I Became a Mother of Three

Episode 14

 

Without even knowing what Dylan was thinking, Erina was trying to make as many memories with the dragons as possible.

She made a wreath by gathering only the pretty flowers that fell from the wind.

And then she replaced the dragons’ hats with the crowns.

“Of course, the flowers are prettier! But, the hat suits you well too!”

Dylan sat quietly giving a round of applause to the baby dragons wearing Erina’s crowns.

The baby dragons were also smiling with their mouths wide open, as if they liked the smell of the flower crown more.

But to Dylan, the bonnet hats and the flower crowns were equally out of place.

No matter how hard you try to decorate a reptile, it’s still a reptile.

At best, his nephews, who had not yet shed their first molt, were just colorful lizards.

“Right? Mr. Dylan? Aren’t your nephews so cute?”

“Yes, they are really pretty. Really pretty.”

Dylan smiled reflexively and answered Erina’s sudden question.

“Mr. Dylan, which do you think is better? A hat or a crown?”

Neither are very good. I think just their bare body would be better.

Dylan barely managed to suppress his urge to say this and smiled vaguely.

“Well, they both have their own charms……”

Erina nodded vigorously at his answer.

“That’s right, whatever the kids wear is so pretty. I can’t choose.”

“Yes, isn’t that so?”

Dylan avoided Erina’s gaze. He wished she would stop asking questions.

The baby dragons were so excited by the human woman’s words that they were almost reaching for the sky.

That was a little too cute, and Dylan let out a laugh.

In the end, Erina was satisfied only after drawing the baby dragons once wearing the bonnet hats and once wearing the flower crowns.

What Dylan did during that time was just sitting there blankly.

He spent time mulling over the idea of just taking her, which he had just thought about, thousands of times.

However, there was only one reason why he did not put that idea into action.

Erina’s shiny hair.

He calmed his mind by looking at the blonde hair fluttering in the direction the wind was blowing.

“Oh, are you finished drawing pictures?”

While he was absentmindedly staring, Erina started organizing her drawing tools.

The dragons were also helping Erina carry small tools. Dylan saw this and took a step closer to help Erina, asking.

“Yes, were you bored waiting?”

“No. It feels good to have this much free time after a long time.”

Dylan said, shaking his head.

What he said was true. Dylan, who was originally eccentric and couldn’t stand boredom, wasn’t suited to staying in one place for too long.

So the only requests he didn’t refuse from the Emperor were also related to war.

He had to do that to feel alive. If he didn’t do that, life would be so boring that he would go crazy.

He didn’t even have time to be bored these days because of his **** nephews.

In this time when every day was like a war, taking care of his nephews, this kind of freedom was actually a blessing. Better yet, he could openly look at her shiny blond hair.

“Thank goodness the kids seemed to like it, and of course I loved it too!”

Erina smiled as she held a sketchbook in her hands with drawings of Resen, Lia, and Poi.

Today was also a day she could draw and do the things she liked for the first time in a long time since her grandmother passed away.

“Kyuu!”

“Bah!”

“Maama!”

After the cleanup, the dragons that had been frolicking around near the lake stretched out their arms toward Erina. It seemed like they wanted her to hug them.

When Erina bent her knees to hold the baby dragons…

“Come here, let me hug you.”

Dylan was the first to catch the dragons and hold them in his arms.

“Kyaa!”

“Byaa”

“Maaa!!!!”

Naturally, there was strong opposition.

A physical fight began between the uncle and his nephews, who were trying to escape, and the uncle, who was trying to hold them back somehow.

The baby dragons’ power was infinitely weak in front of the adult Dylan, but their momentum was great.

But this time, Dylan didn’t give them any leeway either.

He felt Erina stomping her feet next to him, but he walked as fast as he could.

“They are heavy, so heavy.”

As expected from watching how much they ate, his nephews were getting healthier day by day.

Dylan’s wrists also started to ache as he held all three of them. It was probably because they began to struggle harder, but anyway, his nephews were very healthy, no, chubby.

Dylan could now feel that Erina’s strength was better than he thought.

“Kkaaaa!”

The cries of the baby dragons held by Dylan continued along the forest path.

And the crying only stopped when they got home and were hugged by Erina again.

“Okay, eat this quickly to feel better.”

Erina said as she served meat stew to the dragons sitting at the table.

The dragons that had been dejected and sullen towards Erina seemed to feel better upon seeing the stew, as they buried their faces in the bowl and munched diligently.

That was why their stomach was so round.

Dylan shook his head as he looked at his nephews, who were quite large for their age.

“Thank you, Mr. Dylan, for bringing the kids. Let’s eat this together.”

Dylan quickly sat down to eat the stew that Erina offered. He only looked human, but His behavior was not much different from his nephews’.

So today, the uncle and nephews had dinner together without becoming close at all.

At this time, it was more peaceful than anywhere else in the world.

After dinner, Dylan prepared to leave the house again.

“Okay, I’ll come tomorrow morning. Have a peaceful night.”

Erina would get nervous in the evening because of Dylan, who always greeted her in a way that was almost burdensome.

“Oh, yes. Mr. Dylan, you too, have a good night.”

It was still an awkward night greeting.

Dylan smiled slightly and lowered his head as he saw Erina’s stiff expression.

When Erina, who had been bowing her head imitating him, raised her gaze again, he had already disappeared.

 

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“No, please don’t keep neglecting us!”

As soon as he arrived at the mansion, Mitsu came running towards him, crying.

Next to him was a woman with long black hair who nodded in agreement with Mitsu’s words.

“Then, are you guys going to watch the kids for me?”

Dylan looked at the two of them and asked.

“…….!!”

The faces of both people crumpled.

Their eyes were filled with resentment, as if to ask him how he could say such harsh words.

Dragons were born as a race with strong individualistic tendencies, to the point of being selfish.

The only reason they looked after the baby dragons was because they wanted them to grow up quickly and share some of their other annoyances.

There was no other reason to look after a dragon. It was out of the question even if they were the nephews of a superior they served.

“That’s what Dylan should do.”

“That’s right.”

Dylan clicked his tongue as he watched his subordinates withdraw without a moment’s hesitation.

“It’s because you guys refuse to go that I am the one going. What can I do if they were so difficult to handle?”

“No, why don’t you just knock them out and bring them in?”

“Can’t you?”

Mitsu looked as if he didn’t understand.

The Dylan he knew would have ignored the dragons and brought them in the first day he found them, not caring whether they cried or not.

Instead it was like this, and it felt like he was secretly enjoying it, not to mention putting in the effort to visit every time for almost a week.

“Dylan, are you saying you’re going there to see your nephews, not because you want to see that blonde without me being around?”

In response to Mitsu’s question, the black-haired woman, Hael, opened her eyes widened.

Blonde? What was that? He hadn’t said anything like that for days! Hael grounded her teeth as she stamped on Mitzu’s left foot.

If you have such good information, you should have told me first!

Hael, who liked gold more than any other color, looked at Dylan with a longing expression.

It seemed to say she wanted him to take her too.

Of course, the unspoken request was cleanly ignored.

“What kind of blonde nonsense is this? Anyway, if they don’t want want to be cooperative soon, I won’t bother with them. I’ll just bring them over.”

“Wow, as expected. I wonder how far Dylan’s short patience will go.”

“Yes.”

As if they had expected this, Mitsu and Hael shrugged their shoulders.

Dylan also shrugged his shoulders at his subordinates’ words.

He had no intention of denying that. He thought that he had endured it for a long time to have gone this far.

After hearing Mitsu and Hael’s words, he decided to bring them tomorrow. He had been dragging his feet for too long.

Well, if that didn’t work, he thought he could just throw the problem to Mitsu and he’d take care of it.

He expected Mitsu to look disgusted if that happened, but what could he do? He was the superior here.

Dylan kicked Mitsu and Hael out without saying a word.

“Mr. Dylan!!”

Outside, Mitsu and Hael asked him what he was thinking, but he ignored them and laid down on the bed.

‘Even if you’re a dragon, it must be hard to sleep in the forest every time.’

The human woman’s wide-ranging concerns that he had heard during the day came to mind.

“Tsk.”

It was funny, and it was also absurd. But he didn’t want to tell her the truth.

Dylan fell asleep, remembering Erina’s bundle of worries one by one. He too was quite tired that night from enjoying his first picnic in his life.

 

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