16 . Unni, “Do this”
I started reading the text of the newspaper slowly.
Normally, the texture of the paper touching my fingers was pleasant, but today it was accompanied by an unpleasant sensation.
It is not an old newspaper. This is what I got from the mailbox this morning.
‘Ansis, a small town in the west, announced that it will light up the fireworks festival to announce summer in earnest from today. The turning point of the lighting this time was the fact that the advance of the monsters had stopped. The elder of Ansys expressed the intention that this fireworks festival be held earlier than usual with the intention of reviving the village, whose economy was inactive due to the attack of monsters, and with the help of an outsider who settled in the village…….’
I didn’t even notice the content behind it.
It was a reference to Helga, an outsider who helped with the festival.
I’ve seen that tendency several times while traveling together.
She especially likes noisy festivals and alcohol, and she showed up at this fireworks festival as well.
Ansis, it was definitely within a 5-hour carriage ride from our village.
It’s not usually frequent, but it’s a village I’ve been to several times last year with my children.
I shifted my gaze to Helga’s picture again.
Traces of the passage of time remain, but a smile that is still unforgettable. She thought that the day would never come when she would see her smile, but she never dreamed that she would see her in this way.
Her smile, which always brightened up the party atmosphere, felt disgusting for the first time.
Well, looking back now with a calm mind, he was a guy who was never serious about everything. Even when killing monsters, when colleagues or yourself are injured.
Strangely, there was no sense of crisis to say that the atmosphere was changed with laughter. She was to the point that she had never seen her sober day.
I could still see clearly in my eyes the image of him pouring cheap alcohol into a glass that was bigger than his head and drinking it lightly, as if he were swallowing up his troubles.
Will there ever be a moment when a smile is always on your face? I had thought of that before, but that smile was gone on the day he abandoned me.
Infinitely cold eyes. That was the first time I knew that Helga could make such an expression.
It was disgusting to see him laughing and chatting while having fun and helping with the preparations for the festival after abandoning me and failing to subdue the demon lord.
“Dad, what’s wrong?”
I hurriedly folded the newspaper in half at Olivia’s voice ringing in my ears.
I didn’t want to worry my children about the past.
At a young age when you should grow up seeing only the good things, I can’t show the expression of a father full of worries, so my worries must be my own. I was hoping not to worry about them.
There is only one thing I want right now, I want to keep the smile from that pure face.
I vomited all my past the day before Rihanna came. I didn’t want to burden the children with the presence of other party members.
I tried to put on a bright face and spoke in a friendly tone as I stroked Olivia’s hair as she looked at me with her worried eyes.
“Nothing. Since her sister has gone to bed, will she go out and play with her dad from now on?”
A puzzled light flashed on the children’s faces for a moment, but they barely nodded when asked to go out and play.
It was only after I went about my usual daily life, such as buying new clothes for children who have grown in size, breasts, hips, and height at the village market, or buying ingredients for dinner, that I finally managed to get rid of the dark feelings that had settled in my heart. Could
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Fire – With a sound, the lights in the room where Rihanna was sleeping caught fire.
Rihanna, unable to adjust to the suddenly brightened room, opened her eyes softly with a painful noise.
“Ugh… ?”
Towards Rihanna, who is making the ugliest expression in the world, Olivia asked while holding back her laughter.
“Sister, who is this?”
Olivia held up the newspaper Ain had read during the day, and she unfolded it right in front of Rihanna’s eyes.
Rihanna’s expression began to harden as she frowned and forced herself to read the newspaper she couldn’t see.
What bullying is this? She forced the sleeper to wake up and tell him to read the boring newspaper….
Rihanna didn’t bother to vent her dissatisfaction, she was just pretending to read the newspaper.
But the moment Rihanna’s eyes landed on a picture of her smiling Helga, an exclamation escaped her lips against her own will.
“Huh!?”
Before long, the drowsiness vanished from Rihanna’s sleepy face, and her puzzled light filled its place.
The elves looked down at Rihanna with expressions of understanding.
Yeah, there’s no way she wouldn’t know.
Rihanna opened her mouth in disbelief as she ran her finger over the picture of Helga.
“Why is he here….”
Seeing Rihanna’s reaction, Olivia crumpled up her newspaper and shoved it roughly into her pocket.
“Judging from the reaction, it seems that the party that upset her dad is right.”
Stella patted Olivia on the shoulder as she caught her mood.
“Hey, I haven’t read it properly yet.”
Olivia gave Stella a crumpled newspaper, saying sorry with an awkward expression.
Next to Stella were Noah and Elia, and the three of them slowly read the newspaper they hadn’t read during the day.
Elia pointed to a sentence in the newspaper and told her sisters.
“Ansys? It’s a town she used to go to with her dad sometimes. Oh, the cherry drink there was delicious.”
“Oh, right! And all the other food was delicious too. It’s not better than Dad’s cooking.”
Reminiscing about the past and the pleasant memories of those days, the sisters were smiling happily.
However, that smile only lasted until he saw a picture of Helga smiling.
Seeing Helga’s picture, the three’s expressions sank coldly at the same time.
Elia pierced Helga’s picture with her finger and spoke in a grim tone.
“Anyway, the bugs on your sister’s head need some time to grow, so shall we deal with this year one first?”
Noah nodded her head.
“That’s not bad either.”
“What should I do? Should I pretend to give her a week like she did to her sister? Or do you deal with it right away?”
Rihanna looked both terrified and interested as she listened to their brutal conversation.
Previously, those arrows had been pointed at him, but it was quite fun to see from a third person’s point of view. It’s something that doesn’t apply to him anymore, so it’s probably why he can watch it comfortably like this.
However, I was a little concerned about who would receive their anger.
Rihanna cautiously raised her hand as if she had something to say.
Apart from Ain, Rihanna is the first woman to have lived under the same roof for such a long time. Her elves, who are now quite likable to Rihanna, nod her head as if to allow her to comment, cutting her in the middle.
Stella opened her mouth, gently arranging Rihanna’s tousled hair.
“I think our doggie has something to say?”
“If it’s about you, I can listen to you a little bit, so try it.”
Unlike before, it was quite peaceful. Rihanna removed her words with a brightened expression.
“Hey, I know it’s a little strange to say this, but if you take a look at Helga….”
Before Rihanna’s words were finished, the eyes of the elves cooled down, and the mood that had improved at best turned cold as if cold water had been poured on them.
Poor Rihanna finally realized that something was wrong with her, but the water had already spilled on the floor.
Stella, who was caressing her hair, threw Rihanna’s head back, grabbing her hair roughly.
“Are you afraid that someone isn’t human, and you want to betray them now?”
“Sister, are you trying to upset us or disappoint us? Congratulation. If that’s the case, I’ve succeeded.”
A sharp voice, Rihanna shook her head desperately and raised her voice.
“No, no! I made a mistake!”
The experience of the eerie sword points of the elves pointing at you was something I didn’t like.
As if Rihanna’s desperate cry had barely reached her, Stella loosened her grip on her hair and straightened her messy hair again.
“Okay, lower the volume. Do you want to get caught by Dad?”
Rihanna slinked back and leaned against the wall, staring at the elves.
Olivia asked, squatting on her knees in front of Rihanna and keeping her eyes on her.
“Since we decided to listen… Why should we watch him? Aren’t you the one who hurt Dad?”
“That’s right, but….”
She had nothing to say. The reason Rihanna stopped them was because Helga was the only person who treated Rihanna kindly at the party, except for her son.
She obviously had an occasional look at her insignificantly, but that much was something she could endure.
But Rihanna wasn’t foolish enough to risk her own life for a little bit of her affection.
“Looks like I made a mistake. You guys can do whatever you want.”
After briefly speaking, the elves smiled in satisfaction.
Leaving behind Rihanna, who sighed in relief in a cornered state, the girls began to share their opinions as usual.
“Should I ask Dad to go to the festival tomorrow?”
This is the surest method, but there was a catch.
“That’s the best thing, but wouldn’t it be hard for Dad to see this bitch’s face again?”
Even when Rihanna came right away, Ain looked worried all day long with a distressed expression on her face.
She hated seeing Ain like that, but she couldn’t forgive the culprits who tormented him even more proudly.
However, at this time, if she openly asked to go on a trip to Ansis, she was sure that even the most insensitive Ain would find it strange.
So the elves had only one choice.
The elves held Rihanna’s hand tightly and opened her mouth, a bright smile on her face.
“Sister, please. Convince her dad somehow. Got it?”
To show a benign attitude only at times like this, truly detestable dwarves….
Rihanna had this or that displeasure inside her, but she responded by barely lifting the corners of her mouth and giving her a smile just like them. She
She was only forgiven by Ain, but wouldn’t this make her hate her again? Some of her worries took precedence, but her concerns about her own safety overcame them all.
She couldn’t stand the gaze of the four people in front of her.
Rihanna also had only one choice.
“Yes… I’ll try something.”
Other than saying that, I couldn’t see a way to live among these crazy elves.