Chapter 22 Extra 2 Part 2
However, the same was not true for Elena.
The more he avoided her, the more she was drawn to him. The more he pulled away from her, the more she pressed on him.
That’s what I had heard from the housekeeper while I was away at work.
Even when I directly told Elena to carry herself with moderation as an elder sister, she only became more stubborn instead.
And then, last winter, on the night we held the Christmas party for Elena’s last year in high school.
I didn’t know when Elena had gone home.
I had long known that she loved Yuu so much that she couldn’t stand it, but I never thought that Elena would do something like that….
Since then, a clear rift ended up appearing between the two of them.
Yuu came to hate Elena so much that whenever they met face to face, he would hurl insults at her or ignore her, while Elena herself stopped going to school and ended up shutting herself away in her room.
Even when I tried to ask what happened a couple of times, Elena shut herself in a shell and would not open her heart to me.
Until a few years ago, the three of us were living together as a family, but how did things end up becoming like this, I wonder?
It was at times like this that I wished Sakuya-san were by my side.
Perhaps unable to just watch me who brooded over and cried alone at night around this time, Yuu’s attitude softened a bit and he would chat with me for a bit in the morning and at night, which was a silver lining of a dark cloud.
And yet, for something like that to happen on his graduation day!
I was at work when I got the call from the police, and I was so shocked I almost ended up fainting and collapsing.
When I rushed to the hospital, Yuu was unconscious and on absolute bed rest.
I was told that the cause was him falling from a pedestrian bridge and hitting his head hard.
Thinking that I wouldn’t be able to keep on living if I were to lose Yuu, I was so distraught that I ended up being held down by several nurses.
Once the night passed, I was relieved to hear that there was no danger to his life, but at the same time, welling up inside me was furious anger at the middle school girls who had done this to him.
Just as I thought about going and making them bear the brunt of my anger, a police officer showed up at just the right timing and informed me of the details of the incident.
If such a despicable crime were to end up being pardoned, it would end up making life more and more difficult for men.
We will make every effort to strictly interrogate and levy severe punishments not only to the main perpetrators who planned the crime, but also the students who were invited to participate in it.
Hearing this, I had no choice but to lower my raised fist.
In today’s world, crimes against men are subject to severe criminal penalties, even if they are minors, after all.
After leaving the matter in the hands of the police, all I could do was hope that Yuu would recover.
While he was in a coma, I threw away the job I was in the middle of and asked the company to let me take some time off from work.
That was because above anything else, Yuu came first.
Faced with my no-objection-allowed attitude, my superior smiled wryly, but she gave me permission to extend my leave. I was lucky to have such an understanding superior.
When I briefly went back home, I got a call that Yuu had regained consciousness, so I immediately rushed to the hospital, leaving everything else unattended to.
And then, when I entered the hospital room and saw Yuu’s safe figure, I could no longer hold myself back.
I hugged him so tightly that a panicked nurse had to stop me.
Having only just regained consciousness, Yuu seemed to be somewhat absentminded, but I was relieved since his complexion didn’t seem bad.
But shockingly, he didn’t remember me…
「My mother is not such a young and beautiful lady! 」 he said, what on earth did that mean?
Somehow, I had mixed feelings about it.
He also changed the way he referred to himself from 『I (boku) 』 to 『I (ore) 』….
According to what the doctor said, due to him hitting his head and losing consciousness temporarily, there were probably some disorders in his memory.
In other words, the so-called amnesia, I suppose.
Other than the head injury, I was glad that he only twisted his leg a little and suffered no serious injuries, though.
I was told that since he was in the middle of recovery, we had no choice but to wait and see for a while.
As for the abominable incident in which Yuu suffered injuries, it was being investigated faster than I had expected, and I had them inform me of the progress.
It was great that since the incident occurred outdoors as opposed to behind closed doors, although there was low pedestrian traffic, there were witnesses, and Yuu’s questioning was concluded after doing it only once in his hospital room.
After all, cases that caused harm to men are stipulated to be as unburdening to the men as possible.
As far as I am concerned, I hope they could have given the perpetrators capital punishment.
According to the confession of the arrested middle school girls, the crime was premeditated and extremely malicious.
Even though they inflicted such serious injuries, when it came to rape and abduction, it was deemed as a failed attempt, so their sentences were not that heavy.
Even the three main offenders were sentenced to less than 10 years in prison at most!
I wonder if those scum will ever be rehabilitated.
Who will take the responsibility if when they get out of prison, they start targeting Yuu again?!
Unable to hold back my chagrin, I decided to hire a lawyer through the company’s contacts and file a claim for compensation in civil court.
After all, among the company’s higher-ups, there were also some who were mothers of boys, so they were fully supportive of my case, saying that it was not someone else’s problem.
The president of the security company, from which we had hired the security personnel, immediately came over and apologized for the breach of the security contract personally.
She got down to a dogeza and promised to give us the greatest compensation possible.
Their credibility was at stake here, so it seemed that they didn’t wish to get into trouble with the family of the man’s side.
As such, we managed to conclude the discussion with the security company smoothly.
I gave up when I heard that as expected it was impossible to make the middle school take responsibility.
Instead, I asked them to be merciless to the parents of the other parties.
It was just that, it was inevitable that it would take time.
We also received some condolence money from the government, so after deciding to make a request to a more reliable security company, I introduced the security personnel that had been dispatched to Yuu.
Compared to their predecessors, which consisted of one A-rank and a few B-rank personnel, this time the team centered around the pair that were of the greatest rank of S-rank and A-rank.
It was costly, but I could not ask for anything better for Yuu’s safety.
I was relieved to hear that as the result of receiving a full examination, Yuu was deemed to have no problem, and since his mental state had also calmed down, it seemed that he would be able to leave the hospital before his high school entrance ceremony.
I was worried because I had heard that due to how immense the shock was, boys who ended up being attacked tended to shut themselves away and cease to be be able to accept women, even if they were family members at worst, but I was truly glad that Yuu didn’t become like that.
Above all else, I was so happy that having regained his composure, Yuu would now talk to me as intimately as he did when he was a child.
But how should I put it…. Yuu had changed.
It was as if his rebellious self was nothing but a lie.
I wonder if he became an adult mentally after overcoming adversity?
After all, he made me feel as if I was dealing with an adult rather than a teenage boy.
Besides… From time to time, the way he looked at me as well as the way he spoke when he talked to me, it was different from before, you see.
Those were not the eyes of someone looking at his mother.
I was at a loss as to how I should put it.
I didn’t know for a while.
But when I was relaxing at home after Yuu was discharged from the hospital, I suddenly realized.
That right now, he is just like my late husband, Sakuya-san.
I have heard that people who were on the verge of death due to suffering a serious injury, especially a head injury, would become like a different person after they recover.
I wonder if that was the case with Yuu, by some chance?
… Even if it was, Yuu was Yuu.
He was my son, who was more important than anything else.
Even if his personality had changed a little, as a mother, I would accept it.
Besides, it was not like he had changed for the worse, after all.
The current Yuu was a very good boy.
He could greet people properly, and he was always there to greet me when I came home from work.
I didn’t know when he learned how to cook, but he could even make simple homemade dishes.
I mean, when Yuu was born, I thought jokingly….
Maybe this child is Sakuya-san’s reincarnation?
When I talked to the Yuu who had regained consciousness, I was perplexed because he truly ended up making me feel as if he was Sakuya-san’s reincarnation.
One night, when I came home after drinking some sake, I stumbled down the hallway, and Yuu immediately caught me in his arms.
At that moment, for some reason, Sakuya-san’s face ended up flashing through my mind, and at the same time as me feeling flustered, I couldn’t hold back my tears, you see.
Holding such me close, Yuu gently stroked my head.
Inevitably, in my eyes, he was becoming more and more like Sakuya-san….
At this rate, I would end up wishing to be spoiled by Yuu as a woman, as opposed to a mother.
As such, you see, I deliberately called him 『Yuu-chan』 as I did when he was a child.
As a reminder that I was his mother.
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