Chapter 254 – Ending (1)
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When you arrive home after a long trip of about two weeks, you feel the desire to lie down on the bed without washing properly. I’m sure my mom will hit me on the back and scold me, but I can’t help but want to lie down in the cozy bed that has been empty for a long time.
Mattresses, bed covers, pillows, wallpaper, etc. That you normally wouldn’t be impressed with will look better than ever. You will feel like you have regained something precious.
Just when she finally gets the feeling that everything is going right, her mom comes in and raises her voice.
“I told you to wash and lie down!”
Only then do I get up and wash away the memories of my trip with warm water and the body wash I always used. The smell and excitement of a foreign country seeps into the scent of spring flowers and leaves through the drain.
I chuckle as I look at my slightly tanned skin through the mirror, which has become cloudy due to the shower, and when I wipe off the steam with my palm and look at my face clearly,
Strangely enough, my face feels unfamiliar compared to before.
When that happens, I feel proud and strangely sad,
I think it’s probably because it reminds me of memories from the past that will never come back.
I’ve lost count of how many days have passed since I left home. I think it will be at least another year, but I wasn’t sure.
However, the softness of the bed and the cozy smell of the house still felt slowly. Because of the familiarity of not having to open my eyes, I couldn’t get up right away and ended up lying down for a while.
What woke me up was another feeling of familiarity amidst familiarity. The smell of cigarettes, which had been with me the whole time, passed my nose and was waiting for me.
“…”
I couldn’t stand the welcome acridness any longer and had to open my eyes and look directly into the room with Helen’s face.
“Helen, are you okay?”
Her torn arm and wounds were treated well and death no longer appeared in her. I don’t know what she was talking about with the red girl, but luckily she didn’t seem to have given up on her life yet.
Instead, she seemed to be very tired and fell asleep right next to me. She was so solemn that she didn’t even look like she was going to talk in her sleep, so seeing her so disheveled and wheezing made me feel like she had reverted to being a baby.
When I turned my eyes and looked at the room, I saw that it had been preserved as I had left it, not a single speck of dust remained. As if asking when he left. As if he had been waiting for me all along.
“Mom.”
Knowing full well who was in charge of the room, I had to leave the room first, leaving Helen lying on her bed. There was someone I had to meet first.
Because I know who the familiar gestures that I feel from the kitchen refer to,
There was no more waiting.
“Mom!”
As she hurriedly walked out and called her mother, she heard the sound of pieces of metal falling to the floor.
There,
My mother was standing there awkwardly, shaking with her kitchen knife, wondering if there had been a thief.
The mother, a little older than she had been in her dreams,
As her wrinkles increased, tears immediately began to well up around her eyes,
I couldn’t get her words out properly, and she couldn’t even run to me and hug me,
Her legs became weak, and she just sat there and cried for a long time.
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I’m not sure where to start, but first, I’ll try to write down what happened after that as honestly as possible. It was absurd and disgusting, but it was also a meaningful time, so I think it would be good to keep a record.
First, while I was hugging her mother and crying without covering up my tears, a thought occurred to me.
‘It’s good that we met again, but what should I do now?’
The clothes and cape I was wearing were an exotic outfit that was difficult to see even at cosplay events, and in the room, there was a woman from another world sleeping soundly in a nun’s uniform.
So, after crying with her mom for about 5 minutes, I came to my senses and became restless, worrying about future work and other miscellaneous things.
Another thing I was worried about was that even if my wish was granted, it was difficult to understand that only Helen and I were suddenly sent home, so I had to find out the current status of my other sisters and daughters. You have to find out how your wish came true.
It would have been better to tell everything honestly, but I feel like I just blew it off and made things more complicated. No, it felt like it was just thrown out there for you to find out on your own.
Still, it wasn’t difficult to find the answer because there were some pretty easy hints.
Because, on the wrist that naturally comes into my field of vision while holding her mother,
This is because, unlike before, there was one more new tattoo that looked quite sophisticated.
I didn’t know what to read, but I could definitely feel what I could do with it.
“Mom, over there…”
“Oh, God, God, Buddha, Jesus, Allah… Thank you. Thank you…”
I don’t know when I started believing in so many different religions, but first of all, after the time of sobbing was over, there were so many things to explain that I felt dizzy.
Helen, who must have been asleep in her room, carefully opened the door and came out into the living room.
“Kihiyaak! Nu, who are you!”
“Mom! Wait a minute! I brought you here!”
The startled mother trembled, clutching her kitchen knife again, and the sea of tears from her reunion dried up. She wished it was a little longer.
“Are you an angel? What are you?”
“I’ll explain later. Just wait.”
“Ah, ah…! Is that so? What do you mean, flying to another world? Right?”
How on earth did my mother know that expression?
My heart grew heavy at the thought that since I disappeared, they must have looked up all those nonsense words as if they were trying to catch a rope, but since it was just a fact, I had nothing to say.
“Aww, thank you! Thank you… You will be truly blessed. Thank you for sending my son back.”
While testing out the new abilities engraved on her wrist, Mom still had her social skills, so she held Helen’s hands tightly and vigorously shook them up and down to say thank you, but Helen just nodded her head with a dumbfounded expression on her face.
“How can you bring such a pretty and kind person here? Ah…”
Meeting of two worlds,
The meeting between the two women was somehow special. I should say that just as my mother and I were reunited, there was a special atmosphere surrounding our first meeting.
“…”
“No, but just stay still. I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere before…”
Helen did not lose sight of herself even before the gods, but for some reason she could not easily speak up in front of my mother. She just stared at her mother’s face with her widened eyes.
“Oh! What is it? Is it because you look like celebrities on TV? No, no, you’re prettier than those people!”
Since her mother had shed all her tears, she was even more excited than usual and burst into laughter. She kept bowing her head in gratitude, with an expression that made one wonder how someone could be so happy.
What were the first words Helen said to her mother?
“Mom, is it okay if I hug you?”
If you’ve ever seen a baby who was crying all the time suddenly break down and start laughing, you’ll know what I mean. That exact expression was clearly reflected on Helen’s face.
“Oh, of course! Thank you…”
“…”
Helen willingly hugged her mother, even though she was much taller than her mother and had to bend over.
I still remember that image.
She later asked Helen again what had happened and tried to find out why her mother had done that.
She smiled brightly, put her hand to her mouth, and said it was her own secret.
They say women are people with many secrets, but isn’t that something that has nothing to do with that world?
I’m not sure, but anyway, from that day on, Helen often came to my house and stayed for several days. Her mother must have taken such a liking to Helen that she kept pestering me and begging me to bring Helen and her grandchildren, so it is no exaggeration to say that she now cares more about Helen than me.
Anyway, she needs to get back to that point. If it had just ended with Helen and her mother’s first meeting, there would have been no need to record it, but in fact, what happened after that was more complicated and gave her a headache.
While the two were hugging each other, I activated the protection of my wrist against the empty space in the living room,
A familiar phrase appeared in front of it.
[Welcome! For those of you who are using the send message function for the first time, I would like to tell you about the basic usage method, some useful tips, and some cautions…]
Holy shit.
This wasn’t a phrase written by the author, but by that guy called God?
Huh? Wait a minute
Is the author God? Isn’t it? Are they two different people?
Momentary questions ran through my head,
First, other sisters and my daughters,
And it was more urgent to explain everything to my mom.
Right now, I have 5 wives and 3 daughters. How do I convince them that there could be more in the future?
It was perfect to say that I was really screwed.
