns out that your dad isn't the son of Aeternitas?" He asked. I looked at him as if he was dumb, while Athy looked at him with a weird look.

"Are you... An idiot? Aeternitas is me and Athanasia's Great-great-great grandfather." I said to him, tilting my head to the side. Athanasia was playing with her mana beast as mine just slept on my lap.

Everyone in this very palace and empire is looking at him as my savior now. I collapsed during daddy's tea time because the mana in my body was out of control.

And there wasn't even a single magician that was able to heal me, or even tell daddy what was wrong with me. In the midst of that, this idiot showed up in the palace and claimed that he could heal me. 

As a young, 'gifted' magician. Why is he acting all polite, ha? He then looked at me with his red eyes. "What, you want some of this? Wanna trade?" He asked.

That has his saliva on it. It would be insanitary for me to eat something that someone outside the royal family ate. "I do not want it, not trading," I said, bringing Whitey closer to me. 

"Your saliva is disgusting... You've lived for a long time. Who fucking knows what you've eaten."

"Even if that thing is the reason why you were like that in the first place?" He asked me. Huh? What does he mean by 'Even if that thing is the reason why you were like that in the first place?'

"What?" I asked. I wanted to make it clearer. "You keep touching it like that, so the mana got absorbed back into your body and caused all this hullabaloo."

"It's rare, but it seems that your mana has a strong will to return to you. Or you just have way too much." Lucas said.

Whitey was cuddling onto my chest. "T-then that means that Athy and I can't spend any more time with Whitery and Raven?" I asked.

He just laughed. "You take me for an idiot who can't even solve a puny problem like that? You think that I'd kill someone I just saved?"

Well, yes. You look like one of those evil magicians in the Book of Aeternitas. "No." I sternly said. "Your dad must really seem to care for you, huh?" Lucas said.

Well, of course, he does. Mommy died just for our sake and he's just going to let all her hard work go to waste? Well maybe he is keeping me and Athy as a spare, but we still love him deeply.

Even if we are destined to die on the guillotine.

"He tried to slay this thing the moment he heard it was the reason you were dying. It would actually be much more dangerous if he had since all the mana in this holy beast would just have flowed right back into your body." Lucas explained.

Wow, daddy tried to slay Whitey. Though, instead of glaring, this boy decided to giggle. If someone is on the verge of death, would you giggle?

Exactly. Daddy cried while he held mommy in his arms, asking her why he would always have to 'reveal all his cards like this.

Daddy must have loved mommy a lot to cry like that. Whitey was licking my fingers. "Then has Whitey and Raven been avoiding Athy and I because he thought that it might be dangerous if we kept sticking together?" I asked.