I Won't Go Back To My Family Who Abandon Me novel Chapter 47

Leticia looked down at her cookies in a daze. The excitement to name them collapsed in an instant.

Leticia raised her eyes to look at Diana as she lightly touched the cookies.

"Was it you?"

"What?"

"Was it you again?"

She did wonder who else would spread the rumor beside her family.

Leticia bit her lip, while standing in front of Diana.

This was her first dream. It may seem small and insignificant to others, but it was precious to Leticia.

Then a false rumor casually trampled it, so it was hard to get back up.

"I know you don't like me."

Her family members always looked down on her, but Diana was the worst among them. She knew that Diana condemned her for her lack of ability.

At least now she knew that it wasn't her fault.

"I don't like you either."

"What?"

"Do you know how dirty it is to spread rumors like this?"

While speaking, she couldn't control her overwhelming emotions from boiling over. Now she'd reached the point of screaming.

"What did I ever do to you!"

She couldn't think of anything.

Leticia cared for Diana as if she was her own child. She never neglected her even once.

She ran errands here and there to earn even a little bit more money. No matter how tired she was at the end of the day, she spent time reading fairy tales to her younger siblings. When she couldn't be with them, she felt bad and tried to do better.

Then received nothing in return.

˜I'm sick of it.'

She was so angry that her eyes were burning with rage.

It wasn't something that she started out hoping for. It didn't mean that she wanted to be rewarded for the affection she gave.

She wanted them to know that she'd always been sincere, at least for the time they spent together.

When it came back to her like this, it was very upsetting to Leticia.

"What have I done so wrong besides not having an ability."

That wasn't her fault either.

Why do they have to take out their frustrations on her?

"Do you think you're some kind of genius? All you can do is make it rain flowers."

"Hey, you listen here!"

Diana was embarrassed at first by Leticia's anger, but began to shout back in irritation. Somehow, she even looked like she'd been wronged.

"I fully understand that you suspect that I did this, but it wasn't me."

"Then who else is there?"

"I guess there is someone else besides me who hates you."

"...."

The emotions that had been controlling Leticia's mind went cold.

As soon as she noticed, Diana looked at her with a smirk.

"Surely there is one or two somewhere?"

"...."

"Maybe you should take better care of your image?"

The look of pity on Diana's face was so abominable that it made Leticia's lips tremble.

Before Leticia could rebut, a short exclamation interrupted the two.

"Wow."

Keena was still watching with her arms crossed. She alternated between looking at Leticia and Diana with a crooked smile.

"Family is family, you and the fourth are just like each other."[1]

From the first moment they met at the banquet during the Hunting festival, she knew Keena wasn't normal. The more she saw her, the more she realized she didn't have an answer.

Keena nodded to herself, while keeping her eyes on Diana.

"Well, your family... hmm... I guess it's a bit of a thing."

"What? You!"

Diana snapped back with a ferocious look, she was annoyed by the sudden interjection. Soon enough she openly looked Keena up and down, then scoffed at her.

"You don't seem to be from around here. What are you wearing? You're obviously not a child from a noble family."

Keena's clothes were too plain to be a noble lady. A white shirt and black pants, they were clothes that any commoner man would wear.

To Diana's eyes, it looked disheveled and shabby.

"Are you sure you're a noble?"

"Not now, no."

Leticia suddenly had questions at Keena's offhand answer.

˜Not now?'

Unlike Leticia, who felt there was something strange in Keena's answer, Diana's attention was distracted elsewhere.

"Why are you talking to me like that?"

"You started talking informally first?"

"Do you want to be dragged away for contempt of nobility?"

Before they knew it, the situation had turned into a fight between Keena and Diana.

Keena's face was indifferent to the fight though, so Diana seemed to be angry unilaterally.

"They can even grab your whole family for this."

"Whatever."

Even when Diana said she'd report her to the guards, Keena responded as if it was someone else's problem.

"I don't have a family."

Leticia had been thinking about how to clear up this situation. At Keena's admission, she looked up in shock. Keena, who was a head taller than Leticia, smiled nonchalantly and said.

"That's a pretty good reaction."

While Leticia was surprised to hear it for the first time, Diana glared at Keena with her chin up.

"Well, I don't even know what you're going on about."

"Diana."

Leticia called out to stop her, but Diana's words were not over yet.

"I'll cut you some slack because I feel sorry for you. You'd better be careful next time."

Unlike her words, that sounded merciful at first glance, her eyes were filled with contempt. Keena faced it calmly without averting her eyes.

It was only when Diana was so far away they couldn't see each other anymore that Keena muttered quietly.

"That family is still like that..."

"What did you just say?"

"No, nothing."

Keena waved her hand as if it didn't matter.

Leticia was still worried about Keena.

"Are you alright?"

"Huh? What?"

"Well Diana..."

She couldn't bear to say the end, so her words trailed off.

Keena understood what Leticia was trying to say, and lightly shrugged her shoulders.

"You don't understand? It's all just crap anyways."

"That's all?"

"That's what I mean, I don't feel sorry for myself."

So there's nothing to hurt.

She didn't want to see herself suffer by what someone said purposely to harm her.

It's what the other person wants.

"Come to think of it, I want to try this."