Chapter 147 The Girl and the Snake (1)
As a wizard, Dorotheus does not have Parseltongue, but Clint Graydon, a Muggle, has this heritage.
Ximena Clingretton, the daughter of a duke in a remote area, was destined to be an heir at birth. She also had a little snake with white skin and red eyes. When it reached the age to talk, she named the little white snake Maggie.
Ximena is a lively, beautiful and kind angel. Even now, Maggie feels that all the good adjectives are not enough to describe her. He was not smart at that time, but he was influenced by Ximena's cleverness and was able to cooperate with his little master in all aspects and at all times.
When getting into trouble in the castle, little Ximena used her innocent childish words to joke with her parents, while Maggie was given the important task of fooling old Clint Graydon's big green snake Milaji. They were never punished once, and everyone disliked the lovable little ones.
In the fields and woods, they would play to their heart's content. Little Jimena loved snakes. She would call all the snakes in the grass at once, identify them one by one, and then play the biggest game of hide-and-seek with Maggie. Maggie was very competitive at that time, and he would always find more snakes than Jimena.
Of course, they also had a lot to learn, Ximena needed to become a perfect noble, and Maggie needed to become a venomous snake with appropriate aggression, but they never complained because they were always happy.
The days should have passed in such an ordinary way, with the little white snake growing up, living and dying together with his little master who could talk to snakes. However, this timeline that should have lasted no more than a hundred years was broken by one person, or to be more precise, by a wizard.
It was Maggie who first discovered Alberto Dorodotus. The man was seriously injured, and the smell of blood filled their always peaceful woods, so Maggie had to pay attention to him.
Maggie would hunt on her own and eat raw meat, but she would not eat humans. In the days that followed, he would think that it would be great if he could have eaten that large piece of meat at that time.
But he didn't. He called Ximena, and Ximena called the snake, and the snake took Abato into the utility room.
Ximena's kindness was not excessive, as she cured Aibotu but also intended to find out the identity of this handsome young man and the reason for his injury, and if she later deemed it inappropriate, every snake would be happy to spare her bloodshed.
When Abbot woke up, like all men who saw Ximena for the first time, he was stunned. Then he realized that the room was full of snakes staring at him, and he was stunned again.
Continuous daze is not a reassuring reaction, but he is a wizard who can cast magic with just a raise of his hand. The Clingretton family, who are born with the ability to talk to snakes, have always felt that they are different from ordinary people. They believe in the existence of something. After witnessing Abbot's ability, they easily accepted this boy without an identity.
Alberto easily obtained a decent Muggle identity and taught Ximena magic as a tutor. Although the Clingretton family were all Muggles, Alberto was an extraordinary alchemist. He began to write "Supernatural" from then on and made various alchemical instruments that allowed Muggles to feel magic.
Naturally, the boy and girl fell in love, and there was no obstacle between them. Alberto was willing to change his surname to Clinggreton, and Ximena's parents also accepted this wizard who brought them magic.
On their wedding day, everyone was happy, including all the snakes. Jimena called them all over, and they played another round of hide-and-seek. Alberto became the new member of the game, and Maggie even dragged Miraji, who was no longer very active, to be the referee. That day was the most perfect ever.
Everything was perfect after that day. They loved each other as much as before, and their family was as harmonious as before. At this point, they had achieved their perfect ending like the protagonists in a fairy tale.
But life is not a fairy tale. People have to experience birth, aging, sickness and death. Old Clintons and his wife passed away suddenly. A flu took them away, and old Miraji went with them. Ximena kept crying, but she was still very strong and completed a grand funeral.
Alberto was also very sad. Maggie didn't know why he was injured before, nor did she know what kind of family he was born into, but Alberto never showed any sign of homesickness. He easily gave up his former surname and regarded Clinggreton as his only home.
So when the relatives he cared about passed away and the family he cared about was no longer complete, Aibotu turned into a terrible path. He began to look for a way to stop losing, and he began to study immortality.
The disturbing thing is that he does have this talent.
But the love he didn't want to lose refused eternal life.
Ximena saw through Aibotu's madness, but also underestimated it. The alchemist transformed his own eyes, making the original blue covered with a layer of gray. He asked Ximena to have immortality like him.
At that time, Maggie was just a stupid little snake with a long body. He only saw that his little master was as beautiful and kind as before, but had become a little dull - he hadn't played his favorite hide-and-seek for a long time.
But it doesn’t matter, he is slowly getting very old, and will soon be buried in the ground like old Milaji, so it is enough for him to watch over his little master quietly.
But Alberto didn't want him to die, because every time he was too weak to move, Ximena would always look shaken, so Maggie was also put on the eternal life experiment table.
Aibotu was considerate of him. He felt no pain when he was on the experimental table, but his senses were sharp. He could feel how his old flesh was being peeled off inch by inch, and how the fresh snake meat mixed with other things was stuffed into his body.
His skin was no longer as resistant as it used to be, and his eyes were extremely cloudy, but there were not many snakes with white skin and red eyes, so he ended up becoming a snake with green skin and yellow eyes.
Maggie was happy at first. He had regained his energy and his little master liked him as usual. So he wanted to go out and find some snake friends to show off, but he couldn't find any.
Ah, he didn't even know where the new flesh and skin on his body came from.
The moment his mind began to open up a little, Maggie began to feel fear towards Alberto. He no longer regarded this man as the considerate boy he used to be.
Soon, he was put on the experimental table again, where Alberto modified his eyes and gave him the task of "asking Ximena to stay alive."
Alberto still didn't want to lose, and became even more self-deceiving. He would rudely drive away Maggie, who helped him control Ximena, and then fall in love with Ximena, who was not under his control but was willing to stay, as if he had returned to his most carefree youth.
It was at this time that Bronte was born, a little Parseltongue wizard.
As Alberto welcomed his new family whom he was reluctant to lose, he came up with the idea of making this eternal home bigger and bigger, and he instilled this idea into Bronte without missing a word.
This put Bronte Clingretton in a twisted situation when he was young. His mother taught him to be kind and considerate, and loved him like a child; his father made him cold and authoritarian, and trained him as a successor.
Maggie didn't know what Bronte had been through. She only treated Bronte as her little master. They went to the laboratory table together, played hide-and-seek together, and talked about everything.
One day, Bronte learned from him that Alberto asked him to control Ximena. Bronte begged him not to do that anymore, and he did so. Ximena briefly regained his complete self, and then immediately asked for death.
After living a life of drunkenness and dreams for hundreds of years, Ximena must have become less kind, otherwise how could he ask a child to kill his mother?
Oh, no, she was still kind, and the person she was asking for help was Maggie.
Bronte was horrified and subconsciously asked his mother with his equally transformed eyes, trying to pretend that this had never happened.
Maggie, who had been confused for hundreds of years, suddenly became clear-headed at this moment. He realized that his little master had been "killed" long ago.
It should be said that everything in the past is "dead", including himself.