
Hearing the rebuttal coming from his Granddaughter, Duke felt extremely shocked. For the first time, he was rebutted by Ezter.
Duke remained calm, "What makes you not want to go to my study, Ezter?"
Ezter was not a shy and timid girl, she immediately looked at her Grandmother's eyes boldly. "Can't you solve this problem here? Why do we have to go to your study, Grandma?"
"This kid-". Before Diana could utter the sentence, Due's hand lifted and stopped Diana from speaking.
"Why?" The Duke only mumbled softly, but he nodded his head. "Then let's finish it immediately."
"So, what's going on here?" ask the Duke
"I saw him attack his sister! ..He kicked Marilyn into the flowers!" Diana was the one who spoke first
"Then Mom, is your son just him? Why don't you ask what the problem is first? Why did I attack him?" Ezter's lion-like eyes looked directly at Marilyn, making the other girl immediately frightened and averted her eyes
"You! how can you-"
"Diana! Shut your mouth!" the Duke who managed to snarl made Diana speechless.
"Then Ezter, why did you attack Marilyn?" ask the Duke again
"He hit my brother, Edmund. Just look at how the child looks, see the physical difference and strength alone, we can know what happened" said Ezter calmly, he rubbed the heads of his two twin sisters.
"Edmund, tell me what happened." Duke's firm voice made the boy tremble, but because Ezter calmed him down then, he boldly said what had happened.
"Me, brother and Ede were walking around. Ede and I chased the flying butterfly, but Ede hit the brother."
"Have you apologized?" ask Ezter calmly.
Edmund nodded, "Ede apologized, but the older brother pushed Ede down and fell over. I scolded him but he said that if no one would protect us, Mom loved him and our father was gone. I was pissed off, so I hit him, then-"
"Then what? Say it," asked the Duke. His daughter-in-law is dead, but this child born out of wedlock even dares to insult another child? They are both Grandsons, but De Leon's family hates infidelity and children born out of wedlock. Her daughter was really outrageous, very brave to bring her mistress back home.
"The brother pushed me down and beat me, I couldn't move. But suddenly Brother Ete came, and I could move again." explained Edmund and missed none. He might be young, yet this child was so brave and intelligent, no one dared to underestimate him just because he was young.
The atmosphere became silent and gripping, "Marilyn, what Edmund said was true? You insulted her?"
Marilyn was frightened, this was the first time she felt this gripping atmosphere, every day she was always loved by Mom or Dad. However, he could not let his name be broken so easily, Dad said clearly that he should be able to get the Granny's heart and affection, over and over again until it was ingrained in his mind.
"Grandma, i-"
"Don't be convoluted and just say it, true or not!" snarl the Duke firmly
Having no other choice, Marilyn knelt down and let out a tear, "Grandmother, I'm sorry. I just-"
"What only?.. Don't shed those fake tears! I hate to see something hypocritical!... You're so brave, ckckck... What exactly did you teach this kid?" The Duke looked at Diana and David, shaking his head.
"Ezter, bring your two sisters back and treat your wounds too, your mother has gone too far. Rose, treat it with high-quality medicine, don't make their faces have scars on the face." Said the Duke, Rose who was the butler nodded then led the three to return to their room.
"And you, Diana. Go to my office after this!" The Duke turned and moved away
"Dad, my jaw is very sore. It's really painful" whined Marilyn, she wasn't pretending and was in a lot of pain.
"My darling-"
"Go back to the room, I'll catch up" said Diana
"I know David, I'm gonna call the doctor here. So go back to the room, I don't have a choice, my mother can't be denied." Diana followed the Duke from behind.
David was furious, yet he was also helpless. He took Marilyn back to their room.
When Diana arrived at the Duke's study, she realized that the atmosphere in the room was too quiet, the Duke just sat down and looked at the door without doing anything despite the documents before him.
"Mother"
"Stand there." said Duke flatly
On the other hand, Ezter was sitting with Edward on his lap, while Edmund was sitting next to him.
"Sister, I'm sorry. I'm guilty" Edmund said
"No, Edmund did the right thing. You protected Edward well, you were a good brother." Ezter rubbed his sister's head with a proud smile. Well, what Edmund did was right, it's just that he didn't have enough strength to protect others.
"But, haven't I been disrespectful?" ask Edmund
"Don't mind that, if you see someone else bothering your brother, then don't be quiet even if others think you're disrespectful" Ezter replied
"I-I'm wrong, Ede shouldn't run after the butterfly, so Ete's sister's face won't get hurt like this. Forgive Ede, hikss..hikss..."
"No, Edward is innocent. He was the one who was wrong when he must have seen you two, but still blocked your path. Don't cry, okay?" Ezter rubbed Edward's back against him, both of them in a koala position that hugged a tree.
The butler had been there since then, when he saw that it seemed that Ezter's injury was very serious, the woman quickly contacted the doctor.
when a knock came from out there, Rose immediately opened the door.
The left wing was their residence, the real mansion was that the castle was very spacious, so the doctor also needed time to arrive.
When looking at the state of the young Duke candidates in the future was extremely chaotic, the doctor was really very shocked. The woman quickly checked on Ezter's condition which was quite serious.
Luckily, his face was already compressed with cold water, so his bruising was slightly reduced.
The doctor also prescribed the medicine to work in the drink by Ezter, he left his left wing and went to the main building where Duke's office was then reported the results of his examination.
The duke who heard the condition of his granddaughter was very concerned about it felt very upset with Diana. How could an adult woman not think twice while hitting Ezter so badly?
"And what? is there a wound in his mouth? How can the child eat well?" the Duke muttered to himself.
That night, Ezter couldn't eat well, he could only eat something soft so that only soup and porridge could enter his mouth.
When he looked at his face in the mirror, it really did look bad.
Her cheeks swelled, purple bruises were on both sides of her cheeks, and her lips were also torn so that blood came out, which was more worrying was the wound in her mouth, it was very painful.
"Based on gil4 women! how could he use his full strength when beating on me?... But, considering Marilyn's more severe condition makes me feel better." murmured Ezter.
And it's true, Ezter also didn't give Marilyn a chance to have fun, the girl was crying in pain because her jaw was shifting
Ezter's kick this afternoon used full force, which has been training for years. In fact, Ezter's kick could break a strong woodwork, when compared to Marilyn who had never been trained, the boy was very weak and it felt like he could be broken with the young by Ezter.