Chapter 1157: Chapter 1129: Be Obedient and I’ll Give You Crab Clan Chapter 1157: Chapter 1129: Be Obedient and I’ll Give You Crab Clan Kiara arranged the photos on the ground and handed the bottle to Mario Yuno.
“Go on, have a drink with him. Why cling to who’s right and who’s wrong between you? Drink this and sever the karma!”
Mario Yuno, with tears in his eyes, grabbed the bottle and drained it in one gulp. After he finished, he smashed the bottle, “Today, I drink to see you off till I’m drunk, tomorrow I’ll rember you over a long and winding road, Baron, farewell—”
The last two words, he never said out loud, leaving only their echo to circle around the small grove, like a piece of ti hard to articulate.
That day, Mario Yuno, who never got drunk, really got drunk.
One bottle was all it took for him to lose consciousness. In a daze, Mario Yuno felt as if his daughter-in-law was supporting his drunk self, stumbling towards the car, and he faintly heard her murmuring in complaint.
“You don’t look all that heavy, so why does supporting you feel like I’m pressing against Mount Tai?”
Mario Yuno wanted to walk on his own, but by that ti he had already passed out, his body losing consciousness, so he could only cooperate passively with Kiara’s shaky movents. He didn’t even understand whether it was a dream or reality at that mont.
In the haze, Kiara was already supporting him in front of the car, opening the door for him.
“One!”
Mario Yuno struggled to turn his head, only to see, a few steps away, Baron leaning against a tree trunk.
“Baron!” Mario Yuno suddenly found his spirits, pushing Kiara away, who was opening the car door and hitting the car in a bent-over posture.
“I’m leaving now. The drink was good!” Baron gestured with the bottle in his hand.
Mario Yuno wanted to walk towards him, but he saw Baron’s figure gradually fading away; reaching out, he couldn’t touch him.
All he saw was Baron’s tearful smile and his voice scattered by the wind before he disappeared.
“The road I didn’t finish, the belief I didn’t hold on to, One, you must keep going steadfastly. Goodbye, One! Seeing you again, I can finally tell you, One, my bosom friend, my good buddy, you must keep going strong!”
Baron was gone, and Mario Yuno stood there until Kiara nudged him and he shivered from the chill.
“Hey! What are you doing, wine ghost? Aren’t you getting in the car?”
“Oh…”
That just now, was it a dream or…?
Actually, it doesn’t matter anymore.
On the way back, Mario Yuno leaned back in the car seat, watching Kiara’s profile as she drove, and the scenery that zipped by the roadside. His heart had returned to calm.
This was the path he chose, and no matter how many hardships lay ahead, he would see it through, not only for the unchanging fla in his heart but also for—
“You, this drunken fool, how dare you push . Wait till you sober up tomorrow, you’re dead, you hear ? You’re dead!” Kiara complained in a low voice as she drove.
Mario Yuno curled his lips into a smile and closed his eyes.
He had so many people around him who loved him and whom he loved; he still had to continue on this path.
Baron, I can’t accompany you this ti, buddy. I still have a road to complete.
Baron, goodbye.
That drunken night was buried in the deepest recesses of Kiara and Edward Wheeler’s mories, as if it had never happened.
Neither of them ntioned it again, and life continued as usual.
As the weather turned colder, Kiara’s School went on vacation. Kiara had wanted to return to Q City to spend a few days with her mum, but a phone call from her changed her mind.
“What? You’re not letting co Ho? Why? Mum, have you decided to disown ?” Kiara complained to her mother through the phone.
“Stop babbling nonsense. I received your brother Arlong’s call, you know. He recently got a job at Edward Wheeler’s Workplace Organisation, which is cause for celebration. You stay put for now and take good care of your brother. If he’s not on vacation during the holidays, your Uncle Liao and I will co over, and Our Ho will celebrate the New Year together! It’ll be great since Giorno has settled in Linville—we’ll all be able to look out for each other.”
Kiara’s mother said gleefully. She had received the call from her son early in the morning and imdiately shared the good news with Kiara.
“If it weren’t for the fact that you and Edward Wheeler just got married and you two are living together, I would have wanted to move in for a while to take care of you two siblings.”
When Kiara’s mother heard that her son had passed the exam, her first reaction was to move into her daughter’s place. Knowing full well that her daughter couldn’t cook and was lucky not to be scorned by her son-in-law, she wanted to co and take care of the household and her son. It was only because Robert Johnson firmly held her back that she dropped the idea in favor of spending the holidays together.
While Robert Johnson was usually a reserved and elegant man, he had the good sense to know that young people like Kiara and Edward Wheeler would not be comfortable living with Elders. Moreover, their place was only so big; the old couple moving in would inevitably cause inconvenience to the young couple. It was the sa with Giorno—parents should keep a distance from newlyweds like him and Olivia Brown ‘Olivia Brown’.
“Mum, couldn’t you just co to take care of ? Why do you need to take care of Arlong as well? He’s got food and drinks provided at his organization, and he can’t leave during training anyway, even if you co, you won’t be able to see him.”
Kiara wasn’t touched by her mother’s enthusiasm. She had heard about Arlong’s exam success from Edward Wheeler right away.
“Take care of you for what? What do you need taking care of for? People have been married for a few months just like you, and they already have a Baby on the way, while you’ve only managed to grow a belly full of at! When you get pregnant, that’s when I’ll take care of you!”
Having said that, she abruptly hung up the phone.
Kiara blinked innocently. Whose pregnancy had got her mum so worked up this ti?
The phone rang again; it was her mother, who she felt had been going through nopause for several years without it ever ending.
“Emma Clark, have you co to your senses?”
“…Senses about what?”
“I went to see your mother-in-law the day before yesterday, and I heard that Isaac’s belly is already so big!”
“Oh, I know. I already congratulated her, and I’ve even prepared a Gift for her.”
“While others are about to give birth, what are you doing? And Susi ca to Q City for business the other day and dropped by to see . She brought Our Ho a box full of Giant Crabs, and I don’t know what kind of Crabs they were—they’re enormous, bigger than a wash basin and spiky all over—”
“Oh, King Crabs, I’ve been craving them lately; you can’t buy them here.”
“Die of craving, then! All you know is eat, eat, eat. If you can give a grandchild, I’ll make sure you eat Crabs every day!”
“You want to eat Crabs every day while pregnant? Are you looking for a miscarriage? No, wait—what was the topic of our discussion? It wasn’t Crabs, was it?” Kiara suspected her mother had developed “grandchild delusion syndro”, able to twist any topic back to children.
“Right, what was I saying… Oh, Susi, Susi! Susi’s belly isn’t small either, and she might be carrying twins, twins!!! Plus, your friend Tony Stone ca over the day before yesterday, also wearing a radiation suit. It just breaks my heart to see…”
“Mum, you’re sick, you know, and you shouldn’t skip your dication! I’ll transfer so Money to you so you can get so calming oral liquid—won going through nopause need to stay calm! Look at you; you’ve gotten red-eye because everyone else is having children—why are you so jealous?”
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