2. Frey's home
Frey's home was so big that Lilith couldn't believe itβeven though it was still just a manor, it was hard to imagine that hundreds of years later, Frey, who would only be confined to a small wooden house every day, would have lived in such a large room when she was a child.
However, to Lilith's surprise, there was not a single servant in such a large room, not only a maid, but also a servant who guarded the door, and a servant who was in charge of cleaning. The road in the yard has been covered with wildflowers that have not been "disciplined" by scissors, and the walls of the manor are also crawling with green vines.
Although it does look like a fairy tale, it seems very deserted, because there are so few people here, only Frey and Aunt Rena, counting themselves, the huge room still seems extraordinarily empty.
But compared to such a large house, there are not many things in the house, whether it is something that children can play with or not, Lilith finds it here, from all kinds of musical instruments, to all kinds of toys, because there is no servant to clean it, so it can be seen almost everywhere Lilith looks.
It seems that most of Aunt Rena has also given up the mood of tidying up, because if a person wants to really clean this big house, he will definitely be tired and half dead, after all, not everyone will use the "world" to clean the house.
"Mommy, Mommy, Frey is hungry. β
Frey, who had just finished licking the candy ball, opened her mouth again and began to eat like a fledgling that would never feel like she would be able to hold up, while Rena sighed with a smile on her face.
"Why are you hungry again? Then let's eat the cake I brought back first, and my mother will have to work later." Frey, don't come and disturb Mom, huh?"
"Mmmmmmmm
Frey happily ran to open the cake box. From time to time, he also hummed a song of unknown meaning.
This is certainly not to warn Frey not to bother Rena. Otherwise, they would have been mothers and daughters for so long in vain. Lilith understood that Rena was saying this to herself.
It wasn't meant to be a send-off, on the contrary, it was to let herself not disturb her work and stay with Frey for a while.
Although there are still many, many questions, Lilith still decided to put it aside for the time being, after all, although she knows Frey unilaterally now, but for Frei. I'm just a "big sister" I just met.
And Frey's mother was also there, so it's better not to say some things.
"Then Auntie, go get busy, I'll play with Frey for a while. β
With Frey's enthusiastic tug, Lilith came to the cake and watched as Frey cut it in half in a very clumsy way.
"Sister Alice, one and a half. β
Frey said as she handed the cake tray to Lilith, which moved Lilith to tears.
To be honest, I'm dying of starvation now, but luckily Frey isn't because of the child's peculiar selfishness. Didn't give a piece to yourself.
That's a big help.
"Now, Frey. Sister, a question, huh?"
Rena's figure had disappeared at the end of the stairs, and it looked like she was going to work in the upstairs room. It's just that Lilith wants to know about this anyway, because when she is with Rena, Lilith can feel a little strange.
Just as magicians and magicians are together, able to attract each other's attention, Lilith felt the smell of the medicine that is unique to alchemists in Rena's body, although it is very faint and covered by other smells, but this does not mean that there is none.
This is the smell that will only be stained after staying in the room for a long time for alchemy, and it is difficult to completely remove the smell, so ......
"Is your mother an alchemist?"
"Alchemy, metal, magic, and scholars?"
Frey repeated these four words in a general manner, and then showed a puzzled expression, for the children who had just come into contact with the words they didn't know, they basically had a confused look, "What is this, is it delicious?"
......
"Well, it's not tasty at all, so Frey let's not talk about that. β
Lilith shook her head.
It has been proven that Rena most likely never mentioned anything about her profession to Frey, and I'm afraid that the "work" that Rena used to talk about was also alchemy.
However, it's okay not to say it, a child of Frey's age doesn't need to know too many things, just have fun and play is enough.
"Hmmm! β
Frey nodded, and began to solve the cake in front of her, and Lilith watched as Frey almost swallowed the cake in a short time.
No, she has to solve it quickly, otherwise she will definitely look at it with expectant eyes.
"Sister, if you don't eat it, can you give it to Frey?"
There was a slight noise upstairs, and Lilith knew that it was the characteristic sound of pouring ingredients from the cauldron of alchemy while it was boiling. As for this voice, Frey directly ignored the past.
"Now, Frey, sister has another question?"
Probably because the little Lori in front of her is her own dean in a few hundred years, Lilith has been unable to suppress the urge to ask Frey about things, "Frey's mother usually has to work a lot, so at this time, what is Frey doing?"
"Play!"
"What are you playing?"
Lilith asked further, but received a somewhat surprising answer.
"Frey will have a lot of things. β
Frey raised her head ostentatiously, "Frey can play the piano, and her mother sometimes teaches Frey, and Frey is still learning the flute, and Frey has a lot of toys and candies that can't be eaten, well, Frey also has a little mouse, but she ran away from home a few days ago......"
No, no, no...... It just doesn't want to stay here anymore.
However, are these just ways to "play"? In Lilith's impression, children of this age should be more than just these "playing" methods at home. In her own world, although Frey is a poisoned old woman, she has not stayed at home since she was a child.
"Won't Frey go out?"
Lilith asked, "Like playing with friends, or ......"
Can't go on any more. Lilith said this to herself in her heart, because Frey, who was still innocent and happy in front of her, immediately changed to a look of grievance and sadness.
"Nobody plays with Frey......"
After a long time, Frey said with strong grievances and puzzlement, "They said that Frey's mother was an old witch, so Frey was a little witch...... So don't play with Frey......"
β......β
Witch......
Indeed, alchemists, especially women, are basically discriminated against by the outside world...... The reason is also very simple, because in the eyes of everyone, this kind of behavior of turning an ordinary object into another thing in a strange way that is not magical is like what a demon does?
"But how can Mother be a witch?" said Frey, pouting, "so Frey doesn't want to play with them, because they speak ill of Mother." β
β...... That's right, Frey shouldn't be playing with them. β
After a brief silence, Lilith nodded, watching Frey's expression gradually become soothing, "Frey's mother can't be an old witch, if Frey is bored, come and play with her sister." β
"Yay!"
"So, can my sister stay here and play with Frey? tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?"
"Hmm!"
After that, my sister will talk to Frey's mother. β
While lamenting why the dean was so easy to deceive when he was a child, and when he was old, he was like a monster, Lilith touched Frey's little head.
I don't have a penny on my body now, and since I went back to the past in a daze, after coming to this point in time, Lilith has no clue what to do and what to do.
So compared to these, let's find a way to fill my stomach first, although Lilith doesn't know if she will starve to death if she can't eat with her identity.
If the second reason is the cute thing of the young dean, Lilith really can't bear to watch Frey stay alone with a lot of toys and musical instruments that can't move, and when she has no further plans, she still accompanies Frey like this, and solves her accommodation problem by the way.
In addition, it seems that his heart is also vaguely telling SΓΉ that he wants to stay, to stay by Frey's side.
After eating and drinking, Frey probably wanted to show Lilith, her newfound sister, what she could do, and after staggering down on the stool, she put her hands on the piano with difficulty.
With Frey's current size and short hands, it was difficult to even reach the keys on either side, but even so, she was still excited, and confidently pressed her fingers.
It's not good, but now Frey is only a five-year-old child, so she's already a genius. Lilith listened quietly to Frey's piano as she watched her tiny back.
Compared with the dean Frei who is ten years old on the outside and has a question mark on the inside, Little Frei is more cute, her hair is still blonde, and her face is bulging.
It's just that her mother, Rena, is it really okay to leave Frei at home like this? The smell of alchemy, no matter how faint, will have an effect on Frei, perhaps, she should take Fredo out to play after obtaining Rena's consent, but it is still unknown whether Rena will agree.
Moreover, the most important point is that there is still no way to ask, Dean Frey once said that she has been doing astrology since she was very young, but why......
Now Frey doesn't say a word about astrology? (To be continued......