Volume 7 Chapter 2 Part 7

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「Looking at how dirty he is, it’ll be difficult for him to wash himself yet he doesn’t want help. If I see any dirt left on him, I’ll throw him into the bathtub no matter what he says.」

「Oh dear」

I forced out a smile as my wet nurse said, gripping her fist tight. This wet nurse really will do whatever she says she will. No matter how big of an age difference, I’m sure that having some of the opposite gender wash a young boy around that age would feel like a punishment to them. I hope Noct cleans himself properly before coming out, for his own sake too. The soap was placed at an easy-to-spot place, so I’m sure he’ll be fine. ……Probably, hopefully, surely, he’ll be alright. I wasn’t able to do anything other than pray the best for him. 

My wet nurse quickly washed her hands and was about to leave the kitchen. She seemed to be acting as usual. But that in turn made me curious. 

「Suzette, you really aren’t saying anything, are you?」

「What? What is this about?」

My wet nurse stopped in her tracks and turned back to look at me with a face of surprise. Her expression was one of pure confusion. I knew that there was no irony in her voice and that she was not trying to insinuate anything by asking her question. Asking that probably was just going to cause unnecessary trouble. But it was too late to take back my words.

「You know, about that child」I continued, as my wet nurse just blinked at me with her eyes rounded. 

  「Are you talking about Sir Noct?」

「Yes. That reporter ran away shouting about how that child was of demon blood, yet you’re not saying anything at all.」

「But isn’t it the same for you, Young Madam?」

「I guess, you are right.」

Even though the Demon Lord had been defeated and the powers of the demons had generally weakened, the existence of those from the 「demon race」still remained a big threat to the masses. Of course it was the same for my wet nurse, and even for me. And the reason that I was not scared of Noct, was of course because of the fact that he saved me. But more than that, it was also because I still had the memories of the 「past 」 world that I was reincarnated from. The existence of demons still felt like something made up. It just felt like an object of fear that had no definite shape. 

For the record, I have had encounters with demons a countless number of times. But, that man got rid of all of them immediately for me. That man always protected me. That might be why I didn’t feel a very strong sense of danger towards demons. I wouldn’t go all the way to say that I wasn’t afraid of them enough. If I had been put in front of a demon, I would probably be killed instantly, even if I were facing a lower level demon. But I’m sure that even if my life had been put in danger, a part of me would still think of demons as something that only existed in picture books.

It was not that I had forgotten the time when I didn’t even know whether that man was dead or alive in his fight with the high level demons in the executive class of the Demon Lord Army. But even then, rather than fear or hatred for demons, all I felt was an empty feeling of loss in my chest. Rather than hating an unknown existence, I was busy drowning in my own sadness instead.

In the end, my feelings towards the beings that we call demons would always be tied to that man. It is because that man is with me that I didn’t fear demons. No matter what kind of demon, I believed that that man would always come to my side. And at the same time, that was why I feared the demons. I was scared that someday, they would take that man away from me. Those contradicting thoughts must have taken root in me ever since we got married. Even I found it a troublesome thought. 

But I’m talking about myself too much again. Leaving that aside, why was my wet nurse able to accept Noct so easily? The first time she met him, she was frozen with shock and fear. Yet, she was completely fine now. Saying that she was just amazing would be too brief an explanation. She had always had nerves of steel. And I was the one who brought Noct back thinking that she would be fine with it. But even so, I couldn’t help but find it mysterious. 

But my wet nurse showed no signs of thinking deeply into my words and quickly opened her mouth.

「As long as it is the guest of Young Madam, no matter who it is, that person will be an important guest to me. And it would be natural to provide the best possible hospitality to that person right? Moreover…」

「Moreover?」

I tilted my head to ask her to go on. Hehe, my wet nurse giggled slightly and glanced up at me.

「「What we think of as terrifying」might not always be「what really is terrifying」. The person who taught me that was Young MadamーYoung Lady. It is no one other than you.」

「Me?」

My wet nurse told me quietly, as if she was revealing a secret of sorts. I couldn’t help but blink. What did she mean by: what we think of as terrifying might not always be what really is terrifying? Actually, no, I do understand the meaning of the sentence. Isn’t that a given? But why would my wet nurse say that now. And what did she mean when she said that I was the one who taught her that? As I tilted my head, completely not understanding what she meant, my wet nurse’s smile started to turn slightly bitter. 

「This is something that I can say only now. But to be honest, I had really thought about resigning the first time I met Young Master ー SIr Agedilus.」

「What!?」

I couldn’t help but raise my voice. This was the first time I had ever heard about anything like this. My wet nurse had been serving the Adina household before I was even born. And I never had any doubts that that would ever change. She was like a second mother to me. To hear that she had once thought about resigning, I couldn’t keep from being shocked. What’s more, the reason for that was nobody other than that man. Doesn’t this mean that I was about to hear something unbelievable? Hehehe. Seeing as I started to brace myself, my wet nurse started to laugh again. That smile of hers looked even more bitter than it did just now.

「Both Sir Ernest and I had some sort of tolerance against normal individuals with black magic. But of course it was a different situation for a pure black magic user. And together with his devilishly good looks, I had really thought that Sir Agedilus was a real human……I had thought that he was some sort of monster in disguise. Thinking about it now, it was an absurd accusation. But at the time, I couldn’t help but think that. And I couldn’t help but fear Sir Agedilus. On the surface, I somehow managed to smooth over that fact, but it seemed that SIr Agedilus had noticed how I felt too. He never man an effort to get close to me.」

「Was, that so?」

As the truth that had just been revealed to me started to sink into my head, I asked her. My wet nurse nodded back. The expression she gave was one filled with regret, regret that she would not be able to change the past. 

「Yes, although it is embarrassing to admit. That was what I used to think. You didn’t notice did you, Young Lady?」

「……I’m sorry」

「No, the one who should be apologising should be me. And also, I would like to thank you.」

「What do you mean?」

Based on what she’s said until now, I didn’t feel like I did anything that would warrant her gratitude. As I continued to bend my head even more, my wet nurse started to laugh out loud. Her smile was different from the one she had on just now. This was a warm and kind smile. 

「Because you didn’t seem to notice the relationship between Sir Agedilus and I at all, you weren’t scared of Sir Agedilus at all. Not only were you not afraid of him, you would initiate playing with him yourself. Seeing how you treated him like how you would treat any other child who came to the mansion, I finally realised.」

What did she realize? Without saying anything out loud, I asked her by throwing her a glance.「Do you not understand?」She asked back. What did she want me to understand? At this instant, based on what my wet nurse had said, all I understood was that  I was just a child who didn’t fear Pure Black and didn’t know what I was supposed to be scared of. Mmmm.  As I furrowed my eyebrows and tried to understand what she meant, my wet nurse poked her finger in between my eyebrows. As I instinctively tried to pinch the bridge of my nose, my wet nurse continued to laugh teasingly. 


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