A Handsome K*nky Gangster Reporter - Chapter 73

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Gloria replied with a trembling voice.

“Sorry, I don’t have any friends. It’s difficult for me.”

“Ungrateful girl.”

While clicking her tongue, Bella treated Gloria harshly. The ice bag on her forehead was very cold. All this time, Bella had been cold to Gloria. Of course, that attitude changed when her friend Haley was by her side. Bella only acted like the most friendly mother in the world to Gloria when her daughter was beside her.

While letting out a hot breath from her mouth, Gloria asked Bella condescendingly.

“Bella, why do you hate me so much?”

Gloria was sweating all over her body and panting as if she would run out of breath soon. However, it seemed that Gloria wouldn’t have a chance to ask except now. She had always wondered why Bella hated her so much and demanded for answer.

Bella shouted as if she was touched by his words.

“Because of you, my daughter…!”

Bella who could barely contain herself to speak more behind her clenched both fists. Bella, who sighed deeply, shook her head violently.

“No, I don’t need to argue with you when you don’t even remember. If you want to return the kindness of mother and daughter, please cut ties with my daughter as soon as possible. That way, we can live peacefully.”

Although she lied slightly with the fact that if her daughter got involved in Gloria’s affairs, the watchers in the sky would be furious, Haley took care of her friend from the side without batting an eye. Now she will let go of everything related to Gloria and live her life. Maybe she would repeat that terrible past.

‘I can’t do anything now because I’m exhausted. This is the last one.’

Her daughter is still nosy and can’t pretend not to see people in crisis. Maybe it turned out like a boomerang to her. Stupid.

Bella took the bottle cap and put it in Gloria’s mouth. The taste of the medicine was very bitter, and the temporary doctor had no consideration such as giving a sweet candy. Only the maid who saw Bella next to her stepped on her foot.

“Don’t despise me so much. I can give up my life for Haley.”

Gloria muttered this and fell asleep immediately. Bella snickered at her words. Hatred flashed briefly in Bella’s eyes while staring at Gloria.

“Giving up life and death. She died because of someone.”

There is no point in talking. The parties didn’t even remember.

Bella organized her medical bag that she was carrying.

It was the second return of her daughter.

Bella, who was once called a messenger of God or an angel, separated her wings to the devil in order to return her daughter back to the past. In the process, there were some cracks in this world, and her power was now almost gone, leaving behind a little ability. However, he did not regret having exchanged her power for her daughter’s life. Because it was a choice that a mother would definitely make.

It was already more than a thousand years ago. The soul observed from the heavens took pity, and descended to earth with the help of a demon. However, once the angel arrived on earth, the devil hid one soul with great interest and did not place it before the angel. He showed an unexpected appearance with an evil smile at Bella as if he had been expecting her.

“Look for it yourself if you can.”

He told her to find the hidden soul and give birth to it directly through the angel’s body. The devil committed a daring deception to an innocent angel living in heaven. It was a good thing that she got a human world education for a while by placing a witch named Mamabuta on himself. Otherwise, the angel would have acted foolishly in the human world. At that time, she got the witch name Parbella and became active.

She focused on looking for the pitiable souls in this land. It was the right time for war and Royan who asked her for help, saying he wanted to unite the kingdom that way.

‘If the world becomes peaceful, she will be born and it’s a little better to live.’

She was helping Royan with good intentions.

Of course, as an angel who manages the study halls of heaven, it was heartbreaking to see other souls who were on the front lines of the battlefield and were swept away in the war by Royan. They also knew that the next life would be peaceful. He lived on behalf of the witch for a while. But who could have imagined that the time spent in the human world would be so long?

“If it weren’t for you, she would have chosen me!”

There was another witch looking at Bella with eyes dissatisfied gaze. Bella ignored her because she was worse than a bug. That witch used to fuel her own competitive spirit over Parbella. Stupidly, she was a soul who was not satisfied with her life. Always wanting what belonged to someone else.

After getting witch training from Mamabuta, they would not see each other, although they did not deal with other jealous witches. In her daughter’s first reborn life, she did not expect to meet the witch again. The insect witch stole other people’s bodies and changed her appearance to continue a long life.

Gloria’s breathing sounded even. Looking at her daughter’s sleeping nemesis, the witch Bella had a headache. At that moment, it might be a better choice for her daughter to declare surrender to the devil and return to heaven. She closed her eyes again while trying to remember the past.

* * *

“Father! I have no intention of getting engaged to Princess Yvette!”

At Claude’s scream, Gateron Lischer grabbed his flattering hair. The boy calmly recounted his first love. What good is a common woman?

‘Normally, nobles of this age become smart enough to weigh the wealth of others according to their noble status. For only two years, he lived mixed with commoners in his childhood, and perhaps because of his influence, my son is still immature.’

“The Duke of Shecklewood is a friend who has been with me for many years. It’s hard to find a bride of this size. Does the duchy union look like a joke to you?”

“Didn’t you promise me since I returned to this house? My priest will let me choose who I want.”

When her son was young, every time he cried and screamed to looking for his brother, Gateron used to say so. With a noble education, Claude could get the bride he wanted as an adult. Gateron didn’t know that his son remembered what he said to soothe his child. The The duke began to think that all of this was his fault.

“Well, at that moment…!”

Gateron frowned to persuade his immature son, forced to be silent on his son’s bomb-like declaration shortly afterwards.

“And I! I had done something that would have been responsible to that woman. We’ve already crossed the river where no matter how hard father opposes us, we can’t go back!”

‘What is he talking about? A river of no return. No way…?’

Gateron had wished that what he heard now was an auditory hallucination. He blinked slowly, and he pricked his ears with his fingers because he thought he heard wrong.

“About that…, I know. You mean…?”

‘No, right? Don’t tell me Oh no, right? There are already unmarried men and women who are not even married.

Abandoning his father’s hopes, Claude answered firmly.

“Yes, the two of us have made trouble.”

This was the only magic word that could reduce the opposition from the parents, in his opinion. ‘We’ve both crossed a river that we can’t walk back to.’

Claude didn’t even know exactly what that meant. In any case, the advice of a friend seemed quite reasonable. His father’s face flushed, and soon his legs went limp as he sat down.

“Before that, I have to spend the night with her. You have to make an excuse and take her to the hotel somehow. Okay?”

‘Although I haven’t been able to carry out my friend’s previous advice because of the rush. Although the order changed, the goal is to marry Haley, so she’ll be fine.’

“Well, then. Has that already happened?”

“Yes, so she’s my responsibility.”

‘Answer with confidence that you’re doing a good job!’

At his son’s words, Gateron’s anger rose as he grabbed the back of his neck. Many high-ranking nobles were married to a separate estate. However, the Duke of Lescher was a family that had a tendency to sanctify marriage. If only looking at Gateron Lischer right away, wouldn’t he not be able to forget his consort and not remarry and still miss the former Duchess?

“You’re not thinking of becoming a father, are you?”

For a moment, the appearance of a lost noble child doing bad things in Gateron’s head passed. ‘Like those who are separated in marriage and relationships. If my son feels the same…’

“I will become a father. I will be responsible for my people.”

When he got married to Haley, wouldn’t he naturally become the father of the children they had together? Claude answered confidently, having thought that his father was asking about anatural thing. Gateron, on the other hand, took the meaning of this answer a little differently.

“If he already has my grandchildren. There’s no point in opposing it.’

Although it is known that the son is a commoner, these days there is often a union between the rich and the nobility. Of course, most of the nobles who made such choices were families that were on the verge of collapse.

Thinking that his grandson already existed, Gateron decided not to think any further. Come to think of it, her son, Claude Lischer, was not very involved with other noblewomen. After the princess’ engagement dinner, Gateron often took her son to parties held by other families, but her son never looked at anyone.

There were also rumors that Princess Yvette, who was rumored to be beautiful, had different inclinations.

‘Back then, I dismissed it as an insult to the young people my son rejected. Now that I think about it, that boy is just a man with a pure heart who only sees one woman like himself.’

“Hah. Soon I’ll be a grandfather.”

“?”

‘I can’t believe I already have grandchildren at this age. I never dreamed of becoming a grandfather so soon.’ The Duke of Lischer smiled and patted his son on the shoulder.

“Take him home. I have to do the ceremony before I get anymore overwhelmed.”

Claude’s face immediately brightened at his father’s approval. In fact, all this time he couldn’t bring Haley into this house for fear that his father would be very against it. Even after following his friend’s suggestion, Claude didn’t think his father would let him go this easily.

“Thank you! Father!”

Without knowing about his father’s misunderstanding, he just decided to accept this situation delightfully.

“You b*st*rd, if things go well, treat me well later.”

It seemed like Jay’s proud remark had reached Claude’s ears.

‘Noona. I got approval from father. Therefore, you just need to come in here as is.’

Could it be that Claude didn’t notice Haley’s hesitation? He knew right away that Haley was hesitating because of their trivial status difference. It was just that even though Claude knew, Claude couldn’t accept it.

‘I want to go now to deliver this good news to my Noona.’

Claude was excited, he wished Haley would be happy to hear this news. The corners of his mouth kept twitching.

Gateron, who looked his son, clicked his tongue and said that he had no problem, but his father’s nagging had fallen on deaf ears.