I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 282

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Unable to hold back any longer, tears rolled down her cheeks as Jin let out a lament.

“What is this. I was barely holding back the urge to cry the moment I saw him.”

Jin hugged Iliya while tears streamed down her face.

“My nephew, my one and only nephew. Your aunt will protect you for life.”

Jin looked straight into Iliya’s eyes and made a promise.

Iliya, who had been looking at Jin with clear golden eyes, smiled brightly and cupped his aunt’s cheeks with both hands.

“Bwaek.”

At the same time, a loud sound indicating he had digested his milk flowed from Iliya’s mouth.

“….”

“….”

“Puhup!”

“Oh, really!”

Ordel and Jin, both dumbfounded, burst into laughter at the same time.

Iliya giggled happily without knowing why.

The joyful laughter of the three filled the bedroom.

She wanted to always laugh peacefully like this in the future.

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Grace Sieri had monopolized everyone’s attention from the moment she was born.

The late-born daughter of House Sieri, whose name was as renowned as the Imperial Palace in the Empire, and the youngest who was born with the fortune of being promised the position of family head even before birth thanks to her eldest brother’s concession.

Grace, born into such attention, boasted a very arrogant and ruined personality befitting the Sieri family.

She was enough to make even her parents Trisha and Mikhail, who boasted overflowing stamina enough to give birth to a healthy child at an advanced age, throw up their hands in surrender.

Even Nanny Karen, who was considered one of the most capable talents among House Sieri’s retainers, became exhausted chasing after Grace and ended up seeking all kinds of nutritional supplements.

The child became a more perfect Sieri as she grew, and by the time she turned 7, even the physical talents that the Sieri possessed had completely blossomed.

Unable to endure Grace, who ran around non-stop from the moment she opened her eyes until she closed them, destroying the estate and causing accidents, Trisha finally reached the point of requesting help from Rute.

Because even Grace’s tremendous temper was still no match for Rute.

“To think I’d come all this way to catch my youngest sister at this age.”

Rute clicked his tongue.

Grace, who had been caught while jumping down from a garden tree branch, was dangling from his side.

The white shirt that Nanny Karen had dressed her in that morning was already torn here and there in less than three hours.

“I understand it’s a time when your overflowing energy can’t be contained. But you should do that in moderation too.”

“If you know, don’t interfere. Interferer! Hindrance! Fraud! Playboy!”

Grace, whose mouth had become quite sharp, chattered away.

Knowing that struggling wouldn’t free her from Rute, she shouted enthusiastically with just her mouth instead.

Rute clicked his tongue at the stream of colorful words.

They said her vocabulary had increased tremendously since turning seven.

“I don’t know about the others, but I can’t agree with playboy. I don’t know any woman other than my wife.”

Nor do I want to.

Thinking of his beloved wife and son left at the Grand Temple made him want to sigh again.

“No, you are a playboy! You don’t show me Ordel and only see her by yourself, brother!”

“Ah, so that’s why you’ve been destroying the estate even more lately. It was because you couldn’t see Ordel?”

Instead of answering, Grace puffed out her cheeks.

Rute grabbed and shook her lips that protruded like a carp’s.

“But you’re the one who won’t come to the Grand Temple. You’ve been ignoring our invitations for half a year now.”

As promised, Ordel had invited the Sieri family when Iliya was about 6 months old.

The couple Trisha and Mikhail, who had been exhausted for months trying to appease Grace who was thoroughly angry at not being able to meet Ordel, were very happy and wanted to depart immediately.

The problem was that Grace, upon hearing this, stubbornly insisted she absolutely wouldn’t go.

Everyone was bewildered by Grace’s sudden change of heart after constantly singing songs about Ordel.

However, the child’s stubbornness was so strong that even when asked for reasons, she kept her mouth tightly shut and absolutely wouldn’t speak.

Since they couldn’t forcibly drag a child who said she didn’t want to go, Trisha and Mikhail eventually had to give up on going to the Sun God’s Main Temple.

Even now, half a year later, Grace still refused to go to the Grand Temple.

In fact, the reason Rute came personally today was because of this.

“Why didn’t you come?”

“….”

Rute let go of the lips he had been holding and asked, but Grace still just protruded her lips and said nothing.

Seeing his quiet sister for the first time, Rute roughly tousled her black hair that was identical to his own.

“Hmm, if you don’t answer, I’ll take it as you never wanting to meet Ordel again. I’ll also tell Ordel that you don’t want to meet her…”

“No!”

Before Rute could even finish speaking, Grace let out a thunderous roar.

Rute’s eardrums nearly burst.

As expected of his sister.

“No? You want to meet Ordel?”

When Rute asked in an amused voice, Grace fumed.

She looked very indignant, as if she thought she had been tricked by her fraudulent brother.

Rute sat the dangling Grace down on a bench in one corner of the garden.

Then he knelt in front of her and met her gaze.

“Grace, speak properly. There are times when you should be stubborn, and times when you shouldn’t. If you don’t properly say what you want, you’ll never get it.”

At Rute’s calm voice, Grace’s face, covered with resentment, gradually became calmer.

Grace glanced at her brother who was much older than her.

Her brother, whom she could only see a few times a year, always turned Grace’s world upside down whenever they met.

Even her parents and the Sieri servants, who always treated her like royalty, would step back when Rute appeared.

Rute was the only person Grace’s stubbornness and temper didn’t work on.

So Grace had decided to make him her potential rival, determined to defeat Rute someday.

However, paradoxically, it was precisely because of this that Rute was also the person Grace could be most comfortable with.

The inner thoughts she couldn’t tell her parents or nanny would flow out like unlocked secrets in front of Rute.

Like now.

“…Why didn’t you let me go to the Grand Temple?”

Grace, who had been hesitating, finally began to release the resentment she had been building up in her heart for over a year.

“You said I could come anytime, but why did you suddenly prevent me from going for months? …Did Ordel say she hated me because I kept causing accidents?”

After saying this, she felt so sad that tears began to well up.

“Did you say I could come now because her anger has all subsided?”

“….”

At Grace’s tearful words, Rute was uncharacteristically speechless.

He had just thought she was throwing a tantrum because she missed Ordel, but he hadn’t realized she was harboring such worries inside.

“You said I could come starting half a year ago. But why haven’t you come until now?”

“Honestly, I wanted to go. I thought maybe her anger had subsided. But… I was scared.”

“Scared?”

“I was afraid that if I caused another accident, then Ordel would really hate me…”

Grace’s voice gradually became watery.

Eventually, tears began to fall drop by drop from her large eyes.

“I don’t want to be hated by Ordel. But I don’t know how not to cause accidents. So I thought it would be better not to go at all rather than be hated…”

As tears came out, her previously clear pronunciation began to slur.

Grace couldn’t hold back any longer at her brother’s silent appearance and burst into tears.

“Tell Ordel not to hate me. You can do it, brother. I don’t want to be hated by Ordel.”

Clicking his tongue at her cheeks that had become soaked in an instant, Rute stood up and sat on the bench.

Then he lifted his crying sister and placed her on his lap.

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