chapter 88
88 – Scramble (2)
“You wouldn’t try to kill your son’s only precious comrade with your own hands,
Madame Tutuère, no,
Should I call you Lady Dracea Rosaria?”
“…Don’t take my name out of your dirty mouth.”
“But you can’t use another name.
You say you hate it? The name of the evil dragon.”
It was the mother glaring, baring her teeth fiercely,
Fortunately, her hand didn’t move.
Her fingernails her were still touching her her neck her her her, but her blood her her her … Was not flowing.
“Your son is a child with a really deep heart.
Sweet, kind, cute, and lovely.
But you are Russell’s mom.
No matter who you meet, no matter who you like,
No matter what you want to do…
If you block it, you will only receive hate.
Why do you think Russell followed me?”
“Please, can’t you just shut that mouth?!”
There were tears in his voice that seemed as if it would subside at any moment.
The drops that fell on Gella’s face broke into pieces and soaked the floor.
“…I am that child’s family.
Russell is my child too. My… Child.
He is my precious, precious son.
Do you think it will be taken away by you, the bitch who came from nowhere?
That should be it…”
It seems I was wrong in thinking that I had given up on harming him.
Biting her lip, Mom raised her hand and once again raised her sharp nails.
“No!”
It was me who caught it.
Clinging to her mother’s her body her her, she somehow prevented it from hitting.
“…Let go, Russell.”
“I don’t like it. Not Gella!
The others were hurt, but my sister…!”
“I, I! Russell, what about Mom?!”
Her hand came down to stop it from falling,
Instead, I was the one who got caught.
Being pushed to the floor and falling,
It was I who had to shed tears this time.
“It’s not enough that the beginning of your beautiful magic was taken away,
Now, even those worries…
I only have you,
Why do you keep trying to leave others?
Why on earth?
Was my love not enough?
The attention, affection, and joy I gave you,
Was it worse than this bitch’s?”
“…I think this is what happened because I couldn’t do it.”
“Shut up, shut up, shut your mouth!
Because if you open your mouth one more time, I could tear you alive.
I’m asking my son.”
She was a mother who screamed even when she cried and bared her teeth right in front of her nose,
As if she was anxious, she immediately came back to me and said,
“Please, Russell, think again.
For me, I only have you.
The people and the world out there have no meaning to me.
Only you make me happy.
How terrible the times without you were.
How… Cold it was.
So come back, please.
Forget about adventures, to me – “
Begging, clinging,
And we hugged.
The tail that wrapped around me as if I wasn’t going to let go made me feel frustrated.
…It felt different from Gella’s sister.
So, I used my strength to get away from his embrace of her.
“No, no, please, no…! Please, please… I-I only have you…!
Russell, don’t leave, please, mom – mom – “
At that moment, my mom held me tighter as she screamed.
A crackling sound was heard from her eighty-year-old body, which made it difficult for her to breathe.
It hurt. It really hurt.
So much so that I can’t scream?
Or, isn’t there a scream?
“Calm down, Russell will get hurt – “
” Can’t you just go away?! “
The outstretched wings attempted to strike Sister Gella, who stood up.
My older sister, who easily dodged it with her golden hair flying, immediately ran into her hand, which grabbed me.
“Let go, let go. I’m not trying to take you away.
Look at the kid’s face. See it with your own eyes.”
“Russell is mine, she’s my child, I can never give her away, like you-“
“Because I won’t take it away!
She said, “Please come to your senses before you hurt him with your own hands!”
“Kek, kehek…!”
You can’t breathe it in,
Is it because of the strength of my arms that are trying their best to get rid of me who is shaking without even being able to rest?
Or is it because I can finally look into those yellow eyes that I have been trying to reach somehow.
In an instant, the body that fell into the air was held in another arm.
“Huh, huh – kek, kok, kok…!”
“Inhale slowly, exhale. Look here, Russell.
Inhale, exhale. That’s right.”
Blue eyes, golden, soft.
It was my older sister Gella who was gently stroking me, not my mother.
It was warm.
“…Are you planning to catch the kid?! If I did, I would have been in big trouble!”
“Huh, yuh, yuh, ah, baby… My baby…”
Reach out to me like that,
The person who conveys the trembling of the arm is the red head.
Yellow eyes.
And horns.
Mom was strong.
…It was so strong.
I knew it was filled with love, but a hug that only hurt wasn’t very good.
At one time, I thought that Gella was becoming similar to her mother, but she was very different.
The dog with golden fur that softly smiled liked me, loved me, and wanted to hug me tightly.
It welcomed me by licking its cheek and wagging its tail, and hoped that I would smile.
However,
The red-scaled mother seemed to want to smile.
He wished I was there because he could smile when I was around.
The voice that said he couldn’t do it without me rang in my ears once again.
Since the two were here together, the difference was visible.
“How are you feeling a little better now?”
“Huh, huh, huh…”
I tried to nod my head somehow, but my eyes were still blurry.
My stomach hurt every time I took a breath, and I wondered if I was hurt somewhere…
“That’s right, try breathing like that a little longer. Your body will be shocked.
Just a moment – “
“Where are you going to put your head against her chest against her?!”
“Get out of the way and get out of the way. Who hurt the kid and are you raising your voice like that now?!”
“I’m Russell’s mom, I raised this kid, I – “
“And now you hurt me. Because of your greed!
So, if you don’t know something, just keep your mouth shut and sit there.
“I just wanted to check on her child’s condition.”
After her argument, her mother snapped her fingers once, and her pounding heart her slowly calmed down.
If you see red energy floating in the air, it must have been magic.
“I can do more for this child than you.
Even if it wasn’t for you, Russell wouldn’t have gotten hurt…!”
“Because of me, Russell can do what he wants to do?
Is this the way you raise your son, by taking away all his freedom and turning him into a puppet?
But somehow there was no sign of the fight ending.
The two were raising their voices more and more as they debated who was to blame for the injury.
“You thief, this wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t taken Russell and ran away!
The reason I killed those guards was because you hid my child!”
“Ha, you’re talking about killing as if it’s natural?
Let’s say I forced myself to bring this child.
Why do you think Russell, who has the mark on his forehead, didn’t tell you where he was, huh?
“Do you really not think that Russell is tired of her holding onto a child who wants to go on an adventure and trying to do as she pleases?”
“Please, can’t you both stop fighting?!”
I couldn’t bear it.
Her mother suddenly came to visit and threatened her older sister’s life,
Trying to ruin my adventure,
Also, my older sister’s words her her her to her her mother her her her become harsh-
I couldn’t bear it all.
“I like them both, I.
Her mom always loved her. As her her family her her her.
She raised me from the age of ten and protected me from the cold.
Every night when it gets cold, I like it when you hold its tail and cover it with my wings.
But I don’t like hugging her that tightly like today.
I don’t want her tail to make me feel weird. “
When she heard those words, the yellow circles in her mother’s eyes she seemed to have shrunk.
Her trembling hands seemed to have no intention of stopping earlier.
So, I gave him my left hand.
“I like Gella too.
He said he likes him as a colleague.
It was really fun every time you taught me the things I needed for my adventure.
It was also the first time I learned about constellations.
It was fun every time we were together.
But honestly, I was very surprised when he licked my cheek.
“I’m not sure about that yet.”
It was definitely a tail waving.
As soon as he says he doesn’t know yet, it ticks and falls sideways, unable to get up.
Little by little, he raised the corners of his mouth and nodded, then stopped with a tick, and his face became frozen.
So he gave her his right hand.
“It’s hard for me when the two people I like the most fight.”
I looked to the left.
“It hurt. It was really painful. I thought I was going to die until you used magic.
I can’t breathe, my chest feels like it’s going to be crushed…!”
And then I looked to the right.
“My sister speaks too harshly to my mother.
Of course, she said she didn’t like her mother for not letting her go on adventures,
Still, I like my mom.
So, I hope you can calm down a little too.”
Both of their eyes were just looking at me.
He held both of my hands tightly and just followed where my eyes went.
Then, in the end, the two ran into each other.
“…”
And then there was no word.
However, the two just looked at each other with frowns on their faces.
Her mother clearly hated Gella,
Sister Gella didn’t seem to like her mother for hurting me either.
“You two can reconcile, right?”
“No.”
“…Well.”
My favorite mom,
And the older sister I came to like.
It was doubtful whether the two would ever reconcile.