I’m the Future Crazy Male Lead’s Mother Chapter 94

Morocanil was slammed into the wall in the blink of an eye.

BANG—!

“Urgh!”

Morocanil groaned from the sudden force inflicted upon him. The impact had clearly caused internal injuries. A thin stream of blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

“How dare you…… mention ‘her’?”

Where had the languid man who had been sitting blankly on the windowsill gone?

Dazar, now radiating a terrifying killing intent, looked like he could pass for a demon himself.

Dazar strode toward Morocanil, who was practically collapsed on the floor, and whispered in a low voice.

“The only reason I’ve kept you alive in this life is because ‘she’ cherished you in her previous life. If ‘she’ in this life learns that you died, she’ll be sad. You know that too, don’t you?”

“……Urgh.”

“I’ve even tolerated the fact that you dared to harbor feelings for ‘her’ all this time. It seems you’ve been relying too heavily on my generosity. Do I really look that forgiving to you?”

At his growling voice, Morocanil clenched his teeth.

……Such overwhelming power.

He had thought that Dazar’s strength would have weakened somewhat after reincarnation gave him a new body.

Was it merely his imagination that it seemed even stronger than before?

“Why are you just standing there? At your level, you should at least be capable of putting up a fight against me.”

Even among Transcendents, there were clearly different levels of power.

But Morocanil wasn’t someone who should have been easily subdued by Dazar.

“……”

Dazar casually flexed his fists as though warming up before a fight.

“What’s wrong? Aren’t you going to do anything?”

Morocanil remained silent.

“……What? This is boring.”

Dazar had expected Morocanil to come at him at any moment, so when there was no response, his excitement deflated.

He released the pressure pinning Morocanil down and turned away.

“Get out. I don’t even want to look at you.”

Surprisingly, Morocanil obediently did as Dazar said.

He moved away from Dazar and left the room without protest.

Dazar watched until Morocanil transformed into a shadow and slipped away before his golden eyes snapped open.

“……This is strange.”

Why hadn’t he fought back at all?

Morocanil in his previous life had at least bared his fangs at Dazar.

No—even as recently as a month ago, he had definitely been like that.

Seeing him suddenly hide his fangs and tuck his tail between his legs made Dazar even more suspicious.

It was almost as though he were avoiding Dazar to protect or conceal something.

This is the first time he’s brought up ‘her’ in this life.

……Come to think of it, he seemed to have stopped making those strange stones lately, too.

The unpleasant question gnawed at him as Dazar narrowed his eyes.

 

***

 

“Ha! I can feel the strength rushing back into me.”

Sunlight poured through the window in a cascade.

I opened my eyes wide in bed and stretched my arms and legs.

The day after returning to the Siaster estate, I was in peak condition.

Perhaps because I had finally gotten sick once and rested properly.

“Y-You’re awake?”

I saw Carl, who had been bringing in breakfast, flinch when he saw me.

He looked almost as though he were shocked by the dirtiness of a disheveled young lady who hadn’t properly washed for a week.

But that was probably just my imagination.

“I was truly surprised to hear that you were ill, Lady Cilia. Other than when you were very young, you’ve never been sick in your entire life. Could I have passed my cold on to you?”

Carl placed a thin soup on the table beside me, looking slightly worried.

The moment I saw the soup, my appetite returned, so I quickly grabbed the spoon and devoured it.

“Yeah. I was surprised, too. Are you feeling better, Carl?”

“Of course. I recovered in a day. His Grace the Duke of Siaster and Lady Vanilla must have been very worried. Ah, and of course, Lord Axion as well.”

……Vanilla, sure.

But how did he know Dazar had been worried about me?

I tilted my head, but Carl merely chuckled quietly.

There was something suspicious about that smile.

“Come to think of it, while you were away, Lord Cedric kept me company. He came to the estate every day to check the fields with Lord Elston.”

“Cedric and Elston?”

“Yes. The two of them seemed to spend quite a lot of time together. It feels like only yesterday that Lord Cedric used to hide behind you when he was young, Lady Cilia, and now he has already grown into such a fine young man……”

Carl went on with the usual talk about how nostalgic and touching it was.

I let it go in one ear and out the other while blinking.

Ah. Since Cedric is the Prime Minister, he probably knows Elston, the Master of the Magic Tower.

They might even have been fairly close.

“Hmm. I see. Carl, I’m going to check the fields, so could you watch Axion for a little while?”

“You only just got up. I think it would be better for you to rest a little longer.”

“Ah. Now that I think about it, my body probably hasn’t fully recovered yet. Maybe if I drink about ten bowls of carp extract, I’ll regain my strength……”

“Have a good trip.”

Carl’s eyes were extremely firm as he abruptly changed his tune after expressing his concern for me.

I grinned and headed toward the fields.

While I had been bedridden, the Period of Rest was truly nearing its end.

No, it was probably more accurate to say it had already ended.

I could see sprouts emerging beneath the white snow.

“……What in the world is that?”

When I arrived at the fields where Elston had installed the magic, I had to rub my eyes at the bizarre sight unfolding before me.

“I…… have no strength left…….”

“O God of Rice, please bestow delicious garaetteok upon us……”

“Uuugh. Garaetteok…… garaetteok…… We’re running out of garaetteok!”

Humans who appeared to be the Black Hawks were staggering around the fields like scrawny, diseased horses.

“……”

Should I just go back to my room?

I had a feeling that something troublesome would happen if they noticed me.

I slowly stopped walking toward the fields and began quietly backing away.

And just then—

“Oh. You’re back.”

I ran into Elston, who happened to be heading this way.

“Cili—!”

“Shh.”

I clamped a hand over Elston’s mouth just as he was about to call my name, tucked him under my arm, and hurriedly dragged him away from the fields.

For some reason, Elston’s face seemed to be getting yellower and yellower.

“Gasp……! I-I nearly died. My lady! Why are you suddenly doing this?”

“There are zombies in the fields. It’ll be troublesome if they notice us.”

“Z-Zombies?”

“You know. Walking corpses.”

“Oh. Those?”

I could have sworn that a few days ago, Elston’s way of referring to the Black Hawks hadn’t been those.

What had happened in the meantime?

“Just ignore them. They don’t seem to be able to see anything except garaetteok anyway. By the way, what is garaetteok that they’re acting like this?”

Elston shuddered as though he had gotten goosebumps.

Come to think of it, Elston had never eaten garaetteok before.

I decided I should let him try it sometime, then casually asked,

“How are the rice plants doing?”

“Ah. I was actually about to tell you about that. I don’t know whose magic created it, but it’s truly extraordinary. Ahem! They already seem to have fully grown.”

“They’ve already grown?”

Surprised by the news, I decided to overlook Elston’s self-congratulation.

“Really?”

“Yes. Didn’t you say that they were fully grown once they ripened yellow and bowed their heads?”

Elston was right.

After hearing him, I hurried through the zombies and found that inside the faint, dome-shaped magical barrier, all the rice plants had ripened beautifully.

“Ah……!”

My eyes widened.

I hadn’t expected them to grow this quickly.

Then I needed to tell Dazar about this as soon as possible.

“Thank you, Elston.”

“Not at all.”

Elston grinned confidently before carefully asking,

“By the way, Lord Axion……? Ahem! It’s not that I particularly want to see Lord Axion. It’s just that he’s been lingering in my mind since yesterday…… I mean, I developed a new toy……”

“Ah. Really? Axion is with Carl right now.”

Elston’s face immediately brightened, and he started to hurriedly back away.

I grabbed him firmly.

“Urk.”

“You need to remove the magic circle before you go. The crops have fully grown, so we can’t let any more time pass.”

“……Yeees.”

Elston looked strangely dejected as I pushed him back toward the fields.

I looked around at the zombies.

“Uuugh…….”

“Ueeeh……. Garae……tteok…….”

Once the magic circle is completely removed, we can harvest the rice with the Black Hawks.

Spring was almost here, so harvesting rice now felt strangely surreal.

I left Elston behind and hurried back to my room.

Now that I had checked the fields, there was something I needed to take care of first.

“Carl. Could you send this to Silvestain? Elston will be coming soon, so he can take it when he goes.”

“I haven’t received a reply from Lord Silvestain yet.”

Carl blinked as he looked at the letter I handed him.

As Carl said, there still hadn’t been a reply.

But I needed to send a letter to Silvestain immediately.

“Tell him it’s very, very urgent when you send it. You can offer him more compensation, too.”

“Understood.”

There was something I had decided while I was sick on Ruben’s island.

The moment I returned to the Siaster estate, I would send a letter to Silvestain.

I need to lure Silvestain here.

I needed to make him stop digging into Ruben for the time being and finish his research trip.

If he happened to realize that Axion was Ruben, he might tell others about it, just as he had with that book last time.

Like the book about Ruben I had found in the Siaster library.

I needed a powerful lure to bring him here.

Something that could make Silvestain, a fanatic about research almost as much as Cilia herself, stop his research.

And that letter contained my trump card.

He’ll come running here in a panic, won’t he?

It would take some time since he was quite far away.

But there was no way he could resist coming.

Because the letter contained Ruben’s location.

Right here.

Right before my eyes.

“Abu!”