I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 6

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【Chapter 6】

‘Huh?!’

Rie’s mouth fell wide open at his question.

She knew Father was a shit carriage.

But now in Rie’s eyes, Father wasn’t even a carriage—he just looked like pure shit.

He met Aunt Serena even before divorcing Mother!

If she could, she wanted to give Father’s forehead a good smack with her little fist.

Glaring intensely.

Small triangular eyes glared at Casselik’s back from around the corner.

Naturally, Emilia also looked dumbfounded.

“…What did you just say?”

“I’m asking if there was such a man. The child was talking about a boyfriend earlier, so if you were seeing someone during our marriage, don’t hide it and tell me now.”

“Me?”

Our Mother?

Rie growled silently.

“…Sigh, Your Grace. I don’t know what to say to someone who was looking for a new wife even before the divorce.”

That’s right! Exactly right!

“That was unavoidable because of producing ability users. You knew that from the contract.”

What nonsense!

Father can go eat shit.

“What do you expect now that you’ve divorced me?”

“…What?”

Oh?

Rie’s eyes, which had been glaring and growling at Casselik, suddenly lit up.

“I don’t think I’m obligated to inform Your Grace about whether I have a lover or not. Thank you for allowing me time to see the child. I’ll be going now.”

“Wait, Emilia. Emilia!”

Father’s urgent voice could be heard, but the footsteps moving away never stopped.

It was Mother’s perfect victory.

“…Amazing, Mother.”

Rie clenched her fists with sparkling eyes at this side of Mother she’d never seen before.

Mother always became intimidated when she stood before Father.

So if Mother got scared and started crying now, Rie was ready to rush out and scold Father.

“Mother all grown up. Rie no need to protect anymore.”

Had Mother changed too when time was turned back?

Sniff.

Rie wiped her running nose with the back of her hand and hid her body again, walking stealthily down the corridor.

Now that their conversation was over, all that remained was to get to the bathroom without being caught.

“Our Rie. So you were hiding here?”

“Huh?!”

Suddenly, gentle hands from behind lifted Rie up by both armpits.

As her feet left the ground, a flustered Rie flailed her legs.

Spin—

As her body turned around, she saw Mother.

“Rie. Mother will go out for just a moment.”

“…Huh?”

At those words, Rie’s body stiffened with a jolt.

She was smiling at Rie as always, but somehow her eyes looked sad.

‘…Don’t tell me she’s already planning to leave?’

In her previous life, she thought Mother had stayed for at least one night, but was that wrong?

Her mind felt like it had turned into a jumbled mess of clay.

It seemed like Mother had stayed one night, or maybe that was just Rie’s wishful thinking.

The problem was that Mother was leaving now.

“Why go out? It’s nighttime when we should sleep! Mother, you should sleep with Rie.”

“Yes. Rie should sleep, and Mother will just go somewhere briefly and come back.”

“Where… Huh?!”

She snapped her mouth shut as she was about to ask carelessly.

She remembered.

Even before turning back time, Mother had left the Duke’s Castle while Rie was sleeping.

[We’ll be able to meet again soon.]

The letter she received afterward had said that, but she met Mother again at the funeral.

“Wait, where? Where are you going, Mother?”

Small hands grabbed the collar of Emilia’s blouse.

“Rie said she wanted to eat delicious tart before. Mother’s friend said there’s a good place, so I was going to quickly go buy some…”

“What’s the name of the tart shop?”

Rie’s voice became urgent.

“What kind of tart do they make? Where is it? It’s nighttime, so isn’t the chef sleeping?”

No. Mother, don’t go.

You can’t leave Rie and go to heaven.

“Mother, are you going to leave Rie behind?”

In the big eyes looking up at Emilia, tears like chicken droppings had already gathered.

Had the child figured something out?

Emilia’s throat tightened too, but she answered as if nothing was wrong.

“Mother will live with Rie forever. We’re just separating for a moment.”

“How many nights do I have to sleep before we meet? I don’t want to. Mother isn’t going to heaven and leaving Rie behind, right?”

“…Heaven? Rie, what are you talking about?”

She was flustered by words that shouldn’t come from a child’s mouth.

“Huu. Mother is going to Heaven.”

Regardless, tears began to flow from Rie’s eyes as she sniffled.

“No, Mother, don’t go. Don’t leave Rie behind… Huuuuwaaaaah!”

Rie began wailing loudly. The nightmare of the funeral from before turning back time overwhelmed the child.

‘This time Rie was going to go with Mother too, but she’s leaving before Rie could even prepare.’

That won’t do.

Lost Time even gave her an ability when he sent her back one year.

This was such a hard-earned opportunity!

That’s when it happened.

“Rie. Don’t behave rudely. You’ll be able to see Mother again in a few days, so go to your bedroom right now.”

A low voice scarier than a ghost suddenly came from behind her.

It was Casselik, who had returned after hearing the child’s crying.

Even so, when Rie sobbed and tried to burrow into Emilia’s embrace, he eventually tried to forcibly pull Rie away.

Rie clung to Emilia even more desperately.

I don’t want to let go. This time Rie is going to live with Mother.

Just this once.

That’s when she squeezed her eyes shut and hugged Emilia’s neck even tighter.

“…?”

The large hands that had been covering Rie’s back stopped.

Father had definitely been pulling her away, but suddenly she couldn’t feel anything.

Even Mother’s hands that had been restlessly patting her had stopped.

“…What?”

When she opened her tightly closed eyes, she could feel that Mother’s neck, which she was still hugging, had stiffened rigidly.

Father’s two hands reaching toward her were the same way.

They hadn’t disappeared. Both of them had stopped in that state as if they had become statues.

“Uh, Mother. Father?”

“I stopped time, caw.”

That’s when it happened.

Along with a familiar voice, a black feather entered her tear-blurred vision.

Without her noticing when he had arrived, Lost Time sat on the window sill in the corridor, gazing at Rie.

“Lost Time!”

Rie instinctively knew. That he was Lost Time, who had turned back her time.

“You… can transform into a crow too?”

Rie asked while rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand.

Just moments ago, thinking about Mother had made it feel like the world was collapsing, but seeing her friend made her so happy that her tears instantly dried up.

Her friend had even transformed into a crow.

‘He really must be a fairy!’

Rie’s face turned red with excitement as she waved her fists around.

“I, I want to be an eagle!”

“Hey. Crows are cooler than eagles. You can fly around everywhere, and you don’t stand out much. Anyway, you suit being human better than an eagle.”

Flutter.

The crow that had gently leaped up flapped its wings and came to Rie’s side.

“And the reason these two people can’t move right now is because I stopped time.”

Whoa-?!

Rie’s eyes sparkled.

“Really? You’re really amazing, Kami!”

“What’s Kami?”

“It’s short for crow, Kami!”

Shortening words was naturally a child’s instinct.

At the natural nickname from the child, the crow shrugged its shoulders.

“Well, call me whatever you want. But amazing, you say. This is the ability you’ll be using from now on.”

Huh-?

Her eyes grew so wide at what she heard that they seemed ready to pop out.

“Take this.”

That’s when it happened.

From who knows when, a pocket watch was hanging from the crow’s beak.

Thud.

The clock fell onto her outstretched palm.

Rie blinked as she held the clock that was about the size of her palm.

The crow that had perched on Casselik’s black hair pointed at it with its beak and explained.

“Tick-tock. You can see the second hand moving once every second, right?”

“Yeah.”

“If you stop it with your finger, time will stop like this.”

“Ooh… Stop the ticker.”

Rie, who had become absorbed in the clock, nodded her head.

“And if you want to go back to the past, spin the shortest ticker to the left round and round.”

The crow gestured with its beak as if telling her to try it once.

After hesitating for a moment, Rie turned the second hand with her chubby finger.

Then something amazing happened.

“Rie. Don’t act so rudely. You’ll be able to see Mother again in a few days, so hurry and go to the bedroom.”

Mother and Father moved unnaturally and spoke the same words they had said before.

As if time was rewinding.

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