Chapter 118.1

Today, I just wanted to listen to my mom.

My mom used to always sit still and listen to me.

I stared at my mother without saying a word, wondering if it would be enough to comfort her as she talked.

My mother slowly got up and sat down next to me.

The moonlight illuminated the room as if the light had been turned on. Thanks to that, I could see my mother’s expression and her trembling eyelids.

“I don’t know if it’s real or if it’s my dream that I want to be real, but…”

I looked up at my mother like that. Her moist eyes were filled with many emotions. If I had suddenly known this would be the case, I wondered if it wouldn’t be right not to get out of that hellish place?

At that time, her body ached, but not her heart.

But that feeling soon stopped. It was ridiculous to almost lose my mother now after losing her in the past.

“It must be a dream I made up to comfort myself.”

“What kind of dream was it?”

For a long time, my mother was silent. She just stared blankly into the void. Then she looked down at me as if thinking of something.

“Thank you.”

“Is that all?”

“No. In the garden where we often went for a walk, there was Ellin sitting there. She smiled at me, wearing an unusually white dress, with her blonde hair ruffled and her chin resting.”

An unusually white dress and blonde, loose hair.

Maybe it was a misunderstanding, but I feel like I’ve seen it somehow. My mom said I’ve never seen her, but I think I’ve seen her.

“Was she wearing any accessories?”

“Huh? Yes. She usually wears no accessories when I was with her, but this time she was wearing a big bracelet. At the end of the droopy bracelet, it had an unusually mysterious color, as if it contained red drops of blood. It was so vivid… I remember that.”

In an instant, goosebumps appeared all over my body. I had seen her do the same as what my mom said before. It was crazy, but in that room where I had been for quite some time… I saw exactly what my mother said.

My mother, who couldn’t even get up from her seat, was always with me the few times she was able to get up.

“Have you ever seen a drawing of your mom?”

“A drawing…?”

I quickly shook my head at my mother’s face, as if I didn’t know anything.

“Oh, no… so what next? What happened after that?”

“She was talking about you.”

“Talking?”

“Yes. She thanked me for saving her children. I wasn’t able to leave for a long time, but then I could. We talked about various things; about Aster, Lexit and Allen… we talked for a long time.”

Mom’s lips trembled as if thinking of something she missed. She looked unusually sad, so I could do nothing but look at my mother.

“Even though Aster always looks firm, she was always scared when she sleeps so she would hug a rabbit doll made for her when she was young. Lexit would also want to beat his twin, Allen, but he likes Allen so much that he likes to match clothes with him.”

“Ah…”

“He pretends not to care, but he does the same as Allen… He pretends to be bright, but he has a lot of heartache and says he’s better thanks to Bebe. Oh, and she said not to give Bebe a puppy, but I’m not sure what she’s talking about…”

Maybe it was because she had started talking, but my mother began to speak in a more relaxed voice than before.

She didn’t hesitate a bit, as if she was telling a story she had heard.

“A puppy?”

“Yes, but you have no puppies. My youngest daughter isn’t like that, of course.”

My mother tilted her head, as if she didn’t know that Sylvie was a puppy. That’s even stranger.

How can she not know that Sylvie was a puppy?

If my mother really just dreamed as she wanted, she couldn’t have known this.

‘Maybe it’s not a dream.’

The way my mom looked when and what she’s saying now…

“That’s all she said?”

“It’s been a while since we talked, so we talked a lot. It felt like I was back to the past.”

My mother’s face, which looked a bit sad, slowly brightened.

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