Alchemist After Possessing

75. Ice Woman

75. Ice woman

Snow Woman, the maid who was in charge of guarding Arisha’s gold library, was walking down her stairs in a cold sweat. She imprisoned any trespasser who touched the Dumchit Dumchit tree in an ice prison. The problem was what she said.

ㅡ’I apologize for trespassing. I’d like to change the windows too. I’m looking for someone before that. He’s my brother… Silver hair like me-‘

A girl with silver hair who is said to be looking for her silver-haired brother. Shaiza’s successor said that there was a younger sister with silver hair. With a very high probability, the girl who was frozen today and Shayza’s heir could be siblings.

What if Shaiza’s successor finds out that I froze my brother?

Wouldn’t she turn her mansion upside down in the name of attacking her baby sister? If a man with Shaiza’s authority wants to destroy this mansion, there is no way to stop it.

Arisha herself, who created the world inside this bookshelf in the first place, made a rule that she should never be hostile to Shaiza, so it was impossible for her to choose to be hostile to Shaiza. She does the same to her successor, who continues Shaiza’s karma.

“Please… May you be safe.”

Ice Prison is not magic to kill the target, but magic to restrain it. However, due to the nature of ice magic, it was also a dangerous technique that could cause the target to die by rapidly taking away the target’s body temperature.

If something goes wrong, the silver-haired girl dies. It is certain that we too will be erased along with this world. It just has to be blocked. With that thought in mind, the snow woman finally arrived in front of the frozen girl. She shouts at the white spirits gathered nearby.

“Get off! Get off!”

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At the cry of the snow woman, the white souls run away in a hurry and enter the dumchid dumchit tree.

“Please, please wake up!”

When Snow Woman released the ice prison on Irina, the ice that wrapped around her body melted in an instant. Freed from her ice, Irina lies on the floor as it is, wriggling her body.

“Cheuk, ha ha… ha… come… Over… “

“Ah, I’m glad. Uh, do you have any uncomfortable places?”

“You, you… Cough Cough, oh… Oh, my brother… “

“If it’s what Master Woros said, he’s all right.”

Irina’s body trembled as her teeth clashed. As soon as she hears that Woros is all right, she gently closes her eyes.

Looking at Irina, the snow woman brings a lamp installed in the hallway of her mansion and sets it down in front of Irina. Then, when she puts her magical energy into the lamp, the small fire becomes the size of a bonfire.

Irina crawls instinctively to the front of her campfire in the warmth.

“I apologize for attacking you earlier. It’s my job to protect this mansion, so I had no choice but to keep intruders at bay.”

“Uh, what about the undead… “

“I am not an undead, I am a youkai. A lot of people are mistaken.”

Snow woman sitting in front of a campfire and talking like that. As if she doesn’t care about Irina, she is sending her hateful eyes to Snow Woman. Her snow woman is to bow her head and apologize again.

“The man called Woros Blood has talked with the owner of this mansion. About the intruder in the process—”

“Oh, brother, do you know that I am here?”

“… No. I’m going to go up and report now. For my disrespect, I will reward you appropriately—”

“Bo, I don’t need a reward.”

Irina hurriedly got up from her seat, and her body trembled as if she was anxious.

“Please. Please keep the fact that I came here a secret.”

“… Is there any reason why it should be?”

“Please. I fought with my older brother… It’s embarrassing, but I was secretly following my brother around.”

“That means.”

A snow woman knocking on the calculator in her head. After calculation, she concluded that it was mutually beneficial to listen to this woman. If you keep her secret, she will automatically keep the fact that you attacked this woman a secret from her as well.

If that happens, there will be no threat to us from Shaiza’s successor. After finishing her calculations to that point, Snow Woman clears her throat.

“Okay. It seems to be mutually beneficial to do so. Anyway, you have a wonderful older brother. None other than Shai… “

Snow Woman’s mouth stops for a moment as she tried to say that she is Shai Ja’s successor. Well, Woros Blood clearly said this. She thoroughly kept the fact that she was the successor of Shai Ja, and said that she had come here to pick up a pixie because she was short on labor.

Is it okay to lightly say that she is the successor of Shai Ja? If Worth had been keeping it a secret even from her family, it would be a real mess. That’s because it looks like he leaked his secret at will.

The snow woman flicks her finger to call the white spirit. Upon receiving her command, her gray spirit pierces the trunk of the Dumchit Dumchit tree and stands in front of Snowyeo. Irina, who battled this being a while ago, draws her dagger and assumes her fighting stance, but she nods her head, saying Snow Woman will be fine.

“Please go up to the 5th floor and tell me my story. There really was a mistake in the crime prevention case. We will conclude that there was no intruder.”

“Kirengkiren. Frozen.”

“Yes. Then go.”

A white man who disappears in an instant while shivering. Irina looked at the snow woman with her mouth open as if surprised. Then it’s like whispering.

“Hey, I have a question for you.”

“Yes, please.”

“What did that white man just say?”

“I don’t know either. I’m just listening by feeling. Do not worry. The manager of this mansion can understand that language.”

“That’s right.”

The snow woman used her magic to increase the firepower of her bonfire. Before I knew it, Irina started to respect her, but Seol-nyeo didn’t want to, so she did and she handed it over.

“Then I’ll just go. It would be a big deal if my brother found out.”

“Wait a minute. When Woros Blood comes out of the 5th floor, I’ll let you know right away. I’d like to talk to you before that.”

“… Do you really have to?”

The snow woman nodded her head. Snow Woman thought of ending the conversation only when she was sure that this woman would keep what happened today a secret from Shai Ja’s heir. That’s right, this mistake is far beyond the level where she can take responsibility for herself.

On the contrary, Irina also feels relieved that Snow Woman is holding her. She said it was because she would be in trouble if the snow woman climbed up and told her brother that I was secretly following her. Thinking of that, Irina nods her head and sits down in front of her bonfire.

“I am Irina Blood. I am the younger sister of Woros brother.”

“My name is Sora. She has the experience of dying once, when she was a human and once when she was a yōkai. Now I am working as a maid who guards this mansion.”

“Sora… You were human?”

“Yes. He was found by Arisha-sama on the verge of freezing to death in Telcan, and was barely able to save his life. Although I was reborn as a monster. After that, I worked as Arisha-sama’s assistant in Telcan, then became the maid of the mansion. Was she 260 years old… Anyway, he died and was reincarnated about 50 years ago.”

At the mention of her reincarnation, Irina widens her eyes.

“Can you die and come back to life?”

“Usually impossible. It was possible because of Arisha-sama’s forbidden magic and the characteristics of a youkai. Because her activation conditions are difficult… Before she was reincarnated, she couldn’t take a single step out of here. Now I secretly walk around the academy.”

“I see. That… You didn’t leave me because you wanted to talk about this, right?”

The snow woman nods her head.

“Actually, I am anxious. The reason I attacked you was to do my job, but as long as you’re Master Woros Blood’s younger sister—”

“You really don’t have to worry about that part. I’m begging you. Could you keep the fact that I came after my older brother a secret?”

“If it is mutually beneficial, of course we do it.”

After Irina and Sora nodded, they took her hand and shook her hand.

“Then Irina Blood. You said you fought with your brother, right? May I ask why?”

“…… “

“You can quit if you don’t mind. It’s nothing else, Master Woros is going to be attached to a fairy named Pixie. Maybe… He will stick with you all day long, except for when you are doing the work he gave you.”

Irina widens her eyes at Sora’s words.

“Pixie is a fairy who can see the flow of magical power… If you follow the young master like today, you will surely be discovered. That’s why I’m asking.”

“… If you tell me what’s going on, what’s the difference?”

“If my relationship with the young master is not as twisted as I thought. So, if it is judged that the words I am going to give to Pixie will not cause much trouble to the young master, it is to persuade Pixie to pretend not to know about you.”

Sora, the fact that Irina wanted to hide, she did if she didn’t get discovered. If she gets caught, she might tell her brother that she was attacked as she confides in what happened today.

Unexpectedly, Irina Blood divulged her own secret. Her relationship with Woros within her family. What she stabbed Woros directly at the academy. The story that she knew everything by looking at his diary. Even the fact that she couldn’t even apologize and was stalking her older brother.

After hearing that, Sora gently closed her eyes.

“… Something like that happened. All right. I’m sorry, but it seems difficult to convince Pixie.”

“Ah… Oh, sure. Stalking is not normal.”

“I don’t mean that. I am Irina I can understand your heart After all, when I was a human, I stabbed my parents to death with my own hands.”

“… Yes?”

Sora, the snow woman, gets up from her seat, and she carries on her words by helping Irina stand up.

“My family was very poor. In that situation, my parents tried to sell me and my sister to a brothel. What… The story behind that is obvious, right?”

“…… “

“Do you want to listen? Then let me tell you. My drunk father tried to run over me and my sister. He said that since he was going to end up in a brothel anyway, go through him. To protect her younger brother, I took the sword—”

“Stop!”

Irina bowed her head.

“…You can stop talking.”

“Okay. As an aside, after getting rid of her parents herself, she left the house and wandered around, almost freezing to death in the snowy mountains. Just before her death, she was discovered by Arisha-sama. I’m late but… My sister took good care of her, so she got married and lived happily.”

“… Okay.”

Irina sighs in relief when she hears that Sora’s younger brother lived happily ever after. Sora, the snow woman, stroked Irina’s hair.

“It will be difficult to convince Pixie, but… Let’s change her ways.”

“Yes?”

“I will go up and make a suggestion. I’ll serve the young master instead of the pixies. If that happens, Irina will just have to stalk the older brother she loves as usual.”

“Ha, but… “

“It is not necessarily because of you. 17 Years as a human. 260 Years as a youkai. Having lived 50 years since reincarnation, there is something I have always wanted.”

Sora, the snow woman, uses her magical powers to create snow crystals of her own on her palms, and then she throws them into the air. As her small snow crystals fell to the floor, they grew larger and larger until they reached the size of her palm.

“Always. I’ve been thinking about getting ahead. I will live another 150 years. Since there is no second reincarnation, it is like the last one.”

“…… “

“I want to get ahead and live the rest of my life happily. Transformed into a human, built a nice mansion and lived there. To do that, the line is important. Irina, your brother is a wonderful person. If you line up with that person, you will surely succeed in life.”

Sora smiles benevolently at Irina.

“Everything is just for my career. So you must reconcile with your brother.”

“Sora-sama… “

“If you apologize to your brother later, please tell me well about me.”

Saying that, the snow woman Sora held out her hand. Irina nodded her head, and she grabbed Sora’s hand and bowed her head. Sora’s hands were as cold as ice, like a snow woman, but she was Irina, who felt Sora’s deep warmth in her heart.