St Chaos Healer

Ch 19 - The Ladies feud

"My little Shaun here is an art student. You should sometimes come to our household and see his paintings. With a single glance, you could tell his paintings are such beautiful art pieces that anyone could tell he is a natural-born prodigy." said the plump woman standing beside Shaun.

"Oh, that's so nice. But do you know my son, little Benji here, he actually started training when he was just a six-year-old kid. Now he can easily pulverize an adult human being with no problem. Oh did I mention how good his aiming skills are? He can hit a bird in the eye with a knife on a tall tree with ease." a beautiful woman with red hair beside me with a brazen victory smile.

Suddenly it felt like a clash of thunder crackles coming from both women's eyes as they stared at each other. Of course, the thunder is just a personification of how intense the staredown was.

The plump woman praising Shaun was none other than Shaun's mother, Mrs. Frugal.
And the red-haired woman standing next to me as she sang my praises was none other than my sweet mother.

"But my Shaun won the town art exhibition contest when he was just 5. The last painting that he made is now in a display of our town mayor's office in the front entrance. Famous art professors came by to the mayor's office, just to take a glance at his painting. Shaun did make our family so proud that I can't describe it in mere words." said Mrs. Frugal as she caressed Shaun's hair.

"Oh, that's cute. But my son actually fought with a gray wolf to save me. A stray gray wolf had once broken into our town after the field-protecting array was breached. My son actually confronted the gray wolf when I was under attack by that murderous beast. A son risking his life to rescue his dear mother. Now that isn't wonderful then I don't know what is." replied my mother as she patted my head looking proud as she smiled.

Mrs. Frugal looked at me with wide eyes as if she can't believe what she just heard. I mean no normal person would actually believe if they heard this. The story itself was right out of some fantasy novel or something.

In this day and age, where mana beasts are at the top of the food chain. If it weren't for Mages, normal people like us would have already extinguished long ago.

Now all of a sudden a small young brat with no mage skill like me killing a mana beast wouldn't be just unbelievable but be treated as some joke. Meanwhile, Shaun was staring at me with twinkling eyes showing admiration. Kids are very gullible, so he believed my story within a heartbeat.

Mrs. frugal suddenly frowned,
"Now Mrs. Almond, your imagination is getting a little too wild."

My mother frowned back,
"Huh, I speak the truth. It was actually I who dealt with the finishing blow after Benji managed to injure him. I know you won't believe me but you can even go to our town and ask the villagers there~ Oh right, our town chief is just right over there. If you don't believe me you can go ask the town chief. My son was awarded and praised for his bravery by everyone in the village."

"Oh, then it must be a small gray wolf's cub or something. But yes that is heroic. You know when Ron, my husband used to bring some live mana beasts at our house, after all, they make some exquisite dishes. But they need to be cooked right away after they are killed, hence they are brought home alive. So you can say I have some experience killing mana beast myself, like the river rabbit and the three-clawed rock lobsters which had huge claws like my arms.'' She replied with a cynical smile.

"But what we fought was a full-grown adult Gray wolf. And I nearly died by its jaws!"

"Oh, then you must have some scars left from that attack. Would you be kind enough to show me?"

"I did but a nearby top-tier healer healed me with regeneration skill. So sadly I don't have any scars to prove it."

"Haha. Mrs. Almond, your imagination knows no bounds. Why don't you ever try to be a fiction writer? I am pretty sure your books might fetch quite the sales."