The plain and unnoticed me is no more

141. The Divide of Fate

"Welcome back, Sandra. It's getting cold outside, my cheeks are getting cold."

Sandra's mother wrapped her daughter's cheeks with both hands and smiled kindly like the Virgin Mary.

"I'm just..."

"What's wrong? I'm not feeling well."

"... everybody's trying to make me look good. She doesn't look like Mom or Dad. He said you were dumped under the bridge right there. My mom and dad, who didn't have kids, picked it up...!

"Well! Who said such a terrible thing? You're our little girl."

"... really?

Sandra's mother frowned sadly and gently hugged her daughter. Sandra's gaze is naturally directed to the back dining table by being hugged.

There was a father who had just returned from work and was drinking a warm drink. He stood up silently and started something in the kitchen next to him.

"Your eyes look just like your father, and your hair looks just like mine, doesn't it? Besides, girls are cute when they get old. Don't worry about what the other kids say anymore. You got it?

"Can I be as beautiful as my mother?

"Yes, I'm sure you'll be more beautiful than your mother."

Sandra, a small body, was held by her mother and dropped off on a dining bench where her father had been sitting.

Then a cup of hot air was placed in front of her, and her father sat opposite.

The contents of the cup are probably hot milk. Hot air rises from the white liquid and even thin membranes are stretched. I wonder if my father is such a big mouthpiece, but I've never spoken to my daughter's bullying.

One day, Sandra, who had gone out to play as usual, was told by a familiar member to tease her and moved to a less popular place to run away with her ears blocked.

Her neighborhood is filled with narrow alleys, and the walls surrounding the King's City are just beside it. As a result, depending on the position of the sun, it was dark during the day, and the atmosphere seemed to be insecure to see.

Strange lights came into Sandra's sight as she headed along the wall. The light floats in the air to stay in her sight, repeatedly walking away as she approaches.

It's like you're inviting me over.

"What is it... glowing insects? It's so shiny and beautiful...."

Sandra followed the flash and the light as to what she thought at this time.

As she pursued it with an exquisite sense of distance that she could not grasp, she arrived in the back street of the area lined with taverns and so on, without any mistake.

A wooden box with empty bottles of liquor was piled up in the back entrance of the shop, and a fairy monkey with feathers like dragonflies sat on it.

Sandra looks at it and twitches and falls back. You must have been surprised that what you thought was an unusual glowing bug wasn't.

The monkey fairy sued for something, pointing to the part where the shadow was thickened by the piled wooden box.

"Wow... there's something there too"

Beyond his gaze, Sandra retreated further, seeing something like a black swarm of insects groaning in the darkness and a tiny red dot that glowed dull in it.

Then something came out of the darkness with red eyes as big as a walnut. Your body is round, and you can see black smoke or hot air coming out of your body. It was this that looked like a swarm of insects.

Sandra checked the escape route to see if she was alert, but she didn't know what it was. She came forward in an unconscious step with Yotayota and fell down.

"... maybe this kid is weak? You want me to help you?

The monkey fairy is groaning and asking for help with her gesture. Sandra tended to hesitate to approach the black one and rubbed her hand to lift it.

"Then come to me. I can't do anything for you because I don't have the money... much better than being here. What's your name?

When asked, Sandra called it by a proper name.

"Hmm, black then. Hey, you coming home, too?

Turning up, the monkey fairy that had been on the wooden box just now disappeared. Sandra embraced Chloe carefully and went home.

But her house is not rich enough to keep pets. So, like a child who hid with her parents and had dogs and cats, she sneaked into the house without telling her parents.

And Kuro, who found a place under the bed, grew from walnut-sized to adult-sized in a few days.

Named Black, it is a former fairy whose name should have been taken away and could not remain alive. I've been able to breathe in strong negative energy from people, but on the day I met Sandra, it was close to its limit.

Without extra help from other fairies, I would never have seen Sandra this way, and she would have disappeared behind that tavern.

If that's true, Sandra, who knows nothing, has given a new name with the soul of a still immature Virgin and brought the fairy back half. There is no decent fairy who has sucked a lot of shadow air to survive, and she will take an unfortunate path from here.

It was Sandra who first showed the anomaly. As usual, Sandra, who had been the object of an outing, gradually resented her mother under the influence of the fairies.

And then one day, irritated by her mother's usual comfort, she said something she shouldn't say.

"Mother cheated! I wanted to be born as beautiful as my mother! I always say I should be old, but I don't know when! I want to be a pretty girl like my mother right now!

Kuro, who was hiding in the darkness in one word, would have known to enter Sandra, enduring and caring for others, and she would lose control.

And then, for the first time, a black fog came out of Sandra, and her mother was the first victim.

This was when Sandra celebrated her sixth birthday.

When her mother died afterwards, Sandra got what she wanted, but she looked at her face every day in her mother's mirror with a candle, not knowing what it was at the expense of her.

However, the family environment is changed by the death of the mother.

Less than a year later, the father suddenly brings his remarried partner home and leaves Sandra to the woman. Sandra, who didn't want to accept her new mother, ignored her stepmother and continued her defiant attitude.

Reliant fathers don't seem to care if they don't get along well, just stay there silently even when they come back from work. I was still stuck thinking about my late wife.

My stepmother had a child several years after that. The child born is a twin boy.

She is Sandra's first sister and brother. Though the twins, Tom and Sam, were healed by Sandra, their stepmother treated their unrelated daughters as babysitters.

Given Sandra's behavior, I think it was around this time that I began to envy Taki and Sin's family.

She happens to enter a different alley and try to follow her way home, witnessing a boy who is definitely prettier than herself.

They lived in areas where wealthier people than Sandra lived, and beautiful taxis like girls were always loved by adults in the area.

Mothers and fathers who seem kind to see, and brothers who are close. They may have been a happy family for Sandra.

After that, Taki became the second victim, and Sandra became brighter and brighter with the beauty she stole from him.

Your desire for beauty never ends, and the more beautiful you become, the more you become trapped there. But it was supposed to be what it was supposed to be, and somehow the black moya inside her swelled up a lot.

The encounter with the fairy, who was supposed to disappear, and her actions, which brought her back from kindness, caused irreversible things. She didn't realize it, but it was a bypass that changed her destiny.