I Became The Stepmother Of An Irrevocable Dark Family

ght burst, hugged the doll she was holding more tightly.

“That’s not true! Well…..Mom will act pretty when I spoil her.
So mom is more pretty.”

The child stroked my head with her small hand.

“Rere is also pretty these days.”

“I know.”

“You know?”

“Yeah.
Rere is always pretty.
Such a cute child is not common in the world!”

The child stuck out her tongue and flailed her feet.

When I saw the child who seemed shy but happy, I laughed without realizing it.

“That’s right.
You’re cute and pretty.”

“She’s in a good mood because of your compliment.”

Rere raised the rabbit’s hand that she had been carrying along.

Thanks to this, I could clearly see the doll that I had seen before.

“And what’s the rabbit’s name?”

It was an old rabbit doll.

The rabbit that Rere always carried seemed to always have a new bag, but the rabbit doll itself isn’t new.

It’s shabby.

As if to prove it, the rabbit doll’s eyes fell out, and there were several broken parts here and there.

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The awfully broken parts were roughly mended with fabric.

It looked different from the countless rabbit dolls in the child’s room.

“Are you curious? Then, I’ll only tell mom about this.
Her name is Ugly.”

“Ugly?”

“…Because she’s ugly.
She has different eyes and uneven ears.
There’s less cotton in the arms, so it’s not good to hug.”

Rere, who grumbled, held the rabbit up high.

“That’s why her name is Ugly.”

“But you seem to cherish it a lot.
Didn’t you make her a bag, too?”

“…Yeah.
My ugly mom made it for me.
The mom who gave birth to me.
Instead of making things like this, she should’ve stayed next to me.
Why bother doing something useless.
Just like mom now.
You only do useless things.”

The sullen Rere stretched out the rabbit’s mouth.

“…Ah.”

When I asked what I shouldn’t have asked, I hurriedly tried to move on to another subject.

“I see.
What about other dolls…”

“But still, I’m fine.
My mom is next to me now.
Because mom won’t leave.”

Before I knew it, Rere, who hugged the doll in her arms, curled up in my arms.

“….I see.”

“Did you know? That daddy’s a fool? All I like is Ugly, but he thought I liked rabbits and bought a hundred of them last time.”

“Uh, yeah? Did he?”

“Not only that.
I actually don’t like rabbits, but he always buys me rabbit dolls because he thinks I like it.
I’m talking about those rabbits in my room.”

“So Rere doesn’t want them?”

“Yeah.
Rather, I always lose my Ugly when I play there.
Daddy…Daddy doesn’t know what I really need.
He doesn’t even try to find out.
He always does as he pleases every day.
He became very stupid lately.”

The grumpy child buried her head in my chest.

“Mom is…different.”

“Really?”

“Yeah.
No idea.
Just…mom is different.”

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She kept saying I’m different, but honestly, I don’t know what’s different about me.

“Then, what would Rere do if mom becomes like the other moms? What if I become a fool like your dad?”

“Uuu…then…then I…”

The child didn’t answer for a long time.

But then she smiled as if she thought of something.

“Then I want to love such a mom.
All I have to do is to love my mom.
That way I won’t hate you even if you change.”

Rere, who was giggling as if she had earned an enlightenment, shook her head quickly.

“Do-Don’t get me wrong.
I’m not saying I love you.
Ra-Rabbit! It’s Ugly who said that.”

At that moment, Rere’s cheeks flushed red and her ruby eyes shook endlessly.

“What are you looking at? Don’t look, stupid mom.
Hurry up and sleep.”

Perhaps she wasn’t used to expressing her feelings, so Rere couldn’t subdue her shyness.
She dabbed my arm and kept eye contact with me.

And then she fell asleep first.

Seeing such a child, I couldn’t sleep for a long time.

Indeed, what did I want? Did I really want to turn the evil child into a normal child?

‘If I do that, what difference would it make? The child’s body has a time limit.’

She would die in the end.

In the novel, the child’s body slowly worsened.

‘But I want to heal you.
I want to change the child’s life, which is hanging on by a few numbers.
Don’t let yourself die.
Twenty to thirty.
I want to protect this pure heart until she becomes an adult and old woman.’

But I couldn’t remember the child’s last moment.

Did she really die because of her illness or something else?

I must’ve remembered everything at first, but somehow my head became clouded now.

“Baby, what really happened to you? If only I could remember the future, I would definitely protect you.
But still, don’t worry.
I won’t let you die.
Because I decided to be your mom.”

My hands naturally caressed Rere’s hair.

Rere rubbed my hand against her cheeks as if she was feeling comfortable with my touch.
After a long time, I finally fell asleep.

The next morning.