"Of course I know what I should call you!" Aino's eyes betrayed her fearless tone and showed how afraid she was of the man before her.
"?" Sabrina snapped her head over to look at her daughter in shock, even Kingston who was standing b y the door had his eyes widened in surprise.
"Could the little princess know instinctively that this i s her father?" He thought.
"I am calling you stinky bum! You stinky bum, give me back my uncle, where did you take my uncle?? Take m e on, you stinky bum!" Without any warning, Aino darted towards Sebastian, launching any form of attack possible for a five year-old. She kicked and she punched, biting and tearing fiercely as she did.
Despite being a young child, the girl had a fire within her that only burnt hotter when she was angry.
Powered by the frustration, she kicked and jabbed at Sebastian's legs with incredible strength. Within a blink of an eye, the branded shoes Sebastian wore that were worth over hundreds of thousands were horribly deformed under her merciless stomping.
Sabrina, on the other side, had completely given up as she shed tears of despair. Aino had inherited more than just Sebastian's intelligence, but the stubbornness and competitiveness too, which had led her to stand up against the man she feared in order to
protect her mother. If Sebastian didn't plan on letting them go to begin with, he surely wouldn't change his mind now that Aino had gone and offended the man.
"Maybe it's for the best! At least Aino won't be left behind to live in a world where she has no one to depend on," she wordlessly accepted the reality as it was and had therefore ceased any attempt at stopping Aino from her assault against Sebastian .
Sebastian lifted Aino up by the arms by now and that had only agitated the child further. She continued to kick Sebastian on the legs relentlessly, her little hands clenched into fists and stuck him in the face, over and over again. 1
"For the love of God!" Kingston could barely stand watching as he thought to himself, "years had gone by since the master gained a position of power and no one in the South City would dare so much as to squeeze in front of him, let alone offending the man. The little princess has no idea how privileged she is for the master to actually put up with this. The two really are bonded by blood."
Over the years in their search for Sabrina, not even for once had Kingston suspected that the child Sabrina bore was fathered by Sebastian . His belief had only been further confirmed when he first laid eyes on the little princess when he followed his master to this remote county.
"You Stinky Bum! Stinky Bum! Let me go! Or I'm going t o beat your stinky bum!" Aino yelled as her attack
intensified. She had thought that this man that her mother had feared would have sent her flying, but to her surprise, he hadn't retaliated at all and had only lifted her up despite having his shoes stomped to the state that they were barely recognizable.
Aino threw yet another punch and it connected with Sebastian's eye with sheer force.
Kingston couldn't help but snap his eyes closed and when he reopened them, Sebastian had already let go o f the little princess and was covering his eye in pain.
Aino ran towards her mother as soon as she was let go and turned to look at Sebastian tearily, as if she was the one who was hit in the eye. Sebastian rubbed gently on his eyes in an attempt to ease the pain and when he finally removed his hand from his face, Kingston came close to laughing out loud at the sight. A bruise was already forming around one of his eyes, giving him an embarrassing resemblance to a raccoon. Only the daughter of Master Sebastian would dare to present such a "welcoming gift" to a man like him. Sebastian slowly rose to his feet and looked over t o both Sabrina and Aino. 2
"Do whatever you want with us," Sabrina said emotionlessly, before turning to look at Kingston with a lump in her throat and begged, "Assistant Yates, could you...could you see to it that the both of us are buried together? For the sake of that warming pack I gave you back then?"
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