Chapter 12 - Why Are the Kids Acting Like This?
Why Are the Kids Acting Like This?
As always, Luizen was busily moving his hands to make delicious food for Scarlet and Rita.
Luizen making breakfast quite early.
However, there was a red head secretly observing such Luizen.
“……”
Since that day, Scarlet started observing Luizen.
To know what the man’s purpose was and why he expressed us as family.
As a result of observing and recording the man all day, Luizen’s daily routine is like this:
Wakes up at 6, washes up simply then makes breakfast.
Although the man’s menu selection criteria vary, he generally prepares food containing meat for breakfast.
After handing us breakfast, the man eats alone.
Sometimes as if swallowing food wrongly, he coughs.
After finishing eating, he reads the newspaper in the living room or goes into his room.
When lunch time comes he makes us lunch then goes out to work.
Listening to Luizen’s muttering, could deduce his occupation is adventurer.
So when he goes out to work around lunch, he returns home around 7.
Luizen who returns home immediately runs to the bathroom to shower. Duration approximately 20 minutes.
When finishing shower prepares dinner, and always hums some song while cooking as if something is so enjoyable.
The man who hands us dinner eats alone just like breakfast and opens the window to appreciate the scenery then soon enters his room to sleep.
This is roughly the man’s daily routine.
Scarlet was lying in bed thinking about Luizen.
Thoughts like why doesn’t Luizen lay hands on us mess up her mind.
‘Of course..! It’s not that I want it, just that such questions come up..’
Scarlet repeated Luizen’s words about family.
‘Luizen and I being family…’
“Sister your face is red.”
Rita spoke while looking at Scarlet’s face.
“Is..is that so? Maybe because I overdid it this morning.. it’ll be fine after sleeping a bit.”
“Sister mustn’t be sick…”
“Don’t worry about sister and go to sleep quickly.”
“Yaaawn… okay.. sister go to sleep too.”
“Yes Rita.”
When Rita closed her eyes, Scarlet exhaled deeply.
A situation where she almost got caught by Rita that she was thinking about Luizen.
After time passed and Scarlet was certain Rita had fallen asleep, she carefully opened the room door.
Empty living room.
Scarlet headed toward the man’s room door while killing her footsteps.
The man’s silhouette visible through the open door gap.
Luizen was sound asleep covered with a blanket.
After quietly watching Luizen for a long while like that, Scarlet quietly returned to the room and closed the door.
Scarlet who recently started being haunted by thoughts of Luizen.
Her heart beat rapidly when secretly looking at Luizen.
‘Why am I like this…’
Scarlet didn’t know why her heart was throbbing so much.
Meanwhile Luizen who was sleeping in his room.
“She left…”
Luizen spoke while looking at the door.
Luizen started retracing his memories to know why Scarlet was taking such actions.
The first time Scarlet showed such abnormal behavior was the day after leaving home.
That day too I was making food early to make delicious food for Scarlet and Rita.
“…..?”
While making food, felt like someone was watching me.
When turning around to look where the gaze was felt, there was Scarlet and Rita’s room and the room door seemed slightly open somewhere.
“Did I see wrong..”
Luizen scratched his head and continued cooking again, and before long felt a person’s gaze from the same direction again.
However, Luizen didn’t turn around immediately and waited for the timing.
Waiting for the timing when the one watching me would let their guard down.
Luizen started counting down.
3..2…1…!
Luizen suddenly turning his head.
Red hair looking at Luizen through the door gap.
The identity was Scarlet.
Scarlet’s surveillance started from that day.
She secretly watched me whether when I was reading the newspaper or eating food, and when it became late at night Scarlet would secretly peek into my room etc.
Scarlet repeated stalker-like behavior for several days.
On a certain day while such days continued.
That day too was a day I was going to deliver breakfast to Scarlet and Rita without fail.
However that day the room door that should have been tightly closed was open, and through the opened door gap red hair and blue hair were poking their heads out while blankly watching Luizen coming.
The villainess duo poking only their heads out to look at Luizen.
Although Luizen lamented that he got another stalker, Rita carefully approached Luizen and said this.
“Um.. can we eat together today..?”
At Rita’s shocking statement, Luizen’s brain temporarily stopped.
To think Rita would propose eating together first..
“I guess not..?”
Rita who became intimidated.
Luizen looked at such Rita and spoke.
“Of course you can! Sister too come out and eat?”
“Yes sister wants to eat together too.”
“When did I!!!!”
“Okay then sit at the dining table.”
Scarlet grumbling while going to the dining table and Rita carefully heading to the dining table.
‘Can personalities be this different even coming from the same womb?’
Luizen thought while looking at them who had completely different personalities.
“Today’s breakfast is omurice here try eating.”
Today’s food Luizen presented was omurice.
Omurice receiving kids’ picks with thinly covered egg and ham and various vegetables inside.
Although had trouble making it myself since there was no tomato ketchup, seems like I got energy thinking of them eating deliciously.
Scarlet and Rita carefully scooping omurice with spoons.
Scarlet and Rita looked at the omurice’s appearance then put it in their mouths.
[Nom nom]
Scarlet and Rita thoroughly chewing the omurice.
Their eyes who were chewing food grew bigger then they started inhaling the omurice.
Luizen smiled while looking at such Scarlet and Rita.
‘That’s good.. seems it suits their taste well.’
Naturally get a dad smile seeing them deliciously eating food I made.
This feeling that warms my chest just by looking.
This feeling was an emotion I hadn’t felt in a really long time.
‘Thought I wouldn’t feel it after that day..’
Memory of that day feeling distant.
While Luizen was immersed in thoughts.
Before he knew it two villainesses who inhaled the omurice. However they had somewhat regretful expressions and Luizen looked at them and asked.
“Perhaps is it not enough?”
At Luizen’s words, Scarlet and Rita who were being careful carefully nodded.
To this Luizen went to the kitchen and brought two omurice prepared as backup.
Although it was omurice I made to eat for lunch and dinner myself since too many eggs were left, it wasn’t wasteful at all.
“Here eat deliciously.”
Luizen spoke while giving omurice to Scarlet and Rita and Scarlet blankly looked at Luizen.
“….”
Scarlet staring at Luizen.
Scarlet’s face had the expression of someone who wanted to say something.
“What’s lacking?”
When Luizen spoke looking at Scarlet.
“Water…”
Scarlet spoke in an ant-like small voice.
“Orange water… none?”
Scarlet seemed to be looking for orange juice.
Scarlet looking for juice as if orange juice had been delicious.
Luizen smiled brightly and headed to the kitchen, and in Luizen’s two hands coming from the kitchen were cups containing orange juice.
When Luizen handed over juice, Scarlet and Rita immediately bringing it to their mouths.
Although personalities were different, their actions indeed proved that Scarlet and Rita were sisters.
So Scarlet and Rita who finished eating like that.
Luizen went to the kitchen to clean up the plates they ate from.
“Today’s breakfast was really delicious too sister.”
When Rita spoke looking at Scarlet, Scarlet nodded and spoke.
“Right. The food was delicious today too Rita.”
Scarlet agreeing with Rita’s words.
Rita carefully brought up talk about the man.
“You know.. no matter how I think about it, that man called Luizen doesn’t seem like a bad person..”
Rita carefully expressed opinion to Scarlet.
Rita who had been scolded by sister before for saying the same thing.
Although Rita who carefully brought up words worried about being scolded today too, Scarlet smiled and said.
“That’s right..”
“Huh?”
When Rita blinked her eyes as if she heard wrong, Scarlet spoke with a faint smile.
“Like Rita said.. that man called Luizen.. doesn’t seem like just a bad person..”
Scarlet smiling shyly.
Rita’s mouth dropped open as if receiving great shock seeing such smile from sister, and.
“Is someone talking about me?”
Luizen who was doing dishes had itchy ears.
Meanwhile.
“There!! You little troublemaker!!”
“You think I’ll be caught quietly if you’re an old man?”
A chase was happening in a crowded market.
A girl running away after stealing a piece of bread.
Her name was Eola who had black hair and was evading the man with quick steps.
Eola, this village’s biggest troublemaker and future hero-to-be, was in the middle of running away after stealing bread from the bakery.