Volume 7 Chapter 2 Part 6
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Translation by burnt.marshmallows
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Leaving him there, I gave my wet nurse the full report of what happened from the moment I went out, up until now, all the while trying my best not to leave out any details. My wet nurse’s expression started out quite calm, but slowly turned grim as I talked. By the time I reached the ending where the reporter had run away, her eyebrows were sternly pointed up. Without even trying to hide her anger, she raised her voice.
「What’s wrong with that reporter?! There are limits to how rude someone can be right?! That’s so vexing. How could he just run his mouth like that when he knows nothing about Sir Agedilus or Young Lady……! 」
My wet nurse shook her fist in rage, as if she was portraying the very expression of annoyance. I, too, was annoyed by the reporter’s words, but seeing how worked up my wet nurse got, I conversely calmed down. Although she had been making it a point to call us「Young Madam」and 「Young Master」, she was so filled with rage for us that she hadn’t noticed that she had reverted back to the way she used to call us in the past. Not only did that make me quite happy, but it was also reassuring,
「Suzette, it’s alright now. It’s all because this child…… Noct came to my rescue. 」
「Sir「Noct」right?」
「Yes. Hey, Noct. Could you please return my shawl to me soon?」
Following my wet nurse’s line of sight, I turned around and reached my hand out. His thin arms that peeked out of his rags trembled. I could feel those beautiful yellow eyes of his staring at us from under the shawl.
Finally, as if he had resigned, he returned the shawl that was covering him with his own hands. Covered in black fur, those triangular ears of his bounced out from under and appeared in front of us. My wet nurse gave out a big gasp and widened her eyes. Besides shock, I could see the fear from her response. Her lips moved to pronounce the words「demon race」without making a sound. She turned from Young Noct to me, and I nodded at her. Seeing that, my wet nurse looked back at Noct.
As if ashamed and scared, Noct feebly bent his beast-like ears down. He downcast those yellow eyes of his, with resignation harboring in them. It was a habit as if to show how he was completely used to being screamed and shouted at.
But, my wet nurse neither screamed nor shouted at him. Although clumsy, she put a smile on her face and held up the hems of the lady-in-waiting uniform, giving Noct a deep bow.
「Thank you for saving my Young Lady. I, Suzette, give offer you my deepest gratitude.」
「!」
My wet nurse’s voice was shaking. I suppose that was a normal reaction for a human standing in front of someone of demon blood. But, although it was true that her voice was trembling with fear, that was not all that enveloped in her words. At the same time, her voice was filled with such a deep gratitude that even I felt embarrassed as I listened. It seemed that young Noct had picked up on that too. Unable to hide his surprise, he widened his already large eyes and his eyes swayed with doubt.
「It wasn’t, anything much.」
The voice that he finally squeezed out was a very soft, feeble one. But that was all that was needed.
ーOh, there it is again.
I suddenly thought. In the past, that man, too, would reply with「It wasn’t anything much」whenever I thanked him. Maybe the reason I wasn’t able to feel wary or weirded out by Noct, was that this young man mysteriously resembled that man, I thought again.
Of course, it wasn’t his looks. If we were talking about looks, he looked much more similar to Edi’s younger half-brother, Lucius. It wasn’t about his appearance. I couldn’t help but feel that on the inside, Noct was very similar to that man.
But at any rate, as expected of my wet nurse. It really made one see how much courage she possessed, befitting of the person who raised that man and I. It probably wasn’t everyday that one got to surprise a demon with a single bow. I couldn’t help but smile as I compared the faces of my wet nurse, who put on a prim expression, and young Noct, whose face was stiff with shock. Young Noct looked at me as I smiled, with a somewhat bitter expression. It was as if to tell me not to make fun of him. But even so, what was precious was precious, and what was heartwarming was going to be heartwarming.
I smiled back at Noct as if to say:「If you have something to say please do?」. A somewhat sour face appeared on Young Noct’s face and he turned his face away from me. At times like this, that man would too look away from my smile. They really were similar after all.
And it seemed that I wasn’t the only one who thought so. 「……Dear me」she murmured as if accidentally. It seemed that she accidentally let that out because, just like me, she was reminded of a certain someone. As proof of that, when I gave her a wink, she replied with a reassuring smile, as if to tell me that she understood what I was trying to say even if I didn’t say it out loud. Then, she grabbed Young Noct’s shoulder tightly with her hands. Instinctively, Noct try to shake her arm off. But with an impressively strong smile, my wet nurse started to nag at him.
「I sincerely thank you for saving my Young Lady. But that aside, what you need first is a bath! I will not allow you to hang around the mansion in that appearance!」
I wonder where your meekness from just now disappeared to, my wet nurse said assertively. Overpowered by my wet nurse, Young Noct let out wordless sounds like「Um, ah」while his eyes darted left and right. Taking advantage of that, my wet nurse strengthened her grip on Noct’s arm and dragged him into the mansion.
「There, please enter here. I will prepare a change of clothes. 」
「What, that wasn’t the deal! I only came because you said I could get a meal……!」
It seemed that Noct did not seem to intend to thrash around in response to my wet nurse pulling him against his will. He might have instinctively sensed that even if he tried to defy her, he would just meet with more trouble. As he walked while getting pulled along, he turned back at me as if to beg for help.
「Filmina!」
「I’m sorry, Noct. We’ll prepare your meal while you bath, so take your time warming up alright?」
He glared at me through the gaps in his long ash grey fringe with those yellow eyes of his, as if to call me a traitor. But even if he glared at her with tears in his eyes, my wet nurse didn’t flinch or budge. Once her switch had been turned on, it wasn’t just me, even that man wouldn’t be able to win my wet nurse. It would be better for him to surrender like a man here.
As I waved my hand to send him off, my wet nurse turned back around at me. As I instinctively stiffened up, she smiled at me.
「Young Lady…… I mean, Young Madam. Don’t act like you’re not involved in this too. While Sir Noct is bathing, please listen carefully to me lecture alright?」
「…… Suzette, couldn’t you just close one eye this time……」
「I have been sternly told by the Young Master to not underestimate how low our Young Lady’s learning abilities are. So I regretfully am unable to grant you that wish.」
It seemed that while I was not there, a harsh agreement was made between that man and my wet nurse. What do they mean 「how low my learning abilities are」, what a nasty way to put it. But it was true that I didn’t have any evidence to make a good counter-argument. Leaving me while I was still at a loss for words, my wet nurse dragged Noct away.
Thinking about the rage that I was going to receive from my wet nurse after this, I let out a deep sigh.
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Afterwards, while Noct went to take a bath, I prepared the food together with my wet nurse. And during spare time in between preparing the food, I received stern lectures from her.
Why didn’t you call for someone earlier? What would have happened if Noct hadn’t been there? She nagged at me on so many different things until my ears started to hurt. I was aware of everything she was nagging me about too, so I had no way of arguing back. All I could do was rotate between a three-way pattern of「Yes」「Sorry」and「You’re absolutely right」as my answers.
Just when I had finally started to reach my limit of answering the same three phrases, my wet nurse stopped cutting up the vegetables meant for the salad and put the knife down on a corner of the cutting board.「Now」
「Well then Young Madam. I think it’s about time, so I will go check up on Sir Noct.」
「You’re right. It should be around the time for him to be done with his bath. 」
Noct was alone in the shower room, currently. But at first, the plan was that my wet nurse was supposed to help him with his bath. My wet nurse had tried to help, thinking that he wouldn’t know what to do in someone else’s bathroom, but it seemed that Noct stubbornly refused her help. No matter how much she tried to appease him, Noct refused to agree to her help. In the end, my wet nurse gave up, unwillingly left a towel and a change of clothes for him and returned to my side to prepare the food with me.
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