“Mom has to go back. I came for a short while. Daddy is fending off monsters alone, right? Let’s talk about the backlog later. Don’t go anywhere, okay?”

The last words were filled with earnest pleading. Riga chuckled.

“I was brought here, but where would I go? Is Daddy healthy?”

“Yes. He’s just anxious not to see you. But I came first because I had a chance. You don’t have to worry about the kids. You guys, don’t bother your sister too much.”

Bella and Shia simultaneously made a discontented sound, and Riga cocked her head for a moment.

“Aren’t they my siblings?”

“That’s right, but you didn’t come here to take care of the children, did you?”

Milene Gennes spoke as if she were a little troubled.

“You wouldn’t have known you had younger siblings.”

She was expecting to meet only her parents, and seeing younger siblings suddenly popping out with such an age gap must have been very confusing for her eldest daughter.

Moreover, from Milene’s perspective, she didn’t want to burden her daughter, who had become an orphan at the age of fourteen and had been through a lot.

“I’m not jealous of having younger siblings at my age, Mom.”

Her daughter’s laughing words, asking why she would say that, made her mother feel a little sad.

Sensitive adolescence, becoming an adult, experiencing society, all those precious moments had been missed. To Milene, Riga was still young, but the young girl had grown up without her knowing and had come back.

“You don’t have to, anyway. Give them to His Majesty. He’s the one who has to raise them.”

Literally, if something happens to her parents, it’s not Riga but the Grand Duke Hayden who has to raise these children.

“You must listen to His Majesty. If you cause another accident, you’ll be grounded for three days.”

After giving each child a kiss, Milene especially pressed her lips from the forehead to the cheek of Riga, hugged Riga once more, and turned around.

“Mom will be back.”
“Please be careful and come back.”

Nodding her head, Milene kept turning around to look at her grown daughter who felt strange and intrusive. Lu also smiled earnestly until the teleportation magic circle swallowed her mother.

“Mommy is gone!”

“Sister, we’re sleeping here now, right? Right?”

Excited by her sister’s words, Bella looked up at Lu and asked cheerily, then hesitated.

“Big sister, are you crying?”

Crying again, why crying, the children stared at their sister in confusion. If you cry too much, all the tears will run out and that would be a big problem!

“Fa, fa, fa, Father!”

Sia quickly ran to Hayden. Standing at a distance, Hayden did not approach, looking this way.

“Sister is crying.”

Father is always the person who hugs and comforts Sia or Bella when they cry, so he will do the same for sister! With eyes full of faith, Sia looked at Hayden, who gave a bitter smile and gestured to Bella, who was looking this way.

Hesitating, the youngest looked at her sister once, and at her father once, then inevitably ran this way.

“Father?”

You’re not going to comfort her? Sia kept looking at Hayden.

“Let’s leave sister alone.”

“Why?”

Bella asked defiantly. How can you leave her alone when she’s crying? It’s lonely!

“Adults sometimes need to be alone.”

Or rather, it was unbearably unpleasant for someone who was not meant to comfort her to step forward, so he simply had to back off.

Hayden, while taking the children away, couldn’t take his eyes off Lu, who was crying with her back turned.