Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 313
Chapter 313
Normally, Lloyd would have been uneasy seeing Aria’s tears. But this time he followed the trail of her tears intently with his gaze.
“I believe a person’s existence is defined by their experiences, memories, and emotions.”
This was something Grand Duke Valentine would say. Or rather, since the Grand Duke was ultimately Lloyd, it was a value he inherently held.
Aria could somewhat relate to these words, yet they also sounded absurd to her.
After all, hadn’t he just admitted that the person who had lost his memories was still the same him?
“Lloyd of the past is still Lloyd, right?”
“A me without memories isn’t truly me.”
“If I heard you right… are you jealous of yourself now?”
“Don’t attach feelings then.”
“….”
This was self-loathing, wasn’t it?
Aria momentarily wondered if it was appropriate to say ‘you need to love yourself’ at that moment. Was this really the right advice under these circumstances?
Lloyd, losing the words to say, wove his fingers through Aria’s hair and pulled her head towards him softly.
“Uht.”
He then licked the long trail of her tears off her face.
“What was that bastard thinking, saying things like that?”
That bastard… it’s you.
‘You’re talking about yourself!’
The difference between being another entity and being one entity with two sets of memories was too much. The most absurd part was that Lloyd, of all people, knew this fact better than anyone else.
Yet here he was, looking half-mad with jealousy….
It was so dumbfounded that Aria was at a loss for words.
She fumbled with her lips for a moment before finally asking.
“What were you thinking?”
“Who knows.”
Annoyingly, Lloyd avoided revealing any information that Aria was truly curious about. Probably because the thoughts of his past self were exactly like his current ones.
“Mister Lloyd, you might have regained your memory, but it seems you still haven’t recovered your reason and logical judgment.”
“That might be true.”
He readily admitted he might have spoken nonsense. But he had no intention of taking back his words.
The idea of being Aria’s first love was still too vexing. Even if it was essentially about himself.
As her brows furrowed cutely and lips pouting, Lloyd eagerly kissed her.
“Wait, Lloyd…”
He pulled Aria close as she gasped for breath and tried to step back.
“Here’s the Lloyd from your past life you’ve been looking for. Do everything you wanted to do.”
Nicknames, hugs, kisses, confessions.
That cute promise to show him the happiness he can experience, neither in heaven nor hell.
All the deep longing and profound love she had held for her first love.
“Pour it all out to me.”
“Is this… really him returning to his original self?”
Vincent asked cautiously.
He had thought of throwing a celebration now that his brother’s memories had returned.
Yet Lloyd’s raw gaze and attitude were almost indistinguishable from when he was known as Grand Duke Valentine.
Aria nodded in agreement to Vincent’s question.
“It’s hard to say he’s returned to normal, isn’t it? Now that his past and present memories have merged.”
“Should we be celebrating this or not?”
“It’s probably because the memories have just merged…”
Aria trailed off, sounding uncertain even to herself.
“I’m fine with Lloyd as he is now. Lloyd is Lloyd.”
“Are you really okay with that?”
“Why do you worry about that?”
Lloyd asked coldly.
His brother’s gaze towards his sister-in-law had always been intense, but now it seemed almost obsessive.
Vincent bit back his words with a groan.
‘Considering that the memories of his craziest times have returned, it’s natural he’d be like this.’
Well, Sister-in-law will handle it herself…
‘She’s a beast tamer, isn’t she?’
Vincent tried to calm his confusion inside.
After all, his argument that no other dimensions existed had been proven correct, and his brother was halfway back to his former self. The little things didn’t matter anymore.
“Most of all! I had no idea our Ella had such abilities!”
Vincent exclaimed, lifting the busily coloring Elaina.
“Da!”
“Ella, can you show me that ability too?”
Then, Elaina pushed Vincent’s face away defiantly.
“Nyo.”
“Come on, just once, okay?”
Instead of answering, Elaina began to scribble wildly with a blue crayon all over Vincent’s face.
It was clear she had no intention of complying with his request.
“Brother, are you stupid?”
As Winter watched this hapless scene, he suddenly interjected.
Elaina, mimicking his words, responded.
“Ooh, Viiinn, upii.”
“Right, stupid.”
“Upii, upii.”
“…”
Suddenly, a chilling silence fell over Elaina’s playroom.
Given that Winter was still suffering from the side effects of drug that could abruptly drop his mental age, this was becoming almost normal.
Lloyd murmured in a low voice.
“Did you teach her that nonsense?”
“Uh-huh. They say you learn swear words first in any language.”
“That’s what people say about learning foreign languages!”
Vincent shouted, panicked by Winter’s justification.
Who learns swear words first when acquiring their mother tongue?
As cracks appeared in the systematic language education plan laid out for Elaina, he grabbed at his hair.
The plan to have her calling names was supposed to wait until she could say his name.
“And to think she’d start with ‘stupid’ before calling my name, how does that make any sense?!”
“Upii, upii.”
As he collapsed onto the floor in despair, Elaina finally escaped from Vincent’s grasp and crawled toward Winter.
She spread her arms wide as if asking for a hug.
“Huh?”
Winter, puzzled, tilted his head and picked up the baby.
“Why?”
Then, Elaina reached out and slapped her palm against Winter’s cheek.
“Hewe.”
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