66. chatterbox
After getting a short grace period from Heini Rosales, I tried to go into Fortren’s mansion and try to convince him once again, but in the end I turned my steps.
It is also a position that the inspector who belongs to the royal family will not refuse bloodshed.
I thought he would never back down because he had a reason, but the reason was revealed more easily than I thought.
“Cool! Cool!”
“Michelle? it’s okay? Shall we go to the hospital?”
“Your face is so pale.”
“Oh, no. it’s okay. It’s useless to go to the hospital, just take the medicine you have at home.”
“……”
Upon returning to the hotel, Michelle, who continues to cough and whose complexion deteriorates in an instant, and Lin and Hayoon, who nurse the child.
Come to think of it, even when we ate together, I continued to cough, and even though it was not cold, I rubbed my hands as if they were cold.
“Is this medicine only at home?”
I immediately carry her on my back and head out of the hotel again.
“I’ve confirmed that everyone in the inspection team is leaving, so I’ll bring you back.”
“Shall we go together?”
Rin looked at Michelle with pity. Since he aspired to become a doctor, he seemed unable to leave such a patient alone, but he shook his head.
I didn’t think Rin could keep up with my speed.
“Sen, come here for a second.”
“Well?”
As if he didn’t know that he was going to be called, Sen, who pointed at him with his finger and confirmed it again, approaches.
“Find me the hotel where Heven Len is staying and confirm the length of time he is staying.”
“……Is it a request?”
It was an out of the blue question, but I nodded my head slightly knowing that she wasn’t the kind of person who would just act with affection.
Anyway, I had money from this hotel, so I was in a state of abundance in terms of capital.
“okay.”
Sen went out with a strangely satisfied expression, and I headed back to the mansion with Michelle.
‘I exercise properly from morning.’
Even if I want to go fast because there is a little distance, Michelle might be cold, so I was running with some control, but she asked in a small voice from behind.
“Mister, is my dad a bad person?”
“……”
“Are those people’s knights earlier? I heard that knights protect people. If the article came from my dad, is he a bad person?”
‘What do you do with this?’
Michael Fortren is clearly a villain.
But it was difficult to say that directly to Michelle.
However, the girl smirked, burying her face in my back as there was no answer.
“Yeah, Dad was a bad person.”
“Also?”
“When I followed my dad, I often saw strange people. People who cover their faces or look disgusting. villains people.
I thought maybe it was a fighting dog.
It was as if they were transplanting the power and body of demon beasts in the forest of demons into themselves.
“Is Dad going to be arrested now? Is that so?”
“……right.”
I didn’t want to give false hope with an ambiguous answer.
Michael Fortren actually had a crime enough to say that the death penalty was almost confirmed.
“Huh, huh.”
I slowed down a little for her sobbing and crying. Suddenly, I remember that something similar had happened to the two of us in the old demonic forest.
‘……’
A girl who was crying.
A child who was supposed to go to school or share even fresh love with a boy his age was carrying such a heavy burden that he eventually collapsed.
Even if I asked what was going on, the reason I didn’t bother to answer was probably because, looking at it now, I didn’t want to make me shoulder my burden.
‘Mi, I’m sorry. Because I showed an unsightly appearance.’
While apologizing like that, the girl stood up steadfastly and with a smile tried to ask me to eat breakfast.
“What were you carrying on your back at the time?”
The empty questions that only questions remained were blown away by the sound of the wind and disappeared without meaning.
As the girl’s sobbing slowly stopped, they arrived at Fortren’s mansion. The users in front smiled brightly when they saw me carrying Michelle.
“I would like to see Michael Fortren.”
I was taken aback by my sudden declaration. But Michelle helped me a word, so I went inside without too much trouble.
“Are you going to convince my dad?”
“If possible.”
“……”
With a mysterious expression, Michelle let go of my hand and ran straight down the wide hallway, and I followed the user’s guide to Michael Fortren’s office.
“…Yeah, you took Michelle? Thank you.”
Michael’s expression didn’t look right.
It was very uncomfortable to plant, so it was clear that it was going to explode even if I touched it even a little, but I felt like I was putting up with it.
The user left and I opened my mouth.
“Even for Michelle’s sake, stop right now and get arrested.”
It was Michael with the veins protruding from his forehead, but he asked, holding his breath and placing his hand on his desk.
“Do you know something?”
“I’m staying in an old wooden hotel on a city crossroad. The grandmother there was very kind.”
Then Michael blinked his eyes and clenched his fists.
The emotions that I had been struggling with until now were poured out, but it wasn’t shooting like a waterfall.
“You didn’t approach us because of the relationship between Hayun Ren and Heven Len?”
“Well, I guess it was a coincidence.”
“It’s a coincidence… There are all very poor coincidences.”
Clicking his tongue, Michael now completely considered me his enemy.
“Are you the one who brought the inspector?”
“That too is a coincidence.”
“Coincidence is really long and overlaps.”
The repeated noise of Michael banging his fingers on the desk a little too hard.
I calmly waited for him, but no satisfactory answer came.
“I refuse, I already have an inseparable relationship with the fighting dog.”
“You think of Michelle.”
Michael slams the desk he had been pounding with his fingers rough with both hands as he touched his wrath.
“dare! Don’t bring Michelle’s name out in front of me! Before I bite your head and eat it right away!”
“……”
“Do you think there is anyone who cares for Michelle as much as I do? For that child who lost her mother and I was the only supporter, if I disappear now, it will be the end!”
“Michelle is a stronger kid than you think.”
“What are you talking about knowing about my daughter! good night! Let’s say that by yielding a hundred times and a thousand times. Did you say that you saw that child not feeling well and brought him home? Where did I get medicines to cure diseases that even hospitals couldn’t cure?”
“……”
“It’s a fighting dog! You f*cking motherf*cking milky student bastard! The herbs they bring from the Forest of Demons are the only way Michelle can live!”
Michael clenched his fists while holding his breath.
It felt like my hand was getting a little bigger, but I didn’t mention it.
“Why build a murder hotel and bring in some crazy bastards and give them human corpses, or even live ones? It’s all to save my daughter!”
father’s cry.
Michael Fortren, a man who could not do anything other than to put his hands on the hands of his wife, who had fallen ill and eventually passed away.
Another great tragedy that came to him.
Michelle Fortren, a daughter with the same disease as her mother.
A man who couldn’t afford to lose his wife and daughter eventually contracted a fighting dog and creates a kind of factory that provides people.
“What if I could bring you the herb?”
I stabbed it just in case, but of course I snorted.
“A kid has a sense of loyalty. Knowing about dog fighting, do you feel like you’re becoming something? The demonic forest is a place with more monsters than you can imagine.”
“……”
“Little boy, there is a place where the forest itself can be called a monster.”
“If I get some herbs, will you surrender?”
Michael hesitated for a moment at my serious expression, but quickly shook his head.
“No, as I just said, I’ve already dipped my toe deep into the fighting dog. I don’t know what to do with Michelle in dog fighting if I’m taken to the royal court and put in prison.”
“I guess so.”
I knew it, but I said it once.
Having learned too much about them while getting Michelle’s medicine, there was a good chance that all the servants in the mansion would disappear at some point if Michael was arrested.
“Little boy, I know you are worried about Michelle. Look at that heart and I won’t just let it go. Leave Vettel today and return to the academy.”
“……”
“Never ask what happened to the old woman at the hotel or the other guys. The ability of the death spider that the grandmother has is a stealth that humans can never recognize. If you say she ran away, even a fighting dog won’t be able to chase her deeply.”
He breathes in and puts his hand on his forehead.
“Clear the hotel and leave. That place can also be evidence, so my people will go and burn it tonight.”
“Heiny Rosales is a tenacious inspector. Especially since your life is at stake here.”
“I already know about her. They are suspected of killing the second son of the Reiros family during interrogation. Don’t worry, I’m making a deal with the Ren family just for that.”
For a moment, realizing that he had made a speech mistake, Michael looked at me in amazement.
“A deal?”
“……”
“What is good? I don’t know what the deal is, but there seems to be some connection between the families.”
“Damn it, stop it now. Forget everything you saw here and just live as an ordinary student. This is sincere advice.”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t.”
Michael Fortren sighs again at my sharp, sword-like answer.
“What do you think you can do as a student?”
“Status doesn’t matter.”
“Whoa, then change the question. why? Why are you doing this?”
“……”
This time, I was a bit speechless on my part, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t remember the answer.
The past comes to mind at the moment when your eyes blink and your vision darkens.
A memory that is a very distant, impossible future, but also a past for me.
‘Do you grow sweet pumpkins? I miss you too, mister!’
‘Wow, you made a really good house, right? If you become a father, I think you will be family-oriented.’
‘It’s a bit scary to be in the forest of demon world, but I think it’s okay because I’m with you.’
‘mister……’
In a very dark room, even a tiny candle cannot seem so bright.
The candle that illuminates all darkness instantly transforms into the center of the dark room.
The gossip girl was the candle of my life that had only been dark for me.
“It’s to say thank you.”
Thanks to the chatter who woke me up with a small but clear light, who had been living as a magical beast for a long time without seeing the light.