[Prologue] The story after 13 years
[Prologue] – The story after 13 years.
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Currently, dozens of fireworks were shooting outside the window compared to the dark room I was in. Beautiful fireworks in various shapes and colors.
Outside the window, green firecrackers rose high into the sky and exploded with a bang, crashing into the black night sky like stars. It was so beautiful that I involuntarily bent my head to look at it.
As expected from fireworks celebrating the succession to the throne, each fireworks was magnificent and splendid. Under the castle, a celebratory party was held, and the soft sound of singing began to be heard.
I would have liked to go to the window and watch the fireworks, if possible, but right now I couldn’t do that at all. I lowered my head and looked at the chair I was sitting on.
“How did this happen..?”
Sitting on the chair, my upper body was bound with a rope. My hands and feet were tied, so I couldn’t even get up from my chair. Wasn’t it fortunate that the mouth was not blocked?
As I struggled to free myself from the restraints, the wooden chair I was bound to scratched the marble floor and made an unpleasant noise. I sighed and turned my head to look at the window again.
13 Years.
It has been 13 years since I became possessed by the ‘Snow White’, a ‘parenting simulation game’. In the meantime, I thought I had raised ‘Snow White’ well in my own way, but…
As expected, is it wrong to be possessed by the stepmother ‘witch’?
Whether in the game I possessed or in the original fairy tale, Snow White’s stepmother met a terrible death. Dancing in iron shoes over a fire… Or such a terrible death.
At first, I took care of ‘Snow White’ to avoid such an ending, but now that time has passed, the princess and I have become so close that it would be fair to call them mother and daughter.
So, I thought I wouldn’t die like the game or original work, but…
Kikki-
I was chewing on the memories so far, as if I was recalling a kaleidoscope, when the door opened and a bright light came in, illuminating the dark room. I was dazzled by the sudden light, and I closed my eyes without realizing it.
Ttogak- Ttogak-
The sound of heels stepping on the marble floor echoed sharply throughout the room. I held my breath at the sharp approaching sound and slowly opened my eyes.
A woman walked in with a bright light through the crack in the open door. It was a very familiar face, but looking at that face today felt unfamiliar for some reason.
Black hair like ebony and skin as white as pure snow. The red eyes, as if red blooddrops had fallen on them, looked straight into my eyes.
The last time I saw it was two years ago…
The 20-year-old princess has become a full-fledged adult.
Her face, which felt a bit childish, gave off a mature atmosphere, and her height, which was slightly shorter than mine, now seemed to be slightly taller than mine.
Ttogak-
The princess approached me before I knew it, and violently lifted my chin. I unknowingly rolled my eyes away from the sharp eyes that seemed to be very angry.
Even though I averted my eyes, I felt the gaze of the princess who was still staring at me fiercely. The hand of the princess who grabbed my chin violently began to grow stronger.
“You are truly a witch, a witch who left me without a word.”
“Me, I just because of the ‘promise’…”
Kwaak-
As I tried to make an excuse, the princess’s grip became stronger and stronger as if she didn’t want to hear my excuses. The princess’s hand tightened her chin, pushed her cheeks out, and forced her mouth to open.
“Aha, can I ignore the ‘promise’ you made with me, but should I keep the ‘promise’ with someone else?”
“…….”
I couldn’t refute the princess’s words. It was because I was the one who escaped the castle, breaking the ‘promise’ with the princess, literally.
The hand I held trembled as if it would break my chin, then it fell away with the princess’s sigh. Then he started staring at my face again.
“Well, that’s enough. No matter what the process was, it is meaningful that you came back here in the end.”
“Eh, why the hell…”
Involuntarily, a crying voice came out.
It’s true that I did something wrong because I didn’t keep my promise, but I couldn’t figure out why the princess was acting like this. Do you hate me enough to tie me with a rope like this?
Hearing my crying, the princess let out a blank laugh as if she was full of energy. Then, unlike before, he carefully lifted the tip of my chin.
“Why?”
The princess’ thumb ran down my lips. The moment our eyes met, the princess’s eyes curved pleasantly as if to cover her jewel-like red eyes.
“Because you don’t know that, I have no choice but to do this.”
In the eyes that curved like the crescent moon, there was not the slightest hint of malice. Even though he was holding me as if he were kidnapping me, his eyes seemed to be insisting, ‘This is a natural thing to do.’
“If you run away from me just one more time, I will put a leash around your neck, so know that.”
“Hmm…hmm…”
“You know what? Witch? No-“
The princess’s hand, which had been brushing my lips, came down this time and groped my neck. I got goosebumps as the princess’s cold fingers ran down my neck.
“Mother?”
As if the princess’s cool fingers were a leash.
I felt a choke on my throat.
Really, how did this happen?
After being possessed as the ‘stepmother’ of ‘Snow White’, I can truly say that I haven’t done anything bad to the princess. It’s not that I have a hobby of bullying children, and I didn’t want to die following the original story.
I was just raising ‘Snow White’ diligently as a stepmother.
Thirteen years ago, from the day I possessed the body of Snow White’s stepmother, Vivian.
