Volume 7 Chapter 3 Part 5
Fiancée of the Wizard
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It seemed that my thoughts were written all over my face, as Noct looked at me doubtfully, knitting his eyebrows. His gaze shifted towards the door, as though he had noticed something. Following his gaze, I looked over as well. At the same time, a soft knock came from the door. 「Please come in」As I replied. My wet nurse entered with a bow, holding a basket filled with food ingredients in her arm.
「I’m home, Young Madam, Noct. I apologize for bothering you all while you are studying. The two of you are getting along very well, aren’t you?」
「Hehe, right? Welcome home, Suzette. Hey, look at this. Isn’t Noct just amazing?」
「Oh, he’s really good at it. You must have worked really hard, Noct. 」
My wet nurse praised Noct with a cheerful smile, gazing at the notebook that I showed her. Noct’s face turned bright red immediately, and he turned his face away to hide it.
My my, my wet nurse and I smiled at each other, and we took turns to pat Noct’s head. We deepened our smiles as Noct seemed to progressively shrink his body inwards. We then continued the lesson, together with my wet nurse as well this time.
And then, that night. At the fixed time, as if the clock had measured the timing exactly, the man I called my husband returned to the Lancent mansion. Having been doing reading and writing practice in the living room the entire time, I immediately grabbed the notebook from Noct’s hands and stood up the moment I saw the magic stone, the one that let us know when that man was coming home, glowed. Noct gasped and reached his hand out for it, but he was too slow. I left my wet nurse to slow him down by restraining him, as I jogged towards the main gate with the notebook in one hand.
「Welcome home, Edi!」
「Idiot, don’t run!」
Seeing me charging towards him in a small sprint, that man’s expression changed drastically as he threw aside the black robe that he had just taken off. He then leaned forward slightly and took a long stride towards me, spreading both his hands out wide, catching me in his arms.
After letting out a sigh of relief, that man glared at me. 「Thank you」I thanked him, smiling back at him with my eyebrows slanted downwards.
「Sorry. I couldn’t help but rush. Edi, look at this.」
「What is it?」
I wiggled out of that man’s arms and brought the notebook that I held in my hand up to his face, giggling. Reflexively taking the notebook, that man compared the front and back covers and doubtfully looked down, concluding that it was just a notebook with nothing special about it. I could hear loud footsteps stomping towards us.
「Filmina!」
Noct charged towards us in a panic, throwing away his usual expressionless, apathetic facade. It seemed that he had finally escaped my wet nurse’s interference. But before Noct could take back the notebook from that man’s hands, that man had already skimmed through the notebook.
「Isn’t it amazing? Noct wrote that.」
「Hm? 」
That man looked up from the papers and at Noct. It seemed that his usual expressionlessness went out the window, as he bit his lip with a desperate expression, and sputtered out
「I-I’m sure it’s really bad」
Not at all, I really don’t think that’s the case at all. Of course, the penmanship wasn’t as great as that man or mine since we were used to writing words, but his words were good enough to be read. To be able to write like this in one day was an amazing feat. All that was left was for him to remember the vocabulary and grammar in better detail.
It seemed that I wasn’t the only one who thought that. That man closed the notebook and placed it on top of Noct’s head. He look down at Noct, who took the notebook and hugged it close to himself in a panic, and snorted with a hmph.
「I never said that it was bad right?」
「What?」
「This is pretty good for your first time.」
「!」
That man’s words must have been pretty unexpected for Noct. He vigorously lifted his head and looked up at that man’s face. Looking down at Noct, that man said「Do you have any complaints about that?」, unable to be honest, as always.
「N-no, I don’t, but」
Noct answered, stammering. It seemed that he couldn’t produce words other than those. I smiled back at my wet nurse who had sauntered behind Noct, before winking at Noct as if to tell him「told you so」.
Our eyes met for a moment, but Noct immediately averted his eyes from mine and looked down again. But I was sure that the face that I witnessed in that one moment was one that was glowed light red with joy. Under the drapery that was wrapped around his waist, his tail was shaking left and right.
Just as I thought, that man and Noct were somehow building good relationships with each other. Ah, my home really is warm and comfortable.
Although I wanted things to stay this way forever, I understood that it wasn’t possible. Someday, we would have to bid each other farewell.I couldn’t help but already feel lonely just thinking about that day. If only that day never came. If only these tranquil and happy days would continue like this forever. I couldn’t help but think that.
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After finishing dinner, I sat down on the armchair in the bedroom and continued to knit the scarf. I say 「continue」, but I had already progressed quite a bit while Noct was practicing reading and writing in the afternoon, so all that was left was just making the final adjustments. That man was in the study doing the work that he had brought back, and Noct was doing revision for today in his own room. It was fun spending time together, but it was important for us to have time apart doing what we each wanted to do too.
There was only a bit left before I was done with my scarf. With the wool yarn that was a mix of bright blue and bluish-purple colors, I added the fringes to the left and right of the scarf, which was the main body, and aligned the lengths of the fringes by trimming with a pair of scissors.
There, and with that, it was finally completed. I held the scarf, with a gradient of bright blue and bluish-purple colors, up to my face. I was quite proud of how impressive-looking it was. With this, one probably wouldn’t be embarrassed even if they were wearing it in the royal court. Yes, yes, I nodded by myself. As I tidied up the arts and crafts supplies that were sprawled across my table, the door opened.
「Ah, Edi. Are you done with your work?」
「I guess. How about you, why haven’t you slept yet?」
「What? Is it already that time?」
「You didn’t notice?」
That man pointed at the clock that was hung on the wall. Following his fingers, I instinctively whispered: 「Oh dear」. I didn’t mean to take this much time, but it seemed that in reality, quite a long time had passed. It was thirty minutes before the end of today. It seemed that I had gotten ahead of myself since I was feeling quite well today.
I really need to reflect on my actions, I thought, as I stood up with the completed scarf in my hand. I walked towards that man and placed the scarf on his neck.
「Edi, sorry for the wait. I finally finished this. Would you be so kind as to accept it?」
「……Ah. It’s really warm.」
「Right?」
Hehe, I giggled, with my chest puffed up with pride as that man buried his neck in the scarf. Of course it was warm. I used a lot of high-quality wool yarn, and knit it with a lot of love. One would be lying if they said that it wasn’t warm.
As those sunrise-colored eyes of his narrowed while he enjoyed the warmth of the scarf, I poked my finger against the tip of his nose. What on earth. He looked up at me with a huge question mark written on his face as I pointed my index finger at him.
「You always remind me not to let my body get too cold, but you need to be careful too alright, Dad?」
As a reminder, I poked that long nose of his twice or thrice. He narrowed his eyes as if he felt ticklish, before taking my hand and pressed his lips against it.
「I’ll take the appropriate measures, Mother. Just don’t forget that the one who needs to be more careful is you, rather than me. Don’t「you」think so too?」
That man knelt down and tried to gain consent facing my stomach. He drew my hips towards himself and placed a kiss on my belly. That man pressed his ear against my stomach, trying to hear a response that he had no way of getting. In response, I ground my teeth. What a cowardly move, trying to get the baby on his side so early.
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