Do Flowers Bloom in the Fallen Land? - Chapter 148.2

Nathan, who was staring at Seira, smiled brightly.

“I see. My daughter is all grown up.”

She endured it by clenching her teeth from saying no, that she wasn’t grown up, and that she still wanted to shout that she needed her father. She didn’t want to do anything that hindered his rest with her own selfishness. She wanted him to rest peacefully now.

“Now, it’s really time to go to bed, baby? You can’t sleep with your eyes wide open like that.”

…Of course, apart from that, she couldn’t help but to want to capture the appearance of her father a little longer.

“I’m afraid Daddy will disappear…”

Indeed, it seemed like this would be the last time, so Seira couldn’t close her eyes.

“I’ve told you before. I’ll always be there for you.”

Nathan said as he was patting her forehead fondly.

“Until you grow up and one day have a child that looks just like you, and I can watch him grow up. And then you there will be many days you might even forget to look for your dad.”

His hand traced the eyebrows of his beloved daughter and swept her eyelids down.

“So, you can fall asleep with confidence. Tomorrow will definitely be a more fun day than today.”

Her anxiously beating heart regained calmness at his soft voice.

“Good night.”

The warmth that settled on her eyelids magically brought sleep, and Seira lost consciousness as she fell into a deep sleep.

“My treasure, my everything, my dear baby.”

With a little sad goodbye.

*

Aven grabbed Louis by the arm and pulled him roughly.

“What are you going to do now?”

The pill that bounced off Seira’s mouth rolled around the floor. When Louis tried to pick it up, Aven moved first and crushed it.

“Why are you interrupting me?!”

Louis cried, glaring at Aven with fuming eyes.

“Are you asking because you don’t know?”

“I have to do whatever I can.”

“What can you do? What can you do?”

Baron, who was looking at the two men staring at each other frightfully, asked Louis.

“What were you trying to do?”

“Maybe the reason Seira can’t wake up was because of her magical power’s depletion. That day, it was all burned out. So, if she’s forced to absorb magic, she’ll have the strength to recover.”

“There’s a way to forcibly absorb magical power? I’ve never heard of that.”

It was widely known that one could save their individual magical powers needed to implement magic by using magic stones or angkora’s crystals. However, they never heard of the ability to absorb that energy.

“It’s a common method among homunculus.”

“Using a discarded entity.”

“Brother, my core is already cracked. In a while, it will break anyway, so I’d rather use it to restore Seira.”

Only then was Baron able to understand the situation roughly.

“You crazy guy?”

Louis looked at Baron, who grabbed him by the collar, not even taking his side, with eyes that Louis could not understand.

“There will be almost no side effects…”

“That’s not the problem! Have you never learned any ethics or morals?”

“…? There is no such curriculum in Franto.”

“No, no matter what, but common sense…”

Baron was dumbfounded and seemed to know what it meant to be speechless.

“You idiot!”

“I don’t think that’s something we should hear coming from the family head of Jeff.”

Louis, who was sarcastic as usual with his brows furrowed, didn’t seem to have any idea what was wrong. Enraged, Baron was about to open his mouth again…

“Shut up…”

“…!”

It was a very small, slender voice, but none of the Alphas gathered in this room missed hearing it. The eyes of the three people, who turned their heads, looked at one place.

“Why are you fighting in someone else’s bedroom?”

Seira, yawning slightly, looked at them with half-open eyes.

“Seira…!”

The first to react was Baron. He let go of Louis’ collar and ran to the bed.

“Why do you look so sad?”

Baron, who couldn’t bring himself to say anything, hugged Seira as she cupped his cheeks. Seira patted his back as she felt him trembling from where she touched him.

“I must have worried you. I’m sorry.”

“…You’re back, so that’s enough.”

Seira smiled slightly at the deep relief and joy in Baron’s voice. It’s a pity that his soft cheeks have disappeared, but she didn’t hate him for growing up reliable. No, in fact, she was very happy to see him again as soon as she opened her eyes.

But for now…

“Louis, stop there.”

There was a problem that had to be dealt with first.

“I heard that you were trying to do something weird on me?”

Louis, who was about to step back and leave the room, looked at her with a pale face.

“It wasn’t a strange experiment… It was a well-proven method…”

“So, you did a good job?”

He flinched at Seira’s fierce gaze and slowly lowered his eyes.

“…I think I did something wrong.”

“Submit a report on what, how, and why you did something wrong. If you write it properly, I’ll let you off on this one.”

Louis asked with pleasure when she said he’d let it go.

“How long?”

“Within an hour.”

Seira looked at Louis’ back as he quickly ran away after glancing at Aven with a complicated feeling.

“You don’t seem to have any idea what’s wrong.”

“Then you should tell me, right?”

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