380 – I, Return – 4
Perhaps it was a matter of survival, so my worries were short-lived.
‘Let’s talk.’
I can’t help it. Stretching out in a situation where they’ve already been caught is tantamount to drawing a perforation around the neck and showing off.
It’s annoying if the other person seems to be lying even in a situation where you only have feelings, but you deny it with physical evidence? You’ll probably get hit by Beatrix’s Thunderbolts at very close range. That’s a bigger crisis than fighting Dorgon. At least we can fight back against Dorgon.
Maybe this is the last chance. A last chance to confess with my own mouth and avoid being thrashed to my soul.
‘It’s still okay.’
Yes, it’s not too late. Although he did not mention his participation in the war or his injuries when contacting the communication port, this is the first time he has met face-to-face.
It was an important matter, so if you said you wanted to talk face-to-face rather than through a communication tool, you could live with it somehow. There is a bit of a loophole in the logic, but it is within the range of convincing.
“Let’s keep doing this. When it’s club time, then go to the club room.”
Unlike the rapidly spinning head, the mouth moved naturally. Apart from the indirect pressure, it was true that he hadn’t seen Mar and Beatrix for the first time in a while.
I’ll have to ask Erzebet and Penelia to come to the president’s office later. Had she known it would be like this, she would have come with it from the beginning.
“Hey Carl, can I go to the club room today too?”
After patting the back of the two, Marr cautiously opened his mouth. Apparently, I want to be with you all day today.
Even while my survival instinct was working, I smiled naturally because it was a request that warmed my heart. I would have gladly accepted this even if it was not a request.
“Sure. I’d rather be with you all day today.”
“Thank you.”
It was even more heartening to see Marr smile at the bash. After all, it is worth bragging that the first father-in-law is a treasure of Barenti.
“I’m fine at night, so I’ll leave the door open.”
Looking at that smile, I had to add a limb without even realizing it. But how can you endure this when you see such a pure appearance?
“Yes, yes?”
Perhaps it was an unexpected attack, Marr, who had smiled, stammered her words as if he were lost. In addition, the fact that her face turned red like her hair was more shocking than I thought.
I am satisfied. Her offensive power isn’t particularly strong, but even her defensive power is weak. The Marr I know is right.
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“If you feel uncomfortable coming, I’ll go to Marbang—”
“Oh, no! It’s okay! Boo, it’s not inconvenient— but we’ll do that later!”
Beatrix also burst into a small laugh at the sight of Mar, who was flustered and gave strange specifications. In the meantime, she is later, so she has at least a small desire in her heart.
“Baby. Then would you mind if I go?”
“It’s okay—”
“No!”
Her laugh broke out again at the sound of Marr’s voice as she cut off her words, which was her joke for anyone to hear. Fun. She is smiling like this, so it’s real that everything is over.
… It’s fun, but I feel like crying because I think it’s the last happiness she enjoys before confessing the truth.
It was difficult to soothe a pouting Marr. Her princess, Mar, couldn’t have been teased anywhere, so it was only natural that she had no tolerance. Besides, she would be saddened to think that her reunited lover was playing pranks on her.
I don’t think it’s a good thing to make fun of someone, but at the same time I don’t regret it either. Even if she goes back in time, looking at Marr back then, she’s sure she was playing a prank.
“I’m sorry, Mar. It was nice to meet you, so I wanted to talk with Mar for a little while longer.”
“There were many other subjects…”
“It’s true that I want to be with Marr all day.”
At those words, Mar, who was sitting on my lap, quietly lowered his gaze. Apart from being teased, she seemed to like it very much that she wanted to be with him. Unfortunately, it was rare for me to say such specific things to Mar.
Thinking about it, I was amazing in the past. The lover’s expression of affection was too rare. Even if there was a lump in my chest, it was too much.
“And since we’ll be officially married in a few months, I wanted to at least practice living in the same room.”
After thinking for a while, I whispered in Mar’s ear. Her affection, which she has not been able to express in the past, should be expressed in the future. Even if others see chicken skin, it’s okay as long as the lovers are good.
“That, you don’t have to practice for that.”
For a moment, he shrugged his shoulders and gave a small answer. Still, his voice was brighter than before, and it seemed that his sadness was relieved at the word marriage.
‘I’ll have to tell you more often from now on.’
As I said before, the wedding is only a few months away, so there are plenty of opportunities to talk.
When Marr graduates, she plans to get married right away, so I should lead the preparations for her wedding rather than Marr, a student, but there are some areas where the bride’s opinion is essential. Inevitably, I have no choice but to speak often.
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
That’s why I kissed Mar’s forehead with a small promise. Marni, who suffered more than any of my lovers, said let’s prepare her best wedding. Let’s do our best so that even her father-in-law’s father-in-law gave her a standing ovation.
Well, I should ask her mother or nanny for advice. As someone who has experienced marriage, you must be familiar with the wedding fantasies of the bride. I’ll point out in detail what I’m missing.
“Karl, hold on a second.”
“Yes?”
Marr’s lips touched my cheek just as I was resolving that even if the sky fell, I would not seek her advice from her maternal aunt.
“Until now, I only received it. I also wanted to give it back.”
It was a face full of shame, but from the listener’s point of view, it was very moving. Even if Fenelia touches her lips, she goes into a state that is like fainting, but Marr knows how to counterattack like this.
I feel like crying. Is this the first wife’s dignity?
No, it’s just that Fenelia is particularly weak.
“I think I need to go out for a while.”
‘Ah.’
And when only the two of them expressed affection in a place where there were only three of them, Beatrix opened her mouth with a pouty face.
This was too much. No matter how much it was to placate Marr, she gave a sight that could be mistaken for favoritism.
“That can’t be the case. I’ll stick with you today.”
I smiled and tapped the seat next to him, and Beatrix quickly approached and sat down.
On my empty knees.
“Hey, Beatrix?”
“Why?”
Looking at Beatrix, with a slightly reddened face, who asked in a calm way, his mouth closed again. This must have been an expression of affection with great courage.
“Just. It smells good.”
So I changed my words in moderation. It’s not fair to treat someone who has the courage to be rude. Besides, it’s true that it smells good.
“That’s right? That’s good.”
I don’t know what’s fortunate, but I think it was a good quickness. Anyway, if you’re happy, that’s enough.
‘Now.’
It was only after I sat Mar and Beatrix on my lap that I was sure. This pink atmosphere that happened to be created, if you confess at this timing, you will be scolded ten times, but it can be reduced to three times.
“Now that I’m doing this, I can feel that I’m back. I’m glad I came back unscathed.”
When I let go of the rhyme first, two pairs of eyes fell on me. It’s like, ‘I didn’t expect you to bring up the subject first.’ It was the eyes that seemed to say.
At the moment, I felt the urge to bite even now, but I held back.
If not now, there is no next time.
***
Things went awry.
“How the hell did this happen!”
Screams full of anger and tears pierced my ears. Her wife’s anger was so strong that even the head of the city courthouse behind her wife looked at her and bowed her head.
Even if things got twisted, they were too twisted. It’s something that can’t be hidden for the rest of your life, so one day I saw an opportunity and tried to say it, but through her wife’s information network, Carl’s participation in the battle was discovered. She overlooked the connections of her wife, who was also the mistress of the Crasius family and the mistress of the Duke of Wisdom.
“I’m sure, I heard you’re definitely not participating in battle! That’s how I let you go!”
“Boo, ma’am. That’s—”
She hurriedly opened her mouth, and her wife glared at her with her sharp eyes. It’s like, ‘Do you dare to make excuses in front of me?’ It was a scolding look.
She looked at her with trembling eyes for a while, then she let out a small sigh and spoke in a voice that was smaller than before, but with more emotion.
“I can understand that Carl, that boy went into battle. Billy, I went to save you, so of course I understand. I’m rather glad that Carl helped you come back alive.”
“Ma’am…”
“Quiet.”
I was moved by the words that I was glad that I was safe, so I opened my mouth, but I closed it in an instant. She didn’t notice
My wife, who looked at me with even more stinging eyes, muttered weakly.
“It’s only natural that a son fights to save his father. But why did that kid stand in the vanguard? Why did he fight directly with the enemy’s leader and even get hurt?”
The wife, who had muttered something incomprehensible for a long time, finally couldn’t hold back her feelings and burst into tears.
I have nothing to say. She is the wife she liked with tears in her eyes when she received a call from Carl yesterday that he had returned safely. She is a wife who was happy when she said that she would come to her estate with Erich sooner or later.
She shed tears because her wife felt sad that her son had been injured without her knowledge, and she felt betrayed that her husband had hidden the fact.
‘What can I say?’
It’s my fault. The reason why Carl hid the injury from his wife was ‘the heart of a son who doesn’t want to worry his mother.’ Can be regarded as But I kept her mouth shut ‘her husband hid his children’s affairs.’ Becomes
The son’s somewhat distorted filial piety and the husband’s silence. Of course, the latter would be more shocking. That’s why I couldn’t make excuses or apologize to her wife.
“I’m sorry, ma’am. I should have told you earlier, but I didn’t think it would shock you.”
Still, she opened her mouth. It’s a terrible thing to deal with an incident that happened in silence with silence.
“I am sorry for her wife’s worries and sorrows. She and I are also the child’s father, so it’s only natural.”
Perhaps thanks to the consensus that I am Carl’s parent, the resentment on her wife’s face faded a little.
I’m glad. It seems that you intend to listen to me.
“I also wanted Carl to be in a safe place. But the boy said he wanted to finish the job he couldn’t finish three years ago, and he wants to resolve his grievance and step forward. How can I stop him?”
“Finish, yo…?”
The wife, who had been sobbing, barely raised her voice. When Carl’s enlistment was decided, in order to convince her weeping wife, Carl told her about her work in the north. Her sorrow in the north, her pain at leaving behind her friends and lovers.
She just didn’t know that fighting was the way to relieve her sorrow and her pain. When Carl persuaded her wife, she avoided explanations of the reverse helix or Dorgon.
“That child had an enemy, a nemesis. He was the one I wanted to defeat.”
Having said that, the wife silently lowered her head. If she was a wise woman, what she just said would have sufficed for her to understand the situation.
Tears fell on the backs of her hands as she lowered her head, but her cries were getting quieter. Because she understood the situation Carl was in, her resentment and sadness were reduced.
She added cautiously to such a wife. Because it’s harsh on her wife to give only so much negative news.
“Still, Carl won a splendid victory. He defeated the chieftain and brought victory to the empire. Although his arm was severely injured, he was completely healed—”
“What was cut?”
…
Huh?
“Your arm… Was cut off?”
Again, her wife’s spirit became ferocious. The lady-in-waiting behind her wife also opened her eyes wide in surprise and covered her mouth.
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Could she, could she only know that she was injured and not know where she was hurt?
“Did you hide those injuries?”
‘Damn it.’
That’s a mistake. I thought she knew everything, of course, because she knew about her involvement in the war and her injuries.
She closed her mouth again.
“Billy. I think I’ll hate Billy for a while. Exactly, until Carl returns to the manor.”
She nodded her head sadly at the sentence.
She was ordered to banish her wife, and she headed to the family’s mansion in Jedo. If she is seen loitering in the manor, she may find that her wife has gone elsewhere.
And as soon as she entered her mansion, she was greeted by Georg, who had taken care of her since yesterday.
“Did I tell you? You said you’d come sooner or later.”
“Shut up.”
Seeing Georg giggling, she felt the urge to leave.