The result of keeping my childhood friend company since we were little ~ Spoiling my childhood friend who has become dere dere - Chapter 22 - Cute Girlfriend and Greetings 4

I stared dumbfounded at Yuu’s back as he left the room.

I couldn’t do anything…

I could not hug Yuu and hold him back, nor could I persuade my mother-in-law…

In that one moment, when I said, ‘There’s no way I will abandon him’ mother-in-law’s eyebrows twisted. It was not the answer she was waiting for.

I could not work out what was wrong with my answer

I don’t know… I really don’t know…

Yuu…

And again I naturally asked for help without realizing it.

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“Can you explain what’s going on?”

I asked Okaa-san as she took me to a chair in the living room where she was relaxing gracefully. This house is someone else’s home, after all.

“…I’m sure Yuki doesn’t really like Yuu-chan.”

“Hah…? What are you…”

As she said that, I couldn’t argue with her first and foremost.

“Simply put, it’s her dependence. If Yuu-chan disappears, Yuki will become depressed again. Of course, I know she’s a good girl. But you know what? No matter how good she is, I don’t know if Yuu-chan can always be by her side.”

“That’s…”

“The kanji character for ‘person’ is made up of people who support each other, isn’t it? But now Yuki can only live while being supported by someone else. And that’s Yuu-chan.”

“Of course, I want Yuki to be happy. But I am your parent, so your happiness is the most important thing to me.”

“Okaa-san…”

Normally my mom likes to joke around and pull people’s legs, but now she was taking her role as a parent seriously.

“It’s the same in a battle. It doesn’t matter if you are strong or not, if you don’t have the tact and the ideas to make the most of it. That’s what your father taught me.”

“Otou-san did…”

“So I taught him about women.”

“…You ruined it at the end. And you didn’t teach him, you stole it from him.”

“Well, at first I was hoping he would remember me in some small corner of his life, but then I got greedy and had him. Fufu, now I have a beautiful son and I’m happy.”

“Somehow I spoke fondly of him…”

Really, Okaa-san was and is the same, no matter what the circumstances. That made me feel a little relieved.

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Then my mom told me how I should move on with it. When I heard that, I was torn to pieces by the pain in my heart.

But this was a test for Yuki to recover. I mustn’t get upset, and I mustn’t let Yuki get caught up in it.

So I’m going to practice. I’m going to say it in a way that doesn’t sound like I’m acting.

But my heart hurts… Maybe I would cry if I told such a painful lie. But then again, maybe it’s a good thing that it doesn’t sound like an act.

Hah… I don’t want to say it.

“I’m moving overseas… so, Yuki… gusu.”

“What are you crying about? This is practice, okay?”

“I don’t like it…. You wouldn’t like it if Dad ran away in the night or something, would you?”

“I don’t hate it though?”

“Why not?”

“That’s…”

I felt like I saw Okaa-san’s true self for the first time in my life.

“I’ll chase him outside the country and to the other side of the world. And I’ll take him home and f*ck him until he withers…”

“……”

I was too scared to say anything. And I respected my dad as a man.