Ariete, who dipped the meatball with a fork and shoved it into her mouth, said while chewing on it.
“First of all, we’re going to attack our mansion, yum yum yum! How dare you, our youngest!”
“Eat and talk. Eat and talk.”
“You are trying to steal my appetite too. Don’t do that. These hamburgers are so delicious.”
Ariete, who had puffed out her cheeks and ate her favorite food for the first time in a long time, opened her eyes wide and looked at the crank and suddenly smiled. Then, like Tuna, she opened her mouth.
chin! Tup!
“Ew!?”
Enraged, Crank and Pi grabbed Ariete’s ears and nose, respectively.
“Where did you learn to do such mean things! oh my god!”
“Ugh! aaa! sick! homecoming! Nose!”
After a noisy meal, the party set up a plan.
As a result, I decided to work on the front.
“let’s go!”
First, they stormed into the house of Viscount Ibeck. It is one of the luxurious mansions built around a large lake, and the view was amazing thanks to the wide open lake.
“wow! Is the view really nice? Are house prices expensive in a place like this?”
“Anyway, it’s because the upper classes mostly live there. I don’t know anything else, but the scenery is really nice.”
He got off the wagon and walked towards the mansion, looking at the Piga Lake. The huge lake, which supplies drinking and living water to the surrounding cities and villages, greeted people with sparkling sunlight.
According to Carrot’s assessment, it was like the sea.
The mansion was located on the shore of the lake and boasted a wonderful view.
Pie, who had moved forward a little faster, bowed to the people following, and then became a calm maid and guided them.
“Ariete Ibeck, welcome back. This way.”
Ariete nodded and returned to her hometown after 3 years.
A commotion broke out in the mansion. The news that the third daughter who had run away had returned spread quickly.
“Miss Ariete is back!”
“Did you bring a man? It’s so big!”
“It must be someone I work with. Wasn’t the lady different from her ideal type who used to sing?”
“Don’t say you don’t know. Tastes are bound to change.”
“There are also two automatons.”
“Who’s the little kid with me? no way?!”
“What are you thinking! Even if you calculate your age, there is absolutely no way that would happen.”
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“Oh, the sofa is soft!”
Ariete sat next to Carrot, who was sitting on the sofa in the spacious drawing room. Crank put Lotte and Venus behind Ariete and sat down.
Carrot placed her hand on Ariete’s crossed legs.
“Are you nervous?”
Ariete looked down at Carrot and smiled slightly.
“I am a little more anxious than that. That woman is more blocked than me.”
“You are afraid of your mother.”
Ariete’s face heated up at Crank’s words while looking around the drawing room. Crank looked at her face with a nonchalant gaze.
“Even though I ran away, I sent money for living expenses, and even though I had my limbs cut off, I came back here for my younger brother. You were a good kid deep inside. Good kids like you are easy to use. If he cries a little, he is not willing to share his share and so easily burns himself to share even the warmth.”
Crank continued.
“Every time I saw such self-destructive human firewood, I felt sorry for them. Please, I hope it burns by the side of people who recognize the sacrifice. That way you can be praised as a hero, or you’ll just die like a dog.”
Ariete’s face hardened as she listened quietly.
“Then whose side should I burn?”
Crank didn’t answer. Just then, the door burst open and an elderly butler and a maid pushed a tea cart in.
A low voice came from Crank’s helmet.
“Stop burning. Now it’s your turn to share the warmth.”
Ariete looked up at the kind tin giant with an expression about to cry.
Crank, who gratefully accepted the teacup, lifted the small teacup with his large body.
“The tea smells good.”
The old butler replaced the answer with a slight nod of the head.
Just then, the door opened and a middle-aged woman in an elegant dress entered.
As a matter of etiquette, Crank and Carrot stood up, but Ariete did not stand up, keeping her head down and her eyes raised.
The butler coughed, but he ignored it.
Carrot, who had been silent, put her mouth to Ariete’s ear and whispered.
“You are the main character of your life now. Don’t sit down and cry, wake up. And run.”
Ariete’s eyes widened, and she jumped up from her seat.
Seeing that, the old butler let out a short sigh and greeted Carrot.
Carrot just laughed bashfully.
Everyone except Ariete bowed or raised the hem of their skirts to greet the Viscountess.
The wife of Viscount Melara, the current head of Viscount Ibeck’s family, nodded and sat across from her. Then he opened his mouth bluntly.
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“You came back at last. Did you enjoy the outing? Have you been in good health?”
“yes. It was all right.”
Ariete, who twitched her eyebrows, replied calmly.
“A fellow adventurer? But if it’s a curse, you have to lift it. It’s rude to visit the mansion in that state. You don’t even look cool, and from now on you go out with people.”
“what?”
The chilled Ariete opened her eyes. Viscountess Melara tilted her head, as if not understanding why she was so sharp.
“Why? Didn’t you just stop going out and come back? But I have no intention of forgiving you yet. We should show sincerity even between parents and children.”
Ariete, who had been listening, began to tremble. Carrot patted her on the back to calm her down, but she wasn’t calm enough to laugh off the insult.
Enraged, Ariete jumped up and shouted.
“This merchant! Is that what you say to your daughter and her friends who came back alive? Can’t you stand being ridiculed by those around you?! That’s why no one helped me when I was in trouble!”
“No, there is nothing this ugly thing can’t say to its parents! Can’t you have a seat?!”
“Ahahahaha!”
Ariete started to laugh like a crazy person now. she shouted, pointing.
“hate! don’t order me! And I’m not back! I’m just here to denounce the dirty trick of selling Tinquets on my behalf! No matter how good the money is, what the hell are you doing! A 13-year-old youngest daughter to an old man over 80… … !”
Sitting in her seat, Viscountess Melara, who had a nervous expression on her face, made a puzzled face.
“Where did you hear that and what did you say?”
Ariete’s face became strange this time.
“Trying to marry Tinquette to Count Muller instead of me… … ?”
“You’re crazy, he’s 13! I still have three more years to grow.”
Ariete, who was confused, raised her eyebrows again and became angry.
“Growing up for three more years? You know that your children can be any kind of livestock!”
“You are my children! Is it so reprehensible for parents to take responsibility for their children’s future!”
“future?! Is my future a s*x slave for an 80-year-old man?! Speak!”
“Where did you learn such mean words!? What a good Countess Muller!”
Hearing those words, Ariete covered her forehead with her hand and wanted to stop crying. It was cramped and frustrating. I even thought that it would be easier to discuss friendship with an orc.
In the midst of this, Crank felt the coolness of the stomach pain that had bothered him the whole time.
It was Pi’s lie. To bring Ariete.
“thank god.”
Melara, who had been arguing, stood up in anger as Crank suddenly muttered, and now shouted at him.
“It’s your boy! You tricked my precious daughter into going outside?! That expensive body! How dare you!”
Ariete shouted with her arms wide open.
“He has nothing to do with it! I stepped out on my own!”
“You stay still!”
Coincidentally, Crank, who was dragged into a mother-daughter fight, sat on the sofa with a puzzled gaze and turned the pitch around.
Melara pointed her finger at the crank and looked at Ariete.
“Forget about your ex! Now that I’m back, there are plenty of opportunities. Because you are still young enough!”
“How many times do I have to say I’m not back! And forget?! To forget my life and the benefactors who reconnected it?! You can never do that!”
Ariete, baring her teeth, pointed at the crank and shouted.
“Half of my body! It belongs to that man!”
“Puff-!”
Crank, who was leisurely sipping tea while watching the mother-daughter fight, spewed tea. Carrot steals the black tea flowing under the helmet with a handkerchief, but the viscountess, wide-eyed, abandons her father and looks at Ariete, then turns her angry face to Crank.
Ms. Melara shouted as she grabbed the collar of the crank, which is about the same height even when sitting.
“also! yes man! What the hell have you done to my daughter! off! Show that mug! Like this ogre!”
“This, this is not okay.”
As Crank desperately grabbed hold of his helmet and crouched down, the Viscountess, impatient, began assaulting him with her fists and palms. Even so, it was ticklish for Crank, but… … .
Seeing him beaten, Lotte and Venus flinched, but Carrot raised a hand to stop it and laughed.
It is interesting! Let’s watch some more!
Ariete, realizing her mistake, pushed her away and shouted again.
“Stop it! I have become a body that I cannot live without this person!”
Krank, who was holding on to his helmet and had his head down as he was being beaten by his wife, started coughing heavily, and Ms. Melara turned away in a dumbfounded way.
“What, what?”
Ariete, who was terribly flustered, made constant efforts to rectify the slips of the tongue, but to no avail.
“uh?! Oh no! field! those people! I can’t live without these people!”
“Ah ha ha ha! Ah ha ha ha! Oh my gosh!”
Carrot, who had enjoyed watching this horror, now began to laugh while holding his stomach.
The welcome party has begun.
The excited Ariete repeated her mistakes, and the situation got worse and worse.
The daughter, who had returned from running away, brought two automatons, a small child who appeared to be an errand boy, and a large man.
In this composition, it was perhaps natural that the mother’s anger was directed at the stalwart man.
In any case, Ms. Melara, realizing that this man was very important to her daughter, made a colorful change in her expression. With a bewildered face, she opened her trembling mouth.
“You, you you! how could you say that… … ! How did I raise you!”
Seeing that face, Ariete was amazed at how strangely calm she was. She put on a look of ridicule.
“I don’t remember growing up in your hands. It was the butler and the nannies here who raised me.”
The butler, Ennark, who had come to the parlor to entertain guests and had this horror in his eyes, felt that he wanted to faint right away.
“Madam, and lady. Just calm down… … .”
“Shut up the butler!”
“Shut up on someone like my grandfather! This stepmother!”
“Stepmother! Be careful with your words! I gave birth to you! you are my child! If you are my child, do as I say!”
Ariete frowned and shook her head.
“hate! I’m not your doll! I am not cattle! I will decide my future!”
Ariete took a deep breath and shouted with all her might.
“I am the main character of my life!”