In the northern kingdom, the slaughtering of the beast and the continuous spreading of incurable diseases haven't stopped and just continue to spread while monsters prey on people. 

When the time comes that people have begun to accept their faith and have lost all their rays of hope, a prophecy visits the temple and declares that the oracle has been decided. With that, the little town that was supposed to fall began to rise again, but no one knew what the prophesier had told the priest, and he was the only one who knew about it. 

Because of that, people had vowed that they would become loyal to their God, so they started to offer him a gift every year.

"Woah, the sun was so bright today."

The girl looks at the sky as she wipes the sweat from her forehead. She's walking down the grassy field of the mountain after she visits her grandma, who lives outside the town.

"I'm so tired. Let's rest here for a minute."

She puts down the basket she was holding that contains bread that her grandma has made. 

As she relieves her fatigue, she doesn't know that the bread has already lured the beast in her direction.

*Growl!*

The little girl was startled to hear the beast growling behind her; she was afraid to look back as she trembled in fear. Her body won't move while she stares at the beast with a terrified face. 

"H-help…...Help me!" 

The girl shouted, but someone couldn't come. There were no people who could hear her.

She began to shed tears, fearing that she would become the terrifying furry wolf meal. But when she closes her eyes, the hungry growl of the beast is unable to hear. 

As she opens her eyes, she is shocked to see a little boy, or rather, a weird-looking kid, covered in bandages. 

Every time he touches the beast, they turn into ashes, and enters his body...

...She saw everything the kid did.

"Are-are you okay?"

The little boy asks.

She couldn't answer, but tears welled up in her eyes. The boy wanted to reach out his hand, but he knew that he couldn't and that he would never be able to, as he didn't want to hurt her.

"Plea-please don't cry!"

He panicked as she cried loudly.

"Wah~ so scared!"

She shouted.

The little boy froze as he saw his reflection in the pond.

"I'm sorry…" 

He mumbled and was about to walk away, when he suddenly feel the girl was about to hold him, which he avoided quickly.

"You- "

His eyes widened.

"Ah, thank-thank you for saving me." 

Stuttering, the girl who was looking down earlier looked at her and smiled as the sun shone at her face, her golden blond hair glittering in the sun. He was facing an angel rather than a human with a luciform appearance, along with her perfectly shaped lips.

"M-my name."

"Yes?"

"My name is Daisy." 

She flushed as she introduced herself, which euonymously well suited her.

"What's yours?" 

He was startled; it was the first time someone had talked to him and he could feel the amity in her words.

"..."

"Uhmmm..." 

Daisy looks at him without fear, even though he looks more terrifying than the beast she met earlier.

"M-mummie. T-that was my name." 

He avoided her look and scratched the back of his head, as words were ineffable to describe the joy he was feeling right now.

"Then, Mummie, from now on, we are friends, best friends!" 

With a glad smile on her face, Daisy reached out her hand and declared her friendship to confused Mummie.

"…. Yes?" 

Mummie felt moved because of Daisy's sincerity, but he couldn't touch her, so he just nodded.

It's the beginning of the demonic cursed Mummie and the sweet little Daisy's friendship. Their relationship was so pure and sincere that they always played and hung out at the pond where they first met each other. Sometimes Daisy watches Mummie hunt, like how Mummies guide Daisy to climb up the stairs every day to visit her grandmother.

"Say, Daisy, why would you always visit your grandma alone?" 

Mummie asked curiously.

It had already been months since the two had become friends, but Mummie always wondered how Daisy visited her grandma alone every time, even knowing that the beast had resided in this mountain.

"That. Because... I want to."

Daisy responds with a serious tone, but as always, she smiles after every word comes out of her mouth.

"Then what about you? Where are your parents?"

Mummie can't look into Daisy's eyes and is hesitant to answer her question.

 "It's alright; you don't have to answer if you don't want to." 

They were sitting side by side at a distance fearing that Mummie might hirt her.

"T-they're dead."

Daisy's smile fades away.

"It was a long time ago; I almost can't remember their faces, but the only thing I remember is that I was a sickly kid, and my so-called parents let me lay down at a marble table, saying that I would be cured as they started performing an orison. I fell asleep, but once I opened my eyes, I looked like this, and my parents... I don't know what happened to them after." 

Mummie's response as Daisy listens.

"Did they want you dead?" 

Her facial expression stayed serious as she played with the grass.

"I don't know." 

He suddenly feels uncomfortable around Daisy for a second as she smiles brightly again.

"Then, when will you let me touch you?"

Daisy quickly slides herself beside Mummie and stares at him in the face.

"Y-you can't!" 

Mummies flushed as she avoided her..

"Then I'll just find a way to touch you. Uhm, maybe someday I will!"

Daisy stood up and looked at Mummie with confidence.

"….."

"The offerings will be tomorrow; I'll be turning 15 then. So now let's have fun!" 

Daisy ran while Mummie rushed and followed her from behind.

With all the fun, Daisy began to feel tired and decided to stop under the big tree.

As they both sat down, she suddenly fell asleep carelessly while Mummie watched her smile even in her sleep. She just looked so innocent with a quiescent soul that made the cursed Mummie's heart begin to beat fast... that he tried questioning himself, that maybe they ran too fast earlier, or that what he feels is rather affection towards her. 

Mummie felt his heart become heavy. He doesn't want to expect too much because he's already content with being her friend.

While watching her sleep from a little distance, Mummie hears the footsteps of two people walking down the street; based on their appearance, they look like hunters from the village.

" Who do you think is the offer this time?"

The bald guy asks.

He watched them from afar, but he could hear them.

"It's already been decided; it was a girl this year."

"Remember the orphan? Who always visits her grandma? She will turn 15 tomorrow."

Mumie hears everything but can't understand a thing.

He was about to follow the hunters, but then he stopped when Daisy had already woken up.

"What's the matter?" 

Daisy's head tilted as she rubbed her eye off with a dozing face.

"Would you not attend tomorrow?"

"Why?"

She asked with a confused expression.

"UHM…." 

Mummie can't seem to answer Daisy's question, as he is not so sure about everything.

Daisy chuckled.

"Of course, I would not if you don't want to."

"Is it okay?!" 

Mummie smiled.

"Of course, silly, my parents don't care, so it's fine."

The bright Daisy once again forms a galad smile that already becomes the weakness of the cursed Mummie.

"Parents?" 

He confusedly asked; she never told him about herself, so he still didn't know everything except that she climbed up to the mountain to visit her grandma every day.

"Didn't I tell you?" 

Mummie nodded as Daisy told him about her gambler-addict father and an abusive stepmother. 

He feels pity for Daisy, even though knowing that his life as a human was much more miserable when he remembers the day, he vomits blood every time he is still alive.

He was left in silence while Daisy stretched out.

Her eyes suddenly widened when she heard a group of people march in her direction.