I Became the Son of an Evil Dragon

91 – Tilted Balance (1)

“You’re speaking strangely.

“The only man I gave my heart to was Russell.”

“This child is everything to me. Don’t you know?

All the warm feelings I felt were given to Russell,

Russell took all the love I gave him.

Everything!”

My mother’s hands pressed several times harder than my sister held me.

But instead of a smile on that face, there was a scream,

Her tail her her her contained anger instead of happiness.

“Have you ever been hated by the world?

Your parents abandoned you when you were born, and when you went back to visit them, you received verbal abuse and told them you should never have been born –

You, , Lived a miserable life like that father, who framed me and turned me into an evil dragon. You!!! “

My mom pushed me and got up and took out her fingernails.

Now I see that her mother was wearing the same clothes she wore while hugging me and falling asleep at her inn.

So it seemed.

How many veins were visible on her mother’s arm.

“Are you going to take away my last hope?

How dare you take away my last light?

Look at you, who can stand proudly under the warm sunlight of the world.

You have many other lights.

I only have this child…”

Mom on her knees with her arms outstretched to the side.

Sister Gella’s blue eyes were hidden by red scales and wings made of thin pink membrane.

“Please, don’t take away the last hope I have.

You shouldn’t take away the reason I can live. That can’t be possible.”

“…You will decide that as you please?”

But the voice lightly pushed her mother away.

My older sister stood up straight and showed no fear to my mother, who was like a beast and had changed into something close to a dragon.

She slowly lifted her foot and tapped her floor.

“Does she know what Russell wants when she says that?

…She is the child’s mother. “

Her mother’s tail she twitched at my question.

Then it happened in an instant that it wrapped around my body.

“I don’t want to be left as a mother.”

“Eom – “

” No! “

My mother, who always scared others with her low growls, now let out a scream in fear.

A sharp high-pitched sound pierced her ears.

“No, no, I don’t want to remain this child’s mother.

I love this kid. Don’t love me. She doesn’t want to be in a relationship if it’s not for this child … “

“So, you’re saying it’s not something you can decide as you please?”

As the footsteps got closer, her mother also got closer.

As her sister’s shadow grew, her tail tightened as well.

“Why don’t you leave Russell alone.”

“I don’t like it… If I say I don’t like it, then – “

“She said she’s not even a mother anymore.”

Her mother was shaking.

Her her her her body her her touching me told me that.

Her wings her, her her slowly folded,

Her tail was also curled into place.

And her mother’s eyes looking back at me…

“Yes, Russell. You…As much as you,

Do you love me?”

It was scary.

Eyes with such dark shadows were something I had never seen on anyone else.

“Please, tell me. You love me, as much as I love you, so do you – “

“Mom.”

“Please tell me you love me, please. I can do anything.

Anything you want!”

Caught. In that hand.

Her fingernails were sharp and her hands were full of scales that stung her skin painfully.

“I am a dragon. They say my scales are so precious to humans.

Or do you want magic? Shall I teach you fancy magic like before?”

No money was needed. I hadn’t even used it in the first place.

I’ve seen Gella spend money a few times to stay at an inn –

There was no doubt that if I went on an adventure, I would be able to earn it.

It was the same with magic.

As she traveled around the world, she might come across wizards.

Then, you can learn from those people,

Also, if you look at the magic written on the scroll my sister used, if you separate the letters, it becomes clear,

I would be able to keep in mind new types that I didn’t know about.

“If not, do you want me to do something?

I can do anything for you. What am I worse than that woman?”

Her mother was beautiful.

But, she wasn’t saying that she was attracted to me.

Even if my skin is as white as my sister,

Even if you have an embrace as soft and warm as your older sister –

Mom was mom.

Ruining my adventures, pushing away, injuring, and even killing people who chase me –

He found me and made me feel uncomfortable in this place.

“…Or is that dog good?

If you want fluffy fur, you can make it. Look…!”

My trembling fingers couldn’t snap.

Colliding, slipping, and missing –

Instead of making a cheerful sound, it only makes a dull, thin friction sound like picking.

“…Change. It’s my tail.

The boy in front of me likes it so much… The one with fluffy, silky fur.

A cotton ball that can be fluttered, fluttered, and swung round and round…!”

Then her mother cried as she chanted her spell.

At the same time, the thing that was lying on the blanket began to grow hair instead of scales.

Hairs resembling the red mother’s hair suddenly popped out as if bursting out,

It became a tail no different from his older sister’s-a size that seemed to fit perfectly in his arms.

“Now, are you satisfied?

If I do this, will you like me if I do this?

Just like you did to that woman, pat my head,

Hug me,

Smile, will you please?”

“…Ha.”

The sound of her older sister’s cold laughter made her mother tremble.

Or maybe I was wearing clothes that were too thin and fell off once.

Are the two in front of me also feeling the cold I feel?

“Look, look, Russell. It’s a tail no different.

Is the face not your style? Do these horns look scary too…?

Please, say something, I will change it…!”

I shook my head slowly.

Then,

“Ugh, ugh, keuheuheuk… !”

In the end, mom cried.

With her head down, she wet the fur on her transformed tail.

She cried and cried again.

Her quest to make her mother smile was completely ruined.

“…I guess I should go out.”

“Huh, sister?!”

I let out a long sigh harshly,

With her face crumpled, she turned her body and stretched out her hand behind her yellow hair as she walked away.

But holding it with both her hands and hugging it…

“Look this way, Russell,

Here, please… Here…

It’s me who wants to see you and everything that wants you –

Am I not reflected in your eyes?”

Drops of water fall continuously like rain falling down the chin,

She was now a mother with red fur wrapped around her tail.

“Your mother,

No. Did she say she’s not even a mother anymore?

Anyway… It seems like a little comfort, Russell.

If I do that, I’ll get some real work done.”

Without even having a chance to catch her, my older sister threw her words away and quickly pulled the door shut.

Her body was shaking once, but it was my mom who was shaking more than me.

Just like me, left alone in the winter and shivering from the cold,

“Russ…Sel…”

She gritted her teeth, but then she fell down on me, unable to do anything as her mother grabbed her back.

She eventually placed her hand on his back and stroked it.

The sobbing didn’t stop.

Her shoulders instantly got wet and became cold due to the wind.

“Huh, huh, huh – turn off – “

Her tail, which had always fluttered once in a while, seemed to have died.

Her her limp her body her her her, cold and motionless, is like my mother’s body being held by me.

She couldn’t even say anything and could only gently pat her on the back.

When she heard her sad mother’s story of her, she recalled those days,

She imitated her hand as she stroked me as I shed tears.

Drive away her chill with the warmth that remains in her her hands her her-

She leaned closer to warm her shivering body.

…Just like mom used to do.

“Don’t go. Please. Don’t go to her

Stop taking on adventures for me.”

I had no intention of quitting.

Even if it wasn’t an adventure for my mom, there were things I wanted to do.

“Please stay by my side. I’ll be satisfied with just being next to you.”

I was not satisfied.

I wanted to leave.

I wanted to learn and see more things.

I didn’t want to stop like this.

“I also ask you to love me.

I won’t hurt others, get angry, or hate others –

“Won’t you please stay away from that woman…?”

“…I can’t do that.”

So I shook my head.

Because I don’t think I can listen to what my mom asks.

What I want and what my mom wants are so different.

“…Is it because of that woman?”

“What I want to do is adventure.

Mom wants me to – “

“I…?”

Interrupting my words,

Grab my words, crumple them, twist them –

Soon, it was torn apart like a piece of paper.

“I loved you.

During the time you were growing up, you didn’t wish for anything.

Even if you took my warmth and stole my heart – I didn’t show anything. But – “

Pressed.

With that hand.

And I caught it.

With a heavy body that doesn’t want to fall from me.

“But now you’re asking me to let you go.

Borrow my warmth in the cold winter,

Living in a cave where you can hide from the storms of the world,

After growing up until this day, is this all you have to say to me?”

Those words made my heart hurt for a moment.

Because it was true. Because there was nothing mixed with lies.

But, I have seen what my mother has done.

And I found out what I wanted.

“Yes.”

I nodded.

Because what my mom wanted from me was too heavy.