touchnovel Chapter 24
Chapter 24
Chapter 24
“Ru-Rubette, how can you talk like that to your brother? Don’t do this. I don’t want you and your brother to fall apart because of me.”
Instead of the two speechless brothers, Lillia intervened.
‘Oh, how annoying.’
That girl, who resembled her mother and was clever from a young age, grew up bullying Rubette all her life.
‘But if it happens again in the second round of my life, I’ll be a little upset.’
Now is not the time to act like Lillia, pretending to be nice, innocent, and being subjected. Such acting works only when there is an audience who will believe me no matter what I do.
For that reason, my role now is ‘the younger sister who drowned in a pond and turned around 180 degrees after she survived’.
Things that Rubette, who’s been shut up all her life, would have always wanted to say.
‘I will do everything.’
“I will explain everything that Brother is mistaken about.”
I smiled and said with both my hands up as if I were surrendering.
“First of all, the matter of butler Rob being fired?”
“...”
“It’s half right. Because I spoke to Father.”
As I smiled and admitted, Viego’s eyes narrowed.
“But there are some misunderstandings, and there was no personal feelings at all. I just reported that he was being arrogant and bad-mannered when he was just an employee.”
“What? You, how long Rob has been working in our family...”
“What does it matter how long he has worked?”
I cut off Viego’s words with a displeased expression.
“I went to see my father for the first time in a long time, but the butler dared to order his master to keep a low profile and stay in the room.”
“What? Really?”
When Victor asked with a frown, I nodded.
“These servants all over the house seem to have the right to be so arrogant toward the master lady as they accumulate years of service.”
“...”
“If I had listened to it and stayed still, it would have been more of a problem. Do I have to be so scolded by my brother for firing the butler who ignored our hierarchy?”
“Rob...”
He looked confused, but again, Viego let out a sigh and shook his head as if he didn’t believe me.
“If you don’t want to believe it, don’t believe it. These explanations are not because I want you to believe anyway.”
“What? You—”
“But one thing is for sure, I didn’t fire Rob myself. It was Father who made the decision. And Father...”
I looked back at Victor, who listened to me, and asked.
“If I ask you to fire an employee, saying he is being a jerk, but you personally think he doesn’t deserve it, would you still fire him?”
“No.”
Victor quickly agreed and added.
“Isn’t it amazing that Father did something in the first place? How could he be fired by Father if he didn’t cause a lot of trouble? What did he do?”
“Look. What Brother Victor knows, don’t you know, Eldest Brother? You know very well what Father is like.”
“...”
“Father fired him because he was worthy of dismissal. So, if Brother is dissatisfied.”
I pointed to the still open door and smiled broadly.
“Go and argue with Father. Not with me.”
Then I pinched Lillia’s side.
“Aww!”
“Ouh, how disgusting. Look at the oil stains.”
“Rubette? What are you doing...?!”
Lillia was surprised by the unexpected attack and Viego was even more surprised.
Ignoring it, I pinched Lillia’s neck this time.
“Hey, where the hell is your neck? Let’s see, shall we look for our Lillia’s lost neck?”
“Aaaah! Argh! Oh, it hurts, it hurts!”
I didn’t pinch that hard, but it was enough.
“Stop it!”
Tak!
Viego shook my hand violently. The back of my hand, which had been thrown away with considerable force, quickly turned red.
Surprised, Lillia burst into tears and hugged Viego, who hugged her and comforted her.
“Ahhh... B-Brother. Hiccup! Waaaa!”
“What are you doing?!”
“I deserved it right?”
I asked, raising the back of my bare, swollen hands.
“What do you mean?”
“That’s why I did it. Ricky’s cheek.”
“... What?”
“Everything and every word I just said to Lillia. Ricky, who came to me because he was worried about me, who survived, did the same thing.”
Viego’s eyes shook.
He looked into my eyes for a long time to see if this was really true, then gently pulled Lillia, who wept frantically, and asked.
“Did Ricky really do that?”
“Hiccup. No, no he didn’t. Ricky... Ricky was just... just kidding. Hiccup! He really was...”
Surprised by my unexpected attack, Lillia shook her head foolishly.
‘Is she stupid? I’d rather insist it didn’t happen until the very end. Well, I’m not the type to slap people for no reason, so Viego must have suspected it.’
Whatever it was, Lillia confirmed Ricky’s evil with her own mouth, so for me, thank you.
I shrugged my shoulders with a nonchalant face.
“The person who gets it doesn’t feel like it’s a joke, so is it okay to say it’s a joke? Then I was joking too just now, Lillia.”
“You, you, you were not joking!”
“Lillia. First of all.”
Viego, who had grabbed Lillia and stood there, gently wiped her tears with his hand.
“Go to your room for now.”
“Cough. Hukk...”
Lillia, who had been crying sadly, soon pouted her lips, quivered, and slipped out of the room.
Lillia, who would become a complete devil, was still young and not so meticulous. It’s a good thing.
‘I can’t lose a fight with elementary school students.’
Satisfied, I said to Viego, who looked confused.
“End of explanation. To recap, I accidentally fell into the pond, Rob was fired because he deserved it, and Ricky was beaten because he deserved it. Are you satisfied now?”