55 – Heavy Warning (2)
“…Russell.”
Without knocking, mom opened the door and entered the room.
At the same time, while persuading me, he quietly stood up, bowed his head, and left the room.
The blue eyes that watched me for a moment were soon interrupted by a woman with red hair.
“How are you feeling? Are you okay?”
I nodded once.
There was a slight tingling sensation in his arm, but it was sure to be a sensation that would go away soon.
However,
“Wait… Can you show her mom?”
Gently placing her hand on the blanket, my mom asked me.
I hesitated for a moment, but I soon rolled up my sleeves.
“Thank goodness. There are no scars left. I’m so… Glad.”
Sweeping my skin over and over again,
Mom moved her hands meticulously, as if putting perfume on her arms.
The things I had cried out in front of Mr. Luterrier suddenly came to mind.
Is scent that much important to mothers?
Her eyes moved along the arm that was touching me, then she raised her head and looked at her mother.
But something was strange.
“Mom, her face…”
Her mother had whiter and softer skin than anyone else.
To blame the weather, and to blame my mother for looking bad because she is in such a bad mood –
Mom definitely looked a lot different in some way.
“Why are you doing this?”
The eye shadow, which wasn’t there before, became darker as if ink had been applied.
Her eyes, which can be said to be orange rather than yellow, have red lines… Blood?
“Umm…”
A hand stretched out to take a closer look.
As soon as it touched my mother, she snorted and leaned towards me.
Slowly rubbing her cheek,
Wagging her tail little by little.
Then,
“Mom?!”
It was weakened.
Little by little, unable to withstand the force of her wriggling tail, she tilted to the right, to the point where she fell.
“Ha, ha? Ah…”
My mother, who seemed very surprised and was breathing heavily while clinging to my body, quickly got away from me,
He adjusted her dress and roughly rubbed her face as if washing her face.
Why? The parts it touches are so cold that they tingle.
Even when she felt a little uncomfortable, her body was still warm.
But now, there was a coldness that was too severe to be blamed on my mood.
“Where… Does it hurt?”
“…I’m not sick. I just…Had trouble sleeping a little too much.”
A big yawn immediately follows the words.
The breath she let out while covering her mouth.
It must not be winter now, so why is white steam escaping?
Why does the hand that lightly wipes away the welling tears shine so exceptionally?
“I’m sorry for surprising you.
… And then, she swung her claws c-“
Lean.
This time, I couldn’t stop that long body from falling.
I had to watch before my eyes the orange eyes of the pale face slowly rise and close.
“Um, Mom? Mom?”
– Boom.
A heavy sound caught the attention of people who were cautiously passing through the hallway.
Everyone is me. No, she was looking at her mother.
I was looking at the dragon… Who was lying down and not moving.
Why did my mother’s words, which said that dragons are a very precious material for wizards, suddenly reach my ears?
Why does there seem to be a very familiar greed in their eyes?
“Hey, I’ll help you – “
“No, I am.”
“What are you? I saw it first?”
In an instant, chaos unfolded before my eyes.
Some people were trying to leave in a hurry,
Those who were watching closely were already exchanging harsh words and purring.
Maybe it’s because those words came to mind.
Or maybe it’s because those eyes that glance at me and my mother to check even in the middle of a fight are so cruel.
“Keuung – “
I lifted her mother with all my might and tried to get her back into the room I had come in from.
Surprisingly, my mother, with her large body, found it easy for me.
Because it was so long, it felt like it would stumble to the side – but still.
Somehow I was able to get over the room door.
At the same time –
“Laughing?!”
The tail moved of its own accord and wrapped itself around my body.
To say it was strange, both the hugged body and the curled tail were so cold that they were terrifying.
Why is it that the stiff body of her grandmother, who died after being hit by the winter wind, comes to mind now?
“Anyway, your intentions are all the same. Even if a single scale falls from a dragon, there are people who will hide it by saying they are so cool – “
“You are trying to go to the dragon’s side with a very sacred purpose?
Do you think no one knows that it was you who acted like this as soon as they heard the news that the dragon had arrived?”
It was noisy.
I was already holding my mom,
Rather than offering help, they only talked about their mother’s scales.
Then,
“Hey, aren’t these scales?”
Someone picked up something that looked like a red and transparent gem from where my mother had fallen.
Definitely, it was my mother’s.
Holding in his hand what may have fallen from her tail,
The man was looking around and smiling faintly.
Then –
“Light!”
A blinding white flash exploded, and soon a loud noise filled the hallway.
The voices and shouts of those chanting magic came out so harshly that they could penetrate the loud sound made by the magic.
So, it was closed.
Is this the kind of person my mother said she didn’t like?
That’s how greedy they are for researching magic.
How much worse would it be for the knights to kill her mother and take everything away from her?
The mother in her arms, still shivering as if she was cold.
Even the color of the lips turns blue,
Hair that should be shiny, like the red dress she always wears, has lost its shine a long time ago.
Maybe her mother’s hair has been like this ever since I left her mother cold in the forest and walked away.
Then, the reason her body turned into ice like this is,
The sweat you shed freezes as soon as it forms –
“…Fire that embraces warmth.
A gentle fire that neither harms nor devours.”
I remembered the fireball my mother gave me one day and floated it on her hand.
With a sharp tip, rather than gorging on fuel –
I remembered the warmth that was fading away as I gently embraced my own warmth.
Holding it in my arms,
And before I knew it, he turned his body towards me and placed me in my mother’s crouching arms.
– City profit…
Is it not enough?
Is my mom much more sick than I thought?
The soft fire was extinguished, making a noise as if there was no way to burn it at this level.
Even if I held it again, the same result came out.
“Let’s put it down somehow for now – “
The moment I was about to put down the blanket, wondering if it could cover my mother.
“Cold, cold – “
My mother’s body bounced roughly with a coughing sound, causing me to fall.
Luckily, my body was facing the bed, so I was able to fall down on the soft bed…
“Huh, huh, huh…”
Mom let out white breath that I couldn’t even cover up anymore, and snuggled into me even more.
The cold tail stopped wrapping, but instead it was trying to squeeze in between the two bodies that were touching.
But maybe it’s because I’m a bit used to the cold.
Or is it because I have become insensitive due to the cold?
I felt like my body was getting a little warmer than before.
Every time I rub my back with my hand,
Every time I put more force on the tail and attached myself to it, I felt like I could feel heat in the part I touched.
That’s why it was time to warm up a little more.
“Ha, ha. I think I can help you.”
The door opened loudly and what appeared was a person who seemed to have something wrong with his eyes.
There was a mess behind him as he came limping with glowing green eyes and hands.
From the person who covered the wound with blood flowing from the corner of the mouth,
To gather something with trembling hands –
“That…Is mine…!”
There was even a student whose head was grabbed by his staggering hand and hit hard on the floor.
A terrible tragedy had unfolded in the hallway.
Even, it seemed like there were a lot more people gathered than the three I first saw.
“It looks like the dragon is very sick, don’t worry.
Looking at it this way, I am a student with quite excellent grades at this academy – “
I was also out of my mind.
With his eyes looking slightly red, I slowly gathered mana into his hands and prepared a spell to push him away.
“The tail… There are a lot of dead scales… hahahaha, heh, hahahaha…!
Fools, here you go – “
Eyes gone crazy with greed.
Do you not even know who you are talking about?
“Bara who broke the window – “
So, that moment when I tried to emit magic from my hand as if whispering.
The door that was creaking opened even harder, and someone wearing a dark blue robe quickly opened a book and waved a wand.
“Tie it up!”
The light that extended like the color of the clothes he was wearing caught him in an instant,
Even the mouth that was about to open was tied up in an instant and dragged out of the room.
“Excuse me.”
Someone who couldn’t even see their face quickly lowered their head and gently closed the door and locked it.
After the harsh sound of the key being inserted and removed, the surroundings became truly quiet.
And then…
– Rumbling.
I could see that the sound of thunder resembling a mother’s growl was loud and resounding.
It was still raining outside.
The raindrops occasionally hitting the window were also there.
These were all things I couldn’t hear because of the noise outside.
“Ugh…”
Mom was still snuggling into me, letting out her soft moans from time to time.
With her trembling hands in his arms, his blue lips showing no signs of returning –
She depended on me like that.
Once again, the principal’s words rang in my ears.
The words that her mother had been persecuted for too long remained heavy in her heart.
Before she knew it, the mana she had poured into her hand was glowing red.
The magic I tried to use had nowhere to go, so it just wrapped around my hand.
“I wonder if I can do it like this…”
At first, I tried to light a fire, but then I suddenly remembered the treatment I had received.
That’s why I pushed it into her mother’s body-
“Huh…”
More cold air flowed from the mouth.
At that moment, I was afraid that this method might be wrong.
The tail was getting warm.
The more I put it in, the warmer my body became, and I was able to relax.
The closer I got to touching her face and touching her lips with my hands, the more I was able to relax as they regained their original color.
But still the mother could not open her eyes.
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The arms that held me were still cold.
…I felt like I would have to stay like this for a while.
Even for my lonely mother, for her sick mother.
