"... How! Can you say that brother! "
"Aris! Shut up! "
Unfamiliar voice suddenly woke me up but my eyes won't open and I can't move.
'What's wrong? It's so noisy.'
"She's your daughter! And that chil-"
A woman shouted loudly with angry tone.
"I said shut up! "
Bogsh...
'... What was that? '
I slowly opened my eyes, even though it's a little bit blurry I saw a woman standing near me and she was facing a man with a little girl beside him.
"... C-count please s-stop! "
'Count? Ohhh! I cannot speak.'
I saw a little girl holding one of the man left hand with both of her hands, the man's right hand was bleeding. The little girl was trembling,
"Count your hands!"
Someone shouted, and run towards the man.
"It's okay! I'm fine!"
The man shouted and I saw everyone trembling except the woman standing near me.
'His hands didn't stopped bleeding. '
'... What's wrong? M...my heart suddenly ache.'
"... If you still insist on taking those traitors child. Then, it leaves me no choice. I'm taking Iris with me! I'm taking my niece with me and I'll riase h- "
"Are you out of your mind! No matter happens that chil-"
The man stopped when I suddenly talked,
"Wh-what's happi...ning here? Wh-who are youu people?"
"... And more importantly where 'm I?"
I slowly sits on the bed. I with a serious look spoke and made everyone shocked.
"Is hell really like this? It's far from what I imagined..."
Everyone was shocked by my words.
"Iris..."
The woman near me shouted with a worried voice and hugs me tightly.
'I.. Iris? Did she just called me Iris?'
"My lady / Lady Iris "
They shout out loud. I accidentally gaze the man I saw him, he was so shocked he didn't even make a move.
"I...ris?"
He said he was going to approach me but he take step back to where he was standing. I saw the little girl beside him cried.
"Iris.. Are.. You okay?"
The woman who hug me push me and asks me.
"Who are yo... Ahrrggg...."
'My heart.. It hurts so much..'
"aha...aha.."
I vomit blood. I look at my tiny hands,
' Wait.. My hands is so tiny.. W...hat happen? '
" ahrgg.. Aha... -"
"Iris.. /My lady.. /Miss Iris..."
Everyone shouted with full of worries
"I'm not I...ris.."
My eyes suddenly closed and everything became black.
***
"Aira my daughter... Please wake up..."
'm-mom?'
"Aira.. Aira..."
'm-mom'
She slowly opened her eyes and she woke up lying in dark room.
'...where I'm? its so dark I can't see anything..'
She get up and explore the room, but the only thing that she saw was a Never ending black path.
' it's seem like this is the real hell..'
"... Your wrong."
"Who the heck is that?"
Aira shouted loudly.
"Geez.. Can you shut up..."
Tamp..Tamp..Tamp...
Aira turn around and she hear footsteps approaching her.
Clack.. Clack..
A sound of someone snapping it's finger.
"... Come out you coward."
Aira shout but no one answered.
"Ahhhh....."
Aira suddenly falls.
"Where in the world is this?"
Aira found herself in the middle of a meadow with beautiful flowers.
' the smell of the fresh flowers, the clear blue sky..'
Slowly turned while humming happily
Sitting in the chair in front of the table while holding a tea cup in her right hand, watching Aira from a far. A woman grinning from ear to ear while sipping tea.
Sip.. Tick..
"This girl... Did she really think that this is hell?"
The woman put down the tea cup and stands up.
Clack
She snapped her finger and the flowery meadow suddenly became a pitch black world.
Aira was turning her gaze around with her mind full of curiosity.
"You shit... Are you done playing with me?"
She sworn angrily
"Pfft!"
She heard someone laughing that made her flustered
"Hahaha!"
A laughing woman suddenly appeared in front of her.
"... You murderer!"
"Pfft! Hahaha!"
The woman laugh at her while covering her mouth with her hand.
"Who are you?" Aira
The person who killed her was standing in front of her.
" Who 'm I?" the woman asked while pointing at herself.
Aira was dazed while watching her, as she sit in the midair.
" I'm... I'm your mo..mot...pfft hahaha! I can't do this pfft hahaha!"
Aira was grimace because of the what the woman had said.
"Pfft-"
The woman was holding her stomach while blasting into laugher.
"Hey..." Aira shouted in anger
"Okay... Okay.."
The woman stopped laughing while nodding her head and patting her hand in midair,her expression changed, she became serious as well as Aira.
"Okay.. Let's talk ab-"
".. Why did you killed me?"
The woman was silent when Aira suddenly asked.
"hmm... I just want to."
Aira frowned by her words.
"... W...what?"
" I'm the Goddess of life... Even if I didn't kill you you'll still die that night. You'll be stabbed to death by an unknown person who had entered you-..." The woman
" Do you think that I would believe in your words?" Aira asked
"Ahh... Should I care whether you believe me or not?"
Snap..
A burger suddenly appeared in the hand of the woman.
"... You want some?"
"Tskk... Can you get to the point.." Aira said
"hmmm... Okay!" the woman said while having a bite.
" I'll give you a new life.." she added with a serious poker face
Aira's eyebrows raised by the woman's words.
" The Maidens Smile."
The woman stans and walk slowly towards Aira who was stiff when she heard what the woman had said.
' The Maidens Smile that was the tittle of the book that my mother wrote before she married my father..'
Memories flash right in her head.
In her tenth birthday her father gave her a book. Her father said that before her mother died she told him to give it to her when she reach 7 years old.
The maidens smile was a story about a girl name Lianna Lurin the only daughter of a doctor and a commoner knight.
" By the time you woke up you'll be Iris Claester."
" What?" Aira
Aira look at the woman with a confuse look and the woman smiled..
" Aren't you pleased? In your previous life your life was miserable and you were not even be able to find true love.."
"I'm giving you a new life where you'll be able to live happily and who knows you might meet the man of your dreams.." she wink at Aira
Aira who was standing in front her with a displeased reaction.
" I don't want too..."
Aira's words made her smile braked.
(Face-palm)
" Ahhh....hmmm..." the woman turn around and walk a bit far from Aira.
Snapped!
" Live your life to the fullest until you're satisfied!"
The woman said without facing Aira.
" W...hat did you sa... Ahhh!"
Aira felt like something is pulling her. She closed her eyes and cussed on her mind.
"Fuck.. Now where!?"
***
"Ahhhh...."
Bogsh..
"Ahhh... Ouch my butt.."
"Ehhh?"
I look around.
I was sitting in the ground next to a bed inside a luxurious room. I looked at my hands, my hands are small and smooth.
'No... This can't be.'
I get up but first I can't but in the third time I tried, I finally be able to stand. I look for a mirror. I stand in front of the mirror and saw a beautiful little girl.
A long black wavy hair, a pale white smooth skin, a glittering bluish eyes.
I pinch my face and it hurts. It means that I'm not dreaming.
' So... I really did became Iris Claester?'
My eyes became teary.
Bogsh..
My gaze turned towards the door and someone suddenly break in if I'm not mistaken it was Iris aunt Arisian along with a maid.
" I...ris"
She run towards me. She called out my new name with a trembling voice , her green eyes was glittering because of her tears, her brown hair was bouncing as she run towards me. And again she hugs me tightly.
"M...my... l...ady... y...your a...-"
"I-ris... d-do...you.. remember. m..me?"
She let go of me and then asks me.
"A...aunt?"
I answered her her gloomy face suddenly became clear, when the maid besides her heard my answer she suddenly run outside while smiling.
"I...ris you gave me a fright I thought you were going to live us.."
She hugged me again. I was short so she had to knell in her knees. I can feel my shoulder was wet by her tears.
"My lady! "
I heard three people shouting. And they entered my room, the head maid, the butler and the physician.
The three of them went tears as soon as they saw me. My aunt lifted me and put me in my bed. The physician approached me and examined me.
" The lady is alright now she just needs some rest.."
Everyone sigh and tears in relief.
Growl..
"Pfft.."
Everyone was holding their laugher when they heard my stomach growling.
"It seems like my lady is hungry.." the butler said
"Jen prefer some food.." my aunt demanded at the head maid.
"Yes.. Miss Arisian." she bow and the two maid went out.
" William tell my, the Count that Iris has awake!"
"... Yes Miss." the butler bows and walk outside.
"Then I'll get going to Dame." the physician said
"Thank you." the physician bows and leave along with the butler
A while after that the head maid along with a maid brought food to my room my aunt feed me and they leave to have a rest it's its been hours seens I woke up but my father, Iris father never came.
"I should sleep, let's do the thinking tomorrow!"