Chapter 243 – 15.22 Mysterious Beautiful Girl 4
I ignored the sister’s stinging glance and boldly continued the conversation.
“The corpse of her eldest daughter wasn’t enough, and she even sent her younger daughter alive. What do you think? Is it a bonus?”
-Ta, daughter, not Aoi!
“Ao means the new little girl. Whoops. Hes a cute kid Do you like it.”
When she said it with a lot of sincerity, Aoi hid behind her sister’s back.
Mmm. She didn’t mean to scare me.
Akane glared at me with terrifying eyes.
It’s just a compliment, so please don’t look at me that way.
-Ah, Aoi is not like that! Give Aoi back!
“You want it back? Haha. If anyone hears it, they’ll know that it was forcibly kidnapped.”
Akane, she heard that she sold her dead body for money. Aoi doesn’t seem to be like that either.
Akane, the rune holder, and Aoi, the commoner, are different even though they are the same daughter.
-Then what the hell…
“Aoi followed with her own feet? She just said she would let me meet my sister.”
I felt like a trash parent when I heard Ao talking on the phone next to her.
Talking on the phone like this made me feel like a father with an ordinary daughter.
– What, what? That voice just now was also Akane!
“Okay. It’s Akane. The eldest daughter you sold. I’m next to you right now, would you like to talk on the phone? Isn’t it an impressive father-daughter reunion?”
She asks Akane if she wants to talk to her father with her glance.
Akane frowned and shook her head. She doesn’t seem to want to mix things up.
-Nice… It’s a lie. Akane is dead!
“She must have wanted to believe she was dead,” She said. I don’t want to hear about the father who sold her daughter. Kuk-kuk-kuk.”
I pass Akane and see Aoi.
Aoi also shakes her head following her sister.
However, since Aoi is an important party, she cannot avoid the conversation.
“Then, girl named Aoi.”
“Yes yes?”
“What are you going to do? Would you like to go back to the evil father who sold her daughter for money? Or would you like to stay here with her sister?”
-Aoi! Do not listen! It’s all a blatant lie!
“I-I…”
Aoi was hesitating.
In my mind, I want to stay. But then she becomes a nuisance to Akane and me. She couldn’t do this or that.
“Aoi doesn’t seem to want to go back, do you?”
-Aoi. You are cheating now Akane is dead It’s not your sister there!
The old man over the receiver shouted so loudly that even Aoi could hear it.
“… Father.”
Aoi, who had been silent, opened her mouth.
“Really my sister… Akane, did you sell her sister?”
– Ugh… !
“Father. Please answer me. Did you really sell your sister?”
Aoi wasn’t angry, just sad.
After not answering for a while, Aoi’s father finally answered.
-… Sorry.
“Black… !”
Aoi was sobbing.
Disappointment. Despair. Sadness. Resentment. All sorts of negative emotions surround Aoi.
Akane silently hugged Aoi.
-I’m sorry, Aoi. Because he’s such an ugly kid… But then there was no other way. There is no other way to protect you and your mother… !
Aoi’s father swallowed his anger and continued the story.
-I didn’t tell you, but my business… It didn’t go well… There was no money at home. Even Akane’s funeral was paid for with borrowed money. At that time, everything was on the verge of collapse…
– You can think of me as an incompetent father. However, I did not casually sell Akane’s body. Just know that If I could sell it, I would have sold my soul. But by chance, such an offer came in… It was a lot of money that I couldn’t refuse…
– Akane. Listen if you are there too. Whether you’re real or not, don’t say this. I’m sorry that I couldn’t hold your corpse until the end. But aren’t you a part of our family too? Wasn’t it a pleasure for you to help your family at least on the way to the end?
Akane bit his lip and trembled at him.
She was struggling to hold back her tears.
“It’s Tsukimiya. You have a long tongue.”
I couldn’t listen any longer.
“As expected, I can’t send Aoi back to those incompetent parents. I’ll send you the same money as Akane did.”
-What?! Aoi is a living person! Treated like a corpse——
“I said Akane was alive too! This tortoiseshell!”
-…
I screamed, and the old man shut his mouth.
“Joy. Well, good She says she won’t sell her living daughter, so she’ll let Akane back as well. Instead, prepare a penalty of 10 times the price of the corpse.”
-What?! Isn’t that a scam! It was written in the contract that the penalty was doubled!
Was there such a thing as a contract?
Besides, what is the double penalty? It’s not a multi-level thing.
I don’t mean to say that I threw 10 times.
“Twice? That’s the story when you return it with the same corpse. Aren’t you the one who said that a living person and a corpse are not the same? Or is it a waste of money to save and return the dead daughter?”
-That… But suddenly, such a large amount of money…
“Good. If you don’t have money, you only get twice as much as the contract. How is it?”
-… Right now, I can’t come up with the money. Give it time.
“Then I will keep the daughters until the money is ready.”
– Wait, wait!
I don’t know how much money I received for Akane’s body.
Still, if you listen to the story, it won’t be easy to arrange that double right away. Business doesn’t seem to be going well either.
“Or there is a wonderful business in this country called usury. They might introduce you to a good job where you can pay off at least Ao.”
-Aoi, please return only Aoi! Please. He is still a child!
“I hate this, I hate that too. And in the end, only ask for Aoi back? Isn’t that too shameless?”
-Kuh…
“Well, okay. If Aoi himself wants to go back, he will let you go back. We are not particularly interested in ordinary people.”
Aoi was still hugged by Akane.
But the atmosphere was calmer than before.
Conversely, I felt as if Akane was being comforted by Aoi.
“Aoi. Do you really want to go back to having a father like that? Or will you just stay here?”
Round eyes look at me.
It is clear and pure snow. I felt as if the dust had been washed away, probably because it was after I cried.
Aoi answered calmly.
“I will go back.”
-Aoi… !
The old man is thrilled with Aoi’s answer.
But Aoi’s words weren’t over yet.
“Even if he is incompetent, he is my father. No matter how incompetent and inhuman the father is to the point of selling his daughter’s corpse, and that he might even sell me later… Just like Akane’s older sister is still my family, my father is also my family…”
-Heuk… Aoi… !
I couldn’t tell if it was out of excitement or out of frustration.
However, her father’s feelings of hearing such words from his always docile daughter would not have been so comfortable.
“Father instead. Give me just one day today. I need time to break up with my sister.”
-Oh, aoi? But Akane…
“It doesn’t matter if you are real or not. I want to clear my mind.”
-…
Aoi asserted her thoughts to her father with a completely different look from what she had been passive about until now.
You’ve grown up, Aoi.
I’ll have to check later to see if the other places have grown too.
It seemed that Aoi’s story had come to an end, so I decided to intervene.
“Joy. It’s good that you have a daughter with a sane mind unlike her parents, Tsukimiya.”
-… What are you going to do with your daughter?
“The ‘organization’ only keeps the contract. Her daughter will be returned tomorrow as she promised.”
-To my daughter, if I ever touched even one of her fingertips…
“Keuk. I can’t believe that’s what the man who sold her daughter’s body said.”
– Ugh… !
“Take it easy. Unlike Akane, Aoi has no value.”
I said while gently stroking Aoi’s head.
Above all, Aoi is a minor.
Unlike Akane, she can’t be touched, so she’s a rice cake. It’s like having no value.
The old man, who was silent for a moment, opened his mouth heavily.
-Akane is… What are you doing there? Are you really alive?
“Joy. Are you interested in the daughter you sold?”
Akane is still holding Aoi and burying her face.
Expression was not visible.
“Maybe you better not listen? It’s not something parents should listen to. Kuk-kuk-kuk.”
My daughter is surviving on the semen of another man.
Her head might explode if I heard such a thing.
-… If I could tell Akane her story… As for Akane, really… I’m sorry. Only… Just tell me that
“I hate to hear…”
Akane’s voice faded.
She probably hadn’t even heard of her father.
“I’m sorry, but Akane doesn’t seem to want to hear that much. She was thinking of letting Akane meet her if she wanted to meet her someday, but she thought it would be difficult to meet her again for a while. I’m sorry, Tsukimiya. I’ll happily take care of Akane like her daughter instead of her, so she told me not to worry too much. Kukkeuk!”
What is the man over the receiver thinking right now?
Regret? Sorry? Helplessness? Shame?
Even if you put all of that together, it probably won’t reach the misery that Akane feels.
If Akane is that angry, it would be nice if she at least cursed at me.
She is a stupid woman
“Anyway, I’ll send Aoi back tomorrow. And it would be better not to spill this story outside. Our ‘institution’ can bring the dead back to life, but in fact, the opposite case is more special. Guwahaha——!!”
Beep.
I ended up laughing out loud and hung up on her.
“Okay, okay? I earned a day anyway.”
Poof, I throw the turned off phone to Aoi.
Aoi received it in a hurry.
“Huh? How are you, Akane?”
Knock knock.
Tap Akane’s shoulder with her finger.
Akane didn’t answer.
Instead, Akane separated from Aoi and hugged me.
The arm holding my waist was weak, unlike Akane’s.
The area around the pit was wet.
“Fool… Fool…”
Akane whispering with her face buried in my arms.
She wants whoever she’s talking about.
I silently stroked Akane’s back.
She accidentally got her hand down to her hip and got a one-inch punch to her side.
It’s because you only get energy when you hit me.
