Chapter 71: Waiting for You in the Real Future (Part 1)
Muen has always been someone who couldn’t hide her feelings, from childhood to adulthood, she remained this way.
The moment she saw Leon, she didn’t suppress her emotions like her younger sister Xiaoguang, who remained calm and proved her identity.
Nor did she react like her eldest sister, who walked straight up and punched their old father.
Her way of expressing emotions was always simple and sincere.
Muen almost threw herself into the man’s arms with all her strength, her tears flowing uncontrollably like a flood breaking through a dam.
Emotions are contagious, like a bomb, and Muen was the fuse.
Watching the father and daughter reunite and cry after twenty years, Aurora lowered her head, removed her glasses, and silently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Noa had her hands in her jacket pockets, biting her lip, her pupils flickering, before finally turning her head away.
Leon gently stroked Muen’s hair, just like when she was a child.
Her cowlick was still there, and her facial features were as delicate as Noa’s now. Although the two sisters had identical faces, Noa looked like a mature and stunningly cool woman, while Muen leaned more toward the “girl next door” vibe.
Muen hadn’t cut her hair short like Noa.
She kept her long hair, just like the dazzling, galaxy-like hair of Rosevitha.
After crying for a while in her father’s arms, Muen sniffled and stepped back. Her cowlick swayed with the rhythm of her nose sniffling.
Leon smiled and patted Muen on the shoulder, “You’ve become beautiful, Muen.”
“Dad, you… haven’t changed much, still the same as twenty years ago.”
Aurora, who had adjusted her emotions and put her glasses back on, interrupted from the side, “Dad, why did you only compliment the second sister for becoming beautiful? What about me and the eldest sister?”
“Ah, well…” Leon heard it. She was stoking the fire.
“Noa and I are twins. Complimenting her is like complimenting me,” Noa leaned against the stone wall, seriously playing the cool sister role, “So, the only one you didn’t compliment is you, Xiaoguang.”
The scientist was stunned. The eldest sister had a point.
As a result, the instigator of the fire-stoking was the first to blush, “Alright, you old jerk! Looks like just one uppercut wasn’t enough to wake up your love for me, your youngest daughter, huh?”
Leon scratched his head and chuckled, having no choice but to amend his previous words, “You all have become beautiful. Didn’t I pass out as soon as I saw you two? I didn’t have the chance to compliment you.”
Muen blinked her pretty eyes and looked at Leon, “Dad, why did you faint?”
“…”
Leon thought, My dear child, you’re still as curious as ever.
“Nothing, I just got a bit tired and passed out,” Leon lied casually.
Getting knocked out by your daughters… It’s better not to spread that around.
But Leon was still relieved that Muen hadn’t punched him like her sisters.
See? She’s the real ‘daddy’s little girl.’ Those two? Just thorns and counterattacks.
“Alright, Dad, it’s time to see her.”
Leon’s smile faded, becoming serious.
He knew who Aurora was referring to.
Leon nodded, “Alright.”
Aurora spoke, “Mom is in the innermost room. Let’s go.”
The three sisters led the way, with Leon following behind them.
The entrance to the innermost room wasn’t far, after all, it was just an underground space, not very big, only enough for one or two people’s daily lives.
Yet, these few short steps felt heavier with every step Leon took.
He was so close to Rosvitha, yet the anxiety in his heart grew stronger and stronger.
Suddenly, he recalled what Muen had said when they entered the underground space earlier, standing outside the door:
Mom is still the same. I’ve always insisted on chatting with her.
The same? What did that mean?
Why use the strange phrasing of chatting with her?
What on earth happened to that foolish dragon?
The questions in his heart piled up like mountains, threatening to crush him.
Leon did his best to regulate his breathing, trying to calm himself down.
“We’re here.”
The three sisters stopped in front of a stone door.
This time, it wasn’t an illusion magic door. Aurora raised her hand, pulled a hidden lever on the wall, and the stone door slowly opened to the sides.
Behind the door was a small room. On both sides of the walls, torches flickered.
In the center of the room stood a chair.
In front of the chair, there was a two-meter-long… crystal?
The dim light from the doorway made it hard for Leon to see more specific details.
However, when his daughters led him into the room, and he saw the crystal clearly, he froze in place as if struck by lightning.
Inside the crystal, a silver-haired beauty lay with her eyes gently closed, her hands folded over her abdomen, pressing down on a photo.
She was so quiet, quiet like she was merely sleeping.
But who in their right mind would sleep inside such a strange crystal?!
The unease that had been building up inside Leon finally exploded, invading every part of him in an instant.
He felt cold all over, his spine barely able to support the weight of his body, as if he could collapse at any moment.
His eyes widened as he stared at his wife inside the crystal. He opened his mouth, but the countless words stuck in his throat like stones.
He couldn’t swallow them, and he couldn’t say them.
It felt suffocating.
Leon reached out his hand, but his hand trembled uncontrollably.
Just placing his palm on the crystal took all his strength.
The crystal was cold, like his gradually freezing heart.
“Rosvitha… Rosvitha…” His voice trembled too.
Noa stepped forward, looking at their ‘sleeping’ mother, and slowly spoke:
“To stop that disaster, you entered the space rift alone and disappeared without a trace. No one knew if you were alive or dead.”
“After that, Mom fell into a slump, sinking deeper into despair, numbing herself with alcohol every day.”
Don’t see how the “smarter” daughters can’t see why Meun gets to be the spoiled one as they KO Leon everytime they meet him
Ah so it is a days of future past situation. Can’t wait to see the face of the Imperial Dogs when Leon shows back up.
Poor rosvitha will be suffering for those 6 months without leon as how the daughters have said.