Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
The way she giggled. The way she smiled, so leisurely. As if she had not just been trying to kill her own biological son a moment ago! My body was awash with disgust.
“…… Andrea, stay back.”
“…….”
I stood up, hiding Andrea behind my back, and confronted my sister.
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“Qtja vlv sbe mjii bea Ccvgfj obg?”
“It’s natural to want to see my son, isn’t it?”
“You’ve got some nerve, saying that. I don’t know what you are up to. But I will not allow you to lay a hand on the children.”
“…….Heh. Hehe. Why? Do I need your permission? I gave birth to that one, and the rest of them—the beasts—were also borne by me. …Even though I didn’t want to give birth, I did, even impregnated by a man I didn’t even like, and then I was thrown away……Your sister is so pitiful, why won’t you take her side?”
“You—! He’s right here! How can you hurt him when you know he’s still just a child?! How can you do to your own child what was done to us in that house!”
“—Please, quiet down.”
The forest rustled; the crows took flight.
Eventually, in the cold silence that seemed to bite my skin with its chill, my sister opened her mouth.
“—Man is born from man, and returns to earth to sleep. Beastmen appear from light, and return to light before ascending to the skies…… Lilius. Why is it that a heart raising its voice against something it cannot accept is a sin, and yet voices forcing acceptance without discrimination are allowed?”
“They’re not the same thing.”
“No. They are quite the same. You should understand, no? You were born in that house as well. Giving birth, marrying—neither of those was what I wanted.”
Beneath her lowered lashes, my sister’s eyes darkened.
Those eyes, reflecting nothing but the deep abyss, turned to the trembling presence behind me.
As if his strings had been tugged, Andrea ran from this place.
“Andrea! Don’t go!”
“……Lilius. If that is a sin, then this world must be a sin itself.”
“Even if that’s true—even if it’s true, sister, what you’re doing is still wrong. Especially if you still remember the hurt that was inflicted on us. You should have cut it off, but instead, you’ve now used it to cruelly rip apart another’s heart.”
Translator note:
Update 2/2
I’m speachless… how could she?! Waiting for a week will be hard again.
Thank you for the chapter!💖
Thank you for the update! Gosh, she’s grown insane. Poor Andrea 😠.
I really love this novel, thanks so much for writing it 😍 I only wish that the chapters were somewhat longer 😭
Ik Andrea wants to see his mom but could he like listen to Lilius? But then I remember that he is still a kid
No Kofi link? 😢
I’m just the translator for this novel, not the original author