Rather Than The Son, I’ll Take The Father

His white jade-like skin peeled away, and the traces of taking other people’s bodies and attaching to them was clearly revealed.

Bugs smelling of rot crawled between the traces.

Wind drove the accumulated snow from the field, revealing a clear sheet of ice.

Kadan paled as he saw his own image, which was uglier than a corpse.

“This…… what’s this!”

Maevia continued to agitate Kadan.

In the aftermath, Kadan’s lips caught fire.

The flames spread rapidly and covered Kadan’s entire body.

“Uwaarrgghh!”

Kadan struggled, rolling over the snowfield.

“Hot, hot…… !”

Maevia didn’t understand.

“What’s the matter? I handed you that power because you said you could handle it well.”

“Stop it, stop it! You didn’t say you would burn me!”

Maevia sighed.

“That’s the power that escaped because your bowl was too small to absorb it all.”

Kadan’s lips parted in shock when Maevia pointed out that, in short, Kadan had much less ability than Maevia.

“Unbelievable…….”

“I barely gave a finger’s strength. Be patient, for you are a long way from achieving the immortality you so longed for.”

The fire grew stronger.

“Ah…… Aagh!”

Even as someone was burning before her, Maevia contemplated with a languid face.

“You haven’t lived hundreds of years. Barely holding on. Everything that makes you has reached its limit and is rotting away. Did you really not know?”

The wind blew and changed the shape of the flames.

Kadan couldn’t escape and appropriate a new body, but he couldn’t extinguish the flames.

At this rate, it would be too easy to kill Kadan, so Maevia reduced the fire.

“Haa, haa…….”

Kadan lay down and gasped for breath.

Without the strength to even raise his head, Kadan belatedly noticed a hand holding him down.

Thud!

A huge golden hand, as if it had just been ripped from the constellation, slammed Kadan down.

The entire snow field rang as if an earthquake had struck.

“This is for Regen.”

Thud!

“This belongs to Regen’s brother who died without a name.”

Soon, a huge hand picked up the thing called Kadan, whose shape was so messed up that it was hard to recognize.

“This is for my husband, you bastard.”

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The hand gripped Kadan.

Maevia played with her hair while listening to the sound of bones crunching like cacophonous music. As if her interest had already moved elsewhere.

“Hat…… Where did it go? Aedis put it on me.”

Maevia’s eyelashes fluttered.

It was scary to think that it was blown away by the wind, soon the scattered light came with the fur hat.

Maevia muttered, pulling the fur hat onto her head.

“I miss Aedis.”

Eventually, tears welled up in her shining eyes.

Gilbert was taken aback by her erratic behavior. It seemed to Gilbert that part of her head was out of order.

Just like that…….

“I missed you too, Eve.”

At that time, a full night fell on the white land.

Gilbert’s thoughts were cut off as the low voice appeared and answered as if he had waited for her to call.

Gilbert watched Aedis’ face soften as he approached Maevia.

There was no room for Gilbert or anyone else to intervene.

The blue eyes lingered for a moment on Gilbert, who was now neither the first adopted son nor anything else.

“I have to go somewhere else.”

After Aedis had put away Kadan, who had been smothered and was waiting for his death to come right under his nose, and Gilbert, he reached out to his dearly beloved wife.

“My wife never breaks a promise.”

Really, he didn’t care about revenge anymore.

If only she would stay by his side.

His mouth showed a very satisfied smile.

* * *

Tears rolled down Maevia’s cheeks when she saw Aedis.

She ran to him, not knowing why she was crying.

“Aedis!”

Just by that action, Aedis noticed something was wrong with his wife.

Instead of embracing Maevia, he withdrew slightly.

Shock spread across Maevia’s face at the thought that she had been rejected by none other than Aedis.

“Are you avoiding me now?”

“…….”

“Why?”

Maevia bit her lower lip with a nervous face.

It was a rarely seen expression except when checking Shaula’s food expenses.

Aedis’ eyes narrowed.

After observing Maevia, he pointed out the most important problem.

“Eve, there is a cut on your shoulder.”

There was no need to ask why it was the shoulder again.

It must be to relieve her guilt for Monica Elaine. And maybe it was what Maevia herself wanted.

The smell of blood carried a faint reverberation of poison.

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Sufficiently guessing the circumstances, Aedis pursed his lips tightly, but Maevia denied it.

“What? Am I hurt? I am not hurt!”

There was no hint of the usual mischief.

She really didn’t seem to remember.

“…… That’s an interesting answer.”

Maevia asked sadly.

“Hug me, Aedis. please.”

Aedis’ eyes curved.

“Eve, you don’t have to ask me for anything.”

Aedis patted her back slowly.

The warmth made her sigh.

“Sorry. I’m a bit weird.”

“……”

“I feel like I shouldn’t think for a long time, so I keep acting instinctively.”

Aedis understood her.

When a person who has lived an ordinary life suddenly steps into the extraordinary, it is bound to be confusing.

Too much would be seen, too much would be heard.

She could destroy everything around her so easily when she might have felt trapped in a sandcastle.

Just like he did.

Thus currently, in Maevia’s eyes, Kadan and Gilbert were no more than flying flies in the chaotic situation.

He understood Maevia. She could have killed someone just by thinking about it deeply. But she was desperately suppressing it.

“…… My wife is wonderful.”

Maevia lowered her eyelids at the laughable admiration.

She channeled all her thoughts on Aedis in her own way.

She gave her heart and mind to Aedis, leaving only the bare minimum goal of restraining Kadan.

She did it so that she would think deeply of someone she cared about and not harm him unwittingly.

It was the result of her belief that Aedis could accept everything anyway.

This had the inevitable side effect of forgetting everything else as soon as the goal of restraining Kadan was achieved.

The current Maevia was just an immature child who could only think of Aedis.

After she realized that, Aedis couldn’t help but laugh heartily.

“I am very glad that you depended on me.”

It was a voice of deep satisfaction.

“If it weren’t for this situation, when would I ever be obsessed with my wife?”

“Aedis?”

He spoke to the goddess of spring who called his name while in his arms.

“Eve, do you remember asking me about my ideal type?”

“Ideal type?”

Maevia followed his words.

As of now, Maevia, who is trying to refrain from thinking as much as possible, still could not remember.

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That’s why he inevitably ignited Maevia’s obsession.

“Actually, my ideal type is the complete opposite of you…….”

Whiiipp!

Stems of light rose from the floor.

He did not resist the force that tried to block his movements, but he did express his displeasure.

“…… I would appreciate it if you could avoid that leg.”

She glared at Aedis with pale pink eyes due to the brilliant golden color.

“I will fix your mind. Why don’t you just erase everything except for me right now?”

“I will be happy.”

Aedis calmly replied with a face that didn’t show if it was a joke or serious.

The light that moved according to Maevia’s will lightly brushed Aedis’ cheek.

“Right? I will feed you, clothe you and put you to sleep.”

He barely restrained himself from laughing at the whisper, which was bloody rather than sweet.

“Will you brush my hair, too?”

“…… It will be difficult, right?”

“But last time you did very poorly.”

“Last time?”

Conflicted as to whether to continue it or not, Maevia glared.

Aedis pulled out the hairbrush with his still-free left hand. At his glance, Maevia hesitantly accepted the comb.

His hair turned into a strange shape at once due to the clumsy brushing that made it almost impossible to see that he had bent down.

“Why is it like this?”

Maevia pouted.

Even now, when she was thinking as simply as possible, it was clear that she didn’t like it.

In the end, as Maevia frowned at him and tried to throw the comb, she couldn’t bear it and shouted, upset.

“This thing! Just use your superpowers!”

Aedis couldn’t hold back his laughter, but his mouth struggled.

“I was expecting it.”

“…….”

“The wife doesn’t love me enough to devote herself to it.”

At first glance, it looked like he was crying.

Maevia’s face was stained with bewilderment.

“N, no!”