Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 218 How Russell Got Beaten

This connection made Bernadette feel uncomfortable instinctively. At this moment, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something in the coffin from the corner of her eye. It seemed to be a stack of papers.

Bernadette was stunned for a moment, then reached out to take out the stack of papers, and saw the words written on the top white paper:

"What are you still hesitating about? Why don't you give Russell a fist of true love to awaken Him?"

Unlike the previous note, Bernadette did not recognize the handwriting on the white paper. It obviously did not belong to Russell but to another person.

"Is this really not a joke?" Because the content was too unbelievable, even though it was the second time she saw this sentence, Bernadette was still hesitant.

She then looked at the next page of white paper and saw the following words written on it:

"Well, it's wrong for a lady to hit someone with her fists, but it's okay. I can give you a reason to hit someone."

"Reason?" Bernadette became curious. She continued to read and saw familiar Chinese characters. Those were the mysterious characters her father used when writing in his diary. However, this time, underneath the Chinese characters, there was a line of Loen's common language.

"Is this a translation?" Bernadette wasn't sure. She almost subconsciously focused her attention on the content that seemed to be the translation of Roselle's diary, and then she was stunned for a moment.

There was only this written on the white paper:
"March 17th, are all the ladies of Intis so open? Was it me who slept with her, or was it she who slept with me? It feels a little weird."

Bernadette realized almost immediately that this was Roselle's love history. She was not a simple little girl and naturally knew about her father's chaotic private life.

It was just that although she knew it before, Bernadette had never seen it with her own eyes. Russell still had to maintain his dignity. Although he had fun outside, he was always serious in front of his daughter. So even though she had heard of Russell's reputation in some aspects, Bernadette was still shocked at this moment.

Her father, her father actually wrote these things in his diary!

Bernadette bit her lower lip almost subconsciously, and continued to look down without stopping, and sure enough, she saw more love history.

Among them, there are not only records of her father having an affair with a certain lady or a certain young lady, but also records of her father dating a certain lady while her mother was pregnant.

Bernadette felt her fists harden as she watched. She looked at Russell, who looked like a corpse, and couldn't help but sneer.

Ha! If that's all there is to Russell's diary, then what's the point of her quest to decipher it all these years? A clown?
If Bernadette hated Roselle before because he was not a human being and it was out of justice, then now Bernadette wanted to beat Roselle purely out of personal vendetta.

But Bernadette still restrained herself. She read the remaining blank papers one by one, and soon came to the last one, which read:

"What are you still hesitating about?"

Yes, what is she still hesitating about?
Bernadette finally lost her patience. She looked down at her slender and powerful hands, clenched her fists, and smashed them hard on Russell's handsome face.

“Ouch, it hurts, it hurts!”

Russell practically screamed as he sat up from his coffin. He exaggeratedly covered his beaten face with his hands. He looked at Bernadette and smiled a slightly awkward yet excited smile. He couldn't help but shout, "Bernadette..." "Father." Bernadette looked up at him. It was obvious that Bernadette was also very excited at the moment, but she didn't rush into a friendly parent-child reunion with Russell. Instead, she showed him the stack of papers filled with Russell's diary and its translation, and asked quietly, "Are the translations of these diaries correct?"

"Ah, this!" Russell suddenly felt cold sweat coming out of his body, and couldn't help cursing in his heart.

If you ask Russell why he was lying in the coffin waiting for Bernadette's fist of true love to wake him up, the reason is simple - Rowling told him that Bernadette's love and resentment for him were both very deep, so for the sake of their father-daughter relationship, it would be best to have a special reunion and resolve Bernadette's resentment towards him as much as possible.

Roselle believed it, or rather, he had no choice but to believe it, as Rowling had made it clear that he would not arrange for their reunion unless he agreed. In addition, Roselle really didn't want those past events to hinder his relationship with Bernadette, so he had no choice but to agree.

This led to the previous scene - not recognizing each other directly but showing them from behind was to give Bernadette time to fully prepare, and also to maximize her expectations. The fist of true love is the breaking of the old, so Bernadette was able to vent her resentment towards her father, so as not to keep it in her heart which would easily cause problems.

Regarding Russell's diary, Rowling said that there would be a lot of "time travelers" in the future, and his diary was no longer a secret. Anyway, they would all die sooner or later, so why not take this opportunity to explode? At most, they would get beaten a few more times. It would be better to expose this matter when the father and daughter just reunited and the atmosphere was the best, rather than causing a family war later.

Apart from anything else, Rowling's arrangement still makes sense, at least it sounds feasible, which is one of the reasons why Russell is willing to follow his arrangements.

But even though he had prepared himself mentally, facing Bernadette's furious eyes at this moment, Russell still instinctively shrank back and said with a wry smile, "The translation of the diary is correct, but Bernadette, let me explain..."

"There's nothing to explain!" Bernadette interrupted Russell. She looked expressionlessly at the father she had been searching for for over a hundred years, and said through gritted teeth, "Father! You are truly my good father!"

After she finished speaking, she laughed, which sounded like a sneer but also seemed to express disappointment and fatigue. Bernadette then turned around as if she was ready to leave this sad place.

"Wait, Bernadette..." As soon as she left, Russell became anxious. He quickly reached out and grabbed Bernadette, saying, "I know you're angry! I was indeed a jerk in the past. I did a lot of things that let your mother down. I'm sorry for that... Go ahead and beat me up! Just think of it as doing it for your mother..."

Bernadette paused as she listened to Russell's words, which seemed sincere but not entirely true. She felt mixed emotions and her fists hardened.

"Dad, you're right. I should beat you up, just for Mom." Bernadette took a deep breath and murmured. She clenched her fists and looked at Russell. The atmosphere was filled with laughter for a while.

……

"Hey, are you cosplaying as a panda?"

A few minutes later, Rowling whistled at Russell, who had a pair of panda eyes, and teased him.

"How dare you say that?" Russell glanced at him unhappily, then looked cautiously at Bernadette, who seemed to have calmed down, looking like a daughter slave.

"Why should I be embarrassed? You got beaten up because of your own fault. If you had restrained yourself, you wouldn't have gotten beaten up like that."

Luo Lin smiled and spoke. He took a sip of the tea slowly, then glanced at Bernadette beside him and said leisurely, "Or do you have a problem with the sentence your little princess gave you?"

(End of this chapter)