A World Where You All Are The Villains - Chapter 219

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Special Side Story Episode 4
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With Isidore finally having time to be by my side constantly, and thick snow falling in flurries, the twins were absolutely thrilled.
“Snow!”
Vanessa ran through the Garden like a puppy, catching snowflakes without even properly wearing her coat, while Bares stood quietly on the roof, gazing at the snow accumulated there with a wistful expression.
Though they were fraternal twins, their personalities were so starkly different that it never ceased to amaze me.
What was fascinating was that despite their contrasting natures, the two were remarkably close to each other.
“…Mother.”
Suddenly, Bares, who had been standing quietly, called out to me.
“Yes?”
“When it snows, does the snow fairy come out?”
“…A fairy?”
He must have seen fairies in the fairy tale books he’d been enjoying lately.
I was torn between telling him the truth and preserving his innocence when Isidore asked gently.
“Bares. What kind of fairy is the snow fairy?”
“White, and has wings like a butterfly.”
“Would you like to go see our fairy?”
At Isidore’s words, my eyes widened in surprise.
“Isidore, do… do fairies actually exist?”
As I whispered with a rough, uncertain expression, he smiled softly and leaned close to my ear.
“There’s something fairy-like near the Mountain Lodge.”
“Dad. Are we really going to see the fairy?”
Bares was already looking up at Isidore with an eager expression on his face.
“Of course. Let’s go.”
“Hurry!”
Bares, usually so well-behaved, was unusually excited and urged us on, and I too felt a thrilling anticipation at the mention of fairies as I prepared for an outing after a long time.
And so, our family set off on an impromptu trip to the Mountain Lodge.
“So much snow!”
“Vanessa. You’ll catch cold if you go out like that.”
The moment the Carriage arrived near the Mountain Lodge, I quickly caught Vanessa, who was about to bolt out like a bullet, and hastily placed a white ear warmer with rabbit ears on her head.
She looked so adorable.
I wanted to admire her in the ear warmer for a long time, but the moment I tied the chin strap, Vanessa dashed outside and left footprints all over the white snow.
Bares, wearing a brown bear-shaped ear warmer, held Isidore’s hand tightly and descended from the Carriage slowly.
“Kyaa!”
Vanessa, shrieking with excitement, rolled around in the snow like a puppy, and I let out a short sigh.
“You little troublemaker.”
As I gently brushed her rosy cheeks, the child blinked her large eyes and asked an unexpected question.
“Mother! But why does snow fall?”
Watching Vanessa, who had been asking more questions lately, I smiled softly.
“When the clouds feel cold in winter, they create snowflakes and send them to the world. It’s like a gift from the clouds.”
“Wow!”
Vanessa exclaimed briefly, then grasped the snowball with her small hands and attempted to tuck it into her pocket. She clearly had excellent taste.
“Vanessa. If you put it in your pocket, it’ll melt. Try doing it like this instead.”
I rolled the snow into a perfect sphere. Vanessa’s eyes sparkled red as she mimicked me with her delicate, fern-like hands.
“Mother’s is prettier.”
Unlike her own lumpy snowball, Vanessa showed keen interest in my perfectly rounded one.
“Would you like this one?”
“Yes!”
“What are you two doing?”
Isidore and Bares, who had been watching the winter squirrels, approached us.
“Vanessa, did you make that to have a snowball fight with Father?”
At Isidore’s question, Vanessa tilted her head in confusion.
“A snowball fight?”
“A snowball fight is where the person who hits their opponent with the most snowballs wins.”
Isidore demonstrated by flinging a snowball at a tree, and Vanessa shook her head with a dejected expression.
“I’m not going to throw it. Mother gave it to me.”
I watched Vanessa cradling the snowball tenderly, then rolled another one into a perfect sphere and set it on the ground.
Given Vanessa’s nature, she would likely try to carry that snowball all the way inside the Mountain Lodge, but it would melt quickly once we entered, so I decided to leave it outside.
“If you stack your snowball on top of this one, it becomes a snowman.”
“A snowman! I’ve seen one in a fairy tale book.”
Vanessa’s face brightened as she carefully placed the snowball she’d been holding on top of the other.
“Vanessa. Would you like to give the snowman a name?”
“This is Vanessa’s snowman. I want to make Bares’s snowman too.”
As Vanessa diligently rolled snow, Bares worked hard beside her, grunting with effort to help.
The twins combined their strength, and another snowman was completed. Soon, Vanessa burned with determination as she began rolling an even larger snowball.
“This one is Mother’s snowman!”
“You’re making a snowman for Mother too?”
“Yes. And I’m going to make one for Father too. A really big one!”
Vanessa seemed completely absorbed in the joy of building snowmen.
When Isidore rolled an enormous snowball up to his waist to create Father’s snowman, she bounced with delight, thoroughly enjoying herself.
—…On snowy days, I’ll build big snowmen too….
“…!”
In that moment, the words the thought-form had left behind as it departed suddenly surfaced in my mind. Was it merely coincidence?
As my chest suddenly grew warm and stirred with emotion, I gazed endlessly at Vanessa, who was smiling with such happiness.
“…Mother?”
Noticing that I had frozen in place, Bares tugged at my collar. Feeling tears threatening to spill, I quickly sniffled and pulled Bares into a tight embrace.
“Thank you both for staying by my side.”
“Huh?”
As the overwhelming emotion subsided slightly, I held Bares’s hand firmly and spoke.
“…Father’s already finished his snowman. Shall we go see it?”
Swallowing down the overwhelming surge of emotion, I approached the cluster of snowmen huddled together.
“Our first family snowman.”
“…Hmm, it still feels a bit incomplete to call it finished.”
Unlike me, who was marveling at the sight, Isidore looked around with a somewhat unsatisfied expression before gathering fallen branches from the snowy ground and fashioning arms for all four snowmen.
Watching him quietly, I removed all the buttons from my winter coat and attached them as eyes to the snowmen.
“Wow! It’s just like a fairy tale!”
Vanessa gazed at the snowman family with immense pride, while Bares clapped his small hands together in delight.
That was when it happened.
A distant shimmer of white light glimmered, and something resembling snowflakes began to flutter and dance downward around the branches we’d placed in the snowmen.
‘Could it be… a butterfly…?’
A pure white butterfly like freshly fallen snow in this bitter cold….
Lost in the mystical and beautiful sight, Bares suddenly cried out in a trembling voice.
“A fairy!”
Seeing his face flushed with excitement, I lowered my voice and whispered to Isidore.
“That butterfly… it’s the fairy you mentioned, isn’t it?”
“Yes. This mountain lodge area is the habitat of snow butterflies. Actually, the people in this region call them the fairies of snow.”
“So it really is a fairy….”
Feeling as though I’d stepped into a world of childlike wonder, I watched the snow butterfly flutter toward the branches when I noticed Bares behind me, hands clasped tightly together as if in prayer, murmuring softly.
“…Bares, what are you doing?”
“Making a wish. The fairy grants wishes.”
I’d expected him to ask to bring the fairy home, but his unexpected answer made my eyes widen.
“A wish? What did you wish for?”
“…That our whole family stays together forever, and that we’re always happy.”
“I see.”
The gentle and affectionate words of the child spread warmth through my heart.
Feeling that overwhelming emotion once more, I pulled our precious, beloved twins close in an embrace.
Darkness had begun to settle around the mountain lodge.
Snowflakes drifted softly against the windows, and warmth from the fireplace filled the room completely.
Approaching the twins, who sat before the hearth wrapped in plush blankets, I handed them hot chocolate topped with marshmallows.
“Ooh, chocolate!”
“It’s hot, so blow on it first before drinking.”
“Okay.”
Bares carefully blew a gentle breath, and white steam swirled around his face before dispersing into the air.
Vanessa stared intently at the melting marshmallows before slowly taking a sip.
“Yummy.”
A sweet smile bloomed across Vanessa’s lips.
The twins, their plump cheeks flushed from the hot chocolate, soon began nodding off simultaneously as drowsiness overtook them.
“Our little princess and princes, it’s time to visit the land of dreams, isn’t it?”
“Mmm.”
Isidore carefully lifted the children, whose eyes were nearly closed, and gently laid them on the bed.
“Sweet dreams, you two.”
I whispered to the twins sleeping peacefully and obliviously, their breathing soft and deep, as I gently caressed their small hands before placing a tender kiss upon their foreheads.
Outside, snowflakes continued to drift and tap against the windowpane, while the family snowman stood bathed in moonlight.
Time would flow onward, and those snowmen would eventually vanish, but today’s memories would settle in my heart like snowflakes, never melting away for eternity.
【End】

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