The Red Dragon Emperor

Parents, there is nothing more happier for us than this!"

"Yeah! Even if I become like this, I'm still willing to treat me as a mother... This is enough!"

"This child is our son! Don't you want to touch him with a cold hair!!!"

At this moment, the ochre red light wrapped the three of them.

269.Hyoto Issei!!!

After returning to my senses, I—Hyoto Issei found myself floating in a landscape that resembled a dimensional gap.

Suddenly, a scene appeared before his eyes.

What appeared in the image was an unfamiliar hospital consulting room.

There is a doctor...and a pair of men and women who seem to have met before.

Take a closer look, they are the father and mother when they were young!

I feel as if I have seen them in this period in photos!

How is this?This space is... the memories of my father and mother?Is it their memory image?Has the pilingual been automatically activated to my mother...?

When I was full of doubts, the expressions of the doctor and my parents in the image were full of grief.

The doctor said: "Unfortunately, I can only ask the two children to give up their stomachs."

Hearing what the doctor said, my mother cried bitterly on the spot.

Dad also put his hand on his mother's shoulder with a sad expression.

When I, Hyoto Issei, was confused, my mother's voice suddenly echoed throughout the space.

"It was discovered that my physique is not easy to get pregnant. It happened after a few years of marriage with him.

In a situation where it has always been difficult to have children, after several years, I finally got pregnant.However, my physique is all to blame, so...

The scene changed and changed to a living room that I am familiar with.

"Sorry, husband..." Mom still kept crying.

Facing the tearful mother, Dad encouraged her: "It's okay, don't take it to heart! It's a pity that I can't keep the child in my stomach, but it will be long in Japan! We will definitely have a baby!"

'...Children in the belly, little babies...Isn't this... they had children before me?However, it was not born...?'

Just as I was confused by information I had never heard before, my mother's voice sounded again.

"After two years, the opportunity came again.

The scene changed again, and my mother was stroking her belly happily in the living room.

"Great! Good job! No problem! You don't have to worry about it anymore!"

Dad is also very excited, even running around at home.

In the memory images, my father and mother went to the bookstore and bought a large number of books related to production and parenting.

They bought so many materials that could be said to be surplus and tried to read them, and they went to other obstetrics and gynecology departments to seek second opinion consultation in order to prepare for the birth. Such memories unfolded before my eyes.

"We are all thinking about giving birth to the baby well this time, so we are very careful about this, just thinking about taking care of the baby in our stomach.

The image is again converted into the obstetrics and gynecology clinic.

My parents are inside, with a desperate expression.

The doctor reluctantly squeezed out his voice and explained to both of them, "Mr. Hyoto, I know you must be uncomfortable, but this situation does not only happen to your husband and wife, there are others too..."

"...It's better to give up." On the way home with the snow, my father stopped in the middle of the road and said to his mother.

The father who has been encouraging his mother started crying: "If your health continues to deteriorate, I... absolutely can't bear it...!"

Mom hugged Dad, and the two shed tears of grief.

"Later, we were in a state of half-abstaining about having children, adjusted our mood, and decided to live a new life.

What I saw next was their simple and harmonious life.

The two travel together, the two go shopping together, the two go fishing together, the two go together...

There is no me in their lives—Hyoto Issei...no children born between them.

"But, after I lived with him for eight years..."

"Little, little baby! Really, really!?" The father, who came home from get off work, was taken aback after listening to his mother's report in the kitchen.

After Dad listened, he showed a decided expression and grabbed his mother by the shoulder.

"...I see! This time we must succeed! This time, we must do our best to give birth to this child!"

The tearful mother nodded with a smile.

Next, the efforts of the two of them to give birth and for the baby were presented one after another.

Dad began to read all kinds of related books again, and the number was even greater than before. Mom was very cautious about what he eats. When he saw Mom wanted to take heavy objects, Dad quickly stopped her; he went to the specialist department regularly. The parents of the medical institution desperately protected the little life that fell in their stomachs.

One snowy night, my father visited a shrine with bare feet.

"Please! God bless, God bless! Bless my wife can safely give birth to the child in my stomach!"

In the cold night when snow flew, my father went to the hall time and time again, bowing his head and begging for God.

"It doesn't matter if I pay with my life! It doesn't matter if the remaining life span becomes half! So please God bless! Bless the child in my wife's stomach! Please! Please!"

Although his feet were gradually freezing, Dad kept praying to God.Dad didn't hesitate to ask God to worship Buddha... and hope that the unborn child can be safe.

The seasons in the image change and come to spring when the earth is warming up.

My mother was lying in the hospital ward.Next to her is a newborn baby.

"It's a little boy." The nurse said to the sluggish father.

After a beat, my father finally reacted and said to the mother on the hospital bed: "...ah, yes...this is my child..."

"Yes, it's me and your baby... it took us eight years."

The mother lying on the bed said so with emotion, and the nurse motioned to her father to hold the baby.

After the father took the baby, he looked at the baby in his arms, resisted the tears, and said with a smile: "...The first time I met, I, I am a father."