Chapter 82 – Barefoot Stronghold (5)
“Dad!! Dad!!”
-Bang!
Hian, who was looking at the documents with glasses on
He is surprised to see Rose breaking through the door.
Rose couldn’t contain the intense rage she felt for the first time.
Have lived a good life
So far the word has been good.
Since she has no mother, she has lived as a good daughter, fearing that her father will be sad or have a hard time.
However, Hian rather suppresses himself.
They judge what is really good for them without even asking.
I finally became an adult and loved someone,
Like-minded person,
Thought she’d found someone with the right taste
Even that he tries to control.
I felt betrayed.
He sacrifices a lot for his father,
He has no part to give up for her.
No liberty is allowed unless it meets his standards his.
“Why is that, Rose? Why are you so excited-“
“-Dad, what did you say to Stachis?”
Hian, who was surprised by Rose’s appearance of her,
Following her words her, she calmed down her expression her.
She knew the reason for her anger her.
If it’s a bit surprising
That she was so angry.
I didn’t know that her heart was already this deep.
We only had one meeting and one dinner.
His own daughter seemed to have given him a lot of heart.
“How did you know?”
“What do you mean now!? It doesn’t matter at all!”
Rose approaches Heian’s desk and argues.
“…Rose, did you already give that much of your heart?”
Rose brought many encounters that Hian was unaware of.
She reveals her sexual orientation of her to him,
She accepted him too.
I couldn’t have a heart.
“Yes, they gave me a lot. Now answer my question, what did you say to Stachis.”
He confronted Hian with a strong tone and intonation that he had never seen before.
“I asked him to stay away from you.”
He answered calmly.
“Dad!!”
-Bang!
Rose hits Heian’s desk with the palm of her hand.
Suddenly, various items on the desk were shaken.
Rose was stunned and speechless.
She didn’t know what to say first.
I have a lot of thoughts.
Why did Hian see him and ask him to stay away from Rose?
Maybe he just wants to see himself alone?
Is Hian trying to torture himself?
Doesn’t he love his daughter his?
Let’s think so
Tears flowed before words.
“…Rose…”
Hian raised her hand and tried to wipe away her tears.
But before that, Rose’s hand cut off Heian’s arm hers.
Although she was a Rose who felt guilty even after being cut off,
She didn’t even have the heart to apologize right away.
That’s why she felt so much anger and betrayal towards him.
“… Dad hates me?”
She asks, shedding her tears.
“Why would I hate you, Rose? You know very well that I only have you.”
“Then why do you keep making me a loner?”
Hian did not show off,
Her chest her felt like it was being crushed.
She gets to know her feeling of being nailed down.
Rose’s words don’t hurt,
If Rose is sick, she is sick herself.
But she couldn’t back down.
Starches are gatherers.
As much as she is a Hian who makes a lot of requests
It is very easy to hear that the gatherer is dead.
The gatherer I thought was the best the day before,
A gatherer who seemed immortal would be buried under a tombstone the next day,
Disappear in the dungeon
Stachis could be like that too.
It’s not even a low probability.
It’s because you have to pay for one mistake with your life.
If so.
What about Rose, who will be left alone?
She feels the pain she has been through.
The pain you will feel now is nothing compared to that moment.
It may be a future that will never come
She didn’t want to take that gamble.
It’s better not to start from the beginning.
“I have lived as a good daughter. You didn’t do anything her dad told you not to do. I, I studied a lot because my father was afraid. He’s done a lot of things that will help the family!”
“I know, Rose.”
“You know, you do this to me!!!!”
Rose shouted at the top of her voice her.
As her cry passes, her mansion she falls silent for a moment.
Neither Hian nor Gyun nor any of the maids or servants made any noise.
It was the first time anyone had ever seen such an angry Rose.
“Why do you keep…!”
After swallowing her sobs, she said.
“Why do you keep making me alone? I don’t have a single real friend… You know? Are you even thinking of me as a tool? Are you afraid that having friends won’t help the family?”
Hian gritted his teeth.
You have to play her austere father her.
“It’s not like that, Rose. I never meant to make you alone.”
“Even if you didn’t think about it, the result is like that. Because of the restrictions my father placed on me, I am alone.”
She puts her hand on her chest.
“This place… It’s so stuffy… “
She knocked on her heart her.
“…I had no one to confide my feelings to. There was no one to listen to the funny story.. In the book, it is said that such a friendship is natural.
Then, clenching her fists and crumpling her clothes, she says.
“Now I have a friend with whom I can confide everything for the first time. Even the first person you like. But now again… Are you doing this to me? How long do I have to last?”
“…”
“Is it okay if I meet the person my dad decided and live the life I decided?”
“No, Ro-“
“What is it? Every time I don’t like it, I put a limit like this again. Everything has to go your way, but you’re satisfied. If my dad doesn’t like it, even if I like it, he won’t allow it. Can’t I just do what I want just once? Do I have to give up every time?”
Hian finally let out a big sigh.
There was a lot of worry mixed with lamentation.
As he sighs, his shoulders his droop,
The stern expression disappeared from his face.
Only one weak man remains.
“… Yes, Rose. I know your heart. Why am I making this choice, you must be dissatisfied. I didn’t want to say that.”
He opens a drawer attached to his desk and pulls out a photo.
It was a faded, already tattered picture.
“… There are so many pains in the world that you don’t know about.”
Rose knows who the picture is.
It happened when she secretly got out of bed and went to see Hi An when she was little.
Father’s room where the light shines through, inside
Hian was drinking and staring at that picture.
Rose could not hold back her curiosity, and the next day, she looked at the picture without Hian’s knowledge.
A young, happy-looking woman with the same hair color as her own.
It was a picture of her mother.
It was the first time I saw my mother.
There were no pictures of my mother hanging anywhere in the house.
I didn’t know Rose as a child,
So that her own daughter does not feel her mother’s gap
She had moved all the pictures of her hanging in the house.
Hian was taking out the picture now and stroking it.
“I’m not trying to stop your happiness. It is to prevent your unhappiness.”
“My biggest misfortune is that my father is doing this right now.”
“…It hurts my heart to think that way.”
“…”
“You know why I’m taking this picture out? What it means.”
“…Why are you afraid of a future that hasn’t even come?”
“It’s the future to be afraid of.”
Hian said, still looking at her picture of her.
Her out of this world, she was still missing her.
“The pain is great. If you, who are angry with me just for not being able to connect now, give me love and give me your heart, and then the Starches are ripped off, will you be able to endure the pain?”
“If it’s love and heart, I’m already giving it. She got ripped off because of her dad her.”
“… Yeah, keep changing her words. After ‘receiving’ love and heart. If he doesn’t come back one day after receiving love and heart from him. Do you think you can hold on?”
“…”
“That pain is incomparable to the pain now. Why are you afraid of a future that will never come? But did you forget? Why did you have this meeting with Stachis?”
Rose bit her lip.
I know there is some truth in what he says, but
That doesn’t mean I don’t want to follow it.
“Starchis almost died. He came to us to save his life..! Do you think I will send you to a young man living a precarious life like that..? The pain I felt…! I mean, you should feel it too! It is not a future that will never come! Even if you close your eyes and deny it, that fact won’t change!”
Hian also urged Rose, raising her voice her.
She couldn’t stand to see her daughter her walking in pain.
“…Then.”
Asked Rose, swallowing her tears.
“Dad, if he had known her mother her was going to die, she would n’t have met her in the first place? Does she regret meeting her mother her?”
“…”
Hian couldn’t answer.
Of course, no.
Even if I turn back her time, she will meet her.
It was the best moment of her life.
I was able to meet her and give birth to her rose her too.
She told me a lot of happiness.
It pained her unbearably that she was not of her world, but she never regretted that she loved her.
“… Isn’t it?”
“…”
“Don’t you see what Daddy is still doing to me?”
Hian quietly turned her head.
No matter what she said, he seemed unwilling to change her mind her.
“…Ha.. Okay. I will live on my own. From now on, I won’t listen to my father, so you know that.”
Rose calls Hian her father her, causing some distance.
“…As-“
Then, without saying goodbye, she turned around and left his room.
Before the maids could quietly close Hian’s door
Rose grabbed the door and slammed it shut.
-Bang!!
In a daze, Hian’s hand his floats in the air,
He slowly turned towards the woman in the picture.
He was still a poor father.
In this situation, he could not choose what to do right.
He wanted to see a woman.
If she were by my side, she would have made a much wiser choice than I did.
Could have gotten off
He murmured, reddening his nose in frustration.
“…I miss you, Heinel..”
I call Rose’s mother who left.
Oh damn that was actually sad