32 . The nature of children (3)
Before turning the doorknob, the house was particularly noisy.
Busy footsteps, high-pitched screams of children.
You might think it was playing something fun, but it wasn’t that type of sound.
A scream, a high pitch, the sound of something falling. Anxiety prevailed.
I hurriedly opened the door and entered the house.
The first thing I saw as I entered the door was Elia lying on the floor and the three children nursing her.
Elia fell to the floor, her limbs shaking and saliva dripping from her mouth. Something went wrong, and as soon as I saw him, my hair turned pure white.
The emotions I gained from talking to Fay disappeared like waves.
Without even thinking about taking off my shoes, I ran to the fallen Elia.
She held the fallen child in her arms and checked her condition.
“Elia!?”
There was no reply.
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Fortunately, he didn’t stop breathing. A moan of pain was heard.
I took Elia in her arms and asked Stella, who was beside her, who was bewildered, raising her voice.
“Stella, what the hell happened to this!?”
In that moment, I couldn’t even guess why Elia would end up like this.
Stella, who was crying next to her, couldn’t keep her cool as usual.
Rather, when I raised my voice, he averted his gaze as if in terror.
Calm down.
The surprise is that the children are the same, and at times like this, if I don’t show my composure….
I stretched out one hand and gently caressed Stella’s shoulder, then asked again in a calmer voice than before.
“Stella, can you tell me what happened?”
Stella finally calmed down and started telling me the story of what had happened right after I left for her grandmother’s house.
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No matter how much he loved children, Ain was still clumsy in parenting.
She apologizes to Elia for talking to herself for reasons such as being busy, not wanting to hurt her, getting her proper information and having her conversation, etc. Ain went out.
There might be room for you to think that it was an act to be considerate of the child, but it was entirely up to Elia to accept him. From then on, Elia’s unstable heart was slowly crumbling.
Looking at Ain from her gaze, she would only see a man leaving because she hated her, was disgusted with her, and was disgusted with her.
“Ah, ah… ?”
The pain of being hated by her loved ones instantly made Elia like her broken doll.
A groan of incomprehension flowed from her mouth, and her arms were waving in the empty air.
Elia sat down on her knees at her front door where her son had left, scratching her fingernails at her door and muttering like someone out of her mind.
“Dad? Dad? Isn’t it? Abandoning Elia, isn’t it? Huh? Daddy can’t abandon us…. I shouldn’t have… ?”
Before long, Elia started hammering her door into her head, and only then did the other children discover her ideal of Elia.
Stella opened her eyes wide and ran towards Elia at once.
“Elia!?”
She hurriedly removed her Elia from her door, but her Elia’s strange behavior did not stop there.
Her Elia’s head was full of her worries about the injustice her child would harbor for herself.
She wasn’t acting like this, she had to put up with it somehow when Daddy was home, but he knew that this was a bad act, but he didn’t want Daddy to find out… !
Elia, freed from Stella’s arms and lying on the floor with her head curled up, cried and begged for her hand in an empty place.
“Sorry! I’m sorry! I’ll make sure this doesn’t happen next time, so please come back… ! Please don’t abandon us, me, Elia… !”
Seeing her mind completely collapsed, not only Stella, but also the other two children flocked to her side, bewildered by the sight of Elia for the first time.
Olivia shook her Elia’s shoulder wildly and raised her voice.
“Elia, calm down!”
Even the voices of those precious sisters did not reach Elia now.
“Because she will listen better in the future, because she will be a better daughter, because she will listen to whatever her father says… Please….”
Elia’s voice, which seemed to be torn apart, gradually lost its power and began to fade towards the end.
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For her, the boundary between reality and delusion has already collapsed, and the delusion dotted with anxiety that her child has abandoned her has become a cruel reality for her, and Elia’s magic, which has lost the meaning of her life, is out of control. It started to run wild.
Unrefined magical power began to flow in her broken heart, and her overwhelming magical power writhed into Elia’s insides and reached the current situation.
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What Stella said made me feel indescribably guilty.
Yeah, it wasn’t me who was embarrassed. Neglecting the children, who would have been more surprised than me, brought about the worst results.
Due to my hasty choice, Elia….
Stella spoke, clutching Elia’s limp hand.
“I’ve finally calmed down, but I haven’t opened my eyes yet… what can I do? Elia, it’s not that you can’t open your eyes… ?”
Stella burst into tears and shrugged her shoulders as she buried her face in Elia’s chest.
I gave strength to my voice and comforted Stella.
“It’s okay! Ellia isn’t that weak, doesn’t Stella know well?”
Then, Elia coughed a few times and she opened her eyes slightly and looked at my face.
“Ugh… Dad… ?”
I caressed her fiery hot Elia’s forehead and spoke hastily to Noah, who was next to her.
“Noah, can you get me some water?”
In the blink of an eye, Noah put a glass full of water in my hand, and I opened Elia’s small lips slightly and poured the water into it.
Elia seemed to have finally come to her senses after drinking the water with difficulty, but her body didn’t feel any energy.
I shed tears before I knew it, and hugged her small body.
I can feel the slight trembling of the skin.
I barely held back my tears and asked Elia in the most calm voice.
If, in the midst of Elia’s hardships, I weep unsightly, she won’t be able to rest in peace.
“Elia, are you awake?”
Elia looked at me and muttered an incomprehensible sound in a tone of disbelief, as if she hadn’t fully awakened yet.
“Dad… ? This is a dream… ? Dad, me… I would have thrown it away… ?”
Elia carefully touched my face with her trembling hand.
I could only feel the cold touch of her slender fingers. I squeezed her Elia into the hand that was holding her.
“Oh, my real dad…. Isn’t it a dream?”
“Yes, it is not a dream. Dad is here.”
Hugging her Elia tightly, whispering her sweet words, I patted her little back to reassure her.
Elia buried her face in her chest and started crying, sobbing on her shoulder without saying anything.
Elia squeezed the hem of my dress, and she begged me for forgiveness, just like Stella had said earlier.
“Dad, I’m sorry. I won’t do anything weird like that again, so please don’t hate me….”
There was no way I hated the children I raised with my own hands. Elia’s worry was something that would never happen in real life, and was something she didn’t even have to think about.
Besides, I was entirely at fault. My fault for ignoring Elia’s attempts to talk her out of me and stepping out.
Elia didn’t have to apologize to me for the anger brought on by my choice.
I said swearing to her as I stroked her back to reassure her.
“It’s okay, there’s no way you can hate Elia for something like that, right?”
“Really? Really?”
Elia’s hand holding my clothes is getting stronger.
Her lake-like eyes, staring straight at me with her completely open eyes, were full of light.
When I came home and she was down, I thought something had really happened, but seeing her fine again made me feel relieved.
I slightly separated Elia from her arms and said in a completely different voice.
“Elia, listen carefully.”
In the changed atmosphere, Elia also swallowed her saliva and maintained her silence.
I want to comfort her, but only comforting her with her sweet words wasn’t the right discipline in my standards.
I grabbed Elia’s shoulders and slowly opened her mouth.
I tried to speak sternly, but I was relieved and the cry I was holding inside burst out.
With a voice that was half-crying, I raised my voice as I built up the veins on my neck.
“Ellia, no matter what happens, the sky will fall, and even if everyone in the world turns against me, I will never abandon you guys, so don’t ever think about such useless things again!”
At my screams, Elia trembled and looked as if she would burst into tears at any moment.
“I’m sorry… ! I will never think of such a strange thing again.”
With those words, Ellia burst into my arms again and burst into tears.
I passed the time patting her back or the back of her head until Elia calmed down after she started crying like a child.
Maybe 10 minutes passed? Elia, barely calmed down, slipped out of her arms and wiped away her tears with her fingers.
I held out her little finger and spoke briefly to Elia.
“Elia, make a promise to your dad here. If something like this happens in the future, don’t worry about it alone, just tell your unnies or dad first. Got it?”
Elia nodded her head and smiled bashfully as she placed her hand on my finger.
I felt an unbreakable force in her tiny, slender fingers.