Getting Closer

72: His Mother

Jirou ; hi ririro. Thank you for doing this.

Ririro ; huh ?

Jirou ; it's ok. You don't have to understand.

Keiro ; as promised then ? Old man.

Jirou: fine.

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They were led to an underground basement. They walked down a long corridor and reached a door that was pasted seals on two sides of the door frames.

Keiro ; I've never been here.

" that's because this is a secret your father didn't want anyone to know. " Jirou put it in the key and unlocked the door. He pushed the door open.

Keiro could see a curse being chained up in the room. It looked... Female.

Keiro : this is... My... Mother ?

Jirou ; ... Sighs. Your mother was never one of us. She was just a normal human being. She couldn't even see curses. But she was very kind . No one could find a fault with her.

Keiro ; I remember that. She was the kindest woman I ever knew.

Jirou : so when she got attacked and turned into a curse... Your father was angry. But he also couldn't let her go. So...

Keiro ; that's why that shisui man came ?

Jirou ; you remember?

Flashback ~

Shisui was still a young man then. He has just done the deed.

He saw the young kid, young keiro " you're almost my kid's age."

" Come on." The father nagged.

Shisui : I'll see myself out.

And the father left.

Shisui squatted down to keiro 's height " your mother. Your father told you yet ? That she's..."

Keiro ; gone. I know.

Shisui : yes. But always remember. She ... Has... Always loved you. She'll always be near to you. Ok ?

Keiro ; how near ?

Shisui ; very near.

End ~

Keiro : and then I met him again several years ago. At Hokkaido.

Jirou ; he came back ?

Keiro : yes. For vacation he said. That's when he told me about my mother.

Flashback ~

Shisui ; you know it yet ?

Keiro ; about?

Shisui; your mother.

Keiro ; huh ?

Shisui ; oh... Not yet. Bye.

Keiro ; wait ! Tell me.

Shisui; I guess... You're all grown up now. Like my girl.

End ~

Jirou ; well, this is your mother.

Tears start to well up in keiro's eyes. The monster she had turned into. The kinds he kills.

Keiro ; why didn't you...

Jirou ; kill her ? Your father made me promise to keep her here.

Keiro: but she's suffering...

Jirou: well. It is your secret and your choice to do what now.

Keiro stretches out his hand ... To to touch to it's face. No... He couldn't recognise her anymore. Tears fell down his cheeks. His fist clenched into one.

His mother. No, the curse hissed at him.

Keiro : it's ok. No longer. Ok ?

And a chain pierced through the body of the curse. It screams and it turns to dust.

He just killed his mother. He collapsed to his knees and he cried.