115 – Mirai’s Knight
At Aren’s first words, the knight narrowed his eyes and said,
“Who are you?”
“Me? This house…”
A child’s voice heard while Aren spoke.
“What are you doing Max?”
“miss.”
Max, a knight of House Difus, said looking inside the front door where the voice came from.
“Could you wait a moment? Soon…”
“brother?”
“Mirai?”
Max’s mouth fell shut at Mirai’s words.
‘brother?’
Obviously the eldest son of the Diphus family and High Human.
As Max’s gaze turned back to Aren, Aren ignored him and ran to Mirai.
“Mirai!”
“oh…”
Mirai also found Aren and tried to raise her voice at the moment.
“joy!”
“omg!”
As Aren approached, Mirai turned her head and said to Max,
“Max, I want to go play. Let’s go to the back garden.”
“Yes, lady.”
“Me, Mirai.”
Aren was taken aback by his cold sister’s reaction and clung to her.
“Mirai! I’m sorry brother! I couldn’t help it then!”
“Max, pick me up.”
“yes.”
“Wait! You bastard! From my brother!”
As Aren continues to speak, Mirai shouts.
“Don’t be mad at Max! Max is such a nice guy!”
“Huh!”
At Mirai’s cry, Aren’s body hardened like a stone, and Mirai went to the garden with Max on his back.
“Let’s go Max.”
“yes.”
“……”
Aren blankly stares at the back of Mirai, who is moving away.
As if that look was so pitiful, Rachel came and grabbed Aren’s hand tightly.
“Brother… are you okay?”
“… huh.”
Aren knelt down and hugged Rachel and began to sob.
Lirina, who was watching how pitiful he looked, began to comfort Aren.
“Aren, stop popping pop!”
“… I’m not crying yet.”
“I was in tears.”
“… sniff.”
Looking at Aren wiping his tears, Magra said as if he was pitiful.
“Wow, a man can only shed tears over something like that? You’re disqualified as a warrior…”
“Shut up, now is not the time to give a damn about you.”
“what?”
Magra glared at Aren’s words, but Aren didn’t pay attention and got up from his seat.
“Let’s go. I’ll ask what’s going on.”
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Aren made a solemn expression and moved toward the mansion.
As the rest of the party followed Aren into the yard, the door of the mansion opened and a woman came out into the yard.
“Aren!”
“mom!”
Aren’s mother, Sandra Deepus, comes out of the mansion and runs to Aren.
“Aren!”
“mom.”
Aren lightly embraced the running mother and asked how she was doing.
“How you doing?”
“Okay, are you injured anywhere?”
“… sure.”
Although he is currently injured, he cannot tell the truth.
‘Just make me worry.’
Aren immediately changed the topic and began to introduce himself by pointing to Rai and Rachel around him.
“Mother, did I tell you in a letter? The boy is Lai, and the girl is Rachel. Greetings, my brother’s mother.”
At Aren’s words, Rai and Rachel came forward with nervous expressions on their faces.
“Oh, hello.”
“… hello.”
My voice is a little hard because I was very nervous.
Looking at those children, Sandra smiled kindly and said,
“Oh! You guys are Rai and Rachel? You look really pretty, right?”
“Ah, go, thanks…”
“Ho-ho-ho, there’s no need to be so nervous. Be comfortable as if you were at home.”
After saying that, Sandra looked at the people standing behind Aren.
“Aren, who are these people?”
“Oh, this one…”
Aren was about to introduce his companions, but Einhart came forward and introduced himself first.
“Nice to meet you, ma’am. My name is Einhat, a friend of Aren. I’m here to play.”
“Oh, welcome back Einhart. I’m Aren’s mother, Sandra Deepus.”
When the two greeted each other, Lirina also came forward to greet them.
“My name is Lee, Lirina Aslan. I, I am also a friend of Aren.”
“Oh, is that so? Did Aren ever have such a pretty friend?”
Lirina’s face turned red at Sandra’s words, but Sandra’s eyes were on Aren.
‘What relationship?’
‘Between friends.’
‘really?’
‘really.’
After a short eye-to-eye conversation, Sandra looked back at the rest of the group.
With that gaze, Aren began a brief introduction.
“This is Kana, a silent friend. This is Lime, Lirina’s escort. End of introduction.”
“… hey.”
Magra gave him a disgruntled look, but Aren ignored him and entered the mansion.
“Let’s go in and talk, Mom.”
“Hoho, is that so? Come in, everyone.”
***
Sandra, who led the party to the room, took Aren to Hans’s office.
“The office? Is there an office here?”
“So? Your father is the lord of this land, so of course he has an office, right?”
“Since when did it become a land that needs such a job? My cute manor?”
“Isn’t it yours yet?”
Sandra laughed lightly and knocked on the door of the office room that arrived before she knew it.
smart
“Honey, Aren is here.”
“Come in.”
sniff
‘It’s been well oiled.’
The sound of the door opening sounds very luxurious.
And the look of my father holding a pen at the desk in the office that looks inside.
“Have you come?”
“It doesn’t suit you.”
“I see.”
Hans got up, approached Aren, and began to look him up and down.
‘… I’m hurt.’
‘It’s a secret.’
‘I know.’
“Why are you talking silently? Join me too.”
“Nothing.”
Hans calmly ignored Sandra’s words and sat down on the sofa in his office and spoke to Aren.
“Tell me what happened at the academy.”
“No, I’m sure you’ve already heard it through rumors? Rather than that, please answer my question.”
“What question?”
Aren sat rough on the sofa and said.
“What is this luxurious sofa! What is this town! Give me back my cute town!”
“It’s not yours yet, and didn’t you make it like this?”
“No! That’s not my intention! It’s because of me, though!”
“Then what do you want to say?”
“Why didn’t you tell me? I sent you a letter like that?”
Aren sent dozens of letters back to his hometown to convey the news of Rai and Rachel.
It was to get permission to raise children.
However, in the letter that came as a reply, not a single line was written that the village had changed like this.
Most of the contents of the correspondence were about Rai and Rachel, their respective regards, and Mirai’s anger was worse than expected.
“The village has changed drastically, so could you write at least one line in the letter?”
“You’re saying such a strange thing, isn’t that what you asked the duchy to do? Of course I thought you would know, and it’s not such a bad thing, is it?”
“No! I like the ghetto feel of our town! I didn’t want a half-developed town like this!”
“Don’t undermine my estate, you son of a b*tch.”
“Is that an insult to your father?”
Overhearing the strange conversation between the two men, Sandra sighed and said,
“Why are you guys fighting after seeing each other for the first time in a while?”
“This stupid son has been talking nonsense since before.”
“More than that, honey. Rai and Rachel are here. Let’s go say hello together later.”
“ah…”
At Sandra’s words, Hans glared at Aren again.
“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but you brought it anyway.”
“Yes, they are my younger brothers.”
“Well, that’s okay. I don’t intend to oppose it any more…”
“Huh? Really?”
Aren looked at Hans in surprise.
Aren sent letters and most of the replies from Hans were against the adoption of Rai and Rachel.
Of course, Aren already had a fiancée, and when such a guy said he would raise children who did not know where he had brought them, the parents had no choice but to oppose it.
However, Aren sent dozens of letters saying that he would raise him until the end, and now Hans was in a position to give up.
“…well, it’s your life. There must be a reason why you’re so stubborn. But once you’ve decided to raise one, take responsibility until the end.”
“Of course I take responsibility… but it’s unexpected. I came here with the intention of fighting my father honestly?”
At Aren’s words, Sandra replied with a smile.
“How would you object?”
“yes?”
“Thanks to my son, the village has developed to this extent and the house has turned into a mansion like this.”
“Ah, that’s right.”
Come to think of it, the reason why the village has developed so much now is because he accumulated silver in the duke’s house.
And since the father would have seen the village change with his own eyes, he could not blindly reject his words.
“In a way, you’re better than your father, boy.”
“That’s right. I’m better than my father.”
“… Kuhm.”
Hans cleared his throat as if he was uncomfortable, but Aren ignored it lightly and went on to the subject.
“Then what about the article?”
“A knight? Oh, Max?”
“Yes, that blonde head! What are you doing in my house!?”
“Mirai brought it.”
“… yes?”
“Mirai brought it.”
Aren, who did not understand his father’s words, just stared at his face with a stupid expression.
At that, Hans sighed and said.
“Not too long ago, Mirai went to play in the village and met a pregnant woman.”
“pregnant woman?”
“She is Max’s wife.”
“Uk!? Is he married? He looks like I’m the same age?”
“More than you, I met a pregnant woman anyway…”
***
“Mary, are you okay?”
“Yeah, don’t worry too much, Max.”
Despite the words of his wife, Mary, Max’s worries continued.
‘I walked too long, I need to go to a place where I can rest quickly.’
Max’s gaze turned to Mary’s swollen belly.
As if she was now pregnant, Mary’s stomach was convex and her movements seemed to be difficult.
Thanks to that, Mary didn’t show it, but her face was already drenched with sweat.
‘If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have run away…’
pathetic.
She gave up everything for herself, but she wasn’t able to properly support her, let alone take care of her.
‘Where the hell is the inn?’
It was good until I ran away to a village I had never seen before.
The problem was that there were no inns in this village. Everywhere I went, there were rice paddies, fields, and dirty-looking huts, and I couldn’t see a proper place to rest.
‘I can’t help it, go into any house and tell me the circumstances…’
While Max was thinking…
“Ugh.”
“merry!?”
“ah…”
Amniotic fluid burst.
Seeing this, Max’s face turned blue, and he hurriedly made her sit down and called for help from the people around him.
“Help me~! There’s no one here~! Hey~!”
Damn, how stupid are you?
I went into any house around me and asked for help, but no one was in the house as if everything had gone out.
‘please please…’
The moment Max raised his mana and increased his movement speed.
all over again
“carriage!?”
A wagon the size of a house, which is hard to find in rural villages, was crossing the village.
Without delay, Max ran to the wagon and called for help.
“Stop! Stop!!”
“What, what!? Get out of the way, dude!”
The coachman shouted at the sudden appearance of Max, but Max did not move and blocked the front of the carriage.
“Help! My wife! My wife’s amniotic fluid has just burst! A medical center nearby…”
“Noisy! How dare you stop a noble’s carriage!”
At the moment the coachman shouted, the carriage window opened, revealing the face of a girl.
“There is only one medical center in our town?”
At the words of the girl, Mirai, Max’s gaze turned directly to her and said in a desperate voice.
“Boo, please! My wife is nearby! Get in the wagon and go to the medical center…”
“No, but this guy!”
As Max shouted, blocking the road, the coachman tried to force the carriage to start.
Seeing him like that, Mirai shouted.
“No sir! It hurts!”
“Yes? Lady, if you believe the words of strangers so easily…”
“But what if it really hurts, then it’s pitiful.”
“……”
At the six-year-old’s reasoning, the coachman just kept his mouth shut.
Because he knows that he is a hired body anyway and it is useless to say more.
Mirai looked at Max again and said.
“Mister, I’ll lend you a carriage. Where is it?”
“Oh, thank you! This way!”
Max immediately turned the new model and ran to Mary.