• 🅂🄾🄼🄴🅃🄷🄸🄽🄶 🄽🄴🅆 || spicynoodles •

-2- "Overwhelm"

- ... excuse me? - Said Iron Fan, with a stoic expression. She slowly turned around and looked at her slightly overwhelmed son.

- Mother, I'm tired a-and I feel like this plan of yours isn't the most bright. - Red Son spoke, trying to stand up for himself.

- Stop that nonsense and go back to work. - She hissed back. She had a hard enough day as is, she didn't need more problems.

- .. I'm not gonna do that. - He stood his ground. - Since we've defeated Lady Bone Demon, I thought you would've respected me more, yet so far all I do is work more and more each day! I-I'm tired and I don't see it as fair. - He tried staying confident, yet slowly started regretting that he ever spoke up in the first place.

Silent filled the room for a few seconds, but for Red, it felt like hours. Excruciating hours.

- Fine then. - She finally said, after having to think about everything just stated by her son. - Don't work.

- ... R-really? - The younger said in a hopeful voice.

- Of course! As a matter of fact, don't do anything at all, as you are no longer welcomed in this house. - she crossed her arms.

- w-wait.. what? - He simply froze for a moment. - N-no, mother, I'm sorry. I-I'll just get back to work!

- No. - The princess interrupted him. Red immediately tensed up. - What you will do, is get out of this house, and come back when you'll learn to respect your elders who had given you life.

Red son, completely overwhelmed and not knowing what to do, simply felt like listening would be the best he could do. He simply turned around and quickly left.

He didn't know where to go, nor what to do, but what he did know, is that his mother had never kicked him out before, and he started to think he really deserved it. He has never stood up for himself like this, and he felt like his mother wasn't even harsh with what she said, therefore doing what's best for him.

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The Monkie Kid was walking to his favorite place to rest, with his eyes focused on his feet to not step in anything. Then, when he finally looked up as he approached the tree, he saw Red son. Once again, sitting under the tree, with his eyes closed and face turned towards the sky.

The hero came closer, the sound of grass under his feet opening the fire demons eyes. He moved his head to face his once enemy.

Mk simply came even closer, concerned for the well being of the prince. He looked quite overwhelmed, and not like his usual confident, angry self.

Then the Noodle Boy sat down beside the other, keeping his eyes on him. After a few short seconds of Red Son being confused and clearly not wanting to talk, he simply turned his head around and looked away, trying to ignore the hero, hoping he won't say a word and just go away.

Yet that's not what happened. Mk opened his mouth.

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