To You Who Never Loved Me - Chapter 12

< The Curse from the Goddess of the Moon [4] >

But just because you entered the dark forest right now didn’t mean

anything happened. The atmosphere outside and inside the forest wasn’t

much different than I thought.

It was just a little darker, damp, and stuffy. That the wind blew from

outside.

The sound I heard earlier was from the wind, was Michael’s words correct?

It was similar to a whispering sound.

“No one has come out of this forest, so everyone stays calm.”

At Michael’s instructions, each took out his own weapon. In the meantime,

I was a little embarrassed because I didn’t have a weapon to take out. Even

though the party wasn’t paying any attention.

Normally, someone would have noticed and embraced my awkwardness

first, but not now. Surely they were nervous too, but unlike before

entering the forest, everyone was silent. The forest road was narrow and

winding, it not difficult to ride a horse. But that didn’t last long either.

“Uh uh!”

Becky suddenly fell to the ground. Fortunately, Becky wasn’t seriously

injured by jumping off a horse before falling, it was almost a big deal.

But not only Becky’s horse, Pavice, Seed, Michael, and the horse I was

riding also fell to the ground.

Everyone has good riding skills, so I didn’t get hurt like Becky. I also had no

injuries thanks to Michael’s hug and jump.

The horse’s eyes fell out of focus. There were also horses with closed eyes.

“Lord, are you dead?”

Seed shook his head, raising his hand on the chest of the horse he was

riding on. He even noticed the horse breathing and made a resentful

expression.

“They fell asleep.”

“Suddenly?”

“So it must be a Forest of Dream. This forest will be very difficult.”

Pavice agreed with Seed’s opinion.

“Yeah. Whoever attacks us, we cannot avoid falling asleep. Michael, think,

if we do well, we might not fall asleep right?”

“I don’t know because I haven’t dare competed with the goddess.”

“Shhh.”

“As I said before, don’t think of relying on me. If you get in the way, I’ll

throw it away immediately.”

Michael, staring at the sleeping horse, raised his head and looked towards

me.

“Of course my cat is an exception.”

The expressionless face looked at me and smiled again. The change in his

expression was nice and reassuring, so I held Michael’s sleeve tightly.

Michael took my hand and hurried. Becky grunted that the weapon was

heavy, but no one seriously listened to her grumble.

“How can you not falling asleep?”

“Yeah. It would be nice if there was an antidote to wake you up even if you

fell asleep like drinking poison, but you know that, unfortunately, there is

no such thing.”

“Michael, aren’t you too careless just because you will be fine?”

“There is no guarantee that I will be safe either.”

I don’t know why everyone thinks Michael will be safe in this forest, but I

decided not to ask. I had already been warned by Michael before. A good

child wouldn’t ask questions that would be embarrassing to the other

person.

It was the moment when the forest was about to become stuffy because

there was not even a single point of sunlight. The wind blew again and the

rustling of the leaves was heard. This time the wind was a little strong. My

long hair obscured my view. As I fumbled my face with my hands and

pulled my hair back, a different landscape unfolded before my eyes.

“…I can see the light.”

There was a gap between the trees that were thick enough to cover the

sky. A white light was coming in through a crack in the middle of the forest

path just above the spring.

There was an elongated rock in the spring that had been polished so that a

person could stand, and the bridges on both sides connected the ground

and the rock built on the spring.

I ran and crossed the bridge and stood on a rock with a crescent moon.

And I looked up at the sky as if I had been seeing it after a long time. Then I

found something unexpected.

“Moon…?”

The moon, not the sun, was floating in the sky. This was very strange. We

certainly came into the woods on a very bright morning…

“No need to be surprised, because there is no day in the lunar goddess

realm.”

“Then it’s already night, isn’t it?”

“First of all, maybe.”

Michael, who always seemed to know everything, couldn’t give a definite

answer, and anxiety began to rise from the bottom.

But there was another thing that caught my eye. It was Becky, who was

right behind Michael.

“Becky, why is that?”

Becky kept rubbing his eyes and blinking. As if she was sleepy.

“Becky?”

Everyone looked back at my cautious voice. It seemed that only then

everyone noticed Becky’s condition wasn’t good.

“…Becky?”

Michael also called Becky in a low voice.

“Sigh…”

Becky swept her eyes down and turned her neck.

“No, it’s okay. It’s not that I, I keep making strange sounds, what, ah…”

There was no context in the words that she mumbled as if drunk.

[… Becky.]

[You’ll want to sleep, Becky. Becky, Becky, do you want to sleep?]

[We, like your mother, be your mother, and sing a song.]

If I hadn’t heard that voice, I wouldn’t have understood why Becky was

doing that.

[Becky, Becky! Sleep! I’ll show you something interesting!]

[Are you tired? You’re tired!]

It was a whisper from someone trying to put Becky to sleep. It wasn’t just

one whisper.

“Hey!”

“Get up, Becky!”

The voices from all directions succeeded in defeating Becky in the end.

Suddenly, I felt someone’s gaze from somewhere.

“…”

As I turned my head quietly, a shadow of a man popped out of a nearby

tree. It was obviously a tree, but it shook me using the branches like a

hand, and the dents turned into features and laughed at me.

“Rose?”

“Mi, Michael! Hey, look at that!”

As soon as Michael approached, I pointed to the tree that touch my arm

and moved. But, as if everything was a hallucination, the tree was no

longer moving.

“Rose, take it easy. I can’t afford to look at you now.”

I’m not asking you to look at me…

Obviously the tree had moved. But now, no matter how much I said, it

didn’t seem like Michael would believe me.

Michael and Seed refused to carry Becky, so it was natural for Pavice to

carry Becky.

I’m not sure, but I thought we had to get out of this place. Stepping on the

rock with the moon’s pattern and crossing the bridge, we hurried.

“Hey, wait a minute. I think I hear a strange sound, ah…”

However, we stopped again after Pavice, who was carrying Becky, fell.

“Pavice, Pavice!”

I knelt and shook Pavice, but he didn’t move at all. I didn’t know, just in

case, I put my finger under his nose. Fortunately, he was breathing.

“Damn, can we move them when they’re not even talking?”

For the first time, Seed, who has always kept his cool, expressed his

emotions violently. Michael was looking down at Pavice and Becky, who

had fallen silently by the side.

“Seed, you’re staying here and guarding the two.”

“Are you going to dump us now?”

“I mean I’ll come to pick you up later.”

“If you think it’s unnecessary, you won’t come to pick us up.”

“If you don’t trust your colleague, you don’t, Seed.”

“Because you think of us as an object to take advantage of!”

The fight between the two gradually intensified.

Then, somewhere, I heard a burst of loud laughter.

[Seed, Seed. A Human. Lost his temper]

[Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose.]

[Can you hear our voice? Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose?]

It wasn’t a few voices.

I heard calls from the sky and earth, everywhere.

[Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose,

Rose, Rose, Rose!]

“Ah…….”

[I’ll show you something sweet.]

Something sweet?

[Do you not want to know Michael?]

“…”

[Rose, Rose, we will let you know.]

[Well, then. Let me know. Are you curious? Are you curious? Are you

curious?]

I wanted to call Michael, for help.

However, no voice came out. I even got a little dizzy. Even though I was just

standing still, I couldn’t hold the center and stumbled, I unintentionally

stepped back.

[You want to be closer to Michael.]

But if Michael doesn’t want it, I don’t want to force it to know.

[No! No! No! Rose wants to know!]

[Come on. Let’s have the sweetest and most comfortable sleep in the

world.]

[I’ll let you taste a sweet dream.]

The loud noises from all over directions made me unbearable. Those

sounds keep me back.

Fortunately, just before I falling back, my back touched the tree, and was

able to re-center. In a moment, the sounds that bothered me stopped

talking for a while.

At last, it was just the moment to be relieved.

“Hummp!”

The cold stuffed my mouth. As I rolled my eyes and looked up, something

disguised as a tree and one body were smiling at me.

To be sure, that wasn’t a person.

* * *

Michael began to get bored with Seed’s conversation. As Seed said,

Michael didn’t mean to throw it away if it became unnecessary.[1] It was

hard to carry the two sleeping people out of the forest with Rose, too. In

addition, the forest nymphs who are faithful to their mother will try to

make Seed sleep to hinder their walk.

It wasn’t heavy, but it was quite difficult to carry three people and protect

Rose in a situation where you don’t know what variables will occur. In

addition, if you want to prioritize it, the first thing Michael had to keep was

Rose. Because it’s the most useful thing. [2]

In fact, as Seed said, if they become unnecessary, or have other alternative

measures, he will not have to come to pick them up. Nevertheless, Michael

was planning to bring his party if possible.

It was quite difficult to get these people back together and put them

together from the beginning. In addition, Michael was also reluctant to

abandon those who spend a lot of time with him.

Anyway, for now, it was best to leave them alone. However, Seed kept

making things bothersome.

“Sid, Rose is watching.”

Glossary

[1] In the sentence and Seed’s dialogue, it always referred to Michael’s

colleagues as ‘It’. I wonder why? To describe that Michael thinking of them

as objects to use or what… Michael is suspicious…

[2] For example. I have adjusted many predicates. Sorry, If I made a

mistake.