12.2 The Night and the Food
“Dia wants to marry the Prince—…isn’t that how it should be…?”
However, when he tried to mend the wound of her heart somehow, the child sadly muttered so.
Noin was frightened by the meaning of her words.
He even told her that the prince would gladly kill her—but she said she was fine with it.
Inside his heart, there was also anger that she allowed another person settle inside her heart despite having accepted his marriage proposal—however, Noin was one of the oldest spirits involved with humans.
He felt uncomfortable due to Dia’s gaze—and suddenly remembered that his spiritual courtship was difficult to understand from the human race’s standpoint.
Perhaps this child didn’t even recognize it as a courtship from one of the kings of spirits.
Then, in the slight gap when Noin was looking away, she had fallen in love with a human prince.
Speaking of which, Dilvier had told him that she had attended a royal ball at Fashitar.
When he let out a low growl, Dia stared at him—her eyes were brimming with tears, she seemed at a loss.
That stormy night, the reason I sent her ‘home’ was as a form of tolerance.
For the human Dia was still a small child, the loss of her family would surely affect her a lot.
Many spirits didn’t care about things concerning the other race.
As a result, they often broke the heart of someone they loved.
That was why—he wanted to do the right thing. By bestowing the child with forgiveness, he hoped she would attain happiness someday.
Because he was a creature quite familiar with the way of humans—
—therefore, he respected her for being human.
He wanted to give her all the happiness in the world.
—therefore someday, surely, that brilliant smile of hers would return. Then, onward, she would continue to smile.
That was all he ever wanted—such was the form of Noin’s devotion, after finally finding his one and only.
In addition to that, there was also the fact that Dia’s magical zone was too low.
Unless he kept feeding her with the food he—a spirit—prepared, the child wouldn’t last for more than a month in the Kingdom of Spirits.
He needed to keep feeding her, and rebuild her body over time—
—only then would he be able to bestow upon her the spirit ring.
However, when he returned to the human land for the first time after that incident, he watched as her body grew a little more under the patronage of her new family.
He thought that it would be better to slowly nurse her to recovery, then let her go.
…But, I also wonder about that…
He knew someone was calling for him, but for how long had he shown his back on that dying call?
It was also an intolerable humiliation and regret for one of the kings—Noin, to realize that he had lost his beloved, especially because he hadn’t told his name to that child.
Her body needed to be rebuilt slowly and gradually so as to not overwhelm her magical zone. Otherwise, the child would have died upon stepping to his realm.
…When did I realize the person I granted protection to was about to be killed?
Because of such a predicament, it was no wonder that such a tiny human lost her heart.
“…Do you know about it?”
Still, Noin, whom had failed to let go of his own desire, watched over the crying child.
Different from the cry of human child of that age, her cry was also the sound of her heart breaking—he felt it.
He felt his beloved’s heart break, shatter, and became irretrievable—
—to the point that his own heart was crushed.
Aah, surely, this person will die.
That stormy night was also a place where many people died, Noin easily understood that.
In the pathetic kingdom called Fashitar that was built on top of his land, many had shown such worn out eyes, then stumbled and died.
He wondered if he had no choice after all—no choice but to witness his one and only die.
Even if he tried to keep her close until he died, considering the child’s low magical zone, such a thing wouldn’t come true—everything needed time.
Then—what should he do?
What can I do for her?
What path should he take to prolong the life of his loved one?
After considering many possibilities and measures, all that remained was the most unpleasant one.
“…if that’s what you really want, then go to the royal palace as you so wanted!”
“—the royal pa—…?”
“I shall personally escort you there, to the royal palace… do your best to get killed!”
First, he summoned Dilvier and commanded him to rewrite part of the consciousness and the memory of the knights.
He entrusted the sleeping Dia to the knight leader, who was in charge of the place, and ordered said knight to treat her like a national treasure.
Muttering, ‘try harming this sleeping child even a little and you will see!’ Noin released the hand of the slumbering, little, child.
By the time Dia woke up in the royal palace, the king, the queen, and the princes were already hypnotized by the fairies to turn her to the fiancée of the first prince of the kingdom.
Dia should have her wish granted in no time, since he had used his magic to give her her desired prince.
…Exactly, show me that you can survive!
No matter how high-ranking the spirits were, it didn’t matter even if they governed the whole world—they were still unable to bring back the death.
In addition, those killed by the knights blessed by the church wouldn’t return to the earth on the day of the dead.
Because he couldn’t grant the child’s most important wish, the only thing left for him to do was fulfil her other, remaining, wish.
Spirits didn’t love those who betrayed them, or didn’t choose themselves.
Not only limited to Noin, it was an irreplaceable quality of the spirit itself.
That was why—
—if he were to give her to that human prince…
…eventually, he would lose this heart of his.
Higher-ranking spirits were less likely to get a spouse.
Spirits who lost their spouses once they found one, usually didn’t survive.
Letting go of that child instead of making her pay the price would mean letting go of the only spouse he had finally found—
—it would also mean accepting what was going to come for him.
“…Why would you even hand away your bride to a human prince? What’s more, this child broke her promise with you just like that after a few months… why don’t you just imprison her—regardless of whether she cries or dislikes it? What if something bad happens to you?”
“I’m not handing her away completely… I want to keep her heart alive, then, if this child can survive, I shall come back and fulfil that night’s promise someday.”
That was what he said, when in truth, he had prepared to never see her again.
Human’s life evaporated in the blink of an eye to a spirit.
He said that only to deceive Dilvier for a while. Then, once he turned his eyes away a little, surely, that tiny life would easily pass by him.
That was his last farewell, an ode to his obsession. He would let her go in exchange for her most important wish, which was brutally crushed.
—so please, do your best to live.
To fulfil that, I will give you whatever you need.
That’s why, don’t let despair consume your heart, and again, regain your joy in living.
***T/N: Ueeeeh….. UEEEHHHHHHH ///sobs some more.
This.
This is my heart after being punched into thousand broken pieces, then being blown into smithereens by revelation after revelation of Noin’s actual character.
BIBBIDI BOBBIDI BOO, last chapter was a spirit king whimsically falling for a human, this chapter is about the spirit king devotedly fulfilling his side of the promise and actually acted the word ‘love’ instead of merely saying it– AND NOW MY HEART IS SMITHEREENS!
…I was wrong about him this entire time.
DUDE WHAT PART OF YOU IS CAPRICIOUS!??!?! –WHY ARE YOU SO ELABORATELY WRITTEN?!?!?!?! WHY ARE YOUR PLAN ON MAKING DIA’S HAPPY THIS DAMN FRICKIN METICULOUS?!!? YOU’RE READY TO DIE FOR HER SINCE THE GET GO!!!!! WHY CAN’T THEY BE HAPPY ALREADY!??!!?!!?!?
FINALLY, A NON-HUMAN MALE LEAD WHO ACTUALLY RESPECT HEROINE’S HUMANITY FOR ONCE AND NOT RUB IT AT HER FACE ‘HOOMAN IS PATHETIC WEAKLING, BEING BORN AS ONE IS A MISTAKE’. INSTEAD, HE IS THE MOST HUMANE OUT OF EVERY CHARACTERS (ESP. ROYAL FAM) WE’VE BEEN SHOWN UNTIL NOW.
Tl;dr Noin is a gap moe.
Omg, I was right!
Not only was her being alive a mistake (to the royal family and the knights), but he’s been feeding her to increase her tolerance to non-humas so she would survive his realm!
Baka…Moron…idiot….dumbass….fool…stupid… This is why peeps need to fully understand the complexities of another culture…another species..and cognitive self awareness limitations of a human child… Smacks Noin upside the head
All the unnecessary bittersweet and angst just because of a misunderstanding. (facepalm)
Me attempting to patch up my heart:
https://giphy.com/gifs/life-seth-rogen-this-is-the-end-Lvand4cUuA6xG
I was rejoicing just a moment ago over Roze then when I got here, I got hit in the face by the feels…*sigh……I want to make Noin and Dia sit down and talk with each other cause this misunderstanding is bad for my heart.
Im’ma add the gif I made later my data can’t make it.
YOU JUST HAPPEN TO READ IT IN THE WRONG ORDER GABE
INDEED, I READ IT IN THE WRONG ORDER, A VERY WRONG ORDER. THIS IS LIKE FINISHING YOUR DRINK BEFORE YOU FINISH YOUR MEAL, IT’S A VERY VERY WRONG ORDER.
OH GOD. BUT RESTAURANT ALWAYS DELIVER DRINK FIRST, AND THE MAIN DISH A YEAR LATER!!!!
Yes they do, and it is their way to make more profit because when you finish your drink while waiting for the main dish tendencies are you will order a new drink and they charge you for that (except for water which you aren’t even sure if it is safe to drink or just plain unfiltered tap water flavored by all sorts of microscopic beings).
By the time the main dish comes you are already feeling quite full so you wouldn’t be able to finish your food and some restaurants even charge you for your leftovers.
GABE SENSEI IM DONE WITH ALL 100 PAGESSS
GOOD JOB!!!! Now you have my permission to laze off the whole day as a reward!!!!!
You have plans on sharing them??
I can give some teasers~
I got curious…did you do the trick I taught you???
I wanna see the cover page after it got checked and returned.
Haha nah. But i did cut the amount of panel to maximum 4 after 50 ish pages.
Has your internet data been refilled?
Hahaha…you are so diligent I feel like I am a bad influence…LOL
My data is still not refilled and I have 10MB left so don’t be surprised when I suddenly stopped replying.
NOOOOO dont leave me hahaha. Where did that person who is supposed to refill ur data go!?
They are working as an engineer in another province….I have no choice, they are the only person I know who can refill my data, many stores are still closed and the ones open don’t sell data they only sell other basic necessities.
So when will he refill it Gabe
I don’t know yet…I’ll ask my sibling to contact them again. After my data is refilled, let’s throw a party in the comments section.
HAHAHA!!!!! I AM BACK AND I BROUGHT MY GIF FOR THIS DIA UPDATE!!!!!! HAHAHA!!!!!!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dmn-oqFCKjw4b0L6i2vp5URO10i4ZxKS/view?usp=drivesdk
NOW LET’S PARTY!!!!!!
https://46.media.tumblr.com/67f99f8011a3946c04d5d5a7804d3504/tumblr_inline_pqv17khuod1uf4v49_500.gif
HELLO GABE WELCOME BAAAACK
Commander, I am back!!!!! While waiting for my data refill I watched an old anime being aired on TV the title was Remi: nobody’s girl and I was pissed. You see Remi is a travelling performer, she travels and performs with this old man along with a bunch of dogs and a small monkey. So they were in this town performing when the monkey got hit by a moving carriage. They wanted to look for a vet to heal the monkey but there was none available in the town and they were told they have go to this other town to see a vet. So this Remi kept on saying the monkey’s name and crying for him to be saved, so this sickly old man decided to walk to the next town along with Remi, the dogs and the wounded monkey while there is a blizzard and they got attacked by wolves on the way. This made me doubt their brains, I know that they treat the monkey as their family but is it really worth to risk many lives for it?? They could have just given the poor monkey some treatment until the blizzard stops but they did not. And did they think that walking in the blizzard would help heal the monkey’s injuries??? The thought of moving the monkey around in such a weather would aggravate its injuries never crossed their minds. How could they be so stupid????
This is why I rarely watch TV, I can’t stop cursing in front of the tv when I see stupid shows like this.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. omg i swear i read the line as “they could have just given the poor monkey to the dogs. At the very least he dies a useful death. ”
So. Did the monkey survive?
Sshh!!! Commander I wanted to say that but I held myself back even though I know cured meat of a monkey is delicious (bear and deer meat is also good).
And the show ended after they escaped from the wolves by sacrificing the dogs so I do not know if the monkey would be saved but my older sibling who had watched it before says the old man, Remi and the monkey dies though I am a bit doubtful of what my sibling said. Then my annoyance doubled because Princess Sarah beginned right after and Lavinia the bitchy kid appeared.
Not really but it seems the authors want to make them a couple….well it’s CLAMP. I already got used to this kind of stuff from them. They like this kind of shocking couples, like couples with huge age difference (they did this with that teacher and Sakura’s parents as well as many other couples from their other series), student x teacher couples, the kind of relationship Chi had with her owner from Chobits, the relationship between Chi’s twin, Freya, and their creator/ adoptive father (guy cheated with a robot, he made with his wife as a replacement for a child, and that is twisted), so I guess having this same sex couple in Card Captor Sakura isn’t that shocking and I welcome it more than the relationship between a 5th grader and her teacher cause Yue and Sakura’s big bro are both of the same age and can think for themselves as to what they want and what they should do unlike that 5th Grader.
Ohh you make me flashback to kamichama karin. The prof shrink his wife to middle school age while also making a clone of himself so they can get together again?
So… So they basically die for a monkey?
If what my sibling said is true, yes they died for a monkey like how Fern died a monkey MC.
Now what is this princess Sarah about???
This is princess sarah:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcS3S48eMQYcuJ6zs71EMpUp4bv1N4QdB02PoFoSd3JFKolVlLD4&usqp=CAU
The little girl who was enrolled to a boarding school but after her dad died she was turned into a servant in the boarding school by the headmistress miss minchin.
I just watched jane eyre yesterday. Orphaned girl having abused childhood seems to be a cliche
Princess Sarah is pretty popular here in my country and countless memes using her picture are made by the people. Most memes have something to do with potatoes because when princess Sarah became a servant most of the time she was being ordered to peel potatoes. People totally forgot about her background as an abused child because of the potatoes.
Now i want potato too
So your television often play classic anime? Must be fun.
We can have Sarah peel some for us to use for cooking….french fries sounds good also some potato chips.
Yup, they do show dubbed version of classic anime and some new ones like one punch man, magi kuroko no basket, myriad colors, sao and danmachi. But the most popular ones are the classics like doraemon, detective conan, cooking master boy, princess sarah, remi, dog of flounders, tom sawyer and the von trapp family and the yugi- oh anime series from the original yugi-oh to yugi-oh zexal and also beyblade and digimon.
Conan is banned from our television cuz it “teach methods of killing”
And it is not that fun because they play it on loop for at least 10 years now so you might get sick of it…….my little sibling watches the classic anime every afternoon and has now memorized the whole princess sarah series that if you asked them to re-enact it they can do it with accurate dialouge of the dubbed version
Ngahahaha so theres a downside to television showing anime.
Indeed. Back then in my country naruto would loop back to 1 when they dont have the new episode.
Really??? Conan was banned??? My dad likes the series and he hates it when I guess who the killer is accurately even before the crime happens.
You know Voltes 5 was once banned in my country during the 70’s because the ending depicts the rebellion happening against the enemy country so the government banned it and the tv station that was airing it had to stop it and the last episode was never aired until the ban was lifted and the anime was re-aired in the later years.
Talks of it getting a local live action tv adaptation is also ongoing so I am watching out for it. They say it would be titled Voltes 5 legacy and would tell what happened to the people after the ending of the voltes 5 series and would be made with TOEI, but I hope they don’t butcher it like what they did with their sequel of the Shaider series.
HOW DID YOU GUESS THE KILLER EVEN BEFORE THE CRIME HAPPENS
Voltes art style reminds me of saint seiya… Back then i liked Andromeda because “she” is just so beautiful and strong–that moment when i came to know that she is a he.
Here’s the teaser:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBl6HicWaPc
It’s all in the face. I also guess who the victim would be from time to time but most of my guesses are incorrect, after all I base it on who seems easy to kill.
I don’t remember much about voltes 5 aside from the red one shouting “let’s volt in” cause the last time I watched it I was a kindergarten student. I remember watching it during recess, not in the classroom but in my house. I used to sneak out of class when I was in kindergarten and go back home to have a snack for recess, and while eating I watch Voltes 5 then go back to class after.
Whats ur fav classic anime Gabe? I love magical girl anime. Transformation is lit. If u are dominator crazy, i am magical stick crazy back then.
Aside from liking Kuro-chan: the cyborg cat, I also used to be a huge fan of Cardcaptor Sakura back then but after reading the manga I realized that my favorite anime from my childhood was a lie…..I felt like I wasted my childhood when I found out about their Teacher’s relationship with one of Sakura’s classmates, for god’s sake they were 5th graders….why????
BTW, Kuro-chan: the cyborg cat was an anime about a cat that died then turned into a cyborg by a sad genius professor who was his owner before Kuro-chan died but because he failed in implanting Kuro- chan’s memories, Kuro-chan forgot about him and thinks he is the enemy who wants to kidnap him from his new owners, an old couple who always drink tea and laughing.
GABE I AM ADDICTED TO MURDER MYSTERY MOVIE LIKE KNIVE OUT. ANY SUGGESTION!?
I read the manga… And i kinda want sakura to end with Yue?
Shaoran is… Well… A boy.
I don’t know that much mystery films and I don’t know if Once upon a time in Hollywood and Ex-machina can be considered as mystery cause I haven’t watched them yet but I think they are as good as Knives out so I recommend it.
Sakura can’t end up with Yue/ Yukito cause he is the boyfriend of Sakura’s big bro or at the very least he has some romantic feelings for Sakura’s big bro as implied in the manga and the recent clear card arc
D-do you support yue x sakura big bro
What’s with that Kamichama Karin Series??? It seems to be more twisted than a DNA strand.
Idk. They try to be cool by mixing greek goddess and scientific but failing to do so because the author instead want the focus to still be an adolescent girl everyday school life.
I googled it and got confused with wiki’s summary
The most unexpected revelation in this chapter, for me, is how Noin explained it was his doing in compelling the Queen and King to turn Dia as the fiancée of the first prince. I wonder why he stopped the hypnosis and the royal Palace decided to kill her.
It wear off over time i think.
Rachel Rachel wdyt of noin. Does ur affinity for him go up?
Sorry I missed that. This chapter from Noin’s point of view is really great and explains a lot of things that seemed strange from previous chapters
i’m crying, dilvier come and solve the damn misunderstanding alreadyyyy
I JUST WANT THEIR MISUNDERSTANDING TO BE CLEARED ALREADY SO NOIN CAN WIPE THE FLOOR WITH THE ROYAL FAMILY ALREADY
/sobs