I'll Be The Warrior's Mother

Appearing satisfied by the simple fact that she was holding Kaywhin’s hand, Yelena smiled widely and said, “You know… Kaywhin.”

“Yes.”

“This is just hypothetical, but… how would you feel if the world was about to be destroyed?”

For something that had sprung up out of the blue, this topic was quite heavy.

“…I don’t know,” Kaywhin replied honestly.

He was being completely sincere. He wasn’t sure what kind of response he would have to the world ending.

At that moment, Yelena said, “I think that I’d be sad.”

“…”

“If the world ends, doesn’t that mean you will die too, husband.”

Yelena slowly blinked up at him. As she said these words, she truly looked like she was feeling heartbroken.

“Right now… just imagining it makes me sad. I hate the thought of you dying, husband. I really hate it…”

Close to tears, Yelena sobbed as she said this.

The moment that Kaywhin realized that she was about to burst into tears, he instinctively began attempting to comfort her, but she suddenly brought up a whole new topic.

“Husband… are you aware? That you’re a very kind person, my husband.”

“…”

“Also, you’re the one that I need above all else.”

“…”

Yelena’s voice was slowly getting lower and lower. But as Kaywhin had completely focussed all his attention on her, her words were listened to as clearly as ever.

“What about you, husband? What kind of person am I… to you, husband?”

“…you’re someone who I am forever grateful for,” Kaywhin replied immediately.

As she gradually lost the fight against her drowsiness, Yelena almost mumbled out her next question.

“But do you need me?”

“…”

“Am I… someone that you need, my Husband?”

This time, it took longer for him to reply. As time passed and Kaywhin’s lips stayed unmoving, Yelena slowly closed her eyes and began emitting dainty snores.

“…”

The strength faded from the tight grasp that Yelena had been keeping on Kaywhin’s hand.

The blue eyes that were staring down at the sleeping Yelena wavered like the ripples after a stone was thrown into a lake.

Then, in a voice so soft that it was barely audible, he whispered these words over their entwined hands, “….I’m not sure. Not yet.”

It was a long while before Kaywhin finally let go of Yelena’s hand.

***

The next day, Yelena woke up feeling as fresh as someone who had a full night’s sleep. Judging by her physical condition alone, she appeared to have taken a sleeping pill instead of an aphrodisiac.

Although there were still some hidden concerns, it looked like there weren’t any after-effects.

Yelena tried stretching out her slender limbs one at a time.

Everything seemed fine.

Everything seemed fine, but…

‘Just when did I fall asleep?’

Strangely, her memories of the previous night were abruptly cut short at the moments before she fell asleep.

Since that was the only thing bothering her, she had asked Kaywhin, but he told her that she simply fell asleep after asking about the antidote. Yelena’s memories also ended right at that point.

‘It looks like I must have fallen asleep without realizing it because of the drug’s potency.’

Although it was embarrassing, Yelena simply accepted it and moved on. After all, if Kaywhin, the only eyewitness of last night’s events, said that was what had happened, what reason was there for her to be suspicious.

It might, or it might not, be lucky that Yelena didn’t even notice that one of the curtains that had been hanging from the window was now missing.

In any case, perhaps because of a good night’s rest, Yelena’s body felt overflowing with energy. That’s why, almost as soon as she got up, she set out to work off this energy by kicking the baron’s ass.

“My sincerest apologies!”

Baron Anaheim slammed his forehead onto the floor as he fell into a dogeza without any hesitation.

“This mistake was caused by a newly hired maid who hasn’t been fully trained…”

According to the explanation that the Baron belatedly offered after first prostrating himself, it was purely due to the mistake of a maid that Yelena had been served the wine spiked with the aphrodisiac. All this had happened because the maid, who was still very inexperienced, had confused the wine that was to be served to the guests with the wine that was meant to be brought to the baron’s room.

“M-my apologies.”

In other words, the wine that Yelena drank was meant to have been drunk by the baron.

The maid also knelt down beside the baron and pleaded for forgiveness.

It didn’t seem like they were lying.

“…”

Yelena, who had unintentionally been made aware of the baron’s taste in drugs, was still very upset. However, since this had all happened because of a mistake and they had received an apology, the couple decided to let things slide instead of forcing the baron to take responsibility for his crime.

As soon as this case had been settled, the person whom they had all been waiting for knocked on the baron’s door.

***

“A pleasure to meet you. My name is Will.”

The bard was a woman and, as the baron had informed them, a very young one at that. Even rounding upwards, she could only be in her mid-twenties.

For a few moments Yelena stared at this bard, whose clear voice well suited her profession, before saying, “According to the baron, you are the one who wrote this play.”

Yelena laid the play script down in front of the bard, with its front cover facing upwards to allow the title to be seen clearly.

As soon as she saw the script, the bard nodded her head.

“Yes, that’s right. I am the one who wrote this.”

“It looks like I can get straight to the point..”

Apart from Yelena and the bard, there was currently no one else in the drawing room with them.

Yelena asked her directly, “Have you seen the future?”