I’m the Future Crazy Male Lead’s Mother – Chapter 2

Author: isuzuuy

The wizard had collapsed, claiming the world was spinning after I shook him so hard by the collar, so I dragged him into the drawing room.

While Axion slept, he regained consciousness and explained everything that had happened at the Magic Tower.

All while crying huge, fat tears.

Sniff.

“Hngh…”

“Ah, enough crying already. You’re a grown man. Should you really be bawling like that? Even the baby here is sitting so quietly.”

“That’s only because he doesn’t know anything and is asleep!”

“Tsk. Don’t yell while a baby’s sleeping. What if you wake him? Are you going to take responsibility? Hmm?”

The wizard immediately shrank back and shook his head.

The navy-blue handkerchief in his hand was already soaked with tear stains.

He muttered in a small voice.

“It’s just… so unfair.”

“Unfair? What’s unfair about this? No matter what the circumstances were, how could you even think of putting a Dragon Heart into a child’s chest without the guardian’s consent?”

“W-Well, that’s because… under the Tower Master’s judgment…”

“Then bring that Tower Master over here. I’ll kindly knock every last tooth out of his mouth.”

“Eek!”

The wizard’s face instantly turned pale, and he clamped both hands over his mouth.

Were all Magic Tower wizards this timid?

Maybe it wasn’t fair to generalize based on one person, but I was beginning to wonder.

I stared blankly at the top of his fidgeting head before letting out a long sigh and crossing my arms.

“So you’re saying there was no other choice if you wanted to save the child.”

“Yes! And the baby was on the verge of dying when the Dragon Heart suddenly started humming and resonating! So I— no, the T-Tower Master—was completely shocked…”

“Hmm.”

“I-It’s true! I can’t lie!”

When I narrowed my eyes, the wizard flinched and practically crawled as he spoke.

“T-That’s… no matter what we tried for a hundred years, the Dragon Heart never reacted at all… Then it suddenly responded like that to this child… S-So I… no! W-We became curious…”

“So as an experiment, you placed the Dragon Heart against the baby’s heart?”

“…That’s right. The Dragon Heart was absorbed instantly… and the child’s heart, which had been about to stop, started beating again.”

Keeping his shoulders tightly hunched, he cautiously watched my expression.

Ignoring his timid glances with a face as expressionless as a fortress, I fell into thought.

So if we remove the Dragon Heart… Axion might die?

“What would happen if you removed the Dragon Heart?”

“Most likely… ahem… the child’s heart would stop…?”

Just as I thought.

In the original novel, thanks to the Demonic Dragon’s Dragon Heart, Axion obtained magical power and physical strength rivaling a dragon’s.

But in exchange, he was constantly at risk of being consumed by the Demonic Dragon’s miasma.

Like any proper male lead, his subconscious sensed the danger and instinctively sealed away his own power.

But the seal was incomplete, and as he grew older, he was gradually assimilated by the Demonic Dragon’s consciousness.

And then he met the heroine.

After becoming the Empire’s greatest swordsman as an adult, he happened to encounter the heroine…

Vanilla Siaster, the only daughter of the monstrous Ducal House of Siaster—a family so terrifying that even birds in the sky supposedly folded their wings rather than fly above it.

“I guess she’s still a baby too, just like Axion.”

If I remembered correctly, they were around the same age.

“Hm?”

The wizard, who had been shrinking in his seat, flinched at my murmur.

I gently shook my head.

“It’s nothing. So… there’s really no way to remove it?”

“Probably… no…”

“Isn’t there any other method?”

“W-Well…”

As the wizard rolled his eyes around nervously and sweated profusely, I sank into deep thought.

Damn it. How old was Axion when he destroyed the continent after killing the heroine?

Around twenty?

Looking at the baby sleeping peacefully beside me, he couldn’t even be a year old.

So… does that mean I have about twenty years left to live?

No.

Wait.

A memory suddenly flashed through my mind, sending chills down my spine.

Come to think of it, the first step in Axion’s descent into evil was wiping out his mother’s family after they abandoned him.

And that family was…

Yep.

That would be ours.

So in the original story… did this body abandon Axion?

Then why adopt him in the first place?

The question popped into my head, but there was no way to ask the original owner of this body now.

When exactly did that happen…?

Although the novel was told from the male lead’s perspective, his childhood wasn’t described in much detail.

It only came up briefly during one of his sweet moments with Vanilla.

“Mother? I’ve never had someone I could call Mother. Not even for a single moment.”

No, not that line…

When was it?

“There were two women who could have become my mother. One tried to die with me before I was even aware of the world… and the other… tried to kill me. She called me cursed.”

Ah.

As soon as I remembered those words, I realized that the owner of this body’s older sister had tried to die together with Axion.

So the carriage accident hadn’t been an accident at all.

Wait.

Why do I only remember this part?!

When exactly does the maternal family get wiped out?!

I clutched my head in frustration.

Then suddenly, another line came back to me.

“So I killed them first. Every last person who shared that woman’s blood. By today’s standards… I suppose I was about to enter elementary school.”

Elementary school.

It referred to the public school for commoners that would only be established later.

So… around seven years old?

Does that mean I have less than seven years left to live?!

I’ve barely been transmigrated, and I’m already terminal?!

The shocking realization felt like something had grabbed me by the hair and yanked downward.

“U-Um… are you alright?”

“…”

No.

That wasn’t it.

The thing grabbing my hair was my own hands.

Pretending not to notice the strands tangled between my fingers, I calmly smoothed my hair back down.

Unfortunately, the wizard’s this woman’s completely insane look hadn’t faded one bit.

“First of all… thank you for saving the child.”

I bowed politely.

Watching me go from violently tearing at my own hair to suddenly acting like a refined lady, the wizard quietly scooted farther away.

“Y-You’re welcome…? Ahem. It’s nothing. I—I mean, we really should have obtained consent beforehand… We behaved improperly.”

“No. You were trying to save the child. And… I’m sorry for grabbing you by the collar earlier.”

The wizard finally relaxed his hunched shoulders.

Before he could say anything, I spoke first.

“But that doesn’t mean I can’t hold you responsible, does it?”

“…Huh?”

“I’d like the Magic Tower to regularly monitor this child’s condition. You can do that much, right? Of course… for the rest of his life.”

The wizard looked at me as if I’d gone completely insane.

And then, a bell seemed to ring inside my head.

Right.

That’s it.

Axion hasn’t completely gone insane yet.

Well… he would eventually.

In the original story, he exterminated this family because this body had tried to kill him.

So…

What if I simply prevented that from ever happening?

And somehow stopped him from synchronizing with the Demonic Dragon’s Heart.

Better yet, if I could remove it entirely.

To do that, I’ll have to make use of every resource I can.

Even if that resource happened to be the frail wizard who could be subdued with one hand.

“For the rest of his life? How are we supposed to monitor him forever?”

The wizard looked utterly flustered.

“I heard Magic Tower wizards live much longer than ordinary people. Especially the Tower Master.”

“…”

“And judging from what you told me earlier, isn’t the Tower Master the one who bears the greatest responsibility? Then you can simply make him take responsibility.”

A bead of sweat rolled down the pale, bloodless face that looked as though it had never seen sunlight.

After agonizing for a long time while sweating buckets, he finally spoke.

“…Very well. We’ll do that.”

“Great. Then please sign here.”

“W-When did this paperwork appear…?”

“Our Evanroar family’s butler works very quickly. Cal, thank you.”

Cal, who had silently approached with the documents while the wizard was thinking, gave a hearty chuckle.

“It’s nothing, My Lady. It isn’t every day you skip working in the fields to receive guests in the drawing room. How could I simply stand by?”

“R-Right…”

For some reason, his eyes seemed to sparkle.

Was that moisture gathering at the corners of them?

…Probably just my imagination.

While I spoke with Cal, the wizard finished signing and slid the papers toward me.

“So your name is… Elston?”

“Y-Yes… that’s right.”

“Nice to meet you, Mr. Elston. I’m Cilia Evanroar, daughter of the Baron Evanroar family. I look forward to working with you.”

I held out my hand.

After a brief hesitation, he shook it.

“I’ve… heard quite a lot about you, Lady Evanroar.”

“You know me?”

“Is there anyone who doesn’t?”

The way his eyes subtly avoided mine gave me a bad feeling.

Cilia Evanroar.

Axion’s aunt by blood and adoptive mother.

She never appeared in the original novel.

Although inheriting this body’s memories had taught me plenty about her, that didn’t mean I knew what everyone else thought.

“…Why wouldn’t people know me?”

“The eccentric noble lady… obsessed with farming…”

“…Excuse me?”

“That’s… what I’ve heard. They say you’re so obsessed with farming that you missed your chance to marry and spend every day locked away on your estate pulling weeds. A strange young lady who only talks about bizarre things like soil conditions and rice transplanting, so people have gradually started avoiding you…”

“…”

“And last year, while trying to create the world’s greatest fertilizer, you collected every kind of animal’s—”

I didn’t want to hear another word.

Gently covering both ears, I wore a grave expression.

I was wondering why a noble lady spent every day farming…

Turns out this body’s actually a farming fanatic?

A genuine fanatic, too—not someone pretending to be ordinary?

“Waaah!”

As if shocked by the revelation, Axion—who had been sleeping peacefully until now—suddenly burst into loud tears.

He must have learned the identity of the woman who was about to become his mother.

And honestly…

So had I.