As I looked up at the boy in the mirror who was watching me while brushing his teeth, I started whining about how stupid I was.
Naturally, there was a reason everyone around me, my mom and my dad included, had healthy teeth. The strange thing was that I hadn't noticed it. Since I had never seen my mom brushing her teeth, I fell into prejudice and assumed there was no toothbrush in this world, but I was wrong.
In a high place in the bathroom that I couldn't see, there was the toothbrush my mom used and her handmade toothpaste. It wasn't as sweet as the ones from my previous life, but it was still usable. When I brought up cleaning teeth to my mother, without any expectation of completing the system's mission, she handed me her own toothbrush without hesitation and taught me how a person brushes their teeth.
In short, for the last 3 days I had been failing to perform the repeated task in vain. While I promised myself that I wouldn't let my prejudices affect me this much in the future, I heard my mother's voice.
"Yuto-chan, if you've finished your preparations, come here and let's put some clothes on you."
Speaking of which, no matter how much I insisted, I still couldn't convince my mom not to take me to the annual checkup. Now that I can talk, I'm going to try different ways to stop my mother from drinking the sleeping pills this time.
"I'm almost ready, please wait for me."
"As you wish, my sweet!"
Even though I had some plans to protect my mother's chastity from the dirty hands of the pharmacist witch, my first choice was still not to go there at all, and I was ready to do whatever needed to be done for it.
So then, let's start the first attempt at accomplishing the task of protecting my mom from the perverted witch.
Elena was on her way to the pharmacist's office, checking how well the clothes she had chosen for her son went together, when she heard a loud noise and turned her head toward the bathroom door.
When Elena saw her son come running out of the bathroom with her used underwear over his head, she reacted after a brief shock and quickly began to chase him as he ran toward the outer door.
"Hey, Yuto! Will you stop being bad, please! I'm starting to get angry."
"I refuse, Mother. I'm already healthy enough. If you think I'm unhealthy, come and catch your unhealthy son."
Even though I said that, I was well aware that I had a physical strength that surpassed ordinary people. Even if I could hardly move, probably because of an illness, I could easily escape from my mother, whose back ached when she ran because of her huge breasts.
Whatever. Even if my mother's anger reaches its limit, I won't go for a physical examination. I'll just let her beat me up at the end of the day, and that'll be that.
When I stepped out of the front door of the house and came face to face with our own garden, I turned around without waiting and started running around the house. Naturally, I had no intention of going too far from our house and showing my mother's underwear to our neighbors.
While I kept running around our big garden, I thought that one of the best things about this world was that no matter how poor you were, as long as you were healthy, you could have a detached house with a big garden.
Like almost all the people in our village, our house had been built with our own hands. On top of that, in this world, unless you lived in a big city, you didn't need anyone's permission to build a house.
Would it ever be like this in my previous world? Even if I wanted to go and build a house in the Amazon jungle, government officials would see the house I was building on satellite imagery and ticket me, because the land didn't belong to me.
As soon as I turned the corner of the house and looked at the few meters of distance left between me and my mother, who was gasping for breath and holding her knees, I realized that I had gotten too caught up in my thoughts. I reacted quickly, and with a few maneuvers, I passed my mother and kept running.
"Boo-hoo, boo-hoo."
What was that sound?
When I turned back and looked, I saw my mom still standing in the same place, looking at me with tears in her eyes.
What's with that look? It's full of regret... It's the first time I've seen my mom cry. Ohh, this feels bad...
"What happened?"
As I nervously asked my mother what had happened, I realized that my throat hurt, but that wasn't important to me right now.
"I... I beg you, stop acting like this. What should I do if you have a serious illness? Please... my sweet boy."
She's really crying... I really do have a strange feeling in my chest, like ants walking around in my heart. I want to cry too. I think I have to find another way to protect my mom.
"I'll go there if it means that much to you, but I have a favor to ask in return."
"I'll do whatever my dear son wants."
"When we go to Grandma Pharmacist, if I ask you for something, you have to do it without any hesitation, just like I did last year. Okay?"
"Hahaha. It's a deal."
Huh? Is she laughing????
Ahhhhh! How can a person like me be fooled so easily? I'll take note of this defeat and take my revenge on you in the future, woman.
"Weren't you crying just now? Why did you suddenly start laughing?"
My mother answered by patting my head and sticking her tongue out at me, and she said she was very happy that I had listened to her. Of course, while she was patting my head, I also noticed that she had secretly taken her underwear off my head.
After looking for a while at the wooden door standing in front of me, which stirred up complicated feelings in me, I hesitantly reached out my tiny hand and punched the fucking door.
After a short wait of just a few seconds, the door slowly creaked open, and I was greeted by the sight of an old woman who brought back memories.
I already knew that even though she looked old on the outside, she made herself look old with the help of something like makeup or a spell.
"Elena, have you finally come to see me, my girl? These old bones have been wanting to see you for a long time. Ever since your child was born, you've stopped coming by to see me."
"Ahaha, I'm sorry, but taking care of a child is harder than I imagined."
Taking care of a child is harder than you imagined? Hahaha... If I were a real baby, I'd be crying and wetting myself all day long, or screaming for no reason because you left my side, etc.
"I know, I know. At one time, I had children of my own too. It's definitely as hard as you say."
What a fake way of talking. Giving open-ended answers without giving any information, and being as affirming as possible... Hmm, she's definitely lying.
As an experienced liar, even though I'm not very good at lying, I'm sure I could write a book on the techniques of lying. Using such a simple lying technique in front of me is her own foolishness.
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