As a person who has suffered a lot, Nishinomiya Glass is very sensitive to the taste of misfortune.

It was a bitter and sour taste, bitter was black, sour was white, and there was no color in the world visible to the naked eye, except for the taste buds to endure the difficult taste.

Unlike bitter melon, "misfortune" cannot provide vitamins or hunger, and it cannot provide any kind of nutrients. In addition to making people hate their own powerlessness at that time, they can only produce countless regrets to occupy people's hearts later, and continue to plunder people's hard-won happiness.

Before the age of eleven, Nishinomiya Glass did not eat bitter melon.

Whether it's used as a salad or scrambled eggs, bitter gourd is definitely not delicious. The fish in the stewed fish with bitter gourd is delicious, and the scrambled eggs with bitter gourd are also delicious, and considering that mom doesn't have much time to cook, the fish and eggs are even more delicious.

But bitter gourd is really unpalatable, but you can't stop eating it. Not only can you not eat it, but you must eat it cleanly. When the face is shrunk into a ball, you have to recover quickly.,Can't let Yuzuru see it.,To be a strong sister.。

Otherwise...... Yuzuru would have pretended to like it very much, and then he would desperately eat all the bitter gourd, keeping the fish and eggs for himself.

Can't be such a stupid waste sister, Glass!

So, Nishinomiya Glass eats hard, shaves off the fish and gives it to her grandmother, gives a large piece of egg to her sister, and then eats bitter melon with her mother.

Mom is really amazing, she doesn't even frown when she eats bitter melon, she is as expressionless as ever.

My grandmother once said that bitter gourd has a nickname called "half-world melon". It is said that only those who have gone through half of the journey of life can taste the wonderful taste of bitter gourd.

"But my grandmother, I can't get used to eating bitter gourd until now. Not only can't I stand the taste, but even chewing bitter gourd is a bit laborious. What about nitrate? Do you like bitter gourd?"

That's what my grandmother said, Glass has seen my grandmother eat bitter melon.

The amiable and kind face will become "bitter" the moment the bitter gourd is entered, and the already wrinkled face will be even more wrinkled.

"Hehe, I don't like Glass either, but Mom seems to like it very much, so Glass wants to try to like it too."

That's how eight-year-old Nishinomiya Glass replied to her grandmother.

"Your mother......

Grandma's words came to an abrupt end, and there were countless emotions mixed together in some cloudy eyes, so that Glass didn't ask other questions.

When she was nine years old, Nishinomiya Glass, who was in the fourth grade, knew the reason why her mother didn't frown when she ate bitter melon.

That afternoon, when she was cleaning up after school, a male classmate said something to her, very hard, very loud, she should be able to hear clearly, and Glass had already tried very hard, but unfortunately she still couldn't hear clearly.

She stood there and hesitated, hesitated for a while before putting down the broom, walked back to the desk, took out a notepad from her bag, and walked slowly and cautiously to the boy who was talking.

When she walked over, the little girl's head was always lowered, and her eyes could not see anything except her own feet, but when she walked up to the boy, she still mustered up the courage to straighten her head and showed a flattering expression.

This expression has been practiced many times, and when she was at home, her grandmother asked her what she was doing, and this expression was like a puppy that no one wanted, and after being wet in the rain, she was kicked down in disgust and stuck out her tongue to please her.

Glasses was very happy to hear this, and thought to herself that it would be nice to be like a puppy.

Inconspicuous and not annoying.

The little girl looked like a puppy, handed the notebook out in fear, and was ready to pick it up.

But I didn't expect that the boy who spoke didn't throw the notepad out impatiently like other students, but took it and began to write with a pen.

Great, my efforts have worked, and sure enough, no one will want to play a prank on the grass on the ground.

The little girl looked at the boy writing on the notepad with joy, and did not see the malice on the faces of the classmates around her.

It's a kind of malice that makes people shudder when you look at it.

The notepad was handed over, and the boy thoughtfully turned his face to Nishinomiya Glass, so that she could see the content as soon as possible.

"You and your mother are both women that no one wants."

Oh, it turns out that classmate XX just told me this, it's obviously very simple, why didn't I hear it clearly?

This thought immediately popped into the little girl's head, and a deep apology appeared on her face.

"Do you hear that? You and your mom are both women that no one wants, and because you can't hear it, your dad doesn't want you anymore, annoying ghost!"

"I'm sorry"

The boy's voice sounded again, and Glass subconsciously apologized, but then reacted that the other party didn't understand what he said, so he hurriedly picked up the notepad and was about to write sorry, but the pen was pushed to the ground before he could hold it steadily.

"Annoying ghost that no one wants", "Annoying ghost who speaks alien words", "......"

Cheers rang out, and boys and girls rushed out of the classroom.

The notepad fell in front of Nishinomiya Glass, and she looked at the words on it and knew why her mother didn't even wrinkle her eyebrows when she ate bitter melon.

It turned out that the bitterness of the bitter gourd could only be regarded as insignificant to the mother.

"Mom...... I'm sorry...... Mom, I'm sorry ......."

Nishinomiya picked up the notebook and held it in her arms, and kept saying sorry. Tears ran down her cheeks and into her mouth, making the little girl's desperate cries even more bitter.

It's hard to imagine that on an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary cleaning, a child who can't even write the Chinese character "no one wants" and can only use a pseudonym can release such a strong malice.

Glasses didn't tell her mother about it, but kept apologizing to her mother.

"It's all because of me, because of my dad that I left my mom, because I didn't have a dad because of Yuzuru, all because I ......."

Glass kept repenting, and if it weren't for the lack of words, she might have used all the filthy words in the world to insult herself.

The little girl couldn't imagine that even herself, who had just transferred to a new school, had classmates who knew about it, and her mother, who had been working in the same place, suffered such a huge malice?

"A woman who gave birth to a useless child", "A woman who was abandoned by her husband", "It turns out that she worked hard because no one at home was waiting for her", "......"

Just imagine it for a moment, and Glass feels enveloped in the deep cold of despair.

"I'm sorry Mom, it's all my fault, it's my ......."

The little girl couldn't cry, and her words that were already unclear were even more indistinct. She was already crying and breathless, thinking only about how good it would be if she died like this, so that her mother and sister could get rid of her burden and form a good family again.

Mom, she must think the same way, that's why she has always been so strict with herself. How much of the suffering in her heart was caused by herself?

The little girl scolded herself in every possible way, and she wanted to put the blame for the destruction of the dinosaurs on herself.

But hidden in the heart of tears, I still humbly hope that my mother can comfort me, even if it's just a sentence, as long as my mother says it doesn't matter, then I will be willing to commit suicide immediately.

The little girl didn't dare to expect her mother to forgive herself, but only dared to expect a perfunctory sentence.

But no, Mom's tired face was still expressionless, like a bitter gourd.

I don't know if I shed too many tears, but I can clearly feel the heat leaving my body.

Mom's arms weren't warm at all, it was cold.

"Don't cry, Nishinomiya Glass."

"Don't apologize, Nishinomiya Glass."

Suddenly, her mother's stern voice sounded, she was so harsh, so strict that even Nishinomiya Glass's tears were afraid of her. The tears like a flood bursting the embankment stopped immediately after hearing two consecutive "Nishinomiya Glass", and even the sobbing did not exist.

The little girl looked up at her mother through her tears, at her face as cold and hard as steel.

"People will attack people who admit their mistakes, and if you apologize, you will admit that you have done something wrong, and since you have done something wrong, then I am right to push you to the ground and throw stones at you, right? Cut your indoor shoes in half and throw your bag in the bathroom is what you should bear!"

The mother's voice became more and more stern, but every word was clearly imprinted into the glass's head.

"If you're doing something wrong, try to make amends, instead of apologizing."

Glass didn't have time to think, so he listened to his mother continue.

"I'm an incompetent mother......

"No! Mom ......"

Glasses was eager to refute, but was categorically interrupted by her mother's cold and hard voice.

"I'm an incompetent mother, I didn't prepare breakfast for you and Yuzuru in the morning, I didn't accompany you to the park after school, I didn't accompany you to watch a pot of plants grow, I didn't even attend the entrance ceremony. I'm just going to work overtime day and night......

"Mom...... That's not the case......

Glass's tears burst again, and she didn't feel the slightest feeling when she scolded herself, but when she heard her mother say this, she couldn't breathe in heartache. Nishinomiya Yaeko turned a deaf ear and was still talking to herself.

"Everyone advised me to send you to a special school, and I knew that you would have a better time there, but I still let you go to a normal school, even if you were bullied, I didn't care, I just kept telling you to transfer to another school, so that you couldn't make any friends......

"Mom, don't say it, don't say it......" Glass cried out in despair.

"I, a mother who has done so many excesses to my daughter, have never said sorry to you."

Nishinomiya Yaeko's machine-gun-like cold and fierce words finally stopped for a moment.

"No, Mom, you're not wrong......

Glass groaned, and then she saw her mother's expression change.

The face as stiff as the arctic ice softened like spring breeze and rain.

Ah, Mommy's hands, so warm.

A pair of big hands held the small face of the glass, it was a pair of hands that had become a little rough due to constant disinfection, but it was very warm and gentle.

Glasses felt her mother wipe the tears from her face with her hands, and when she was immersed in the long-lost mother's love, her mother spoke again.

"If mom is right, then so is Nit-chan."

The voice was as gentle as moonlight, reassuring.

"You didn't do anything wrong, Nitrate-chan."

"Don't apologize, Nitrate-chan."

"Don't cry, Nitrate."

Mom's voice sounded like it sounded in her head, it was clearer than ever, and every syllable sounded so beautiful.

Mom's arms are so warm, even if winter comes, she is not afraid.

In that warm embrace, listening to the gentle words, Nishinomiya Glass understood why her mother didn't even wrinkle her eyebrows when she ate bitter melon.

It's not because the bitterness of the bitter gourd is not worth mentioning compared to the bitterness in her mother's heart, but as long as she doesn't frown, others won't know that she is bitter in her heart.

Those who throw stones at their mothers, when they don't see them crying or hear them apologize, will be afraid of their mothers and will not throw stones at her anymore.

On the dinner table of the Nishinomiya family

The mother was still eating bitter gourd with a blank face, as if it was no different from eating rice.

My sister still tried her best to eat bitter gourd, and then gave the fish to my grandmother and the egg to my sister.

Grandma still can't chew bitter gourd, but she doesn't seem to like fish very much, because she always gives the fish that her sister brings to her sister and sister, as well as to her mother.

My sister still looked at my sister strangely, not knowing why she liked to eat bitter melon so much.

Nishinomiya still doesn't like to eat bitter melon, but fortunately she knows that it's not a strange thing, because her mother, grandmother, and sister don't like it.

The people of the Nishinomiya family don't like to eat bitter gourd.

By the time the girl really liked to eat bitter melon, she was already eleven years old, and that was the ninth time she had transferred to another school.

That's the last chance, and the next time I transfer is a special school. Not everyone can understand mothers, and in serious cases, mothers will even be deprived of the right to raise themselves.

Watergate Municipal Elementary School

The little girl grows up here and learns to eat bitter melon.

She likes the bitter gourd with the umami of fish in the bitter gourd stew, and the bitter gourd in the bitter gourd scrambled eggs can also be chewed together with the eggs, and even the bitter gourd salad is very fond of it.

"Sister, I always thought that you were trying to grab bitter gourd to eat because you wanted to leave other delicious ones to me, but I didn't expect you to really like to eat bitter gourd, you are about to become as powerful as your mother."

That's what the stupid sister said, Glass wanted to tell her the story of her liking bitter gourd, but after thinking about it for a while, she decided not to say it, and let this little kid be afraid of bitter gourd all the time!

will also be cried to frown, will also be cried to grin, and occasionally be bitterly cried, but can taste the unique taste of bitter gourd.

Why is Nishinomiya Glass like this?

Because of that Kyosuke Hojo, who has been studying desserts since he was a child?

No, for bitter gourd, even the almighty Kyosuke-kun can't do anything. If he bribed Sakura with bitter gourd dishes, he would be kicked out of the house as soon as possible, and his nose might be hit by the door.

Although bitter gourd and papaya can go hand in hand when it comes to nutritional value, how could Kyosuke-kun not consider this when he is so smart.

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