A bright light was felt in front of the closed eyes.

Lorencia slowly applied strength to her heavy eyelids. As her vision cleared, she opened her eyes, feeling the fresh air she was experiencing for the first time. She saw a woman with purple eyes and long white hair reaching to the floor approaching her through the trees.

The appearance of the woman before her eyes was so similar to herself that it was like looking in a mirror. On top of the white face, a crown made of colorful flowers was visible.

[Welcome, my child.]

‘Could it be?’

Lorencia’s heart pounded.

“Are you Goddess Ella?”

She asked the woman before her, desperately trying to calm her racing heart. Seeing her nod calmly, tears welled up in Lorencia’s eyes.

She didn’t know why tears were flowing.

“I’m sorry. I feel like I haven’t protected anything.”

Ella’s delicate and beautiful fingers wiped away the tears rolling down Lorencia’s cheeks.

“Even when I see the future, it keeps changing…”

Goddess Ella, with a gentle smile, embraced Lorencia affectionately. A familiar lullaby sound reached Lorencia’s ears.

“This lullaby sound.”

It was an unforgettable, nostalgic lullaby sound.

“It’s the lullaby my mother often sang to me.”

Perhaps because it had been so long since she heard the beautiful lullaby sung by Musilla, emotions welled up. Tears filled her eyes and fell in drops.

Lorencia closed her eyes while listening to the lullaby sung by Goddess Ella. Listening to the lullaby made her think of her mother Musilla, whom she missed, and her father Cain, whom she had never seen.

‘But was there a lyric about the night sky in the lullaby?’

As the lullaby ended, Lorencia opened her eyes, feeling something strange.

[Lorencia.]

“Yes, Goddess Ella.”

Lorencia looked up at Ella.

[Now, let’s go to the water of life together.]

Lorencia smiled at Ella’s last words.

[Lorencia. Tell me where the water of life is.]

Lorencia became fully alert at Ella’s question about the location of the water of life.

Come to think of it, when she was making eye contact with Pelena, the Tiffany Hall was darkly eroded. Then she prayed to Goddess Ella for the safety of the people in the mansion.

Very earnestly.

[What’s wrong, Lorencia?]

She had no doubt that the being in front of her was Goddess Ella. It was natural. Titania said Goddess Ella would return, and she sang the lullaby that Musilla sang, although the lyrics were slightly different.

But why did she keep feeling as if a fish bone was stuck in her throat?

“I’m just sad because it’s been so long since I heard my mother’s lullaby.”

[I see.]

As Goddess Ella’s hand stroked her head, a chill ran down Lorencia’s spine and cold sweat broke out. Lorencia asked herself why. The answer to the question was simpler than she thought.

[Lorencia. Soon, the seedling of the water of life will take root completely in this world.]

“Take root?”

[Soon, the seedling of the water of life will fully grow and take root deep in this world. Shouldn’t we go see that scene?]

The heart that had been beating with anticipation and excitement when she first met Goddess Ella earlier now began to pound anxiously with a different meaning.

If the answer to her question was true…

“But Goddess Ella, I’m curious if the people in Count Ania’s villa are safe.”

At Lorencia’s words, Goddess Ella lifted the corners of her mouth.

[Don’t worry. As soon as I came to this world, I killed the white snake.]

“Did you really kill it?”

[Yes. The white snake is dead.]

“It’s such a relief that the white snake is dead, Goddess Ella.”

[Now, let’s go to the seedling of the water of life.]

Lorencia nodded with a bright smile. Goddess Ella stroked Lorencia’s cheek with a benevolent smile.

“Yes. The location of the water of life is…”

Lorencia began to tell Ella the location of the water of life with a smile.

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Teishar, who had left the room, kept tapping the ear cuff in his ear.

“Damn it.”

Teishar bit his lower lip hard. Lorencia’s earrings and the ear cuff he was wearing were connected by magic, allowing them to hear each other’s voices.

As soon as he left the tea party venue, he heard Lorencia talking. Every time he heard her voice, his heart sank. So he quickly headed to the tea party venue where she was.

“Young Lord.”

Just as he arrived at the tea party venue, the doors of the venue swung open and two familiar people rushed out.

It was Owenna and Blondie.

“Young Lord Teishar.”

Teishar’s heart sank when he saw the two. Blondie and Owenna were combat maids guarding Lorencia. But where had they left Lorencia to come looking for him!

Unpleasant and bad thoughts seemed to envelop his entire body.

As soon as the words ended, Teishar’s heart seemed to plummet to the floor again at the sight of Blondie’s visibly darkening face.

“Something terrible has happened.”

“Blondie. I know. That the white snake appeared.”

“What?”

As Blondie made an expression asking how he knew, Teishar tapped the ear cuff plugged into his ear.

“Because I was listening.”

“Then this will go quickly. The white snake took the young lady and disappeared.”

Teishar bit his lower lip hard. So the reason Lorencia’s voice was cut off was because of the abduction!

“Blondie. Go around the mansion, check if there are people, and evacuate everyone outside the villa.”

Teishar decided to stay calm. Perhaps he had always kept in mind that the white snake might appear when talking with Lorencia.

At her words that she could be abducted, both the feeling that he should protect her and instinctive fear bloomed. Unconsciously, he began to think about death.

All he could do was quietly embrace Lorencia as she said with a smile that she wouldn’t die even if abducted. No words could represent his feelings.

It was natural to protect her, and if he could die instead, he would gladly offer his neck. But that was just his wish. A wish is not something that can always be fulfilled. How nice would it be if he could confidently say he could protect her?

Teishar clenched his fist tightly and then relaxed it.

“Blondie and Owenna. What about the leaf of the water of life?”

“We checked, and it has turned black.”

“I see.”

This was the first time in his life he felt his head was in such a mess. He was just anxious. But he couldn’t show a mess of expressions and appearance in front of the servants.

Teishar bit the tender flesh inside his mouth hard enough to draw blood.

“The leaf of the water of life blocked the white snake’s poison instead. We need to isolate Count Ania’s villa. We need to evacuate all the villagers nearby.”

“What about our Young Lady Lorencia? We knew it was a dangerous place, but we failed to protect her. We’re unqualified as servants.”

Tears welled up in Blondie’s eyes and fell.

“Blondie. We’re going to rescue her. But now is not the time to unleash emotions as they lead. The white snake’s poison is lingering in this villa, so we need to prepare.”

Teishar understood Blondie’s feelings. He wanted to show his emotions like Blondie, saying they should go rescue Lorencia, but in the current situation, emotions were just a nuisance. He had to coldly suppress his feelings.

“The feeling of going crazy because Roa was abducted… It’s not just Blondie.”

“I’m so sorry for even showing tears.”

“The white snake won’t kill Roa right away. If they wanted to kill Roa, they would have killed her as soon as they saw her. They wouldn’t have bothered to abduct her.”

“But where was she abducted to…”

“Don’t worry. I know where she went.”

“Really? Young Lord Teishar.”

“Did you already forget that I said I was listening? Blondie.”

Blondie heaved a sigh of relief when she saw Teishar tapping the ear cuff plugged into his ear as he spoke.

Teishar remembered what Lorencia had said. He heard her tell the location of the water of life, and then her voice was cut off.

As expected, the white snake demanded the location of the water of life. This means that the white snake won’t kill her now because she knows the location of the water of life, but it also means they could kill her at any time if things go wrong. Time was running out.

‘But to think that Concubine Pelena was the white snake.’

A pitiful woman who was forcibly made the emperor’s concubine by Daniel’s greed and was not loved. Even in Flloyd, Pelena was famous as an abandoned concubine. He never expected such an unexpected figure to be the white snake. He hadn’t noticed at all. No, he didn’t think Pelena would be the white snake. He clenched his fist again so tightly that blood wouldn’t flow.

To think the white snake was so close.

It felt like he had escorted Lorencia into the snake’s mouth.

Teishar rushed in one step to the tea party venue where he had escorted Lorencia. As the door opened, a sweet and sticky scent stung his nose.

The hall was dark and had an eerie atmosphere.

“Is that?”

Teishar discovered a branch placed on the table and chair where Lorencia had sat.

The white snake might do anything to Lorencia to find out the location of the water of life.

Teishar carefully collected the branch of the water of life.

Looking at the branch, his heart burned. Even at this moment, Lorencia must be with the white snake, how scared and uncomfortable must she be? Just the thought made his heart race anxiously. Teishar placed his hand on his left chest to calm his anxiously beating heart.

He wanted to drop everything and go rescue Lorencia right away, but first, he had to evacuate all the living people in Count Ania’s villa outside.