Chapter 212 – Ordinary Family (6)
26. Ordinary Family (6)
‘… That’s why you have to listen to everything, and if possible, listen to both sides.’
It was no longer impossible to get Eugene, who was equipped with the forbidden twin swords of snacks and entertainment, to open Vinia’s mouth. When she brought me sweet snacks and bread that I usually wanted to eat but couldn’t eat much of, she couldn’t help but eat it deliciously, even Binia, who was hesitant. I feel a little better after having something sweet, and when I feel a little better, I have time to spend time with my dad, and enjoy fun entertainment with my dad while eating delicious food.
When she asked if she could eat one more, she told Vinia that if she ate more, she would become a pig, not a fox, and get eaten by her evil witch.
Eugene, who had been patting Vinia’s belly for a while, confirmed that her daughter had completely left for her dreamland, and carefully closed the door so as not to make her sound.
“Eugene.”
“How have you been?”
“How is it! Huh?”
The wives were gathered in the living room as if they had already finished talking. Illumina, the only one who did not speak to her daughter, sat down and stood up, trembled her legs, bit her fingernails and buzzed her tail, and she was very distraught. Judging by the expressions on her wives’ faces, she seemed to be holding back her words.
“Shh. Why is everyone with me Let’s go inside and talk.”
“Ah, yes. Yes. That’s right.”
She patted the anxious Illumina and went into her master bedroom. As soon as she sat down, she was urged by Illumina.
“How is everyone? Huh? What did they say? Uh?”
“Hmm…”
Eugene met eyes with Kaya, Shay, and Cestia once. All of her expressions were ambiguous, as if she had heard an unexpected story from her daughter and did not know how to tell it or how to accept it.
Maybe they thought so after seeing Eugene’s expression.
“That… Calm down for now Even if you don’t bother me, I’ll tell you everything.”
“I can’t calm down.”
“Cestia.”
“Yes, Eugene.”
Cestia stretched out her hand and pointed at her Illumina, her pale green light enveloping her. Then Illumina regained her stability, albeit slightly.
“Thank you, Sestia. Illumina before speaking. I’ll tell you in advance, please don’t interrupt, don’t get excited, don’t get angry until we’re done talking.”
“Is that enough to say that? How…”
Did she get a bad feeling from Eugene’s words? Illumina gritted her teeth. Seeing her like that, Eugene’s heart wasn’t good either.
“First of all… That this incident is not the one-sided bullying we expected. For now, I think so, but what about the other?”
“I agree.”
“I agree.”
“… I also agree.”
When Kaya, Shay, and Cestia all agreed with Eugene’s words, Illumina widened her eyes and moved her hips, but sat back down as if she remembered what he had just said.
“I guess they all look alike. Still, even if it’s the same case, each person’s point of view can be different… Shall we start by listening to Cordia, the eldest daughter?”
“All right. Then I’ll start with you. Cordia is…”
Cestia began to tell Cordia’s story in a calm tone. A physical conflict resulting from Vinia’s double attitude and a minor conflict between the sisters that resulted from it. Because of Binia’s overreaction after the conflict, the sisters became more awkward and even scared.
Children who don’t want to disobey their parents’ words to get along and are afraid of disappointing them, so they’re awkward with each other but don’t tell their parents.
After Cestia finished speaking, Kaya and Shay nodded their heads with sorrowful expressions on their faces. And Illumina…
“Nonsense…”
“Illumina.”
“My daughter can’t be like that, I’m not trying to say that she is…” Of course, she wants to believe that, but not one, and everyone except me says the same thing, but that must be true… But I can’t believe I didn’t notice until now. It’s not just me. You, unnies, and Shay are like that too. Right?”
“It is, it is.”
“It’s shocking that something like this happened between the daughters, but it’s shocking that they hid it, and it’s shocking that they didn’t notice it, and it’s shocking that they’ve been hurt. Can you believe it My kids are only 3 years old?”
Eugene sighed. She was right every word of it. But, she said, just because it was hard to believe didn’t make it untrue.
“Illumina.”
“I thought it was natural for the kids to like their dad and it was nice to see them. However… Did my daughter say that was too much?”
“…”
“Besides, my daughter is not just a victim… If we mediate between the children, even belatedly, will this fundamentally be resolved?”
“That’s why we came together. We broke the dungeon, too, but there’s nothing we can’t solve.”
“Should I tell the kid not to like his father too much? Should I tell her to smile at her sister, smile at her mother, don’t cling too much to her dad, and be a little less angry when I touch her ears or tail? Should she not be stuck in her room and tell her sisters to go first?”
“Some of them may really have to be said. Let’s also listen to Shayna Kaya’s story.”
The story of Shay’s daughter, the second daughter, Ludikia, and Kaya’s daughter, the third daughter, Pieta, were all the same. However, there was a slight difference in the words of Ludicia, who directly fought Vinia.
“As you all know, Ludicia loves Cordia as much as her mother and father.”
“Yes. All of them, though.”
“She argues with Cordia about her reckless behavior, and in the middle of a fight with Vinia, an angry Ludicia said, ‘You’re doing this to Dad.’ Vinia’s reaction then… It must have been very scary.”
“Isn’t that what Cestia said too?”
“Cordia didn’t say that she was a belated witness? Ludicia didn’t tell Cordia everything either.”
“Okay?”
“She still thinks that she is younger than Vinia, but that she was scared of her by Vinia hurt her pride…”
Although the birthdays of her sisters, except for Cordia, are less than 24 hours apart, her older sister is her older sister. There are also twins whose older sister and younger brother are separated by a few minutes, but Lucidia’s words were not incomprehensible.
“I think she also said that she was scared?”
“It’s not just scary, Vinia’s eyes… As Eugene put it, empty eyes? Dead eyes? They say she had those eyes.”
“…”
“After fighting with each other until the very moment, they suddenly made such a serious face… Ludikia wanted to cry because she was afraid of seeing her sister’s expression for the first time, but she barely held it back. Cordia and Pieta comforted me.”
Dead eyes of a 3-year-old, a child who grew up in a family that is confident that he is happy?
It is possible that Ludikia, who witnessed it, perceived it as more frightening than it actually was, or that she exaggerated it in the process of conveying it to Shay. After all, I heard what Shay said from Ludikia.
Still, even considering that, the shock didn’t go away.
“Where did it go wrong? Have we been educating ourselves wrong? Or did I do something wrong when I was prenatal? Or is the mixed blood of a human and a beast itself the problem? Otherwise…”
“Illumina.”
“Three goddesses have come to our bodies! Besides me, two of them are awesome nuns, and the other one is no less a temple accident! I was born with all the blessings of blessings and raised with all kinds of love, even though there have been no unfortunate accidents or vicious incidents in the past few years! Unless your inborn nature is evil or possessed by something, isn’t that hard to do?! Huh?”
“Calm down.”
“I can’t. Go to Vinia…”
“Illumina! Calm down!”
Eugene barely caught Illumina, who was about to run out of her living room. Kaya and other priestly wives hurriedly appeased Illumina.
“We also didn’t notice, so it’s probably not because of something.”
“Of course, that doesn’t mean Vinia has an evil nature!”
“I will pray to the goddess. The Goddess will know what we don’t know.”
Sisters fight This would be a common and ordinary thing that can be seen in any family.
However, they were the ones who were very careful about how to solve even such an ordinary task. Maybe others can say that it is a fuss about something that is not a big deal, or that it is too serious.
‘… If I had grown up in a normal family, that is.’
When Eugene was young, she didn’t have a father like Eugene now. He didn’t exist at all. The one and only mother was dog trash who didn’t even deserve to be called her mother. He lived in a gutter to the extent that it was his lifelong dream to be enjoyed by others normally, so he did not know what a normal family was like. So, after she struggled to build a family, she didn’t want to make her children feel any unhappiness…
‘Know. I know that’s an absurd greed.’
Still, if you set her goal high and try to reach it, wouldn’t the process itself be in a higher place than usual?
This was not a promise of Eugene alone, but a promise she shared with her wives, who each had their own unfortunate past. That’s why she did everything she could to raise her children.
“I don’t know if the time has come to put it down.”
“Huh… ? To put it down, what do you mean?”
“It means we’ve been too heavy so far.”
Parents who cannot tolerate even a little bit of misfortune or bad luck that befalls their children…
Couldn’t it be that I was so engrossed in the goal itself that I deviated from the ‘normal’ that I really wanted?
Maybe this incident serves as an opportunity to correct us who could have fallen into the path of ‘polarity’ if we went wrong?
“Maybe, Vinia just opened her eyes a lot more ferociously than usual. It’s true that she likes her dad, but there could be a reason why her older sisters are awkward. She talked about her with Vinia and found that she didn’t hate her sisters either. She also felt apologetic. Maybe they would have reconciled on their own without our intervening.”
When I put it down a little, my worries also eased.
“It’s good to be perfect, but if it gets this serious every time there’s even the slightest deviation from our standards… We get tired before the kids, and that will affect the kids too. I was really shocked when I heard about it from my daughters, but it might be different when we talk about it together.”
“That…”
“Already my daughters will know we knew it all. Even if we don’t do anything, when we wake up, there will probably be some action between the daughters.”
“What if I don’t come out? What if things get worse?”
“Then what…”
Since we are a family that loves each other, shouldn’t we have a good conversation, clear up misunderstandings, and have a party to celebrate reconciliation? Why, isn’t it more important to fight and reconcile well than not to fight at all? I don’t want our children to be fools who don’t know how to fight, or to be fools who don’t know how to reconcile after a fight…
Isn’t that what a normal family is like? Eugene had another realization.
