I walked towards the inn while hoping it was Ciaphia's lie. I wasn't prepared to talk to my mom at the moment.
"Please be a lie." I approached the inn and stopped in front of the door. I took a deep breath and opened the door. When I did that, I started looking around to go look for my mom, but she wasn't there.
But when I was feeling relieved.
"Noah, you've arrived." Sara appeared behind me, was she outside the inn? I hadn't seen her outside.
"Eeek! Don't do that, you scared me." I put a hand to my chest and my heart was racing. I walked inside the inn and then turned to look at her, Sara was looking at me confused.
"What was it? Why are you so scared? Normally you wouldn't be scared like that." Yes, she's right, several times Sara has caught me off guard like that, but this was the time I got the most scared.
"I thought it was my mother, that's why I got scared," I answered honestly.
"Which? Does my voice sound so much like your mother's voice?"
"On second thought, it doesn't look like much. My mother's voice is a little deeper and more authoritative, but you have a gentle voice." Yes, my mother had the voice of a soldier in the middle of a war.
"I'm glad to hear it, but you shouldn't say it in front of her." Sara smiled wryly at me, but since she said that...
"My mother is already here, isn't she?"
"Yes, she is in her room, be careful when approaching there."
I swallowed my saliva, now I was starting to get nervous again.
"Is she that angry?" I asked Sara and waited for her to answer like "She didn't seem very angry." Or "Your mom was happy while talking to Lisandra, you'll be fine."
But...
"She looked very angry. Even though she was happy to find Lisandra, she kept talking about you and how she would scold you when she found you."
"Ugh... This is bad."
"They were here until shortly before you arrived. But I think you should calm down, I think your mother wouldn't do anything to hurt you."
"..."
"Would she do that?"
"..."
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After my conversation with Sara, she just wished me luck and went straight to the kitchen as she continued with her eyes closed. Man, she's acting like I'm going to die.
But I overreacted a little, my mom wouldn't don't hurt me, but she would probably curse me a lot today.
I went upstairs and went straight to the bedroom. Arriving at the bedroom door, I took a deep breath and prepared myself to meet. I could already hear Lisandra and my mother's voices inside the bedroom.
It had been a long time since I heard my mom's voice and didn't see her, so I was happy now. But even so the feeling of "Fear" is much greater at the moment.
"Hey, can you not be so hard on Noah?."
"What was it? You call me here and now you're afraid I'll do something to him?"
"Well, I was hoping you would just change his mind about leaving school and becoming an adventurer."
"Don't worry, I'll do it."
"..."
Hearing their conversation, and the creepy tone of my mom's voice, I almost gave up and went downstairs again, but I couldn't do that, I have to accept my fate.
So I opened the door.
As soon as I opened the door, inside the room it was a little dark. My mom was there lying on my bed as she stared up at the ceiling, and Lisandra was laying on her bed just the same.
As soon as I opened the door, both women looked at me at the same time.
I didn't mind Lisandra's look, but my mom's look and smile when she saw me were scary. I thought I saw some sparks coming out of her body, you're gonna burn my bed, you better calm down!
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"Noah, you seem to be doing great." As soon as I walked into the room and closed the door, my mom stood up and looked right at me. Lisandra this time was sitting on the bed while she just watched.
"You seem good too, Mom." I smiled at her, and she just smiled back.
"You must already know why I'm here, don't you?" She was wearing a scary smile, please stop it.
"Yes, and I'm sorry about that." I dropped my head almost to the ground, I had practically thrown myself to the ground to apologize to her.
"It's nice to know you're sorry, but do you think that's enough?" My mom reached down and then grabbed my head and squeezed it with all her strength. After that, she lifted me while holding me by the head.
After standing up me while holding my head, my mom brought her face close to mine and looked deeply into my eyes. My whole body started to shake when this happened.
"Mom, you are exaggerating. You're hurting his head." Lisandra seeing that got up from the bed and approached, but I didn't want her to get involved in this.
"It's okay, Lisandra," I said and then I was silent as I continued to look at my mom.
"Lisandra, it's better to sit and keep quiet, okay?" My mom said as she looked coldly at Lisandra, making her pull away and throw herself on the bed again.
After that, my mom looked at me again and started talking.
"Why did you start working as an adventurer? I thought I told you I didn't want you to do this."
"You said?" I don't remember anything like that.
"Yes, when you left the village, I told you." I searched my mind if something like that had happened, but I couldn't remember anything, but I just couldn't say it here because it would make the situation worse.
"I'm sorry." I could only apologize.
"Do you think an apology is enough? Do you know how your sister was worried about you?"
"I know."
"You dared to hide it from her and deceive her, Lisandra told me about the conversation she had with you. You wanted to leave school to become an adventurer but you would talk to me first, wouldn't you?"
"That's right."
"And who said I would allow you to do something like that?"
"..."
"Even if you came to talk to me, I would never let you do something like that. But now you made the situation even worse when you joined the guild without your sister or me know."
"I know. I'm sorry."
"Are you just going to apologize? Aren't you going to try to justify it?"
"..."
"Like, you needed money to buy something you wanted, aren't you even going to try to cheat me?"
"I have no reason to do this." The truth is I wanted to kill monsters to level up my level, but would they believe me if I said I have a Status and I need to kill monsters to keep leveling up my magic infinitely?
[ You can not do that. ]
"Hm?" That robotic voice popped into my mind again. But after that, it said nothing more.
"What was it? Are you going crazy now too?" My mom said as she looked seriously at me.
"It's nothing, I'm sorry Mom."
"This is useless." Saying this, my mother let go of my head and I fell to the ground. After that, Lisandra came over to see if I was okay while my mom walked over to my bed and sat on it.
Sitting there, my mom sighed.
"Noah, you are an idiot? You made me leave the village to come here, I'm extremely angry, I think you can see that, right?" My mom's eyes had even changed color, it was like a fire was being created in her eyes.
"Sure."
"Then I think it's okay. It would be useless to tell you to stop being an adventurer now, and it would also be useless to tell you to stay in school. Tell me, Noah, how do you feel about school?"
"The teachers are weak, the students are weak and there's nothing I can learn there." Or so far.
"I see, so I'll go to school tomorrow and talk with the diretor that you won't be studying there anymore."
"Really?"
"Isn't that what you wanted?" At my mother's words, a smile appeared on my face, but not for long: "Of course, you're going back to the village with me, there's no reason for you to be in this place."
"What?"
"I'll also go to the guild and ask them to suspend your license, you won't need it while you work in the village."
"Wait!" I desperately got up and tried to say something. Didn't you say it was useless to ask me to stop being an adventurer? Did you change your mind?
Of course, I just thought that.
"Hm? Do you have something to say?" She just looked calm, but I could see in my mom's eyes that she was holding back from doing something to me.
'Dude, I never thought it would get to that level..' I couldn't help but remain on the floor beside Lisandra who had her head down.