The Main Heroine Likes the Extra

50 – Child of Yggdrasil

Saint Velia respected the World Tree very much.

Her shock that she would receive when she said that she was going to die soon would be overwhelming.

She said that she herself would die in a few decades or so, and that she would be born a new World Tree, which she kept secret.

She wanted to entrust it to Velia when a new world tree was born.

She will serve the new world tree well.

The world tree, Yggdrasil, thought so.

However, there was one point Yggdrasil was greatly mistaken about.

Velia didn’t just respect Yggdrasil.

“Ah… Ugh…”

“Ah… World Tree…”

“Velia… Why the hell…”

Yggdrasil, the World Tree, tried to bestow his protection on his child and perfect his powers until the next World Tree was born and grew up.

Because of that, Yggdrasil, who was in a fairly defenseless state, was easily betrayed by Saint Velia, whom he trusted more than anyone else.

“I love you. World Tree…”

“Ugh…Ugh…”

Velia loved the World Tree and Yggdrasil.

Before she served the World Tree with only her soul left, and since she received the blessing of the World Tree to annihilate the demon king.

From then on, Velia loved the World Tree more than anyone else.

But the World Tree, Yggdrasil, wasn’t like that.

No, it’s not that the world tree didn’t love Velia.

Because the World Tree loved and cherished everything in the world, including Velia.

And Velia knew that too.

But this time, seeing the world tree bestowing a huge blessing on a young baby while bearing an enormous burden, the dam that Velia had been patient with broke through.

To be able to give love to such an insignificant and young baby while not looking after him until the end…

Telling me it’s her own child!

Velia, whose jealousy exploded, attacked the weakened World Tree.

She and she took away that power, and she bound and imprisoned the World Tree so it couldn’t move.

“World Tree? Can you be my World Tree?”

“Ah…Huh…”

Yggdrasil, the World Tree, was dying.

Betrayed by Velia and deprived of her power, the World Tree imprisoned was getting weaker.

“No… My child… The world…”

“…Is that child that precious to you?”

Yggdrasil is worried about her child and the world tree that will be reborn as the child feels happiness.

However, such an appearance only irritated Velia even more.

“Even if everything is taken away, are you still worried about that child?”

“Ah…Belly…No…”

It’s all a misunderstanding.

At this rate, the entire world is in danger.

Yggdrasil wanted to say that, but it was difficult for proper words to come out of his weakened mouth, having already been deprived of all his strength.

“Whoa… Whoa whoop…”

Velia let out an eerie laugh.

She dragged her Yggdrasil to the waters that shed light on her child, then left her there.

“Whoops… In that case… If so, keep an eye on it as you can’t do anything.”

“Belli…Ah…”

“To see your precious child dying without being able to do anything!”

Velia used her stolen power to reap Yggdrasil’s blessing on her child.

She also tricked her fairies and used all her means to torment her child.

She took her voice away so she couldn’t say anything.

She bound her will so that she could not ask for help from those around her.

She kept her family away from her, and her children who could have been her friends.

The child grew up isolated and unable to feel happiness.

Yggdrasil was forced to die watching it for years.

She already had no tears of her own, and with her empty eyes she had to watch the child she had chosen suffer.

When Velia, who had tormented her child and tormented Yggdrasil, went to visit Yggdrasil.

It was after Yggdrasil had already died.

“I’m dead, but I still have some remnants of it.”

“…Oh my God.”

Alicia’s face was very pale after hearing the truth from Yggdrasil.

Then, the person who gave the oracle while pretending to be Yggdrasil was none other than Saint Velia.

“I, who literally was nothing but remnants, was able to awaken like this, Alicia. It is thanks to the gem you possess.”

“You mean…This?”

“It’s a jewel containing my power that I gave to Frania Melot, who fought to protect me hundreds of years ago. You came here and I was able to regain my will, albeit for a short while.”

Alicia unknowingly clutched the jewel she was holding.

“Alicia. Please take good care of the seed of the World Tree. Be sure to pass it on to that child.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Yggdrasil looked at the seed that Alicia had taken out.

Before Yggdrasil died, he died watching his child live in agony.

But for some reason, when he awoke in this place, he saw that a new seed had sprouted.

What happened to the child?

Yggdrasil, who had already lost his strength and only had remnants left, had no way to know.

“World Tree…”

“Yes.”

“Really…Thank you so far.”

It was a remnant that would soon disappear, but it was the ritual of Yggdrasil that he served.

Alicia offered a prayer of thanks for the ceremony.

Yggdrasil looked at her and smiled at her, then disappeared on the spot.

“… Take good care of my child, Riel.”

When Alicia got out of the burrow made of tree roots, in front of her burrow, she was waiting for a shining being who had guided her to this point.

It let Alicia in her, she wriggled for a moment and then she started to move.

She wondered if she was trying to guide herself, she thought so and Alicia followed.

She is the one who guided me this far. There was no need to doubt it, she thought.

Alicia noticed one thing about how far she had followed. She

She followed the trail, heading to a place she had never been before.

Does she have an exit elsewhere, or…

She has very little doubts, but still wants to believe in its existence. I thought so.

And in the place where they followed, there was a scene that made her doubt Alicia’s eyes.

“This…What is this again…!”

About ten or so.

In wooden cages, people were confined.

No, does it make sense to say that he was locked up? Most of them were already dead and didn’t move at all.

“Why are people trapped here…?”

When I heard such a question, I suddenly heard a voice from a place away from Alicia.

「Who are you!」

A startled Alicia held her breath and covered her mouth.

There was a fairy there.

She is a different entity from the fairies we saw earlier.

But she must have seen Alicia, just like the fairy she saw earlier, but she didn’t recognize it at all.

「What is it? She sensed a presence… But did she become sensitive because there were only human corpses?」

Alicia held her breath and waited for the fairy to disappear.

In Alicia’s mind, she remembered Lilu’s words she had heard before entering this place.

You must never remove the gem from your body.

Strength went into the hand holding Alicia’s jewel.

Soon after the fairy disappeared, Alicia looked around.

There are too many dead people.

At that time, she noticed that the shining being that was guiding her was pointing to a place.

Alicia hesitantly approached the place and looked at it.

There was a man there.

A young-looking man, probably still in his mid-twenties…

“… Huh?”

I heard faint breathing.

He is still alive.

Alicia thought so and acted quickly.

Taking her weapon from her pack, Alicia immediately broke the wooden cage.

“Are you okay? Hey!!”

“Ugh…Uh…”

A very weak man groaned as if he had regained consciousness.

“Uh…”

“Are you alright? Are you awake?”

“Mother…Mother…”

Mother, after hearing her words, Alicia searched the area.

Is the lady lying down right next to the man his mother?

Approaching her, Alicia confirmed that she was also breathing, and went towards her.

The man’s mother was in a more serious condition than the man.

“This…For now…For now…!”

Alicia lifted the two of them up and left the place.

Alicia returned to the tree den where she met the remnants of Yggdrasil.

She wanted to give this seed to a girl named Riel as soon as possible, but she couldn’t ignore it when people were dying like this.

She laid them down and nursed them with the water and food she had prepared.

Fortunately, the condition of the two was not bad except for severe malnutrition.

“Uh…Uh…This is…”

And, the man who was in better condition than the lady woke up first.

“Are you awake?”

“Where is this? Mother…?”

The man who came to his senses started looking for her mother.

Alicia smiled and pointed at the sleeping lady with slightly eased breathing.

The man looked at the sleeping lady, let out a sigh of relief from her, and looked at Alicia.

“Thank you for saving me. Um…So…”

“I am Alicia Merlot. I am a priest.”

“Oh, you’re from church.”

There was a slight wariness in the man’s red eyes, but he smiled shyly as if that wariness had been relieved.

“My name is Andrew… Andrew Ignis.”

Alicia was surprised when the man introduced himself like that.

That’s right, she herself is the child of Yggdrasil, whom she must give this seed to.

Because Riel Ignis and he were from the same family.

“Intruder?”

A woman with a pale figure, she received a report from a fairy who came looking for her.

「What should I do? Velia-sama!!”

「The trapped human is gone!」

「What should I do? What should I do!”

Fairies roam around as if playing around a woman with a pale figure, her saintess Velia.

Velia smiled bitterly when she saw those fairies.

Though they have quite a bit of power, they are innocent…And stupid, so they’re easy to use.

“To save the World Tree. Catch him alive.”

「Yes! Okay!”

「If only to save the World Tree!」