Chapter 34: Idol (2)
Little Alicia Listening to her aunt call her a hero, was pleased with her response and decided to start saying what she wanted to say today, getting her to stop doing so much exercise and feeling so much pain.
Before that, she told her aunt to come a little closer to her, and she whispered in her ear in her sweet and childish voice to keep it a secret about her being a hero, as she didn't want to expose her identity to the world.
May, listening to her sweet and childish voice in her ear, agreed to her quietly, and seeing her antics, her ears were twitching slightly, showing signs of happiness.
After that, Little Alicia pointed her little fingers at her, she said in her cute voice, looking directly into her crimson eyes.
"Listen up, 'good little Villain' Hero Alicia had decided to stop you from doing so much painful exercise."
As she didn't want her aunt to feel as much pain as she felt for the past two days, she knows that her aunt did it for a long time, so she didn't have a problem walking and getting used to the exercise, but she would still feel the pain.
Aunt May heard her cute little niece's voice who wanted her to stop doing those painful exercises felt very warm in her heart and just wanted to hug her adorable little niece who cared so much about her.
Still, May wouldn't stop her training because those painful experiences and cruel training had made her what she is today.
She didn't want to convince her cute little niece to stop in front of her and continue while she didn't watch; this was not her way of doing things.
So she decided to tell her the truth and see if she could persuade her, she said with a bit of gentleness in her usual cold voice, looking directly into her eyes.
"Hero Alicia I couldn't stop doing those exercises because it makes me stronger so that I can fight bad guys and defeat them making the world a more peaceful place to live in."
Hero Alicia, listening to the 'good little villain' who had made her do those painful exercises, didn't know what to say to her because fighting bad guys was very cool to her, and she herself hadn't fought an actual bad guy while being a hero herself.
She even doubted herself with her small brain, thinking she was not the real hero here, she couldn't back down now coming here even though she revealed her secret identity to her Aunt, remembering those painful exercises
She decided not to believe her words, as she couldn't think her beautiful aunt would defeat those big, scary guys, and said in her cute voice.
"Hmph, stop lying to me. I am not a kid. How can you defeat those big scary men with big arms and legs, with lots of muscles on them? My mom had already told me that those things in cartoons are not real."
At the end of the sentence, talking about cartoons being not real, her voice was sad, as when she found out about this from her mom, she cried for the whole day and stopped watching her favorite superhero show.
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A few days after she finally accepted that it wasn't real, she started watching, as she couldn't ignore the temptations of those shows, but she still liked acting like a Hero in those cartoons sometimes, even knowing that they weren't real.
So she definitely wouldn't believe her words and questioned her and waited for her response, even forgetting about her play of being Hero Alicia in between.
Hearing little Alice's question, Aunt May didn't react much as her niece is a child, or even some adults who hadn't seen her fight would find it hard to believe.
It was hard to believe her words beating a big scary man so she said it in a resolute tone, having a proud look on her face, trying to show a little in front of her little niece, as even for her, she absolutely cared about how her little niece would look at her.
She did not look directly at her eyes, looked somewhere far away, trying to look mysterious, and said.
"Little Alicia, What do you think? How many times have I ever lied to you?"
She didn't ever lie to her family, as she didn't like it, and it didn't sit right with her, of course, if it was not something that would bring harm to her family, she had never lied to her family.
Little Alicia, who had forgotten about her being the hero here, looked at her Aunt's tall figure with long red hair, deep crimson eyes, and her cold beautiful face.
She felt goosebumps all over her body as she looked like a TV scene to her.
May is looking into the distant horizon, just like the heroes she had seen on TV when they said some cool thing.
Coming out of her thoughts remembering her question, she wanted to find words to deny her.
but she couldn't because, as long as she remembered, her aunt had never lied to her and said in her cute voice, looking at her tall figure.
"Aunt May, you had never lied to me before, but how could you defeat those big scary guys? Your arms are so small, and they have big and muscular arms."
Listening to her asking questions in her cute voice, May can sense that it's the right opportunity to show how cool their aunt is to Little Alicia.
She also wanted her niece or nephew to look up to her like every other adult while having the same emotionless face and not showing the very excited enthusiasm she was having inside.
She didn't answer directly. she looked up at the sky acting mysterious and said in a serious voice.
"Little Alicia, what do you think about how many big muscular guys your aunt had fought with and defeated?"
Little Alicia was looking at her aunt, who seemed to be looking a little different in her eyes at first starting from when she first heard her say she had defeated a bad guy just like the Heroes she watches in cartoons.
May acting mysterious and trying to act cool in front of her had more effect than she had imagined in her niece's eyes right in this moment.
She looks like a hero to her who is fighting bad guys in secret and trying to hide her identity from the world.
She was revealing an important secret to her right now, so she listened to her with a serious look on her cute face while having sparkles in her eyes.
She answered her question honestly with one of her small hands on her chin, thinking about how many big muscular guys she would have defeated. After thinking for a while, she finally said it in her cute voice.
"Aunt May I think you would have defeated at least two of those big, muscular guys."
May hearing her little niece's answer felt a little underestimated by her but she knew she looked like a cold, emotionless beauty and her body didn't have much muscle on it like some muscular woman.
But she was actually very strong despite her looks, so she didn't feel anything about it and said it in her usual voice, still looking at the distant clouds in the sky.
"You are wrong. Little Alicia Your aunt didn't even count how many she defeated, and it's too many to count."
Little Alicia had sparkles in her eyes hearing her cool words hastily answered in an excited voice having a cheerful look on her face.
"Really Aunt, wow you are so cool."
May, feeling proud of her words, didn't stop there and continued with pride in her cold, emotionless voice, looking directly into her eyes, and asking her once again.
"And my dear, answer me, out of all the fights I had with bad guys, how many times do you think I would have lost?"
Little Alicia, hearing her question with the same sparkle in her eyes and an awe-inspiring look on her face while looking directly into her Aunt's cold eyes, said in her cute voice after thinking for a while.
But it was a little hard for her to guess, she also didn't guess wrongly in front of her aunt, who has already become a hero in her eyes and is hiding her identity from the world, said somewhat vaguely but a little confident in her answer.
"Aunt May, you would have lost at least once out of all the fights with big, scary bad guys."
In her mind, even those heroes she sees on TV lost at least once, so this time she is very confident in her answer and raises her chin lightly, waiting for her praise.
Seeing her raising her chin a little and waiting for praise, May found her very adorable and wanted to squeeze in a hug.
But seeing the momentum that had built up she stopped herself still couldn't resist the temptation as she patted her head a little as a trial and said in her usual voice with a hint of softness in it.
"You did a good job guessing, little Alicia."
Feeling the pat that she loves so much and listening to her Praise, she thought she had guessed correctly and said while giggling.
"Hehehe, aren't I the smartest aunt?"
May, still gently patting her little niece's head bent down a little to match her eye level, looked directly into her deep black eyes with her crimson eyes and said in her voice with a hint of softness in it.
"Don't worry, little Alicia, you are wrong this time, but I still love you very much, and you are definitely the smartest niece ever."
While thinking she is not wrong for saying she is the smart niece 'because she only had one niece technically, she is the smartest by default'
She can also see that her niece, unlike his nephew, is very pure and untainted, a bit naive, she loves herself just the way she is, and looking at her growing up happily, she often imagines herself like that.
But the reality is cruel and her childhood is not something she wanted to remember willingly, seeing her pure and naive niece, her heart felt at peace.
So she didn't want her niece to change and enjoy her cheerful personality and the antics she usually gets to become part of. She didn't say outright, but she enjoys her antics, and her love for her niece a little more than her nephew.
But she still loves them both very much and could even sacrifice her own colorless life that became a little colorful after her faithful meeting with her big sister Alice.
When one day out of nowhere her big sister Alice suddenly decided to become a mother and wanted to have children, she was not very pleased with her ideas and wanted to outright reject her and persuade her a little.
But her Big Sister Alice had convinced her, and she also finds it very hard to reject her (never actually gone against her words), so she reluctantly accepted, and she felt so glad now that she had accepted it.
Because she got to live these joyful moments with her niece and nephew and this feeling, she definitely didn't want to forget it.
This is why her life is a very small price for a person who had lived a cruel and bloody life and killed many people so she could die to protect her happy family.
Thinking about this, she gets a little emotional which she doesn't usually get. Years had passed since she felt this emotional.
So she quickly hugged her little one in front of her to not show her face as a little drop of tears fell from her emotionless eyes without making a sound. Those were tears of happiness to have a lovely family herself.
Little Alicia, who suddenly got hugged by her aunt, didn't say much and enjoyed her hug after guessing wrongly about her loss and was clueless about her aunt's emotions.