CH 123

After settling breakfast at the mansion, Filina was about to go up the stairs when she spotted Ariel just coming out of her room.

Philina paused and made eye contact with Ariel. She was making eye contact with Filina with an unsentimental expression.

“You decided not to say hello anymore?”

Philina asked nonchalantly, looking at Ariel. Then Ariel, who had been making eye contact with a dry face, spoke slowly.

“I don’t think she really wants to be greeted by me anyway.”

At the sound of her voice, Filina smiled gracefully.

“Now I realize. In the meantime, when I showed distaste, he ignored me.”

Ariel’s face hardened coldly. Philina, who had been looking at her, tilted her head at an angle and asked:

“If you’ve made up your mind not to say hello, it’s nice if you don’t show your face at all, at least when I’m there.”

“…….”

“Isn’t that impossible?”

At her words, Ariel bit his bottom lip and glared at Filina. It was funny that he didn’t even manage his facial expressions anymore.

Philina looked at Ariel with an expressionless face, then turned away, kicking the tip of her tongue. As she was about to climb the stairs, Ariel shouted from behind.

“I guess you want to treat me like an invisible person.”

Filina looked back at a slow pace. Ariel continued, staring at her with wide eyes.

“No matter how much sister doesn’t want to admit me, I’m already a member of the Debussy family.”

Her red eyes shone fiercely as she stared at Philina.

Ariel squealed once more, looking straight into her eyes to see if she was even more by Philina’s emotionless gaze.

“My name.”

“…….”

“Ariel Debussy.”

With her voice, a smile burst into the corners of Philina’s mouth. At the same time, Ariel’s face was crumpled.

Philina said to Ariel, her face still smiling.

“That’s right, Ariel. You’ve got a name for the Debussy family that didn’t even exist.”

Ariel’s hands clenched into fists and twitched.

Philina smiled with a noble face and continued.

“But you seem to be mistaken? You’re talking about the Debussy family name as if it had been yours from the beginning.”

“…….”

“That kind of attitude is a gracious and unruly look. When people let their guard down, they lose their minds and become arrogant.”

Philina said, looking down at Ariel with a noble face.

“So sometimes you need to relive the past.”

Philina’s eyes narrowed.

She looked at Ariel and muttered.

“For example, the fact that you were from an orphanage with no parents.”

A faint smile slipped from the corner of Philina’s mouth as she said that.

Before I knew it, I uttered a villainous line very nonchalantly.

It’s as if I’ve been assimilated into the role of Philina or Debussy.

I realized how scary the world is.

Red veins shone through Ariel’s eyes.

His lips had bitten so much that they were scratched. Sharp nails dug into the skin where he had clenched his fists, leaving marks.

The face, which seemed to burst into tears at any moment, gritted his teeth and forced himself to hold back the tears.

Philina, who had been scanning her with a cold gaze, also lost her strength.

It was tiring to hate people.

I didn’t want to face her anymore, so I turned around again, but I heard Ariel’s faint voice.

“…… It’snot.”

His voice was so low that I couldn’t understand a single thing.

Filina asked, frowning.

“What did you just say?”

Then Ariel glared at her with red, bloodshot eyes and shouted loudly:

“I have parents!”

At Ariel’s words, Philina asked, smirking.

“Who are your parents?”

At Philina’s question, Ariel gritted his teeth in disbelief, and groaned as if to let out the anger he had been holding back.

“Philina’s dad is my real dad!”

She can’t help but say this to me.

That’s right in the Duchess of Debussy.

In such a loud voice.

A smile slipped between Philina’s lips.

For all these years, I thought she was so smart to use her brain, but she was actually so stupid.

The way she spit out her emotions in front of them made me realize how young she was.

“Ariel, what did you just mean by that?”

Amy had emerged from Gabriel’s office and was approaching her with a hardened expression.

Ariel looked back at Amy with a very puzzled expression, and her fingertips trembled.

“Uh, Mother……”

She blurted out in a trembling voice, but she couldn’t make any excuse for Amy grabbing Ariel by the shoulder with a rough gesture.

“I just asked you what you were talking about! Who is your father?”

“Well, that’s not it. I said the wrong thing……”

“From now on, if you tell a lie in front of me, you will be thrown out immediately, Ariel!”

At the sound of Amy’s cold voice, Ariel stared at her with a frightened face, like a cornered herbivore.

The tears that didn’t flow easily when arguing with Philina suddenly filled Ariel’s eyes.

Amy opened her mouth, staring at her fiercely.

“Speak straight, Ariel.”

“…….”

“Did you just tell you that your biological dad is Gabriel?”

Amy asked calmly.

At first glance, he looked more like someone who knew how to control his emotions flexibly, rather than someone who was angry.

But Filina knew very well that Amy was more angry now than ever.

She was the one who bore the same resemblance to Amy’s personality.

Amy had a tendency to become calmer the more angry she was. So I could say that it felt better when she shouted at Filina as usual.

However, Ariel, who was unaware of this, seemed relieved by Amy’s low voice and spat out the words with a cautious face.

“Yes, mother……. I’m so sorry……”

Ariel buried her face in her hands and burst into tears. As if she were the most pitiful person in the world…….

Amy asked in a cold voice.

“Who’s your mother?”

Ariel hesitated, looking at Amy, then pursed her lips.

“…… My mother’s name is Bella.”

At Ariel’s words, Amy groaned a little and pressed her forehead.

Perhaps Ariel had noticed that the woman named Bella had come out of his mouth to be a maid who had gone out after a brief stint at the Duchess of Debussy’s residence.

Ariel looked at Amy and hurriedly poured out excuses.

“Ha, but I was sent straight to an orphanage and didn’t know my mother’s face. It’s just, oh, that’s all I heard from my dad…”

“Gabriel had an affair with a maid, so I guess he kept communicating with another woman without my knowledge? He dared to share it with you in my house.”

“Oh, no…! I just asked my dad about it because I was curious about her…, and I’ve never talked about her since! Really! Believe me!”

Ariel exclaimed, grasping Amy’s arm with an impatient hand. However, she shook Ariel’s hand hard with a cold expression.

Ariel couldn’t keep her center, and she fell to the floor.

At this moment, Bruno, who came out of the room at the right time, rushed over with a surprised face and supported Ariel.

The employees, who had already heard their commotion and had come out of the central hall, were surrounded by a circle around Amy and Ariel.

Bruno asked, looking up at Amy with a puzzled face.

“Mother, what’s the matter?”

Amy asked, looking at Bruno with a cold face.

“Are you Gabriel’s natural son?”

“Yes?”

Bruno frowned at her question, as if to ask what he meant. Then Ariel, who was embraced by him, shook his hand urgently and said:

“No, I don’t! Bruno has nothing to do with me! If you’re going to be angry, just do it to me! I’ll sweeten it all, Mother!”

Ariel wrapped her arms around Bruno, protecting her like a heroine of misfortune.

It was such a beautiful sight that anyone couldn’t see it without tears.

Filina folded her arms and silently examining them.

“Do you mean that you will take upon yourself all the sins of Gabriel?”

Amy asked, looking at Ariel with a cold expression.

Ariel nodded, barely swallowing back tears. She looked like she was going to be punished for anything.

Amy groaned dryly.

“Then get out of here.”

“…… What?”

Ariel asked Amy with a stupid look.

She never thought she would throw her out of the housed.

It was a very small look.

Amy pursed her lips expressionlessly.

“I told you to get out of my house. I have no intention of keeping you here, Ariel.”

“Ha, but I’m not sure of my father’s…”

“It doesn’t matter if you’re Gabriel’s biological daughter or not. Now you have tarnished my reputation. Moreover, didn’t you say that you would take all the responsibility directly with your mouth?”

At Amy’s words, Ariel walked over to her knees with tears in her eyes and grabbed her cheeks.

“Please, please, don’t tell me to get out of this house, Mother! I was wrong. If you’d rather punish me, I’ll sweeten it! Please……!”

Ariel cried like a child and clung to Amy. Bruno, who was looking at her from the front, looked puzzled by the situation.

Amy, on the other hand, looked down at Ariel with a still calm face, and slapped her roughly as she grabbed my leg.

Ariel fell to the floor with a faint gesture.

In the silence, only Ariel’s cries were spreading.

Amy spoke in a low voice.

“Give me a day or so. I’ll give you enough money to feed yourself in a hundred concessions. So, when I speak nicely, don’t be stubborn and go out quietly.”

She turned and walked away, then turned around again and said to Ariel:

“If I see you in front of me tomorrow morning, you know you’re going to be kicked out naked, without all the clothes you’re wearing.”

Amy finished saying that and walked out of the hall.

Ariel was staring at her backside with only sad tears pouring down her face.