Regen clasped his fern-like hands and made a courageous determination.
“I will protect Your Grace.”
“As I said before, I am not weak enough to be protected by the eight-year-old Lord.”
“Yeah. I will protect you though.”
Are you pretending to listen?!
[“Oh, were you a good kid?”]
I heard the sound of a slight increase in Paimon’s favorability toward Regen.
I couldn’t let go of lingering feelings and wept.
“Do you rember when Lord used magic? I even broke the ice spear with my finger.”
“It is useless to convince . Your Grace needs protection.”
He couldn’t be so adamant.
As if he was trying to express his will with his whole body so much that he would not be shaken by any sweet treat, Regen tightened his eyes and straightened his waist.
No, I was just stating the truth—
Suddenly, I felt like an endangered animal that would be in big trouble if I didn’t receive the utmost care.
For , who wanted to deny reality, Regen spoke step by step and point by point.
“My father is really, really strong. The nanny is also strong enough to lift with one hand and put on the bed if I fall asleep in a strange position at my desk. But not Your Grace.”
Aedis already knew this, but Mrs. Theresa must have so kind of power.
I thought about holding Regen, who was stunned when I drank the blood of the beast.
Soon, I vaguely rembered how much Regen’s weight was.
Ugh, unless I drink the blood of the beast again, it’s absolutely impossible with my one hand right now.
Regen spoke again as it was his turn to give the dicine after giving the illness.
“Nevertheless, it’s nice that Your Grace always said warm words.”
“That…… I’m glad it’s been of so help.”
Although my sense of injustice was not greatly relieved, the opponent was Regen, so I put a smile on my face.
Co to think of it, Procryon had asked if I had any plans to keep calling Regen by his first na.
If it’s Regen, I’ll give him permission.
But I said it out of pity.
In the end, I swallowed the words that lingered in my mouth.
“It was fun to eat today, Lord.”
And I swallowed my tears as well.
I can’t call your na today, let’s try next ti……
Even for Paimon, sunbathing ti, which was only for a short ti out of 24 hours, seed very precious.
He kept complaining that the empty room he was using was dark, and in the end I said that he could use my private room where he stayed when he was sealed in a stone statue.
Aedis gave the whole floor with a great view, and my private room had so of the best light in the castle as well as that floor.
The brightest room in Cyclan Castle was used by Regen as his bedroom, and the second brightest room was mine.
“It’s an hour! It’s 59 minutes, an hour, I’m just going to go back to you Eve after watching the sun for an hour, so don’t have too much fun with the Demon King!”
“Ugh, yes.”
Paimon waved his wings to greet , and I returned to Aedis.
Aedis was looking at a book with detailed instructions on how to make dessert, just like yesterday.
It’s not like he was a servant, but where did he get a book like that?
Did the butler bring it to him, or did he buy it directly from a bookstore?
I sat across from Aedis and stretched out my arms.
It was a small, round tea table, so I could barely touch Aedis.
“Aedis, Lord said it’s good that I said kind words to him.”
“Is that so.”
Aedis answered without looking at .
“…… I’ve seen you secretly pushing back the chair.”
Wow, betrayal.
You are still maintaining your vigilance.
Aedis coughed.
But I did not co closer again.
If I had kissed him, then maybe would he have kicked out of the castle?
I rembered a slip that Sarah carefully selected just before coming to the north, but that seed unlikely to be taken out even if I died of old age.
If I had worn it and slept with him, I would have been divorced soon.
One day, I woke up suddenly, and I didn’t know if it was in a big mansion or sothing.
Holding on to suspicions that are not unreasonable, I continued the conversation for the first ti.
“Why doesn’t Aedis also say a warm word to Lord?”
“He wouldn’t be as happy as hearing from the wife.”
“Is it possible? I’m sure he would be delighted.”
I didn’t have to wait long until I could prove my point.
A little more ti passed, and while Regen was taking a break from class, he ca over to enjoy tea ti.
I glanced at Aedis without missing a mont.
Aedis reluctantly opened his mouth.
“Regen, if there’s anything difficult, you’re welco to tell .”
At that, Regen opened his mouth abruptly and dropped the bread he was eating.
“Father, what did you eat wrong?”
“……”
“I can do it on my own! Don’t worry!”
The way he showed confidence was strange, but he was not impressed at all.
“Please also depend on , Lord.”
When I intervened, Regen had a completely different reaction.
“Uh…… Yes! Then help with my howork!”
Aedis threw his gaze at it.
What?
Why is the answer different for ?
“Then, should I ask Aedis to help too?”
“No?”
Regen gave a slightly disgusted look, and he refused.
“It’s really nice to spend ti with my father, but howork is howork, so I want to do it alone!”
What is the difference between and Aedis?
I couldn’t understand the aning of ‘howork is howork,’ so I asked again.
“What about Mrs. Theresa if you didn’t want Aedis?”
“Your Grace…… do you hate ?”
“Of course not!”
“For , it is enough for Your Grace to help.”
I still didn’t quite get it, so I called Sarah as soon as Regen returned.
Sarah was not surprised.
“The Lord? Mrs. Theresa says he likes to do things alone. She thinks he wants to look like an adult. She also said the Lord is a person who feels a strong personal independence.”
Even though Regen is eight, I know he hates it when he’s treated like an eight-year-old.
What worries is that, nonetheless, my help is limited to ‘howork’.
“Then, Lord doesn’t really need my help, so should I see it as deliberately pretending to need it? He was trying to cheer up. After all, howork doesn’t require much effort, so it’s perfect for that purpose, isn’t it?”
“Well, if it were true, would it be a bad thing? It ans that the Lord likes Your Grace!”
Yes.
“Sarah, Regen wants to protect .”
“How proud is that!”
“The problem is that Regen has already seen using the blood of the beast to improve my physical abilities. He knows that I made a contract with the spirit. But! Even so! He still thinks he shouldn’t depend on other than to help him with howork.”
I tapped the table with my finger.
“He says Gilbert is scary, but he would protect .”
When I spewed the sadness and injustice of how I was portrayed as the object of protection for an eight-year-old, Sarah did not spare comfort and encouragent.
“Don’t cry, Your Grace. It is because there are so many extraordinary people around Lord. I also found out Mrs. Theresa exercised quite harshly. Even the first Lord, who was expelled, has the nickna of the best swordsman in the Empire anyway, and my mouth hurts when I have to talk about the Grand Duke.”
“So, only for a limited ti, the strong was relatively buried?”
When our eyes t, the strongest husband, who helped Regen see as the weakest, even though it was not intentional, smiled.
“Eve? You’re not going to assassinate , are you?”
I rolled my eyes at his tongue-in-cheek comnt.
I’m not going to take it lightly.
“Not so long ago, Lord was worried that I would crumple Gilbert, but how did this happen?
“Isn’t it because Your Grace has been sick a few tis? You’ve been sick for a long ti, especially lately.”
“Suddenly, I want to slap Shaula on the back.”
As I talked about the cause of my pain, Sarah laughed.
“Your Grace, you must cherish your hands. Ah, co to think of it, Shaula-sama skipped breakfast today.”
I squinted.
“Sarah, if she’s bothering you and you’re taking care of her……?
“Eve! Eve!”
Suddenly, Paimon poked his face out the window.
Even though the words were blurred by the appearance of her disturber, Sarah waved her hand violently in denial.
“No, not at all!”
As if Paimon had slept, he glanced at Sera, who would not be able to see him anyway, with blank eyes.
“Can I stay here?”
The hour that was emphasized like that had not yet passed.
Maybe my room wasn’t good either?
I nodded my head to Paimon and let Sarah out.
When Aedis was the only one left in the room, Paimon was drunk with the scent of sunlight and flew in.
“Why are you here so early? My room is still sunny.”
“It’s fine there. But it’s noisy.”
“Noisy?”
“I’m annoyed that your subordinates keep coming and going. They’re ssing around.”
As Paimon grumbled, he quietly sat down on my lap.
But my curiosity did not go away, but rather increased.
“ssing around? Wouldn’t this be cleaning ti?”
Since I shared the sa bedroom with Aedis, my room had no choice but to be quiet.
The maids ca to clean up only at set tis, and even that was once or twice a day.
Also, the cleaning ti is not long.
Because there’s nothing to ss around with. It’s a bit strange?
“Did you see how they ssed around?”
“Huh. Turning things like boxes upside down and putting them back in place? Is that cleaning?”
I supported Paimon so he wouldn’t fall off my lap, and my eyes sank.
“Well. Maybe it’s not cleaning, it’s searching for sothing. Without my permission.”
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