Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 103

As soon as the seed disappeared into the ground, letters were scrolled in front of her.

『The second chapter of the beginning of the legend, ‘A gift from God, adversity’ begins.』

『The 3rd dispatcher ‘Shadow of the Lily’ starts activities.』

‘Shadow of the lily?’

『For the forest to grow only by removing all of the ‘Shadow of the Lily’, the third dispatcher.

What does the shadow of a lily mean?

Why is it supposed to be a lily?

I’ve never seen a lily around here… … .

We looked nervously through the forest.

Aides had already taken out a rusty sword and swung it in the air, warming up.

The chattering cosmos quieted down, and the whirlwind killed the wind like the eve of the storm.

Cami, who had been quiet, sensed something, raised the hair on her back and began to lower her jaw.

The wind in the forest slowly stopped, and there was stillness.

At that time, the shadow that appeared on the side of the flower wriggled, fell off the flower and began to move.

“What is that? what’s moving? It looks like the shadows are moving!”

[shadow?]

The shadow seemed to wander around the plant, then quickly approached us.

When the shadow that was moving on the floor reached in front of us, it jumped into the air and opened a black curtain to attack us.

“Bamboo unfold!”

Along with the summoning spell, dozens of bamboos grew rapidly on the ground to create a shield, and the black shroud swept over the bamboo.

Then the bamboo turned black like a shadow and became the shadow of the floor.

“what? All the bamboo has turned into a shadow.”

[What?]

Then a proverb came to my mind.

“Even a white lily has a dark shadow.”

I was muttering to myself, but Ariel must have heard it.

[What do you mean?]

“It’s just a proverb I heard somewhere. Even a white lily means there is darkness.”

[It is difficult.]

“So even a bright person knows that there is darkness inside.”

[Inner darkness?]

“So… … .”

To make it easier to understand, a shadow moved again in the forest and quickly approached us.

“Rose of Fire!”

Rose petals quickly flew out of my hand, turning into fire, attacking the shadows.

However, it is soon eaten by the shadow, and the red fire turns into a black shadow and disappears.

No, rather than disappearing, it became a shadow of the forest and stuck to the ground like a shadow.

“The magic attack is not working!”

[See what’s going on.]

A bunch of hair came out of Ariel’s body, turned into dandelion spores, and flew into the forest.

Perhaps feeling the movement of the dandelion spores, several shadows on the ground gathered under the spores, and the dandelion spores were eaten by the shadows and turned black, then flew a little and then fell down.

[My scepters turn black. stuck to the ground!]

Ariel is shocked to see the dandelion spores turn into shadows and scan the floor.

“The darkness of the forest seems to be moving.”

[The darkness of the forest?]

“Yeah, I thought this forest would always be bright and cheerful, but there was a darkness we didn’t know about.”

[Is that bad?]

“No, just because there is darkness is not necessarily a bad thing. Someone said this How can I be real if I don’t cast a shadow? You also need the dark side to be whole.”

[Then is that good?]

“I do not know. This is also an adversity, so should I overcome it? It cannot be swallowed up by darkness.”

Then I saw the shadows of the forest converging into one place.

The shadows moved like slimes and swallowed other shadows, gradually increasing in volume.

[Cosmos!]

When Cosmos shouted and looked where he was pointing, a shadow fell over the plants.

“The shadow is swallowing the forest!”

Plants swallowed by the shadows lost their colors, and they all turned black.

[Eat in the shadows. see there Aides, the shadow is strange.]

Looking back at Aides, his shadow circled him 360 degrees.

I looked up at the sky and the sun was still there.

Embarrassed, Ai Death swings his sword and attacks his shadow, but to no avail.

The swinging blade passes through the shadows and does no harm.

The shadows that had only been spinning around began to devour Aides from the feet.

We all ran to Aides and tried to tear the shadows apart, but the shadows couldn’t be caught.

A shadow that swallows up Aides’ face as well as his stomach and chest.

Aydes raises his hand and looks like he makes his thumb like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator.

A shadow that swallows even that thumb.

Aides, who had turned black, stood there without moving.

[dead?]

Ariel, who was crying, looked at Aides, who had turned black with an expression that looked like she was about to cry.

As soon as I touched Aides, it passed right through.

“I don’t think he’s dead.”

[then?]

“I went into the dark. In order to be saved, we must also go into the dark.”

[How do I get in?]

“Do you think we can get in soon?”

The shadows that formed under our feet began to circle around like the shadows of Aides.

It was as if they were spying around us.

After a while, the shadows began to swallow our feet.

Ariel, Cosmos, and the whirlwind.

The exception is Cammy.

The cami was a little different because it was originally black.

Before long, both I and the children were swallowed up by the shadows, even their faces.

so into the dark.

There, the bright and peaceful forest disappeared, leaving only the withered, withered, gray forest.

The ground also turns black, and there is no vitality.

The stream’s water has dried up, and the wind is no longer blowing.

Looking to the side, Aides, who arrived first, is seated and has a blank expression on his face.

Ariel and the tornado are also drooping, and the cosmos has also turned gray and droopy on the floor.

It was similar to when I experienced the melancholy of a sad anemone a while ago.

[The forest is gray. There is no color.]

“I have entered the darkness of the forest. It’s like a forest we’ve never seen before.”

[When will it return to normal?]

“Well, I don’t think we can do this on our own. We have no choice but to accept the darkness of the forest as it is.”

[What do you accept?]

“I don’t know either. I read that some psychologist said to accept our shadows as part of ourselves. Ignoring and neglecting the shadows can upset our balance and deprive us of the opportunity to be happy.”

Thinking back, I thought that nothing had changed from my previous life.

I still can’t admit that I’m less of a good person overall than I think or want to be.

I remember the moment in my previous life when I chose death.

Failing to acknowledge his destroyed appearance, he chose to destroy himself.

He came back and lived a new life, pretending to be bright, but the bright side only made the dark side darker.

[How do I get out of here?]

“Don’t try to leave. Because it ignores the shadows of the forest. All you have to do is admit that this darkness is also part of the forest and do what you normally do.”

At my words, all the children looked at me with curious expressions.

[As usual?]

“Yeah, as usual, I water the forest, give it some sun, and give it a laugh.”

[Ah… … .]

They didn’t seem to fully understand, but they seemed to understand roughly what was being said.

“You’re lucky!”

When Undine was summoned, water gushed out of the dried-up river, and Undine appeared with a harp.

“Play the harp.”

At my words, Undine looked around the dried up land, nodded her head and began to flick her harp strings with her fingers.

A forest of shadows with beautiful harp sounds.

“A whirlwind, it will be difficult, but please create a wind in the forest.”

The whirlwind started to rotate little by little, creating a breeze.

The movement seemed difficult, but he was doing his best.

The wind began to blow in the gray forest, and the dry leaves began to move little by little.

“Doesn’t it look a little lively just like this?”

Ariel nodded at my words, brushed her body, and dandelion spores spread out and flew into the forest.

“Corn with a lot of laughter!”

Next, I summoned corn with a lot of laughter.

The corn sprouted from the ground, and the plump eggs bore fruit, which after a while, trembled and trembled, and Papapang! It exploded and threw popcorn into the air.

“Sunshine gloves! Little sun orange!”

Next, he summoned light to illuminate the forest and stroked the plants that had turned gray with sun gloves.

“rain cloud!”

Haze gathered in the air, and dozens of rain clouds were formed, and soon rain poured down to wash and water the gray forest.

“Spraying cherry blossoms!”

The summoned cherry blossom leaves started flying in the forest.

Was my thinking right?

The creek where Undine was playing started getting watery, and the plants started to come back to life and lose their gray color.

The dark clouds receded from the sky, and the sun’s light leaked in through the cracks.

The forest gradually became brighter, like a clear day after a heavy rain.

“The forest is coming back.”

[It’s true.]

When I looked at Ariel, I saw that the shadow disappeared and returned to normal.

My shadow was also removed, and I returned to my feet.

『The third dispatcher ‘Shadow of the Lily’ has all disappeared.』(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“It’s over now.”

『The reorganization for restoration and expansion of the forest begins.』

“Look out.”

We looked at each other and grinned.

Overcoming adversity again, the forest grew bigger.

Perhaps Ariel is starting to see his shadow again, he is running around the forest playing with his shadow.

Ai Death was determined to cut his shadow, and he kept cutting his own shadow.

Kami is immersed in grooming as if nothing happened.

“Let’s go see how big the forest has grown. We must also do the sowing of the end.”

At my words, the wisteria bench abruptly stood up and stretched out the wisteria trunk as if beckoning.

“Take? Okay.”

When we all got on the platform, the wisteria we thought we were going to leave for the forest grew and climbed up.

“Uh, are you going upstairs?”

When I looked down, I saw a wisteria growing long like a bean tree growing up to the sky of Jack and the Beanstalk.

The summit rose to the point where the horizon could be seen in the distance.

If you could see it from such a high place, it seemed that you would no longer have to go to the border of the forest.

“Look at that, the forest stretched out to the city.”

[Wow, can we go to the city now?]

“I guess so? But it is very far.”

[Are you going today?]

“No, because the time is up today. Let’s go next time.”

Ariel nodded and looked at the city.

“You have to sow first. Ilyappa’s slingshot!”

When I summoned a slingshot, a large beam of light appeared in my hand and a gorgeous slingshot appeared.

But this time, it looked more upgraded than the last time.

It’s a slingshot, but instead of having rubber and strings attached, it looked like three superimposed round rings.

It looks like a launch pad that sends people into space in the 1997 movie ‘Contact’.

I put the seeds I was holding into the three round cores.

Then the rings began to rotate, and their speed increased so that the seed inside was no longer visible.

When the rings slowed down and stopped, there was no seed in them.

[Where did the seeds go?]

“Well, I guess we’ve gone to a faraway place that we can’t send with a slingshot. The other side of the world, or something like that.”

[Going further?]

“Yeah, because the Earth is much bigger than we think.”

We looked to the horizon, thinking about where the seeds had gone.