Daughter of the Emperor Chapter 50 â The Emperor's Daughter Chapter. 50
âWhatâs that?â
It wasnât all right.
Caitel saw me, and his reaction was not good at all. He looked absolutely disgusted. He squinted his eyes. Gosh, he didnât have to do that to look at me better! Putting flowers on my head was too much! Even though I was beautiful, putting a flower on my head was too much.
âOh, Silvia! I hate you! Sob Sob.â
âFlower!â
âI know that itâs a flower.â
What, this bastard! So what!? He didnât like the flower on my head!
However, I had no courage to spit it out, and my heart had already broken. I got wounded badly. I would love to take the flowers off my head right now.
âSilvia gave it to me!â
All I did was smile and grab Caitelâs hand. His lukewarm warmth reached my fingertips. His temperature was so low I never thought it was warm, but I was surprised that I liked it every time I touched it. No, maybe itâs just because I was his daughter, hmm.
âItâs a cloud flower.â
What? Did he know about this flower? I never knew my daddy was such a gentleman who knew about flowers. I looked at him, touching the flowers in my right ear.
âI heard bugs like that flower.â
⌠huh? What!? Bugs? His quiet voice stiffened my face. I shoved my hand down, touching the flowers right away. The damn world wouldnât let me go for a second. A bug! I hated almost all creatures who stood more than 4 feet. Insects, bugs! Oh, I didnât like it just by imagining.
When my face crumpled, Caitel laughed.
âDo you like to watch me suffer, Daddy?â
Caitel lifted me up and sat me down to my own dedicated infant bouncer seat and sat next to me. It was a small restaurant, but itâs still quite big. It also felt strange to have this big table for only me and him.
Come to think of it, someday, Caitel and I started to eat dinner face to face. It had been natural since I ran around and Silvia took care of me and realizing I had become used to it had really given me indescribable excitement.
âPapa!â
âHere, your present.â
Iâm definitely not giving this to you because you said bugs like it.
Caitel got Prina from me and stiffened his face. Then he smiled a little. The same ridicule he always had on his face. Ever since I started talking, Caitel didnât show me his natural emotions anymore. Even if itâs a complete coincidental bare face.
Well, it worried me a bit, but itâs not like I could just ask him in person. I lowered my head and looked at the bowl of food Serira brought me. The appetizing spaghetti came into my eye. Farfalle! I liked butterflies. Butterfly! In Agregiant, people mainly consumed wheat instead of rice. Therefore, there was a lot of bread or pasta. I usually ate a lot of farfalle and macaroni.
Even though I was a natural born Korean, I was perfectly fine with the food here. I guessed being reborn didnât mean I would have the same taste as before.
Yeah, I thought I was amazing. Oh, I was a Korean who couldnât live without rice. However, I didnât desperately want rice. Of course, it was hard to get those here anyway. Shoot.
âFood!â
I could eat alone, but I sometimes spilled rice because I was not used to controlling my hand. Whenever that happened, Serira would assist me and helped me eat. She didnât feed me though. I would do it! I wanted to do this alone, so I could be good at it.
âPrincess, why donât you tell his majesty about your day today?â
âHuh? Do I have to talk about that? I donât know what to say. However, I didnât want to ignore Serraâs words.â
Besides⌠That look. Caitel, thatâs scary. He shouldnât look at me like that.
âI saw baby there.â
âBaby?â
He questioned me dubiously, but I just nodded.
âBaby!â
I raised my hands and made an image of a big belly. Oh, honestly, it wasnât that big. Well, you get it.
âSilviaâs belly is like this!â
Yeah, there was a baby on this big belly. I reminded the memory of feeling the baby move. It was amazing. I thought this was life. Did I move like that in my momâs belly? Hmm, I didnât know.
Strangely, I didnât remember being in my motherâs stomach. Also, a certain period of memory when I was born. I still remember the moment I opened my eyes and came to my senses.
âIt moves!â
I raised my hand and shoutd. Caitel puts down his spoon thereafter. Was that all right with him to eat that much? He didnât eat any dessert after that, so all he had left was a salad. Curiously, Caitel always ate the same amount of food. He only ate the recommended daily intake. He had never eaten more than that or less than that. That was a bit of a mystery to me since heâs in this palace where he could eat whatever foods as much as he wanted. However, he ate only the set amount without saying anything. Next to him, I was eating only what I wanted to eat!
âWas it 6 months now?â
What were they talking about all now of a sudden?
âShe should be giving birth in about 4 months, then.â
Oh, they were calculating her pregnancy. Wait, letâs see, that should be aroundâŚ
âDaddyâs birthday!â
I raise the fork and Caitel looked at me. I smiled at him since itâs an old habit when our eyes met.
âIt would be over by then.â
âOhh.â
However, when exactly was his birthday? With a fork in my mouth, I tilted my head with curiosity. Caitel reached out to my head. His touch on my head was quite soft. I liked how he patted me. Pat me more! I put my head on his hand, but he took his hand off. He was such a big meany!
âI see you can speak very well now.â
âIâm good at talking!â
Yeah, werenât I more like a human now? I could talk well, walk around, and even run well! Most of all, I was eating food made for regular people. Didnât I look like a human being? Huh? I felt something terrible, but⌠letâs move on.
âNow youâre more like a human now.â
Huh, really? In a second, my eyes opened wide. Dad, was that true? Did I really look human? Huh? Really? Seriously? Truthfully? No lie?
âHuman?â
âRight.â
When I got a definite answer from him, something rushed up in my heart. Oh, god, I was finally human to him. Now I could call myself truly human! Oh, why did my eyes felt moist all of a sudden? The sad memories of the past were passing by like a phantasmagoria. After being treated like a dog, bug, and other things, I finally redeemed myself!
Sob sob, Iâm human! Iâm human!
âMe, human!â
Was this what true victory must feel like?
I was treated like a human after he called a dog and bug before. Somethingâs wrong with the process, but itâs okay. Yeah, well, now that I was human, haha!