Chapter 59 – 5. Haruna, the Mother of Two Daughters, a Predator That Preys on a Predator

“Good night.”

I could feel the fatigue that was weighing down my whole body from lying all night. As she walked down the stairs with her weak steps, Tsurukawa Haruna, who was sitting at her table, caught her gaze.

“Okay…”

Haruna, who stylistically slurped her glance-bread into her mouth, passed my morning greetings as if they were spilling over. Her hands clenched the bread and moved it to her mouth, but her wandering eyes often avoided my gaze. Do you remember what happened last night? She smiled at the unexpectedly innocent reaction and sat down across from her table.

“Would you like some eggs too?”

Tsuruka, politely handing over bread on a plate, and her white apron wrapped around her family as she diligently went to and from the kitchen looked kind enough to be called a wise mother.

“What about Undine and Eruka?”

When I woke up in the room after a long night of love, I was lying alone in bed. The feeling of being neglected surrounded by traces of a musty affair was bitter, but I accepted it as my fate to oversleep and hurried out of the room.

“Ummm~ Luca went out to patrol the village and Undine said she was going to see her master…”

“Master? Ah…”

It was clear that Undine’s teacher was the spirit that called Undine with an unknown beating sound when he visited Erukawa Plantation the other day. Even if you ask Tsuruka, it’s like a guardian deity- I didn’t give an exact answer, but it’s probably a high-level spirit that has been protecting the jungle for a long time.

“The teacher of the jungle… Minerva.”

-Well well
Haruna opened her mouth full of bread in her small mouth, and Haruna, who moved her chin while holding her bread in her mouth, swallowed it with a gulp, then put down the remaining bread and said jogon jogon.

“Minerva controls the population of demon beasts and even guides lost children outside. If it wasn’t for her, this place might have been called the Devil’s Land.”

“You know the details.”

I looked at Haruna as I chewed on the bread Tsuruka gave me. Although she looks young on face value, she is definitely the mother of her twins. Given her age, she seemed to have a lot of miscellaneous knowledge.

“It helped me a lot when laying the groundwork for a new home. She is a good witch.”

“Is she a witch?”

She has been in this world for 5 years, but in fact she hasn’t seen much of her species. In a different world where witches are treated as one race, the only other races I saw were beastmen, spirits, and elves.

“You seem very interested.”

Haruna, who placed her swaying breasts on her table and put her hands together politely, looked at me. She averted her gaze from the scolding eyes for being lewd and changed the subject.

“Come to think of it, I heard that a prophecy was given…”

It was an awkward change of topic for anyone to see, but Haruna raised her eyebrows and pursed her mouth, as if she was momentarily surprised, then slowly opened it to tell her story about her prophecy.

“I forgot to tell you,” She said. It is a mistake.”

“By the way, is your original tone really that hard?”

I questioned Haruna’s stiff tone as she bowed lightly and apologized. Still, it’s her own daughters, but don’t you feel too distant to talk like that. In response to my question, Haruna shrugged her well-groomed eyebrows and tilted her head with a puzzled expression.

“Rather, isn’t the respect stiff? Rather, this way of speaking is familiar to her daughters.”

She turned her head towards her Tsuruka to see if that was true, and Tsuruka nodded at her with an awkward smile. Haruna accepted her apology coolly. She slapped the table with bread crumbs on her mouth and opened her mouth.

“Speaking of prophecies, a fairly intuitive prophecy came down.”

Even if it was intuitive, it would be a grandiose prophecy- I looked at Haruna without thinking about anything else. When her eyes met mine, Haruna gently closed her eyes, placed her hand on her lap, and quietly opened her mouth.

[The wrong head will serve the sky, and in the end, the two roots will connect and connect – I will stand at the forefront of the disaster that eats up the continent -]

– Tak Tak

After reciting her prophecy, Haruna quietly opened her eyes and pounded her table with her sharp claws. As soon as the steady beat of her beat stopped, Haruna’s mouth opened again to mutter her interpretation.

“In the end, the divided villages will unite and lead the war that will take place on the continent. So, sooner or later, we plan to call all the residents in our village.”

“It will take quite a while.”

She said that it would take quite a while if the number of people in the village came in now, but when she looked at her questioningly, Haruna said the answer she had prepared as if she had expected it.

“First of all, we plan to call those who need to adapt sequentially.”

“Adaptation?”

“I plan to bring in the children who grew up or were born in the village after the split. While letting her know that she will be a member of the same village, I will be careful not to cause unnecessary disputes.”

“You must be in trouble.”

“I see, I’m thinking of bringing in the next chieftain and escort warriors, so I’m going to train like Cassano.”

“You mean the next chieftain?”

Haruna wasn’t the chief. When she opened her eyes wide at the unexpected fact, she covered her mouth with a very subtle smile.

“You must be surprised, I was serving as both the village priest and advisor. Now, if it is unified, I will pass it on to Tsuruka, but…”

Looking at Tsuruka, who hums as she cooks her eggs, Haruna looks down at her with a mixed emotion in her eyes and rummages through her bread on her plate. Haruna’s eyes, full of regret, regret and love, felt the agony of weighing her mother and her position.

She said, “When she first told me that she had surrendered her chieftainship to an outsider, she was reluctant, but when she met you, she changed her mind.”

“Is it worse than you thought?”

“Haha, it’s been a long time since Tsuruka lived with such a happy smile.”

“Mother…”

Tsuruka came out of her kitchen and looked at Haruna with her sad eyes as she placed dishes on her table. Her foolishly kind Tsuruka believed in her prophecy and never once resented her mother for abandoning her and her eluca.

“You and Eruka did a really bad thing. I don’t mean to be treated like a mother now, but I wanted to say this.”

– Dripping

“It’s okay, Mother, there were many hard times and sad days, but now I’m really happy.”

Tsuruka, who is looking at me with friendly eyes, sneaks up next to me and leans on her shoulder. I looked at her Haruna, feeling Tsuruka’s warm warmth passing through her arms.

“Is it…”

Relieved, yet wary eyes, perhaps seeing the four of them roll around yesterday, the wariness had risen. I grin and I’m harmless—she looked at me with an assertive look.

“It’s already late, but I apologize again. She believed in the prophecy and left, but she returned after hearing the prophecy.”

Haruna got up from her seat and looked at Tsuruka, who was leaning on me, unable to leave her seat easily, and apologized to her. At first, she believed in the prophecies and neglected her daughters and left. What kind of person was she?

“Eruca cried more than me.”

Putting her index finger on her chin and smiling mischievously, Tsuruka said playfully while talking about Eruka, who was not at her seat now. Imagine Luca crying out loud at that, and she was somehow cute.

“That child has been acting like a child before… Later on, she will have to apologize once more.”

– Trudge

As if she had said what she wanted to say, Haruna turned her steps towards the door and quietly moved her steps. Before she put her foot out the door, she looked back at her and Haruna said to Tsuruka hesitantly.

“The rice was delicious. Let’s bring the villagers back.”

“Go carefully, Mother.”

-Kiik

After finishing my meal appropriately, I asked Tsuruka, who was looking at the door with a complicated expression on her face, insinuating.

“You really don’t resent me? After all, I came back because of the prophecy.”

“Even so, she apologized. If it were my mother in the past, I wouldn’t have imagined that kind of look…”

I remembered the first time I met Haruna in Tsuruka’s office. I wonder how cold-blooded he must have been to say that in the old days when he was more blunt than that. I got up from my seat, stacking and organizing the empty tableware.
“But the prophecy I heard earlier was intuitive, but I don’t understand.”

After quietly clearing away the tableware and cleaning her table, she asked Tsuruka, who was sitting and resting, what she was curious about. Tsuruka, who tilted her head at my question, thought it over and told her what she thought.

“The wrong head is probably talking about a chieftain from another village. Bowing down to the sky would mean bowing down to a proper chieftain.”

“Didn’t Tsuruka say I was the sky in the prophecy?”
“Usually, the sky means the ruler… But Mother’s opinion may be different.”

– Slurp

Taking a sip of the remaining warm tea, Kintsuruka closed his eyes for a while enjoying the warmth soaking his body, then spoke to me with bright eyes.

“Mother thinks we are the wrong brains and may even challenge us to a duel or a duel.”

“That means I have to fight Haruna again.”

“That’s right, as prophesied, have the West serve Mother and unite the village to prepare for war – this must be Mother’s idea.”

Tsuruka, who moved the corners of his mouth crookedly, looked at the rolling cars and lost himself in thought. I said it was okay, but I threw out the little bit of uneasiness that still remained in my heart and said.

“Then I just have to subdue Haruna.”

“I have no intention of ignoring Mr. Seo, but my mother might be having a hard time…”

Tsuruka, who was looking at me with a twisted tail, I didn’t say it with the thought that I could win brazenly by putting it on like that yesterday.

“I told you to surrender, I didn’t say to win.”

“That… Can’t it be…?”

Hearing the prelude to how his relationship with Eruka developed, Tsuruka looked at me with the same eyes as back then. I faced Tsuruka and confidently nodded her head.

“I don’t want to see Josu, who left the village and just returned after hearing the prophecy-“

The kind of person who believed that her own thoughts couldn’t be wrong, Haruna’s actions based on her prophecies were really the same as those of the person I hated the most. I don’t know as a person to person, but I can’t stand that aspect, so I decided to move as well as revenge for Tsuruka and Eruka.

“Also, the village and Hormia were supposed to trade, but if the chief changes, it could be fuzzy, right?”

These are the people who abandoned the village due to the prophecy that a stranger could become the chieftain. He said he had traded before, but after returning, if he changed his mind and said he didn’t know, what would be Sierra who waited for trade and gave everything to me?

“Hehe, I will help you, Mr. Seo, as always.”

Tsuruka, who smiled at the conversation with me while adding various excuses, set the empty teacup down on the table and smiled quietly. She tried to turn her head away from the penetrating gaze and drank the teacup in front of her at once.

“Still, how to deal with Mother… That is the key.”

“There are ways.”

Looking at the night of pleasure the four of us had last night, I quietly got up from my seat, thinking of Haruna with female eyes. Strengthening was the first thing. In preparation for her fight with Haruna, I decided to engage in sparring with Eruka, so I set out to find Eruka, leaving behind Tsuruka’s farewell.

**

“Are you going to fight with your mother one more time?”

After sweating profusely while commanding her men, Luca looked at me with her astonished eyes. Like you I said bluntly, calming the rising heartache.

“Because I have no choice but to fight.”

“Even if Mother, the representative of the hardline patriarch, and you, the moderate patriarch, compete, the answer is as if the answer has already been found.”

Eruca calmly evaluated. Eruka, who did not shy away from taking my side and calmly judged my superiority, looked at me while drooling.

“But it probably doesn’t suit your temper to quietly lose. Are you going to fight with me in preparation for a fight with my mother?”

“If I defeat him, he won’t accept it calmly, he is a person who blindly believes in prophecies like that.”

“That’s true… But right now, it’s absolutely impossible to defeat Mother with your power.”

“Where is the absolute?”

“Yesterday, my mother overpowered you without even putting on mana.

Reaching out her hand and placing her hand on her belly, Luca quietly closed her eyes. I helped Luca to feel the mana circulating in her body.

“A simple physical fight might catch you off guard, but if you use mana to fight, it’s sure to be decided in an instant.”

In my heart, I thought that this level of skill would be enough after 5 years, but Eruka’s expression when he harshly evaluated it was really serious. I said quietly, scratching the ground with the tip of her toe in her frustrated heart.

“But it’s too much for me to hand over the village calmly.”

I couldn’t stand the shameless appearance of believing in the prophecy and quickly leaving the village and coming back to the prophecy, even though I was not a victim myself.

“That’s… Whoa…”

Eruca, who looked at me with a sad smile as if he was frustrated, scratched the ground just like me and was lost in thought.

“Isn’t it possible to be confident in anything other than fighting?”

“It’s not bad to compete with what you’re good at.”

In order to liven up the stiff atmosphere, I brought out a joke I had prepared and slipped my arms around Luca’s strong waist.

“Like a sex match. Huh?”

“That’s right…!”

– Puck!

“Keugh…!”

Eluca’s fist hit her side in an instant, and Eluca, who dyed her face red, scolded me while exposing her fangs.

“How shameless…! Even if it’s a joke, against someone else’s mother…!”

It must have been her joke that she could not accept because she admired Haruna, but I calmed her down by stroking her chin and saying that it was just her joke.

“Joy…”

It was said to be a joke, but I was really thinking of various methods as a last resort, but seeing Eruka reacting so violently made me rather curious. What kind of expression would I make if I saw Haruna crying under me?

“Ah…! Or go to Undine’s master?”

“That witch named Minerva?”

With her nodded head, Eruka explained about her witch and said the same thing that Haruna had explained about Minerva’s actions, even Toh-shi was not wrong.

“… That’s why I ask her, her witch, for help with her mana.”
“Good?”

From the fact that she called Undine wandering around the jungle and kindly told her various things, or helped people in danger in the jungle, it was clear that she was a kind witch. Asking for help and repaying it will be enough. When the light came on and the road was visible on the road ahead, which was quite deadlock, I naturally felt excited.

“Wow?!”

He hugged Eruka, who was looking at him with a confident expression, and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Confused, she wriggled her arm around her, but Luca finally buried her face in the nape of her neck and hugged her around my waist.

“Jeongmaaal… What if someone sees it…”

“Then hug him.”

“That’s because I’m afraid you’ll feel embarrassed…!”

He patted the whining Eruka on the back and praised him endlessly. Excited to hear her ignorant compliments, Luca laughed nonstop and had a good time burying her nose in the nape of her neck and sniffing her.

“Ah… It’s time for a shift.”

As they spent time embracing each other, Luca let her go when it was time for her to go to work. I checked the place where Eruka had taught me where Minerva lives, and together we walked to the entrance of her fence.

“Don’t forget, go straight and turn right at the tree with orange flowers.”

“I’m not a kid, okay.”

“I’m just worried.”

Seeing through the eyes of her mother running errands for her child, Luca eventually pushed me on the back and sent me off. I walked towards Minerva, bathed in the warm sunlight bathing my whole body.