The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 208
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Side Story 8
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“There’s good news, want to hear it?”
“…What is it.”
“My mother says there’s a way to meet Isadel Marquess.”
“….”
“How about it? Want to meet her?”
Berry bit his lips tightly at Airi’s suggestion.
If he had known this fact in his childhood, he might have been shattered.
But now it was different.
Berry, who had reached young adulthood, had become somewhat stronger through various experiences.
And most importantly, he was no longer alone.
By his side was Airi, holding his hand tightly.
“Yes, I want to see her.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Airi handed Berry small bead fragments.
The bead fragments sparkled brilliantly on his palm.
Like stars in the night sky.
At the same time, countless stars like fluffy clouds began to twinkle beneath their feet.
With a feeling as if they were flying up to the sky…
Berry blinked his eyes.
Airi, who had been holding his hand, disappeared, and before his eyes was…
The woman he had met in his memories.
Isadel Milang, no, Isabelle Jackvell Marquess was there.
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“Berry, it’s you.”
Marquess Jackvell looked at Berry.
She seemed to have aged yet not aged. Her face was similar to that time long ago when she had died.
So Berry looked at her calmly and opened his mouth.
“…Yes, Mother.”
She quietly looked at the grown-up Berry. And then…
“I wanted to tell you everything about me honestly, so I left memories behind. You saw them.”
“Yes, I saw them. …Everything.”
Isadel Marquess looked at Berry with affection.
The son she had parted from before he was even properly weaned.
As if she knew what kind of hardships that son had endured, her face looked utterly sorrowful.
“I wanted to be a good mother, but I’m sorry. However, I love you. Berry…”
The dead should not influence the living.
That was an unwritten rule of this world.
Violet had broken this unwritten rule to save the world. But unlike her, Isadel had no such grand goal.
So the meeting was very brief.
With those words, she slowly began to fade away transparently.
It was when Berry, who had wanted to tell her he loved her, was just moving his lips helplessly.
Airi’s words came to his mind.
The small girl who had held his hand purely and lovingly.
Thinking of that girl’s face gave him courage.
So Berry looked at his mother who was slowly becoming transparent and said.
“I love you. …Father must have loved you too, Mother.”
Watching her son deliver the most desperate words with a seemingly indifferent expression, Isadel Marquess murmured softly.
“I’ll come to visit sometimes. Maybe we can meet in dreams.”
“….”
“Dreams are a passage where the dead can meet the living. So…”
“…Come anytime. I’ll be sleeping sweetly.”
She was slowly becoming transparent.
However, a smile like a painting had somehow appeared on Isadel’s lips.
Perhaps they wouldn’t be able to meet as often as when they were alive.
Because that was God’s providence. However, however…
Marquess Jackvell whispered softly.
“Once a year, on the day when the monsoon rains fall.”
“….”
“On that day, let’s meet briefly in dreams. Together with your father.”
As soon as those words ended, Marquess Jackvell pulled Berry into a tight embrace.
Berry thought.
His mother’s embrace, which he was experiencing for the first time in his life, was very cold.
However…
Conversely, it was also surprisingly warm.
Berry bit his lips tightly and looked at her.
“Next, next time you come to visit…”
“Yes, my son.”
“…I’ll come with the person I love.”
The person he loved.
It could be Berry’s father, it could be Airi, or it could be other ‘people’.
However, hearing those words, his mother’s face brightened radiantly.
Having someone to love.
That surely meant that the son she had given birth to had become remarkably happy.
Her face, having finally realized this fact, brightened more radiantly than ever before.
That was the last meeting with her this year.
But Berry was not sad at all.
Because he had realized that she loved him.
And…
Because he knew that they would definitely meet again.
With that thought, Marquess Jackvell’s figure slowly disappeared.
Berry’s consciousness drifted away again.
When he opened his eyes, what he saw before him was Airi’s face.
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“Berry, are you okay?”
Airi looked at Berry with wide eyes.
He laughed softly.
“I’m okay, just…”
Berry steadied his rough breathing and whispered slowly, leisurely.
“…Just feels like I had a long dream.”
Like a daydream.
At those words, Airi smiled broadly and answered.
“Really? Was it a good dream?”
He could answer that with certainty.
“Yes.”
Perhaps, you know…
“It was the second sweetest dream in the world.”
Airi’s eyes widened as she tilted her head.
“Second? Then what’s the first?”
“The first is…”
Berry chuckled softly.
“Secret. I’m hungry, shall we go eat?”
Berry walked ahead of Airi and gestured briefly with his hand.
As if she absolutely couldn’t stand not knowing something curious, Airi stuck close to his side and said.
“No, what’s the first sweet dream? What is it?”
“There is such a thing.”
He would never tell her.
That the first sweet dream was this very moment he was sharing with Airi.
But it was still a bit embarrassing to confess so openly.
“Kids! I baked cookies! Come eat!”
Hearing Violet’s cheerful voice, Cookie tapped his own forehead.
“Baking Cookie? Oh my, oh my goodness…”
They laughed heartily at the silly Cookie.
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Airi put down the cookie she had taken a bite of and declared seriously.
“You know, Berry. When That Person someday returns to this world again.”
“…Yeah.”
“I’m really going to greet them very politely!”
Berry couldn’t help but chuckle at her bright declaration.
Berry was learning about his parents one by one. That fact made him very happy.
Still, the happiest thing for him was being able to laugh by Airi’s side.
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