May I Kill You, Your Majesty? - Chapter 2

If ever, Erendel would have ignored her words. She wasn’t interested in jewelry in the first place, and she wasn’t one of those people who could buy such valuables.

But that day, Erendel did not ignore the old woman’s words. She stood in front of the stand like she was possessed and watched the jewels she recommended.

Scratched diamond bracelet, drain ring, and pearl earrings without a single bead.

It was a gem that caught Erendel’s eye among the junk.

A large black jewel decorated on an old ring.

“……”

The sunlit jewel was shining brilliantly. What kind of jewel is this? I’ve never seen this before. My step sister Lillent, also collects a lot of jewelry, but I never seen anything like this.

The glow of the black gem like night felt warm like sunshine and cold like ice.

“Do you like the ring?”

Erendel looked down at the ring with a blank expression.

“I knew it. I thought you’d like it.”

The old woman talked while giggling. Erendel mumbled to herself instead of answering.

How much is this…..?

Will it be expensive?

I don’t have much money.

The old woman smiled and her lips were drenched while Erendel was thinking.

“Oh, you don’t have much money.”

At the moment, The old woman’s eyes full of wrinkles shone sharply.  It seemed like I had looked through the inside.

And I seemed to see through other things.

“It’s not just that I don’t have money…..Yeah, there’s a lot more to it.”

“……pardon?”

“No family, no parents. There are some things that live together under one roof, but that’s all. Right?”

To be honest, it was not wrong.

“What are you talking abo—?”

It was as soon as the unpleasant Erendel was about to say something.

“Poor thing.”

“……”

“Nothing at all.”

In the eyes of the old woman looking at me, there was both a side and sympathy.

Although she had been treated in heaven, she was not enough to be pitied by a stranger. In addition, it was even more upsetting because of its strong self-esteem.

Erendel put down the ring she held in her hand with her lips tightly clenched.

I was about to leave the stand.

But the old woman with the ring blocked Erendel’s way.

Then she placed the ring carefully in Erendel’s hand.

……Her ring in the palm of the hand seemed strangely brighter than it had just been seen.

“Sorry for talking nonsense, kid. Please accept this as an apology.”

My mother once told me. But she died more than a decade ago.

[A curious day so I get to do things that I don’t usually do. You have to be very careful on such a day.]

[Why?]

That day, my mother’s purple eyes were shining dimly in the sun.

She gave a cool look at her daughter’s question…..

[……If you make a mistake, you may be bewitched.]

She said something I couldn’t understand.

[Being fascinated is for a moment, but bewitched is for a lifetime.]

I muttered with a blank expression but I couldn’t figure out the answer.

It was Erendel’s first death, and her first return.

……and it was the beginning of all those crazy things.

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