She Raised Her Ex-Boyfriend's Niece Very Well

I left without listening to what Erios had to say further.

“Bellona!”

“shut up! If you say more or chase after me, I’ll use magic!”

I screamed, and luckily Erios didn’t follow, probably because he sensed my sincerity.

However, the shouting from behind did not stop.

“Artea will need both of us!”

“I told you to shut up!”

Grumble!

The voices stopped only after a large flame appeared in the air.

I specialize in non-combat, and in terms of combat ability, the guy who rolled at the subjugation site would have the upper hand.

It’s a natural choice If you don’t want your niece to see you fighting in front of her.

‘That guy has a long tongue, so if you listen to him for no reason, i will get caught up!’

I wheezed as I quickly made my way out of the mansion next door.

Yes, I recognized him from when he smiled strangely earlier.

That smile has been said to keep many women up at night and that it is a rare expression from a guy who usually has an expressionless face!

‘No, in a different way, you look like you can’t sleep!’

That pure white smile really, really catches my eye and makes me want to vomit!

Oh, i’m blowing up!

***

but…

It was worth it for Erios to tease me for several days.

Artea, who was shouting ‘I hate my uncle’ just a few days ago, started to care about her uncle.

“You know, what is uncle doing at night? No, I’m not saying I miss him.”

“This is something my uncle likes too….”

“uh! Did you hear something next door?”

Because she said things that were obvious and kept talking about her uncle.

He’s a mean guy who suddenly asked to break up with someone he was dating well…

Still, to Erios, I am a stranger and Artea is his niece.

I guess you didn’t do it to the child like you did to me?

I was glad to see that Erios seemed brighter after he moved next door.

Thanks to this, I was able to check and ask about this and that.

‘Considering the love’s feelings, would it be better to let her meet her uncle?’

However, I heard about her running away from home, and the protective spell was broken.

‘Maybe not meeting at all would be better for the child’s mind…Oh, I don’t know!’

I will only know when I have raised a child.

No, even people who have raised children must have worried at moments like this.

With a distraught mind, I walked around the garden.

I heard somewhere that taking a walk helps calm your mind.

However, this walk led me to meet an unexpected person.

“Hello, Miss Bellona.”

He was the butler of Duke Killiet.

Well, this time, the wall got lower and it became easier to meet him… Did you ever think we’d meet here?

“It’s good weather for a walk, right? The dress you wore today suits you very well.”

It’s different from the one that hit me when we first met.

It’s obvious that he wants to look good to me.

My doubts were soon answered.

“I heard that the duke proposed to you.”

“ah.”

No matter how much the boundary with the next door has been blurred, it is difficult to meet by chance when the garden is so large.

Butler, were you waiting here to meet me?

‘Why did you want to meet me?’

Are you being kind to me? Or maybe it’s the other way around.

“When I first met you, I felt like i was being rude to the lady by siding with Duke Killiet, so it bothered me.”

The butler’s attitude was gentle.

“She was someone who might soon become Madame. I was oblivious.”

“….…”

“Didn’t the previous Duke and Duchess get along well? Killiet and Sortis seem to be a good match.”

Looking at the butler’s attitude, it seems that the marriage proposal was not a joke.

‘Is he approached because i might become a duchess?’

This is the marriage between me and Erios.

The butler and the duchy who came here may be a little better now that they have seen me taking care of Artea.

It means that other people won’t view it favorably.

“I heard you broke up, but it looks like Lady Artea brought you back together!”

Okay, so you say I asked my niece to make me married? With the best groom in the empire?

Well, I don’t mind getting criticized.

The really important thing is Artea, and right now, everyone else except Artea feels good.

The butler, who was looking at me, smiled kindly.

Unlike our first meeting, he had a very friendly attitude.

“If anyone says something rude to the Duchess, please tell me. As a loyal follower of the family, I have always been waiting for Duke Killiet to get married.”

The butler went on to say that Erios had no interest in women and that he refused even when asked to marry him.

They speculated that perhaps he didn’t marry because he was afraid that Artea’s succession structure would be shaken.

“Because he loves his niece the most. Although they said it was the end of the monster subjugation, I didn’t expect him to run away in the middle. But it is a good thing that he married her aunt, who cares more about Lady Arte than anyone else.”

“…I haven’t accepted the marriage proposal yet.”

“Haha, you probably need some time to think!”

But the butler didn’t seem to think I would refuse.

Do I look like I’m shy?

You know you received a marriage proposal, but you don’t seem to know how absurd the content of the proposal was, right?

“I’m saying this because you are the one who will become the duchess… Aren’t you thinking of firing her nanny?”

“What does that mean?”

“The Duke people are too withdrawn. You left the person who caused Lady Artea’s disappearance alone next to Lady Artea. If this continues, the same thing may happen again.”

She is ‘the one who made her disappear’.

The butler sighed with a sad face.

“Did you know that Lady Artea disappeared when she went on an outing? But do you know what the nanny who went with her was doing at that time?”

Artea went missing during an outing.

The person she was with until just moments ago was her nanny.

But she was caught in a nap, and it was around evening that she woke up, she said.

She noticed that Artea had disappeared and she reported it later, but her face was clearly sleepy and she could not even answer the questions asked, and the butler was angry.

“If the nanny hadn’t taken Artea on an outing or something, or if she had even looked at her properly, things would have been different.”

“…….”

“Does it make sense for the duke’s nanny to take a nap? It’s a problem either way, whether you made an excuse or you really made that mistake. We need to start by investigating whether the nanny was tight on money and who the people she was friends with were.”

Is this the main point the butler came to me with?

‘The statement itself makes some sense, but I can only say it because he doesn’t know the existence of sleeping fragrance.’

While I was deciding what to say for a moment, the butler urged me as if he was nervous.

“Unlike the duke’s people, I trust that Lady Bellona will make a wise decision. ayou hasn’t met that woman yet, right? Despite being her nanny, she doesn’t even seem to be friendly with Lady Artea….”

But it was just when the butler was about to continue his words.

“Lady Bellona! We’re in big trouble!”

A servant of the Sortis family rushed over and reported.

It was bad news that there was a problem with the recently released magic tool.

I wanted to put off leaving Artea behind as long as possible, but this was something I couldn’t do without myself.

“I think you should hurry and go!”

“Okay, I’ll leave as soon as I’m ready.”

I told the butler I would go back and talk more.

He seemed to regret that the conversation was cut off at such an odd timing, but he quickly adjusted his expression and lowered his head.

“Artea. your aunt is going to visit for a moment. i will come soon.”

Artea was startled to hear that I was leaving and opened her bunny eyes.

“Hey, aunt. don’t go!”

“Lady Artea. your aunt also has work to do. okay?”

Artea, who seemed quite stable recently, has turned blue.

The child’s breathing became labored and her body began to tremble.

“your aunt is not going very far, she is only going for a short time.”

“Okay, then take me with you.”

“you shouldn’t go because it’s too dangerous for a child.”

Artea’s eyes widened greatly when she heard that she could not.

I hugged the child, but I could feel her emotions continuing to fluctuate.

‘Has she always been this anxious? What if Erios leaves to subdue monsters, and whenever he is away for work?’

At that moment, the woman the butler had mentioned came to mind.

“You said a nanny came to help Artea stabilize, right?”

Erios and I had a conversation while watching Artea get anxious the other day.

He said that for the child to be stable, she would need the things she was comfortable with.

So, in addition to Artea’s clothes and belongings from the duke’s house, she also called in people that her child would consider friendly as much as possible.

“Lady Artea!”

The nurse, who had been fidgeting far away at her feet, looked at Artea and shed tears.

How desperate that sight is.

“You don’t know how worried I was when the young lady disappeared… .”

“Miss, shall we read a storybook together? You liked this.”

“When I think of Miss Artea, she didn’t even skip the meal.”

But even as her nurse kept coming closer, Artea just rolled her eyes at her.

Although she didn’t hide her face because it was someone she knew, Artea’s nervousness didn’t ease at all.

“It looks like Lady Artea was having a hard time.”

The nanny looked very upset, but she took a step back anyway when she saw Artea looking awkward.

It’s hard to understand.