284. Children
Breakfast seating.
Darius is clearing his throat and looking at me and Deia.
It’s good that he made such a fuss at the drinking party yesterday and passionately preached about the love between family members, but I seem to remember that he was persistent enough to lead to indecent behavior.
“Wow, my ears hurt.”
“Big!”
When Deia said something teasingly, Darius immediately lowered his head and bit his lip.
Deia was grinning as if the sight was really worth seeing. Darius’s shoulders shake and he suddenly raises his head.
“Everything I said yesterday was sincere! I’m not ashamed at all! My true heart is that I value you all that much…… !”
“Let’s eat some, you bastard. “I’m going to act like I’m cringing.”
“If you keep talking, your emotions will become diluted.”
When Deia and I scolded, the eldest son pouted his thick lips and began to eat.
I thought there wouldn’t be much conversation after that.
Yesterday’s dinner naturally led to a drinking party and the two of us started talking hoarsely.
But the eldest son opens his mouth again, perhaps feeling some responsibility at the quiet dinner table.
“Deia, are you really going to do what you said yesterday?”
“…… What.”
Even though she already knows what Darius means from the way he speaks, she insists on getting annoyed.
“Wow, that’s correct. “Didn’t you decide to take a look?”
“Ah, that. “I have to see it.”
Deia calmly answered while putting food in her mouth. Although she was irritated, I felt relieved to see her accepting it without denying it.
‘Thank goodness.’
Deia was a little proud of how neatly she organized her mind.
Darius seemed to think that the family’s biggest crisis had been overcome, and he smiled brightly and continued his speech.
“Okay, okay. Among the men I spoke to at a gathering of northern nobles this time, they were good…….”
“Deius introduce me.”
Deia looks at me as she interrupts her conversation. Darius looks like he wants to say something more and looks at me in tears.
“I don’t know of any nobles.”
At most, Gideon’s Xeronia family or Erica’s Bright family.
But no man from either family had any desire to introduce him to Deia.
“I heard that His Majesty will arrange it. “You wouldn’t introduce me to a strange kid.”
That is correct.
But.
“I won’t be able to introduce you right away. “Because I have work to do even when I go to the royal palace.”
“Oh, it’s okay. “Please take your time.”
As Deia said this, she took a bite of the sliced potato with a fork and put it in her mouth. Her harsh reaction rather embarrassed Darius and I.
Anyway, it was a good thing to accept the confrontation.
“This is the stew I made yesterday. “I added bear meat and it turned out to be more delicious than I expected without any unpleasant smell.”
Illuania places a plate of stew in front of me just in time for the conversation to end.
She was slowly getting full and didn’t want to eat, but Iluani stood upright next to me and told me to eat.
“You are too thin. “You need to eat a lot.”
“That is correct. “I’m thinner than before.”
“Yes, it is good to eat as much as possible. “I touched it yesterday when I was taking pictures and it seemed like it would break if I hit it.”
Deia and Darius join in as if they had been waiting. When I glance at the two people, they immediately focus on eating as if they had never done so before.
It was already very thin because it had been left in a general store, but its shape became even more scrawny. It would be good to gain a little weight.
“Especially in the past, you ate a lot of things that were not good for your body, so now you need to eat a lot of things that are good for your body.”
“…… “Those are heavy words.”
“I’ve been regretting a lot lately, too.”
Alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etc.
Because Deius enjoyed quite a variety of things, his physical condition was always not good.
Should I say that he was lucky that he did not contract a venereal disease?
Iluania, who was with Deius during her days as a prostitute, was recently eating a lot of good food for Sebia.
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I’m afraid there might be something bad left in Iluania’s body. I know she can’t even breastfeed.
“But where is Sevilla?”
If Iluania is working, who will take care of Sebia?
She used to have Owen, but now she doesn’t have Owen.
“Finden Eye is in charge.”
“… ….”
At that moment, her heart sank. No matter how much she thought about it, she had no idea that Finden would be taking good care of her child.
Did he feel my emotions?
Iluania covered her mouth with her hand and smiled.
“It’s okay. The Finden child treats Sebia carefully, and Sebia also likes her Finden child.”
I think Seville knows that she has a dog and she adds, “Iluania.”
She was saying something that she would not like if the Finden child heard it, but she said it anyway, and if she, as the mother, trusted her and left it to her, she had no choice but to follow.
I slowly change the subject.
“What about Soho?”
It’s been two days since I’ve been locked in my room.
Food is brought to him, but he shows no reaction. I don’t even know if he’s eating.
“First of all, I’m skipping all meals. “I can’t even see her face.”
“Yes.”
I hoped she would be able to give her answer before I left North Whedon. But it seemed like it would take some time if it stayed like this.
“I guess I should go take a look today.”
I felt like I should go to Soho right after breakfast.
* * *
After finishing the meal, I went straight to the door where Soho was located, as I said. The dark spirit and Stella following behind seemed a bit worried about how the girl’s story would end.
[What are you going to say?]
The dark spirit quietly approached her and asked. She was never a woman who cared about others like this, but as I was with her, I felt that although I had changed, she had also changed in many ways.
[It is better to think carefully before speaking. At a young age, my sense of self had not yet been properly established.]
Stella was not a former saint for nothing, so she gave skillful advice.
[But her relationships and environment surrounding her have changed. To be honest…… I don’t think Soho would have made a good change.]
“Yes.”
But that too is Soho’s choice.
There was only so much I could do for her, and I had to do it myself to come up with an answer for her.
“Soho.”
Knock knock.
I knocked and called her name, but there was no response from inside.
But at my fingertips.
The moment you touch the door, a tingling sensation is felt on the back of your hand.
[Hmm?]
[Why are you doing this?]
The dark spirit and Stella asked at the same time, but I turned the doorknob and went inside without answering.
[Huh?]
[…] ….]
A foul odor wafting from the room. A rich scent that I have smelled several times, like a mixture of very thick caramel.
It was the smell of a corpse.
The Dark Spirit and Stella looked up at the hanging girl and looked perplexed.
The girl who had hanged herself from her ceiling lamp using her bedsheets seemed to have run out of breath and her center of gravity was constantly moving back and forth.
“Whoa.”
The body of Soho.
If anyone saw it, it would be sad that the little girl couldn’t endure the cruel truth that was finally confronted to her.
He must have accused me of helping kill a girl.
Tragedy.
A situation that can be explained in one word.
But there is one thing that needs to be corrected. It was the difference in opinions and perspectives I had with others.
“Soho… ….”
I moaned her name low and gritted my teeth.
I thought there would be options like this. But I had no idea that such a drastic change could be made in the mansion I was in without me even noticing.
“Why do you want me to see your corpse?”
That moment.
Right above the door.
“Keeek!”
Another Soho that was hanging from the ceiling rushed towards me.
It was an attack of conversion.
Making his own corpse to steal his attention and then attacking him could have been a fatal blow.
“The opponent was bad.”
From the moment I realized that her body did not contain her soul, I already knew that she was not dead.
I was preparing.
A strongly clenched fist swings forward. Her mana, which was contained within her, snatches her Soho as it is and swings her fist into her orbit, pinning her to the floor.
“Kieeeng!”
A girl who lets out the cries of an animal, not the sounds of a human.
Soho’s hanging corpse disappears like smoke, and only Soho, struggling while being held by my mana, remains.
Fingernails that grow sharp like blades.
Two tails extending above the buttocks.
Cat whiskers on the cheeks.
Protruding fox ears.
The animal’s eyes have turned yellow-brown.
“In the end…… “Is that your choice?”
The crossroads between humans and monsters.
Did the girl walk there thinking that it was really the right place?
It was a question worth considering.
* * *
“Woojjujju.”
Entrance to Verdi’s mansion.
Findenai, who was playing with Sebia in her arms, had a rare, innocent smile on her face.
Wow!
Sebia also says it feels good and extends her hand towards the Finden child. Her little baby’s hand grabs her Finden child’s nose and pulls.
“Hey, hey, hey!”
I tried to say something to Sebia in a nose-blind voice, but the baby just smiled and said it was good.
Her appearance contained a cuteness that I could not help but forgive.
“Who do you look like so cute? Huh? Huh? “You bastard!”
aaah!
“I can’t do that. “It’s so cute I have to eat it.”
Finden Eye opens her mouth wide and lightly bites Sebia’s plump cheek. Sebia just laughs and says that even that is fun.
Looking at Sebia’s reaction, Findeneye let out a pleasant laugh.
Still, she was excited that one day she might give birth to a child like this and raise it.
“If you are born from the owner and me, your character will be guaranteed, and you will be smart and good at fighting.”
Finden Ai’s head hangs low as she never thought the day would come when she would imagine something like this.
The wolf’s face was red with embarrassment, and all he saw was a baby who could only babble.
“Well, I said it was patriotic!”
I shout out confidently and try to shake off the shame. The members of the scrap metal store also told us to have a close relationship with the kingdom’s memorial service for the sake of the Clark Republic.
Findeneye continued to play with Seville, making excuses like that.
“Hey, over there.”
A man cautiously calls Findenai outside the mansion.
He was haggard, his face was thin, and his hair was bald. When you looked at him from the outside, he didn’t look very attractive.
Moreover, as she gets closer, the smell of tobacco stings her nose, and Finden Eye intentionally keeps her distance from Seville for Seville’s sake.
“Who are you talking about?”
It doesn’t seem to be a face I’m used to seeing in downtown North Weden, so I ask while tilting my head.
“Well, my name is Goben. “I work as a coachman.”
“Goben? Coachman?”
He reacted angrily, but Findeneye’s eyes were following Goben’s gaze.
He was looking at Sebia in Findenai’s arms.
An eerie feeling of anxiety welled up in Findeneye. It seemed like something I shouldn’t hear was coming from that ominous man.
The sense was accurate.
“I heard that Iluania works here. “Is the child she holds in her arms even her own?”
“…… “Is that correct?”
In response to Finden Ai, Goben looked up at her face with tears in his eyes and said,
“Well, then.”
The truth is less pleasant than you think.
“This is my child too.”