ตอน 2744: Not a Father (Part 2)

She instantly shut up and lowered her gaze, doing her best to hold back the tears.

"I don't know what the matter is but that was wrong. Do you think we should go ch-" When Kamila turned to Lith, she found herself talking to empty air.

"I said look at me when I'm talking to you, you ungrateful runt!" The man yelled in the kid's face who instead kept her eyes low. "I said look at-"

The man had already raised his hand again when a whisper from behind covered him in a cold sweat.

"I am looking." Lith said, standing right behind the man and locking his wrist in an iron grip. "And I don't like what I see."

Before becoming a father, it would take a young boy or two brothers being victims of abuse to trigger Lith. Now, however, any little girl would do as well.

"What's the matter here?" Lith asked.

"Nothing, Magus Verhen, I was just-"