C19 A Day With Isla and Seth's Past 7/7

What is little Carson going to do?

"I plan to take you down here… now… by myself."

"By yourself? Are you trying to make fun of me? I can kill you in an instant, you know?"

"You could, but you won't, because you want to eat my brain."

Eat his brain?

"Lai? Eating brains? You're disgusting!"

I half jokingly said.

"He means his knowledge! He has the power of Gluttony remember? You're really helpless Isla. Goodness! Why didn't my daughter take after me."

My mom explained while staring at me with a disappoint expression.

"That's the last thing I want to hear from you!"

"You are indeed correct! I do not want to waste such delicious knowledge!"

"Catch!"

Little Carson threw the wine on Lai's direction and dashed towards him.

"I'm the hero in this story!!!"

*crack *Sss~

The bottle broke into pieces as Lai slashed the bottle when it flew towards him. The wine turned to smoke due to the heat of the black flame sword.

As expected of the cheap wine, it sizzled, even though it says non-carbonated.

"You little- Oof!"

Carson hugged Lai's lower half which pushed him to step back but only to bump to the lower part of the window he was standing in front of, which caused him to fall outside.

"Little Carson!"

Little Carson also fell outside but his hand grabbed the edge of the window which saved him from falling three floors towards the surface.

"I did it!"

Mom and I hurriedly went over to the window and pulled him up quickly.

"Surely a fall from that height would leave no one alive, not even if you're so strong-"

"Ha! Did you really think a simple fall off a building would kill me?"

Our eyes widened when we saw Lai flying outside the building with his jet-black angelic wings.

"That's cheating…"

"It seems that I may have attracted too much attention. It would be troublesome if blessed ones would come rushing here, so I will be leaving for now."

*sigh

We breathe a sigh of relief after hearing say he was going to leave.

"But… I'll have to take the child with me"

*gasp

Our eyes stiffened after he declared he was going to take away little brother from us.

"No please! no! please leave my child alone! Take me instead!"

Mom kneeled as with two knees begging him to take her in exchange for little Carson.

"I do not want such an existence to be traveling with me to the depths of the earth. So no… Now bid your goodbyes. You should be thankful enough that I am letting you live."

Heeding his rejection and advice, the three of us hugged each other and spoke our final jokes.

"Sis, please take care of mom."

"Eh? Shouldn't I be the one to take care of Isla?"

Mom rebutted out of surprise.

We ignored her and continued our talk.

"Don't worry little brother, I'll make it so that she doesn't go crazy when we're outside."

"Please don't ignore me!"

"I'm counting on you sis."

"Uwaaaah!!! I'm here too, you know!"

Mom cried as we conversed without her.

Hearing her loud wailing made my ears ring, so we finally agreed to let her in on the conversation.

"Mom please stop crying, I'll definitely come back."

"Yes mom, I'll be saving the 'danzel in distress' when I become strong."

"Okay, my boy is finally growing up and leaving the house. By the way it's 'damsel' not 'danzel'."

As our jokes continued to run rampant, Lai suddenly spoke up.

"Ah! I almost forgot, Seth is in the guest room sleeping. If you take care of him until the time when we meet again, we will exchange the two of them. Now rap it up, the reporters are taking my pictures and I don't have many poses to give them."

After hearing these words, a bright glim of hope ignited within me. The sense of reassurance that we will meet again made me send them off with a lighter heart.

We bid our last words as little brother flew behind Lai.

"Goodbye Mom and Sister Isla."

"Don't make my name sound like a nun!"

Although I am wearing a nun's clothes, it's not really a good thing to hear when I don't plan on becoming one.

"Goodbye my son, Bob!"

"My name's not Bob mom!"

"Eh? I thought my son's name was Bob?"

I ignored mom and waved my hand on the smiling boy, flying further and further away.

"See you soon, King!"

"My name's not King either!"

Even though we were trying to play it cool, our hearts were breaking bit by bit.

The memories we shared. All the fun things we did and we planned to do. All of it came to an end in a mere 11 years.

"It sad but it's happening."

After our farewells, silence lit the room and we eventually left the scene and walked to the guest room to see a sight we never expected to behold.

I did know whether I should have been happy or not.

In truth, I've never actually met nor seen Seth... None of us did.

All we heard were stories about him from Lai.

He was always asleep and he never appeared before us.

The height and skin color he had.

His cute sleeping face lying on the bed.

The gray eyes surrounding his black pupils.

A brown messy hair on his head.

Everything about his appearance…

"How?"

...is exactly like my little brother.

Tears filled my eyes, my knees fell on the ground and my whole body trembled.

"I didn't expect this."