Chương 327: Chapter 310. Bringing Dolls To Life

" Please, stop, you're a Marquess! You shouldn't be doing this!" Sweep... Sweep..." Relax, I'm doing it because I want to, Patrick. Would you feel better if I command you to let me do it?"" Dad, just give up, we can't stop him anyways. If you're worried about Mom and Kim, they haven't even been to the living room at all since yesterday. They won't even notice the glass being cleaned up."" See. Victor gets it, besides, what else would I do? Sit on the couch? Wait at the dining table?

I may as well do some sweeping up while I wait." Patrick grimaced and flinched at my words, but he seemed to accept my thinking. It's only been around 5 minutes since the girls went into Ms. Victoria's room. I figured I'd have some time, so I've been sweeping up the glass all around the living room and putting it into a dustpan from the kitchen, despite Patrick's protests. It was quite a nice house now that the glass was gone. Nice hardwood floors and comfortable looking furniture around a nice-sized fireplace.

Now that I was finished with the glass, I guess I could go for the dust around the place. I obviously picked up some of it with the glass, but there's always more dust sitting somewhere in a house. Well, before that, I have to dump this glass I have in this dustpan into the trash. /Cling. / With that done, I felt a lot better about sitting down now, but I feel like sweeping up the dust as well." Matthew, they're ready now."

Princess Alice called for me before I could start working on the dust that had built up in the kitchen. I placed the broom and dustpan back in the kitchen where I found them and then proceeded to the hallway where the girls had gone. Princess Alice was waiting with the door open for me. Patrick and Victor were right behind me as I walked." How bad are they?" Alice thought for a moment and eventually found the words she was looking for." It's like there's life, but it's buried deep inside.

I've never seen anything like this before. The Mo- Mrs. Victoria is worse than her daughter, but they both aren't speaking to us. Kim did do as we asked though, but Ms. Victoria, we had to lift her out of bed to get her to change."" I see. I'm going to need to fix that first it seems."" How are you going to do that?"" I'm going to start with telling the truth, if not that, there's an experiment I could try, but I have no idea if it'll work.

Worst comes to worse, we'll have to take this slowly to get them to speak to us."" Okay." With our quick chat finished, we walked into the room. Once we were in the room, I took a look around to see that it was a simple looking master bedroom with a bed that would put a king-sized bed from my world to shame.

Most of the beds I've seen in Diablos were like that, the shortest fully grown adult Demons I've run into are around 7ft tall, it also turns out that Demons quite enjoy being able to spread out while going to sleep. To accommodate that, most beds are gigantic by Human standards, I've only ever seen beds like this in celebrity house videos back in my world. What made this bed in particular special was the fact that Ms. Victoria and her daughter Kim were sitting up on the bed like 2 dolls on a shelf.

They looked like their strings were cut and they were just sitting there, not even reacting to the strange man who entered their room... Not even the fact I was Human seemed to resonate with them. Sarah and Anna were currently sitting next to the bed in wooden chairs looking at me for my reaction to what I see. I can't imagine the puzzled look on my face offered the answers that they wanted. Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author."

They've been like this the entire time." Sarah explained what Princess Alice had already told me, I looked at the bed again, I noticed that Victoria and Kim were put into 2-piece pajamas that didn't seem to fit quite well, I wondered why that was?" They haven't been eating recently." Patrick answered my question with a solemn tone to his voice. I nodded my head to his words. There was a seat next to Sarah and Anna, I quickly moved to sit there. I watched them and again, nothing.

Not a twitch of the hands, no eye movement, like dolls, just sitting, nothing mattering to them. I started to whisper to them before sitting." You're saying it's been like this throughout? Alice said that Kim responded to you?"" Yes, but it wasn't through any speech, more like a doll, just acting out what we commanded. Anna, Alice and I more or less had to hand dress Ms. Victoria. My Love, this is really bad, I've never truly seen someone like this before.

Even Widows of Soldiers were able to speak for them at their Funerals... I'm not quite sure what to do." Sarah is comparing Ms. Victoria to Widows of Military Personnel. I assume it's the only interaction she's seen of spouses losing their loved ones, but this is a different situation. Patrick is a Servant in charge of cleaning sheets, he wasn't at war. Mrs. Victoria married a guy who was more or less, guaranteed to live and enjoy a nice retirement, but the God Of The Blackwoods made that impossible."

Well, I'm going to have to try something, I guess." I sat next to my Wives finally. I looked at the 2 on the bed and then I took a breath before beginning to speak." Hello, Mrs. Victoria Harvey, my name is Matthew Drake, I'm a Marquess and the Lord of Paradise. These 2 are my Wives, Sarah and Anna. Behind us is Princess Alice Mars of Bestia." They're not responding to me from it. I'd think throwing in the fact that Princess Alice was a Princess might bait a reaction, but nothing.

Maybe Sarah would've been the better choice? Ah, forget it, at this point I don't think Nobility will be the cause of them waking up from their stupors." I'm sure you're wondering why I'm here? It actually has to do with your husband and son..." Again nothing.... I don't think this is going to work like this. I should try changing the approach."

Patrick, tell me something that only you and your wife know about."" What?"" Tell me something that your wife would recognize that you're here. Something extremely important?"" Kim's original name was going to be "Patty", but we changed it at the last minute because of her Grandmother's death?"" Anyone else know about that?"" No. We kept her name to ourselves, same with Victor." I turned back to Ms. Victoria and began to speak softly to her."

Patrick and Victor are here with us, to prove it, he just said that Kim's original name was going to be Patty..."" Still nothing..." Victor responded quite somberly to his mother's non-response." What?"" Your name was going to originally be "Patty". Hello, Kim." When things looked at their worst, I got a response finally. Kim had answered, I think because it involved something about her." Who are you people? A Human!?" /Thump! / She noticed that we were a bunch of strangers and then she noticed that I was a Human.

She fell off the other side of the bed after crawling away." You don't need to freak out, I'm not an enemy. I'm Marquess Matthew Drake. I'm in charge of Paradise. I came here for the Fracks birthday party."" Birthday Party? But that's a week from now?"" You're missing time. Fracks's birthday was last night."" What do you mean?" Oh right, she's a kid. She's younger than Victor..." Kim, sometimes, when people get really sad, they can kind of... Just shut off. Kind of like sleeping, even though they're awake.

Like your mom." She took in what I said, and she seemed to understand." But... Why are you... Why is a Marquess visiting us?"" You can just call me "Matthew". Before explaining that, let me introduce these 3 to you. These are my Wives Sarah and Anna. Behind us is Alice, she's the 1st Princess of Bestia."" A Princess!!!"" Actually 2. Sarah was the 1st Princess of Diablos... Until she Married me."" Wait! You're the Human who Married the Princess!? Not just that, but you have 2 Princesses with you!?""

Well, Alice is here as a Friend of Sarah's, it's not like she's here especially for me." Kim seemed to brighten up at the mention of Sarah and Princess Alice being... Well, Princesses. The only issue was that she began to look at me like I was cheating on Sarah with Princess Alice, but there's no way something like that could happen." What's being a Princess like!?" She's gone from being despondent, to looking at the both of them like you'd expect a little girl to look at Princesses.

Sarah and Princess Alice seemed to realize this was a lot better than how she had been acting, they began to answer questions and Kim's excitement grew more and more.