Slowly into the living room for a while, it smelled delicious from the kitchen.

I think it's time we had dinner.

"No ~ you smell delicious ~. It's time for dinner"

You were caught smelling rice, my father came into the living room.

"... Didn't you pass out?

"When it's time for dinner, it's what happens, right? You don't know that?

I don't know that and I don't want to know that.

My dad sat next to me satisfied as he was, and he was whining that I'm sure this dinner would be arr ~ etc.

As I waited to hear my father whine, my mother came into the living room with the food.

"Al. It's your big day, I like it... na..."

The moment Mother came into the living room, Mother's movements stopped.

"... Lucica? What's the matter with you?

When Father asked worryingly, Mother slowly put the dish on the table - the next moment she punched a heavy fist in Father's face.

"Brrr!?

Dad collapsed behind each chair and lost consciousness as it was, his mother said, looking down at it.

"I'm the one sitting next to Al."

Do you beat up your husband for that reason, Mother?

Mother sat next to me when she threw her father away like trash with a hand she was used to.

"Come on, Al. Shall we eat?"

".................................................................................... Hi"

If you go against it, you lose. I felt that instinctively.

When I started eating dinner, my mother asked me about my life and the situation around me, like how I've been lately, and every time I answered, she was smiling at me with a nickel.

"... Something sounds like a lot of fun. Mother."

"Of course that's a conversation with my beloved son. Al would know if we could get married and have kids too."

"I think it's about my mother who drowns so much when she has kids."

"Oh, really?

That said her mother suddenly got a serious look after laughing at her cousins.

"By the way, I'm sorry if I reminded you of something hard, but I need to talk to you about Irvia."

"About Irvia...?

"Yeah, well, I don't think she's all over evil yet."

... not stained with evil...? Sure, there's a lot of unknown parts of Irvia's behavior, and it's an unlikely story...

"How can you say all that?

"There was a time when I was caught and replaced by Irvia, wasn't there?

"Oh. I didn't realize at all because I was writing letters imitating my mother -"

"No, she didn't write."

"... Huh?

No, then who was getting the letter when Irvia was switching with her mother...?

"I wrote it all."

"My mother!?

What's this all about? Could it be that Irvia used the letter her mother was writing down...?

"When I was caught and locked up, she said, 'You can send a letter to your brother if you want to make it look like you can't find out you're switching with me.'"

"... what's in it for Irvia...? In the first place, how long have my mother and Irvia been switching...?

"Not long before Al came to King's Capital... I wonder. That's when they caught me."

He had been replaced before I came to Wang Du...? If so......

"... then how did your mother know about Antisburg? If you were trapped, you'd never know."

"That kid looked it up for me, too. I wrote to you as if I had checked it out myself. Well, actually, I think I could have checked it out."

... That means... Isn't Irvia... an enemy?

"... what's going on...?

"I don't know either...... I was just saying something that bothered me."

"What do you care...?

"'I won't do anything for nothing'... he said. I didn't think anything of it when I heard it, but don't you think it's a mysterious word when you look at that kid's recent inexplicable behavior?

"Right.................. Hmm? How does my mother know what Irvia's doing?

"There are shadow puppets. I don't have a problem collecting information."

With that said, Mother... you were the captain of that shadow puppet...

"... Could the Cyril we just met report that...?

"... Yep"

"Oh well... I see. I almost got it (...)"

"Really? Okay, then this story is over. Let's go back to this fun conversation, shall we?

When Mother returned to her full grin, she began to carry the dish to her mouth.

I also restarted my meal after that, but since then I haven't had much meal through my throat.