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[Episode 131] – Pleading

“Now please, don’t run away from me.”

Grumbling – Grumbling – As I moved my shackled ankles little by little, the chain connecting the bedpost and my legs shook and made a clattering sound.

I burst out laughing at the unrealistic situation and raised my head to glare at Titania. What on earth is Titania thinking? What on earth do you want to do with me?

I definitely thought I knew everything about Titania, but it seems like I didn’t. Right now, at this moment, I couldn’t understand Titania. I couldn’t tell what Titania was thinking.

I know he was angry at me for running away again without saying a word. But, no matter what, you’re still shackled? It’s ridiculous that I was kidnapped and imprisoned here, but now they have shackles on my ankles?

I lowered my head and tried to undo the shackles on my ankles. The shackles were made of leather so it didn’t hurt that much, but the chain connected to the bedpost didn’t seem like it would break.

Because the shackles showed no signs of loosening no matter how hard I pulled, I quickly gave up and glared at Titania and growled in a low voice.

“Resolve this right now.”

“That’s not possible.”

I gritted my teeth and glared at her, but Titania did not give in to me and gave me a short answer. I will never let you go. This is the ‘punishment’ I deserve. No matter how wrong I am…!

“It’s all about the bad mother. Just keep lying. Even if I beg you not to go, you run away. “If I want to keep a mother like that by my side, I have no choice but to tie her up like this, right?”

“No matter how much it is, this is…!”

“I was sufficiently ‘considerate’ for my mother. We have prepared everything so that you can stay here without any shortcomings. “But isn’t it none other than my mother who kicked away my consideration?”

I couldn’t say anything to Titania’s simple answer. Because nothing Titania said was wrong. In the end, I had no choice but to lower my head and cry and beg Titania.

“I’m really reflecting on this, so… please release me quickly. I promise I won’t run away again. huh? Anyway, isn’t this too severe…?”

“Would you believe that if your mother were me? “You always lied to me, never kept the promises you made to me, and left me without a word, so you expect me to believe that?”

Titania answered with a chuckle. Titania’s attitude, as if she wouldn’t listen to anything I said anymore, made me burst into empty laughter. Only empty, absurd, dry laughter.

Why on earth are you doing this to me?

I had no idea what Titania wanted from me.

Are you mad that I left behind a letter? Or, are you angry because you didn’t keep your promise? It was all my fault, but I still thought it was strange to do something like this.

At Titania’s hand caressing my face, I raised my head and looked at her. Why does the subject who has shackled me look at me with such a sad expression?

Now I really wanted to ask.

Why on earth do I-

“Why on earth… are you doing this to me…? “No matter how wrong I was…”

“…I thought I had shown quite a bit so far. “Are you sure you don’t know?”

As Titania caressed my cheek, the corners of her eyes and mouth curled up and she smiled mischievously. When I nodded slightly, Titania smiled and whispered to me as if there was nothing she could do.

“Are you asking me because you really don’t know why I’m doing this to my mother? really?”

“I don’t know… how on earth would I know? I know you’re obsessed with me. But, this is too…”

The moment I was about to ask if it was too much, Titania’s thumb touched my lips. I couldn’t say anything more because a finger was pressing down on my upper lip and covering my mouth.

Titania, who was looking down at my crushed lips, rolled her eyes and made eye contact with me. My face was clearly visible through the slightly fluttering red eyes that appeared every time I blinked.

At that moment, there was silence as if time had stopped. As Titania looked down at me, I felt like every single hair stood on end.

Feeling some strange sensation, I tried to take a slight step back, but Titania wrapped her arms around my waist as if to stop me from running away and pulled me close to her.

With the sensation of my feet floating, I had no choice but to fall into Titania’s arms. The moment I looked up and was about to push Titania away to tell her not to do this.

It really happened in an instant.

Titania, who was looking down at me as if she was possessed by something, gently cupped my face with both hands, lowered her face at an angle, and placed her lips between my slightly parted lips.

It was a very short kiss that didn’t even make a sound, but it was enough time to feel the heat spreading from our lips touching each other. Moreover, the fact that this kiss is not just a kiss between ‘family members’.

It was enough time to feel it.

Titania’s gently rubbed lips fell, her ears were red to the tips, and her eyes looked like she was about to cry, and she looked at me with a grin.

Then he brushed my lips against mine and whispered to me.

“Because I like it.”

Not as a mother.

“It’s because I like you.”

As a single woman.

*

The mother looked a little embarrassed after hearing the confession. Was it too hasty after all? However, I felt like I had to say this now. The shackles on my mother’s ankles were not enough.

The words I like out loud will become shackles and tie my mother tightly. It was cowardly, but there was nothing I could do. At that time, I felt like I would go crazy if my mother ran away again.

The mother in her arms answered in a trembling voice.

“I really like you too. There’s no way I hate you, right…? Well, I mean…”

I expected it, but as expected, my mother didn’t want to understand. No, I tried to run away from the answer that I liked him. Titania sighed softly and gently stroked her mother’s slightly trembling face.

“You know that’s not what I meant.”

Vivian closed her mouth as if Titania’s words had hit the nail on the head. Looking at her mother’s downward gaze, Titania smiled bitterly and spoke slowly.

“…Honestly, I tried to hide it from my mother my whole life. “I know better than anyone else that these ‘feelings’ I have for my mother are not normal.”

“……”

“So, I tried to be content with my mother being by my side. That was enough. I tried to hide my feelings my whole life and stay by my mother’s side. however…”

Titania lowered her head and looked at the shackles tied to Vivian’s ankles. When I kicked the chain connected to the shackles, the chain hit the floor and made a loud clattering sound.

“Because you keep trying to run away from me…”

Titania just rolled her eyes and looked at Vivian. Seeing her mother still confused and unable to speak, Titania bit her lip, feeling bitter.

‘As expected, was it too early?’

I thought it was too early to confess my feelings, but I couldn’t help it. Because the water had already spilled and couldn’t be picked up. I didn’t want to do this, but the emotions I had been suppressing were overflowing.

Titania bit her lip, trying to control her emotions. The emotions I had barely contained were overflowing and felt like they were going to explode at any moment. Titania’s parted lips trembled, and then a thirsty sound came out.

“So… stop… leave… I’m really going crazy… Every time my mother disappears, I feel like I’m going to die…”

I couldn’t bear it anymore. I couldn’t control this feeling any longer. I tried to hold back, but emotions were not easily controlled. The emotions I had been suppressing and suppressing eventually overflowed and I collapsed.

The tears that had gathered around Titania’s eyes flowed down her cheeks.

“…I don’t think my mother will accept my feelings. “These are my selfish feelings.”

“……”

“I just need my mother by my side. Just, just by my side. If you just stay by my side, I don’t need anything. “Just my mother, just my mother by my side…”

“Titania…”

“Please, just stay by my side. I won’t be greedy. i like you. Please don’t hate me. Please don’t leave my side. Just, just by my side…”

In the end, Titania’s reason collapsed. I cried and begged in front of Vivian. Because of the tears, he couldn’t tell what kind of expression his mother was looking at him.

Is it an expression of disgust? Is this a pitiful expression? Whatever the expression, it was clear that it was not a good expression. A daughter pleading that she likes her adoptive mother is not a good thing.

Titania held Vivian’s collar tightly and did not let go. I grabbed Vivian’s collar with so much strength that my hand, which was originally pure white, turned even whiter. Like a child begging not to be abandoned.

“Please, just stay by my side…”

If I don’t do this, my mother will leave again. I had to do anything to keep my mother from leaving again. I could do anything for my mother.

Anything, really.

However, it seemed that my mother was not like that. They said all I had to do was just stay still. I begged you to just stay by my side. My mother…

“…Titania. Quickly… release me.”

“mother….”

“I am…”

Vivian, tightly closing her eyes, shook off Titania’s hand and took a step back.

The expression Vivian looked at Titania was not one of disgust or disgust. Rather, he answered Titania’s feelings with a confident expression.

“I cannot grant your request.”

“……”

Without knowing what kind of feelings the answer would make Titania feel in the future.

Vivian pushed Titania away. Rather, we should go further away. Rather, we need to widen the distance further. They said it was normal.

Vivian pushed the pleading Titania away.