[Episode 125]
All preparations were proceeding quietly. The servants were also quiet, and Dad was very busy today, so he barely showed his face in the office.
“I am ready!”
After hearing Laurent’s story, I quickly ran to my father’s office.
smart.
As I knocked on the door, I heard a calm voice telling me to come in.
It was a completely different feeling from the kind voice I always had.
It is a businesslike, emotionless and dry voice.
When I slightly opened the door and went inside, my father indifferently raised his head, then opened his eyes wide and put down the pen.
“Dad, are you busy?”
“No way.”
That series of words sounded so friendly. Unknowingly, I raised my eyebrows.
When I was a child, I was envious of my younger brothers going into their father’s room casually.
I only remember my father always frowning and raising his voice when I entered, so it was traumatic for me to open the door and enter like this.
‘Wow, I have too many minor traumas.’
It was surprising to me that I was feeling things that I hadn’t felt in the past.
“Eirin?”
“Ah yes.”
“What else happened?”
I shook my head slowly at the soft voice.
“Dad, can you have dinner with me?”
“of course.”
“Then go to the greenhouse and eat! I have it ready.”
“…you?”
“yes!”
I opened my mouth cautiously with a throbbing face. Dad shrugged and nodded at once.
Like you don’t even need time to think.
“Of course I should go.”
Having passed the first barrier, I nodded my head broadly.
When I carefully reached out my hand, my father took my hand with a smile while making a strange expression.
“My daughter is also extraordinary.”
“…really?”
“Yeah, I always feel fortunate that you came to me.”
“…me too. It’s been a lot of hard work, but I’m glad I met Dad.”
He held onto his father’s hand and said.
I was too accustomed to solving it on my own rather than asking someone for help.
“…Okay, so how do I solve that?”
I couldn’t hear my father’s low muttering voice, so when I looked up, my father smiled and shook his head.
“It is nothing.”
Dad spoke softly.
I arrived at the conservatory with my dad. Laurent was standing in front of the greenhouse.
“have a good day.”
The greenhouse door was wide open.
In front of the door, the direct descendants of Etham stood in full glory. It seems that Laurent brought Callan and Cillian as well as my request, so I saw the two brothers.
However, the door opened and my father, who was about to step into the greenhouse with me, stopped abruptly.
“…”
Dad’s expression darkened slightly.
“Dad… I don’t think he has taken care of me properly until now. I prepared a present…”
I swallowed and wiggled my hands. It was Charniel Etam who strode towards the immobile father.
He stretched out his arm and placed it lightly on his father’s shoulder.
“I don’t know how many years it’s been since I’ve had a birthday party for you. Happy Birthday. I am the youngest.”
“What is this…”
Dad’s face turned ferocious.
“Oh Dad…! If you don’t like it, you can just accept my present… But I got a job as a head of household from my dad as a birthday present…” ”
…What kind of present?”
“A birthday present from the head of household?”
“Maknae, did you really say that and give me the job of head of household?”
At my words, the Ethams began to murmur. uh? Something is going strangely.
As I rolled my eyes in embarrassment, my father, frowning, crossed his arms and opened his mouth.
“What does it matter if I give what I have to my daughter for some reason?”
It was a shameless statement to the point of being a little sarcastic to me. If my dad wasn’t on my side, I might have been a little annoyed.
“Maknae~! I brought you a present!”
Nelia Zardan approached holding something with a very excited expression.
it was a dress
I didn’t want to open my mouth, but it just froze.
‘…dress?’
It was too big for me to wear.
At first glance, it is for adults. Nelia Zardan went straight to her father.
Dad snapped his fingers lightly.
Then, the dress Nelia Zardan was holding burst into flames, and in an instant it disappeared without leaving even ashes.
“…dad?”
“uh? I brought it too!”
“Doesn’t everyone want to die alive?”
Dad growled unresponsively. I felt more sensitive than usual.
I was terrified.
Was it better not to do it?
“Dad are you okay?”
Looking at the father with a white face, I suddenly thought that everyone was too much.
‘No matter how much it is, it must have been the day Dad lost someone important…’
Guessing, that’s probably why.
Maybe he thought he was going to lighten the mood, but he frowned at the over-the-top joke.
When I was crying, I felt bad.
I blocked in front of my father and spread both hands out to the sides.
“Dad, why do you keep bothering me? Still, it’s a difficult day for my father and a day when I lost a precious person…”
No matter how much the intention is to lighten the mood, there are things that shouldn’t cross the line.
“huh?”
“No matter how much I try to lighten the mood, I don’t think I’m making fun of my dad like this…” I’m
grateful that I came to congratulate you, but I didn’t expect my dad to hate me this much.
“Eirin.”
“If I knew my dad would hate it so much, I shouldn’t have done it…”
It was a place prepared because I just wanted to lightly deliver gifts and have a meal together, even if it wasn’t going to be a party.
“sorry.”
“No, there is nothing to be sorry about. I know you thought of it and did it… I’m happy enough that you thought of me.”
Dad continued in a slightly impatient tone. It was clear that he was trying to appease me.
“No, even though I heard that Dad is actually uncomfortable with birthdays…”
“Your daughter is going to cry. Why don’t you be honest?”
The grandmother who was watching from behind said. Grandmother was also carrying a fancy dress.
“Nobody has ever died on my birthday.”
The last time I asked Laurent for the first time, Laurent asked me to ask him directly.
“Oh no…?”
“okay.”
“Then…”
“It wasn’t like there was a big accident. It’s not even like I was kidnapped.”
Dad said, as if reading my thoughts.
Then why the hell is that?
“…so it was.”
“yes?”
“It was because I didn’t want to wear a dress for my birthday.”
“…yes?”
I opened my mouth wide at the unexpected secret. What did you hate?
I was really a little bit embarrassed. While his lips were purring, Charniel began to lower his head with his shoulders trembling, and Nelia Zardan and Acrea Safile burst into laughter at the same time.
“Ahahaha! My daughter doesn’t celebrate birthdays like that and hides it, so now my daughter misunderstands me.”
I quietly pursed my lips.
It’s because I thought that even if something went wrong, it was very, very wrong. Even if I misunderstood, you did it right.
Heat instantly rose to his face.
‘You stupid…’
What the hell did I do?
“Oh, I’m glad it wasn’t… that’s right.”
I quickly turned my head and took a few steps back with a creak.
I could feel my dad staring at me, but I didn’t have the courage to raise my face in embarrassment.
“I mean…”
“Did you think my precious person died?”
Dad followed me and asked quietly.
“Yes… I heard you hate it…”
And since there are clichés I learned from my nn years of experience in romantic novels, I thought my dad must have such traumatic scars too…!
“You thought your mother was dead.”
“…yes.”
I couldn’t stand the shame, but I still had to answer, so I nodded my head.
I held my breath and wiggled my fingers.
“sorry.”
I was ashamed.
“No, it’s because I didn’t say it properly.”
Dad said.
“The day your mother died wasn’t anyone’s special day. So don’t worry.”
Dad’s big hand stroked my hair.
“It’s nothing.”
Nelia Zardan shrugged.
“yes?”
“When I was little, my mother would dress me up and put a wig on my birthday. Naturally, the maknae’s birthday is the one that makes fun of the maknae.”
Nelia Zardan moved her lips slowly as if to be honest.
“Well, then this guy’s temper exploded… After that, he devastated the entire family when he said he was only preparing a birthday party.”
“Ah…”
Grandma is mean.
“Even her mother stopped doing it later on when she grew up… and she wasn’t the type to celebrate birthdays too much.”
“At that time, Erno was pretty and cute. Just like you.”
Grandmother muttered as if to make excuses.
“Well, I just brought it up as a joke today. They didn’t let me say happy birthday…”
Grandma strode over and tapped Dad on the shoulder.
“It wasn’t because I hated you, but if I knew I would hate you this much, I would have done it less.”
Even so, I won’t say that I shouldn’t have done it, even if I die.
“Anyway, happy birthday.”
“happy birthday.”
“Happy Birthday.”
“I’m late, but congratulations, this cockroach is a gift…”
Roaring!
“go away.”
The cockroaches in the palm of Hayel Etam’s palm burned up in an instant and disappeared.
“With a temper…”
Hayel Etam muttered curtly.
“Still, I’ve improved. I’m not upset.”
“My daughter opened it. How is that?”
Heyel Etham trembled and turned away as his father spoke boldly.
Everyone split up, grabbed their food, and started opening bottles. Dad came up to me and took me in his arms.
“Thank you, daughter.”
Dad kissed my cheek. Dad also slowly entered the greenhouse.
“yes!”
I thought as I hugged my dad with a smile on his face.
‘I’ll have to ask for a picture of him wearing his dad’s dress on his next birthday.’
I giggled as I thought about it.
I know my dad would be shocked if he found out, but I was still curious. How on earth was that old woman obsessed with so much?
Fortunately, the party continued until quite late, and the atmosphere gradually matured.
