I Am Really The Best Anti Hero In Another World!-System Of Anti Hero! novel Chapter 30

Chapter 30 - 30 - Family Suffering – Part 5

Amid laughter and idle chatter, Sophia watched time slip by and— from her perspective— a strange silence settle in.

She sighed.

"Alright, Dad... enough beating around the bush, because I didn't come here to talk about that."

"Huh?"

"I came here to ask you to stop worrying so much about me."

Arthur smiled, still taking her words as a joke deep down:

— ...You know that's impossible, don't you?

He said, smiling. _{freeweɓnovel.cøm}

"But you also don't need to worry about me all the time! Like I said, I'm not a child anymore—I can take care of myself."

"There's no way I can stop worrying about you both, since you and Mom are the only people I still have; it's impossible."

"...But... you don't even spend much time with us... Most of the time you're stuck here in this place. How do you think Mom feels seeing that? She never leaves her room; every time I go to see her, there she is—alone, sitting in that damn chair by the lake—and you, here, confined in this room... Did you know the last time I saw you in person was almost a month ago?"

His smile faded, and he felt as if something sharp had pierced his chest. The worst part was that, in the end, he couldn't deny those words were true. Arthur sighed:

— ...You're still a child, Sophia; you don't know what you're talking about.