Chapter 57 – Chapter 57

〈 Noah’s point of view 〉

It was cold and hot.
Ironically, this paradoxical state was most familiar to Noah.

My body trembles.

“Huh, huh… Ah, ah… Cold.”

The broken stable with a cold stone floor and no space for a windbreak was Noah’s bedroom and dining room.
I don’t know if I would have been less lonely if I was with a healthy horse.
The horse in this stable had already met death before Noah came. Noah seemed to know why.

“… Nah! Noah! You stupid bitch, where are you!”

Hearing the girl’s voice her in his ear her, Noah opened her eyes and jumped up.

“Cough, Cough…”

My physical condition was terrible.
She only got up, but her head her felt like it was going to explode, and the burning pain in her throat her came flooding in.
The world went round and round.
Nevertheless, Noah didn’t mind that and opened his mouth.

“Uh, sister… No, Noah, here… Oh, here it is Coke, Coke!”
“Hey!”

「Fuck!」

“Kyaaaaagh!”

The girl who found Noah ran over and kicked Noah. She then grabbed her by the hair and screamed at her.

“I told you to fetch clean water from the Lieven River this morning, I didn’t! Today is the day I am blessed with 10 years since I was born. What would I do if I heard that I was dirty and ugly because of you! Will you be responsible You stupid piece of trash!”
“Collock, sin, sorry, sorry… Aww! I’m sorry, sister. No, Noah… Oh, I’m feeling strange today. Ah, I couldn’t wake up in the morning… Kyaaaaagh!”
“Hey, what did you just say? Who are you to make excuses for me! Can’t you?”
“… !”

Girls.
No, Noah’s complexion turned black when he heard the words of the woman in this house who called her sister her.

“I have to tell ‘Mom’ anyway. You’re behind Curry!”
“Uh, sister… I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Noah was wrong. No, Noah… From now on, I will never do that again. So please don’t tell ‘Mom’.”
“What next! So you should have done well on a day like today. You stupid bitch! Get your dirty hands off! I think you still need more education.”
“Kyaaaaa!”

“Dump!”

With the sound of a clap, Noah’s head turned violently, and he fell to the floor.
But Noah didn’t care at all, he got down on her knees and clung to her little girl’s legs her and begged and begged.

“I’m sorry, sister. I’m sorry, sister… Noah was wrong. So uh, please don’t tell Mom.”
“Huh, well. What should I do?”

It was then.

“What is this?”

Noah really couldn’t breathe at the voice of a grown woman next to her.
Conversely, the older sister shouted excitedly.

“Mom! Noah made excuses to me for not doing what I asked him to do! I’m not feeling well or something.”
“Hmm, so? Honey, I’ve prepared soft wheat bread and freshly squeezed milk for now, so you should eat them quickly. Today is your 10th birthday, isn’t it?”
“Yes, Mom! I love you!”
“I love you too.”

Noah couldn’t breathe properly even while looking at the front of her like a model of a happy family.
In the meantime, my body was still in a bad condition, and the cough was just about to come up.
But Noah persevered.

“Puck, puck, puk…”

As I tried to forcefully swallow the cough that naturally rose from my throat, my body ached more, the headache intensified, and I felt the pain as if I would faint at any moment.
Noah persevered.

“Noah.”

Her breathless call her brought her giddy.

“Should I call you twice?”
“Oh, no. Uh, Mom.”

Not a mother
This woman was never Noah’s mother. She didn’t even want to call this woman her mother her. But Noah knew that if she didn’t do that, a more terrible time would come for her than now.

“Are you sick?”
“Oh, it hurts, it doesn’t. No, Noah, I’m healthy o…”
“So, you’re not sick, so you’re saying that she didn’t even do what she ‘asked’ her to do? After all, what a useless year you are.”

It was a word she had heard thousands and tens of thousands of times.
Noah nodded her head as if possessed.

“Yes, no, noah… Write, it’s useless. I’m sorry, I’m sorry… Cool, cool, cool… !”

Self-esteem, self-esteem… Looking at the young dragon, who was completely exhausted, the woman smiled happily.
Her sharp eyes her serpentine Noah up and down her her.

“Looking at you coughing, you look very sick? I also get cold sweats. You’re not lying to your mother, are you? Does she even lie about being useless?”

“Thump, pound, pound, pound, pound!”

Noah felt that her heart was beating so fast that it would stop at any moment.
But the mother in front of her was more frightening than her heart her stopping.

“Don’t lie, be honest. Then who knows who will forgive me?”

A voice that warmed up just a little bit.
But for Noah, even that was a ray of hope. Perhaps, by any chance, she wonders if her mother will look at me as cute, the innocent hope of a young child.

“No, Noah… Sick. Heck, it hurts so much, cool, cool!”

If you say you’re in pain, I’ll put you on a warm bed and sing you a lullaby, just like you do to my older sister.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have some warm soup?

But…

“Then, just die.”
“Yes…?”
“There is no reason for us to take you with you if the bitch who eats and eats is sick. Noah, you worthless bitch. Stupid bitch, stupid bitch.”
“Ahhh…”

The woman whispered in her ear as she held onto both of Noah’s cheeks.

“Follow me.”
“…”
“You are a worthless bitch.”
“No, Noah is bitter, useless…”
“A stupid bitch who only knows how to cook and clean. A stupid dragon with no strength due to broken horns.”
“Rice, sick… Noah is an idiot…”
“If we abandon you here and now, you will become food for wild wolves. I will bite your little body with sharp teeth and kill you.”
“No, Noah, I don’t want to die. I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
“Are you really sorry? Doesn’t it look like that at all to me?”

At those words, Noah had to show his apologetic heart his even more desperately.
No, really, Noah got to the point where he thought this was a pity. She came to think that it was all her fault her, that everything that was happening was her fault her.

“My poor Noah.”

The woman then spoke in a warm voice, stroking her Noah’s head very lightly.

“Got it? You have to be good to us if you don’t want to be abandoned. You should thank us Because he gave a stupid dragon like you to a useless idiot.”
“Yes Yes… No, Noah, I’ll be fine. I’ll do better. That’s why, please don’t throw it away.”
“Okay. From now on, don’t show pain. It’s disgusting and I might want to kill it. Ugh, I’m hungry after spending time on a jerk like you. Have some rice.”

Noah nodded her head as if possessed.
She felt that her body would break at the slightest movement, and it was so painful that she cried, but that was the value of her own existence her.

‘Bar, I have to cook.’

It was the fault of sick Noah.
Noah’s fault for not being able to eat because he was sick. It’s all Noah’s fault… Noah was abandoned because he did something wrong, and it was painful because Noah did something wrong.

“Sudk, tuk, tuck…”

It is the moment when Noah, who has struggled to get up, is about to walk somewhere as if possessed.

“Tongue, tongue, tongue! Noah! Go Noah!”
“What’s the matter!”

Ah…
I started to hear warm sounds in my buzzing, ringing head. The call as if it were worrying about oneself, and the footsteps running hurriedly.
I felt like I was going to cry and cry at the warmth, but Noah held it in.

You shouldn’t show off your pain, and you shouldn’t shed tears.
She didn’t deserve it.

A worthless bitch, an idiot, an idiot, a trashy bitch, a damn bitch… At least I was able to stay there by cleaning and cooking.
If she it does n’t even have that, she it does n’t deserve to exist. It was clear that he would be thrown as food for the wolves right away.

“Oh, Dad… No, Noah, it’s nothing…”

Let’s cook right now
It should be.
Even if his body is broken, even if he dies like this, that’s all Noah is. Without even that, Noah was useless.
However…

「Wow!」

“Noah, Noah Kim!”

‘Kim’ Noah…
At the same time, a hug between two people that was so nervous, urgent, and warm that I had never felt before.

“Stop! Noah, stop… Well then… Noah, your sister made a mistake…”

My sister’s apology that I never thought about.

“Noah, please…”

At the voice that resonated in her head, Noah shed a tear at the thought of being tricked for the last time.

“Dad…”

The thing I wanted the most in my life was ‘parents’.
I wanted a father who would protect me and play with me, and a mother who was caring and warm.

“Yes, Dad is here.”
“Dad, Dad… Noah, Noah, it hurts so much… Heh, heh!”

If you say it hurts…

“Sorry, sorry.”
“Noah, I don’t want to die… I don’t want to die.”
“Never die! Never! Don’t worry. It’s okay, because it’s okay…”

I’ve been waiting all my life for my parents to pat me like this and tell me it’s okay.
At that moment, light began to enter Noah’s vision of him, which had been darkened belatedly. And at the faces he could see, Noah finally burst into tears.

“Heuuuuu…” … !”

It was not a dream.

“Aaaaagh!”

Noah broke his throat and burst into tears as if screaming. She continued to cry as if she were pouring out all her anger her at once.

“Noah, sorry… Oops, sick… Ugh, an idiot and a useless bitch… Kkeuk, kkeuk…”
“Who is it! Who did it! No, absolutely not.”
“Who did that! My little sister, who made you cry like this! You harassed me, unnie, unnie didn’t let go!”

A warmth that I had never felt before in my life.
Noah continued to cry at her warmth, which he had always dreamed of, only in his imagination her.

“Huuuuu…” … !”

Hyunwoo Kim and Miho continued to hug and pat Noah.
Only then did Noah finally feel it.
She can be protected herself, she can rely on someone. Now I don’t have to force myself to endure everything.

Noah, who had been crying for a long time, was embraced by Kim Hyun-woo like her princess her, and she was laid on a very soft blanket.
At that moment, Noah felt happy despite her pain in her.
She thought to herself that if she could be this happy, she would be okay with being sick every day.

“Can I have some porridge?”
“… Yes, yes, Dad…”

Whoa, whoa, whoa, and kind, to the father who blows and feeds porridge.

“Miho, I brought you a towel from the refrigerator!”

She tried to get up reflexively as her body flinched when she saw her busily moving sister her instead of herself.

“Uh huh, stay still.”
“Miho can do it!”

Kim Hyun-woo and Mi-ho said as they placed a towel on Noah’s forehead side by side.

“It’s okay.”
“Are you okay?”

In response, Noah sobbed again, holding back her tears. At most, her newly changed pillow her is damp.
Then Noah thought.

‘Wouldn’t it be fine for today?’

Do.