My Daughters Have Regressed - Chapter 188



188 – Mother and Daughter #8

188 – Mother and daughter #8

“Nari, it was a good match! But Naru will win the next match! Let’s compete with Naru again! When… Maybe in about 6 years… !”

Naru hugged the little raccoon girl Nari.

Nari said, “Hey, let go of this! “Don’t hug me like you want!” She said angrily, but she didn’t really push Naru away.

Pot-.

Naru fell from her seat and hugged Ms. Naguri’s thighs are hers, her now healthy tanned skin is beautiful.

“Thank you for saving Naru last time! Naru, I tried so hard to return her favor, but it didn’t work out! But I’m glad she’s healthy!”

Mrs. Naguri smiled as she looked at Naru and stroked her hair as if tousling it.

“It is a human child. Are you feeling any pain now? Is there nothing to be sad about anymore? If so, you’re lucky. Come visit the forest anytime. Anytime.”

“Yes!”

Rummaging around-.

Mrs. Naguri rummaged through her leather bag with her hands. Then, she took out something that looked like a small particle and placed it on Naru’s her her her her.

“This is a seed of a lily flower. When a flower grows, it emits a very ephemeral yet beautiful scent. Just like the lives of people who lose short…”

“Naru, I’ll try to make the flowers bloom well this time!”

Naru, holding the seed in her hand, gave her raccoon mother and daughter a good hug once again before returning to us. They say breakups are always very awkward.

Mrs. Naguri’s eyes were now focused on Brigitte.

Bridgette felt her gaze and scratched the bridge of her nose with her finger.

“… My mother, Nari, it was a fun time. “I will probably never forget the experiences of yesterday and today.”

Around Brigitte saying that, small raccoons were running around on the grass, falling and fawning.

It was warm and cozy, like a scene from a fairy tale.

Mrs. Naguri placed her hand on her heart and elegantly opened her lips and spoke.

“Thank you for helping me get better. I don’t know how much time I have left, but if possible, I want to live as this child’s mother, however clumsily.”

“Okay. Good for you. It went really well.”

Brigitte’s eyes were slightly wet with emotion.

Could it be that Nari’s mother and daughter are crying with joy that their hearts are in sync with each other?

Mrs. Naguri placed her hand on her sister’s shoulder. While she was thinking that the mother and daughter really looked alike, the woman who was a big raccoon laughed.

“I think there are some things that cannot be helped. I just didn’t want her daughter to have the same life as me. In the end, she decided to walk the same path as me… “What is good about what I have been doing?”

“… Well, parents always seem like great people to children…In reality, that’s not the case. Although we looked like adults, we were still clumsy…”

Brigitte’s face now looked slightly bitter. But it was just a fleeting moment.

Brigitte said brightly again, tickling her fingertips hanging from her own waist.

“I think we should confront each other head-on as mother and daughter. Well then, goodbye everyone, until we meet again someday.”

“Nari, hello! Give my regards to Makana too! Next time, we’ll compete properly! “Goodbye, little raccoons!”

Bung bung- Bung bung bung-.

Naru waved her hand enthusiastically at her forest friends.

The next time Naru comes here and plays with her children, a lot will have changed.

Naru was looking forward to that time so much that she trembled as if she didn’t know what to do.

“It was a fun time!”

I guess so.

I was glad that Naru and Brigitte had a meaningful time, but looking back, in the end, I didn’t really do anything this time.

But what… , I guess the essence of traveling is to just relax without doing anything else.

As she walked with those thoughts in mind, she soon found herself out of the forest.

It’s already 7pm.

Out of the two days given to us, only about four hours remain.

Now, shall we go back? While I was thinking about that, Brigitte said.

“Hey, if I have some time left, there’s a place I’d like to stop by. Is that okay? Naru, are you very tired? “It’s almost time for dinner.”

“No! Naru, I’m very active!”

Pot-.

Naru stood in the middle and extended her hand to Bridgette and me.

The hand Naru was holding was very small and soft.

Would this be exactly what it would feel like to have warm buds?

It feels like it will break if I apply even a little bit of force… Therefore, it was like a small flower that required a lot of sweat and effort to bloom.

Suddenly I remembered the old days.

I’m a pretty heartless person, so it was okay to some extent to be far away from my family.

Even when rolling around on this continent of Pangea, there were times when I thought about my mother, father, and younger sister, but I just wanted to see them in a normal way.

Maybe I missed the comfort of the 21st century more than my family.

─Ah, I am less affectionate than I thought and have no love for my family─.

Originally, the most precious thing in my life was always ‘me’.

At least I thought so.

However, the moment I saw Naru for the first time, I treasured the child named ‘Naru’ a little more than ‘me’. It got to the point where I thought I could abandon myself for Naru.

I don’t know why.

I heard that even hedgehogs say their babies are soft, so maybe that’s the case.

“Naru, you are a hedgehog.”

“Naru is not a hedgehog! Naru is Naru! Naru Baryuda! Daughter of father Judah and mother Brigitte! I had so much fun today and yesterday! I wish every day was like today. Every day!”

Heehee, it was Naru who was laughing.

Soon Naru looked at Brigitte and asked.

“So where are you going now?”

“… That’s right.”

Brigitte seemed a little hesitant.

She even seemed scared.

Does Brigitte, the strongest wizard in the world, have anything to fear now?

Kuwoouk-.

When Brigitte’s hand, which was holding Naru’s hand, felt strength growing, Brigitte said softly to Naru.

“Naru, courage give to her mother.”

“Yes!”

“Space. Cut. Door. Open.”

Brigitte quickly finished chanting the four words.

Soon a round door appeared in front of us.

What is at the end of this inquiry?

As I was imagining the beyond, Brigitte took a step. We followed those steps and moved toward the door and road leading to a distant dimension.

Hwaa-.

Many things were shining and dazzling.

However, our steps were smooth and we were finally able to pass through the passage of light and arrive at what looked like a lobby with a red carpet.

The lobby of a mansion.

It was a place with a familiar corner.

And there was something quite familiar about the silver hair of the people who started to appear as if surrounding us.

“… Brigitte.”

“Sister Friede. There’s also Gudrid.”

It seems that the last thing Brigitte wanted to visit was her parents’ house. I never thought Bridget would take her first steps to this place.

“Brigitte, what are you doing here?”

Gudrid, Brigitte’s third older sister and a slightly cold-hearted wizard, asked through her glasses. Then Brigitte answered simply.

“This was my home too. Isn’t it time to eat now? It wouldn’t be difficult to get three seats at that long table. “It’s a needlessly large and spacious house.”

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“…”

Nodding.

Gaju Friede bowed her head to me and said, “Then this way.”

She headed to the restaurant, and as Brigitte said, she was preparing dinner, and all kinds of food were laid out on a long table with candles.

Brigitte asked as people sat down one by one and started eating.

“Bathory… “Who is that woman?”

At those words, her third sister Gudrid clicked her tongue.

“We haven’t had a meal together in months. He doesn’t come out of his room. You have to prepare a separate meal and leave it in front of the door. Otherwise, you won’t eat anything.”

“Okay. “If so, is it okay if I brought you that meal today?”

Brigitte asked in a calm voice.

Soon all the silver-haired members of the Walpurgis family looked at each other.

A small upset that seems embarrassing.

Soon, matriarch Friede slowly nodded.

“… Yes, because you are your mother’s daughter too.”

# # # #

Togak, ttogak.

The sound of Brigitte’s shoes echoed through the cold stone-walled hallway.

As a child, this hallway felt too wide, unnecessarily long, and dark.

I was always afraid that there might be a ghost at the end of that hallway.

This hallway still felt eerie.

Kuuuk.

Brigitte held Naru’s hand tighter.

Strangely enough, having a child by my side gave me courage.

I feel like I can understand the feelings of mother cats attacking a lion.

In front of a certain door we finally reached.

It was a room where you could feel the cool chill through the gap even though the door was closed.

Knock-.

Bridgette knocked on her door.

Then I heard a voice from inside.

━Leave it in front.

Bridget’s heart trembled slightly at the sound of that voice.

She felt like leaving the tray in her hands on the floor and going back, but she couldn’t because Naru was next to her.

Naru learns many things from Brigitte.

Knock-.

She knocked on the door again.

━Even if you put it in front of me and tell me to phlegm.

“Mom, it’s me.”

━… You…

The room fell into silence for a moment.

A few seconds.

When I was wondering if there was a time in the past few days that Brigitte had spent where I felt the passage of a second so carefully-.

Clap-.

It’s a profit.

The visit was held.

━Come in.

“…”

Brigitte opened the door and went in.

It was a room with a cool, winter-like chill.

Even Naru sneezed, “Etchwi.”

There was a bed in the middle of the room, and a scrawny old man was sitting on it, wearing white silk pajamas like a ghost.

Her hair was messy and her wrinkles were deep.

Brigitte, who was a little surprised to see the woman looking haggard and older than she remembered, soon composed herself and placed the tray in her hand on a nearby table.

“Why did you come?”

A woman who seemed to be at the end of her life asked calmly.

The cold shadow of illness was felt in that trembling voice.

In many ways, Brigitte wanted to return to a warm place, but she gathered her courage and spoke.

“… Because you are my mother.”

“You are the one who left, saying that I am not your mother and this house is not your family. You shamelessly destroyed the mansion with a stone… Cough, Cough!”

“…”

“You must feel relieved because you saw me dying. If you have any last words to say, say them. Because the next time we meet, I won’t be in this world.”

“… I want to receive an apology from my mom. “If she felt sorry for me, she should tell me she’s sorry now.”

“Do you want to show off your pride now?”

“No. Because I want Naru to remember. Because I also look like her mom her. After all, your blood flows through me too, so I might fight against Naru someday.”

“…”

“But, I came here because I hope Naru will extend her hand to me just as I first extended her hand to reconcile with my mother. “I came because I want Naru to remember this day someday.”

The old woman, Bathory, looked at the girl who was busy looking around while holding her mother’s hand.

It was a face that resembled her daughter.

When Bathory first saw the girl named Inaru, she recognized at a glance that this child was her daughter, given birth to her by her own daughter.

Although she didn’t show it.

Mrs. Bathory said.

“… You have been in a lot of pain since you were in my stomach. Your father was from a strange land. “You were very young when you caught the disease of a strange land.”

“… That means…”

“You are not the daughter of this Walpurgis. You are the child I gave birth to after falling in love with a man from another world. At least I think so. Faust thought so too. Of course, it may not be true, but…”

Bathory’s husband, Faust, was a ruthless man.

He was trying to get rid of Brigitte, who may or may not be his daughter.

However, rather than taking his own hands his, he used his wife for her sins and forced him to punish his own daughter.

Because that was punishing both her wife and Brigitte at the same time.

“… I mean I ended up falling in love with something that just flew around on a spring day like a butterfly. Knowing how fleeting those little flaps of wings are… Even though we know that sometimes it causes a big storm…”

“…”

“You too, I guess. Brigitte, do you love that man? If possible, don’t do that. Everyone around you could get hurt. “It’s a path I’ve already been on, so what I say is correct.”

Bathory coughed repeatedly and lay down on the bed.

Then she closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep.

“What… Under…”

Brigitte seemed a little angry at the old woman’s stubborn attitude of hers.

However, she showed herself in her noble demeanor. And at the same time, she overlapped with her childhood.

What would it have been like if I could have heard this story as a child?

If only I had been able to learn and listen to her mom a little more…

“I’ll come again next time. Apologies, I haven’t heard it yet. Until then, don’t die on your own.”

Brigitte left the room.

Togak, ttogak.

As she walked down the quiet, wide hallway again, she suddenly realized.

‘I guess I wasn’t the only one who felt like this mansion was a prison.’

When she thought like that, she no longer had any fear of ghosts appearing.

This was just a building.

An unusually large and slightly cold building.

Brigitte had hated this coldness for a long time, so she waved her hand with a feeling of lightness.

Then, lily flowers, giving off soft light and warmth, bloomed between the cold stone walls.

“It’s much prettier than before!”

Naru shouted.

Bridgette also moved the corners of her stiff mouth and smiled.

“I think so too.”