166 Episode 59: Parent-Child Tales (2/2)

”Yes, no, because... because there was a possibility that vampires were involved, I thought you might have suspected Al...”

”Stop saying things that are going to upset you if Uphilia asks.... Algardo does his duty properly for the kingdom. That's what Uphilia is guaranteeing, so don't worry about it.”

”Well, I can't say it's irrelevant, because it seems to be the exact place.”

”What does that mean? Father.”

I frowned when I heard that al-kun was not suspected, but I couldn't say it was irrelevant.

I never wrote to Al-Kun about the sender's name after I went to the border, but I didn't end up face-to-face. Unless I hear from Ufi once in a while about recent developments, I don't know more about what Al is doing right now.

”As a matter of fact... those who have been displaced from the Cambus kingdom are being protected at Algard's place.”

”Ha!? Were you!?”

”Mm-hmm. I don't really talk about details either, so it's about Uphilia who knows the full story. If you knew, you'd be Raini.”

”... so it's not irrelevant,” he said?

”Uhm. We haven't heard more from Uphilia either. Because Uphilia said she wanted to stay down until she could prove it, which must be a pretty nasty project.”

An exile from the Kingdom of Cambus…. That's unusual, or there were people who came into exile.

That's all I normally think the people of the Cambus kingdom have been treated with a sense of distance that is not separate from the Kingdom of Palettia, but it startles me when they say again that there are displaced persons.

”But why are you protected at Al Kun's?

”I don't know that.”

”I don't know...”

”Did Algard decide to do so, or did Uphilia instruct him to do so? That hasn't even been reported to me. There are limits to guessing.”

My father told me to pointy my lips. That's true, though. Why are you bothering to protect the displaced at Al Kun's place, when there shouldn't be that much talent there?

And why didn't Yufi tell me? Because it was such a nasty project you couldn't even tell your fathers? Then why was the case so troublesome?

I find it really unsettling to think about the chimera I encountered in Filwach or the man who entrusted Gakun with the Demon Stone.

”So, did you have anything to discuss? What? Did you do something to him again?

”Why is that a premise I would soften?

”In fact, I guess it's because you're right!

”It's force majeure this time, and I haven't done anything yet -!

Though I accidentally stared at my father, my mother coughed and intimidated me, so we stood upright and had a cramped grin at each other.

I was supposed to sit down and talk because standing talked about what, but my concern was whether it was okay for people to leave the Filwach issue to me like this... the reaction of the two people I talked to was another one of a kind.

Father is holding his arms together with a face that seems difficult, and Mother put her finger between her eyebrows and exhaled deeply.

”... how can you be so bipolar?

”Ri, are you at both extremes...?

”No... maybe it's something you're connected to by a single line. In the end, you want to be useful for someone, that's what you want. I guess it looks like you're doing whatever you want and still a lot of people appreciate it, not because it turns out that's what you wish.”

”... that personality is your beauty and at the same time your faults. Anis, are you worried because you know it yourself? Guess you don't really think it's a good idea for all of you to be out there, huh?

”... Yes”

”In the end, you still don't trust anyone else. And I guess it's because I'm happy now that I want to shoulder my responsibilities because I have the power to do it. In the last few years, we also think that your understanding of what you want to protect has progressed.”

”So let me get this straight. I'm in a hurry, you are. You look like you're in a hurry. I know you're desperate, but make more room.”

”Can you afford...”

I don't care if they say I can afford it...... As Father and Mother put it, I wonder if I have been able to believe people yet. Everyone says that no one close to you, starting with Uffi, believes his face to strangers.

Then how can you believe it? Even if they ask, I don't know either. Outreach I know it may be okay, and excessive care won't be a good thing.

Still, if you had me, I wouldn't be... I'd be scared. Now that I'm so happy, this happiness happens.

”... now that Uphilia's right, I'm glad I didn't make you queen”

”Mother?”

”You carry too much. If you became queen, you would have killed yourself. If you think about it, I'm really glad you're having this now, and I'm going to thank Yufi for that.”

”... is it that bad, me?

”About to be worried about watching, yeah.... does that place look like Orphans?

Do I look like your father? I wonder if so, and when I looked at my father, my father stared at my mother with a bitter look that chewed up the bitter bug.

”Wouldn't the ironless resemble Silphine a lot? And then, yeah. The fact that it looks stylish and is actually delicate...”

”Who says it's iron-free and delicate?

”Don't be mad because they poked you with a picture star! Aita-ta! Will you stop stepping on my feet!

I think you're being stomped under your desk, and your father was shown screaming, and you know what?

Something tells me this exchange is between me and my father. In the end, I wondered if this exchange was the fate of parents and children, and the bitterness came in.