He Is a Master Who Can’t Handle a Slave Properly

51 – The mother and the daughter (2)

“Ellie… is that right?”

“Sureuk” and the hood slowly lowered… A really young face appeared.

Ellie’s mother, a dark-haired woman with sharp eyes, showed little signs of age except for a slight wrinkle on the side of her mouth.

And as much as her unusual appearance, the feeling of foreignness she felt left an impression on me.

Like the way she slung the bow very skillfully on her back, the way she accurately dropped the bandit hiding in the tree… and the gaze she felt from her.

Just like when Ellie stared at me… I got goosebumps on my arms little by little.

“Um, mom?”

Dazed and covered in blood, she roughly wiped the blood off the clothes of a nearby bandit and hurriedly ran to the approaching archer.

After firmly fixing the prosthetic leg to the ground –

“Huh,”

I could barely get my butt off the ground.

…While slightly trembling at the power of her who slaughtered three people with one fist, I steadily moved my steps to return to her side.

Stepping between the corpses with iron feet, to get to her side.

“Really, that’s our Ellie… God… my daughter.”

I couldn’t see the woman’s face properly because she had her back to the sunlight, but I could see her holding Ellie tightly.

Ellie, who had been standing there blankly for a while, buried her head and burrowed into her arms.

If so, is that person definitely her mother?

I busily moved my heavy legs to lead the limping legs and go to the side of the two.

For some reason, a feeling of resentment pokes its head into her now.

‘It can’t be helped. It’s a family that I managed to reunite with.’

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Repeatedly repeating those words to myself, I struggled up the stairs, but an unknown cold wrapped around my waist.

I couldn’t be so lonely by my side, which was much quieter than before.

I was able to stand next to the two of them as I moved my steps while pressing my temple with my thumb to suppress my thoughts.

“My pretty first daughter… Let’s see, my God – she’s really grown up now. Besides, this… strange scent. Maybe, “

Poof, she turned her head, looked at my face carefully, and then slightly lowered her head.

I bowed down to her and greeted her properly.

“Hello, I’m Marcus – Marcus Ahn, who is currently dating Miss Michelle. Are you Miss Michelle’s mother?”

“Yes, I am Ellie’s mother. Nice to meet you, my name is Chise Michelle.”

I bowed my head once again to the woman who could be mistaken for being really young except for the light wrinkles, and who seemed to believe that she was the same age as my daughter.

“Mom, are you okay? What happened to that bow? Why are you visiting such a dangerous place…”

“It’s because your dad is having a hard time. Money goes into prosthetic legs, money goes into training your younger brother in magic, and sooner or later he’ll be a retired wizard apprentice…”

“Eh, a wizard?”

“Ah, didn’t I tell you? Stefan, it seems you had a talent for magic.”

“Ha, not even one. In magic?”

“I think the story will be long. Those bandits, I think there was a bounty on them – shouldn’t we get them?”

Sreung, he pulled out a dagger from his waist and turned his eyes to the scattered corpse with twinkling eyes.

“Yes? I’ll help you, Mom.”

“Oh, would you? And Ellie, there are so many things I want to ask you too…”

With tears in his eyes, he patted Ellie’s head and held her hand as she slowly began to go down the hill.

…A smile was in full bloom on Eli’s face without me.

Why is my heart so bitter?

I know I shouldn’t… I need to know and understand that I did that to her once –

The power in his hands showed no signs of waning.

It was painful.

***

“Anyway, your younger brother seemed to have reached puberty late, and if he couldn’t keep up with the wizard, he would stomp his feet like he would die. Who does he look like so stubborn…”

“That wizard, is he a good person?”

“It’s rude to ask how old a wizard is, but he looks like he’s probably a lot older than I am.”

“Is it a girl?”

“Yeah, he looks very young – he’s heard about it and met him in person, but he seems to know a lot. He’s respectful.”

“What did he say?”

“Did he say that he showed talent and really wanted to teach under him?”

“…What does mom think?”

“You should think of sending your son’s wedding.”

“Puh, already?”

“He’s already 19 years old to say he’s already. He’s a decent adult. You’ve always looked at Stefan as too young.”

“Young. Immature.”

“But it’s zealous. Since you left, I’ve tried so hard to fill your void.”

“…I see. Dad?”

“You don’t have to worry too much about him. I’m taking good care of him.”

“Don’t do that, tell me. In your letters you always said you saw me and got along…”

I blankly listened to their conversation and followed them.

I moved my feet while watching them with the background from afar, in case I was in the way.

If I knew this would happen, I would have chosen a more quiet prosthetic.

A long breath escaped his lungs.

As I ran out of breath, I could clearly feel my empty heart.

It’s like a coconut that’s been hollowed out with only the outer shell remaining – just like gangjeong, which has been swollen but has nothing inside…

Slowly chewing on the cracks in the dry skin, he moved his feet.

Crunchy, Crunchy…

widely.

He kicked a stone onto the shoulder of the road with his heavy prosthetic leg, following the shadows of the two with his eyes.

Still, the two of them were talking with their arms crossed.

Seeing her so happy-looking side profile, I was about to hit the ground with my head, which I had been raising all along.

At some point, the darkness followed closely behind me, but the light in the sky that had not been completely extinguished was driving away the purple darkness for the last time.

Looking at the sky as the sunset went down, I blankly watched over the horizon dyed in crimson.

Like dropping pink paint on turbid water, like cranberry juice poured over an orange juice I’ve seen before…

However, I watched as it steadily lost its light in the dark blue curtain.

My heart ached as I felt that my heart, once filled with warmth, was now completely empty.

…

Slowly lowering my head, what I saw was her village.

A round space surrounded by wooden fences in the middle of a place surrounded by dense forests and mountains.

And high and low buildings huddled in it.

A high central spire could be seen dimly lighting up, and quite a few people seemed to be wandering around in the streets.

As I gazed at the peaceful village, I felt my curiosity slowly rising.

However, all these thoughts and thoughts began to disappear into the deep abyss in the mind.

Without her to take me in, I felt truly alone.

…In the first place, I was alone without her.

As the shadow of loneliness covered my face, I instinctively felt the tone of the conversation change.

“By the way, Ellie, are you going to disappoint your mother like this?”

The friendly atmosphere began to subside without warning.

“Huh…? Suddenly?”

“The person you say is really important isn’t by your side.”

That one word seemed to be enough to stop her.

“You never paid attention to him who quietly followed you from behind, fearing that the sound of his prosthetic leg would be annoying. Do you really love him?”

Stopping in her seat, she looked at me and at Mrs. Michel, confused.

“Uh, Mom, I…”

I hurried to the troubled woman and opened my mouth to take her side.

“Ma’am, knowing how far Miss Michelle has moved away from her family, I-“

“I’m sorry, Mr. Ahn, but this is not the time for you to intervene. Please understand.”

As if she had cut the noodle dough with a sharp knife, she suppressed me with that cold attitude and emotionless expression that prevented me from speaking any more, and she continued to reprimand her daughter.

“Wasn’t the person you love the first thing for my daughter? I’ve been told many times. Love for family is natural, but love for others must be special. That’s why, from the moment of marriage, no, the person who fell in love The person you should think of first from the time this happens and that person starts accepting your love – even if it’s a small degree – you have to give priority to the person you love.

But, you don’t seem to see it.

He was the one who helped keep the family you considered precious from collapsing, and even though he was the one who could treat you carelessly, he wasn’t the one who accepted all your insistence. Why did you take your eyes off him even for a moment? Why did you take your eyes off him?

Even though even Stefan, who you think is young, listens to my words, you can’t do that at all. Rather, it’s more disappointing than my son.”

It was the moment when my expectations, which I believed her family were normal, were shattered.

“But-but-“

“Daughter, stop making silly excuses. Look at him. There was someone behind him on purpose who could come by so quickly, even with a prosthetic leg. He’s so caring and kind. But don’t you see what I’m looking at? To your dad Even though I’m not paying this much attention?”

“…”

“I use all sorts of tools to see his position, state, and behavior. What about you? That’s about it. Even though I can feel how lonely he is.”

The darkness was slowly coming out and engulfing the two women, but a red light was slowly emerging in Eli’s eyes.

However, the light seemed too weak compared to the person on the other side.

Her mother must have been a normal person, but I could see something in her eyes.

It must be difficult to see black things in the dark, but I could see the black light emanating from Ellie’s mother’s eyes.

The two eyes were clearly shining enough to think of them as black pearls shining in pitch darkness – if it wasn’t my mistake.

“I’ll give you a room when I get home, so you might want to talk to your husband-to-be for a while. And Ellie…”

When those red eyes that had turned to the ground turned to the front, her mother gave her a brush on her cheek.

“I’m not saying this because I don’t love you, you understand?”

When those black eyes finally looked at me, I could finally feel the strangeness I felt.

Like digging into the deepest parts of me and picking up the pieces one by one,

At once, I felt like I was mistaken for being naked.

In an instant, the skin rose, and the body trembled as if the winter wind had touched the bare skin.

“…You have to take care of your boyfriend more than tens or hundreds of times the interest I have for the husband of the daughter I love. Remember.

Love is a very precious feeling. As long as you’re determined to give it away – you have to keep trying. So that every moment with your loved one will be filled with happiness.”

It was a very short time, but it was only then that I was able to catch my breath little by little as the eyes that had been shining in the pitch darkness moved away from me.

If Ellie’s grip on me was like being hit with a very strong force in a short period of time, Elly’s mother gave me the feeling of a snake tightly wrapping around the prey and then clamping it down.

It feels like squeezing out every single drop. It seemed like it would be difficult to get used to the feeling of being thoroughly twisted and squeezed so that no energy was left.

…and she herself revealed that the attention she gave me was the attention she gave Mr. Ellie’s father… not much?

It was the moment when I could understand who Ellie’s heavy love came from.