49 – Stepping on the tail (2)
I hurriedly looked around.
There was no red anywhere.
A voice passed by my ears.
I heard it too clearly to be a hallucination –
“Come back, Russell. Please.”
Once again, the voice I had always heard echoed in my head.
“Your forehead!”
Red light reflected on the hand held.
…It was my mother’s magic.
Did it reach me through my pattern?
“I’ll leave that b*tch alone now.
Because I won’t even lay a hand on other people.
Come back.
I miss you so much.”
Is this sound not heard by others?
Mr. Luterrier’s mouth begins to move as he looks at me anxiously –
“Russell.
I’m talking about it.
To you, me.
I love you.”
In an instant, my eyes were covered with darkness.
Black swallowed everything, as if ink had been poured onto the paper on which the picture had been drawn.
“Ah, how can you look so lovely when I look at you like this?
The hand that holds the small spark in its heart is so cute…”
Like lighting a candle, two yellow lights came on on the black field.
Eyes that reflect me accurately and have a greed that will never fall.
“It’s been a few days since I’ve been away from your side for a while.
How many times has it been since the days that felt like a lifetime passed by?
It was cold.
That’s a lot.”
I was obviously riding a horse, next to Mr. Luterrier.
I could not hear the sound of the wind passing by or the horse’s hooves hitting the ground.
“Do you remember the winter we met?
…Should I say it hurts as if a harpoon was hit in the chest.
Just like the time I collapsed in front of your house, my skin is horribly cold.
I handle fire, as if I had a cold…”
The light blinked once.
Once again, I encountered it right in front of my eyes.
“He’s still waiting in that village.
Thinking of you.
…They gave artifacts and apples to the families of the dead.
The wounds left on the guard captain have long since been covered up.
I’m really sorry for doing things you don’t like.
I just really hate the feeling of having something taken away from me.
I don’t want to face the moments where my precious daily life is ruined ever again –
That’s why I’m angry.
But I’m definitely not angry at you.
So, if you have any hateful feelings toward me, can you please let them go?”
Bingle, bingle.
As it spun around me, the yellow light began to bend.
“We should go back to the mansion together.
A little deeper in the mountains, or in a cave near the sea.
You seem to like traveling, so sometimes you move your residence – and change the scenery of your mansion.
We will spend time together in new worlds.
Sometimes I think it would be okay to come out together like this, yes.
I found a lot of interesting books and learned some cooking secrets that you might like.
So come back.
…So that I can feel the happy past once again.”
I carefully asked a question to my mother, who was smiling shyly while raising an invisible corner of her mouth.
To dare to test.
I want to reveal the truth.
“Then,
You won’t touch my body?”
Stillness has come.
The light went out for a moment.
And,
“I love you very much.
That one thing is sincere.”
“…It’s a big room.
Like in that forest.”
“Because I will never approach you like that again.”
A feeling of disappointment rose through my body.
It was becoming very clear that there was no turning back.
“Russell.
I love you.
More than anyone else.
I am a bit young to say that I have lived a very long time, but
Still, I have never been so strongly attached to someone else.
To the wizards who raised me,
To those who taught me magic.
I have seen many people courting me by bringing flowers and such, but I have never once accepted them.
As much as you,
Because you made my heart beat.”
“But, I…”
“Russell, I’m not saying I don’t love you.
It just means that I care about you more and want to get closer to you.
You can keep calling me mom.
Even if you pamper me in these arms, no, please pamper me.
Give me warmth, love, happiness – “
My breathing was getting rough.
My eyes were shaking.
Mom’s.
I am looking into those eyes very calmly, rather coldly and sadly.
The red dragon’s golden eyes trembled with deep darkness within them.
I didn’t want to face that.
My mother who looks at me with those eyes,
I couldn’t accept it.
“Mom.”
So, I slowly relaxed my strength.
Placing her hand on my tight forehead, I looked away from my mother.
“Russell?
Russell, Russell, look here. Look at mom
What are you doing now?”
Yellow light followed immediately, but it could not reopen the crumbling darkness.
The pink sunset slowly cleared away the black.
“I… Don’t think I’ll be able to see my mom like that.”
I felt this after spending a few days with Mr. Luterrier.
Even though I saw my mother looking embarrassed,
Even though I dared to see the dragon approaching to tempt me,
I did not feel the emotions I felt from Mr. Luterrier from my mother.
“What is that – No, Russell, don’t do this.
I barely found you, mom again – “
“I have something I want to do.
In this world. In this place with many people.
The place where we were together was definitely happy,
The place where I was able to live without worries was under my mother’s wing,
Still, I think there are things that can only be done here.”
Mr. Luterrier’s tail is wrapped around my neck,
That I was leaning against a warm back,
And, I could tell that I was still on a running horse.
Beyond the curtain that covered me, there was a wide world.
“Well, let’s do those things together with Mom, okay?
Russell, don’t leave me alone like this.
I won’t do anything until you want me to,
I won’t hug you or wag your tail without permission – “
The black background and golden light fading away with an urgent cry.
Looking at it for a moment, I…
“I’m sorry. As soon as I finish this, I’ll go back right away.”
I turned my head to the setting sun.
In the end, they scattered in the bright sunlight.
My forehead was also becoming lighter.
“…Are you awake?”
“Yes.”
“What happened? Well, your mom-“
Rather than answering the questions that came straight away, I leaned my tired body even further.
I placed my shaking arm on Mr. Luterrier’s waist and looked out over the horizon.
“I said I was going back. I’m just doing what I want to do.”
“…Don’t we have to go back right away?”
In a trembling voice, perhaps due to anxiety, I wrapped my arms around his waist and spoke.
My body was twitching little by little –
“Mr. Luterrier said so.
Do what I want.”
“That’s what I said.”
The trembling calmly subsides in the slowly spreading warmth.
And the sound of the heart pounding is heard little by little.
Unlike the sound of horses’ hooves, it revealed its presence subtly, but strongly enough not to be buried.
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“So that’s what I’m going to do.”
I couldn’t do what I wanted to do with my mom.
If I thought about what happened in the forest and at the village chief’s house where I met Mr. Luterrier once again, there was no way my trip with my mother would have been enjoyable.
So, I decided to entrust my heart to my new colleague and the person I am with.
Rather than the flames engulfing me and burning the surroundings, I was drawn to the bonfire glowing softly next to me.
***
“…aaagh!!!”
Wings burst out from the woman standing on the railing.
Her tail stretched out with the force to tear her dress, and red lightning flashed from her horn.
“What’s going on – “
The old man who was watching her got up immediately and tried to ask her, but
The dragon flew up through the sky.
Rosaria reached the clouds at a speed and height that no one on the ground could dare chase.
“I can’t tolerate it, I can’t, that b*tch ruined Russell.
My Russell, my own Russell, that cute child that only I knew ─ “
He even makes expressions that cannot be made by a human face,
Unsightly teeth were revealed within the lips that had left faint marks on the boy’s body.
The human body was gradually falling apart.
“She doesn’t know how she seduced him, but she doesn’t know how she broke his upright mind-
Quaaa!!!”
The scream from evil soon turned into a growl,
The sky resounded with a thunder-like roar.
Unable to overcome his anger, the fire that spewed out brightened the darkening sky,
Cast a shadow on the cloud.
This soon gave fear to those who set foot on the ground.
The animals were busy curling their tails and running away to their respective hiding places.
People covered their ears and closed the windows.
And some of them had their hands on swords and spears.
“I can’t forgive you. That child is mine.
The body, the mind, and the soul must all be mine.
I raised it, I groomed it, and I cared for it.
It’s a smile that only I’ve seen, a warmth that’s only been given to me, and only I should have it from now on, so why, why!!!”
Fire erupted again.
The fire was bright enough to make people who were in the middle of a fight jump in surprise and open their windows to look at the sky.
“…Surely, that’s the dragon?”
The fur of the rabbit that had defeated something much larger than itself stood on end.
Even her companion, who had been losing energy, mustered up his last strength and covered her body with a blanket.
“How dare you hit someone’s tail… How dare you…!
I don’t even know my fraction, and my Russell is in front of me…
What kind of facial expression would you make if you pulled out that tail and burned it black… Huh…?”
A curse filled with bitter resentment flows from his mouth,
Fold your wings straight away and fall with the momentum of slamming yourself into the ground –
“Gella Luterrier!!!”
I put my son’s foot where he should be.
The sharp claws only kick at the frozen and thawed ground.
Only the poor trees were broken by the flapping wings and kicks.
“…Where are you, where did you go? Where did this damn b*tch go, where did she go…”
Just before letting go of reason, the dragon stretched his nose and tried desperately to smell the scent of the person he wanted.
However, the traces were awkwardly discontinued, and the smell of my son, who should have welcomed me more than anything –
“Damn b*tch.”
Something from the person she hated the most was mixed in.
After scratching her teeth and losing her temper, Rosaria slowly moved her feet, following the scent that still lingered on her.
She returned to her human form in exasperation and headed towards the illuminated castle wall.
“I will find you and torment you until you beg me to kill you…”
The embers of resentment were looking for firewood.
