I save a pathological girl with a twisted love story.

“You did that to me, and living in this house every day feels like I’m suffocating.”

"Am I really that lowly? Am I really that insignificant?"

"Just because of your kindness in giving me life, do I have to become kindling and be burned by you?"

"Am I to be the one whose hands and feet are bound by your sense of gratitude?"

"No, that's absolutely not true."

Aoi Asahi shouted at Keiko Nomura, "I'm not the Aoi Asahi I used to be. I will never listen to you."

"Mother! Give up! I will not help you, and I will never prove to Yajima Jiro that you are a good mother."

“You always say that you owe me the debt of giving me life and the debt of raising me.”

"However, I never had anywhere to complain about the grievances I suffered at school."

"I can only cry and wail alone in a deserted place."

"I long to have a normal family. I long to have normal parents like everyone else."

"Even if we are poor, it doesn't matter."

"I also want to have a memorable childhood like everyone else! I also want to be able to talk to my mom and be comforted by her when I feel wronged!"

"I want to cry in my dad's arms too!"

"But I have nothing. I can only rely on myself. I've wanted to take revenge on you with my death countless times. How ridiculous."

"Even if I die, you probably won't feel the slightest sadness. You might even be glad that I'm dead."

“Keiko,” Aoi Asahi said resolutely, “you are the worst mother.”

“But I am not you. Mother, I am not you.”

I will remember your kindness in raising me. Once I am able to work, I will pay you child support.

"In this way, we'll be even."

She left those words behind and decisively prepared to leave.

Keiko Nomura's face turned pale. Pink and white powder fell off her heavily made-up face. Her cheeks twitched, and her body seemed to be completely frozen.

She couldn't find a way to refute it.

But the ensuing panic almost clouded her mind.

She was terrified and her body went completely limp to the ground.

Perhaps there was some regret, or perhaps some anger.

But there was no time to think about it; Keiko Nomura understood.

If he couldn't get Aoi to agree, everything he had done would be for nothing.

She suddenly cried out in anguish, "Aoi Asahi, I knew you looked down on me."

“I knew you despise me, you hate me. You think I’m not like a mother.”

Aoi Asahi didn't even turn her head, simply saying casually, "So what? You're going to accuse me again? Accuse me of being unfilial, accuse me of forgetting your kindness in giving birth to me?"

"If you insist on saying that, then I can answer you now. I haven't forgotten, but I don't care anymore."

Keiko was stunned by Asahi Aoi's words and turned pale. She was extremely unwilling to accept it.

She screamed shrilly, crying, "Yes! I've done so many wrong things! I've hurt you, I've caused you pain!"

"But what can I do?"

She screamed shrilly, sitting on the ground and wailing.

Tears washed away her makeup completely.

Keiko cried out, "Back in Second New Tokyo, I was a normal woman too! I also longed for a beautiful love and a happy life."

"I once thought about becoming a good mother!"

"Is anyone born evil? Am I born a bad mother?"

"I also had a period of naivety, and I also had a period of happiness."

“When I was pregnant with you, your father told me that he would give me happiness.”

"I was hoping to live an ordinary but happy life."

"But—but your father is dead."

"After he died, what could I, a pregnant woman, do? My family told me to abort the child and find a good new family, otherwise they would kick me out of the house."

"But I gave birth to you all by myself!"

Thinking back to the past, she cried bitterly: "I was kicked out of the house, but I don't regret it."

"Because when I held you under the cherry blossom tree, I also fantasized about a happy future."

"But how can I, a single woman with a baby, possibly survive in Nihon Shin-Tokyo?"

"I lost my job, and my life suddenly became very difficult."

"I looked for a new job, but I could only find a position in the general affairs department! I could only earn the most basic salary."

"In order to support you, I have no choice but to work at a convenience store after get off work."

"But even so, it's still not enough."

"I could only work harder and harder, but because bringing a baby into the store caused customers to feel uncomfortable, I couldn't even find a job at the convenience store."

"I left the baby at home, but the neighbors called the police because of the crying."

“They said I abused the children and that they wanted to send them to an orphanage. I knelt down before them! That's how it didn't turn out that way.”

"As a single mother, I simply can't survive in Nihon Shin-Tokyo anymore. What can I do? Is this my fault?"

"This is the only place I can go!"

"You look down on me for working at an izakaya! But where else can a single mother like me work?!"

Keiko cried, "Do you think I wanted to become like this?"

"I don't want to become a vulgar and mean woman!"

"But what can I do? Life has made me this way!"

"All of this has turned me into a volatile, sharp-tongued, and mean-spirited woman!"

"I don't want this to happen either!"

She wept, her voice filled with unbearable anguish: "I wanted to be a good mother! But it was just too painful, that's why I became irritable, started drinking, and turned out like this!"

"Aoi! I don't want to become like this either!"

"Mom, I want to be happy too!"

"Mom, I also want to have someone I can rely on."

Was I wrong?

Her sobs made Aoi's fingers tremble.

Chapter 86 The Thorn Called Pain [10k/10k]

Huizi cried as she recounted her story, her heart breaking.

“I know you hate me for treating you that way, I know you look down on me, I know you think it was really despicable of me to seduce Yajima Jiro.”

"But I am a single woman."

"What kind of job do you think I can find? What kind of good life do you think a single woman like me can live?"

"I'm old now, Aoi!"

"Even if I use makeup to cover it up, even if I try every possible way to conceal it, I can't hide my gradually yellowing skin and the wrinkles around my eyes."

She said in a panic, "I am fully aware of the fact that I am old, I am fully aware of this fact."

"Aoi Asahi! You don't understand. When you are young, countless people will love you. Countless people will be tolerant and forgiving of you because of your appearance."

"But when you get old, you'll realize that nobody notices you. Nobody is there to forgive you anymore. You're no longer a flower, but just air."

"When you get old, everyone will keep their distance from you, and everyone will only see you as a burden."

"When I was young, I could live comfortably in Tokyo Second. But after I gave birth to you, my figure deteriorated and my face became haggard. I immediately became trash and could only hide here and eke out a living."

"But how long can I cling to life?"

"At that time, I was still able to make money at the izakaya by relying on my appearance through makeup and my figure."

"How will I survive in the future?"

She cried and wailed loudly.

A shrill voice echoed repeatedly as she said, "This is the only chance I'll ever have."

"This is my last chance, this is my only chance."

She cried out in distress, "I don't want my life to be miserable from now on. I don't want my life to be reduced to scavenging for garbage!"

She questioned, "Why are you treating me like this? Why did I become like this? Why is my fate so tragic?!"

She cried bitterly, saying, "I just want to be happy, I just want to live my life well."

What did I do wrong?

"Why, why should I have to endure this pain, why should I have to suffer this misery?"

Huizi was crying.

Her cries were so shrill and so sorrowful.

Even Aoi trembled, and she almost burst into tears.

She clearly hated her mother, finding her vicious and unlike a mother.

As Keiko recounted her past pains, Aoi herself also felt sadness.

"I clearly had the opportunity to live a happy and fulfilling life in a family like a normal person."

"I should have never had to go through all of this."

As she thought about it, she felt even more pain and sorrow.

She couldn't imagine what her mother looked like, but the Keiko in the photo was indeed smiling so gently.

That was nothing like Keiko, yet it was Keiko.

Looking at Huizi in front of her, she felt that Huizi was extremely pathetic and pitiful.

But I felt sorry for her.

Who will pity me?

"Should I forgive Keiko just because she's suffering like this?"

"Should I just sympathize with Keiko's sadness?"

"Just because Keiko isn't a bad person doesn't mean I should forgive her."

"Perhaps it wasn't her fault at all, so should I forgive her?"

Asahi tilted her chin up, she thought.

"No, I absolutely can't do it."

"If I really forgive her, then wouldn't all my past tears have been for nothing?"

"If I really forgive her, would all the suffering I endured in the past have been for nothing?"

"If I were to truly forgive her, wouldn't that be condoning evil?"

Asahi Aoi thought this, she clenched her fists tightly.

She wanted to be straightforward and cut ties with Keiko once again.

Huizi wept so bitterly and so sorrowfully.

At this moment, it seemed that all her former malice and sharpness had been washed away by her tears.

All of this made her waver.