Suddenly I became curious.
There are usually no offspring between humans and elves. but… … .
‘If Siris and I in our past life had a daughter, would she have grown up with this kind of personality?’
As Reppenhardt was lost in thought in silence, Siris tilted her head.
“Um, is this something you can’t tell anyone else?”
Only then did Reppenhardt come to his senses and wave his hand.
“It’s not like that. “It’s just something I haven’t told anyone.”
“Even to me in my past life?”
“huh.”
Siris’ expression brightened. She couldn’t understand why she brightened up. Well, even Reppenhardt knew very well that she was particularly insensitive to women’s feelings.
‘I just have to do it.’
Reppenhardt slowly opened his mouth, searching through his memories.
“It probably happened when I was about ten years old. Back when my name was Leffen, not Leffenhardt… … .”
Chapter 54 Old Memories
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Reppenhardt was born with ideal, or rather transcendent, talent as a wizard.
A rare genius who, if you teach him one thing, will learn not ten, but a hundred or a thousand.
But no matter how bad it was, it was necessary to learn the first ‘one’.
When he didn’t learn that one thing, he was an evil child, nothing more or less.
-That child is cursed!
-You are like a child of the devil!
People swore. With eyes full of fear and terror, they cursed but did not dare to come closer or do any harm, so they were just reluctant and tried to stay away.
The ten-year-old child turned his head with cold eyes.
-joy!
The villagers looked at the child in fear.
Something sinister always happened around that kid.
The child’s father fell for no reason while repairing a rafter and died from a broken neck. Why the sturdy rafters broke was still an unresolved question.
The child’s mother died from an unexplained illness. It was still an unanswered question how a woman who had never suffered from any illness could die so easily.
At first, villagers took turns caring for the orphaned child. But that period was not long.
He was an ominous child.
Strange things constantly happened around the child. Walls collapsed, holes appeared in the roof, cows and horses died, and children who played with them suffered for no reason.
Naturally, the village people called the child this way.
The sinister child, the haunted Leffen.
Finally, when the child was nine years old, a big fire broke out in the house where the child was cared for until the end. Fortunately, the sleeping family was able to evacuate quickly, but all their belongings were burned and they became beggars.
-It’s all because of you!
-The bastard who ate my parents!
-You devil!
The child was kicked out of town. A hunter’s cabin far away from the village was thrown out into a shabby place that could not even be called a home.
After that, peace came to the village. Nothing more sinister happened. The villagers were relieved and even more confident.
Leffen, that child is cursed.
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“I didn’t know at the time, that my magic power was the problem.”
Unrefined magical energy accumulates in the body and exists in a stable state. In normal cases, you cannot build up magical power without knowing how to increase it through meditation, etc. And no matter how much magic power is accumulated, it cannot have any effect on reality unless it is implemented through magic.
“The problem is that I wasn’t normal.”
Leffenhardt’s talent was so outstanding. It was so good that it was just too much.
Just by breathing, just by sitting blankly, magical power accumulated. The accumulated magical power was naturally refined and became its original power. The magic affinity was so strong that it unconsciously moved its magic and affected the world.
“Uncontrollable power is a double-edged sword, and I was too young to even know that at the time.”
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-go away! You devil!
-Get out of town right now!
Leaving behind the children’s swearing, young Leffen walked away, holding his pockets in his hands. What she had in her pocket was some bread and a loaf of cheese. If it weren’t for his one week’s worth of food, he wouldn’t have bothered to come down to the village under such persecution.
The villagers were afraid of Leffen and drove him out. If you leave a child under the age of ten in an isolated, haunted house without any adult care, you are being told that he or she will die. But the villagers did not dare to let Leffen die.
It wasn’t just that the people were simple and good-natured.
I was afraid of the aftermath. It was already a rural area where superstitions were rampant. They thought that if that cursed child died, the curse might come back to them. So we had no choice but to provide a certain amount of food every week.
-But the amount has decreased further, right? Is the situation in the village bad these days?
Leffen looked gloomy as he weighed the bread and cheese in his hands. The villagers, who were afraid to come into contact with him, did not even directly give him this food. Just place it in a designated location in advance when Leffen descends the mountain.
A group of women appeared behind the children who were booing Leffen. The women hugged the child and scolded him in low voices.
-What are you doing? I told you not to go near that kid!
-I didn’t go near it. I was just saying this from afar… … .
-Don’t even say a word! Don’t even look! Just act like I don’t exist!
-Eh, but Mom… … .
Leffen sneered with a wry smile.
-It’s very much like a plague.
The children, noisy, are led by their mother’s hands and return home. Young Leffen quietly watched the scene behind him.
-Mom… … .
The black obsidian-like eyes were slightly moist. But the moisture soon disappeared.
-Well, I’m jealous, but envy doesn’t mean you’ll have an absent mother.
After shrugging his shoulders once, Leffen showed a cold expression again. He had such a cool demeanor that it was hard to believe he was only ten years old.
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The child knew reality. And he was smart enough to combine those realities to understand his situation.
-It’s foolish to cling to something that doesn’t work.
It’s just that the child’s reality was too narrow.
The child calmly waved his pocket and went out of the village.
-Okay, let’s go home.
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“When I think about it, I think I survived. “If a child like that is abandoned without any adult care and gets sick, he or she will just die.”
The cabin was cold.
At the time, Reppenhardt was a child who did not have the strength to even get firewood to start a fire. At night, he had to spread the straw he had collected during the day on the floor, covered in rags, shivering.
There wasn’t enough food either.
The villagers only gave him enough food to not die. No matter how much I saved, it was difficult to eat two meals a day. Even so, it would run out as the weekend approached. Because I was young, I couldn’t even dream of hunting.
“At the time, I couldn’t control magical power as I wanted. “If I could have handled it, it wouldn’t have been said that I was cursed in the first place.”
In the summer and fall, I was able to somehow fill my stomach by picking fruit or catching frogs or larvae, but winter was a problem. There is no way a ten-year-old child, hungry and shivering in the cold, would have survived the winter in good health. I got sick again and again.
“The reason he didn’t die even after suffering like that was probably because of the magic power in his body. If you think about it now, yes. Of course, at the time, I was just cursing my fate.”
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One winter day when a snowy wind blew.
Covered in rags and groaning from high fever, Leffen thought and thought.
Why was I born like this?
Why am I the only one cursed like this?
There was no answer. The ten-year-old knew too little to come up with an answer.
The unresolved anger just piles up in one part of my chest and piles up again.
Eventually, the child gave up.
The world is originally like this.
I’m really this kind of guy.
Living like this is my life.
On a night of pure white snow, in a crumbling abandoned house, the child gave up everything. I was able to smile when I gave up.
-haha.
The child laughed even louder, happy to have the smile returned.
-ha ha ha.
It was then.
On a cold night during a blizzard, when someone was in despair and didn’t even know they were in despair, someone opened the door in the darkness.
‘She’ entered inside, holding a blazing bonfire in her hand, lighting up the darkness, and accompanied by a clear and refreshing voice.
-What kind of crazy bitch sat there laughing all night?
Leffen opened his eyes blankly.
The intruder was a beautiful woman who appeared to be in her mid-20s. She had black hair, black eyes, and a cold look with her cold eyes. The beauty widened her eyes as she looked at Leffen, who was naturally wary.
-oh? It wasn’t a woman? Actually, the voices of children who have not yet passed the transformation stage may sound like that.
Surprisingly, as soon as she opened her eyes, her expression changed. Her seemingly cold appearance quickly changes to a playful one.
-Oh, you’re the one who lives here?
Leffen coldly asked back, stepping back while wearing rags.
-who are you?
The woman said playfully.
-Who will live here from now on?
-What nonsense is that!
The woman grinned at Leffen, who was yelling.
-You don’t have to be so guarded, kid.
