The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 130
âIt doesnât seem to be a dream, at least.â
The sensations were too vivid and clear to be a dream.
âIf I were insane, I would still feel normal. I need to understand the situation first.â
Roxelyn was used to this level of pain, so it was nothing new.
She tiptoed and tried to turn the doorknob.
The doorknob didnât turn.
“âŚRoxelyn?”
“Fathew.”
“âŚWho told you to move around without permission? I’ve always told you, you⌔
“Shouldn’t move because I’ll just be a buwden, like a wuhthless piece of twash? Undewstood.”
Zerti paused at the sharp and overly harsh words from young Roxelyn.
Roxelyn looked up at her father, who appeared younger, more naive, and much gloomier than she remembered.
“âŚI didnât mean it that harshly.”
Zerti added, frowning in apparent confusion.
“I know. Fathew loves me.”
Zerti looked down at Roxelyn, her child’s voice echoing with a strange clarity.
Her usually dull and weak eyes looked unusually sharp today.
Seeing the ruby-like clarity in her eyes, Zerti pressed his lips together.
“âŚIâŚâŚ”
“Fathew, did you often come secwetly to see me whenevuh I was sick?”
“âŚI didnât come secretly. I just had work and happened to think of you on the way.”
“You always said that, so I thought you didnât like me.”
Roxelyn’s words made Zerti’s shoulders stiffen.
He looked down at her with a trembling gaze, clearly taken aback.
“I donât dislike you. Itâs just⌔
“I even thought about wunning away.”
Roxelyn clicked her tongue inwardly, noting that pronouncing well was difficult with a short tongue.
Zerti’s pupils trembled violently at her words.
“If you run away, you’ll⌔
“I know Iâll just be a buwden, but if I’m a buwden everywhere, it might be better if I’m not here.”
Roxelyn finally said what she had never been able to say.
âIf this is my Abyss running amok, which parallel world is this?â
Roxelyn rolled her eyes nonchalantly and continued.
“So I thought about leaving.”
“âŚ.”
Hearing no response, she looked up again.
Zerti seemed frozen in shock.
His trembling pupils betrayed his confusion, making Roxelyn shrug her shoulders.
She hadn’t noticed this before because she couldn’t see it.
“Fathew.”
“âŚ.”
The man, adorned with various ornaments, couldnât say a word to his small daughter’s shocking words, his lips moving silently.
“âŚHave you ever wegwetted having me?”
Roxelyn threw another bomb of a question she had wanted to ask as a child.
“âŚWhat?”
When Zerti looked down, the child was staring blankly at a small doll on the nightstand.
The doll, which she remembered as having a torn side, now looked almost new.
In the parallel world she had moved to after dying as a criminal, that doll didn’t exist.
So, not all Roxelyns in every parallel world had received that doll.
But Roxelyn remembered clearly receiving it on her fourth birthday.
âCould this world beâŚâ
Roxelyn paused and then continued.
“Itâs nothing special. I just always wanted to ask. Of couwse, I canât die for you, and I know I was bown anyway.”
“âŚ.”
“Maybe if I wewenât here, you could have been happy with Mothew.”
“âŚ.”
Even at her childishly harsh words, the man remained silent.
As his silence grew long and heavy, Roxelyn shrugged her small shoulders lightly.
“I need to check something, so I’ll go out for a bit.”
As Roxelyn brushed past Zerti, he suddenly picked her up.
Dangling under her arms, she was forcibly set back on the bed.
“âŚ.”
Roxelyn frowned in dissatisfaction.
“Have you⌔
Zerti sat on one knee in front of her, looking into her eyes as he spoke.
“Have you always thought like that?”