Mommy Wolf: Raise A Cub, Claimed By His Beast Daddy

Chapter 300: The Dusk Star’s Wish (I)

[Song Recommendation: Clannad OST - Roaring Tides II.]

This was the first time Kael felt such a comfortable sleep, like he was falling into warm water and being sucked into a current that never ended.

It was definitely the most comfortable sleep he had ever had in his life, to the point that he dreamed of nothing... until he heard the familiar voice of his beloved in his dream.

"Kael... husband..."

Kael opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings, and realized that he was standing in the garden in the Queen’s courtyard.

But he also knew this was just a dream, because the tree where Sisi and Jojo would usually sit under the shade was gone in reality after it sacrificed itself to summon the giant Rafflesia to fight those humans.

"Husband..."

Kael looked around, desperately trying to find his beloved, but couldn’t find her.

"Where are you, my love? How come I can’t see you?!"

Then, he heard her giggle and felt the warmth of someone leaning against his back. From the scent alone, Kael knew that it was his beloved who leaned weakly against him, so he wanted to turn around and hug her.

But then, his body was frozen on the spot. He couldn’t even turn his neck at this point.

"W-what happened to me? My love, can you help me with this? I really want to see you again!"

"I’m afraid you can’t see me again, husband..." Sisi said.

That sentence was short, but powerful enough that Kael felt like his heart had been shattered into a thousand pieces.

He couldn’t say a word, because he knew whatever he said would be useless, knowing that his beloved... had died.

For the past nine months, he had been worrying over his beloved’s health, because he knew that her pregnancy was dangerous.

Yet, despite knowing the great risk, Sisi refused to abort the baby in the beginning, and it cost her life in the end.

"Then, let me wake up from this dream, wife," Kael said despairingly. "Let me wake up, so I can end my life immediately. There is no point in living without you by my side."

"Don’t say that, husband. Because you still have the responsibility to raise our children," Sisi said, and then the voice of a baby crying was heard from behind him. "I’ve safely given birth to a baby girl. Your daughter. And I... I want her to have the life that I never had. I want her to be raised with love."

Kael couldn’t see his beloved nor his daughter, but the cries of the baby girl filled him with even more despair, knowing that she would grow up without a mother.

"I want to give her a name to honor the tradition of the faeries. Please at least let her keep my last name, Silk," Sisi said. "The first name is up to you, husband. But I hope that you can love her and Jojo equally. They are both our children, and their futures matter the most. You’re willing, right, husband?"

Kael didn’t even want to listen to all this. Yes, he loved his children, but was it really worth staying alive without his beloved?

What was the point of living when you would hate every single second of it?

"Husband, please answer me..."

"I will love them and raise them right as our children, the fruits of our love. But I can’t help but loathe myself, Sisi," Kael confessed. "Why should I have to wake up every single day knowing that you’re gone? Is this really it? After I’ve finally tasted the sweetest fruit of life, you are just gone!"

"... "

"How selfish can you be, Sisi? You made me fall in love, married me, made love with me, promised sweet nothings, and then selfishly left me with two children! Siselia Silk, do you not have any conscience?!"

Kael’s voice thundered in this dream as he was overtaken by grief. If he could, he wanted to turn around and hug his beloved as hard as possible.

He didn’t even care if he would be stuck in this dream forever, as long as he could stay with Sisi.

But he couldn’t.

This dream felt like torture, but it was a torture that he didn’t want to escape from.

"Husband... do you believe in fate?"

"What are you talking about now? Of course I believe in fate! We wouldn’t be together if we weren’t fated by the Moon Goddess!"

"Then you should believe that life and death have been fated. The birth of our daughter, and my death, have all been written by fate. And you should know that our fate to be husband and wife... has also been written. It is a dying wish you had in your previous incarnation."

"There’s no way I would ask for your death, Sisi! I’d rather die first than see you wither away!"

"... Then, you can see it yourself, husband..."

Then, the scene around them changed, and as Kael blinked, he saw another version of himself. The man was probably around his age, but he had weakened considerably and looked much older than he should.

He had Kael’s physical features, though there were a few differences. The most obvious one was the endless scars across his face and body.

The man was obviously dying, with his crimson eyes glowing brightly. He was gritting his teeth and in immense pain.

Kael instantly knew that was the Dusk Star—himself from the previous era—and he would probably have died in the same manner, alone and in agony, had he not met Sisi in this era.

Amidst enduring the pain, the Dusk Star muttered, "Goddess, why do I have to suffer all my life only to die alone and in agony? Is there truly no way out of this for me?"

Then, with a bitter smile, he continued, "Can I at least have company before I die? My son has a little faerie that always accompanies him everywhere since he was just a baby. He was never alone with that faerie by his side."

"So, how come only he can see the little faerie, while I can’t? Do I not deserve to have company of my own?"