Chapter 02
TL-Mechatronic
Luciel looked in the mirror several times and blinked.
I don’t know exactly how long it’s been since returned to my childhood. But seeing that I didn’t wake up from sleeping, I’m sure this isn’t a dream.
In the mirror, there was a small child who was as pretty as a doll.
Large crimson eyes like a rabbit, red cheeks, cute maple leaf-shaped hands, and even soft silver fine hairs on the forehead. She looked like a seven-yearold, but by now she would be around nine or ten.
It’s because I couldn’t eat properly and my growth was delayed.
Anyway, what happened? The heart is definitely beating.
“But I was certainly dead….’
Is it because something outside common sense happened? It still don’t fells real. Luciel tilted her head. Soft silver hair gently poured over her shoulders.
There was nothing that wasn’t small. Face, body, hands and feet. Even the courage became smaller, so my heart constantly pounded.
‘If this was a dream, I would have woken up already.
For several days, Luciel fell asleep, woke up, and stayed still in this small room. If you have common sense, you’ll at least check to see if the child was sick,
but neither the Count’s maid nor the servants were interested in Luciel.
She looked up and looked around.
A dark, humid underground warehouse full of mold where she grew up until she was seventeen.
Luciel came into the Count to work as a maid together with her sister. However, no one made Luciel work, and there was also a nanny who was a maid that monitored her.
Nothing was good.
Neither going outside nor a nutritious meal was allowed to her.
Porridge made from rotten potatoes or corn was everything she had for one day’s meal, and she trembled in the cold without a warm suit of clothes or a fireplace.
The servants simply looked at her as an annoyance,
Only her sister and nanny would sometimes check with Luciel.
However, she couldn’t even meet her sister often, and the nanny, named to protect the young Luciel, was not very interested in taking care of her.
If the nanny gives you tea, don’t drink it and throw it away. And don’t think about anything, close your eyes and draw a circle against a black background. One, two, three, until there are more than a hundred and a thousand circles. Luciel, you can do it, right?’
‘Yes, sister.’
Whenever I drank the tea given by the nanny, became strangely emotional and sensitive. I was only able to calm down after I drew circles in my mind like my sister told me to, but it worked every time.
Luciel was always trapped in a dark and dim cellar warehouse without sunlight and trained as her sister told her to. Even before she went to bed. Even after she woke up in the morning.
Then one day, Count Orbia visited Luciel in the basement.
“Your sister is dead. She threw herself into the lake.”
“…..M-My sister is dead?”
Even before the sadness and shock made her mind blank, the Count added.
“Yes, now you have to make jewelry on behalf of your sister. I don’t know what you’ve done so far, but it’s time for you to awaken your strength. You have such beautiful crimson eyes.”
As he looked into Luciel’s brilliant crimson eyes that shone like jewels, the Count’s eyes gleamed in madness.
“It’s a color that’s more beautiful than your sister. Then, I sure you can make more valuable jewelry. For me of course!”
I learned everything that happened at once. Like if a lightning had hit me on the head.
Why did she made me do that?
You were trying to protect me. I didn’t even know that….!
But there was nothing a nine-year-old child could do.
“You sisters were my jewel slaves who I paid a lot of money to buy from a foreign merchant. Now is your turn to pay you keep.”
Luciel fell into shock and despair. In that moment her whole body was weak and collapsed.
“I-I don’t want it!”
Fear and sadness came because she would never see her sister again, fear and resentment toward the Count who came to tell her that. All those great feelings came up in a mixture.
Boom boom!
My heart was pounding fast, so I thought it would burst.
“Stop it!”
Luciel curled up covering her ears, and the huge magic from her whole body fluttered. The mana soon became clear and transparent jewels, just as if ice crystals were formed in thin air.
Tuk Tuk Tuk.
Shiiishh.
High-purity, colorful gems were piled up on the basement floor. It was the finest sapphire and ruby one could ever see.
The Count’s eyes when he saw it turned upside down. After picking up a handful of jewelry, he admired.
“Oh, this vivid color, brilliant beauty! And making so many jewels! You’re mine, Luciel! You’re making jewelry for me! Hahaha. Hahahaha! I’m rich now!”
The count, filled with joy, soon pointed to Luciel and ordered.
“What are you doing? Hurry up and take her!”
The nanny and servants rushed in and grabbed Luciel’s body.
From that day on, her life fell to hell.
If the Count was not making her produce jewels, he would lock her up on the glass vault so she could not take one step outside.
Anger and pain.
Sadness and longing.
Jewelry was created with intense emotions, and they were all used up to fill the Count’s pockets.
Her small body had no remaining mana for days and weeks. She became thin day by day, and couldn’t grow properly. Moreover, Luciel, who had no one to rely on, could not even run away because of the surveillance of the servants.
That was her life with Count Orbia, who won so much wealth thanks to her. But shortly after, he revealed Luciel’s existence to Marquis Cavill, who he met at the gambling house.
Crystal Fairy.
Fairies appears in the founding myth of the Empire,
A mysterious being that creates jewelry out of emotions and had beautiful jewelry eyes.
Luciel was the only Crystal Fairy left in the world. A goose that lays golden eggs that anyone would covet.
When his life was threatened, Count Orbia tricked, Luciel to make her his illegitimate child and handed her over after receiving a large sum of money from Marquis Cavill. At the age of seventeen, Luciel’s life did not improve even after being sold like that.
She married the son of Marquis Cavill, who was a mess and had no affection to give her. He was into alcohol and gambling every day and only thought of Luciel as an idiot and a jewel slave.
She prayed to God and her dead sister every day.
‘I wish I could die.’
Luciel, who lived a lonely and painful life, received someone’s affection for the first time when she met the Crown Prince who attended Marquis Cavill’s banquet.
“Luciel, I’ll save you. You are my only love.”
The Crown Prince also fell in love at first sight as if possessed by the beautiful Luciel. As he continued their secret meeting, he promised Luciel a future.
Being deceived by the sweet words, she held the Crown Prince’s hand.
But she shouldn’t have trusted him.
Both the promise to be together and the words of love were false.
The Crown Prince took Luciel away through a deal with Marquis Cavill, and as soon as she came into his hands, he revealed his true intentions.
He took a neighboring princess as the Crown Princess and future Empress, and made Luciel the lowestranking concubine.
Eventually, the place where she entered was a glass vault that only became a little larger and more colorful.
She couldn’t escape the fate of a jewel slave and died after being used all her life.
Looking back on her unhappy life briefly, Luciel felt her heart beating. Hot tears flowed down her cheeks.
But she suddenly realized.
She was fine without any wounds on her body.
Seeing that she could not make jewelry no matter what emotion she felt, she seemed to have not awakened yet.
“Did nothing happen yet? In that case…’
Maybe another chance from God was given to her. It may mean to start everything anew.
‘This time, I will never live like that.’
Luciel firmly vowed, clenching her small lips like a cherry.
The amount of mana in her body was also not a child’s. This was almost the same as when she had became an adult.
If I train steadily from now on, I’ll can be sure that it will be amazing in the future.
At this rate, her magic resistance was likely to be high. A perfect physical condition to start everything,
The first thing I need to do is change my life.
‘I have to run away from this house.’
All misfortunes began a week after her sister’s death when the Count visited her. Seeing that she is not trapped in a glass vault yet, there is a chance.
‘Then is sister still alive …?’
For several days she had been almost asleep, and even if someone came, she did not see them.
“First of all, you have to know exactly when it is now.’
Luciel pulled the old blanket and waited for the basement door to open.
Her sister always brought flowers for Luciel. However, an empty glass bottle containing dried flowers was seen on the table. Isn’t it proof that my sister has not been here for a long time? If so…….
I was thinking like that, but the sound of footsteps trudging down the stairs rang.
Clack.
Just before the thick iron door opened.
I felt a cold gaze as someone glanced through the room.
“…Luciel?”
It was the voice of the nanny.
“Nanny.”
“You woke up. ……I thought something had happened because you slept a lot.”
“Even if your sister is like that, those who will live should live. That’s how you will be a good child.”
Luciel asked with her ears pricked up.
“What… do you mean?”
“Now calm down and get a hold of yourself. Your sister died three days ago.”
The nanny calmly spoke and put the tea cup down in front of Luciel.
“Ah… My sister…”
As expected, my older sister was already dead. Sadness and emptiness poured in, but the sadness was diluted because she died a long time ago.
But I would have been happy if we met again…..
In the past, Luciel couldn’t believe her sister’s death even after hearing the nanny say it over and over again.
”I thought it was just a dream. Like a fool.”
After hearing it from the Count’s mouth, I awakened my abilities with the shock of grasping reality. It was awful.
“First, drink tea.”
“I’m hungry…”
“Drink it up”.”
Thalf closed my eyes, and peeked down. It was reddish tea water.
‘What did you put in there?’
If I drink this, my nerves gets sharper. Is it a drug for the nervous system? To hasten the awakening?
She Mrs. Volladi, the nanny, who had been monitoring Luciel.
‘I can never drink it.’
Splash.
Luciel poured the tea water right away. The nanny who saw it was astonishment.