I’m the Future Crazy Male Lead’s Mother Chapter 60

The three traffic-light sisters froze when they came face-to-face with my beautiful smile. Then they began whispering among themselves.

From what I could roughly make out, they were arguing over who should step forward and who shouldn’t.

As expected. It was impressive that they had the courage to rush over and speak to me, but I suppose this body’s reputation really was terrifyingly infamous.

“Everyone is being so frustrated!”

Just then, the young lady in the blue dress put both hands on her waist and exclaimed softly before abruptly turning toward me.

Oh. So she really is the blue light.

“I was happy to see you at the Hall of Rest banquet, so I came over to greet you.”

A greeting? Did people here greet each other this aggressively?

I tilted my head with an indifferent expression.

“Oh. Is that so? But I came out once before, too.”

The blue light hesitated for a moment.

“Th-that time, you suddenly disappeared before we even had a chance to greet you…”

Ah. So she meant that this time, they came running over as soon as I entered the ballroom.

I nodded as though I understood and lightly bent at the waist.

“I see. Then shall we greet each other? Hello. Traffic li— I mean, the three young ladies. It’s nice to meet you.”

“Ah, yes. Nice to—”

“Wait!”

The two traffic-light sisters, who had instinctively begun returning my greeting, stopped at the red light’s signal.

Then they flinched and glared at me.

“You think we’ll fall for such a cheap trick again?”

“That’s right. You shook us off like this last time, too.”

When had I ever pulled a trick like that?

I wondered if it had happened before I possessed Cilia and tried to search through my memories, but no matter how much I dug around, not a single memory of these women surfaced.

‘Was it something that wasn’t even worth remembering?’

Considering Cilia’s personality, there was a very good chance that was the case.

As I silently fell into thought, the yellow light whispered,

“Everyone, be careful. This time, let’s make sure we don’t let her get away.”

What exactly were they saying they wouldn’t let me get away with?

Judging by how angry they were, this body must have done something wrong.

Growing frustrated, I scratched my cheek with my index finger and asked bluntly,

“Did I do something wrong?”

And as if those words had been the spark that set off a fuse, all three pairs of eyes turned into sharp triangles.

The blue light gritted her teeth and shouted viciously,

“How shameless! You truly are a woman who knows no shame!”

No, how could she say something like that?

“……”

It was so accurate that I had nothing to say.

Feeling awkward for no particular reason, I gave an uncomfortable smile.

Haha.

“Sorry for being shameless…?”

Trembling.

The blue light’s body shook as though she might collapse at any moment, foam almost forming at the corners of her mouth.

“Miya, calm down. Calm down. Okay?”

The yellow and red lights hurriedly moved to either side of the blue light and patted her shoulders.

I had only apologized, yet she was trembling so delicately that it made me look like I’d done something terrible.

Feeling extremely awkward, I took a step back.

“Well, we’ve finished greeting each other, so I’ll be going.”

“Going where?!”

Just as I was about to quickly leave, thinking that I should hurry over to Axion, a delicate hand grabbed me.

“You’re the reason our Miya’s engagement was broken off!”

“That’s right!”

“Sniff…”

Huh? Broken engagement?

At that explosive word that had suddenly been thrown at me, I had no choice but to stop in the middle of stepping back.

“What? Her engagement?”

“Yes! You pest attached to a potato! You don’t remember?”

“…?”

A pest attached to a potato?

What was that supposed to mean? What a horrifying phrase.

I was just about to tell the beautiful young lady that it was a word that didn’t suit her at all when—

Miraculously, a scene flashed through my mind.

‘Huh?’

There I was, standing barefoot at an angle while holding a pair of sparkling new shoes in both hands, looking down at a man sprawled flat on the floor as I said—

‘Oh. I thought you were a pest attached to a potato.’

The man’s cheeks, squashed against the floor, were swollen and red.

As if someone had just hit him.

The marks somehow looked similar to the soles of the shoes I was holding in my hands in that memory.

“…Hmm.”

I put on an extremely, extremely serious expression.

Right. Come to think of it, there had been a time when Cilia went to a banquet and lightly beat up some man.

It was the scene I had remembered when Cedric told me to attend the banquet last time, so once the dam of my memories had broken, everything came flooding back.

‘So…’

The young master I had beaten up back then was the fiancé of that blue light—this woman named Miya?

And she had broken off her engagement because of me…?

‘What does that have to do with me?’

My question was answered almost immediately.

The red light, who had been comforting the blue light after she burst into tears, suddenly shouted,

“Because of that incident, Young Master Linba was deeply traumatized and left everything behind! It’s all because of you!”

From the explanation that followed, I gathered that the young master I’d beaten up was the heir to Count Linba.

He had also been engaged to that blue light, Miya.

But after that incident with me, he had apparently been so overcome with shame that he severed his ties with the secular world.

‘And his engagement naturally ended along with it?’

After sorting things out that far, I thought sullenly.

‘How is that my fault?’

Whether it was the cause of the incident or the things he did afterward, I didn’t particularly feel like I had done anything wrong.

“That worked out well, then. A man like that is better off living alone. Since it’s a good opportunity, find yourself a better man.”

“What… what?”

The blue light’s eyes blazed furiously at my words.

“You wicked bitch!”

She clenched both fists and charged at me.

“Eek, Miya!”

As the other two sisters covered their eyes in shock, the blue light’s fist flew toward me as though in slow motion.

It was aimed straight at my cheek.

I was amazed.

I had always thought ladies settled things not with their fists, but by determining whose hair was better at staying attached to their scalp.

But perhaps the blue light really was the straightforward type.

Thinking that, I casually reached out my hand.

“Eeeeeek—!”

The blue light immediately grabbed the hand she had extended and sank to the floor. Her delicate wrist quickly began swelling red.

I proudly stroked my iron arm that I had extended in self-defense, then stood there blankly.

I was sorry for the blue light, but I had no intention of letting her hit me.

‘Looks like she wants to blame someone else for her situation.’

But I had no intention of becoming that scapegoat.

The hands that had been used for embroidery at home were incredibly delicate, and the one who felt the pain the moment they collided with my iron arm, hardened through farming, was her.

“H-how could you be so cruel…!”

The yellow light covered her mouth and cried out.

I was dumbfounded.

“What did I do? I was just standing here. You were the one who charged at me.”

At my unapologetic answer, the yellow light bit her lips in frustration.

The nobles who had been watching our unexpected fight from a distance subtly nodded at my words.

Fortunately, it seemed the other people here weren’t as blind as these three.

“Didn’t Lady Miya attack first? Ahem. I’m not sure why she suddenly collapsed, but it seems Lady Miya is more at fault here.”

“I agree. Where has Count Holman gone? His own daughter is like this, and yet he’s nowhere to be seen. Someone ought to come and stop this.”

See? That’s what everyone else was saying.

I shrugged and waved my hand.

“It was nice meeting you, three young ladies. I’m glad you welcomed me so warmly.”

“Uuugh…”

The blue light began shedding tears.

Watching the delicate young lady shake her shoulders as tears and snot streamed down her face…

“Huuuaaaang… Huuuaaaang…”

She didn’t exactly look very pretty.

Still, she did seem a little pitiful. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have hesitated to leave.

I let out a small sigh and approached her.

“Eek?”

As I approached, the blue light instinctively hunched her shoulders, then quickly glared at me.

“Y-you wicked… Sob…”

Whether she continued throwing harsh words at me or not, I leaned closer and whispered softly enough for only her to hear.

“Everything I said to you was sincere, Lady Miya.”

“Sniff. What, sniff?”

I hadn’t wanted to say anything in case it made her feel worse.

But I continued in a very quiet voice.

“About your former fiancé… Young Master Linba. Do you know what he said to me when he came to me that day?”

At my words, the blue light gradually stopped crying.

She looked at me with curiosity.

The people who had been at the banquet that day probably thought I had suddenly beaten the young master for no reason.

But no matter how obsessed this body was with farming, I wasn’t someone who went around hitting people for no reason.

“He was out of his mind, but since he had a decent-looking face, he told me to become his mistress. He said he was going to become a count soon.”

“……!”

If I remember correctly, that Linba—or Ranba, or whatever his name was—probably came from an unremarkable family. He was fairly popular because of his handsome face, though.

On the other hand, the blue light in front of me—no, Miya—was the only daughter of Count Holman.

But she had no interest in becoming the head of the family, so if he married her, he could take the position of count in her place.

That crafty Linba had probably seduced Miya for precisely that reason.

“When the two of you got engaged, Count Holman was strongly opposed to it, wasn’t he?”