BXBX NOVEL Chapter 188 Sculpture's Mystery
"Nathan, can you tell me about your sister?"
Nathan looked at Irish and tilted his head, "Natalie? Why?"
"Ah, w-well, I just wanted to know more about your only family." Said Irish.
Nathan became more confused after hearing her reason.
But since it's nothing serious, Nathan agreed, "Sure, I'll tell you some stories about her sometimes."
"For now, let's focus on that thing first."
Nathan turned his gaze at the humanoid figure about 8 to 10 inches tall running around the study table inside Irish's room.
That figure is very familiar to Nathan.
Because that figure is none other than the sculpture he made for Irish!
While carefully observing it, Nathan asked, "So… How did this all happen?"
Irish, while also looking at the sculpture with strange eyes, she said, "That… I also don't know."
Irish proceeds to tell Nathan how she discovered the strange 'change' that happened to the sculpture.
Based on her, last night, before she went to sleep, she was 'talking' to the sculpture, telling it the happy things that happened to her.
At that time, the sculpture was still 'normal'.
Then early this morning, she was awakened because she felt someone was pulling her hand.
But when she opened her eyes, she did not see anyone around.
Still a little sleepy, she was about to go back to sleep.
It was then that she felt the light tugging on her hand again.
Turning her sleepy eyes into her hand, she immediately saw the familiar figure pulling her hand with a smile as if it was playing with it.
Irish was stunned at that moment.
Scenes from the horror movies that she watched before where the dolls can move and kill people flashed before her eyes.
She screamed and freaked out, running out of her room, before locking the door to keep the sculpture inside.
After drinking water and calming herself a little, it was then that she called Nathan.
…
Hearing the story told by Irish, Nathan still didn't understand how the sculpture he made suddenly became 'alive'.
Approaching the small figure, Nathan continued observing it.
At this time, the sculpture has also noticed Nathan and towards him joyfully.
Nathan stretched out his hand to touch the sculpture.
When he made contact with it, Nathan suddenly heard a childish voice inside his head.
(Papa!)
He was startled by the voice and looked at the sculpture that was tightly holding onto his hands.
Nathan felt that the voice actually came from this small version of Irish.
Turning his head back, Nathan looked at Irish and asked, "Did you hear that?"
"Huh? Hear what?"
Irish cutely tilted her head to the side with a confused face.
Seeing that Irish did not seem to have heard the voice, he looked at the sculpture again.
'Is it only audible to those in contact with it?'
To confirm his thoughts, Nathan called Irish and told her to touch the sculpture.
"Uh, so, I just need to touch it, right?" Irish asked,
"Yeah, just hold it until I tell you to let go." Nathan said.
Irish nodded and hesitantly reached out her hand to the sculpture.
When she touched it, Irish suddenly froze.
Nathan saw that and immediately called her, "Irish, what happened?"
Irish slowly turned her head to Nathan, her face pale as if she saw a ghost.
"What happened to you?" Nathan asked again.
"I-I think, I heard a child's voice just now." She unsurely said.
Hearing that, Nathan turned his eyes back to the sculpture on Irish's hand and he confirmed that his thoughts were right.
At this time, Irish said in a frightened voice, "Nathan… was that a ghost?"
Nathan finds Irish's appearance at this moment cute.
But of course, Nathan won't tell her that.
Unless he wants her to hate him that is.
Shaking his head, Nathan denied Irish's words, "No, don't worry it's not a ghost. Anyway, what did you hear?"
Hearing Nathan's words, Irish heaved a sigh of relief.
Then she said, "Well, I heard it say 'mama'. Beside that, there's nothing else."
"Anyway, if that wasn't a ghost, what is it then?" Irish curiously asked.
Pointing at the sculpture, Nathan said, "It was that. The voice of the sculpture was what you just heard."
Irish immediately turned her eyes into the sculpture that was playing with her hands.
She was surprised.
The sculpture did not actually just become able to move.
It has also become capable of speech!
Irish can't help but look at Nathan with shining eyes.
She knows that this was made by Nathan with his own hands as a gift for her.
She also knows that Nathan has some magical skills that she doesn't know about.
That is why, Irish is positive at this moment that all of this, the sculpture suddenly moving and becoming able to talk was all because of Nathan.
Meanwhile, Nathan has no clue about Irish thoughts.
Right now, Nathan has all his attention directed at the sculpture.
'How did it become capable of doing all this?' wondered in his head.
As he was thinking, Nathan suddenly thought of the properties of the sculpture that he saw when he gave it to Irish back on her birthday.
Immediately, Nathan used his appraisal on the sculpture.
[Irish's Sculpture]
[Rating: Unique]
[Details: A sculpture of a female human made with the skill of a Master Sculpture using wood from a Miracle Tree, giving it a life of its own.]
[Properties: It can absorb a certain emotion and depending on the emotion that it absorbed, this sculpture can bring about physical changes and some unexpected effects.]
[Effects: Be Happy: Can make the people who look at it become happy, erasing the negative emotions in them.
Happy Meditation: When you meditate while feeling happy, there will be a 3 times increase in its efficiency.
Substitution: Can take a fatal damage for the person sculpted in this wood one time.]
…
After seeing the properties of the sculpture again, Nathan smiled,
"I understand it now!"