Possessed in a Thousand Novels

5. Extra (Side Story) (1)

Side story 1. Father of all spirits

The road between forests. Adriana and Siu were preparing to camp.

The two of them divided up their work and completed it without saying a word. It had already been fifteen days since we traveled together.

The preparations went smoothly and ended with Adriana calling Amber to light her bonfire. Ember was a fire spirit like Ignis, but was given a different name to distinguish it from Siwoo’s spirit.

After confirming that the bonfire that Amber had lit was in good condition, Adriana praised Amber as usual. Even though she had heard the compliment dozens of times, Amber was so excited that she danced around in place.

Both Adriana and Siu looked at this with satisfaction. When both of their faces were turning red from the bonfire, Adriana, who had been watching Amber, spoke.

“I think I know the joy of parenting these days.”

“After all, isn’t a spirit the best child for parents?”

Siwoo nodded his head vigorously, which was rare. He felt that way even more after reading his own complaint about being possessed by childcare.

Isn’t a child a spirit who listens well, doesn’t need to be fed, doesn’t make things messy, has an innate good nature, and can even provide practical help to his parents? Regarding this, Si-Woo, who was possessed by the child-rearing drama, did not hold back in praising the child, calling him a ‘child close to fantasy.’ They say it’s completely different from that ugly five-year-old somewhere.

Of course, he was so busy raising his daughter that he couldn’t even learn his spirit magic, but that wasn’t something Si-woo cared about.

“How is Amber these days? “Do you talk?”

“I’m not telling you yet… I think I’ll talk soon. Rather than simply reacting to my actions, I could see little by little he was making his own gestures. “This is the ego being formed, right?”

“You’re right.”

Unlike ordinary animals, spirits have fully mature vocal organs and intelligence from the time they are first summoned. It’s just that I don’t have an ego, so I can’t utilize it.

Since the language system is shared with the summoner’s, there is no need to learn the language, so Amber will probably start speaking fluently in just a few days.

“Then maybe we can talk in a few days. “I think it would be fun to watch the spirits talk to each other.”

Siwoo imagined cute and kind children laughing and talking innocently.

It was an imagination that I had never seen before in this world, and that made it all the more heartwarming.

It made me wonder if this was why Jeongryeong Siu had become so gentle in his speech.

“So I’ll soon be calling her mom?”

“I guess so. “You are the one who gave Amber her ego.”

“Uhm… She doesn’t have a husband, and I hate hearing her mother call me like a widow…”

Adriana then glanced towards Siu. Siwoo tilted her head as if she had a plan.

Then she asked, as if reaffirming what Adriana already knew.

“The first person to use and spread elemental magic in this world was Siu, right?”

“Yes? Yes. Yes.”

“So, if Ember didn’t have Siwoo, she couldn’t have been summoned, right?”

“I guess so, right? “If we look at the primary cause.”

Siwoo felt like he was being guided, but he answered sincerely.

Seeing Siwoo like that, Adriana smiled with satisfaction.

“Then Siwoo must be the father of all spirits in this world!”

“… Yes?”

“Is that so? In the end, all spirits in this world would have never been able to gain identity if it weren’t for Siwoo. So Siwoo is like the father of all spirits!”

Siwoo reflexively opened his mouth and tried to deny it. It was because he had a feeling that something strange would come out.

However, because it was a logic that could not be refuted, Siwoo eventually kept his mouth shut.

Adriana innocently grabbed her Amber and held it in front of Siwoo’s face, regardless of whether Siwoo said anything.

“Come on, Amber. Dad, try it. Dad~”

“… Are you going to turn me into a man with eight children?”

“Oh. “You’re already eight at that age, you’re amazing at night-“

“What are you saying in front of the child now?”

Adriana smiled mischievously without saying any more. However, Siwoo was not fooled by that appearance.

The girl with purple hair, who seemed innocent on the outside, had a thought circuit as mysterious as her mysterious hair color.

In fact, it was a problem that should have been noticed a long time ago. It wasn’t an unusual idea to stay in the middle of an entertainment district and listen to people’s stories because it was ‘a place where people candidly expose their desires.’

Even though he knew how to use magic, he didn’t settle down and was constantly wandering the world. Adriana said that it is much easier to live like the wind, and although Siwoo agrees with her words to some extent, this was also an idea that was far from the general way of thinking.

‘Wandering’ in the dark fantasy world was never a picnic. It would have been closer to a struggle.

“Ah, but there are some things I don’t do well with while using magic these days-“

“Are you changing words?”

“Be quiet. Anyway, when I used my magic power like this… “

Adriana didn’t say anything more, but just held Amber in her arms and listened to Siu’s words.

Seeing that, Si-woo thought that he would no longer continue to criticize his father.

She had thought so.

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“Dad! Dad! Ah~ bah~!”

A few days later. Siwoo, who had just woken up at the inn, faced a difficult enemy from the morning.

That was Amber, who flew in excitedly and called to herself sonorously.

“Dad! “What are you doing?”

Amber smiles brightly and flies in front of Siwoo.

Siwoo opened his dry mouth, convinced that this was definitely Adriana’s trick.

“… “Who called me daddy?”

“Mom!”

Well then.

Siwoo touched her forehead. A few days ago, he started yelling at his dad and ended up yelling at him.

“I didn’t summon you, so why dad?”

Siwoo answered deliberately bluntly.

Not only was he not happy about being called dad by another person’s spirit, but it was also because it was not good for him to be influenced by people other than the summoner during the process of forming and growing his ego.

In the end, the more Si-woo intervenes, the more there is a gap between the summoner and the spirit.Because the homogeneity of will be weakened.

However, as if she couldn’t read Siwoo’s discomfort at all, Amber answered brightly.

“Her dad said he gave her mom her Ember’s seed so her mom could give birth to her Ember! So dad is dad!”

If ‘Ember’s seed’ refers to knowledge of elemental magic, it wouldn’t be wrong, but no matter how much I thought about that sentence, something else came to mind first. Maybe that was Adriana’s intention too.

Siwoo asked, trying to suppress the thoughts that kept coming to his mind.

“Therefore. “Amber was born because of me, so I’m the father, right?”

“Huh! Huh!”

Amber nodded vigorously. With each nod, Siwoo felt the burden of responsibility without pleasure increasing.

“But I didn’t do anything when I summoned you? “You are completely Adriana’s child.”

When Siwoo spoke clearly, Ember’s speed, which was flying, drastically decreased.

Amber stopped near Siwoo’s chest and looked up at him. The wide eyes looked as if they would burst into tears if touched.

“… “Aren’t you dad?”

I felt like my heart sank at those words.

The crying voice and guilt-inducing content had that much destructive power.

Siwoo thought.

This is a foul.

“That… Uh… That’s it…”

Siwoo thought of many things in his head.

Adriana’s intentions. Principles of elementalism. The teachings of Spirit Siu. How to raise a child. Amber’s sentiment. What will happen in the future depending on Siwoo’s decision…

And.

The most right thing he could do.

Finally, after thinking about it, Siwoo nodded his head.

“… No, it’s Dad.”

“Wow~!”

Amber jumped up and down with excitement, as if she was going to cry. The corners of Siwoo’s mouth unconsciously went up as he saw that the people watching were naturally energized.

At that time, Adriana, who had been hiding her presence behind the door with her magic, came in.

“Why are you making the child cry when you’re going to admit it in the end?”

“It didn’t ring.”

“It didn’t ring, did it? “I heard you were crying?”

“It didn’t really ring.”

“If Amber’s dad says so, let’s just say so.”

Adriana covered her mouth with her hand and laughed like her wife.

Even though Siwoo had just woken up, he felt extremely tired.

“Come on, Amber. Let’s go. We’re going to have breakfast, so come down quickly. Honey.”

Adriana then went down first. She even looked as if she was running away.

Siwoo looked at her back in confusion.

“… Honey?”

Siwoo didn’t notice.

When Adriana said ‘honey’, her voice trembled slightly.

The girl’s face turned red as she went down the stairs.

Probably, I wouldn’t notice it in the future.

Side story 1. Father of all spirits – END

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Side story 2. A thousand eyes

Is it the fate of the main character, or is it because this world is a mess? Wherever Adriana went, incidents and accidents continued.

This town was like that too. At first glance, it seemed like an ordinary village, but Adriana and Siwoo sensed that the atmosphere was turbulent due to their long history of wandering.

Adriana went straight into the investigation with her main character, Ozzy, and Siwoo also split up and conducted the investigation along with the main character.

As she was a foreigner, she was prepared to make a fool of herself on the first day, but fortunately, she was able to get an answer thanks to one girl.

A few days ago, the lord forcibly took the village girls.

The child was the younger brother of one of the kidnapped girls.

“… So the atmosphere in the village is not good these days. There are many ugly rumors about the lord. Some say that screams can sometimes be heard from the basement of the manor house, and others say that there are people carrying corpses out of the mansion at night…”

“I see.”

“Now your curiosity has been answered, right? I want you to go now. “Please leave the village as quickly as possible.”

Siwoo chuckled at her child’s awkward worry. I don’t think she really knows how to care.

Perhaps because the laughter seemed cruel, the child raised her voice.

“I don’t know? In an atmosphere like this, if a foreigner wanders around the village… !”

“Are you okay.”

The girl stopped speaking at Siu’s calm answer.

Because she had a feeling that no matter what she said, they wouldn’t listen.

“How many villages have I visited and haven’t experienced something like that? So do I and Adriana, she is capable of protecting herself. “Thank you for your concern.”

As Siwoo spoke, he felt as if his heart was gradually becoming fuller. In this world where the mind is worn out, it is a truly rare and healing sensation.

This is why Si-woo could not give up doing good deeds. He continues to do good deeds when he sees ungrateful people, but when he sees good people who are really precious in this world, he says he can’t help it and continues doing them.

Anyway, I had to continue doing good deeds for Siwoo’s beliefs.

To do the right thing again, Siwoo knelt down to eye level with the child and spoke clearly.

“I will find your sister.”

“… Yes?”

The child asked curiously. It wasn’t a question because I didn’t understand what he meant.

It was a question I asked because I understood what it meant.

“Why are you looking for me?”

“Why are you looking for me?”

“I didn’t promise anything in return, and my sister isn’t a great person. She’s dangerous and difficult, so why are you looking for me?”

“I’m just helping, I don’t need a reason for that.”

The child’s confusion deepened at Siwoo’s calm words.

Siwoo took his eyes off the child and looked at the sky, and said as if complaining.

“My belief is, ‘I will do the most right thing I can.’ “Every moment, always.”

“Do I have to keep that?”

“Uh.”

“Why? No one will punish you for breaking their beliefs, right? If I break that, will there be a problem?”

“No.”

“Then break it! “Why do you carry something so useless?”

“The one watchingBecause there is someone. That’s a thousand people.”

The child looked around at Siwoo’s words.

But there was no one.

“I don’t have any?”

“There is. So far away…”

Siwoo looked up. Blue sky. The black sea that lies beyond.

And the starlight that illuminates it.

“I can’t lie to them. Because lying is uglier. “Is there a more ugly life than having to lie even to oneself?”

That’s why he gets naked in the chat room. He could hide no sin and he could spare no words.

To be confident there, he ultimately had to always strive to do the right thing.

“So you’re doing the right thing. It’s just for me. Actually, strictly speaking, it’s not even helping. Because I’m trying to make myself feel better. “You are doing good deeds for me.”

“… “Then will I continue to live for you in the future?”

“That’s not right. “After hanging out with Adriana, I have a goal.”

Siwoo saw with his own eyes the changes brought about by the protagonist.

I felt the waves brought by one good man with my whole body.

I learned that people in this world can be enlightened and that each person has their own story.

“So. “I will continue to help people in the future.”

Siwoo believed.

The main character will never fail. Siwoo’s good deeds will not be in vain.

After countless good deeds, he too will one day.

It will become a ray of starlight that will brighten this dark world.

Side Story 2. A Thousand Perspectives – END