“Unfair.”

Dad, who was cutting the meat into just the right size for me, froze for a moment.

I pushed the plate he gave me away.

Clemens didn’t touch the cocoa with marshmallows he prepared, and it was the same for the cheese potatoes that Dayan gave.

Then, I elegantly lifted the napkin I had placed on my lap and gently wiped the corners of my mouth.

“What happened at the mansion while we were away?”

Dad scanned the surroundings with a piercing look. Only the employees standing nearby, ready to lift things to his side, trembled.

“It’s not like that.”

I calmly spoke. I’ve discarded the baby-like tone I had when I was four. I was trying to use as calm and mature language as possible.

“Why? What don’t you like?”

Clemens, who turned 16 this year, spoke in a softer voice. However, his affectionate way of speaking remained the same.

As I shook my head at Clemens, Dayan, who was standing next to me holding a fork, broke it in half and asked.

“No one’s spreading nonsense again, are they?”

“No, it’s not like that.”

Dayan and Michael are now 13 years old. They’ve shed the childlike qualities and now exude a boyish charm.

The nonsense Dayan just mentioned was about rumors that circulated about me, saying I was not Dad’s real daughter but a bastard’s daughter.

Thanks to those rumors, there was a time during last year’s birthday party when those who brought up such rumors almost lost their lives.

‘It was really risky.’

Finding out the source of those rumors wasn’t too difficult. In the end, when Dad proposed an absurd plan to deal with everyone who heard those rumors, I had to step in and stop him from doing something ridiculous.

Anyway, the reason I’m feeling down right now is not because of those rumors from back then.

“Ignorant fool.”

Seeing the fork tines that Dayan broke, Michael, in a low voice, said, “Pathetic.” Then, with confidence in his childish tone, he asked me.

“You couldn’t go to the capital alone, right?”

‘As expected of Michael.’

I nodded my head at Michael’s words. The expressions of the family members who heard that statement still didn’t change.

Today’s family meal gathering like this was only after a month. Dad and Clemens went to the capital and just returned home yesterday.

I didn’t know they were leaving in the first place. Only after waking up leisurely and Michael gave me a subtle hint did I find out.

‘Father and brother went to the capital today.’

Next to him, Dayan scolded Michael for not keeping it a secret.

The reason Dad and Clemens left for the capital without telling me was clear even without asking. Except for Michael, the rest of the family opposed my visit to the capital.

I asked several times about the reason for preventing my visit to the capital, but they didn’t provide a proper explanation.
It would be challenging just to go back and forth to the capital. I used ridiculous excuses like the mansion in Hesera being better than the capital mansion, the capital being boring, etc., and used to go to the capital leaving everyone behind.

Of course, I knew that my family didn’t go to the capital for leisure. But it wasn’t because I wanted to have fun in the capital.

‘That spirit has been eavesdropping in my room for the past five years!’

Now, time was really running out. In the original work, Elaizer made a contract with the spirit at the age of ten, and then the original story began.

Prince Elaizer of the Byas Empire is exactly ten years old this year, and it’s time to send him the silver snake.

My impatient heart was not known to my family, who seemed anxious only about me stopping the meal.

“Diane, finish your meal first.”

“Okay, I couldn’t take you this time, but I’ll definitely take you next time.”

“Hey, if you don’t eat this meat, you’ll regret it. It’s a special dish from Cusseus.”

“I don’t have the appetite.”

To take extraordinary measures, I stood up from my seat. I spat out the lines of a quiet and stubborn female protagonist that I had only seen in books.

“Then I’ll go upstairs first.”

The silver snake on the bed flicked its tail. The expression was exactly the same as when it had a gentle appearance.

“It won’t be fun if you come out like that.”

I glared at the silver snake with narrowed eyes and said.

“If you keep doing that, you might have to spend your life with me.”

‘…I can’t threaten this kid.’

I gathered my knees and rested my chin on them. When I turned my head, I could see the lush garden outside the window at a glance.

The silver snake asked me slyly.

“How about you giving up asking like that?”

At my words, the silver snake stared at me sharply and then crawled under the bed.

I heaved a deep sigh.

‘I wonder why everyone is trying to stop me from going.’

For the past few years, I’ve done my best to twist the original story where my family becomes villains.

Without a contract with the spirit. Of course, the compensation also came without fail.