The Baby Isn’t Yours

>A very tall and handsome man was always around.’8

And one more person.

What’s more is that it’s a strange man he didn’t know that called himself her husband…

‘Somehow, I was very impressed with how restless he was every step of the way, really giving off the feeling that he valued his wife very much.
When I meet my wife, I feel like I should treat her like that.’

For a moment, an eerie and chilling glint passed through Simon’s golden eyes.

He didn’t know who the hell the man was. But the fact that Kalia was accompanied by a man he didn’t know clearly broke Simon’s heart. The throbbing pain flowed from his chest down to the fingertips and irritated all his peripheral nerves. When he heard that the stranger had followed Kalia around, calling her his own wife, a thousand fires lit inside his chest.

Donning a pair of half, black leather gloves, Simon headed out.
If it was impossible to trace by mana, then he would have to search every city himself.

“…not much longer, Kalia9,” Simon smiled brightly and proceeded to follow her trail, visiting every city going down south-east.

If he sees her again, he will hold her so tightly that Kalia never left him like that again.
If he could be abandoned so easily, remaining as her friend, he was willing to be her sibling.
He could be her older brother if Kalia wanted.
He was willing to be her younger brother too. 10

She was someone who liked to care for others, so he was willing to ruin his mana just to stay by her side. 11

If she needed someone to devote themselves to her allegiance, Simon could even start a revolt for her. He would rather have Kalia tell him that she wanted to be the king of a country then not have her in his life.
If becoming the ruler was her wish, he would be able to raise her to that status, even if he had to sacrifice his body in the process. But most of all, what he desperately longed for was to be Kalia’s lover.

Sigh.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at the unfamiliar panoramic view of the city below. He had already travelled 1000 km from the Capital.
If he went down a little further, he would hit the end of this country and be by the sea.
Somehow, he had a premonition that he would be able to meet her if he searched a little longer.

‘That’s why I will never give up.’

He will never lose her again.

Motivation renewed, Simon jumped, chewing on the flesh inside his lips.

Little by little, he would certainly reach her.

***

The night has grown old.

The window curtains shook in the blowing wind.

A mournful song floated sadly through the room, as if to match the movement of the curtains.

Fairies caught in a cage full of evil power gathered and sang a sad song together.

I’m the wind, I’m the rain, I’m the sun.

Unrestricted freedom.
A bird that doesn’t rest its wings.

If you catch the wind, the wind will die.

If you lock the sun up, the sun will die.

If you stop the rain, the rain will die.

Let me free to be unconstrained.

A bird that never rests its wings

Save me, I want to live

Let me go, Let me fly.

Let me live.

Their mournful voices pierced through the air.
The pitiful emotions in the words were so desperate that they made the listener cry.

However, the lips of the man listening to the song whilst leaning obliquely in front of the huge bird cage were drawn up in an arc. He even smirked, as if he had heard a delightful song and even tapped his fingers in time with the beat.

As if they had a foreboding of their sad fate, the fairies stopped singing and started weeping marbles of blood.
The man who had been listening quietly opened his eyes and looked at the fairies.

“Why don’t you sing more? Sing harder.
If I feel that your song is worth listening to, I might let you live longer,” The red-haired, red-eyed man mocked the young fairies with his cruel voice.

–Why did you grab us?-

-Yeah, what the hell?-

-Why!-

–-Let us go! I want to go back!-

-This is not where we’re supposed to be!-

They were low-level fairies that lived in the Fairy Forest.

Trees, earth and wind fairies.

The fairies, all less than a year old, stared at the man in horror and trembled in terror.
Loa’s Fairy Forest was one of the smallest among the forests that extended out from the fairy realm.
If nothing had happened, they would have died singing peacefully in their little forest until the end of their lives. .

A few days ago, they were captured by a special monster controlled by this man. The fairies had a foreboding of their deaths the moment they were brought before this man.

There was no warmth in his eyes. He wasn’t a human being nor was he a monster; he wasn’t even a fairy.
The fairies trembled like aspen trees when they saw the red eyes staring back at them coldly.
The man looked at the swaying fairies with emotionless, unfeeling eyes.

‘I’m bored.’

In front of the fairies, who were trembling in fear of death, the man yawned profusely.
However, he sat up suddenly, as if he had felt something.
His eyes shook strangely.

“… It cut off?”

Communication with his pet monsters that he’d  thrown deep into the Fairy Forest to find food, was cut off. Death was the only thing that would sever communication with them.

“How the hell?” Buford stood by the window, rubbing his chin as if intrigued.

The festival was in full swing against the backdrop of the dark night sky and twinkling lights.
With a slight turn of his head, he could see part of the Fairy Forest in the distance, including the guards standing guard in front of it.