The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress: Volume 9 [Complete] by SOW

Author:SOW
Language: eng
Format: epub

Then...

Tockerbrot was half-demolished, with collapsed walls, so voices inside were clearly audible outside the shop. Jacob, who had snuck in through the back door, heard the whole conversation between Sven and Blitzdonner.

“........................” The boy pressed against the wall in silence. “Why...?” Jacob didn’t know who he was mumbling to.

Jacob didn’t feel hate or anger toward Blitzdonner. He was angry about Blitzdonner leaving him and his mother alone. But there was another reason behind his rejection of his father, who had suddenly appeared.

Yes, he did feel those feelings of anger. But he had another feeling in equal measure. Fear. He was indescribably afraid of getting closer to his father. He was afraid of what would happen if his father rejected and denied him. And he would never have experienced those feelings if he had believed from the start that he had no father.

“We’re the same...” He mumbled again and walked away.

He thought as he walked. His father was scared of Jacob, just as the boy was scared of him. Blitzdonner was afraid of getting close because if his son rejected him, he might never recover.

“......”

Jacob couldn’t find a way to approach his father, especially since their relationship was so unusual. He kept walking.

“Jacob?” The girl in the red dress, who made him think of his father, was in front of him. “Aren’t you going to see the major... I mean, your father?”

“I don’t need to.” Jacob replied spitefully to Rebecca’s question.

“Jacob, I don’t have a parent.” Rebecca spoke sadly to Jacob. “So will you teach me? Do parent and child only meet when it’s necessary?”

“.....................”

She wasn’t asking sarcastically. Both Blitzdonner and Jacob were important to Rebecca. It was painful for her to see the miscommunication between them. Nonetheless, if they claimed they didn’t mind, then she didn’t intend to interfere. Her duty was to fulfill their wishes, even if it meant she was tormented by feelings that tore her to pieces. So...

“Are you sure?”

She needed to make sure his answer was really the right choice.

“That’s, um...”

The boy mumbled and Rebecca handed him a small bag.

“What’s this?”

“It’s a roche.”

A roche was a baked sweet. Its name meant rock. It was baked with egg whites and sugar mixed with almonds and other nuts.

“Former Captain Langart told me you like these.”

Roche was a common bakery sweet. Baking bread required lots of eggs, with the yolks often used for glazes. The leftover egg whites were whipped into a meringue for making the roche that were lined up in a corner of the bakery.

“This is all I can do.” Rebecca’s shoulders shook in frustration at her powerlessness. “I’m sorry.”

“Why are you apologizing?” Jacob felt hopeless as he replied to the red girl, who was crying.

“I...”

What should he do?

All of a sudden, someone else spoke to the boy, who was looking away as if he didn’t know how to fix his mistake.

“What’s up, you two?” It was Milly, the apprentice at Tockerbrot.

“What? Why is the red girl crying? Did you do that, you jerk?!”

“No!” Usually, Jacob would reply with a joke, but now he wasn’t emotionally capable of any smooth talk.

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