One could see that Logan and Claire had question marks flying all over their faces. They both couldn't figure out why Davis became serious all of a sudden.
"The two of you should know that lying to Clara is forbidden since she possesses the Transcendent Truth Eyes. Not only would it give a bad impression, but it will also hurt Clara. Have you both ever lied to Clara before?" Davis asked in a solemn tone.
After thinking for a few seconds, Claire answered, "I don't think I ever lied to Clara."
"Me neither." Logan shrugged with an innocent expression on his face.
Davis turned his head only to see Clara being stunned. Her eyes were glowing, indicating that her eyes were active.
"Which is it, Clara? Are they telling the truth?"
"My eyes seem to say that they are telling the truth..." Clara uttered with a stunned expression on her face.
Davis seemed to relax as he let out a breath visibly.
Clara had a confused yet wronged expression on her face. "... But… how? My eyes had also said to me way before that they have lied to me."
"Clara, believe me! We have never lied to you before." Claire uttered as she took a step forward.
"A misunderstanding?" Davis softly muttered while he tried to make sense of the situation.
'Not a lie? If it is not a lie… could it possibly be harmless deceit?' He considered.
"Clara, what exactly did mother say when your eyes said that she lied to you?" Davis narrowed his eyes as he asked.
Clara got out of her bed and stood beside Davis.
"There are many instances of mother and father lied to me." She said with a wronged expression on her face. It was apparent that she held some grievance in her heart.
"Many?" All three of them were visibly dumbfounded.
Clara gathered her courage and said with a determined face.
"One such instance is when mother said that she was going to the bathroom when I was around three years old. Mother only came to me after more than an hour. I questioned what she was doing there for so long, and she said that she was enjoying the bath and so that it had taken her long to come out."
Clara sniffled as she sobbed, "I was waiting for her so long, yet she lied to me..."
Seeing that the three of them look at her with furrowed brows and confused expressions, she clenched her small teeth and continued.
"Another instance was when Father was playing with me. He rarely plays with me, and even so, he says that he is really busy. One day when father was playing with me, I accidentally fell asleep, and when I woke up… what I saw was father beating Mother from behind her! H-he even hit her back with his hand. They then quickly separated when they saw me wake up. I saw it! Don't you try to deny it, father! Mother's face was red, and she must have been really in pain."
Clara began to cry while pointing her fingers at them.
"An... And when I asked… father about it… he said that he was just playing with her. Lies… all lies, Waaah!!~~~ "
Clara cried and sniffled. Tears kept coming out of her eyes as she was unable to stop it.
"And… when I ask... asked mother about it, she also said that she was playing with him. Waah!~ Brother! They're just lying to me all the time…"
"Ano..."
"Alright, stop! Clara, it's enough, I've already understood." Davis embraced and comforted her while patting her back. Clara kept crying, pouring out her emotions over to her brother that she held in her heart.
After a few minutes of consoling, she finally stopped crying.
Davis then let her out of his embrace. He then turned around and glared at his parents. Without even letting out a word of excuse, they both put their head down in shame.
Inwardly he sighed. He could understand that they had little time to approach each other intimately as they had their duties as the Emperor and the Empress, but shouldn't they keep themselves properly in check in front of the abnormally smart and little Clara?
"Alright, mother and father, care to explain yourselves to Clara?"
They both stayed silent, still hanging their heads low.
"Brother? Does this mean that they admit that they have lied to me?" Clara innocently asked, her face stained with tears.
"Sigh, Clara, they didn't lie to you..."
"But…"
Davis shook his head, "They deceived you..."
Clara was taken aback.
"Deceive? Me? But why?"
"Why don't you ask them yourselves, Clara? Go ahead. Your brother is here, they will answer you." Davis smiled at her gently.
Inside his heart, he was laughing his ass off. He didn't want to let them easily go after they had created this mess.
Clara nodded her adorably with a worried expression on her face. But when she turned around, her expression became solemn. Nevertheless, it was still cute.
"Mother! Why did you deceive me?"
There was no answer.
Davis could see their eyes darting around. He could faintly guess that they were having a conversation using soul transmission.
"Father! Why did you deceive me?" Clara wasn't giving up. Her eyes moistened up again as tears formed over her eyes.
Claire and Logan looked at each other's faces and sighed.
"Clara, it's too soon for you to know," Logan said.
Davis narrowed his eyes.
'Seems like they're not going to admit it yet?'
"Clara, when you said that father was beating mother, he was just using his peepee to....."
"Alright, alright, I'll tell you, shut up, Davis," Logan shouted out of shame.
"Then tell fast, Clara, and I don't have all day. We're busy with cultivation," Davis smirked as he patted Clara's shoulders.
Clara cast a glance at her brother in admiration, astonished at the fact that he can even talk back to their father at his age.
Logan visibly raged while Claire just stayed silent. When she heard 'his peepee', she froze.
Even though she did not know what it exactly meant, she could vaguely realize it.
"Fine..." Logan calmed down and said.
"Clara, I and your mother were just procreating at the time when we deceived you. At your age, you shouldn't know all these things."
Clara's face became confused. She could tell that they were telling the truth, but she couldn't understand why they would deceive her for this reason.
"Why? Isn't it just an act of sticking a male's genital into a female's one? What's so special about that mother and father deceived me into hiding it from me?"
"You!" Logan and Claire were entirely shocked to hear what their five-year-old daughter was speaking. Davis also became shocked but then sighed in realization. He came to understand her mentality quite well.
"You two!" Davis shouted.
His shout instantly grabbed everyone's attention, pulling Logan and Claire out of their anger.
"Both of you are just forgetting that Clara is just a child capable of complex thoughts and emotions, not an adult capable of complex thoughts and emotions. Even if a child utters the word 'sex', that child will only think of gender while adults will surely think of procreation."
"What she said is purely from her knowledge of reading books without any in-depth meaning to it."
He paused a moment before sneering, "Unlike you two with impure thoughts all day long."
Logan's veins popped up in his head while he clenched his fists while Claire put her head down in shame.
But they understood why they were wrong.
They subconsciously treated Clara as a second Davis momentarily as she spoke something outrageous like her carefree brother. Davis is inwardly an adult, and Clara is a child in terms of mentality. They realized that they were wrong to treat them the same at this time.
"Clara... father and mother meant no harm. It was all for your sake." Davis tried to convince her.
Clara nodded gently, her eyes showing faith in him, "Hmm, I believe in brother."
"Glad to hear that, so it's all okay now, right?"
He asked doubtfully.
"Yes, I guess all the problems were with my eyes." She muttered regretfully, "When will I be able to master it?"
"Don't worry about that. You just believe in yourself but also don't let a person's lie affect your mentality. Always be warm to your family, got it?"
Davis warned out of care.
"Mhmh!" Clara replied vividly. A brilliant smile appeared on her face as she narrowed her eyes.