Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 284
Chapter 284
“I knew you were faking your baby talk and acting childish in front of me.”
“…You knew?”
Luca blushed with embarrassment.
“So when I named Elaina, that was also deliberately…”
“You seem to have grown up too quickly.”
Aria cut off Luca’s doubts, muttering bitterly.
“I won’t stop you if you choose your own path after becoming an adult.”
Aria firmly held Luca’s hand, which seemed to wander in confusion.
“Luca, remember that you always have a place to return to if you ever wish.”
You can always tell me if you change your mind. Luca nodded reluctantly as she added her words.
“Ddaaa.”
At that moment. Elaina started looking for Lloyd.
Seeing Luca fully recovered and looking well, she began to miss her father again.
“Dda!”
“Huh? Do you mean Brother?”
“Dda dda!”
“Right, Brother is right here.”
Coochi-coochi-coo. Luca pressed his cheek against Elaina’s trying to make her laugh.
“Dddaa!”
Aria alternated her gaze between the fussing baby waving her arms and Luca, who persistently kissed her cheek and said.
“It seems she’s calling for Dad.”
“It appears she doesn’t understand the subtle difference between ‘Brother’ and ‘Dad’.”
“Didn’t she used to call you ‘Luca’?”
“I recently taught Elaina the word ‘brother.'”
Luca nuzzled on her mochi-like cheek with his lips, and said, “Our smart Elaina learns quickly once taught.”
It was clear that teaching her the word ‘rother’ was a ploy for pretending not to hear when she called for ‘Dad’.
“Ddaa!”
Elaina raised her voice even louder, frustrated by Luca’s antics.
Aria could only add a comment as she watched the scene in disbelief.
“…Do you really plan to leave when Elaina becomes an adult?”
She was skeptical.
Luca, who was holding Elaina in his arms, didn’t seem to have any intention of leaving at all.
His excessive affection for the baby seemed to go beyond mere duty.
“Elaina, should we eat some cotton candy?”
But Luca, who was preoccupied with the baby, seemed not to hear her words.
What will happen?
Aria sighed and shook her head in resignation.
Since returning to the Grand Duke’s castle, Luca never left Elaina’s side.
The amusement park that Tristan had built for Aria had become the two’s domain.
“Ella, do you know?”
Luca talked to her while holding the baby in his arms, seated on a carousel horse.
“There’s a saying by a human that the emotions we feel are actually just signals sent from the brain.”
Luca found the various pieces of information in his mother’s memories fascinating.
True to a dragon who had lived for thousands of years, she possessed an incredibly broad and diverse knowledge.
“The physician who made this claim was heavily criticized by the influential scholars of the time and was eventually exiled from the country.”
But Luca thought there was quite some credibility to this statement.
At least for him.
For dragons, a mission was ultimately just that.
“I love you so much, but maybe it’s just signals from the brain.”
Since Elaina’s birth, Luca had been utterly manipulated.
A fierce sense of duty.
A fierce affection.
Emotions boiling up as if he would die instantly without the child by his side.
And the commands were relentless.
Stop acting young.
Protect her, even if it costs you your life.
Protect her, even if it means killing you.
A perfectly tragic fate.
While some may call it a tragedy, Luca was simply happy to be by Elaina’s side.
But he knew that this love, this signal, would eventually be cut off one day. When God awakened.
“It’s inevitable.”
Just as he had suddenly come to love this baby to death.
“When that time comes, I feel like I’ll leave your side without looking back.”
While Luca said this, he stroked Elaina’s cheek with a honey-dripping gaze. As if she was the most adorable thing.
“Is this really mine?”
Or have I just lost myself? He muttered to himself.
He barely remembered the thoughts and emotions he had before Elaina’s birth.
Not that he couldn’t remember because it has been so long.
‘But it felt like watching another me act.’
As the current Luca, he couldn’t believe he had acted so childishly.
‘It must be because of the mission.’
But, honestly, he didn’t particularly mind being manipulated by some unknown force.
After all, he felt as satisfied and full, like after a good meal.
So lethargic he could close his eyes and sleep forever.
“I’m happy. Whether it’s genuine or not.”
“…”
“I wish it could be like this for the rest of my life.”
Elaina, of course, couldn’t understand Luca’s mumbling.
“Huwee.”
But she keenly noticed the subtle change in his mood.
His blue eyes, usually as clear and sparkling as if it captured the sky, had deepened like the deep sea.
Moreover, the baby was frightened by the sight of his pupils dilating.
“Hng, huwe…”
“…”
“Huwweeeenngg!”
Luca looked down at the suddenly crying Elaina with a face full of confusion.
“Why, why are you crying? Ella. Are my eyes scary? Should I gouge them out?”
“Uwweeeng!”
He had to struggle for a while to soothe the baby who wouldn’t stop crying.
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