44 . Commitment
The thick air chokes me.
Noah’s breath covered her nose and mouth with a fishy bloody color.
Seeing Noah’s ferocious spirit as if he would stab and kill someone – Cassandra, to be exact – the other three cautiously put their hands forward in a cold sweat.
Stella dried Noah without even having time to tidy up his sweaty hair.
“Noah, why don’t you calm down a bit?”
Olivia nodded her head hastily.
“We want to get revenge on her as well.”
Elia, who was trying to agree with Noah’s will, finally came to her senses and raised realistic issues.
“Olivia and Stella are right. How does she know where she is and avenge her in the first place? The bugs on her pooch’s head are also completely gone now, so there’s no other way.”
Noah didn’t say anything even after listening to the opinions of the three, only looking at the other children as if he were spying on them with his red eyes rolling terrifyingly.
Noah’s small gesture made the other three nervous. They knew each other from the moment they were born until now. Normally calm, but hidden behind it is the tongue-in-cheek cruelty unique to Dark Elves.
Ainra was tied to her leash, and the mad dog, which had been quietly acting cute in her enclosure, was on the verge of breaking the leash and going wild.
However, it is still not too late. At the behest of her beloved sisters, Noah, who was placed on the side of a beast with only an intellect and instincts capable of rational judgment, decided to go one step further this time.
Noah let out a deep sigh, put the dagger in the ground back to his waist, and spoke softly.
“Yes… Let’s sleep for now.”
After those words, the children relaxed and went to bed quickly, holding today’s wounds in their hearts.
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Waking up earlier than usual, the first thing Olivia saw when she unconsciously entered the living room was a strangely huge backpack.
Olivia tilted her head at the presence of Jim, which was big enough for an adult male to fit in, and which she couldn’t see yesterday, and moved closer to him.
Without thinking, she casually opened the backpack, which was filled with items necessary for the trip, including various clothes and groceries that could be stored for a long time.
Besides, isn’t this sheep the burden of someone who is about to leave home?
“What is this….”
As Olivia checked the contents of her luggage, and was as stiff as her mantle, she heard the door slam open.
Subsequently, Ain came out of the bathroom and came out into the living room wiping her hands. As soon as he saw her Olivia, she stood still as if she had seen the invisible.
Ain, who had been staring at her eyes, barely opened her trembling lips.
“Olivia? Why are you at this time….”
Why at this time?
It’s ominous.
Her thoughts stopped when the anxiety she had been ignoring came to reality.
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Feeling an ominous feeling she had never felt before, Olivia asked her sister in a trembling voice.
“Dad, where are you going?”
Ain avoided Olivia’s gaze, laid her eyes down on her floor, and answered in a crawling voice.
“It’s because I have a place to go to for a while.”
It was too poor an excuse.
She was convinced by that statement.
Usually, whenever Ain went anywhere, she always took her children with her.
So he prepared to sneak away at dawn without telling the children?
Olivia spat out her words to Ain, which she had forgotten, and which she never wanted to put into her mouth.
“Are you abandoning us and going somewhere else?”
Ain was greatly taken aback by Olivia’s honest question, and shook her hand.
“It can’t be!”
His bewildered appearance only made him feel even more suspicious. Olivia stepped closer to Ain and raised her voice again.
“Then why!? What is all this luggage!?”
“This, this….”
Olivia came right in front of her, and Ain, unable to overcome her momentum, stepped backwards and fell to her floor.
She has her blood flowing from her calf, which has not yet healed. As Olivia saw the blood flowing from Ain’s leg, she hesitated for a moment.
Couldn’t overcome the sound of the two of them getting higher and higher, did they even wake up? The children who had been sleeping in the room each came out to the living room rubbing their eyes.
Elia yawned profusely, as she half-closed her eyes.
“What happened since dawn?”
She didn’t reply back to that. Ain avoided their eyes and kept her lips closed.
Olivia, not even paying attention to the rest of her children, clenched her fists and screamed at her again as her son pointed her finger at her cheap luggage.
“Huh? Dad! Please explain what this is!”
The children who heard Olivia’s sound, which resembled her scream, woke up in an instant and looked at Ain’s luggage, which Olivia pointed at. After seeing the conversation between Ain and Olivia and the huge luggage lying in the living room, they seemed to understand the situation only then.
Among the three who came out later, Elia was the first to react.
She cupped her hands on her chest and opened her mouth as she moved her trembling steps.
“Dad? Isn’t it? What did Olivia get wrong?”
Stella and Noah, who always showed a calm appearance, also looked greatly embarrassed. Stella looked straight into Ain’s eyes with silver eyes shining through her disheveled hair and asked.
“Is it because we hurt you yesterday? Dad, please. Don’t leave us We promised never to do that again. Yes?”
Noah, slumped in her place, unable to speak properly, was only wiping away her tears that were starting to flow.
In an instant, the whole house became a mess. Ain spoke in a soft voice to calm the children.
“It’s because I have somewhere to go alone for a while. Can you get along with your sister while Daddy is away?”
Olivia burst into tears as she refused.
“No! I hate it! Why aren’t you coming with us!?”
Elia, too, intertwined her arms around Ahin’s forearm and gave her strength as if to restrain her, showing her tearful appeal.
“Tell us why you want to leave!”
Nothing progresses as it is.
After hearing that there are no parents who win over their children, Ain, who was tired of her children’s appeals, sighed deeply and sat down on her sofa.
After confirming that Ain’s momentum had weakened, the children sat around him to prevent him from running away.
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Four ears waiting for Ain’s next words, Ain started talking in a voice completely drained of her strength.
“I knew for sure yesterday. While claiming to be your parent, I didn’t know anything about you.”
The children looked at Ain with expressions that did not understand. Before their mouths could open, Ain continued her story.
“Why were you guys there that day, who are your real parents, and why were you abandoned… I think the time has come to face the truth that I have been avoiding in order to raise you on my own.”
The children couldn’t open their mouths at Ain’s words.
“Besides that power you showed me yesterday, are you still hiding something from me?”
Children who keep their mouths shut and only look at each other.
Ain smiled hard as he gently stroked the heads of the children who couldn’t reveal the truth.
“It’s okay. Children can have a secret or two from their parents. However, secrets always come out. I want to be a little more proud father to you guys. No, I want to be a real dad. In order to do that, I think I need to go to the Great Forest and hear the truth.”
All elves are born in the Great Forest, so if you go to the Great Forest, you may find out the truth about your children.
It came from a simple flow, but it was a clear answer that penetrated everything.
After hearing Ain’s words, the children thought for a while.
The four children made the same expression and nodded at the same time, as if they had finished organizing their thoughts shortly after.
Stella spoke first in a calm tone.
“Then let’s go together.”
“What?”
Embarrassed Ain didn’t even give her a chance to speak, Olivia laughed and rubbed her face against her Ain’s chest. It was completely different from the way he had been screaming like crazy before.
“Isn’t Daddy dangerous alone?”
“We… I’ll go to the Great Forest and promise I won’t care what Dad does… Yes?”
Elia sat down on her seat as if she was collapsing, grabbed her child by the ankle, and shed tears.
Her cries once burst out were contagious and stimulated the tear glands of the children around her.
Noah shed her tears without saying anything, Olivia naturally wiped her tears and snot-stained face on her clothes, and Stella hugged me from behind.
Ellia crouches on the floor and cries.
After seeing them, Ain realized the mistake she had made.
She herself fell into a swamp of delusion that Ain had a strong spirit, driven by the momentary power they showed her.
An age who doesn’t know that with great power comes great responsibility.
4 Years old.
She is still 4 years old. Even though their growth was fast, they were still at an age where they needed parental care.
A child at an age when parents’ affection is more important than anything else, and parents are everything in the world.
Are you going to leave them at home and go to find the truth alone?
Is that just for self-satisfaction?
Where the hell are these irresponsible parents?
He was trying to erase the world in front of the girls on the subject of promising to show only the bright world to them.
Ain made a belated decision.
Even if it’s a long trip for a while, the fact that children must exist by the side of the trip.
She may actually be herself and she may have been hoping for him.
Although it is not a blood relationship, it is a relationship made by heavenly principles.
Parents and children are inseparable from each other, even if they are only in name.
Before she knew it, Ain was holding her children in her arms and shedding tears of repentance.