Chapter 118.2

“At the time… we were locked up, but we had fun. You and your brother were so cute.”

Mom laughed again for a long time, as if she remembered it.

“Come to think of it, Ellin told me to be careful. Then she looked at me and asked me to protect her children, and if it goes on, her children will fall apart. She only believes in me.”

“Fall apart?”

“Yes. I heard it could be because of the bad energy. She said the children could change and act weird.”

“Ah…”

Was it the reason why Lexit was acting strange?

“Ellin had spoken for such a long time…”

“Huh?”

“When I saw that, I felt guilty. She said that it was okay, that since I’m taking care of everyone, she can leave now… I’m taking care of her family, but I feel so guilty.”

“…”

“When you say that I should be happy… am I doing the right thing? Is it okay to be like this? I can’t help but think about that. I can’t help but feel guilty even if I’ve been asked to stay.”

Tears fell from my mother’s eyes.

She quickly wiped the corners of her eyes as she trembled.

“Bebe, I’m scared.”

“Are you afraid that people will curse us? Are you scared that you’ll replace the mother who gave birth to me?”

“It’s…”

“It’s not your fault. These are the things that a mother can have. There’s no one blaming you for wanting what you can have. You can be greedy. You’re a person. You’re alive, Mom.”

These reactions were understandable since she was a mother who had rarely enjoyed life. She was afraid because she even knew the mother who gave birth to me, talked to her, so it must be hard to know it.

But my mom is scared that having this position will make everyone more unhappy. She must be thinking, ‘Is it okay for me to be in this position?’

“Bebe…”

“No one will curse someone who didn’t get to be happy, so be happy, Mom.”

“I…”

“Why should we continue to be unhappy, Mom? That’s why the mother who gave birth to me showed up. Don’t feel guilty anymore and live as the mother of my pony brother and the wife of my father, just as you have been living as Bebe’s mother in her stead. That’s it.”

Maybe it was just her dream; a dream that my mother dreamed to forget her guilt.

But it didn’t matter if it was.

“You can be happy. You know, Mom, I don’t know how adults feel.”

Well, actually, I don’t know anyone’s mind except for mine. I don’t even know my own heart, so how could I know how other people felt?

“Still, I understand that my mother who gave birth to me… had to let you know how she felt in your dreams. Mom, what you had wasn’t just a dream. She… she really is the mother who gave birth to me.”

“That’s…”

“So, don’t feel guilty anymore. I asked my mom for us.”

“Well, that’s what I wanted to hear, Bebe. I really needed to hear that.”

My mother held me in her arms, before she cried again.

I had to feel an unknown emotion in my mother’s arms. Really, could my mother who gave birth to me… do that…?

I couldn’t explain it, but I didn’t understand the whole situation until now.

Fortunately, my mom gradually regained stability in my arms without saying much. Of course, she cried, but later fell asleep as if she had lost her energy.

I spent so much time with my mom by the window until dawn, patting her on her back.

By the time the dawn wind felt cold and I started to doze off, I felt someone throw something at us.

It was a blanket.

“Ah…”

“In case you’re cold.”

It was Sylvie who had woken up.

“Sylvie.”

“Yes?”

“Did you hear all of that?”

At those words, Sylvie, who brought a chair in front of us and sat down, made a strange expression. It was as if he knew.

“Huh?”

“What do you want to know?”

“Just… everything? You know something, right?”

“Uh…”

Sylvie tilted his head as he sat on the chair with one leg raised, like he was bored.

“Like, why do people here think I’m a human and don’t remember me as a puppy? About your mom? About the mother who gave birth to you? About the stupid twins who became the victim of dark magic? What are you curious about?”

As I thought which question to ask first, I blinked for a moment.

“Were you under dark magic?”

“Ah, except for that.”

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