105. Promise, promise, promise (1)
[Episode 105] – Promise, promise, promise (1)
Right after Titania and Vivian went out to enjoy the festival, Veronica met them and threw Katsy in her arms onto the bed and lay down.
Lying down on the bed, she stretched her arms upward and stretched out, then looked at the ceiling with a blank expression. It was because she was more bored than she thought as she was trying to stay home alone.
As I was rolling around in bed, wondering what to do to kill time until the two of them came back, Veronica’s eyes fell on Ainsel. Come to think of it, have you ever had a proper conversation with that mirror?
When I thought about it, it seemed like it didn’t exist. Veronica was annoyed by Ainsel, who strangely avoided her. She said stealing the console was her fault, but she apologized profusely for that matter.
At that time, in order to prevent Vivian from noticing Aurora’s situation, she had no choice but to cover Aincel’s mouth. Honestly, who would have guessed at that time that my relationship with Vivian would be like this?
Moreover, Eincel accepted her apology. She said she would forgive her, she thought it never happened. So, from then on, she couldn’t help but feel frustrated with Ain Cell who kept avoiding her.
‘Besides… I think I know why you’re avoiding me… But I can’t tell you because I’m not sure.’
Veronica got up from her bed and glared at Ain Cell. Okay, when else would she talk to me like this? She doesn’t want to continue being awkward. Veronica raised her body and slowly approached Einsel.
“Huh.”
As Veronica approached the Aincell hanging on her wall, she couldn’t help but burst into laughter as she looked at her mirror, which was the Aincell’s main body. No matter how much she tries to avoid it, does she go to this extent?
“You… When Vivian comes back, this will all be done.”
There were exactly four letters written on the mirror.
[Away]
Veronica, who had never even thought that Ain Cell had this kind of function, just burst out laughing. No matter how awkward this damn mirror is, why is it so blatantly avoiding people?
Veronica clicked her tongue at her annoyance, sighed, picked out the romance novel that Titania had hidden on her bookshelf without Vivian’s knowledge, and flopped down on the bed.
Veronica held Catsy, who was lying spread out on her bed, in her arms to fill her empty side, and she began to read her romance novel as if nothing had happened. She said she was away. What can I do?
Veronica, who had been flipping through a few pages of her romance novel, frowned in annoyance and turned her head to look at Aincel again. She said she was Titania’s friend here, so she thought Aincell would be different…
‘It’s just as frustrating now as it was when I was Vivian’s familiar.’
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Was the day originally this short? Titania looked at the setting sunset and made her impression! I frowned. What on earth did she do that it’s already like this? She had a hard time understanding.
At most, she could just walk around with her mother hand in hand, buy a few things to eat from a street vendor, or take a walk with her mother to check out the festival streets to calm her stomach. Furthermore…
“Titania, I’m fine. “Let’s go into a roughly empty store.”
“…I’m sorry, I should have looked into it more…”
“Don’t be too upset. I didn’t expect that there would be so many people until the evening when the festival ended. Who knew that most stores wouldn’t have empty seats?”
Titania lowered her head and cried.
I wanted to eat with my mother at a famous restaurant for dinner, but I couldn’t even go into the restaurant. As the rumor spread, a lot of people flocked. Besides, it was festival season.
Because it was the festival period, many people gathered from all over, so you had to wait in line to get into most stores, let alone restaurants. Also, the line was longer than I imagined.
If you let the restaurant know that you are a princess, they will immediately make an empty seat for you, but then there will be no reason for you to hide your identity to enjoy the festival. But the line was too long…
While Titania was looking for a store that she could enter, not knowing what to do, Vivian tapped Titania on the shoulder and pointed somewhere with her finger.
“Titania, my legs are sore, so let’s just eat over there.”
“Gwae, are you okay? “Over there…”
At first glance, the place my mother pointed to was not a good restaurant. It’s shabby and noisy. It was far from what she thought was a ‘place with a good atmosphere’. Besides, it’s not a restaurant…
“That’s a store that sells alcohol…?”
“Aren’t you going to sell meals just because you’re a bar? Luckily, I can get in without waiting in line. Oh, of course, even if you go into a bar, you still can’t drink alcohol? “I won’t even buy it for you.”
“I’m an adult now…”
“But that doesn’t work.”
Vivian looked at her tavern with interested eyes.
Definitely, as the sun went down, people started to flock to that store. The boy who was touting made eye contact with her mother, and she smiled brightly and motioned for her to come in quickly. They say it’s cheap and delicious.
Now that I think about it, my mother liked drinking. She didn’t show herself drinking, but that didn’t mean she didn’t drink. Because she sometimes ate it with her grandmother.
‘But… On a day like today, I wanted to eat just the two of us in a place with a nice atmosphere…’
Titania pouted her lips slightly.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like her. No matter where she ate, she was happy to eat anywhere with her mother. However, Titania was a little embarrassed because she didn’t expect to eat at a tavern anyway.
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As Titania was helpless at her embarrassment, Vivian clasped Titania’s hand and headed towards her tavern. Wow! Titania nodded her head, looking at her grasped hand.
‘Yes! There’s more meaning in going to a place that her mother likes more than me!’
Titania squeezed her clasped hands and smiled, as she entered the bar, being led by Vivian. The sun had set and it was almost evening when Titania and Vivian entered the tavern.
The inside of the store, which had already become dark, was illuminated by soft candles, and the music played by the band could be heard cheerfully amidst the voices of drunken people chatting energetically.
The inside of the store was very different from what Titania expected. Titania’s tavern, she thought, was a bit dirty, noisy, and a place where drunken vagabonds hung around.
However, this was a large bar with seating up to the second floor, and a band was playing music in the empty space in the middle of the store. It felt old rather than dirty, and it was lively rather than noisy.
“Is it much different from what you thought?”
Titania smiled awkwardly, as if her mind had been read. To hide her awkwardness, she pretended to look at her bar’s menu and choose her food.
Due to her awkwardness, she only rolled her eyes and looked at her mother, who smiled and looked at the orchestra as if she was somehow familiar. Seeing her mother like that, Titania tilted her head and asked.
“Has your mother ever been to a place like this?”
“No? This is my first time in a place like this. But…”
Vivien chuckled as she watched the people chatting noisily.
“When I became an adult, I visited a similar place a few times with her friends.”
“A friend…?”
Your mother won’t have any friends her age…?
When Titania heard Vivian call her ‘friend’, she felt her heart being stabbed. For some reason, the sight of her mother’s face as she recalled it, as if she missed it, made her feel bad. A friend to my mother… Who the hell is she?
No matter how much she thought about it, her mother had no friends of the same age. She may not know it, but most of the people her mother could call friends recently were the parents of ladies she had met in social circles.
This meant that Titania knew all of Vivian’s acquaintances. She said most of the people her mother met privately were connected to her.
So, the fact that Vivian had a friend her own age that Titania didn’t know about made Titania feel bad about her. When she thought that ‘her friends’ knew her mother, whom she did not know, she felt beyond uncomfortable.
Vivian, perhaps aware of Titania’s feelings, looked at her menu and then ordered several dishes from the clerk. Of course, she also drinks alcohol alone. Titania’s cheeks puffed out because Vivian did not let her drink until the end.
“Mother… I am now an adult who has made my debut! You’re old enough to drink alcohol! “How long are you going to treat me like a child?!”
“…Isn’t fifteen years too early anyway? At least-“
Even before she finished speaking, Titania’s cheeks became more and more swollen, and she felt like she was about to burst. Vivian burst into laughter at the thought that she was definitely going to drink today, and she poked Titania’s puffy cheek with her finger.
Push – Titania’s eyebrows frowned strongly along with the sound of air leaving her mouth. When Titania raised one hand and tried to call her clerk, Vivian stopped her and urged her.
“No need to waste it! Anyway… Fifteen is too young to learn how to drink!”
“Then when can I start drinking? “How old will my mother be…!”
Will you see me as an adult?
Trying to swallow the words that rose up in her throat, Titania opened her eyes wide and glared at Vivian. How old is adulthood for her mother? When she gets to the age where her mother thinks she is an adult, will she see herself as an adult then?
“That’s…”
Vivian hesitated for a moment, then opened her lips.
“At least until you graduate from the academy. “It will be okay when that time comes.”
Titania’s eyes wrinkled even more when she heard the word academy. At this moment, Titania felt like her academy was a wall. A huge wall blocking her own life. A long wall that takes three years to overcome.
‘That damn academy, academy, academy! The reason I have to be away from my mother for 3 years is because of the academy! Academy is also the reason why my mother doesn’t look at me as an adult!’
I wanted to throw a tantrum and say I didn’t want to go to the academy, but Titania was patient and endured it. If what her mother said was true, it meant that she would see herself as an adult after graduating from the academy.
No longer a child, but an adult.
Titania sighed and cooled the frustration boiling inside her, then raised her head and glared at Vivian. And then she spoke clearly, as if she had declared war.
“…My first drink… I will drink it with my mother. Then go and don’t say anything else.”
“…Okay.”
“Then I promise.”
“Promise?”
Titania held out her little finger to Vivian. Vivian couldn’t help but smile bitterly as she looked at Titania’s little finger, which had become longer than when she was young. Because I didn’t know she would still remember.
“…I still remembered it. “I haven’t done it since then.”
“Of course. “There’s no way I could forget that promise, right?”
Titania quickly snapped her little finger. Vivian sighed as if she was thinking for a moment, but then she sighed and hooked her finger around Titania’s little finger.
Titania waved her intertwined little fingers up and down, and she did not miss the last spell.
“What if I break my promise?”
“…A thousand needles.”
