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As I looked at Armadi, who was looking at me with his head down and only his eyes raised, I couldn’t help but sigh.

Does this author know what he did wrong?

I don’t know. Maybe he’s still thinking about the wrong he did to me.

“What did I do wrong to make you think I’m mad?”

I asked him a question out of curiosity about what he would say, and Armadi stammered and barely managed to get his words out.

“Lu. I used Lucy.”

“Of course it was wrong, but it can be considered normal. It’s because of me that we reached this conclusion, right?”

“Uh. Then.”

“Tell me something else.”

“As for the Messagaki skill, there was no way for that either. Since I gave you memories while my power was weakened, I couldn’t stop Agra.”

“…Agra?”

“He thought I had high hopes for you, so he put a curse on you. He ended your ‘happiness’. All I could do was beat the curse so it wouldn’t just be a curse.”

“Wasn’t that Mama’s personal taste?”

“Why should I put such a curse on my cute daughter!”

“That’s Mama Majo.”

“Not at all!”

No? I thought you were just adding your own personal touch!

Armadi’s face grew redder and redder as he was left speechless with even greater shock than when he found out that Armadi was Lucy’s mother.

“Have you been thinking like that all along?!”

“Of course. No one who isn’t a pervert would dress their daughter in a bunny girl outfit.”

“Don’t twist it! I never forced Lucy to wear those clothes!”

“But the penalty was clearly stated. And it was said in a very perverted and sinister tone.”

“…That’s.”

“That’s it?”

“That. It’s cute when Lucy frowns and gets embarrassed.”

“Get out of here. You rotten pervert.”

“I’m sorry…”

Are you saying that Armadi was just a stupid mother who couldn’t sell her arms?

Hmm? Wait a minute. It was Armadi who gave me the revelation about the armor I’m wearing right now.

It’s hard to believe that the author who put this crazy armor on didn’t have any sinister intentions.

I narrowed my eyes and stared at Armadi silently. Armadi let out a single word that could not be formed into words, then lowered his head with his ears turning red.

“Be honest. Have you ever asked a pervert crow for a picture or drawing? No.”

“is.”

“Confiscate. Give me everything you have later.”

“Wait a minute! I’m collecting them one by one to appease my longing for Lucy because I can’t meet her or talk to her!”

“Ah. Really? Then just stay there and live. Don’t even think about meeting me.”

“…I’m sorry. I will submit everything by today.”

Haaah. Since the author, Jushin, is like this, even a foolish fox or a perverted apostle will not be punished by heaven.

“Ugh. Lucy is so scary. She was cuter when she was little.”

“Mama was wearing a mask well back then. If I had known that she was such a hopeless woman, I wouldn’t have found her cute even then.”

Lucy from the past who used to shout, ‘Mom, I love you so much!’ So I feel so sorry for her.

If I had known that this was the reality of Mama, I wouldn’t have been so sad.

“Do you know that Papa looks like this?”

“I don’t know what this is, but I don’t think you’ll be surprised no matter what I say.”

“You managed to hide it.”

“Because back then, I wanted to be a trustworthy person to Lucy. I tried really hard.”

Armadi tried to smile, but her words were engraved with an indescribable sadness.

I can only imagine what this wicked woman must have been thinking when she saw me cursed because of my own helplessness.

So I can’t say anything more about this, because I’m long past my teenage years.

It’s a shame. If I had been more energetic during that time, I would have been the one to do something about it, no matter what.

“I understand what you said before, but is there anything else I did wrong? Tell me quickly.”

“More here?”

“Don’t you want to say it? Should I call you something other than Mama?”

“It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it! I have a lot on my mind! But they all have similar endings to what I said before.”

“Huh. So you’re saying that Mom is a slacker who doesn’t even know what she did wrong?”

“That’s…right.”

“You’ve been watching me like a pervert since we met, so you know what to do when a sloppy person asks you to do something? Just say you don’t know. I’ll call you auntie.”

“Yes. That’s right. Like Lucy said, I’m an incompetent piece of shit. So please tell me what I did wrong.”

As I watched Armadi bang his head on the floor without being asked, a faint feeling of guilt etched into my heart.

Uh. Um. I didn’t mean for it to turn out like this.

Still, I can’t leave here weakly!

This time, Armadi’s mistake is something that must be addressed!

It wasn’t because of me that I got seriously upset with Armadi.

Of course, there were many parts that were annoying and there were many parts where I really wanted to harass you, but this was purely out of a playful intention to let you experience it too.

It never comes from genuine anger.

The reason I was really shocked when I heard Armadi’s story was because she couldn’t even keep her word.

“People around me who were deeply moved by Mama’s words. I asked them several times not to shoulder everything alone. My sacrifice could be the pain of others. So please don’t shoulder everything and let me do what I can. Sometimes, the painful path together can be the less painful path.”

Sometimes the most selfish things can be the most altruistic.

There comes a point when honestly asking for help, even when you know it will burden others, becomes a path to helping others.

I was so stupid and clueless that I barely found out about it after my friends around me started crying.

“But Mama doesn’t seem to care about other people’s feelings at all?”

However, Armadi, the one who said this, did not keep his words at all.

He tried to handle everything on his own, and after he had thought through all the problems on his own, he made his own choices, and even after that, he tried to solve everything on his own.

Without even thinking about what those who risked their lives for them might think.

“Mama wanted me to just listen to her thoughts. She never asked for mine.”

The relationship between you and me was one-sided.

Armadi always showed me the way forward without asking for my opinion.

“The same goes for Pavie and other devout priests. While those idiots were misunderstanding things as they pleased, Mama never tried to correct them.”

Armadi deliberately neglected the priests who believed in him.

It is true that the Pope was in charge, but he did not think of seeking their cooperation, as not all the clergy were corrupt.

“You’ve never told your troubles to other gods. Even the most stinking history nerds don’t know anything, so I’ll tell you everything.”

Even gods of similar rank to himself were not trustworthy to Armadi.

She tried to take on everything on her own without sharing her plans with anyone.

“I don’t like every single one of them, but it’s not like I can’t understand them at all. They might have broken down after repeating countless failures. But, but. At the very least, you should have told your grandfather and his colleagues something. You should have said at least one word before the mythic era ends.”

The heroes of mythical times never once thought they were victorious.

They lost the one they believed in, abandoned the one they needed to defeat, and were unable to even get a proper rest as they struggled to sort out the chaos in the land.

What did they do wrong?

I just did my best for the world, so why am I being treated like this?

Why are the heroes who saved the world still stuck on this earth, unable to shake off their foolishness?

“Is it your job to force another sacrifice without even apologizing for something like this?”

Armadi, his face pale, couldn’t bring himself to answer my question.

It seems like he really didn’t even realize that he had done something wrong.

Haaah. Is this kind of stupidity hereditary?

It was because I was Armadi’s daughter that I kept doing stupid things without looking around!

The more I chew on it, the more my head heats up!

“Apologize properly and compensate properly. Stop talking nonsense about a new life and peace, and let the hero be happy while he’s still a hero. Maybe when he was a slacker, but now that he’s regained his strength, it’s something he can do.”

“…Lucy is right. The reward after the spring is wound will have no meaning.”

*

“That’s why I came to apologize to Mama. Our Mama is stupid, incompetent, and foolish, but she’s still a good person. She’s just a thoughtless fool. If you tell her, she’ll do well.”

I tried to joke around because I felt the atmosphere was getting a bit serious, but the expressions on the warriors’ faces didn’t change.

Garaddo. Erginus. The warrior. Even my grandfather. All the old men who were too old to even wait for the day to die were all holding back tears.

…This kind of atmosphere is quite burdensome.

Alright! Let’s run away! I’ve already done everything I had to do here!

I have to go back quickly and finish this work! Yeah!

As I was slowly backing away, Runevia hugged me and lifted me up.

“Don’t worry, Alun Youngae. The others are doing a good job. I think it’s okay to rest here comfortably.”

“That’s what you think! Chicken coop lady!”

“Lunebia.”

“If you want to be called that, then do it now…!”

“That’s the name you gave me, right? Please call me properly. It’s Runevia.”

“Lu. Runevia.”

When I called her name properly, stuttering as I felt the temperature drop in real time, only then did Runevia smile.

This woman is scary! Just now, I felt like she was about to stab me with a real knife!

How is this the Queen of the Fairies! The Queen of the Menheras!

“I couldn’t even be a proper mother, but you’ve grown up so well. Ruel. I can’t thank you enough.”

“No, my lord. I was an upright child from the beginning. What did I do? Just. Sigh.”

“That’s really touching. Don’t you think so too, Lady Alun?”

Yeah, it looks really touching.

If I weren’t the center of that story, I would have cried with you.

But I’m the center of that story!

I’m dying from staring!

Please let me run away!

Is this some kind of new torture?! Should I tell you the location of the base!?

I’ll tell you anything, so please spare me! It feels like my stomach is melting in real time!