Black-Haired Dad Isn’t Something You Reap - Chapter 246

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Chapter 246. One Must Be Careful, for a First Offense Can Lead to Second and Third Offenses (2)
“…Did Father walk out on his own two feet?”
“That wouldn’t be the case, would it, miss?”
Ah, I knew it. For a moment there, I’d been genuinely torn about how to react if Father had somehow managed to escape on his own. It would’ve been good news, sure, but if that were the case, why did my heart feel so twisted and angry that he’d put me through such anguish?
“Look here. The carpet’s been dragged to one side, see? There are clear marks where something was pulled along.”
“Huh? Really?”
Wait, what? If Father couldn’t even be carried properly and was just dragged along, that means whoever took him was either small or weak. Could it be Yupi Grandmother again? That old woman kidnaps defenseless people whenever she gets bored.
I was about to interrogate the Grandmother at the Political Detention Center first, but the door suddenly burst open and my Aunt rushed in.
“Pisha! My mother’s done it again!”
“I knew this would happen!”
My Aunt came rushing in with her attendants, calling for me urgently. I quickly tried to narrow down where the Grandmother might have gone. From the looks of it, she’d dragged Father alone without any accomplices. With that tiny frame, I doubted she could drive. Was the destination somewhere nearby?
“The trail leads this way, miss!”
But all the thinking in the world proved useless against supreme physical prowess. Choco simply followed the drag marks on the floor and effortlessly tracked down where Grandmother had taken Father.
“Huh? The Princess Palace?”
“Since Pisha no longer resides there, the Princess Palace is of little consequence anymore.”
“Why would Mother go there….”
Oh no! Now that I think about it, while I’d sealed off the Alchemy Workshop in the Empress Palace as a restricted area, my alchemy furnace in my old room was just left sitting there untouched! This Grandmother created Lulu out of me before—what is she trying to do this time?!
I rushed into my old bedroom. If I could catch Grandmother in the middle of stirring the furnace with her staff, there might be a way to stop her, but it seemed the bizarre situation had already unfolded.
On the left side, a red-haired Little One Grandmother knelt on the ground, crying pitifully. And on the right side stood someone who resembled my biological Mother, or rather—thinking about it more carefully—resembled Father even more. Of course, by “Father,” I meant Ende, who bore the name Chiron. And for some reason, this person was wearing Father’s clothes.
In any case, a strikingly beautiful woman with black eyes and black hair, possessing an icy, elegant presence, was absolutely furious. I gasped in shock and blurted out exactly what I saw.
“Ahhhhh! Female Father!”
“A gender-reversed version of Ende Chiron, if you will, miss!”
“This can’t be right! If he became a woman, would he really be this beautiful?!”
I mean, Father’s handsome, so it’s not hard to imagine his female version would be absolutely stunning, right? When I said this, my Aunt shuddered and said she didn’t see Father as handsome at all.
There must be something peculiar about that family. They can detect beauty in women with such uncanny precision, yet they’re completely blind to handsomeness in men?
“How many times must I tell you not to use innocent children as materials!”
“But! She had exactly what I needed!”
As Yupi Grandmother cried yet defended her actions defiantly, the beautiful woman above—who appeared to have measurements around 38-24-32 with the dangerous aura of a black panther—stretched out her pale, delicate limbs and struck her opponent with a sweeping blow.
Hmm, she really is beautiful. Seeing how perfectly she matches my taste, I suppose I really am Adoptive Father’s biological daughter.
“Excuse me, are you perhaps Lulu?”
Her demeanor toward Grandmother and her manner of speech seemed familiar from somewhere, so I probed the woman with a guess. The one presumed to be Lulu Grandmother gasped upon seeing me, then became terribly embarrassed and covered her face as if she wanted to disappear into a mouse hole.
“It’s alright. Back then, we parted ways after exchanging all those touching farewells as if we’d never meet again, but life rarely goes according to one’s wishes….”
“Stop comforting me with such drivel!”
“We said we’d meet again if we could, and now we have, so fate truly is mysterious and complex and….”
“Why did you grow up to be so insufferable!”
Hehe, I’m told I resemble Father quite often. Of course, I mean Ende Chiron. When I smiled and thanked her for the compliment, Lulu said she could see Yupi in that hollow laugh and expressed her disgust. Hey now, even I can tell that’s an insult.
“So. Why did you fuse my son’s body with me this time?”
“Well, you see, Kirke said that recreating you would require more of Lilith’s essence than we have….”
Ah, so that’s how it is. Though Lilith is said to have perished without descendants, Father’s maternal family was originally from Lilith, right? Even if they’re not direct descendants, the bloodline still flows through them, so they could serve as “fragments of Lilith” as materials.
But they fused Father’s body with Lulu? She mentioned using him as materials earlier, so did they actually use Father as an alchemy ingredient? Is Lulu’s form actually Father in a gender-reversed state?!
“Father, what if you use Father’s body as material!”
“He’s already dead anyway, so it’s fine if I use him as material!”
“He’s not dead! Hey, you bastard!”
I lashed out, pounding Yupi Grandmother on the head, but Choco stepped in to stop me. At my current strength, I might actually kill her… but who cares if she dies or not! Father’s entire body has vanished!
“Please calm down! When we separated Lulu from before, Pisha came back, didn’t she? If we separate them carefully now, we should be able to extract Ende!”
“What? No way! Lulu’s capacity is almost gone, and what I used this time was the last of it!”
I should just kill her. After I kill that Grandmother, I’ll use Alchemy to extract Father myself. As I swung my fists and threw a tantrum, Lulu suddenly blocked us and shouted an unexpected name.
“Grayson!”
Grayson? Isn’t Grayson Yupi Grandmother’s butler? Now that I think about it, weren’t they imprisoned together? If Yupi Grandmother escaped, that means Butler Grandfather is here too.
“Yes, Lulu.”
“Tea time!”
“I shall prepare apple tea.”
Wow! Butler Grandfather actually appeared. The grandfather, who had been suppressing his presence like Croa, suddenly materialized, and I found their bickering endearing as always as he cheerfully prepared tea time.
Lulu spread out the tablecloth and invited me to sit, then asked me to summarize what had happened.
“My capacity is nearly depleted, so please keep it brief.”
“Brief?”
How could I possibly condense this long story? I thought for a moment, then cut out all the unnecessary details and only explained the part about life and death.
“I was destined to die for some reason.”
“I see.”
“Father took that fate instead and died.”
“Hmm, he knows how to make sacrifices. My son has grown up to be a good person.”
“So I used Alchemy to preserve him in a state just before death. His body is still warm, and I’ve found a way—if I can just retrieve Father’s existence from the Underworld and restore it, everything should work out.”
“You’re quite capable, aren’t you?”
“But that Grandmother stole Father’s body and fused it with Lulu’s consciousness.”
“No wonder my heart wasn’t beating.”
Lulu sighed deeply and gestured into the air, saying she wanted a cigarette. Oh, I actually have a red-packaged cigarette I brought for Father.
“Would you like to smoke this?”
“This brand still exists? It’s my favorite.”
So Lulu and Father had the same cigarette preferences. Mother smoked a pipe. Father being the only one in the Galbal family with black hair was already odd, and now this… he really is somewhat of an outsider, isn’t he?
“Huh… you’re a funny little thing.”
“Me?”
My hair is funny? My donut hairstyle is pretty and neat, isn’t it? I asked Aunt and Choco if something was wrong with my hair, and they both shook their heads and said it was pretty. Lulu really does have unique tastes in everything.
“Didn’t my son ever tell you something like ‘you know one thing but not two’?”
“Something similar… I think he might have said that.”
Wait, but that sounded like praise. He said I was truly remarkable for knowing only one thing when taught one… Isn’t that actually remarkable?
“You were destined to die, and my son died in your place instead. So even if we bring something back from the Underworld, wouldn’t the fate of death remain the same?”
“…Huh?”
Now that she mentions it, that does seem right? Then what do I do? Is there no way to transfer the fate? Can’t Media’s curse solve this somehow?
“Yuprina.”
While I stood there stupidly pondering, Lulu, with a displeased expression, exhaled smoke toward Yupi Grandmother. The Grandmother coughed and wheezed but didn’t move from her seat, taking in all the smoke Lulu blew her way. She even seemed to be sniffing and enjoying the smell… How irritating.
“Let’s die together.”
Lulu delivered this shocking statement with utter nonchalance, smoking a cigarette and sipping apple tea with elegant grace, while Grayson attended to her cup without the slightest concern. Yupi Grandmother, upon hearing this proposal to die together, wept openly, tears streaming down her face.
“Surely… you don’t mean…?”
The suggestion to die together was undoubtedly shocking, yet Grandmother’s tears were not born of sorrow. Instead, her cheeks flushed rosy, and she was… laughing? Why was she laughing? How could anyone laugh in such a situation? Had she lost her mind?
“I never imagined I’d receive a confession from Lulu!”
Which part of what she’d just said possibly sounded like a confession?

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