The next day.

As planned, me and Richt headed out to the Roseblade Mansion to attend a kinship meeting.

When it came to kinship meetings, I still did not make them public to other relatives, and for now they were to discuss them with me and Richt, my parents, Maddock and Maria, and my uncle, Harold, in total.

Soon after we immerse ourselves in the peace of mind of our long return home, we are put through to the reception room. First, we sat on the couch opposite each other across the low table divided into our parents and uncles, me and Richt, but our parents and uncles didn't know how to cut it out, so we didn't always go through the conversation because we were also deciding on the deception, and moments and hours went by.

I use the reception that I usually use for visitors as a place for discussion, which makes me even more stubborn and uncomfortable.

In such a painful air, Harold cut the rhetoric of the debate.

"I'm so sorry this happened, Richt. I trusted you. You told me you'd be relieved to leave Ceres to me, and that's why I let you live in that villa. Yet... you did a terrible treachery against your own parents, not just against me"

Harold frowned, shifting his gaze toward Maddock and Maria, who were leaning over with a strange face, and blamed Richt for "how can even such a terrible betrayal be done to the parents who raised me".

"How the hell...? Answer me."

"Because I love Ceres"

Richt, who was thrown a question by Harold, clearly said so.

From the cloudless, straight blue-green eyes that look out for my uncle, I don't feel any stray.

"Love... I am..." you say?

"Yes. I've always liked Ceres since I was in the mood. First love is what most people do to people they're close to when they're young, right? Neighborhood brothers and sisters, friends we often play with, school teachers - even if they don't mean to, they all really like each other at some point. Same as that. When I realized I always liked Ceres next door as a single woman."

Richt, who talks like that with some distant eye, seemed to put his thoughts on himself in his previous life.

"... so you were stubbornly refusing to talk to Miss Gisele"

"Right. I'm not going to accompany a woman other than Celeste."

"Become...! You and Ceres are your real sisters and brothers!? And you are also related to your masters and servants! I can't believe I'm going to have a baby with someone like that and even accompany them... you know what you're talking about!? Look! It's a relationship you can't face the world!

"Yeah. You don't have to tell me that. I know.... for a long time."

Bassin '!

Suddenly, a sharp sound echoes indoors. Moving his gaze next to him, Richt's cheek was slightly red. As soon as he thought, "Oh, did the planking fly," Harold stepped out further, kneeling on the table, and grabbed Richter's chest in a fierce and crazy way.

"Don't be ridiculous! If you know that...... why did you get your hands on Ceres!? Until you incarcerated the reluctant Ceres, you wanted to have your thoughts!

"That's right. Until then, I wanted a child with her."

"... Huh! Whoever says you...!

Harold became more and more desolate to Richter, who gave it back with a look like he understood everything, and now began to punch Richter in the cheek with his fist.

Richter's cheeks are red and swollen, distorted as his frontal face swells. If you look closely, your mouth has been cut off, and there is still a glimmer of blood coming from the edge of your lips. But Harold didn't give a shit about that, and he kept beating him to heart.

Saying it's such a tragic situation, Richter just eats up his teeth and endures them, and doesn't try to resist them at all.

It was like not saying, "If this were to destroy you at all," but taking the assault of my uncle all by himself.

"Harold! Stop it!

"Please, no more! Richter's dead...!

My angry uncle, my brother who keeps getting beaten up irresistibly, my father who eats the convolutions but goes into arbitration, my sobbing mother - exactly indoors turned into an annoying cry, but helpless I could only look at the sight with a glimpse.

"Ha... ha..."

A few minutes later, Harold, stopped by Maddock, gradually leaves Richt. But the expression was harsh and conveyed even though I didn't like the fact that anger would not have been digested yet in him.

Richt slowly rose from the couch and sat upright on the floor as he wiped the blood dripping from the edge of his lips with his hands. As soon as everyone's gaze concentrates on Richt, he hands on the floor and bows his head.

It's a dugout position, as the world used to say. Although there does not seem to be a custom in this world such as' apologize for sitting in the ground ', they were all pushed by Richter's impatience, staring down at him with their heads bowed.

"I have a sense that I was' doing the wrong thing '. Throughout this period, I can't believe that Ceres and the three of his birth children can live together... I'm not thinking about such a good thing about bugs. So, please, give me a break. When you have a child, can you give me' time for the three of us' because I don't mind a week - no, a day? Please."

With that said, Richt bows his head deeply again. It was as if we knew this would happen sooner or later - it was such a setback.

Seeing such a sight reminds me of how Licht used to say he wanted to marry me and build a warm family.

I guess he's going to live up to the slightest memories the three of us had together, even if he's separated from me and the belly child from this future.

"I don't mind that... but if Ceres refuses to do that, what are you going to do?

Maddock asks that calmly. He seems to have understood Richter's intentions because he is a relatively discerning person.

"At that time...... I will liberate Ceres with great humanity. During the Golden Wheel, you will not be able to approach her or her children in any way, and you will be able to settle down by marrying the person you decide to marry."

The moment I hear that word, a glimmer of tears conveys my cheek. That's crazy. Me, why are you crying?

Scattered, even though I can finally break up with my hateful brother who has been a terrible hit against me... how the hell...?

─ Oh, well. I want to make Richter's dream come true.

Is this feeling coming from a sense of duty as a sister, a mercy, or something else... I don't even know what I'm feeling right now, but...

"Father, Mother, Uncle... will you give Richt respite? From me, too, please."

If I noticed, I would have put it in my mouth.