I Don’t Want This Bad Ending

The blue sky was shining so brightly, every sweep of the air the trees responded to its call and swayed its branches like it was dancing to the rhythm of nature.

A little girl is peeking outside of the carriage and at the forest of Sushu mountain. The lush greeneries and the smell of the fresh air welcomed the mother and daughter that came from the neighboring Kingdom.

The child smiled. It was the first time she got out of the castle-like mansion that her family resided.

"Mom! Look! The birds are here! It feels like they're welcoming us." The child said.

The mother looked at her daughter.

Her cute daughter wears a fluffy pale blue dress with ribbons and raffles that accentuates her daughter's pure innocent eyes accompanied by a cute white beret hat with a pale blue ribbon.

"My daughter really is the cutest…" she said as she complimented her daughter and pinched her bouncy white cheeks.

"Mom! Stop that!" her daughter replied.

"Why? Our Evelyn is the cutest though…"

"I know mom, Papa and big brother also said that…"

"Oh my…! Your brother said that? But he never said that to me…!" the mother pouted as she tried to gain sympathy for her daughter.

"Mom, you're the most beautiful in the Kingdom though? You don't need the title of the cutest, right? Let your daughter have it. Don't be greedy!" Evelyn said.

"You're right! My daughter can be the cutest among them all!"

The clacking sound of the hooves of the horses and the coachman whipping them, and a sweet voice of a child and the mother was the only unfamiliar sound that echoed through the forest of Sushu mountain.

The carriage that was not too luxurious, but the intricate design can tell that it was a carriage of a noble and a bunch of stern looking men following the carriage. It can not be mistaken as a commoner's carriage.

Without notice the carriage abruptly stopped, making the two flinched.

"What happened?" Monica said.

"Duchess, the carriage wheel is stuck in muddy water. It would take a while to get out from it." Said the knight that was accompanying them.

It was to be expected because not too long ago, the sky was dark and it was raining but now unexpectedly a trace of the bad weather cannot be seen as the sky is blue as the ocean and the sun was shining brightly.

"Mom, can I play? I want to go out! Please…" Evelyn chimed in. Seeing that it was an opportunity to get out of the carriage that she was riding in the last ten days.

Duchess Monica sighs.

"Alright… Sir knight, take care of the carriage for the time being and have two knights accompany the miss." She said.

"Just call me Evelyn!" she shouted as she jumped from the open carriage that made the knight and her mother flinched in surprised.

"This child, really!" Duchess Monica sighs again.

Evelyn is 6 years old and her mischievous and playful character brings her mother trouble and endless worry.

"If your father saw you act like this, he will scold you!"

Evelyn looked back as she heard her mother utter those words.

"Nuh uh! Father loves me, more than she loves you… bleh"

"What?!"

Then, Evelyn ran away while she laughed at her mother.

"That child, really! Where does she get that from, I'm not like that right? Sir Jede?"

"Of course, Duchess." The butler Sir Jede replied.

***

"Where am I? The knights are too slow. Whatever!"

Evelyn was playing hide and seek with the knights, while doing so, she ran straight to the forest without looking back and only thinking of winning after she was found for the nth time.

After a few minutes she gave up on hiding and was distracted with the view in front of her and decided that she wanted to sight see.

The lushed field was full of wild roses and different types of flowers.

One can say that it was an untouched forest but at the same time it looks like it was maintained.

"WoW!" Evelyn exclaimed as she looked at the vast land that was full of flowers.

She ran in full sprint. Her excitement can be seen in her sunset eyes.

"Hey Kid! You can't do that!" he heard a young man's voice, but she didn't know where it came from and it only echoed.

So, she shrugged it off, and proceeded to pluck roses and make it into a flower crown.

"I told you, you can't do that!" a hand reaches for her small hands and stops her from cutting flowers in the field.

Evelyn stared at the guy whose figure was basked in the light.

"Can you sit down? I can't see your face, mister."

The man was speechless. He never encounters a shameless human brat who ordered him and not covered when in his presence.

"…And take your hands off! Don't you know it's rude to touch a maidens' hands?!" Evelyn reprimanded her as she hit his hand.

He was speechless yet again, and he scoffed at her.

"Excuse me, brat! I never heard someone call me rude and besides you're the one who's ill-mannered and trespass into my territory!"

"You're really rude, don't you know that you should introduce yourself first before you talk to someone? Or else you'll just be called a creep for coming up to me and touching a brat's hand."

"What the-" The man was shocked at how presumptuous the child who was looking at him with clear eyes.

"Then why don't you introduce yourself, first?!" he asked.

"Hey mister! You're the one who disturbed me first, shouldn't you be the one to say your name first? How long should I wait? If you're not going to do it then… bye!" Evelyn walked away with a huff.

"Fine…!" the mister said. Evelyn smiled before she turned around to face him.

'What am I doing getting agitated by a kid's provocation? What name should I give? Cierzo is the title humans used to me and Gilbert is what I used in the spirit faction. Let's use Cierzo so this kid knows how almighty I am' The mister thought.

"I'm Cierzo." He said, his lack of enthusiasm in his introduction was pasted on his face.

"Ci- cier, ahh ciertsu? Shitsu? Cierzu? Your name sounds like a dog's name and it's hard to pronounce, do you have any name?" Evelyn shamelessly said.

Cierzo was stupefied. The dignity of his name was cast in the wind as the kid told her his name was like a dog. He felt a surging anger inside. He was never insulted in his life. He was contemplating if he needed to use his power to make the child vanish in the wind.

But he swallowed it down and in truth he found the girl amusing.

"You know, my name is the most respected here… *sigh* whatever! What can a kid who still wet her blanket know?! Just call me Gilbert." He said in surrender.

He can't seem to win with the girl's logic and charm.

"So, you know how to be polite, vey well. I'm Eve! Nice meeting you, spirit!"

*huh?" Gilbert was surprised.

"What are you talking about… haha. I'm not a spirit kid! You got a wild imagination." Gilbert continued.

'How can she tell? My mana is that of a normal human being… even if I told her my name was Cierzo. I don't have a mana in me. I suppressed it" Gibert thought.

"Really? Seeing that you can tell a lie and is in the human form then you must be a higher spirit. And besides, you just told me your name. Ciertzu" She explained.

"It's not Cierzu. It's Cierzo! What the- who are you kid?! How can you…"

"Low-level spirits can't tell lies, that's their nature and stated by Lelulah, the goddess of spirits. Though I don't know why you guys have that kind of rule." Evelyn explained

"But if I think about it… it's because low-level spirits have their innocence intact with them when they were born from nothingness, and when they evolve into high-spirits their knowledge becomes vast and different and can copy the human beings personality…"

"That's why even the evil nature of human beings was copied, is what I'd like to think." She explained.

"How the hell, a kid like you knows this thing?"

"So, I'm right? And your name is hard to pronounce, Ciertshu, I'll just call you with your other name. Gil!" Evelyn said.

"Hey kid, it's Gilbert! And who the hell are you? How can a child like you know this thing?" he asked, flustered at the bombarded information that Evelyn just stated.

"Can you stop calling me "Hey!", "You!", "Kid", "Child!". I have a name and I already introduce myself! It's Evelyn! E-ve-ly-n! Get it?" she said, her arms are folded and her cheeks puff like a squirrel.

Looking at her, he chuckled at this scene. "You're an interesting human!"

"I know… so, do you want to become my contracted spirit? How about it?"

"What? A human like you wants me to become your life-long spirit. I don't think so!"

"I told you to stop calling me "you!", and what's wrong with me?"

"Let's see…" He scans her.

The aura surrounding her where all the affinity's that the world can offer. Her aura has a color of yellow, green, red, brown, blue.

"huh?" 

Seeing his face with a confused look, Evelyn knew that he also knew her secret. Her affinity to all the mana's.

"I'm great, right? What about it? Let's form a contract!"