Chapter 383 – My Baby (3)
“Then, excuse me.”
“Shake off the dirt and come in.”
Three men and women and a dog visited Helena’s cabin.
It was because of her suggestion to stay overnight as the day was getting darker.
Her house was very simple.
The cutlery was stocked with only the utensils, and there were no decorations at all.
Garlic, peppers, and plums were all hung up to dry.
Shaking off the mud stuck to the soles of his boots, Seo-joon looked around the cramped cabin.
Is this what it means for her to live with nature?
Spiders nested here and there, as well as mice and insects with countless legs, were seen roaming around.
Khuuu- Shane let out an awkward laugh as Karina let out a pained sound.
“Haha···. It’s a bit secluded, isn’t it?”
He has yet to see the face of Seo-joon, the salesman, and Karina properly.
It seemed like he was the type to hide his face from the beginning.
In particular, she is not particularly immune to women—every time Karina did something trivial, she was often startled.
It’s because she looks prettier than most girls…
Kiik-
Sitting on an old wooden chair, Seo-joon poured out questions to Shane as soon as Helena disappeared into the kitchen to serve tea.
“How long have you been here?”
“Uh, that’s… Probably four years. Her mother accepted me as an adopted son and raised me, who was wandering on the side of the road.”
To Seo-jun’s question, Shane mumbles an answer.
Karina, with her legs crossed, muttered while frowning.
“Four years in a place like this…?”
Even though it was a bit rude, Shane just smiled and scratched her head.
Seo-joon put his hand under her stool and tapped Karina’s knee. It meant to be quiet.
Karina blushed her Volga and became quiet—and her dog owner glanced at her and burst out laughing.
Either the two of them or not- Seo-jun smiled lightly and urged Shane to speak more in a soft voice.
The guy, who had been watching the three men and women, calmly continued his conversation.
He replied that he had vague memories of his childhood.
He was always hungry, his clothes were all rags, and he was embarrassed more than once or twice because of his smooth appearance.
After going through it a few times, I spread soot and dirt all over his face and neck.
Thanks to that, the number of men aiming for the guy’s back hole decreased, but the bullying of the gangsters who dominated the slums continued.
The pennies earned by begging for a day and a half, all the time the sun was up – they took it away without mercy.
When he rebelled, he was often beaten up, so he only managed to get a pantsuit or a fairy tale or two tucked under his tongue.
I took the few pennies I earned to the mill and exchanged them for a piece of hard bread.
It was a life he had lived on like that—and Helena was the first to reach out to him like that.
“He is a grateful person… Even if I repay you with my whole life, it won’t be enough.”
“Would you like to reciprocate?”
“···Yes?”
The guy asks back with a stupid face.
The moment Seo-joon was about to say something, Helena just brought tea from the kitchen.
Putting her old wooden cup down in front of each of them, she poured out tea and invited her guests.
“Eat. Licorice tea.”
Seojun nodded her head and drank the hot tea.
A bitter taste spreads in your mouth. Karina also took a sip of tea and made a face that said, “This is okay.”
The number of openings was specified.
Come to think of it, most of the cubs of the side gates were careful not to accept food given to them by others. Since they are filthy bastards, they think others will too.
“The two of you are pretty good. I would believe it even if it was a real mother-son relationship.”
Seojun said that with a smile on his face.
At those words- Shane and Helena made different expressions.
Shane just took it as she liked, but Helena caught the hidden thorn in the sentence.
The word ‘real mother-child relationship’ seemed to point out that they were not in a real mother-son relationship.
“I was raised not to be ashamed of others. At least more than parents who abandoned their children.”
When Helena said that, the air changed quite a bit.
As long as Seojun admitted that he and Shane were her biological brothers, the parents of the two men had no choice but to be the same.
So blaming Shane’s parents was the same as blaming Seo-Jun’s parents.
Uncomfortable air flows.
Shane, who was just laughing, looked at her with an awkward face.
Seo-joon, who had poured tea, asked him again, narrowing his eyes.
“Well, what if it wasn’t thrown away?”
“···Yes?”
It was definitely Shane who reacted more to Seo-joon’s words.
Come to think of it, orphans were common in this era.
Shane was lucky.
There were those who wandered the roadside and became the subjects of mad magicians’ experiments, and there were those who died after being beaten by gangsters. Quite a few people died while being eaten like slaves by those with a bad temper.
However, he met Helena at a relatively young age and grew up without starvation.
Nonetheless, Shane resented her birth parents for her job as a woman.
Because she thought that all her misfortunes had begun with her parents abandoning her.
The thorns under my fingernails hurt more than the big wounds of others.
But what if she found out that her parents, whom she had been resenting so deeply, did not actually abandon her.
Seo-joon started talking about his parents, who would become Shane’s parents.
No – made it up
“My parents were villains in the Imperial War. He resisted the tyranny of the empire – and because of that, he was living a life of being chased. Every day was a crisis. But even in such a crisis, love sprouts. My parents had me – a few years later they had you again. Truly, they were good noblemen.”
Shane’s eyes were so fervent that he had never seen them before – he looked straight at Seo-joon.
As much as she had been resentful, she must have missed her parents again.
She would have dreamed of her father’s broad shoulders when she was beaten by gangsters and shed tears;
What Seo-joon said was nothing more than giving him the indulgence he had been secretly hoping for.
It was nothing more than whispering sweet words after holding the paper and pen called indulgences.
“Her mother – always whispered the words I love you, kissing her on your eyelids, Shane. I was very jealous, so I pinched your thighs and twisted her nose to make her cry. He was such a bad guy. Even though I knew how hard life was for them…”
Tears welled up in Shane’s eyes.
The mysterious yellow eyes that resemble my mother’s are watery.
“It was one rainy night when I lost you.”
Seojun took out a full ring from his front pocket.
Unlike the one hanging around Shane’s neck-, it was an item made by weaving the stems of an ordinary evening primrose.
But Shane’s red eyes stared straight at a full ring that looked just like her own.
“There was a raid. More than a dozen bounty hunters turned their eyes to the bounty on their parents and joined hands. That day we hid in a half-collapsed cave from the rain, and there was no way out.”
Seo-joon put the full ring on the table and continued talking calmly.
“My father threw himself down to save us. He acted as a bait himself, rolled up his clothes thickly and hugged the two children as if he were holding them in his arms, exiting the cave and running straight through the mountain road. Hunters pursued his father. Mother swallowed her tears, hugged the two of us, and ran in opposite directions. Thunder struck – the sky brightened white from time to time. The wind was very strong that day. Her mother’s black hair fluttered in all directions—and tripped over tree roots again and again. Her elbows are cut and her toenails are broken. She still ran and ran. I heard my father’s screams of pain in the distance—and I finally cried out in fear.”
Seo-joon said he was truly sorry- and squeezed the back of Shane’s hand with a sad smile.
Swallowing his cries, he continued his silent words.
“It was all because of me. You were very young at the time and you were calm, but I couldn’t. My mother hid the quiet you in a safe bush and ran away with me to a farther place. If you were caught because of my crying, I wanted you to be safe too. Fortunately we were not caught. It was thanks to the sound of rain blocking my cries. But when the rain stopped and I came back…”
When he couldn’t keep his back and covered his face with a devastated feeling, this time the guy covered his hand and comforted him.
“It’s okay···. Are you okay···.”
Shane cried.
She wept deeply.
Seo-joon held his brother’s shoulder and wept together.
Each other’s tears soaked the front of the room, and the room was filled with only the sound of the two men crying and the dog panting.
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[This bastard’s acting has improved haha]
[I watched the new drama well haha]
[No, if you look only at this part, it’s a touching true story?]
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ The reality is grouping]
[Oh, Karina, is that bitch crying? Lol]
[That bitch looks good with a crying expression]
[Yes, please make me cry more]
[Laughs] Tears shed up and down while getting stuck like a dog by a bastard, please.]
