Kazuma and Kurumi

The silence that followed Kazuma’s explanation was unbearable. His daughter was looking down at the table her hands clasped together as they had been the whole duration of his tale and he couldn’t decipher her expression from across the table.

She wasn’t looking up at him nor was she making any movement other than her breathing that reassured him of her presence. He had expected her to thank him, to cry for this was supposed to be her salvation.

But there was none of that…

She took a deep breath and sighed out looking up at him her eyes cool as the cold winter air that froze his bones waking him up that morning. She looked at him with a mixture of pitty and anger as she said,

“What have you done?” She croaked out as if her throat was parched from hours and hours of screams and wails.

“I did everything I could to provide you a better life.” He responded not understanding why his own daughter couldn’t understand what he had done for her.

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