My mother's love song

"This is my own room. You can do whatever you want with it, right? Did you come here specifically to tell me this?"

When Karen responded to Rhode, a small sigh was heard from the side.

"Woooo..."

Although Erise's face was expressionless, her eyes were filled with fanatical emotion.

As expected of a teacher, her fashion style is so ahead of its time...

The combination of a men's shirt and black stockings is so avant-garde and handsome. The teacher has great fashion taste.

It doesn't matter if no one else can understand it, as long as I am the only one who understands the teacher's coolness.

Moreover, even in front of his father, he remained neither humble nor arrogant and was still sharp-tongued... Is this already the realm of God?

If it were me, I would definitely be scared and afraid to speak, it's so amazing...

I’ve decided. Next time I’ll try to rebel against my father…!

"Eri-ri?"

Karin waved her hand in front of the young girl's eyes, bringing her back from her delusion.

"It's all your fault. Erise became a bad person because of you!"

Rhodes continued chattering as he sat down on the sofa.

Kallen tilted her head, "Is that so, Erise?"

Erise shook her head desperately: "That's not the case at all, Kallen-sensei."

"See?"

Kallen smiled smugly, and Rhodes smacked his lips.

"Tsk..."

"Okay, okay, stop arguing."

Karin brought over a plate of strawberries and sliced ​​watermelon.

She grabbed the fullest one of them and looked at Rhodes with a smile.

"Come on, Rhodes, ah~"

This was food from a real female junior high school student, and Rhodes would not refuse it.

He didn't care even if his daughters looked at him with contempt. He opened his mouth and said "Ah~".

"How's it going? Is it delicious?"

"Hmm." Rhodes nodded as he tasted it.

"That's good."

Karin picked up another strawberry and this time brought it to Erise's lips.

"Come on, Eri, ah~"

"No, it's so embarrassing."

Erise blushed and slapped away her friend's hand.

"Hey~ Why is this happening~"

Karin put the strawberry into her mouth in disappointment.

"Mmm, so sweet!"

After that, the four of them sat around the coffee table and started chatting while eating strawberries and watermelons.

"By the way, is there anything that brought Rhode and Kallian together today?"

Karin asked curiously, "Will Erise and I disturb you with our sudden visit?"

Have you finally realized this problem? Erise showed a helpless expression.

Karen took a small bite of the watermelon with her neat white teeth and spoke gracefully.

"It's not a big deal. It just concerns the rest of my life."

"Hey! Isn't that a very important matter!?" Karin asked in surprise.

"It doesn't matter. It's a great help. If you weren't here, Rhode might suddenly go berserk and attack me."

"Who would attack you?"

"Is that so, dear Rhodes?"

"Not at all!"

Rod chewed a watermelon and said indignantly: "Even if I attacked you, it was because of your attire, right?"

A loose shirt with a revealing collar, and only a pair of black stockings underneath, with white pants vaguely visible.

She's just like a whore seducing men...!

If there hadn't been a female junior high school student present, Rhodes would have scolded her angrily.

Yeah, I can understand.

Erise thought to herself: It’s understandable why a boy would want to attack a teacher, because he’s so handsome!

Facing Rhodes' accusation, the silver-haired girl raised her eyebrows disapprovingly.

"I have already complied with your request to the greatest extent possible. You shouldn't have any objections, right?"

"Gu." Rhodes pursed his lips.

"What's going on?" Karin asked curiously.

Karen said, "At least wear your pants properly when you are outside."

The pink-haired girl laughed so hard that she fell backwards. "Dress properly or something... Doesn't Kallenlian always wear airtight nun clothes when she's outside?"

"The teacher in nun's uniform is so great... grazie!" Erise exclaimed, clenching her fists.

That afternoon, Rod and the girls drank afternoon tea while chatting, and then watched a boring movie.

By the evening, Erise and Karin left first.

"Dear Rhodes, Kallen, we won't disturb you two~~~"

The pink-haired girl said as she winked at Rhodes.

She seemed to have some misunderstanding, and just when Rhodes was wondering whether he should explain it clearly.

"Let's go, Karin."

Erise grabbed her friend's wrist and dragged her away.

After the two noisy female junior high school students left, the room suddenly became quiet.

"I'm sorry, I took it upon myself to bring them here."

"Nothing. Honestly, it's nice to have some fun once in a while."

The silver-haired girl bent down and tidied up the messy teacups and plates on the coffee table.

Rhode walked over to help her clean up: "Erise seems to like you very much... She doesn't cause you any trouble, does she?"

"Rather than saying you like me, it's better to say..."

When she said this, Karen glanced at Rhodes meaningfully.

"what happened?"

"Stupid, hopeless, third-rate father." Karen cursed coldly.

Rhodes: “???”

In Kallen's view, Utsumimi Erise is not so much an admirer of herself as an admirer of a vague concept like "Kallen Aldessia who was raised by Rod".

But Karen didn't mind being treated that way.

“It’s quite fun to occasionally communicate with people of the same age.” Karen said calmly.

"Um... Miss Karen? You are already over 20 years old?" Rhodes said in a low voice.

"Oh, really? Are you sure? No matter how you look at it, she's still just a budding junior high school student."

The girl with long silver wavy hair smiled like a devil, looked back at Rhodes, and then stood up.

"I'll go prepare dinner. Rod, can we have the leftover mapo tofu from lunch?"

"Do you think I have a choice?"

"Haha, what a good and sensible child."

Kallen bent down and touched the boy's hair, then turned and walked towards the kitchen.

About ten minutes later, Karen came to the dining table with a pot and invited Rhodes to eat.

As soon as she entered the room, the strong spicy smell coming from the iron pot defiled the entire girl's boudoir.

"Hey...it's completely red? The color number is #FF0000!"

Rhodes frowned as he watched Karen fill a bowl of bright red mapo tofu for him.

Kallen blinked her eyes: "Hmm? Mapo tofu should be this color, right?

Please trust my cooking skills, okay? This is authentic Chinese food."

Rhode muttered, "First of all... the word 'authentic' is contradictory to the Japanese word 'Chinese cuisine'."

"What a picky man. I don't care about you... ah, ah, ah, ah, what a good time."

The girl used a spoon to put scarlet mapo tofu into her delicate lips, revealing a beautiful smile that would make an angel pale in comparison.

"……Well."

Rhodes followed her example and took a few bites.

At that moment, the tongue lost sensation.

Then came a paralyzing feeling like an electric shock.

The pain spread from his tongue all the way through his body and finally back to his brain.

In a trance, Rhodes' memory went back to ten years ago.

It was an ordinary noon.

Rod held Kallen's hand and came to the commercial street of Fuyuki.

"Karen, let's have Chinese food for lunch today."

Rhodes said to his adopted daughter on a whim.

No, it wasn't a whim, but something that had been premeditated.

There is only one Chinese restaurant on this shopping street: Hongzhou Yansuiguan Taishan.

The glass windows were tightly shut during the day, and it was impossible to tell who was coming in and out. It was a terrifying shopping arcade that would scare anyone who saw it so much that they would want to run back home.

The manager of the restaurant is called "Ba", a petite girl who looks only in her teens.

She wears stereotypical Chinese clothing and has a quirk at the end of her speech, but she is actually a goddess hiding in human society.

Rhodes had known her for hundreds of years, so he knew very well that all the ingredients in the iron pot wielded by Ba would be coated with chili pepper.

Local residents nearby regard this Chinese restaurant as a den of evil.

And in this hell, the most serious hell of tongue-pulling is the Mapo Tofu she made.

In order to avenge Karen, who had won the argument with him before, Rhode brought her here to be punished.

Unexpectedly, Karen Aldessia met her destiny here.

"........."

Staring at Rhodes who looked troubled, Karen stopped eating.

"It's really useless..."

She handed the boy some cold tea, muttering with disgust.

"So, men who live with their mothers are unreliable. They only know how to eat sweets all day long and can't handle anything spicy."