[IHTTMBW] Chapter 24

There was a shout of concentration outside the palace.

When I looked through the window, I could make out the figure of Euphil, who was training from the inside. The lights were out.

However, I knew the room’s structure because I was in it several times.

Although I could not find the way to it in the palace, I could recognise one large room.

No matter how spacious the room is or how wide that prison may be, it is still a prison.

‘Not letting him out of there… he’s just a ten-year-old child!’

I almost said out loud how crazy it was. I probably would have if Valk hadn’t been here. He was watching over me, as I had requested.

I put my face over the windowsill. Not knowing I was there, Euphi looked serious. He moved with his eyes closed. His blond hair seemed to be dampened with sweat.

‘He’s working so hard…’

He resembled a lonely water fairy. His movements were extraordinary, and I looked at him with my mouth agape.

Observing him like this, it was evident that he was a handsome young man.

Shining blonde hair and ruby eyes.

His eyes, which seemed a bit sharp, looked brutal when he was angry, but they looked rather striking when he was focused on something.

‘Let’s say hello.’

I looked at him for a long time before I finally started to speak, standing on tiptoes.

“Once upon a time, there was a water fairy.”

Euphil stopped.

The wooden sword in the darkness also stopped in the air. His ruby eyes opened wide as if he could not believe his ears.

In the moment that he turned his head toward the sound and found me outside the window, I continued.

“The water fairy had a golden apple tree.”

He stepped towards me with his eyes wide open. We faced each other from across the window.

Ruby’s eyes were fixed upon me. She looked nowhere else but at me and watched me in a daze.

“However, the King who offered gold to obtain the apples could not have the golden apple. And the knight who said he would protect the Fairy could not have the golden apple either.”

I smiled at him. His pale cheeks moved.

Now, his face seemed to be alive.

It was the fairy tale he and I knew.

The water fairy tale comes to mind whenever I think about Euphil, so I wanted to tell him the story.

“However, one day, a beggar boy asked the fairy of the water.”

“Myrthi.”

I had been concerned about his health, but I felt better as I looked at his face, so I cupped my chin with my hands and laughed.

One day, he told me he had already heard this story. Even so, he listened until I finished the fairy tale. His presence comforted me throughout reading it.

“When the King who had abandoned the Fairy called it worthless, the beggar boy told the Fairy of the water.

‘What is your name? Let’s be friends.’

This fairy tale was one of the fairy tales often told to young children.

Although Ante would never tell me a fairy tale, I had already read this fairy tale in my previous life before I was reincarnated into this novel.

I’ve liked this fairy tale since then but never thought I’d be telling it this way.

I smiled beautifully, allowing it to spread over my poker face.

In the fairy tale, the Fairy replied to the boy.

“The fairy smiled and told the boy, ‘My name is the golden apple.’”

The reason the Fairy has not exchanged the golden apple for gold or protection is because the golden apple was the Fairy itself. So the Fairy gave itself, the golden apple, to the boy who wanted to be its friend.

According to the ending, like a normal fairy tale, the boy and the Fairy were said to have been happy together for a long time.

“I am Myrthi.”

I probably won’t be able to obtain that same happy ending with Euphil since I have to run away eventually, but I still wanted to ask.

“Did you think about me during the past two months? Why did you help me after you told me to go away? Did you know that I am alright now?

And most of all, I missed you.

Oh, Fairy of the water, Fairy of the water. What is your name? Myrthi wants to be friends with you.”

So I asked the name of the water fairy, Euphil.

Rattle.

“…Euphil Raize.”

I smiled.

“Hehe….. hehehe…. I finally found Euvil.”

His twinkling eyes were unchanged even though two months had passed.

Ruby red. I smiled because I liked the colour.

And Euphil looked at my face for a long time.

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