Chapter 211 – Ordinary Family (5)
26. Ordinary family (5)
“…”
Vinia’s pupils wavered, but her mouth did not open. Rather, she put more force into her mouth. In the meantime, she asked again calmly and carefully so that her soft cheeks were cute enough to make you want to touch them, but with her patience, she calmly again, so as not to feel rushed.
“You don’t want to answer?”
“…”
“Or is it difficult to answer?”
“…”
Vinia was silent. She didn’t shake her head or nod. If she had rather violently refused or reacted with avoidance, she would have tried to appease her, but since she stayed still and was silent, she was frustrated and was going crazy. She seems to have a reason, judging by the reaction itself, but she can’t force herself to argue with her 3-year-old daughter.
After squeezing and squeezing her head, she opted to hit her directly, but her first attempt failed.
“Does Vinia like your dad?”
“… Huh.”
“Mom is?”
Nod-
The frontal breakthrough failed, so she had to take a little detour. It was never going to happen, not even once in a billion, but she didn’t keep her mouth shut because Vinia hated her dad.
“My dad and mom like Vinia too.”
“… Ugh.”
“I love it so much, I want Vinia to always be in a good mood.”
“…”
“I think Vinia is sad, so are her dad and mom.”
Dori Dori-
Vinia buried her face in Eugene’s arms again and shook her head. Does she mean she isn’t sad, or does she mean that Eugene and Illumina don’t look very sad. If she’s not him, does that mean she shouldn’t be sad because of her? Considering Vinia’s temperament, her third answer should be close to her correct answer. Just looking at her, it wasn’t that she wasn’t sad.
“I won’t know unless you tell me, my daughter.”
She knew most of it without saying it, but she didn’t know everything. Besides, not everything was solved.
“Dad wants to laugh and play with Vinia, but Vinia is crying.”
“I didn’t cry…”
“Mom is worried too.”
“Ugh…”
“Her sisters are worried too.”
“…”
Eugene threw out various words and looked at Vinia’s reaction. She could have dismissed it as a coincidence once, but when she looked back, she was sure. Vinia was obviously keeping her mouth shut at the word ‘sister’.
‘What should I do?’
She said there is no effect without a cause. Even if she was only 3 years old, that was the case. The cause for her to keep her mouth shut on her keyword, her older sister.
Just as delicately brushing out a delicately buried fossil with a very soft brush, it will take corresponding effort to safely pull out the thorn embedded in the delicate daughter’s heart.
“Vinia, my daughter.”
“Ugh?”
“Would you like to play something fun with Daddy?”
“Fun, play… ?”
“Okay. A fun game.”
If the castle walls were too high and too strong to approach, the only option was to bring the lord outside.
After a long argument with her wives, Eugene decided to temporarily lift her restrictions on ‘kids snacks’ and ‘addictive earth-style entertainment’.
**
The time when Eugene calmed and comforted Vinia.
In the other room, a completely different atmosphere flowed from the room where Eugene was.
“Cordia.”
“Yes, Mom.”
“You know that my mother is a nun who follows the word of the goddess, right?”
“… Yes, Mom.”
Cestia was sitting across from Cordia on the bed. Cordia was a year older than her other daughters, so her growth was incomparable to the rest of her daughters. The one year difference between her 3 and 4 year olds was a world apart. Cordia was her eldest daughter and literally the ‘eldest sister’ of her daughters. Unlike the other girls, all three of whom were born almost simultaneously, she monopolized her parents’ attention for a year. She was Cordia. She couldn’t remember, of course, but while she was asleep, she was constantly blessed by the goddesses and the highest nuns. Right now, the goddesses are sleeping much more than they are awake, so her children didn’t have a chance to see the goddess… In any case, it meant that Cordia could understand and speak better than her other daughters.
Cordia, who resembles her mother a lot, already knew how to lead her younger siblings, and she was a big-hearted big sister who knew how to concede food and toys… In front of her mother with her serious expression, her mother was just a scary baby.
“Of course lying normally is a bad thing, but I don’t want to do it even more now…”
Sestia’s words, always calm and calm, neither angry nor annoyed, in another sense put pressure on her. She was a sincere word from a top nun who had directly repented countless people and received numerous confessions.
Cordia was frightened by this almost first sight of her mother, but did not lose her concentration. She had a hunch that her mother’s expression could become more serious if she didn’t hear and didn’t understand her or if she was mumbling.
“Yes, Mom.”
Cestia smiled slightly at Cordia’s answer and nodded her head. Her smile quickly faded.
“Do you get along well with your younger siblings?”
“Yes!”
“As the older sister, how are the younger siblings?”
She wonders if she did something big wrong, and when her mother gets angry, she must be very scared… Cordia, who was thinking the same thing, was unexpectedly bewildered by her mundane questions, but she babbled her answers. What about her second, what about the third…
Cestia only nodded her head, and she just listened to her Cordia without any restraint or restraint. Then, when she finished the third story, and the story of her fourth, Vinia, began.
“Vinia…”
“What about Vinia?”
Cordia muttered her words for the first time, and Sestia was the first to ask back. Cordia only then realized the meaning of this position and why her mother was so terrified of her.
When she found out why, her fear doubled. Her concentration and her composure were disrupted by Cordia, which is extremely high by the standards of her 4-year-old.
“Sorry.”
And when the child was in serious danger of being scolded by her parents, she held out the best shield that her child could think of, an ‘unconditional good apology’, in order to be scolded as little as possible. No matter how smart and thoughtful she was, her actions were almost conditioned reflexes.
But that was a hasty move.
“What are you sorry about?”
“Yes… ?”
“Mom just asked how Vinia was?”
“Ah.”
Cordia had a frustrated expression. But she couldn’t contain what she had already said.
“Cordia?”
“… Yes, Mom.”
“Keep your head down and look at Mom.”
Cordia’s eyes were red as she raised her head. Her hands were tightly clasped together, and her knees, which were already neatly gathered together, were tightly entwined. Cestia’s eyes narrowed as she looked at her daughter.
“Did you tell your mother that you wouldn’t lie?”
“… Yes.”
“Tell me what happened with Vinia. Slow down, don’t skip.”
“…”
“…”
“That… Mom… ?”
Seeing Cordia’s demeanor in her, Sestia’s expression and her tone became more stern. Cestia had never been angry with Cordia before, and she wasn’t particularly scolding for Cordia either… Cestia wouldn’t hurt even if she put it in her eyes, and she didn’t want to look at her daughter.
In particular, isn’t she the last stone to roll? No matter how many years I’ve been a part of her family, she hasn’t changed that fact no matter how much my daughter is the eldest. If she helped Cordia damage the peace of her home…
‘Unlike until now, when she was free, she should be more active in her education than when she was educating Bestia.’
What wrongs did Cordia do to her Vinia, to her or to her other siblings, without her parents’ knowledge… She didn’t want to deny any possibility and didn’t want to question her daughter like this, but she was determined.
“Vinia…”
Cordia, who was hesitant, couldn’t stand her suffocation, and she began to open her mouth again.
“When we are all together, when we are together, when we are alone… Everything is different.”
“What… ? What do you mean?”
“When he was with us, Vinia… I’m not laughing. She only smiles when she’s with her dad. She doesn’t laugh when we’re all together, but when she’s with Dad she laughs.”
While Sestia paused for a moment at her unexpected reply, Cordia, who had started the engine once, continued her words.
“I wanted to play with her once, so I took her hand, but Vinia pushed me. Still, she said she couldn’t be alone, so she asked to go together again, but she didn’t know it and her hand gently touched her tail… Vinia was scared.”
“Were you scared?”
“Yes… She said she was sorry, but she was just, scared of her eyes, scared of making a sound, baring her teeth, not even talking to her…”
For the beast race, the ears and tail, especially the tail, were very sensitive parts of the body both physically and mentally. It was not unusual to react violently. But she knows that Vinia is just 3 years old, and that she reacts that way to her older sisters, whom she has been with since she was born… It was definitely overkill. She wasn’t even on bad terms.
Cestia was particularly shocked that none of her parents knew what Cordia was talking about.
“I still wanted to play with her, but her younger siblings were more afraid…”
“So?”
“After that, it became more difficult to tell Vinia…”
“Did she ever think of telling Mom or Dad?”
“Vinia Arle, I fear she will speak like a bad child… She said to get along…”
Could it be that the cause of this incident was her youngest sister, Vinia, and not Cordia and her three sisters?
‘Not yet.’
Even at this moment, the daughter who listened to her parents’ words and put them into practice was admirable and proud, but she had one problem.
“By the way, from what I’ve said so far, Cordia doesn’t have anything to be sorry about…”
“That…”
Cordia held her mouth shut. Cestia patted her daughter on the shoulder. Then a drop of her tear fell from the corner of her reddened Cordia eye.
“Not too long ago, I had a fight with Ludikia and Vinia…”
“!!”
“I found out late, so I couldn’t stop it… Sorry…”
Was there a physical fight?
“Why did you two fight?”
“This is what Ludicia said, but… Ludikia must have been arguing about what happened with me and Vinia… Vinia ignored it, and Ludicia got angry and continued to argue… I fought… Then I touched her ears and her tail again… Vinia gets angry and pushes and hits Ludikia…”
“Why, why didn’t you tell me this? No way.”
“Sorry… I told you not to tell… I’m afraid mom and dad won’t like it…”
Cestia touched her forehead. How did this happen… She could not have imagined that her own education would become a shackle to her child.
‘If any of the children would have known this situation as soon as possible… Things wouldn’t have gone this far.’
She didn’t know that since she had already passed, but Cestia’s heart was very confused.
‘I don’t doubt her daughter, but I have to listen to the other kids.’
Cestia patted Cordia, who was crying, and she thought of Kaya, Shay, and Eugene, who were listening to her daughters.
Her head ached.
