Who Is Ester Winch?

Chapter 73

Is this the work of an enemy?

I look outside and it was snowing but I don’t feel any cold at all.

Maybe because I’m different and have the cold resistance.

“Meow…” She comforts herself in my arms.

“Where did you come from?”

I heard someone say.

“Where are your parents?”

The voice is coming from outside.

There was this woman who is wearing a white nightgown.

Her skin is pale white and her hair is dark as ebony but I can’t see her face because the hair is covering it.

In front of her, there this ragged child. There’s no hint of fear and scared, only there is a fierce and unyielding personality.

The woman took the child inside because the child only wears a thin dirty cloth and it’s trembling in cold.

I followed them where ever they go.

She made a hot-cold soup for her, bathe her and dress her up with warm clothes. Also, she let the child sleeps in her bed.

The scenery change again, the woman was dressing and someone was helping her…it was Niko?

It’s Niko! She looks the same, but this girl here is much more mature and not biting her fingers.

She puts make-up on the pale woman then someone knocks on the door. It was the child but taller.

Niko is now biting her fingers, what the? Is she just pretending that she is a coward?

“Dahlia, when will you let me become a flower?” the child asked with an intimidating face.

Dahlia?

“When you are beautiful enough…” The woman continues to put make-up on her face.

“Why do I have to be beautiful?” the child asked while stomping her feet.

“Beauty is everything. If you have beauty you can walk with confidence and shows your passion.”

It is the same as what Miss Luna told me. Wait… is that woman the head of the In'n before Miss Luna?

“All you care is beauty! You must think of trusting yourself!” she went out and slam the door.

Niko stops biting her lip.

“Do you really want that child to be the next head?” asked Niko while continuing combing the woman’s hair.

“She’ll realize soon that beauty is important.”

“She’s right though…rather than depending on beauty, why don’t you start trusting yourself.” Niko continued.

“Niko, we are the reason of peace of Marsh Ao Kingdom. If we are ugly no one will come to us. Our beauty and elegance in fighting is the reason why the In’n is still running today.”

Niko can’t do anything to the stubbornes of the woman.

The scenery change again.

“Let go off me!” the child is tied up in the chair with her eyes are covered, they place the child in a dark room with only one bulb to light her up.

“Aelia… you wanted to become a flower, right?” the woman encircling the child.

“Dahlia, is that you? Why are you doing this?” she recognized the voice of Dahlia and when she knows it was her, she calmed down.

“Aelia, answer my question. You wanted to become a flower or not?” she repeated.

“Is this some kind of a test? Of course, I want to.”

Dahlia sighed. “You should have said no.”

There was a table near Dahlia and she picks up something.

She went near to the child and was forced to open her mouth.

“Aghh.” She gaged

She swallowed the thing that has been put in her mouth.

“What did yo–aahhh!” she groaned in pain.

“It’s a mushroom.”

A mushroom? Did she just let the child eat a poisonous mushroom?

“It will never stop giving you pain, if you cannot do what I want. It will stay in your body until you die if ever you disobeyed my term, the pain will come back and will never stop until you obey me again.”

Did she just make her become her puppet?

“W–why…are y..you doing…this?” she is still in pain.

“I need someone to take over me. I need someone who has the mindset that 'Beauty is everything.’” She’s crazy!

“Meow!” even the cat agree with me.

“That someone is you, Aelia. I want you to take over me.” She touch her chin and made her face level with her.

“This is unnecessary! I can lead the In’n even though I don’t have that mindset–AHhhh!” She screams in pain.

“You can’t talk like that, Aelia or else, it will hurt you more.” She worried even though she’s the cause of it.

“Ahhh!” She cried.

“Aelia, repeat after me. ‘Beauty is everything.’”

“You’re crazy! Ahhh!” she’s in a lot of pain.

“Aelia, come on…’Beauty is everything.’” She stubbornly pushed it to the child.

“No! Aaahhhh!” she’s crying.

“Aelia, think this through. It will only stop if you think that Beauty is everything.”

“I will never! Get out of here, Dahlia.”

The woman stands up, “Okay, I will leave and come back here to check up on you.” She left through the door.

“I will not give up…I will never give up. I have experienced this pain before and I’m not going to give in again.”

She stayed there for days with no food and water, she’s been enduring the pain and screaming when it’s getting awful.

“Meow…”

“I know... she's miserable.”

I wish I could help her but I can’t touch her. I am like a ghost just watching her suffer.

“Beauty…” she mumbled.

“Hehehehe.” My god, she snapped out.

“HAHAHAHAHA!” She laughed madly.

“Beauty is everything…Beautiful is everything…Beauty is everything BeautyisEverythingBeautyisEverythingBeautyiseverythingbeautyis everything!” She keeps on repeating it, she’s going mad.

Poor thing…

“I am beautiful, you are beautiful we are beautiful but I am not the most beautiful and there’s one the most beautiful here in the In’n so…I am going to rid the most beautiful to make me the most…”

Terrible…Dahlia, you just made a monster out of her cell.

“…I am going to get rid of Dahlia.”

Dahlia, she’s coming for you…

When she became crazy, power also surge within her.

She easily breakthrough from being tied up.

She brought the mushrooms that is on the table.

The pain is stopped which means her mindset is already in set to think beauty is everything.

She head toward to the Dahlia and I just realized the room that Dahlia is staying at is my room.

She went in without knocking and Dahlia is still awake.

She was shocked that Aelia went into her room.

“Aelia, how did you?” she keeps on backing off because Aelia keeps on coming towards her.

“I am not Aelia.”

“You are Aelia, I gave you that name when we first met. Remember?”

“But, it’s not my name.”

Dahlia has nowhere to back off because behind her is already a wall.

She brought out the mushroom in the bad and what Dahlia did to her, she was forced to open her mouth and put mushrooms. She forces her to swallow it and Dahlia keeps on choking at them.

“You can only eat one. Stop!” she begs.

“Aelia , I’m sorry!” Then, she started crying and her tears turns into black. The woman with a black tears. She’s…

“I am not Aelia…” she put even more mushrooms.

“I am Luna.”

What? Luna?

“Luna! Stop!”

Before I could reach her, I am back and the time continue ticking.