Garden of Eden || Apocalypse Paradise #2 [Complete]

140: Cinderella's Happily Ever After

Frankly speaking, despite how bizarre this pocket dimension was, this was the first time Lin Sanjiu witnessed magic.

Lila's ear-piercing scream was still in her mind. That was already the second main character in danger. Lin Sanjiu tried her best to compose herself. Even though she had no idea if it would work, she stood motionless in the shadow and did her best to slow down her breathing and heartbeat, hoping no one would spot her.

The guard outside Cinderella's room was fast asleep and was lying limply on the ground. From a crack in the door, Lin Sanjiu could see that there was a glowing floating figure between herself and Cinderella.

The person was in a gray cloak and had a high hunchback like a tortoiseshell. The person's locks of gray, curly, messy hair hung from her shoulders onto her back. The wrinkly skin under the cloak was in no state better than the person's hair. The fairy's transparent wings looked like two deformed wings of a fly. Even if the person had all the features of a fairy, Lin Sanjiu couldn't accept that the person was the Fairy Godmother in the story.

As this figure blocked her view, she could not see Cinderella's expression. Lila's image disappeared from Lin Sanjiu's mind like a drowning person, and finally, Lin Sanjiu calmed herself down. She turned her ears towards the door to listen to Cinderella's words, "I... I know. But the person who captured me and brought me to this palace isn't the prince."

"Dearie, don't worry needlessly," the floating figure spoke. Lin Sanjiu was shocked by his voice. It was the voice of an elderly man. Even though he sounded old, there had been a slightly obsequious tone, "Our initial deal is that you would be with the prince. Since you already paid your end of the bargain, the outcome wouldn't change."

When he said this, he seemed to remember something and started giggling like a little girl. The elderly man lifted one of his hands and picked up his long gray fingernails, "Of course, your wish was to leave your previous lifestyle and be with the prince. Don't worry. I don't break my promises. Though there might be some twists and turns, your wish will come true very soon."

"Thank you. Thank you!" Cinderella was finally relieved after she heard such a direct promise from the man and gave a heavy sigh of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her chest. "The current events are too strange, so it scared me a little. Oh. That's right. Did you come to the palace to look for me?"

The old man giggled again. "There is a pathetic young man who wants an incredible amount of wealth. I'm here to make a deal with him."

"Is he a person from this palace?"

When she heard how cautious Cinderella was when she spoke, Lin Sanjiu took a step backward. Lin Sanjiu didn't care if she was seen as a person who judged a book by its cover, but she couldn't bring herself to trust that Old Man Fairy. If she wanted to know why the head steward and that stranger kidnapped Cinderella, couldn't she just ask them herself?

Almost soundless, she moved away quickly and nimbly. In a short time, Lin Sanjiu had turned around the corner and was some distance away from the room. Thus, when she heard the Old Man Fairy speaking again, she didn't catch what he said clearly, "Oh! That's not it, dearie. It's because of the color of his... Weird, so he works in the circus entertaining people. He is way more pitiful than you."

Lin Sanjiu stopped.

'What weird color?'

Her heart raced when a vague thought formed in her mind. Cinderella's slightly surprised voice seemed to ascertain her doubt, "Huh? So, there is a person with a natural beard of that color?"

'Bluebeard! It must be him!'

She heard the Old Man Fairy muttering something like "Wife... a few." Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt enlightened. She thought that she had finally found some sort of logic in this pocket dimension. Bluebeard must have made some sort of deal with the Old Man Fairy in the palace where Cinderella was. After that, he became a wealthy man and then married Lila, which leads to that story...