Chapter 2

Part 1 – A Happy Ending Is Also Necessary For the Villain in a Fairy Tale

I was memorizing the original work without leaving a single letter, but I couldn’t figure out if that would be of great help.

Why?

That’s because the original is a fairy tale.

Since it is a book for young children, the contents are very simple.

It is so simple. Even the characters didn’t have names.

Instead, very pretty illustrations were drawn in the book.

It was a short book, but the picture drawn on every page was so beautiful.

I narrowed my eyes as I recalled the picture of the heroine in the book.

The little girl in front of my eyes resembles the picture in my memory.

In particular, she has silver hair and green eyes.

‘There is a way to know for sure if you really are the heroine of that fairy tale.’

But I didn’t have the courage to do it myself.

I shrugged my shoulders.

Marcia hated her brother.

It was also because that she hated coming to the basement.

Because she hated her brother, and she hated coming to the basement several times more, Marcia went out of the house for a break.

She attended all parties, drank, and she struggled to forget this family vibe.

‘The result is like this.’

I chewed my mouth while thinking of the ending of a fairy tale book.

It was then.

The outside of the basement became noisy.

Someone was coming this way with a thumping footstep.

It was obvious who it was.

There were only three people in this house with double keys to this secret basement room.

Marcia, her father, and her brother.

The one who opened the door soon afterward was a middle-aged man who had a normal body and appearance.

“Marcia?”

As I guessed, my father, Igor Blick.

“Why are you here?”

As he walked into the room with a tow in his hand, Igor asked in amazement to see an unexpected person.

‘Uh? How was Marcia usually with her father?’

I didn’t know what to do, so I just pulled up the tail of my mouth.

‘It would look like I was grinning rudely.’

Igor stepped over and he patted me on the shoulder.

“I heard that you were in a wagon accident, but it looks like you wasn’t seriously injured when I saw you down here. Even so, it is not good to move immediately after an accident. Go to lie down and rest.”

His tone was soft, but the movement of pointing at the door with the tip of a tow was firm.

“Stay out.”

I went out of the basement as soon as I was told.

The basement door closed heavily behind my back.

But I couldn’t go right back to the top room of the mansion.

An unexpected sound came from inside the closed door.

“Isn’t it because of you that my business is ruined again? Because you didn’t cry in time!”

I couldn’t believe it was coming from my father’s mouth over and over again.

It seemed like a thin scream was mixed in the meantime.

Goosebumps sprung up on my back.

‘…Wait a minute.’

If it were the usual Marcia, she would have already returned to her room at the top of the mansion and remained.

But now Marcia’s body contained me.

I couldn’t even keep listening.

I opened the door and ran back into the basement.

Igor glanced back, but his arm with his tow did not stop.

I almost screamed.

“Father!”

Only then Igor stopped his hand and stretched his waist. He gasped his breath a little.

“My Marcia, this father tells you to go back to your room and rest. I’ll send you a senator soon.”

Wow, look at his soft voice.

It was totally different from the voice that screamed at his youngest daughter just before.

Hearing only that, he sounded like a benevolent father.

“Now I’ve run out of money to call a senator for a very short time, but it’s going to come back soon. As long as that girl cries.”

Turning back, saying so, Igor’s face quickly became cruel.

Marcia and Larissa were clearly his own daughters, but he treated one with a soft tone and the other was beaten violently.

It is also in front of each other’s eyes.

‘Was it this much? You mean he was so cruel?’

I got nervous.

Marcia forgot what it felt like to go down to the basement.

No, she desperately tried to forget.

It was then.

The sparkling thing from Larissa’s eyes, drooping to one side without strength, drove down a few drops of tears.

The tears that fell on the dry cheek line and formed at the tip of the chin for a while, struck the clothes and fell to the floor.

As Larissa’s tears hit the floor and rolled, there was a small but bright sound.

I was startled and turned to the side where Larissa was sitting.

It was before I even moved my feet there.

Igor made a grotesque sound and rushed to the floor like a beast.

He knelt down on his knees and swept through the dirty floor with his bare palm.

After a while, three drops of Larissa’s tears were contained in his hand, standing up with a face full of joy.

The tears in his hand reflected the light brilliantly in all directions, even in the light of the dark lamp.

“……!”

It was a diamond.

It is not just a diamond either.

Tears of the fairy, it was the finest diamond.

“You should have cried earlier.”

Igor quickly pulled out a small pocket from inside his vest and carefully put the diamonds in it.

“Make sure to drink a lot of water on a regular basis, and I’ll send someone to treat your wound immediately. Marcia, haven’t you run out of money too? “

Igor patted me lightly on my shoulder, then went out of the basement.

I was frozen in place.

The twinkling tears I had just seen shimmered in front of my eyes.

‘It was a diamond. All the tears have really turned into diamonds.’

It’s right in the fairy tale.

The main character of the fairy tale was a girl whose tears turn into diamonds when she cries.

Her family has locked the girl up since she was a child and prevented her from stepping out of the house.

At first, when the girl cried, she was embarrassed and took the diamond. But after her ability is known, she was beaten until she cried.

In the meantime, the girl grew up so beautifully.

When the girl turns sixteen, a young prince who accidentally passes through the province stays at the girl’s house.

The moment the prince sees the girl, he falls in love at a glance.

Thus, the prince punished the girl’s family and saved the girl who was being abused.

The two married and lived happily ever after.

It was such a story.

The innocent girl and her greedy family who turned her tears into precious jewels.

‘It’s a long common story. Except for the jewelry part.’

I frowned.

In the book, the heroine is treated as a money bag, but later abused and sheds endless tears.

The details of Marcia’s memories, which were not written in the book, were not very different.

After her mother gave birth to the youngest, Larissa, and passed away, her father generously poured jewels on gambling and drugs on a hopeless business.

There was no problem though.

‘Because he will have any amount of money.’

For them, Larissa was a bottomless vein of diamonds.

So did Marcia.

She was in luxury.

The difference was that when she needed money, she didn’t go down to the basement herself but sent her nanny.

What is the end of the fairy tale? It is a happy ending.

The savior appears.

Of course, he is a young and handsome prince.

The vicious family who harassed the protagonist could not escape the extreme punishment.

Larissa was 13 years old now.

I once again confirmed that I had three years left until the prince came to Larissa’s rescue and killed all of her family, then married her.

‘I have to pick up everything as soon as possible and bounce from this corner of the house.’

That way, I’ll be able to save her life.

‘No, since there are still 3 years left, would it be better to hold on to a little more and collect more money to go out?’

Then I heard the sound of another footstep approaching the basement.

“Lady Marcia? What are you doing here?”

It was the nanny who entered the basement.

The nanny was the only one who could enter this room except for the Blick Family.

Igor said he would send someone to take care of her wounds as he went out, so he must have given the keys to the nanny.

As evidence, the nanny was holding a basin of clean water and a medicine box in her hand.

I was surprised, but I was calm and folded my arms.

“Why? Can’t I come here?”

“It’s not that. I was just surprised to find someone who couldn’t even walk a few days ago. Are you going to do it yourself today?”

Are you going to do it yourself?

Are you asking if I’m going to hit her myself right now?

‘Crazy…’

“No, I don’t do it.”

“Then, excuse me.”

The nanny gently bowed her head and then approached Larissa.

I stared for a moment as the nanny took care of her.

The nanny began to disinfect Larissa’s wound and apply for the medicine.

When the medicine touched, the small body fluttered, but that was all the reaction was.

Despite such cruel abuse, it did not touch Larissa’s face.

It was a tacit rule.

The stunningly beautiful and neat girl’s neck was full of old scars.

Her limbs became thin like spider legs.

‘If not right now, I just need to leave this house within three years to survive.’

I thought so a little while ago.

‘How can I leave her alone?’

Is that better?

3 years?

I felt like I had committed a crime.

I bite my lips.

‘She is only 13 years old now.’