Surviving a Cruel Fairy Tale

41 – Act 2. Eternal Neverland – End of Childhood (2)

Wendy guided me into an alleyway with light steps, and at the end a small building stood out. .

“Here.”

A girl who guides me with a natural smile.

Did you introduce yourself as Wendy?

Judging from the fact that this is Neverland and Peter Pan is suspected of being a major fairy tale, she was undoubtedly a key figure in the situation.

There is nothing wrong with contact.

She has already joined Captain Hook, who is preparing for a war against Neverland, but the more information she collects, the greater her freedom of judgment.

The only question is why.

With such doubts in mind, the inside of the building following Wendy’s guidance felt like a relatively simple cafe.

“Sit there.”

First of all, she nodded at those words, sat down, and stared intently at the dark-haired girl sitting across from her.

“So, what are you talking about?”

“Your uncle has an impatient personality. If you’ve come this far anyway, the other kids won’t know. You can rest assured that the lovely fairy doesn’t even know here.”

I can’t relax with those words.

In this way, although I followed this girl, I could also include Wendy, who, to put it bluntly, seems to be moving with Tinkerbell, as a hostile category.

“Because I don’t have that much free time either.”

“The one you were hiding from?”

Her expression stiffened at Wendy’s expression as if she knew it from before, but the person in charge of her smiled and shook her head.

“You seem to think you’ve been hiding pretty well, but you got stepped on?”

“…… Really?”

“Maybe Tink has figured it out to some extent. If she had waited a little longer, she might have been captured and killed.”

…… She’s that. She’s a few times she’s been caught, but I thought she twisted her path to get as much confusion as possible.

“Isn’t that how I came to find you exactly? It was me who had more time than the other kids, so she would go around here and there, but even if it wasn’t for that, she would have been caught someday.”

So, for some reason, she felt familiar from the girl’s smile, saying that it was okay to be a little thankful.

She seems to have been seen somewhere.

However, she stared at her girl, putting aside the vague feeling of déjà vu first.

“Thank you for that, but I can’t understand it even more.”

“What?”

“Why did you help me?”

This side is fighting for survival as it is, but when viewed from the ground in Neverland, it is nothing more than an uneasy factor.

Survival and stability.

Comparing the weight, of course, the weight will be on survival, but there is no need for the opponent to understand that.

“I don’t know what you are, but I can’t see any benefit to you by hiding it with this kind of attention.”

“Profit?”

“Isn’t it too cumbersome to say that it is pure intention without profit or loss?”

At this, Wendy frowned between her brows and, disapprovingly, raised her fingernails and tapped her on the table.

“Are adults always looking for a reason to act like that? What a troublesome creature.”

“…… That.”

I can’t say no.

Of course, not all adults will move while weighing profit and loss, but adults in my country tend to value such things in particular.

There is no favor without reason.

I realized that painfully in the forest last time, but even if there was no such thing, I was the kind of person who always thought that there must be a principle in action.

“There is no big reason. I was just interested in knowing that you had just come to this Neverland, and then joined the pirates.”

“I mean, she just wanted to talk,” Wendy sighed.

“This is why Tink hates adults. Looking for a reason, want only profit. Can’t you just live on your own?”

“…… It seems to be a little difficult when you get older.”

“I don’t know.”

Actually, I’m not sure about that either.

From some time ago, we act in line with common sense, considering the realistic.

I didn’t move if there was no profit, and I hated losing money, but when I was young, like Wendy, I lived as I pleased.

Why did it change like this?

When I was young, I would have grown up watching my mother’s fairy tales, but at some point I became an ordinary adult.

“Are all adults like that?”

“Not everyone, but not everyone can live comfortably.”

So, Wendy bit her lips again with a mysterious expression.

“If that’s the case, then I don’t want to become an adult.”

“Even if you don’t wish for it, you will become an adult someday. You and all the children of this Neverland.”

Wendy didn’t answer.

She just laughs.

The smile on the corner of the girl’s mouth was so subtle that I couldn’t catch her intentions.

“I hope so.”

After that, Wendy cleared her throat and turned her words around as if to forcefully ventilate her atmosphere.

“Anyway, I called you because I wanted to hear something about the Hook Pirates.”

“Pirates?”

“Because Tink and other children have preconceived notions. In particular, people say that Tink is a cancerous being.”

She put her index finger to her forehead and frowned as if imitating her demon.

So that’s me.

If that’s the reason, I can accept it to some extent.

A being with little ties to the Hook Pirates and half out of Neverland’s interests.

The status of being a stranger is, in a sense, the person who can most objectively explain this situation or the Hook Pirates.

“Why did you choose the Hook Pirates?”

“Because that was the only option.”

“There must have been an option of expulsion.”

“Because I was chased by the shepherd boy from the beginning. She had no other options and had a young companion.”

Little Red Riding Hood is now captured by Tinkerbell.

“If you say expulsion, will my young companion be expelled as well?”

“…… That’s impossible Children of Neverland are protected in this paradise forever. Because that’s the rule Tink made.”

In that case, there was no choice in the first place.

It is impossible for her to choose to leave her red cloak in a place like this, and now her main task is to get her back.

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“Then I would have chosen the Hook Pirates as well.”

“Trying to cooperate with adults? …… Or did you feel something from the Captain of the Hook Pirates?”

That question was a bit difficult to answer.

I still don’t know everything about the Hook Pirates. Joining them in the first place was out of necessity, and there were no other options.

As for Captain Hook…….

“I haven’t known Captain Hook for long, but he doesn’t seem like a bad person.”

“Which part?”

“Accommodating and gathering adults who will not be of any help and taking responsibility for them. The person itself seems easy-going and free, but the principle of action seemed a little different.”

It is difficult to explain in words.

However, there was a clear contradiction between Captain Hook’s words and actions.

A pirate who loves peace.

A wanderer who rejects bondage in pursuit of freedom.

However, his actions are, to put it mildly, accommodating the worthless and assuming responsibility as their leader.

I felt that contradiction while watching the hunter in the dark forest before, but the feeling is different.

Rather than heterogeneous, it seems to be out of sync somewhere. At least I didn’t feel bad about it.

At least I liked Captain Hook’s personality.

As she expressed her opinion, Wendy slightly frowned and stared at us.

Then he said.

“…… What you think may not be the truth.”

“What if it wasn’t true?”

“To some he may seem like a responsible man, but that doesn’t mean he’s not all there is to him.”

The expression of the girl who said that was somewhat dark, as if she had a story behind her.

* * *

A splendid room inside the pure white palace.

At first glance, it was a room embroidered with expensive accessories and soft silk, but in contrast to such luxury, the atmosphere inside was not very good.

“He is also true! Aren’t you going to eat today?”

The pink-haired fairy, Tinkerbell, sighed as she looked at the leftovers today.

At this, Little Red Riding Hood blinked her eyes and turned her head again, and Tinkerbell approached her with her complex expression.

“Why are you doing this?”

“…… Let me go.”

“That’s not okay. You are a child in need of care, an insecure child. At least I can’t let you go until you find hope in this paradise.”

Then, as if she had nothing to say, Little Red Riding Hood did not give Tinkerbell a glance.

“You haven’t eaten anything for two days already. They say complaining about side dishes is a child’s duty, but are you planning on starving to death?”

“I took the minimum necessary nutrients.”

“That’s not it!”

It can’t be helped that I have no appetite.

No matter how luxurious a dinner is, if you have no appetite, it is no different from a piece of bread that has fallen on the street.

Even more so for Little Red Riding Hood, whose heart is not here.

The treatment here definitely made her feel relaxed, but her motto was that being uncomfortable is better than being uncomfortable.

Tinkerbell, who had been staring at the red cloak for a long time, sighed again and opened her mouth.

“Why the hell do you not like this place? Isn’t it much better here than that basement?”

“…… I have work to do.”

“You mean that ugly man?”

It’s boring.

At that expression, Little Red Riding Hood immediately frowned and drew her mystery into her grasp, but that rebellion vanished with a gesture from Tinkerbell.

Offset by suppressing force with force.

She was an impossible skill without a difference of overwhelming mystery, but she had no intention of boasting about it, and Tinkerbell approached Little Red Riding Hood again.

“Are you uncomfortable with expressions?”

“That man is not ugly.”

Her usual self would have acknowledged the difference in her skills and seized her opportunity.

But as her body grew younger, her way of thinking as well as her mind grew younger, she only acted impulsively.

“Do you like that guy that much?”

“…… I don’t know what is good. I just want to go, I just want to meet you. It’s my job to stay by his side.”

Isn’t it said that people like that kind of thing?

Tinkerbell shook her head even as she thought so.

“That man is no good.”

“Why?”

“Adults don’t have to be on the ground in this Neverland. And you are beautiful If you put your mind to it, that’s it…… , Okay, did you understand?”

Restraining her hypersensitive Little Red Riding Hood again, Tinkerbell shook her head.

“…… I will come again tomorrow.”

“If you don’t let me go, don’t come.”

“That is difficult. Because I liked you.”

Little Red Riding Hood wrinkled her brow at the unwanted attention, but Tinkerbell smiled brightly saying see you tomorrow.