Chapter 29 Unexpected Visitors pt. 1 (2/2)
”Are you still mad at Mama? No, it's okay, don't worry! I understand! It's perfectly fine if you want to marry that beastkin girl, I won't get your way. She was pretty cute anyway. As long as you're happy, I don't care.”
”...”
”Well aren't you going to say anything?”
”...Air...”
”Hah?”
”...I...”
”Yes?”
”I need...”
”You need what?”
”I...need...AIR!” I struggled.
And shoved her away, gasping for breath a second later like my life depended on it. Which it did. Because those wonderfully soft pair of rabbits were choking me to death.
Not just that, but she was really strong! She was crushing me!
”Are you trying to kill me?! I nearly died! From now on, no more hugs!”
The woman looked crushed. Her face had on an expression of having been wronged.
”Son! Be reasonable!” That felt familiar too. ” I can compromise on many things, but now you're going too far!” Her hands were already inching their way towards me.
I take a stepback. ”Goddamn addict.”
”Son...” She whimpered. Her eyes went wide and sparkly.
”...”
Two minutes later she was hugging me from behind, lifting me up and swaying me from left to right in a tight squeeze.
”How the hell are you even here?” I muttered, almost resentful.
”What do you mean? Mary took me.” She pointed.
”What the--?”
”Good evening, Young Master.”
”Holy!” I felt my skin crawl.
Mary, clad in a black and white maid dress, walked expressionlessly from out of thin air. Literally. There was only a ripple, like a wave of heat, to indicate her arrival.
Her indifference was as palpable as ever. Not a single emotion clouded that beautiful face
”How the heck did you did you do that? You just teleported in! Actually, yeah, that's right, how'd Mother even show up? I didn't hear her stepping in now that I think about it. Vera and Evie suddenly showed up at Kane's place back then too...”
Mary spoke, quite flippantly, the words, ” I'm this realm's World Tree spirit and she's my offspring. There's few places on this planet we cannot travel.”
Dryads! These three grass-hairs were Dryads! Or...at least two were. What did that make Baz? Is there a male version I'm not aware of?
”We don't have any one gender, Young Master. We do have the power to switch between them, however. Though Basil is an airhead so I didn't teach him too much about his abilities and origins. As for Vera, that girl refused to learn that particular technique because she was afraid you'd...no, nevermind. Anyway you can think of them as a full boy and girl like you have been.”
Baz turning into a girl...that could be cute. I was already picturing it. The kid IS pretty thin. Put him into a dress and--WAIT A MINUTE! What am I thinking?! Don't get trapped in that filthy abyss, me.
Get ahold of yourself. He's your bro. You don't lewd your bro, dammit. No matter how good they'd probably look with a little make up and a one-piece.
I shook my head clear of those distracting thoughts and posed yet another question. ”You can read minds too I'm guessing?”
”No, you just had that kind of look.”
I've got a perpetual poker face, how the heck can she tell what look I have?
”More importantly, ” Mother spoke up. ”Why didn't you come back? You just planned on letting your powers run wild, is that it? What, you hate your Mama so much that you'd rather subject yourself to this awful place than come and learn from me?” She let out more tears. ”Don't you know how dangerous it is for a young untrained Dragon to wander the world all by his lonesome? There's all kinds of bad men who'd love to get their hands on you. You just barely unlocked your bloodline, haven't you? You can't fight back if you keep healing your enemies. What could you do against them? Anything you do will just heal in an instant. You'd end up captured and used for who knows what. Come back and let me show you how to at least create a tsunami. Or how to rip the blood from a person's body.”
Her eyes were so earnest. I couldn't handle it.
Then Mary revealed the truth. ”Don't listen to her, she knows about your little torture sessions. What does it matter that you heal them? You basically crush their will to oppose you.” She made a ”heh” sound that was nearly a chuckle but wasn't. ”I'm actually rather impressed at that. I don't think any other in your family had ever thought to use thatin such a way. You truly have a talent for turning even a blessing into a curse, Young Master.”
”Mary!” Mother glared.
”How would she know that?” I grimaced.
”She's been using magic to spy on you.”
What!
”What!”
”Mary, you traitor!”
”Your father's been spying too.” Mary took a single step forward and disappeared, leaving a transparent wave in the air.
I heard a masculine saying, ”Fuck!”
The she reappeared a second later with a tall, handsome, very startled-looking man.
”Father!”
He was holding a strange square-shaped crystal in his hand that displayed a bird's-eye view of the entire room.
His other hand was holding onto a large bowl of fried chicken wings.
”See?” Mary said. ”They've been keeping a close eye on you ever since you left.”
”Nonsense, I've done nothing of the sort. Son, don't listen to this weird chick!”
He chucked the square-shaped object as hard as he could at a nearby wall. Where it shattered into a million pieces.
He whistled innocently.
”...Ahem...” A cough. ”That Minnie girl's got a pretty good physique by the way. Really fills out those outfits. Gotta say, I approve.”
”...”
”It was your mother's idea. I had nothing to do with it.”
”...”
”...What?”
I ignored him. ”Mother?”
The arms around me felt laden with sweat ”Yes, son?”
”I'm disowning you guys.”
Mother's sniffles rang throughout the temple.