The moment i heard the principal say that the captain was the one to have advised her to do this, i couldn't help but slap my own forehead in frustration of what i did before .
I didn't even listened to him explaining his point of view, but it wasn't entirely my fault, his casual attitude while he was saying this, caused my anger to outburst, i couldn't listen to anything that he was about to say .
I also didn't want to listen to his excuses, thinking he was purely acting on a selfish ambition that he had, but to know that he already thought of a solution to help me like this, made me so embarrassed that i wanted to disappear .
From how you look, it seemed you have already met with Isuragi-san and the meeting didn't go so well, i can already understand your anger, but he too had his reasons and obligations as both a Savior and a Captain, my advice to you if you wished to act upon of course is that you make sure to apologize to him probably .
The principal already seemed to guess what had indeed happened, told me this, i didn't understand anything about the obligations and duties or whatever she just mention nor did i care much about knowing them, but she was indeed right about me needing to apologize to the captain, but here's the problem, i'm ashamed once again of misjudging his intentions .
" Well, i will listen to your advice principal and just do that when i see the captain next, but first please allow me to say this, Thank you for everything you did to me .
I directly bowed in front of her, as i bowed my body, the koala hugging me finally was unable to stay steady and fall on the ground .
The principal didn't react first, but then she just raised my head up and said : you are welcome, i will exempt you from your classes for the day, but your training sessions with the Strikers, those weren't something that i can interfere with, your Mom is currently living in the town, you can dial her and she should be able to give you her location .
I also granted you the permission to use your phone, if you were finding problems with the call never connecting, no problem will be with your phone from now on .
I was about to bow down again to hear in gratitude, but she stopped me and just told me to go already .
I apologized to Tokiko behind me and directly began making my way to the town, having a huge smile on my face, i opened my phone and was about to dial my mom with my old phone, soon i will be discarding of the new one, due to have close to no trust in the who is my father, that guy could have filled the phone with microphones and other devices that were there to spy on every action i make and everything i say .
But just as i was about to call my mother, my other phone rang and the bastard was calling me, that wasn't me insulting him, but this was how i edit his registered contact information, i answered the call and heard his rouge voice from the other side, saying :
Now what ? .
I completely understood what he was asking, but answering it was the difficult part, he was asking what i was going to do from now on, will i continue to stay or drop out. he seemed to be believing that i entered the school for the sole reason of him holding my mom as something like a hostage, but he was entirely wrong .
I joined this school, so that i'm able to build a good life for me and my mother in the future, that would require money, a money that school seemed to be offering willingly, so even before this happening, i would have stayed enrolled in this school, so nothing had changed, if anything after this, i become even more motivated to become someone people look up to, so answering his question, i said :
" I don't know what do you mean by asking that, everything will stay the same, why did something happened to change that .
I felt that my mild tone seemed to not be to his liking, he snorted and if i wasn't hearing wrong, he seemed to have gotten angry and crushed something just now, he was about to say something, but i beat him to it and said :
" Right, right, one thing have changed drastically and i guess that you should know about, the agreement we had before, you can consider it nullified from this point onwards, oh before i forgot, please note that if you appeared in front of me or my mother or tried to affect our lives in any way, i will be coming for you, believe me there won't be anyone on this world capable of stopping me from obliterating you if i wanted to .
" Don't try to contact me through this phone or any other phone, i'm discarding of this one, this won't be much of a problem, i believe .
Before i heard what he had to say in respond i hanged up the phone and vanquished my killing intent, then proceeded to call my mother, asking about where was she .
She wasn't responding at first, but soon after 10 to 15 seconds i heard a strange yet familiar voice picking up the phone and asking about my identity in a rude tone, saying :
Who is this ? .
I wondered if i was given the wrong number by the principal, i also wondered about where i heard this voice before, it sounded incredulously familiar and not in a good way, i still asked her to connect me to the owner of this house, just to make sure of what was going on here, in the same rude tone she asked who she should say was asking for her, i told her that i was her son .
I was relieved when she called my mother while adding the title mistress, then my mom picked up the phone and with a hurried breaths, she was asking me about what was going on, i asked about where she was and she said that she didn't know and handed the phone to the maid whose name was Mayumi-san, she in a neutral tone began to describe the house address for me .
I asked my mom to wait for me and hanged the call, i reached the town since it wasn't actually that far from the hill that the school was built on, i took 15 minutes or so, i didn't used Paradox since it was my very first trip to the town, in the back of my sight as i was descending, what came to view was a quite magnificent mansion built with both skill and artistry, i wondered who was living at this mansion, it was in the center of the town, where the address given to me was leading, but this can't be right, right ?! .
The town had everything from stores showing all kind of merchandise all packed in a big Mall, it also had a few book stores, there was a big Library next to the Mall, a numerous cafes and restaurants, houses, all in different styles and shapes, weirdly the house i was heading to was in the center of all of this, it was weird because it was the mansion i saw before .
I stood stupidly in front of the opened gates of the mansion and kept recalling if i had made some kind of mistake or i was possibly being mislead on purpose by that maid, i really should stop misjudging people, but i just can't help it with all that kept happening lately but to become a bit paranoid .
But all my doubts and accusations were debunked when i saw my mother opening the door and looking at me with a smile on her face, i smiled back and then began to walk towards her, she too seemed to have missed me a lot during those past 3 days, i couldn't help but find this quite strange, we have been in touch almost every single day, she embraced me strongly and like with Tokiko, the embrace began to take too long and she seemed not willing to let go for a long time .
We should go inside, but i determined that there was no problem with staying like this for a bit longer, after a few more minutes like this, she seemed to have finally got tired and she let go of me, i thought that would be it, but she then began to inspect my body throughly, then went for my face looking quite worried for some reason, after she finished doing all of this, she once again embraced me and said :
Thank god you are okay, you are, right ? .
What exactly did the principal tell her for her to ask such a weird question, i first nodded then i helped her up and said sizing myself up and down :
" I believe so, what do you think Mom, you seem to have throughly checked me just now, i want to hear an expert opinion .
Her reaction was to hit me on the head, then she smiled faintly and tears began to accumulate in her eyes, seeing her about to cry completely baffled me, was she happy or sad about seeing me i'm no longer able to tell, but even though i didn't understand what was going on, this didn't stop me from trying to ease the situation, so i asked jokingly :
" It has only been two days, is something wrong .
At this she finally began wiping out the tears in her eyes as said :
Two days away from me after how many years, you are heartless ....
Ahem .
Just as she was about to say something else, a cold voice sounded from some distance away from us, it was a hum, but it sounded more as a snort than a hum and it was a quite cold one as well .
It came from the direction of the door, as i turned to look at who was snorting at me, i was surprised to see the one behind this was a girl that has short black hair and dark grey eyes, she wore a maid costume, she would have looked cute with her childish like face, if not for the fact that she was glaring at me currently like i killed one of her relatives or something, she was probably the rude person on the phone before as well.
I looked at her wondering what was going on here, as if her hum awakened my mom from the weird emotional state she was in, she then pointed towards the girl at the door of the house who didn't seem that much older than me and said :
Ryuu-kun meet Kirigaya Suguha-san, she was the maid assigned to work here on the mansion, she arrived here after a few hours after Shimon Mari-san the principal of your school transported or teleported me here .
Huh, the principal didn't mention anything about this, but it seem quite eligible to believe that this was indeed the case, the principal didn't tell me anything about gifting my mom a whole large mansion as well .
I nodded my head at the still glaring Suguha and all she did in response was that she sidestepped beside the open door and motioned for us to go inside, i was about to take out my phone and check with the principal about something that was bothering me about that girl, how should i put it in words, she seemed dangerous, her body posture, her precise movements, all seemed to entail one thing, the woman in front of me didn't seem to be neither a maid nor a normal girl, my hunch was telling me that .
But just as i was about to do so, i was pulled by my very much excited Mom, seeing her like recovering from her depressed state from before, cleared all my other thoughts and plans, just as we passed by the girl, i nodded at her once again but this time i was nodding at her in gratitude, intentionally or not she helped in adjusting my mom mood for the better, like i thought the girl just looked at me weirdly and averted her gaze from us, or more accurate to say we disappeared from her sight .
The inside of the mansion was huge, it seemed decorated with different kinds of styles, beautiful colors, compelling curtains, quite luxurious furniture and mattresses, the whole place seemed to have come of a painting, it wasn't the best decorations i have seen in life, i had memories of floating castles in my mind, but it was one of the best mansions i have ever seen .
Their was a bunch of TVs almost in direction and if there wasn't a TV in an angle, you would be able to see a touch screen hanged on the wall, if there was one word to sum up all was this place looking like to me, i would say that it looked futuristic, we was still waking through the corridor and i felt like my sense of space was being tricked, that was how spacious this mansion was .
Neither i nor my mom stopped blinking with stars in our eyes as we passed over than 40 bed rooms, i was beginning to feel that this place was more closer to be considered a motel than a place to live, a house .
After 5 minutes passed of me being pulled by my mother like this, she finally stopped, i don't know why was she so energetic all of a sudden, but as i looked at where we stopped, i was beginning to understand the reason for her being so energetic, i came face to face with what i was able to identify after a bit of time as the kitchen and all i can say is wow, just wow .
Even though i didn't understand why was she leading me here, but even i who wasn't interested about anything than eating couldn't help but marvel at the huge kitchen, it was like a tennis field, its size wasn't the only thing that had me marvel looking at it, no, the high quality of the materials it was made of, it being equipped with every device and machine needed for cooking, all were neatly either hanged on the wall or put in order, just looking at everything here and what might it cost, my brain heated up instantly .
She should have seen this before, but she was acting once again as if that was her first time witnessing it, my mom looked at me with stars in her eyes and a look that seemed to say " look how beautiful this place was ", i totally agreed with this, but one question kept coursing through my mind at the moment, What Was All Of This ? .