The children gazed at Seele expectantly. Come to think of it... they were not that young anymore, nearly ten years old. Andersen's Fairy Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales... they had long grown tired of all those stories they had heard.
They had no idea how many times they had heard the fairy tales their parents told before bed. They could recite them backward and forward themselves and had no interest in them at all.
Yet the only stories their parents could tell were those same few repeated ones. But... but the stories Sister Seele told them were completely different from anything they had heard before. They were super interesting!
"So this was where I left off!"
"Next... Snow White pulled a giant scythe from beneath her skirt and cut off the heads of all seven dwarves who wanted to drug her, hanging them outside the house as lanterns! Then, not long after, the Queen, having learned where Snow White had gone, used magic to turn herself into a cute little girl. She deliberately passed by Snow White's door and pretended to be thirsty..."
"Pure and adorable Snow White clearly could not bear to refuse anyone's request. Kindly, she took out a bowl of water and handed it to the Queen. After the Queen, transformed into a little girl, drank the water, she said that to thank kind-hearted Snow White, she would offer her an apple she had picked not long ago."
"This apple was no ordinary apple. The Queen had enchanted it long ago, turning it into a poisoned apple... If anyone ate it, they would immediately bleed from all seven orifices and die..."
Seele deliberately narrated in a sinister tone, her voice carrying an obvious sickly edge. Yet the children seemed to ignore her tone entirely and were instead engrossed