Translated by BunnyByun
Edited by ArroganceComplex
Episode 51: You Gotta Love Me
I won! I beat my toxic mother! No, she’s my ex-mother now.
“I’m happy for you, Iori. Call Cheena right away.”
Emma told me, putting her hand on my shoulder while making a triumphant pose. That’s right, I have to send a message to Cheena and everyone else. They should be in class right now so I might not be able to talk to her on the phone. So I opened my phone and typed a message, and while I was typing, Oliver-san told me the detailed results.
“For now, it’s a great victory, Iori. Saki Kagami lost custody of you, and you’re my son now. You’ll also get back the money that was used and your legal share of Yuichi’s inheritance.”
“You-Know-Who is going to be living in debt from now on?”
“If she sells off the rest of her inheritance and all the luxury goods she bought, she can just barely pay those. She’ll probably have to work herself off to make ends meet.”
“That is, if she can still get hired after the world finds out she has toxic parents.”
Hahahaha!
Laughing at each other in high tension, I send the message I finished typing to Cheena and the others.
Cheena was the first to reply with her congratulations, and then the rest of them replied one after another. What the heck, don’t play with your phone in class.
Soji ignored my message as usual. I wonder if he’s skipping school to join the mass media outside.
As I was thinking about this, a half-crazed woman’s voice rang out from a short distance away. It was my ex-mother.
“Why you! Why are you taking Shiori away from me!”
Her screams roared in the corridor outside. It’s a pleasant sound, and it restores my SAN value.
(T/N: Just a quick recap, SAN value is the value of your sanity. In short, if you’re crazy or not lol )
“Iori. It seems that Shiori and your mother are coming here, do you want to say hello for the last time?”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver and I followed the officer to another waiting room.
There was the ex-mother grabbing at the lawyer, and Shiori breaking down in tears. Then there was a man in sunglasses I had never seen before, and a woman in a suit.
“I want my family back! Give me back my family!”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s okay. Even though you lost custody, you’re still legally a parent and a child.”
“I’m not anymore, though.”
While the lawyer was soothing my ex-mother, I called out to her.
Losing parental rights doesn’t mean that the parents were no longer the child’s legal parent, but they still feel like their children were taken away from them in a sense. Moreover, special adoptions terminate the legal parent-children relationship with the biological parents, unlike the regular adoptions. In other words, I was no longer this b*tch’s son.
Of course, I would no longer be legally connected to my father, but I’m sure he would forgive me.
“Iori. You, you, you!”
Hearing my voice, my ex-mother finally noticed my presence and wandered up to me. Oh, what’s the matter General Woman?
“You’re the reason I’m all alone, you’re the reason I’m all alone!”
She shouted as she slammed her right hand down on me with a big swing. Swing! But her hand stopped midair before it could hit me. Oliver was grabbing her arm and stopped her.
“You’ve got some nerve, hitting my kid.”
“Let go of me! I gave birth to him, and don’t care what I want to do to him!”
She was no longer in her right mind. My ex-mother continues to shake her hair and scream insanely.
“Why, why are you taking everything away from me! My dreams, my Shiori – it’s all your fault!”
Your dreams? I took away your dreams? That was new. Maybe that was why I’ve been so oppressed. Well, I guess we’ll find out later when we hear from the judge.
Anyway, for now, let’s just play with this b*tch.
“I’ve been oppressed by you people my whole life. I’m just paying you back for seventeen years of abuse.”
“I didn’t do anything wrong!”
“So, tell me… did you ever care about me?”
“How can I care about you if you don’t care about me?!”
“I would like to return to you those words!”
My ex-mother said, as if it was only natural. If you are a parent, you should continue to love your children no matter how n*****y they are.
I twisted my lips and asked my ex-mother a question.
“Hey, do you want to know how to get your custody back…?”
“What…?”
My ex-mother’s eyes rolled back in her head at my unexpected words. Her eyes were filled with hope, as if she were a sinner in h**l with a spider thread hanging in front of her.
Loss of custody.
It was a judgment that she would be “permanently” deprived of her parental rights to her child. But this can be overturned under certain conditions.
“You can… give me back my Shiori…? Tell me… tell me quickly!”
“You’d do anything for that?”
“Of course! I’d do anything for my child!”
She would?
I chuckled coldly and told her what the terms are.
“Regaining your custody is very simple: if the family court determined that the cause of losing your custody has been eliminated, you will get it back. In other words…” and I dared to smile gently at her, “You just have to love me. But I’m not even your child anymore.
“What are you…?”
“It’s true. You should check it out.”
“So it’s like that….”
You can’t do that, can you? You can’t care about me.
My ex-mother, once given hope, fell to her knees in even deeper despair. But I’m not going to let that stop me.
“Hey, you said you’d do anything, right? Then show love to your child as a parent! Not only Shiori, but also me as well! Did you do it? You can love me just like how you love Shiori. This is a greedy yet happy set!”
And in response to this agitation, my ex-mother finally spoke the words that she should not have said.
“I can’t… do that.”
You did it.
“Look, Shiori! Your precious mother put her pride before you! She can’t even accept me in order to get you back!”
“That’s….”
“No! No, Shiori! This is…”
It’s too late to rush to deny it.
“I believed you – I really believed in you!”
“Wait, Shiori!”
Shiori ran out of the room crying, and a woman in a suit rushed after her, “Shion!” A woman in a suit hurriedly ran after her. She was probably Shiori’s manager.
Wait for me, Shiori. I won’t let your h**l end like this. We’ll continue at school.
When I turned my gaze back to my mother, the man who had failed to chase after Shiori spoke out weakly.
“Why are you doing this? She only took your money, why are you taking so much from her…?”
“What did you say? That she only took my money? That’s a load of c**p. She has taken everything from me, so I will also take everything away from her. Well in the end, I cut off ties with her in my own will.”
“That kind of thing…”
“Saki, that’s enough.”
The b*tch who wasn’t in her right mind tried to continue her words, but she was stopped from doing so by an unexpected person. There was another person in the room. It was a rugged looking man wearing glasses.
When he put his hands on her shoulders, she finally gave up and dropped her head with a thud.
She’s done for.
She’ll never be able to bare her fangs at me again. I could tell from the way she was crying that I had won – I won.
“By the way, who are you?”
“Nice to meet you, Iori-kun. I’m Takasaki, Saki’s former manager.”
The man who speaks with sincerity, despite his appearance, seems to be her former manager. Was this the person Soji met? If so, he had been fooled.
“Are you going to shut down the office because of me? Are you angry?”
“It’s true that our office is finished, but I personally don’t blame you. I don’t blame you personally. Rather, this is the result of my and Saki’s actions. I feel bad about what we’ve done to you.”
“So you’re saying you’re the one who sowed the seeds? Did my father have anything to do with it?”
“Including that, I have something for you.”
Then Mr. Takasaki held out a book to me. No, it’s a little thin to be called a book. It’s a… diary.
“This is the diary that Saki had written just before she retired. It was thrown away at the hospital, but I retrieved it for you. If you read it, you can get a general idea of what happened.”
“I don’t think she keeps a meticulous diary.”
“He used to be a very meticulous woman, you know. But that seemed to have changed a lot since she had you.”
For the time being, I took the diary and returned my gaze to Mr. Takasaki.
“I will probably publish this, is that okay?”
“You can do whatever you want. Then I’ll go to my last job. Iori-kun, I’m really sorry about this.”
“Sigh… that’s enough. Please take her with you.”
Having said that, Mr. Takasaki helped my ex-mother stand up and left the room, then walked towards the front door of the court. Of course, he also took my ex-mother with him.
The last task… was to deal with the mass media.
My ex-mother, who was drooping, followed Mr. Takasaki unsteadily.
As I followed a little further away, I saw that there was a tremendous number of media gathered outside. The two of them walked out into the crowd together.
“Ah! She just came out of the courthouse!”
“Saki-san! Please tell us the result of the trial!”
“What is the truth about the abuse of the child?”
Various reporters from live news, newspapers, and weekly magazines rushed in like a raging storm, and I could see flashes being burned.
Even though we were indoors, it was a huge commotion.
This will be the end of her socially. She’s going to regret everything she had done to me.
As I thought this, I suddenly remembered the diary he had given me.
I opened it, still in my hand, and saw that it was indeed her handwriting, describing the events of her days. I skimmed through it and grasped the contents, then closed the diary and turned my attention back to the press.
“How was it, Iori?”
Oliver-san asked me about the contents of the diary, so I turned around and answered.
“I am relieved. That woman is a real b*tch. Now, I can break off our relationship without any worries.”
A/N: Now, chapter 3 is about to reach its climax!
T/N: We will finally know what was the reason behind Saki’s aka the actions of Iori’s mother. What are the contents of her diary? Not gonna tell you, stay tuned to the next chapter ☺☺☺
And I just came back from the dead. Wishing you all a lovely and happy holidays! <3
E/N: I also just came back from the dead. Been “not” enjoying my vacation. Also Happy New Year I wish you all a proper suffering.
Translated by BunnyByun
Edited by ArroganceComplex
Episode 51: You Gotta Love Me
I won! I beat my toxic mother! No, she’s my ex-mother now.
“I’m happy for you, Iori. Call Cheena right away.”
Emma told me, putting her hand on my shoulder while making a triumphant pose. That’s right, I have to send a message to Cheena and everyone else. They should be in class right now so I might not be able to talk to her on the phone. So I opened my phone and typed a message, and while I was typing, Oliver-san told me the detailed results.
“For now, it’s a great victory, Iori. Saki Kagami lost custody of you, and you’re my son now. You’ll also get back the money that was used and your legal share of Yuichi’s inheritance.”
“You-Know-Who is going to be living in debt from now on?”
“If she sells off the rest of her inheritance and all the luxury goods she bought, she can just barely pay those. She’ll probably have to work herself off to make ends meet.”
“That is, if she can still get hired after the world finds out she has toxic parents.”
Hahahaha!
Laughing at each other in high tension, I send the message I finished typing to Cheena and the others.
Cheena was the first to reply with her congratulations, and then the rest of them replied one after another. What the heck, don’t play with your phone in class.
Soji ignored my message as usual. I wonder if he’s skipping school to join the mass media outside.
As I was thinking about this, a half-crazed woman’s voice rang out from a short distance away. It was my ex-mother.
“Why you! Why are you taking Shiori away from me!”
Her screams roared in the corridor outside. It’s a pleasant sound, and it restores my SAN value.
(T/N: Just a quick recap, SAN value is the value of your sanity. In short, if you’re crazy or not lol )
“Iori. It seems that Shiori and your mother are coming here, do you want to say hello for the last time?”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver and I followed the officer to another waiting room.
There was the ex-mother grabbing at the lawyer, and Shiori breaking down in tears. Then there was a man in sunglasses I had never seen before, and a woman in a suit.
“I want my family back! Give me back my family!”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s okay. Even though you lost custody, you’re still legally a parent and a child.”
“I’m not anymore, though.”
While the lawyer was soothing my ex-mother, I called out to her.
Losing parental rights doesn’t mean that the parents were no longer the child’s legal parent, but they still feel like their children were taken away from them in a sense. Moreover, special adoptions terminate the legal parent-children relationship with the biological parents, unlike the regular adoptions. In other words, I was no longer this b*tch’s son.
Of course, I would no longer be legally connected to my father, but I’m sure he would forgive me.
“Iori. You, you, you!”
Hearing my voice, my ex-mother finally noticed my presence and wandered up to me. Oh, what’s the matter General Woman?
“You’re the reason I’m all alone, you’re the reason I’m all alone!”
She shouted as she slammed her right hand down on me with a big swing. Swing! But her hand stopped midair before it could hit me. Oliver was grabbing her arm and stopped her.
“You’ve got some nerve, hitting my kid.”
“Let go of me! I gave birth to him, and don’t care what I want to do to him!”
She was no longer in her right mind. My ex-mother continues to shake her hair and scream insanely.
“Why, why are you taking everything away from me! My dreams, my Shiori – it’s all your fault!”
Your dreams? I took away your dreams? That was new. Maybe that was why I’ve been so oppressed. Well, I guess we’ll find out later when we hear from the judge.
Anyway, for now, let’s just play with this b*tch.
“I’ve been oppressed by you people my whole life. I’m just paying you back for seventeen years of abuse.”
“I didn’t do anything wrong!”
“So, tell me… did you ever care about me?”
“How can I care about you if you don’t care about me?!”
“I would like to return to you those words!”
My ex-mother said, as if it was only natural. If you are a parent, you should continue to love your children no matter how n*****y they are.
I twisted my lips and asked my ex-mother a question.
“Hey, do you want to know how to get your custody back…?”
“What…?”
My ex-mother’s eyes rolled back in her head at my unexpected words. Her eyes were filled with hope, as if she were a sinner in h**l with a spider thread hanging in front of her.
Loss of custody.
It was a judgment that she would be “permanently” deprived of her parental rights to her child. But this can be overturned under certain conditions.
“You can… give me back my Shiori…? Tell me… tell me quickly!”
“You’d do anything for that?”
“Of course! I’d do anything for my child!”
She would?
I chuckled coldly and told her what the terms are.
“Regaining your custody is very simple: if the family court determined that the cause of losing your custody has been eliminated, you will get it back. In other words…” and I dared to smile gently at her, “You just have to love me. But I’m not even your child anymore.
“What are you…?”
“It’s true. You should check it out.”
“So it’s like that….”
You can’t do that, can you? You can’t care about me.
My ex-mother, once given hope, fell to her knees in even deeper despair. But I’m not going to let that stop me.
“Hey, you said you’d do anything, right? Then show love to your child as a parent! Not only Shiori, but also me as well! Did you do it? You can love me just like how you love Shiori. This is a greedy yet happy set!”
And in response to this agitation, my ex-mother finally spoke the words that she should not have said.
“I can’t… do that.”
You did it.
“Look, Shiori! Your precious mother put her pride before you! She can’t even accept me in order to get you back!”
“That’s….”
“No! No, Shiori! This is…”
It’s too late to rush to deny it.
“I believed you – I really believed in you!”
“Wait, Shiori!”
Shiori ran out of the room crying, and a woman in a suit rushed after her, “Shion!” A woman in a suit hurriedly ran after her. She was probably Shiori’s manager.
Wait for me, Shiori. I won’t let your h**l end like this. We’ll continue at school.
When I turned my gaze back to my mother, the man who had failed to chase after Shiori spoke out weakly.
“Why are you doing this? She only took your money, why are you taking so much from her…?”
“What did you say? That she only took my money? That’s a load of c**p. She has taken everything from me, so I will also take everything away from her. Well in the end, I cut off ties with her in my own will.”
“That kind of thing…”
“Saki, that’s enough.”
The b*tch who wasn’t in her right mind tried to continue her words, but she was stopped from doing so by an unexpected person. There was another person in the room. It was a rugged looking man wearing glasses.
When he put his hands on her shoulders, she finally gave up and dropped her head with a thud.
She’s done for.
She’ll never be able to bare her fangs at me again. I could tell from the way she was crying that I had won – I won.
“By the way, who are you?”
“Nice to meet you, Iori-kun. I’m Takasaki, Saki’s former manager.”
The man who speaks with sincerity, despite his appearance, seems to be her former manager. Was this the person Soji met? If so, he had been fooled.
“Are you going to shut down the office because of me? Are you angry?”
“It’s true that our office is finished, but I personally don’t blame you. I don’t blame you personally. Rather, this is the result of my and Saki’s actions. I feel bad about what we’ve done to you.”
“So you’re saying you’re the one who sowed the seeds? Did my father have anything to do with it?”
“Including that, I have something for you.”
Then Mr. Takasaki held out a book to me. No, it’s a little thin to be called a book. It’s a… diary.
“This is the diary that Saki had written just before she retired. It was thrown away at the hospital, but I retrieved it for you. If you read it, you can get a general idea of what happened.”
“I don’t think she keeps a meticulous diary.”
“He used to be a very meticulous woman, you know. But that seemed to have changed a lot since she had you.”
For the time being, I took the diary and returned my gaze to Mr. Takasaki.
“I will probably publish this, is that okay?”
“You can do whatever you want. Then I’ll go to my last job. Iori-kun, I’m really sorry about this.”
“Sigh… that’s enough. Please take her with you.”
Having said that, Mr. Takasaki helped my ex-mother stand up and left the room, then walked towards the front door of the court. Of course, he also took my ex-mother with him.
The last task… was to deal with the mass media.
My ex-mother, who was drooping, followed Mr. Takasaki unsteadily.
As I followed a little further away, I saw that there was a tremendous number of media gathered outside. The two of them walked out into the crowd together.
“Ah! She just came out of the courthouse!”
“Saki-san! Please tell us the result of the trial!”
“What is the truth about the abuse of the child?”
Various reporters from live news, newspapers, and weekly magazines rushed in like a raging storm, and I could see flashes being burned.
Even though we were indoors, it was a huge commotion.
This will be the end of her socially. She’s going to regret everything she had done to me.
As I thought this, I suddenly remembered the diary he had given me.
I opened it, still in my hand, and saw that it was indeed her handwriting, describing the events of her days. I skimmed through it and grasped the contents, then closed the diary and turned my attention back to the press.
“How was it, Iori?”
Oliver-san asked me about the contents of the diary, so I turned around and answered.
“I am relieved. That woman is a real b*tch. Now, I can break off our relationship without any worries.”
A/N: Now, chapter 3 is about to reach its climax!
T/N: We will finally know what was the reason behind Saki’s aka the actions of Iori’s mother. What are the contents of her diary? Not gonna tell you, stay tuned to the next chapter ☺☺☺
And I just came back from the dead. Wishing you all a lovely and happy holidays! <3
E/N: I also just came back from the dead. Been “not” enjoying my vacation. Also Happy New Year I wish you all a proper suffering.
