Melissa

A girl with a cursed needle who runs a sewing workshop and solves customers' problems. A girl with a cursed needle who runs a sewing workshop and solves customers' problems in her "unique" way. The illegitimate child of a nobleman, Melissa grew up in Lumina City, capital of the Moniyan Empire, where she runs a small tailoring shop. Endowed with dark magic, she uses cursed needles to fight, solving her clients' problems in unique ways. === The Needle: Broken Doll ===

There was once a small, inconspicuous tailor shop on the bustling streets of Lumina City, capital of the Moniyan Empire. Its owner was an elegant woman, always with a tired smile on her face, who had an intelligent and original daughter named Melissa.

They lived a difficult life, but Melissa always wore a pretty dress and clean shoes, the worn parts of which were carefully patched into adorable patterns. She was mean, but she was also thoughtful and sensible. When she was at the store, she helped her mother with the needlework and put the shredded rags aside. When she was old enough and had enough experience of the world, she never asked where her father was again.

Melissa always wanted to have a beautiful rag doll, but she never told her mother about it, because she knew that her mother, despite her illness, could not even afford to go to the doctor.

Every time she passed the doll store, she raised her head to look inside, and the exasperated store owner tried to scare her several times with empty threats. Then the girl made a face instead of panicking, so the shopkeeper who was pretending to lose his temper gave up first.

One day, after their store closed, her mother magically created a rag doll sewn with shredded fabric from a fabric pile. Melissa was beyond happy, smiling and jumping up and down holding the doll and her mother.

Her happy childhood vanished and little Melissa who ran in the streets became a pretty young woman and was able to help her mother. Watching the girl grow up, her mother always expected to see Melissa get married in a beautiful wedding dress she had made for her, but unfortunately, she left Melissa forever before she could make her wish come true.

The small tailor shop closed its doors and the father Melissa had never met before suddenly appeared and took her with him.

They returned to her father's house and that's when she discovered that her mother was a Paxley. Renouncing her ties to the noble family, she fled for love with her father, who abandoned her and left her an illegitimate daughter.

Subsequently, although her father tried to compensate for her abandonment, he was unable to give her all the rights of a legitimate child. When Melissa was introduced to her half-sister, a cultured and graceful young woman, she became filled with hatred towards Melissa. She thought Melissa broke into her family, so she always bullied Melissa when their father wasn't home, and Melissa pretended not to care but remembered everything.

Every night, only the carpet doll accompanied Melissa in her sleep, which gave her the feeling that her mother was always there with her inside the doll, so when she felt the need to cry, she held back her tears and hugged the doll.

But her sister was also hostile towards the carpet doll. She once deliberately tore it up and falsely suggested that Melissa throw away the broken doll that didn't please her eyes and accept one of her old dolls.

Even though Melissa claimed she was okay with it, there was no way she was going to throw away her “mommy doll.” Afterwards, whenever she was bullied, she would often push the doll with her sister's favorite bow tie sewn on it, as if it were her sister herself.

One day, while venting her anger at the doll, she accidentally discovered that her actions seemed to have actually affected her sister! Her suspicions were confirmed after a few attempts, and an idea began to form in this little girl's mind...

It was soon her sister's coming-of-age ceremony, and important guests were gathered in their house, but as an illegitimate daughter who could not be seen by others, Melissa stayed in her room while her sister showed off her piano skills to everyone in the room. When her sister gracefully sat on the stool while people applauded, Melissa was also ready with a big smile on her face: she was following the rhythm of the song on the piano with one hand and the other hand was ready to push the "sister doll".

A melodious piano sound filled the room and soon reached the climax of the song. It was when her sister confidently pressed the keys that Melissa pushed the doll – she had practiced it to perfection when her sister was practicing the piano.

At that point, the song started to go wrong.

Her sister kept hitting the wrong notes, once, twice, and the guests started whispering to each other as they listened to the wrong melody. His sister's pale face gradually turned crimson, until she finally broke and smashed the piano while insulting him, and the whole audience was completely silent...

When her sister and the maid who raised the alarm rushed into Melissa's room, she had already changed into her old outfit and sneaked out of the house with her little luggage and dolls.

Melissa escaped from her father's house and returned to wander the familiar streets.

One night she dreamed of Cuddles speaking to her in her mother's voice, telling her not to be afraid because she would always protect her. Overwhelmed and ecstatic, Melissa threw herself at her mother, only to wake up alone on a rainy night just as she raised her hands. Suddenly, an inexplicit magical energy burst forth from her heart – her dark magic ability inherited from her mother had awakened, and a girl with nature's curse magic was born.

After that night, Melissa decided to settle down and opened a small sewing shop in the town of Lumina, inside which she recreated the layout of her mother's old shop, with various dolls hanging here and there. Sitting behind the counter, Melissa still had her feet on the table and coldly looked at the bustling world outside with a sneer.

Despite the appearance of a normal tailoring shop, Melissa's Tailor guarantees that all customer problems will be resolved, provided that the picky store owner does not refuse to accept your requests.

At only 16 years old, Melissa really manages to solve all her clients' problems. She always has unexpected ideas for taking care of targets: it's either swapping a bad contract with a loan shark or telling a homeless child to hug a groom who abandoned his former love and call him dad at his wedding.

When these targets came to get revenge on Melissa, she would smile and remind them what it feels like to miss your damn needles.

Soon after she opens the shop, even the nobles start talking about it: "Have you heard of Melissa's Tailor?"

"Yes. Is the owner really as good as they say?"

“Yeah, I have a tough job that needs help with…”

If you also find yourself in trouble in Lumina City, simply go to Melissa's Tailor and find its owner, Melissa…

=== The Needle: Lucky Day ===