My mother's love song

Queen Mab's daughter no longer had eyes for anything other than Rhodes.

"I am Rod."

After the boy said this, Noknaria stroked his cheek.

"He's the same beautiful boy as the rumors said.

Well, it can’t be wrong…

Finally I see you. I didn’t expect to meet you in a place like this.”

"........."

The boy turned his face away, feeling overwhelmed when his cheek was gently touched.

He was not at a loss because the fairy knight behind him had become a bomb that was about to explode at any time.

Rhode really didn't know how to face Noknaria.

This Queen Mab is the reincarnation of a fairy.

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“Hmph, the northern fairies are a nomadic people… I thought Queen Mab would at least live in a big city that’s not inferior to Salisbury.

It's called the Queen's City of Edinburgh, and it has a cathedral that's as beautiful as the one in Salisbury... I guess I was overthinking it."

"I'm so sorry that you don't even have your own city... What are you talking about when you just arrived in someone else's territory! Come with me."

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"Are you leaving already?"

"...Yeah, that's right. While I'm gone, the North will be left to you, Mab."

"Nero, will we never see each other again?"

"Why do you think so?"

“That’s the feeling.”

"..."

"I'm just going to the south to pretend to attend the crowning ceremony. I'll be back soon."

"Do you think I should force you to stay here?"

"Don't say such willful things, okay? Mab, have you forgotten our agreement? No matter what happens in the future, you will remain Queen Mab."

"Of course I remember."

"That's fine."

"Nero!"

"?"

"I'll be waiting here for you."

"I know that."

"No matter what happens in the future, I will be here waiting for you."

"I'll come see you."

"Then, I decided to build my own city that is more prosperous than any other city in the Fairy Kingdom!

I want Nero to look at me with new eyes. I don’t want to be a woman who can’t do anything for her lover except spreading her legs. I want Nero to think that I am a woman who is no less than the Savior!”

"Why are you still talking about this... I have never once thought that you are inferior to Ash..."

"Oh, yeah, I've also thought of a name for the city. I'll use the name you mentioned... It's called [Queen's City Edinburgh]!"

"..."

"When I build the most magnificent city in the Fairy Kingdom, I will invite you first... my emperor, my lover.

So when the time comes, praise me well, use all your words of praise, and praise me as much as you can. Because I am your most outstanding woman in the Fairy Kingdom!"

"Well...I'm looking forward to that day."

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In the 400th year of the Fairy Calendar, Rod visited the northern fairy clan and spent nearly a month of actual married life with Queen Mab.

In the same year, Rhodes, with the support of Queen Mab, returned to the south and participated in the coronation ceremony as Nero, the fairy emperor of a unified Britain.

During the coronation ceremony, the emperor was killed by his most trusted witch, Ash. However, this was just a play that Rhode and Ash performed together in order to escape.

400 years later, the Fairy Kingdom and the Fairy Calendar ended in a great disaster.

In the first year of the Fairy Calendar, after the witch Morgan conquered the five major clans in southern Britain with overwhelming force, she reached an agreement with Queen Mab of the North.

One year into the Queen's calendar, Britain was unified and Morgan became the Queen of the Fairy Kingdom.

In the 400th year of the Queen's calendar, Mab, realizing his own death, transformed his body into a city and built the Queen's City of Edinburgh, the Fairy City of the North.

In the year 1900 of the Queen's calendar, Noknaria was born on the [leaves mold] that had existed for thousands of years. She was the descendant of Queen Mab.

"........."

Facing Noknaria's fiery gaze, Rhodes turned his eyes away.

He couldn't face this great goblin whose appearance and temperament were exactly the same as his predecessor.

On their last trip to Britain, Rod betrayed Mab.

He betrayed the woman he had promised not to betray

Before meeting Rod, Mab had a human lover.

Human life is too short to compare with the long years that fairies have.

Such stories are very common in the fairy kingdom.

The fairies call the act of human lovers abandoning them and dying without their permission betrayal.

At that time, in order to gain the political support of the northern elves, Rod declared this to Queen Mab, who had given up her love.

I am a human being who has surpassed all other humans. I will definitely not die before you, so be my woman.

Queen Mab easily believed what Rhodes said.

She gave everything she had, including her body, territory, and true love, to this human being.

And then...it wasn't long before she was betrayed.

After returning to the south, Rhodes immediately forgot the agreement with Mab, left without saying goodbye, and fled the fairy country by faking his death.

Even after Rhodes left, he did not forget to dedicate the Fairy Kingdom to Ash.

Mab gave up his dream of becoming the Queen of Britain for Rhodes, but Rhodes was determined to fulfill Mab's dream of becoming the Queen of Britain at all costs.

In this fairy country, there are many people who Rhode feels guilty about.

But Queen Mab alone feels the heaviest guilt.

I'm afraid that infatuated queen lived in endless pain and despair until her death.

She might hate Rhodes for trampling on his promise casually.

Perhaps she hated herself for having trusted Rhode.

That's why Queen Mab named her body "Queen's City Edinburgh", which was the name of the city in pan-human history that Rhodes told her.

I didn't expect to run into Mab's daughter here...

Rod was at a loss, yet also felt relieved.

At this point, I would have no complaints even if she killed me and dismembered me...

If being cut into pieces could atone for the crime he committed against Mab, it would be too good to be true.

Rhodes took a deep breath and prepared to face his mistakes.

"Mab's daughter, Noknalei..."

"sorry!!!!!"

With tears in her eyes, Noknaria lowered her head towards Rhodes as much as she could.

"Please forgive the previous generation... Queen Mab!"

"...?"

Rhodes stared at the back of the young queen's head, unable to comprehend what was happening.

"Wait, Noknareya... why are you apologizing to me? I forgive Mab? What are you talking about?"

Noknaria continued speaking while keeping her head down.

“Queen Mab betrayed you.

She failed to keep her promise to you... and died without your permission.

But please don’t blame the previous generation… Until the moment of death, the previous generation regretted that they could not fulfill the oath they made to you.”

"…………!"

Rhodes finally understood.

Queen Mab did not think that he had betrayed her, but always believed in Rhodes' words and waited for his return.

Since she had no doubts from the beginning, she certainly would not have thought, "Will Rhode never come back?"

The root cause is the difference in cognition between fairies and humans.

Queen Mab had a long life, so Rhodes's "only" 800-year absence was only a relatively long time for her, roughly equivalent to a 20-year separation in human cognition.

However, Queen Mab failed to resist the passage of time and died before Rhodes returned.

Both parties firmly believed that they would "meet in the future", but Mab could not hold on to the end.

In her opinion, this was undoubtedly a huge betrayal of Rod.

"…………"

Rhodes helped Noknaria up.

"You don't need to apologize."

"But……"

"I have forgiven Mab." said Rhodes.

He didn't say, "It's not Mab who's wrong, it's me," or "Mab didn't betray me, she just lost to time."

This kind of talk is pure arrogance.

The arrogance of forcing one's own human values ​​onto the goblins.

If you respect Mab and truly regard her as your former wife, you should accept her fairy values.

"Because I'm a very generous man, no..."

Rhodes smiled and said to Noknaria: "Because your mother is so charming, I forgive her."

"........."

Noknaria was speechless for a moment.

She didn't expect that Rhode would forgive his predecessor who broke his oath so easily.

"Really? Have you stopped hating your predecessors?"

"Ah."