The Harvest Mouse Exits the Fairytale Together with Cinderella - Chapter 22
“Daddy, hewe.”
Elodie placed the golden crown back on the harvest mouse dressed in archbishop attire.
“And Mommy too.”
For the harvest mouse in the pristine white dress, she slipped on the fallen shoe.
‘Mom and Dad are small…’
Well, they’re harvest mice, so of course, but…
She had always been a harvest mouse herself, never having seen harvest mice from a human’s perspective, so the view was so new.
‘It feels like they might burst if I squeeze too hard.’
Is thinking this way somewhat disrespectful?
Elodie carefully set her tiny, precious parents down on the ground.
Their large, black eyes still brimmed with tears, making her feel like she had done something terrible.
“Is owkay now. Stop cwying.”
“Squeak…”
“Is owkay, is owkay.”
Elodie calmed them down and then cleared her throat emphatically.
“Pwease calm down. I been doing well. (Please calm down. I’ve been doing well.)”
Objectively and subjectively, considering her past life’s memories, she couldn’t say she had been doing well.
Every moment was a journey fraught with life-threatening risks.
But she knew too well that telling them the truth would shock them…
It wouldn’t be good if their tiny harvest mouse hearts burst from shock.
Elodie quickly pointed at Sera.
“Sewa aways save and hewp me, and took my swide when I’m weak. (Sera always saved and helped me, and she took my side when I was weak.)”
“Squeak… (That child…)”
Upon this, High Priest Ratzen solemnly declared,
“Squeak, sque—squeak. (Treat that child with great respect.)”
“Squeak! (Yes!)”
As soon as the order was given, the teary-eyed field mouse servants moved efficiently.
They began earnestly carrying adorable food items, all mouse-sized.
“……”
Elodie watched the peculiar sight of mice offering tributes to humans with mixed feelings.
Even a whole cake was just a bite for humans; would this even be noticed?
“What’s this, it’s so cute…”
Sera seemed pleased, which made Elodie wonder if that was all that mattered.
However, Sera’s over-enthusiasm seemed odd.
Then, the mother field mouse, Mrs. Ratzen, asked,
“Child, may I ask how the curse was lifted?”
“Pwobaby Sewa…”
Elodie trailed off, lost in thought.
She mentioned a curse that turned her into an animal.
It must have been a potent curse to alter her existence so much that she couldn’t even recognize her own identity.
‘How exactly was it lifted?’
Elodie only remembered crying and confessing her affection to Sera when the curse suddenly broke.
Since Sera was the only one there, she must have influenced it somehow, but,
“I dunno how it happen.”
Mrs. Ratzen closed her eyes with a heavy expression.
“The curse on you…”
The curse?
Elodie listened intently, her ears perking up.
“Only a kiss filled with true love could turn you back into a human.”
“Twue wuv’s… kiss?”
And she could only ask in a dazed voice,
“Sewa kiss me?”
“Huh?”
Sera’s eyes widened at the sudden question.
Unfamiliar with mouse language, she couldn’t understand their conversation, so it seemed like a random question to her.
But soon, Sera put down what she was holding—a three-tier dessert tray and teacup for harvest mice—and smiled brightly.
Her blue eyes sparkled as they always did, like a summer sky holding the sun.
“That’s right, even at first sight, I loved you already. Who wouldn’t?”
“Sera…”
That’s what I wanted to say!
My angel.
My salvation, my happiness, my everything.
I’d give my soul for you…
“I wuv Sewa too!”
Elodie looked at Sera with eyes brimming with emotion and solemnly finished her confession.
Just then, she made a firm decision.
“Mommy, Daddy.”
The child called out to her parents with a serious face.
“I wanna wiv in the hooman wowd with Sewa. Pwease gib me powmishun. (I want to live in the human world with Sera. Please give your permission.”
“……”
“……”
“……”
The sudden declaration of leaving home left the Ratzen couple frozen solid.
The harvest mice, who were excitedly planning welcome parties and festivities, were equally stunned.
