I Became The Stepmother Of An Irrevocable Dark Family

“Th-Then I will give you all of mine.”

May reluctantly held out her notes, but the child was greatly upset and only glared at her.

“Who do you take me for, huh!? A street thug?! Who wants it anyway!”

“…I’m sorry.”

Rere angrily stomped off. We were all frozen because of Rere’s unexpected behavior. In the meantime, Rere rustled through something and came back to us.

“This is a fair deal, okay?! I don’t want to get it from you for free. I’ll give you this instead, so let’s trade!”

Then Rere held out a thick pocket toward May.

“M-My lady…this….!”

“Why? Not enough?”

“B-But I don’t think the gift….is worth all this money….”

Upon hearing that, Rere flared her nose angrily.

“It’s from my mom! Do you mean that everything my mom gives me is worthless?!”

“Oh no! Of course, everything she gives you is precious….”

“Anything my mom gives me is precious! Damn it…want me to kick you out?”

Rere clenched her small, round fist as she glared at May.

“N-No! I just think it’s too much….”

“That is not more precious than what Big Bunny gave me! So just give it to me!”

May looked at me and the nanny alternately with a puzzled expression and eventually handed the note to Rere. She was forced to take the gold pocket.

“C-Can I really keep this?”

“Yeah! May, you, who are ignorant about how precious these notes are, don’t deserve them at all!”

Rere snatched the notes from May’s hand and opened them up so eagerly. Then she came up to me and gave me her notes.

“Here!”

“O-Okay, Rere.”

“Don’t say anything!”

“Huh?”

“I didn’t steal it from someone else, okay? I bought it at a fair price!”

Perhaps worried that I’d scold her, the child impatiently blurted out her mind before I could say something.

“Rere.”

“Yes? I mean, what?!”

(TL/N: She said ‘Yes’ very politely at first)

“When you make a deal with someone, it’s true that you must take out something you can offer first. But it’s not right to force your opponent.”

“…But….May didn’t even realize how precious these things are that you gave me.”

So I picked up the sullen-faced child.

“People may feel differently. I might be precious to Rere, but others probably don’t think the same way.”

“Only an idiot thinks that way! They have no idea how precious my Big Bunny is!”

“It doesn’t matter what people think of me. As long as I know that Rere treasures me this much. We can’t all feel the same way, right?”

Then the child nodded hard, shaking her plump cheeks.

“That’s right! Then, shall we open the present now?”

Rere turned her head sharply and stared right at Luca. He then held out the notes to Rere like he was pricked by something.

“…I’ll give you mine, too.”

“No. You don’t need to do that, Luca.”

“Pardon?”

“Because everything that belongs to Luca is mine.” Rere said confidently, not taking her eyes off Luca. “I’d give Luca the honor to keep my mom’s notes!”

“My present will be yours, Miss.”

“As expected! I like Luca because he’s so smart.”

“Miss! You even took my notes!” May yelped, still clenching the gold pocket in her arms.

“You don’t need the notes, May!”

“But….”

“Luca needs it the most. Luca likes my Big Bunny, so we have to let him keep it. If not, Luca will be sad.”

“Pardon….?”

Luca’s face was slightly flushed due to her unexpected remarks.

“Am I wrong?”

“N-No…I mean…um…It’s true that I like Leona…”

“Didn’t you smile when I told you to keep the note? You seem to be in a good mood.”

“…That’s right. I didn’t know that you’d be this considerate toward me, Miss.”

“Because I’m a generous and kind lady.”

With her chin raised, she looked down at the people around her and stopped at May again.

“Also! I know you need money!”

“Pardon….?”

“Whenever my cake gets thrown away, you’d always say that it was a waste and whine about how your brothers like chocolate cakes.”

“Aaah…!”

“Buy as much as you want. Others will think that my daddy pays you too little!”

The atmosphere in the room became stiff in an instant. She dropped bombshell after bombshell. Me, the nanny, Luca and May were shocked. None of us knew that Rere was being that considerate toward others.

“Miss…back then you.….”

“Stop blabbing about my past, won’t you?! I don’t want to hear it. I’m the same as I used to be!”

As she said that, Rere pouted and rubbed her face against mine.

“Yeah, Rere never changed. Rere was nice before and is still nice now. Am I right?”

“Yes, of course. But that’s not all. Rere used to be pretty and is still pretty now.”

“More! More!”

“Rere used to be cute, and is still cute now.”

“More! More!”

Rere liked to hear the compliment, and kept shouting ‘more!’ for a long time. At last, when I ran out of compliments, the quick-witted Luca walked up to us.

“So when are you going to open the gift?”

“Ah, wait. Sit here, Rere. I’ll bring the gift.”

“Oh! I almost forgot!”

Even though she said she almost forgot, she continued to fiddle with her notes.

After Rere sat on the chair, I brought out the box I had left in Rere’s dressing room.

I packed a lot of toys whenever I couldn’t sleep at night. Thanks to that, the box was full of gifts in pretty packages.

“Wowwww! All of this is mine?”

“It’s not yours. It belongs to those who own the note.”

“So it’s mine! Hehe~ It must be very heavy. I’ll hold some for you!”

She didn’t even give me a chance to say I’m fine before she took an armful of gifts from the box.

“But why are they so light?”

“You’ll know when you open it.”

I passed by the curious Rere and put the box 0on the table.

“Well, then. You may exchange the notes with gifts.”

“…Huh? Do I have to give you the note? Can’t I just keep this?”

“Hmm?”

“I want the notes, too! I’m going to keep everything Big Bunny made for me! Ah…no.. I mean, I’m going to play with it until I get bored and throw it away after.”

At my words, Rere rolled her eyes to avoid my gaze.

“Are you sure you’re going to throw it away?”

“Ah, anyway. Give me the present, hurry!”

The child had climbed onto the table out of curiosity and now returned to her seat, looking at the present with a wide grin on her face.

I took the notes in order to exchange them for gifts. Of course, as soon as I read it, Rere took the note from me again.

“This is the first gift. You may open it.”

“Uh, okay!! My heart is pounding.”

With her personality, I thought Rere would rip it apart immediately, but she was tearing it with utmost care.

“You can just tear it apart, Rere.”

“No. Big Bunny had worked so hard to wrap it up. So I don’t want to do that.”

Rere shook her head firmly before moving her hands busily again.

“How are you so sure that I wrapped it?”

“You didn’t? Tsk, come on. Then I’ll just tear it apart. Haaa…it’s so hard to open the gift slowly.”

Believing my words, Rere tore the wrapping apart without hesitation.

Now I couldn’t bring myself to be honest when I saw the child tearing it off excitedly.

“Wow….What’s this? I’ve never seen a toy like this before!”

After that, Rere continued to exchange her notes with gifts. Every time a gift was revealed, her face brightened like a spring flower.

Not only that, she even wrapped her small hand around my cheek.

“Look at this! Wooah woah! There’s this durururu sound every time the dice rolls! I’ve never seen anything like this before! There’s an animal chess board….so cute!!! I want to play chess! I want to learn how to play chess!”

Rere yelled excitedly as if finding the wooden chess horses cute. After that, she didn’t stop expressing her admiration.

Rere was especially charmed by the pinwheel that produced fifty thousand colors like a rainbow, but she was frozen in place when looking at a strange object.

“What is this?”

It was a soap bubble with a plastic-like material as its applicator inside a transparent glass bottle.

It wasn’t exactly plastic, but it wasn’t wood either. It was an unusual material.

The texture was wood, but it had a good elasticity, so it widened into a shape whenever you pulled out the applicator.

“This is a soap bubble.”

“Soap bubble?”

It was one of the things that I didn’t expect to exist in this world.

When I pulled it out, the applicator spread in the shape of a gourd bottle.

“How do you play with that?”

Looking at Rere, I blew air into the gourd-shaped applicator. Then bubbles began to float in the air, giving off a mysterious glow as if they contained a rainbow.

“Wooow!! What’s this!”

“It’s a soap bubble!”

It was different from the soap bubbles that I knew. There was a very tiny mana stone on the bottom of the glass. Maybe that’s why the bubbles lasted longer than usual.

“Wooow! More! Do more! More!”

Her eyes were twinkling as if filled with starlight. Rere rose from her seat and tried to grab the bubbles with her hands.

When I bought this product from a merchant, I thought the price was unusually high. Now I could see why it was so expensive.

“Do you like it?”

“Yeah! I like it!”

“Then I’ll buy it whenever I go out since Rere likes it so much.”

“No!!”

“Huh? Why?”

“Yup! Don’t go many times, just buy it all at once! Then the world would be filled with bubbles, right?”

Rere jumped in place with a heart full of excitement.