Kafka immediately folded to Camila's temptation and turned around to face Bella, who had been betrayed. Camila also linked her hands with Kafka while having a satisfied look on her face, both of them looking like a couple that were going to berate their poor daughter.
Camila thought that Kafka was going to scold her daughter, and she was quite eager to watch what her husband had never done to her daughter, while she hung back and let him act as the villain this time. And when things got too far, she would swoop in to act as a good cop, which she had never done before and had always been the bad cop to her daughter her whole life.
But unfortunately for her, Kafka didn't start scolding Bella and go on a long rant like every parent did when their children did something, like she thought he would.
Instead, he simply asked Bella to come in front of him, which she obediently did since she had no other choice. And then, as she looked right up at him with trembling eyes that were ready for a scolding, he asked a simple question.
"Bella, do you remember what I was holding in my hands earlier?"
"Y-Yes...Yes I do." Bella shivered at the thought of those two brown centipedes, which were a foot long each, that she feared as much as spiders after the scene she witnessed.
"Well, unless you don't want two of those little critters to be thrown into your bed when you sleep, you better listen to your mother's words without asking any questions back from now and also tell her of any worry you might have in your heart, since Camila is ready to listen to anything you have to say, no matter how embarrassing it may be."
"...Do you understand what I just said?"
Kafka casually threatened Bella, which made her face pale at the thought of those ugly things crawling in her sheets, while Camila thought he was scaring her with the spider they dealt with earlier.
She sighed since she couldn't use spiders to discipline her daughter since she herself was afraid of them, but she wanted to do so since they seemed to be quite effective with how timid and afraid Bella looked right now at the mention of them.
"Y-Yes, I understand...I won't keep such dire matters to myself ever again, a-and I'll tell my mom if something like this ever occurs again." Bella immediately agreed when she thought of the horrid scene earlier, which surprised her mother since she used to always fight back when she was lectured and made her look at Kafka with a newfound appreciation for his innate disciplining abilities, which made him out to be the ideal father figure Bella needed in her life.
The work Kafka mentioned was actually just him paying the guy with centipedes in his stomach a visit, as anyone who thought that he had let him slip away was severely wrong.
Kafka wasn't the type of person to show mercy since he knew that leaving potential threats was the worst move possible and was always thorough with what he did, meaning that Bella wasn't ever going to see that scum ever again, nor would anyone else, unless they decided to dig him up from the mountains near by.
"Come one, you two...Don't look at me with such sad faces. It makes me feel guilty for leaving." Kafka said when he saw the mother daughter pair looking all down in the dumps, since they wanted him to stay a bit longer. "Rather, I would appreciate it if you gave me a kiss goodbye; that will surely brighten up my day."
Kafka looked at Camila, gesturing for her to come and give a kiss. Camila blushed when she saw him eagerly looking at her, but that didn't stop her from taking a step forward and giving him a little peck on the lips.
Chu!~
Camila immediately stepped back after giving him a kiss that washed all her sorrowful feelings away and shyly looked around, hoping none of her neighbours saw that.
"What about you, my adorable little daughter? Aren't you going to give your father a kiss as well?" Kafka asked Bella, who was blushing at the sight of her mother looking so shy and embarrassed from a little kiss when she was a mature woman, which was quite wholesome to look at.
Bella didn't say anything to deny what Kafka said, like she used to do before, and quietly walked up to Kafka, stood on her tippy toes, and gave him a kiss on the cheek, just like she wanted to do herself for helping both her and her mother out and acting as a pillar they could rely on in their lives, when they needed support the most.
Chu!~
"Well then, I'll be off now. Make sure you two sort out the past drama you have with one another. Especially you, Bella...You better let out everything you've been holding back to your mother, or else you know the consequences."
Kafka said his goodbyes while casually threatening Bella, which made Bella hide behind her mother's back in a fluster while Camila giggled at the sight, making her feel as if merry times were soon to come with her daughter now by her side as well, which she couldn't wait for...