Chapter 331 - I dont understand (1/2)
*UNEDITED*
Chauncey took a seat on one of the prop settings as he continued, ” I was usually compared to my brother seven years older and my well known father. Because I was always compared to them I grew irritated.”
”Your older brother?” Setsura repeated as she sat down beside him.
”In order to someday pass my older brother. I did my best following all the orders people gave me,” Chauncey mumbled. For long he followed those instructions believing that if he did that, then eventually he would become a real member of the family. In the end what did that do? He surpassed his brother, but it lead to his older brother resenting him.
”Ooh, so that's why now....”
”What's with that comment?”
”Ah nothing...” she trails of when she realized something, ”I see, so that's why you can play the character as someone uninhibited and lively. That's the part of you that you usually hide from us.”
The part of him he usually hides? It's true he doesn't usually smile around other people.
”Playing a part huh? Well it's the only part of him that I don't know well,” he mumbled.
”Ah, this reminds me. During the first time I arrived in the Meiji era you were really threatening.”
Threatening, it's more as though he didn't know how to act around her. ”That was before I accepted and adapted to this new surrounding”. Although perhaps it may have seemed different to her. ”I haven't really changed though. I guess we can assume that it's the fruit of my mothers education. Do you want to know why I was named Chauncey?”
”There was a reason?”
”When I was born, we had a particular guest there who could see the future. After taking a look at me he said, ' This boy, from what I can see from his face. It seems he is capable of destroying fate.' My father thought it was interesting and almost named me something vicious but mother was completely against it. So she decided to name me ' Chauncey' in hopes that I end up a normal good looking guy.”
”Though, your mother's prediction is right on the mark.”
Right on the mark huh, though he isn't exactly normal is he? He ended up joining the mafia society, despite his mothers wishes. His mother tried to raise him as a normal boy. 'Your father already has two other heirs.' Indeed, his existence seemed rather unnecessary. He could easily have lived a normal life like his mother wanted. But, that's not what happened.
A soft chuckle escaped his lips at that. ”But even so mother was still worried, so she ensured that I would be someone who grew up with good manners,” Chauncey continued speaking about his family. Strange enough he's getting in to this. He never spoke about his family before with anyone. He didn't even talk about it with Natasha before. It felt strange, why does he end up talking about these things with her?
”So that's how things are huh? I think I get...” Setsura's sentence fell short when they feel a sudden gust of wind.
A breeze?
Flick.