Episode 482 Father and Daughter (2)
Sedina pursed her lips.
It was difficult to come up with an answer as to what to say.
I was touched by Walter’s sincere apology, but I also heard resentment about why he had come to say such a thing now.
She felt unexpected gratitude for the fact that Walter had invested a lot in herself, but she also felt resentment for his behavior of abandoning herself while loving her mother.
Emotions were indeed complex and contradictory.
It wasn’t one-dimensional things like happy and sad.
happy yet sad
Nice but angry.
“…song.”
Sedina passed Walter, dragging Ludger along.
In the end, what Sedina chose was to postpone it rather than tie the knot right away.
Walter didn’t raise his head until Sedina passed him.
Maybe I was just accepting that this was going to happen.
Hans and Alex kept their mouths shut at the suffocating appearance of the father and daughter and calmly followed Ludger.
They had an intuition that they would only suffer losses if they interfered in this.
“Can I leave it like that?”
Only Bellaluna, who was the only one who didn’t have a clue, said that.
“Shh. Please be quiet.”
“Why why?”
“Be quiet!”
Hans tightly restrained Bellaluna’s mouth and forcibly dragged her away.
It was Robert, the captain of the airship, who comforted Walter who was left behind.
“President. Cheer up. It is difficult for a single apology to solve the problem at once.”
“…I guess so. Maybe I should be thankful that I wasn’t angry.”
“hmm. What could it be? Don’t worry. Everything will be fine.”
Robert smiled and consoled Walter.
Still, as a father, he is the only one who can relate to him, so shouldn’t he comfort him?
Of course, I couldn’t say that I didn’t have social skills to look good to my employer.
* * *
Sedina was not in a good mood.
If I had to ask, it would be nice to say that I was displeased.
The reason was natural.
It was because of the attitude of his father, Walter Rosshen.
Even while walking through the corridors of the Law Shen Mansion, Sedina’s feelings were not easily resolved.
So Sedina didn’t say anything until she returned to her room.
‘Why am I here?’
Rudger, naturally drawn to the inside, did not understand why he was here.
There were no Hans and Alex Bellaruna.
The three of them knew that this incident had nothing to do with them and ran away in the middle.
What advice can you give to the long-standing feelings between father and daughter?
It was much more comfortable to fight the elven nobles again.
Of course, the three of them still thought of Owens’ youngest child, Sedina, so they didn’t forget to leave a word for Ludger.
-older brother. Cheer up. Still, since I’m the youngest, I don’t think my older brother should take care of me.
-leader. You know what a leader should do well, right? A woman’s heart is like a glass, so it’s very easy to get hurt.
-Hehehe. If things go well later, could you ask if it’s okay to visit the World Tree again and connect?
“…”
Anyway, they seem to be useless at the most important moment.
Rudger let out a small sigh and stared at Sedina.
Sedina, who was sitting on the sofa, looked complicated in many ways.
Even when he was angry, he tried to calm himself down, and even when he wanted to get annoyed again, he could understand Walter’s behavior.
It was revealed every moment in her expression, and Rudgar was worried that Sedina might be suffering from bipolar disorder.
‘It can’t be helped.’
The reason Sedina brought her here must be because she had no one else to rely on and depend on herself.
At times like this, as a teacher and as a senior in life, I felt I should give him some advice.
“How are you feeling?”
It was a random statement, but Sedina answered right away, as if she had waited for such a question.
“It’s confusing. At first, I thought I would be able to express it well with words. But when we met face to face, I was angry and hated him, so I hated talking about it.”
Rudgar nodded as if he understood.
“I guess so. Because what you think and what you actually face is different.”
“There is that, but it’s not like I’m blindly angry. I feel grateful and understand my father’s behavior in my head. But…my heart just can’t do that.”
a wounded heart.
It was a law that could not be easily undone no matter how much he was seduced and appeased.
Rudger thought.
At times like these, it seemed necessary to give him life advice he had experienced.
“Still, it’s not to the extent of hating you to death, isn’t it?”
“…I had that kind of heart, but it’s true that it has softened a lot now.”
“Then there must be room. Unlike me.”
“ah.”
Sedina opened her mouth after belatedly recalling Rudger’s position.
Come to think of it, wasn’t Rudger running away because his family tried to kill him?
‘what? Didn’t I choose the wrong person to comfort?’
Rather, in terms of misfortune, isn’t Rudger overwhelmingly the top?
Ludger’s behavior was usually so calm that he didn’t realize it.
The one who should be comforted was Ludger.
“Oh no, that’s… I don’t know what to say…”
Sedina, realizing her mistake, panicked.
This is just the feeling of being angry, but isn’t Ludger really a family full of thoughts of killing?
“Nothing to worry about. Isn’t the important thing right now related to you?”
‘How can you not care…’
Sedina lamented inwardly.
On the contrary, the atmosphere was awkward, so I felt like I was sitting on a cushion of thorns.
Then someone got smart and knocked on the door.
The moment I wondered who the hell it was, Rudger put a slight smile on his lips.
“You can’t be a nobleman.”
“yes? What is that…”
Sedina noticed something and was about to open her mouth to say something, but the door opened and Walter came inside.
Sedina, who did not know that Walter would follow her, trembled her lips.
“Sedina. I have something to say.”
Sedina turned her head and avoided Walter’s gaze.
It was an unspoken act of not wanting to meet face to face, but Walter did not back down.
He had a hunch that if it wasn’t now, there would be no chance in the future.
That this moment is the only chance to restore the twisted relationship.
Of course, he couldn’t deny that this was also his own compulsion.
In the end, he was the one who chose the severance, but after breaking it, he shouted for reunion again.
There was a level of shamelessness.
still.
Walter decided to be bold.
From the day he failed to fulfill his role as a father, he was already a human being who could not be saved.
Adding a little brazenness here didn’t change the fact that he was a lowly human being.
once we talk
After that, he didn’t care how Sedina treated him.
Sedina crouched down even more as if she had read that earnest will.
Like a porcupine full of thorns, Sedina tried to force Walter out of her cognition.
One side is pounding endlessly.
On the other hand, the door is locked all the way.
It seemed that the standoff would never end, so Ludger finally decided to step in.
‘I don’t really like things like this.’
It’s not against my temper to intervene in other people’s family affairs.
It is also funny to stick to the role of a bystander watching Sedina while dismissing it as a stranger.
“Looks like your daughter still doesn’t want to talk.”
As Ludgar let go, Walter’s eyes turned to him.
“Why don’t you just cut off your interest and back off as usual.”
Saying that, Ludger looked back at Walter and asked, ‘Isn’t that what you usually do?’
A point that blatantly digs out the mistakes of the past.
Walter replied without changing his expression.
“It can’t be.”
“this. I guess what I said sounded like a lousy suggestion. If so, tell me again. back off And don’t appear in front of Sedina again.”
Sedina, as if she hadn’t expected Ludger to say so much, took Ludger’s image in her round eyes, startled.
“It can’t be.”
“Or you can use this as the reward for the request. Like, get out of here and never approach me again.”
“…I don’t mind if you ask me to hand over the entire company, but this is not acceptable.”
“Is it because of belated guilt?”
Rudger glared at Walter with a sardonic smile.
“You said you would give me anything. In that case, can you give your life here?”
Rudger said that and created magic.
The densely spread magic power clamped down on Walter’s body.
Walter, who had no resistance in this area, let out a sigh.
If Rudger put his mind to it, he could have squeezed Walter and killed him.
In fact, judging from Ludger’s ferocious spirit, he seemed to be full of thoughts of killing Walter at any moment.
“Stop that!”
It was Sedina who dried it.
Sedina didn’t seem to know why she came out, even thinking about it.
Still, I knew this one thing for sure.
Rudgar must be stopped from harming Walter.
“Sedina. It might be the right way to end it here.”
“Oh no. Anyway, this is…”
“Then what are you going to do?”
Sedina hesitated to answer Ludger’s direct question.
Rudger didn’t leave any room because he knew he couldn’t afford it here.
“If you hesitate that much, I’d rather take care of it with my own hands.”
“no.”
In the end, Sedina had to make a choice.
“I will do it myself.”
Ludger looked at Sedina silently, then released the magical power that restrained Walter’s body.
Having regained his bodily freedom, Walter had no time to feel the relief of being alive.
It was because Sedina, who had been avoiding her gaze until now, was looking at him.
The moment of determination has arrived.
Sedina had the same thought.
I couldn’t just run away.
So I’d rather have it all done here.
“Sedina. I…”
“Don’t talk, listen.”
Sedina cut off Walter in a cold voice.
Even after she spit it out, it was surprisingly cold-blooded, to the point where Sedina herself wondered.
Apart from being surprised, her mouth was not clogged, and the thoughts in her mind came out smoothly.
“I hate my father. no. I hate you beyond the level of hatred. To the point where I thought it would be nice if all of Law Shen, including my father, just went bankrupt. Honestly, I think calling him father like this is really the least polite thing I can show.”
Walter took it quietly.
It was the voice that had been stagnant in the heart of the daughter who had hurt her for years.
Having to listen to it quietly was the original sin that he had to pay for himself.
“I thought about it several times. why do i have to go through this I was saddened by the loss of my mother, but why was I treated as an abandoned child by the family? I felt like everything in the world was betraying me. The loss that no one ever loved me and that the only person who ever loved me left me really hit me hard.”
“…”
“I’m sure you already know, but I deliberately joined a secret society to ruin my family. Because that is the only way left for me. Maybe even there, I was trying to meet someone who could relate to my situation.”
However, Sedina was left out of the Black Dawn as well.
The name Law Shen, whom she hated so much, became an obstacle even there.
I get in the way of everything, and the label of Law Shen continues to follow me.
I met her when I was tired of life like that.
John Doe.
No Rudgar Chelsea.
“My teacher is a greater person than my father. Even if you go through much harder things than your father, you don’t act selfishly and always do your best. I learned a lot from watching such a teacher.”
Rudger scratched his cheek at those words.
It was quite unexpected that her own praise suddenly jumped out, but Sedina’s voice was always sincere.
“Just when I was about to meet new people and get better, something happened. I was taken to the elven kingdom and went through a lot. And I found out the truth that I didn’t know at all. That my father did it on purpose because he was worried about me.”
“That’s…”
“I’m still angry. because i’m worried Because I love you. Is it okay to act on my own? Is it okay to hurt others so easily in the name of being for someone?”
Even though Walter had a hundred mouths, he had nothing to say.
That’s right.
Even though he always regretted that he shouldn’t be like this, in the end, he was the one who pushed the way to the end.
“But looking back, I wasn’t confident enough to say something to others like this.”
Sedina’s shoulders drooped and she let out a self-deprecating smile.
“Because I did the same to my dearest friend as my father did to me.”
Sedina thought of Julia and distanced herself from her.
However, Julia did not give up and continued to approach Sedina.
Sedina was also thinking of reconciliation with her old friend, but she couldn’t bear to say it because of the guilt.
“In the end, that means you can’t cheat blood.”
Ironically.
The moment Sedina recognized that fact, she understood Walter’s position.
“If I don’t receive an apology from my father and live as a stranger for the rest of my life…I will eventually become a person like my father.”
Sedina clenched her fists.
All of these words were addressed to Walter at the same time.
It was also an accusation against himself.
“I don’t want to be like that.”
Eventually, Sedina, who had made up her mind, stared into Walter’s eyes.
Walter caught his breath at the sight.
In Sedina’s straight gaze, the image of his bereaved wife, whom he could not see anymore, was reflected.
Walter felt something welling up inside him.
feelings.
The emotions that had been suppressed and kept tightly hidden until now fluctuated violently as if facing a storm.
I couldn’t do anything
I couldn’t do anything as a father.
Your child has grown so strong.
-Isn’t it your child too?
Her voice, which could not be heard now, came.
At the same time, memories of the past passed before my eyes.
The first time I met Ela Plante and fell in love at first sight.
After courting her endlessly, he agreed to marry her.
happy.
He always contained joy in his expressionless expression, which he tried hard not to reveal.
I couldn’t forget that happiness.
The time when I held the baby born as a fruit of love in my arms with trembling hands.
The feeling of the baby reaching out and touching her cheek with a dainty hand.
pop.
Tears ran down Walter’s cheeks.
“sorry.”
An iron-blooded businessman who is said to have never shed a drop of blood in his life.
He knelt down in his seat and sobbed.
“I am really sorry.”
