I am BOSS! ～fine～[Tutor KHR]

Before the words finished, Dino had let go of Suzuna.He turned around and walked out with a kind of determination.

"Dino, sir...? Mr. Dino!"

Suzuna subconsciously thought that she should chase Dino back, but Dino walked forward as if he couldn't hear her voice, and never looked back.

Leaving Hojo’s house and walking on the streets of Nishoricho, Dino suddenly found that he had nowhere to go—now Dino didn’t want to face Tsunayoshi and his right and left hands, nor did he want to go back to the hotel to face Romario .

"Ha... ha ha... again, screwed up, I—"

The dry laughter spilled out of his throat and turned into self-deprecation, and even the sadness couldn't be squeezed out. In the end, the only emotion left was depression.

Suzuna was startled.She seemed to understand something, but also seemed to understand nothing.She felt that she had to face some problems that she had ignored, but she couldn't figure out what she had ignored.

"Mother~"

Just as Suzuna was standing in a daze in the fog, Elizabeth, who came to Hojo's house from the Vongola underground base, ran over bouncingly.

Elizabeth is not the kind of person who will be depressed for a long time for one thing.She is still having trouble with Alpha, but she will not put on a bad face because of this, and say a few words of lukewarm sarcasm to everyone.Besides, even if Elizabeth's mood was extremely bad, she was still that spoiled little girl in front of Suzuna.

Seeing Suzuna, Elizabeth naturally hugged Suzuna's neck without thinking, and waited for Suzuna to make a startled sound before Elizabeth noticed Suzuna's strangeness.

"My lord? Did this happen?"

Seeing Suzuna's matter more than the sky, Elizabeth's expression became serious.

"No, no, it's just..."

just what?Suzuna couldn't think of a description.She hesitated for a while before muttering, "Mr. Dino—"

Hearing the word "Dino", Elizabeth concluded without hesitation: "I see. Everything is the fault of that stallion|horse. No matter what happens, it is the fault of that stallion|horse anyway. Mother is absolutely infallible. So please don't blame yourself."

"..."

Seeing Elizabeth so rudely and simply blaming Dino for all her faults, Suzuna only felt that she had made Elizabeth misunderstand Dino again.I did something sorry for Dino again.

"……not like this……"

"What? Mother?"

Gazing at Suzuna with tourmaline-like eyes, Elizabeth's eyes showed doubts.

"That's not the case! Mr. Dino is not wrong! It must be me who is wrong!"

Suzuna's expression became agitated, and Elizabeth was taken aback by her words.

"Now I don't know where I was wrong, but one day I will figure it out... In short, it must not be Mr. Dino who is wrong this time."

When the words come to use, I hate less.Having said that, Suzuna ran out of useless words.

Seeing Suzuna trying to excuse Dino, Elizabeth said again: "Mother, you don't need to speak for that beast. I understand? That person always wants to do some excessive things to Mother—"

"...Why do you say such things?"

Guilt and confusion made Suzuna no longer able to hold back the confusion gushing out of her heart, and she interrupted Elizabeth, who usually listened to others' words in an orderly manner: "What happened in the future? The future Mr. What did I do? Why do Elizabeth and Alphado hate Mr. Dino so much?"

"Do I think what Mr. Dino did to me in the future is a nasty thing? If so, why do I have to endure him doing nasty things to me and I have not resisted? Even if I can't resist, why don't I run away Woolen cloth?"

"That is--"

Unexpectedly, Suzuna would question herself so fiercely, Elizabeth was a little stiff for a moment.

"Or did I not accompany you as your mother in the future? If not, why didn't I, as a mother, stop you from hating your father?"

The pent-up anxiety brewed for a long time turned into a series of aggressive questions, not caring whether she was talking to Elizabeth like a "mother" now, Suzuna could no longer control her temper.

"The future me is so weird!"

"!!"

Her shoulders trembled a few times, as if frightened by Suzuna's words, Elizabeth took two steps back.Then he looked at Suzuna with eyes like looking at a stranger he had never seen before.

(I, obviously, just want to comfort my mother...)

In the end, she was confronted with such merciless questioning, and even made the person she valued and loved the most say something that questioned her.

My heart felt sour, like I was stung by a bug.Moisture was secreted from her eyes, but Elizabeth was determined not to let the moisture gather into tears and fall from her eye sockets.

(Crying at this time will turn into forcing mother to give in with tears...)

"Yes, I'm sorry...Mother..."

Swallowing a choked sob of grievance, Elizabeth apologized.

Suzuna opened her mouth, she wanted to say that Elizabeth was not wrong, it was her fault, she said too much.But she didn't want to take back what she said.Because every word she said came from the heart, without any hypocrisy or affectation.

"what happened?"

Squalo was not found, and Gloria, who returned first, felt a strange feeling in the air as soon as she entered the living room of Hojo's house.He asked, but no one answered him.

"I, I'll go out for a while..."

Elizabeth ran out quickly as if she was running away.Suzuna stood there motionless, as if her spirit had been completely pulled out of her body.

First the father, then the daughter.The father and daughter of Gabrielone's family left the Hojo's house in a similar manner and with similar moods in one morning.

Elizabeth and Dino had nowhere to go, so they could only wander the streets aimlessly.

(yes……)

(Yes.)

Although it feels a bit "even now", Elizabeth, who has lived with Suzuna, Dino and her twin brother Alphado for 15 years, realized for the first time what kind of person "Hojo Suzuna" is.

The young Suzuna looks softer than Suzuna who will be a mother in the future | soft and delicate, easy to bully, but Suzuna who will be a "mother" in the future seldom gets angry, hardly blames her children, and even speaks loudly. rare.The young Suzuna usually has a good temper, but when she gets angry, she will fully express her anger in her words, deeds and expressions.

Suzuna is not the kind of person Elizabeth imagined that would suppress all the anger and grievances in her heart.

Her personality is generally good, neither bitter, bitter, bitter, nor indifferent.She wasn't more mature than other 16-year-old girls, nor was she more affluent than other 16-year-old girls.

(So, it's not "not angry", but really "not angry".)

The biological mother who was done by the biological father was not angry with the biological father.This conclusion is actually not difficult to come to, she just didn't want to admit it all the time.Right now, this kind of conclusion was placed in front of Elizabeth by Suzuna herself, and Elizabeth could no longer ignore this conclusion that she didn't like.

With red eyes, she walked to a street she hadn't been to, and as soon as she rounded the corner, Elizabeth saw Dino sitting under a big tree, staring blankly at the vending machine not far away.

Dislike of Dino has become a habit, and Elizabeth instinctively wants to leave the place where Dino is.But he found that the young Vaulting Horse's eyes were blank, and he sat there blankly like a statue at best, or a pile of burnt ashes at worst, not knowing what he was thinking.

He wiped the wet corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.After patting her own cheek twice, Elizabeth came to Dino as if nothing had happened.

"——what are you doing sitting here alone? It's just an eyesore."

Elizabeth, who only knew how to speak to her biological father in this tone, seemed to be finding fault when she opened her mouth.

"..."

After seeing clearly that the person standing in front of him was Elizabeth, Dino moved his body slightly and did not speak.

"Hey! You talk to me!"

For the first time being so completely ignored by Dino, Elizabeth became angry.

So, Dino's lips moved weakly a few times: "...What do you want to hear from me?"

"This……"

Elizabeth was at a loss for words, but Dino continued: "You, are you really the child of Suzuna and me? Why do you hate me so much, who should be your real father?... No, these are not important now... ..."

"...the future where you, that child, and your brother will exist, will not exist at all—"

The amber eyes reflected Elizabeth's delicate appearance, but Dino's thoughts drifted far, far away.He started rambling as if he had finally caught someone who could listen to him, and he kept talking to himself as if he was talking to himself.

"This is the place where I first met Suzuna..."

Many years ago, when a teenager woke up, he arrived in a foreign city that he had never been to before.There, the boy met the girl, and because of the girl, he gained the courage to continue working hard.

After waking up again, the boy could no longer find the girl.Like a boy who had a dream, he waited for a girl whose voice and smile hadn't changed a few years ago.This time, the boy got the courage to face his relatives face to face from the girl.

But the girl disappeared again.

Waiting waiting waiting waiting.In the endless waiting, the boy was almost desperate. He wanted to lock up the girl who fell from the sky, but because of the girl's promise that might not be fulfilled, he started waiting again.And such waiting also requires too much courage.