I’m the Future Crazy Male Lead’s Mother

After scooting around for a while, Axion started to crawl.

From then on, his range of activity gradually grew bigger; now that he has started walking, he has been roaming around everywhere.

Toddling.

Waddling.

“Axion, you’ve come?”

“Oo-eh!”

Axion, who is roaming around, eventually comes in behind Carl who is smiling at him, and takes over the sitting room I am in.

“Axion.”

“Oo-ah!”

Now, he even understands when I call him; when I call, he makes eye contact and smiles.

A big smile.

Then his round eyes scrunch into a half-moon shape, his tiny mouth opens, and his tongue kind of sticks out.

That look is quite cute, to the point that I want to bite those cheeks that are red-tinged like a peach.

‘Phew. I didn’t know that I would love Axion this much.’

Even though this child might kill me in the future….. But the current Axion is just an innocent child.

At first, I paid attention to Axion’s childcare to avoid having a terrible outcome.

As we actually live in close contact, I’m human, so I can’t help but grow affectionate.

“Kyaa-!”

Axion, who is cute even when you see him every day, is a bit lethal to others.

“Wow.”

Drip. Black tea flowed out of the wizard Elston’s mouth as he sat on the sofa across from me.

Who knows if he’s aware that the red liquid is soaking his pants, but Elston’s eyes are stuck on Axion.

“……Elston?”

“Oh my……”

Axion waddled over to Elston, wearing a protruding diaper over his butt, and smiled at him.

“Ee-ee!”

“Ahem”

Seeing Axion’s killer smile in person, Elston covered his mouth with his two hands and pulled his upper body back quickly as if he were running away.

But as he is sitting on the sofa, his escape route is already blocked.

“Oops, Axion. Come here.”

“Ma-!”

“That’s right, that’s right.”

Axion, who came and hugged me as soon as I called, is my child, but I have to say, he is smart. Ha. Oh my gosh. How can you be so smart already? As expected, the male lead is different from the beginning. 

“Our Axion is really cute, right?”

“A- a little. Ahem!”

I don’t think that’s how someone with soaked pants should answer.

Elston seems to be less honest than he looks.

He definitely said that he couldn’t lie back then, but a person who is even hiding his identity can’t just not lie.

“Elston. Your pants are wet.”

“What? My pants? Ah!”

Elston looked down at his stained-red pants and quickly flailed his hands.

His fingers moved quickly as if drawing strange formulas, and soon, his pants were back to their original state.

This is a skill worthy of the Wizardry Tower master.

‘That’s why I, no uh, the Lord of the Wizardry Tower, was really surprised…..’

‘I- I was, no! We were curious….’

In fact, I noticed on the first day that he was the Lord of the Wizardry Tower. If I didn’t know after hearing him say from his own mouth that he is the Wizardry Tower lord, then I’d be a fool. 

Furthermore, according to Celia’s knowledge, magic normally requires complex chanting. 

Even the simplest magic can’t be done using formulas alone.

But seeing him do magic with just one hand….

‘Isn’t the Wizardry Tower lord too lax? I’m worried about the Tower’s future.’

Come to think about it, he appeared a few times in the original novel, too.

He always seems to smile and help the main character, but truthfully on the inside, he is scheming; an evil mastermind. 

He’s a character in an ambiguous position where you can’t determine whether he is friend or foe.

Also, his name isn’t Elston; it is definitely something long.

‘Can an evil mastermind be like this?’

When I see him looking at Axion, who is in my arms, like he is loveable to death, I don’t think that he is an evil mastermind. Also, because of those blush-stained cheeks.

“Ahem. What do you think about what you saw earlier? Are there any problems with Axion’s heart?”

Elston, who arrived just in time for Axion to take a nap, checked Axion’s condition.

It is the task he’s been coming to do periodically since I first met him. Although it seems the amount of visits has become more frequent these days…..

“Yes. Mr. Axion seems healthy today as well.”

Elston, who suddenly came to his senses at my voice, secretly wiped the spilled saliva with his sleeve and replied.

I want to give even the chin rest Axion uses to him as a gift.

“Ah…. Is the dragon’s magical power sealed?”

“Yes.”

As in the original novel, Axion unconsciously sealed his power.

“It’s fascinating. A child who just turned one year old can seal a dragon’s power.”

Who knows when he took out a notebook, but Elston was frantically scribbling with an agonized expression on his face.

Since he sometimes did that by himself when he checked Axion, I ignored him and hugged Axion.

Axion was asleep in the meantime.

I guess he was tired from running around and stirring up the residence.

I looked lovingly at Axion, who was asleep with his thumb in his mouth, and stroked his fluffy blonde hair.

The child’s hair is as soft as cotton. His neatly grown eyebrows are fluttering, and the tip of his nose is tender and soft.

I know that if I poke his plump cheeks my finger will sink right in, but he’s sleeping, so I shouldn’t bother him.

Thanks to the parenting knowledge I gained while working as the sub-character Akshonmom, I have more ability to raise Axion than before.

….. That’s not actually true. I still don’t have the ability, but I’m definitely getting used to it.

‘I feel like Akshonmom’s child will be pretty like her.’

‘That’s right! But somehow, I feel like I’ve seen Akshonmom somewhere.’

When the ladies giggled and said that, I was shocked that my identity was exposed, but there was no need to worry.

‘Thanks to this body being such a homebody; fortunately, the people in this territory can’t exactly recognize my face.’

It’s because the residents don’t know my face at all.

That’s thanks to the fact that the original owner was cooped up in the residence while her brother, Viscount Evanror, went abroad.

Since that brother is currently secretly away from the mansion, the Evanror Viscounty is practically empty.

 And there is no way this body could act as the substitute head of the household.

“Carl, do you want to lay Axion down and come back?”

“Yes, Lady.”

Grandpa Carl, who was watching us from a distance, smiled and took Axion.

Carl, who used to cry together with Axion, seems to have gotten a little used to life with a child.

Looking back at my memories, it seems he never got married and devoted his whole life to Evanror. He probably feels like I’m his child or grandchild.

‘He is also managing a residence without a head of household, alone,’

While I was looking at Axion’s cute head that was slightly raised above Carl’s shoulder, Elston slammed his notebook shut and said:

“Hm…. I guess I should go back now, too.”

“Oh, already?”

This is coming from a person who normally says he doesn’t want to go back to the Wizardry Tower and comes here to kill time.

What’s going on?

“Yes. Unfortunately….. I have to go to a very scary place today.”

“Scary place? Where’s that?”

Then he, who was arranging the hem of his clothes, looked around as if he was about to tell a secret.

 The Evanror mansion is empty because we don’t have many servants anyway, so…

“Lady Evanror clearly has no interest in social activities.”

“……Do you want to fight?”

Elston quickly shook his head as I slightly rolled up my sleeves to reveal my arms trained by farming. 

At the same time, he gently covered the area around his neck; he seemed to protect the collar that I grabbed and shook the first day we met.

“Ahem. Not that; I was saying that since you didn’t know that there was news that was causing an uproar in the social world these days. Haha. Just to let you know!”

“What’s the news?”

“Even if it is Lady, you must know of the Shiaster duchy.

How could I not know. It’s the house of the original novel’s female lead.

I nodded my head in agreement.

“Of course I know. I am a lady of a viscounty.”

“Ahem. It turns out that Mr. Dazar, the head of the Shiaster family, has a hidden child!”

“Got it.”

Elston, who came next to me and whispered as if he was telling a big secret, looked defeated at my reaction.

“What’s that? That reaction. Did you know? Are you playing with me right now?”

“No. Fat chance. It’s just, well. Isn’t it common for nobles to have hidden children?”

As someone who knows the original novel, being surprised would be even stranger.

Because in fact, the only daughter of the Shiaster family, the female lead Vanilla, is not Duke Dazar’s real child as Elston says.

Vanilla is Duke Dazar’s niece.

The daughter of his now-deceased older brother.

“Lady Evanror, really, sometimes you seem like the epitome of indifference.”

“Thanks for the compliment.”

“….Hmph. Anyway, that’s why I am going to the duchy at Mr. Dazar’s request. I don’t know if she’s really his child, but I heard that that scary duke is bringing in all types of experts.”

“Oh. Really?”

“Yes. She is around the same age as Axion. These days it seems they are even recruiting home tutors.”

“…..What?”

I, who was uninterestingly listening to Elston’s words, was scared out of my wits at Elston’s last words.

I suddenly stood up and almost hit Elston in the chin, who stepped back with a sigh.

“W-what is it?”

“What did you just say?”

“Huh? All types of experts….”

“No. Not that!”

“Oh, h-he’s recruiting home tutors……?”

“Oh my goodness!”

Boom. An unseasonable thunderbolt rang out from the dry sky. It is the sound from my head.

I can’t believe the female lead has started studying!

Our Axion has just started walking!

“How many home tutors are coming?”

“W-well. I don’t have more details….”

“Go check everything and come back. Which field, what teacher, reputation, career history, all of these things!”

I saw Elston nodding his head haphazardly.

I trembled with anxiety as I pushed his back and urged him to go and come back quickly.

A picture of the female lead Vanilla crossing her arms and looking down at Axion played in my head.

The corners of her pretty mouth twist up…..

A burst of sarcasm.

‘Heh. Don’t you know what it means to be a male lead?’

Then Axion would receive a great shock.

He might even curse me as a mother.

‘Then what if I go down that terrible route?’

Even if I know it’s a ridiculous imagination, I can’t help the feeling of anxiety suddenly rising in my heart.

Also, there is a good reason why I have this worry.

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