“You, you, what, what!”
Because Lia was shorter than Allen, her appearance was strange, but Allen was so embarrassed by the sight of Lia’s face looking up at him that he didn’t even think it was strange.
“Well, what are you doing?”
“Miss’s class…”
“…what?”
“I think it’s almost time for class to end. Should we go to the front of the room and make a surprise?”
“Uh… Yes, yes!”
Normally, she would have grumbled, asking what she was talking about when there was still a long time left, but Allen quickly nodded her head. And as soon as Lia’s arms fell down she bolted away. Allen, who had unconsciously let out a sigh of relief, tilted her head, wondering why on earth she was so nervous. Lia glanced at Allen and turned her head to look at the area near her bookshelf that Allen had tried to touch a moment ago.
She almost got caught. There was a secret room in the main library of Duke Elad’s residence. The artifact stuck like a book on one side of the bookshelf was the proof. When she first came, she didn’t know because she was embarrassed to be face to face with Lucio, but after that she noticed right away. If she had been her before, she would have looked secretly, but since she is now a worker, she did not look into it. She didn’t know if it was a secret space passed down through generations in the Elad duchy, or Lucio’s personal space, but she had no intention of revealing it. She probably didn’t expect Lucio to notice this space, but she had entrusted this place to herself anyway, so even Allen couldn’t let her set foot in the secret space. Of course, in order to unlock the artifact, an injection of mana was needed, but she never knew that.
‘I’ve felt it before, but it feels good.’
Although she didn’t seem to know it, she seemed to have developed a sense of energy before, so it seemed like she would soon be dealing with Aurors.
“What are you doing, asking Diana to go?”
At that time, Allen, who was scratching the back of her neck and frowning, shouted. He said that he was surprised by Lia’s sudden appearance a little while ago and that she was blaming him.
“Yes, let’s go!”
Lia, unaware of this, hurriedly moved her body before Allen lost his temper again.
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“Walk quickly. When are you going to go to Diana’s room because you’re so slow?”
“I still have time…”
“You want to surprise me? Shouldn’t you go ahead and prepare?”
“Ready? Do you think the young lady will be surprised if she just waits in front of the door? They’ll like it even more if we ask them to play hide and seek.”
She was already thinking of Diana smiling brightly, saying, ‘Aaaah!’ and tilting her head. Allen frowned as if he couldn’t really refute what I said, but then she spoke again.
“Even if you do just one thing, you have to do it right. If you live so carelessly, where can you go and not even get food?”
When Allen, who had never shown herself to be working hard on anything other than her swordsmanship training, said that, she became very shaken.
‘I work so hard at my job, but I can’t believe I live a rough life!’
After Lucio left, she read the books he told me to read every day and studied magic and medicine diligently. However, this did not mean that he did not do his best to take care of Diana. She pouted her lips slightly.
“Don’t worry, you won’t starve to death no matter where you go.”
“What?”
Allen, who seemed taken aback by my words, hesitated, then lost his temper and asked again.
“Haha! What are you going to do for a living?”
“Would you like to do something? Because I’m young, I’m good at cleaning and I know letters and numbers, so I’ll be able to get a job at any store. It would be good to formally learn magic or medicine. By the way, you said the same thing. He seems to have a talent for swordsmanship. Wouldn’t it be great to become a magic swordsman like Bianca of the Principality of Belus?”
Of course, she had no intention of learning martial arts again, but in response to Allen’s remarks ignoring her, she said this and that as if she was bragging. She felt a bit childish after fighting with a child, so she regretted it a little, but when I saw Allen with a frown on his face after hearing what she said and his anger, she honestly complained.
“My God! Yeah, you’re great!”
In the end, Allen shouted and started to take the lead with a grumpy look on his face. Seeing him stomping away made her shake her head.
‘When will I grow up?’
It was clear that Allen was killing that guy’s temper by moving his body every day. She felt like she had become a victim for no reason because the training had been cancelled.
“…young master? How are you so angry?”
At that time, she heard the innocent voice of a man who would become a victim other than her from the landing.
“Sir… Oh, no. Now you’re vice-captain. What’s going on at the main building, vice-captain?”
“I am on my way to tell His Excellency that I have officially adopted Jack.”
“Already?”
Allen blinked his eyes at Taze and Jack next to him.
“I never thought the vice-captain would adopt her son without even getting married.”
What do you mean by doing it first? She shook her head and took a step forward.
“Congratulations, Jack! Now it’s not just Jack, it’s Jack Seydian.”
Jack Seydian. One of the three greatest knights of the future empire she knew. She was truly happy that his fate seemed to be walking the path of an honorable knight, just like before. Taze and Jack looked surprised, as if they didn’t know she was behind them. In particular, Taze gave her a wistful look as soon as he saw her.
“Lia, if you want to be my daughter even now, please tell me.”
“Haha.”
She smiled awkwardly and glanced at Jack. Jack’s face was as blunt as usual, but his strangely stiff face gave off a hint of nervousness. She shook her head a little bitterly and spoke calmly.
“You say you don’t like it? Don’t keep getting soggy.”
“Well, I like having a dependable son, but I also wanted a cute daughter.”
As she was laughing at Taze, who was in tears, she remembered the conversation she had with Taze, who suddenly came to visit her a few days ago.
〈Hey, it’s Lia. There is something I want to tell you.〉
〈To me?〉
〈Okay. Hey, um… Would you like to be my daughter?〉
Taze, who was whining for a while like a puppy that wanted to poop, made an unexpected suggestion to her. She couldn’t believe her ears and asked back without realizing it.
“Then what about Jack?”
〈Ah, it looks like you already heard it from Jack.〉
And then Jack started telling her things he couldn’t possibly tell her. In fact, Taze was also a street orphan who was adopted by a mercenary and became a knight, which was his dream. From the story to the story of how he saw Jack in a similar situation to himself and decided to take him down. Taze told Jack that he wanted to adopt them as well, and Jack told him that adopting both of them would be a burden to Taze, so he told him to adopt me instead. And after hearing the whole story, she asked Taze to adopt only Jack. Originally, Taze and Jack had a relationship that would make them rich, so it only made sense for them to do so. Of course, Taze said he wouldn’t mind adopting both me and Jack, and Jack, who found out later, came to me and tried to persuade me.
〈Lia. When I become a full knight, I can receive achievements and titles. But you…〉
〈You keep calling me a commoner? So you don’t want to be friends with me?〉
〈… … No way.〉
She firmly covered Jack’s mouth, but in fact, even Jack didn’t seem to be very happy about becoming a family with her, so she relaxed a little. But maybe because it had already happened once, it didn’t hurt that much.
“Lia, if you don’t like it, there’s nothing we can do. Actually, I like my daughter, but I like my daughter-in-law… Ahh!”
While Taze was lost in thought for a moment, Taze started to say something, and suddenly Jack stomped on Taze’s foot.
“There’s a bug on the top of my foot.”
Jack, who said that, still had a blunt expression on his face. Allen said, “Bug?” He looked around his head, and I burst out laughing involuntarily at the sight of Taze grunting and moaning.
“Hmm, Lia.”
At that time, Taze said with a serious look on his face instead of looking like he was in pain.
“It’s okay because it’s in front of us now, but you can’t smile like that outside.”
“Yes?”
“I say this because you become prettier day by day. If you smile like that, there will definitely be some flies who make a mistake and become entangled… … .”
When she saw Taze speaking seriously while clicking his tongue, her ears instantly turned bright red. If he had said it jokingly, he would have just laughed it off, but it was even more embarrassing because he sounded genuinely concerned. It would be nice if even Allen could shout out, ‘What makes an ugly person pretty?’ For some reason, Allen pretended not to hear her and just looked away, and Jack also remained silent. Suddenly, she became confused and wondered if everyone was making fun of her as a group. One day while she was recovering after a mana runaway not long ago, the Duchess said that she thought she had become prettier, and she had been hearing such comments often since then. She was very embarrassed because she couldn’t see my face clearly even when she looked in the mirror.
“Well, you don’t have to worry about the flies. Don’t worry. “I will take good care of you when you go to the academy tomorrow.”
She laughed awkwardly at Taze’s rant. From the Duchess to Allen, everyone seemed to be looking forward to tomorrow, but she wasn’t very happy about the place because she didn’t have very good memories of it. She was hoping to get permission to go out soon, but she was fortunate that an unexpected opportunity arose. The salary she saved from working as a maid was quite good. Now she could take the first step in what she was planning.
‘Of course, I’ll have to make an excuse to go out next time…’
She nodded, deciding to think about the rest later. And finally, the next day dawned.
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Translator Note:
Hello there! This is RJR. I hope you liked it <3
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