Back Again, Then Off to School? (5.1K) (Continued)

"Oh dear, she's really not cute at all. Is she going through puberty?"

Maya gave an irrelevant answer, gently covering her cheek with her hand and looking at him with a worried expression.

However, this concern is so overtly acted that it's obviously fake.

Where am I?

Ignoring Maya's teasing and jokes, he looked around.

He realized that the place he was in was completely different from the one he had seen before. Although it was still a dark, wine-red style, this was not Maya's room at all.

"This is Mashima Island, which is also your Arcadia, Mahiro."

"Arcadia? What are you doing here?"

Mahiro surprise, only to see Maya pick up a teacup from the bedside table, sip gently, and leave a pure red lip print on the rim of the teacup.

This woman really does like black tea.

"Of course, I moved the Yotsuba Clan main family here."

Yotsuba Mahiro:???

What the heck?

Hearing Maya's nonchalant tone, his brows furrowed once again.

But Maya complained in a resentful tone:

"It's all because of you, Mahiro. You pushed everything onto the Yotsuba Clan main family, even leaving me, a poor single mother, to deal with a behemoth like USNA. As a result, we suffered retaliation from USNA. They blew up the main family home, and I had no choice but to temporarily settle the Yotsuba Family here."

Maya spoke with such poignant emotion that it seemed almost unbearable to witness, her tearful expression making it sound like a true story.

But Mahiro, with deadpan eyes, ruthlessly exposed her lie.

"Stop talking nonsense. There were at least two lies in what you just said—"

First of all, with your skills, are you capable of dealing with USNA assassins?

Let alone now, even in the past, Maya Yotsuba would never have taken USNA's magicians seriously.

Do you think the title of "Demon King of the Far East" and "Strongest Magician" is just empty boasting?

"Secondly, judging from your appearance, you're not just settling down temporarily; you're planning to settle the Yotsuba Clan main family here to keep an eye on me, aren't you?"

"Oops, have we been found out?"

Maya covered her mouth, winked mischievously at him, and then complained in a sweet, cloying voice:

"Sigh, what's wrong with a poor single mother like me just wanting to be with my child? We haven't seen each other for three months, and we haven't had any contact at all. We finally met again, but my child still dislikes me. I'm such a failure as a mother~ (sobs)"

One thing is true: as a mother, Maya Yotsuba is indeed quite a failure.

But Maya's tone didn't sound like she was crying; instead, it sounded like she was pouting and whining at him.

He completely lacked the dignity befitting the head of the Yotsuba Family, and the subtle sense of danger he usually exuded was nowhere to be felt.

I don't know if it's just my imagination, but this woman seems to be getting more and more unrestrained.

"No, wait a minute. How long did you say I was gone? Three months?" Mahiro suddenly caught the key point.

I think it was only a month ago last time?

"Hmm, it's three months. School's already been in session for two months."

Maya answered softly, but when she looked at him, her eyes, as beautiful and clear as jewels, seemed to be scrutinizing him.

"You seem to have matured a lot this time, Mahiro."

She suddenly changed her tone, becoming gentle.

There is nothing better than knowing a son like a mother.

Even though she hadn't spent much time with Mahiro, she had noticed Mahiro the changes in him.

For example, when she returned last time, she noticed that Mahiro's aura had become somewhat more violent.

Now, however, he is composed, with a kind of effortless ease.

While she was happy for Mahiro's changes, she couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

Each change indicated that her child, Mahiro, had encountered many things and changes, especially this time, when he seemed to have encountered some kind of danger, and his iris appeared to be branded with some strange pattern.

It's been branded with scars...

Although it wasn't obvious, enough to be hidden in the darkness of her eyes, it couldn't escape Maya's eyes at all.

However, her worry, concern, and gentleness felt extremely uncomfortable to Mahiro.

Maya noticed this, suppressed her emotions, and once again wore that enigmatic, elegant smile.

He picked up the teacup and sipped it gently, as if trying to hide something.

"Oh my, it looks like your journey to another world is really interesting, little Mahiro! Can you tell Mom about it, or maybe you can take me with you next time? What do you say?"

"Perhaps I can even help advise on selecting some high-quality girls as suitable mothers for the Yotsuba Family to continue its lineage."

"Heh, are you trying to send someone to monitor me instead of getting involved yourself? As for the selection, forget it. The bond between me and those girls isn't as simple as you think, and it's none of your business."

Mahiro's words were full of sarcasm, but Maya didn't take it to heart and continued to sip her slightly cool black tea.

After all, this has become their daily way of communicating, and their relationship is indeed unhealthy.

One doesn't know how to be a mother, and the other doesn't know how to be a son.

"Besides, when it comes to an excellent mother for carrying on the family line, who can compare to you, Maya Yotsuba? One of the world's strongest magicians, and with a beauty that could topple kingdoms, your genes are definitely top-notch. Why don't you sacrifice yourself for the future of the Yotsuba Family?"

"No problem."

"Ha?!"

Mahiro was just joking, trying to annoy this woman, but he didn't expect Maya to actually agree?!

"To be honest, although I am your mother, I have never been with any man."

Saegusa Koichi was once my fiancé. The group from the Great Han didn't defile my body because I was too young to have children at the time. Instead, they cut open my abdomen and took out my uterus and ovaries to cultivate.

Hmm~ if that's the case, I should thank those people? Oh dear, oh dear..."

Maya was recalling the "knowledge" in her head when she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

However, there was a hint of self-mockery in that voice.

"If you don't Mahiro my disabled body, what harm would it do to give it to me? It's just a pity that I can no longer have children..."

Maya put down her teacup, gently stroking her abdomen, then looked up at him with an elegant smile, a faint glimmer in her eyes.

This woman is serious!

But this caught Yotsuba Mahiro off guard.

What's wrong with this woman?

And why do I still feel a little bit of anticipation?

Is it this woman who's sick, or am I...?

No, to be precise, they are both sick, neither of them is quite normal.

Let's stop making jokes like this.

In the end, it was Mahiro who was the first to succumb, completely defeated by Maya Yotsuba, and said in a deep voice:

"I'll find a way to solve your physical problems. Here, this is the enhancement potion I brought back this time. I've already experimented with it, and it can even restore lost eyeballs and arms. I think healing your body will be no problem at all."

As he spoke, he tossed out a metal syringe, which landed right in Maya Yotsuba's arms.

The experiment was naturally conducted on Najenda.

Before parting, he injected Najenda with a strengthening agent.

I watched helplessly as her arm grew back and her right eye was restored to its original state.

However, Maya Yotsuba mistakenly believed that Yotsuba Mahiro was experimenting on her, and that he had deliberately cut off her arm and gouged out her eyeballs just to test the restorative power of the drug.

This stirred up a complex mix of emotions within Maya.

What she just said to Mahiro wasn't a joke, nor was it empty talk, but it contained a lot of compensation implications.

But now, a flutter stirred in her heart.

With each heartbeat, a strange soreness arises.

This feeling is something I haven't experienced in a long time.

She had been cared for like this for countless years, even when her father, Genzo Yotsuba, and her sister, Yotsuba Clan Yotsuba Miya, were alive, they had never shown her such care.

Even when they were in danger, all they thought about was how to keep themselves alive, but no one ever considered how to restore her body.

In the end, it was that child, whom he had raised as a tool since childhood and who later evoked inexplicable emotions in him, who was now striving for his own crippled body...

"Actually, you don't need..."

Maya snapped out of her daze and was about to say something, but when she looked up, she found that Mahiro had already left the room.

She lowered her head again, her gaze fixed on the syringe in her hand.

Although she didn't know what her facial expression looked like, she could guess it must have been terrible.

With that thought in mind, she silently lifted her thin sleeve, revealing her fair wrist with a crystalline sheen, and without the slightest hesitation, injected the medicine into her vein.

The slight coolness from the medicine made her brows furrow slightly, but she didn't pause at all during the process.

She never even considered that the drug might kill her.

After the injection, a hazy light appeared in her cyan pupils, and she lay languidly on the bed, exhaling a faint fragrance.

"If dying like this were possible, it wouldn't be such a bad choice..."

A gentle smile played on her lips, a smile that revealed boundless tenderness—an emotion she only displayed when she was alone.

As for whether the medicine would work, she had long since stopped caring.

It's not that I have no hope, but rather that I'm already satisfied.

It's nice to have someone who cares about you.

However, she soon realized something was wrong.

"Hmm..."

A soft moan escaped from his throat.

Feeling the warm current flowing through her body, Maya Yotsuba's breathing immediately became rapid. In disbelief, she gently placed her hand on her lower abdomen, which was even trembling slightly!

She seemed to hear the echo of flesh and blood Regrowth.

She could feel the cells dividing and building up inside her abdomen, the blood vessels spreading, and the flesh growing wildly!

What I once lost, the rights that were ruthlessly taken away by this world, have actually come back!!!

That familiar, cramping pain stirred her emotions.

"This child... actually did it."

Her feelings became indescribable; her gaze flickered as she stared at the tightly closed door, her gentle smile making it impossible to fathom her thoughts.

Seeing those familiar faces again after several years made Mahiro feel at ease and warm.

It really felt like I had been traveling and working hard, and then returned home.

However, he has quite a lot to do.

First, he needed to settle the women he had killed. He chose an open space and released the mansion he had stored in his ring.

The girls in the mansion were incredibly excited to find themselves in a completely new world.

The former Elite Group was especially overjoyed to see Tina, Asaka, and Aihara Enju.

The three children's teachings are still etched in their hearts to this day.

They also made quite a few laughable mistakes when they saw those high-tech gadgets.

For example, Pony had never seen a cell phone before, but he insisted that he knew how to use it. When the battery died and the phone wouldn't turn on, he thought it was broken and cried for a long time.

For example, Sheele, who was learning how to use the washing machine from Mine, accidentally stuffed Mine into the washing machine.