# Chapter 24
Chapter 24
Bunny clenched her fists and opened her mouth.
“No!!
Bunny is strong!!
The Lord said Bunny is strong!!”
As soon as Bunny finished speaking, the kids looked at each other in confusion, then burst into laughter so loud it seemed the ground might crack.
“Strong?
Hahaha!!”
“What, did the Lord just play with you for fun?
I mean, who would actually adopt someone like you?
Especially someone as great as the hero Kiriel!!”
“Str-strong means small and cute…”
“No, it doesn’t!
'Strong' means you're small and ugly, stupid!”
The kids surrounding Bunny erupted in laughter again.
‘...Bunny got tricked?!’
Thunk!
A brick of shock hit her on the head and tumbled to the ground.
‘Bunny’s been betrayed so quickly…’
With her mouth agape, Bunny trembled, then clenched her fists tightly.
Suddenly, she put down her backpack, grabbed the rabbit ears tightly, and focused her gaze.
“W-what are you glaring at, ugly?”
“...”
Holding the rabbit ears, Bunny flashed a sinister look and glared sharply with her pink eyes, quickly raising her head.
‘Luri told me what to say when bullies bother you.
What was it in human language again?’
Bunny blinked.
Dog...
Dog…
“Miss, don’t forget.
If you meet a dog that bothers you while walking, grab the rabbit ears and shout.”
Ding!
A lightbulb went off in Bunny’s mind.
Recalling the advice, Bunny began swinging her rabbit bag wildly and charged at the kids.
“You dog-taekki!!”
With a shout full of anger, the rabbit bag glowed faintly.
At the same time, the rabbit bag in Bunny's hands started thrashing towards the kids wildly.
“Bad brats, here’s the magic spell to make them look pretty!”
Bunny smirked.
‘Luri is a genius, after all.’
As long as Bunny followed Luriel’s advice, everything would be solved.
“Ah!
Ahh!
Ahhh!
Ahhh!”
“Ow!
What, ow!”
“It hurts!!
Ahhh!
Ahhh!”
The rabbit bag that Bunny was swinging around hit the kids with satisfying smacking sounds.
The kids tried to block it with their hands, but for some reason, they couldn’t grab hold of the rabbit bag.
Whenever they reached for it, their hands would slip away as if the bag was sliding through thin air.
They couldn’t even touch Bunny.
“Wahh, wahhh!!”
As the kids started crying, Bunny stepped back a little and put the bag on her back again.
The servants quickly gathered around as the kids bawled, and soon enough, even their parents arrived.
“Son!!
Who did this to you…!
Oh no, are you okay?
Look at your swollen face.”
“Oh, my poor child, who dared to beat you like a dog!”
The sobbing children clung to their parents.
As Bunny tried to take a step back, a voice stopped her.
“Hey!
Isn’t this too much?
How could you do this?”
“They started bothering Bunny first.”
“What?
My child is so gentle…!
They would never do such a thing.
Besides, what could our delicate, fragile children have done to a rough stray like you?”
Delicate and fragile…?
Bunny looked at the crying child and squinted her eyes.
“No, they’re chubbier than Bunny…”
“What?!
How dare you say that with your mouth!
I don’t care if you were raised without manners, coming from a backgroundless orphan, but hitting people and speaking so rudely?!”
The parents’ voices grew louder, and Bunny flinched, her shoulders shaking as she clamped her mouth shut.
“See?
You can’t associate with children who have no parents or background… I should have known when you started hanging out with that beast.”
“I have a mom and dad too.”
“Enough!
Apologize to my kids right now!”
The kids clinging to their parents all gave Bunny mocking smirks with their tear-stained faces.
Feeling a surge of frustration, Bunny turned her head and huffed.
“No.
Bunny didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Apologize!
Or should we call the guards?
Do you want to go to jail?!”
At the mention of jail, Bunny froze.
‘Jail is no good…’
Her eyes instantly filled with tears, and sorrow welled up as her tears started to fall.
To become a great Dark Lord, you have to become a great adult.
To become a great adult, you have to stay in this house.
To stay in this house, you can’t go to jail.
But she didn’t want to apologize.
“Hurry up!
Do you want to make this a big deal?
You were wrong!”
Bunny’s lips pouted.
It was unfair, but she had no choice but to endure it here.
Luriel said that sometimes there are unfair things, and there are things you have to do even if you really don’t want to.
‘Is this that moment?’
But...
“If he sees this, Lord Kiriel will be very disappointed.”
Thud.
Bunny’s eyes widened, and soon she began to mutter with a tearful face.
“S-Sorry…”
But Bunny didn’t do anything wrong.
“Interesting.
Since when did I have so many spokespeople in this household…?”
At that moment, a calm, chilling voice was heard, and Bunny’s eyes widened.
“Huh?
Who’s disappointed, and who’s doing what…?
Seems like I’m being underestimated if people are running their mouths like this…”
Along with the cold voice, Bunny’s waist was suddenly grabbed, and her body lifted into the air.
Bunny, her eyes wide open, slowly turned her head, and there was Kiriel Yudia, tilting his head slightly with a cold expression.
“L-Lord… No, this child violently hit our children… Look!
They’re already bruised!”
They pushed their children forward as they spoke.
“Daughter, those kids bullied you first, right?”
As if it was obvious, Bunny nodded repeatedly.
“Yes… They said I was ugly… They kept pushing me… They said I was small and ugly… They said Lord was a liar…”
“...”
At Bunny’s accusing voice, Kiriel Yudia glanced sideways and then smiled softly.
“It’s not a lie.
My daughter is a cute little one.
Who said otherwise?”
“Those kids…”
Bunny pouted her lips, unable to hide her sulkiness.
Kiriel Yudia chuckled softly and tapped Bunny’s lips with his finger.
“I see.
Then they should be punished.
I guess expulsion is in order for all of them.”
As Kiriel’s calm words continued, the parents’ faces turned pale.
“It seems like the ones who should apologize are someone else, don’t you think?”
Direct lineage authority is powerful.
Especially for someone like him.
Even though he’s treated like a slacker now, he was once a hero of the Holy War.
In comparison, the collateral family was, honestly speaking, like a candle in the wind.
Especially now, as the Duke was cutting off the non-performing branches without hesitation.
“Or if anyone can prove that my daughter lied before the Scales, step forward.
If it turns out to be true, I’ll personally apologize.”
The Scales.
A holy relic summoned by the current Saint Salame Yudia at the age of ten, it’s an object that determines good and evil.
In front of it, no one can lie.
Thud.
One of the parents, trembling slightly, fell to their knees.
One after another, the parents and their children bowed their heads.
“We, we’re sorry.”
The moment of good and evil was determined.