(Awara sips his tea while reading a book, and Hova is sitting on the sofa.)
Salsabil: Father, I want to talk to you about something.
Omar: What is it, my sweet?
Salsabil: Father, why did you lie to me?
Omar: What do you mean?
Salsabil: When you told me the story of your love for my mother.
Omar: I don't know what you're talking about.
Salsabil: Really?
Omar: ...
Salsabil: Really, really?
Omar: ...
Salsabil: What about "Ana"?
(Hova's eyes open wide.)
Omar: I don't know who you mean. Who is "Ana"?
Salsabil: Hanami, Ana, Sophia...
Hova: Omar!! Do you think this is a joke? Did you tell them?!
Omar: I didn't tell them anything!
Salsabil: We were able to access our abilities through Morpheus, and he gave us things someone left for us. Anyway, don't change the subject.
Omar: You're the one changing the subject. Since when?
Salsabil: Since I told you I was going to marry wessam.
Omar: wessam, you scoundrel, come out!
Salsabil: If you come out now, I'll torture you for fifteen years.
Omar: What are you planning to do?
Salsabil: Why didn't you tell us?
Omar: Your mother swore that if I said a single word, she would throw me out of the continent to freeze to death. And as you know, all my supplies and weapons were with her, and I don't want to die.
Salsabil: Mother, is what he's saying true?
Hova: Do you dare to speak a word to your mother?!
Salsabil: Sorry, Mother, but what was this scoundrel thinking at the time of Sophia?
Hova: He never told me what happened with him during the time of Sophia.
Omar: Let's leave these matters in the past for now, what do you say?
Salsabil: Do you want to know what he did, Mother? He invited a twenty-year-old girl at one o'clock in the morning to cook food for him. And because she didn't want to make the first move, she waited for him until he finished eating, and in the end, he told her he just wanted the food! Do you understand what kind of person he is?
Omar: I wasn't thinking the way you all think. You know I didn't have any feelings for any girl after... her.
Hova: And you dare to say her name?!
Omar: No, I didn't mean to. But when I met you, you became the only one I had feelings for.
Hova: So, your first love was Hanami. After her death, you decided to move on by marrying "Ana," then you met me, and it wasn't enough to have me by your side...
Omar: Just listen to me!
Hova: No! You went to America without me and invited a girl in the middle of the night on your first night there. Then you married Hanami after leaving me, and after she died, you came back to me!
Omar: Wait, I have something to say before you do anything!
Hova: There's no need. I'm going to get some things from the table next to the kitchen.
Omar: Why are these things still in the kitchen?
Salsabil: You know? I thought what I was going to do to you was bad, but I've discovered that my mother showed you mercy.
Hova: Any other word...
Omar: I love you. Please, I'm not immortal anymore for you to do this, and didn't we talk before about how I was a fool and a child and you were the best of them all?
Hova: Come with me to the room so you can be properly disciplined.
(She starts pulling him by his shirt towards the room.)
(Awara closes his book.)
Awara: That's enough, Salsabil. Your father didn't tell us, and you know it, because he's not supposed to tell his children such stories when they are kids. And he didn't lie to you,
so stop it. And Mother, to this day, we know very well that Father only did that because he didn't have someone like you. And when he had you, he was devoid of feelings.
And when he realized his feelings, he chose you, loving you for real.
Omar: You saved me!
Hova: How did you make him defend you?
Omar: Because he's my child whom I love.
Awara: Tsk, tsk...
(He opens his book and continues reading.)
Omar: You scoundrel, you know very well what the end of the book you're reading is.
Hova: You're still coming with me.
Omar: Stop!
(He extends his hand to grip hers firmly, and she lets go.)
Hova: What?
(He starts to straighten his clothes.)
Omar: Hova, yes, I am no longer immortal, but I am still Omar. Therefore, this is your last warning.
Hova: What do you mean?
Salsabil: Are we finally going to see our father as we've seen him from afar?
Omar: So...
(He lifts her off the ground and puts her on his shoulder.)
Hova: Let me go! Let me go! What are you doing?!
Omar: I don't really know, kids, if you'll have a brother in the future, but I believe I'm going to change the future today.
Hova: What do you mean by that?! Let me go, I don't want to!
Salsabil: Father, my only role model, you make me proud of you day after day.
Here ends the fourth side chapter of Sword of Eternity: The Long Covenant's Journey.