Volume 7 Chapter 4 Part 5
Fiancée of the Wizard
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Translation by burnt.marshmallows
Editing by Team Foxsunes
If, the baby in my belly, were the second Demon Lord. I should already have been able to get over hearing that assumption. When I was in the Royal Capital, I had heard about it quite enough, even if I didn’t want to. Whenever I did hear those assumptions or got questions about it, I would shut them down without a doubt, saying that something like that could never be possible. Yet, right now, I wasn’t able to do that. I couldn’t help but think that my lady-in-waiting’s words were strangely convincing enough for me.
It could have been that, I too, suspected that the baby in my belly could be something that was affiliated with the devil somewhere in my heart. Maybe I was just trying not to notice it. I believed that that wouldn’t be possible, but it could have been possible that some part of me wasn’t completely able to believe myself. I knew that my thoughts were just being affected by the voices of those around me. Yet, whenever I thought that this child would be viewed with the same fear that that man and I were viewed with, I was just overcome with fear and sadness.
ーAh, I see. So that was what it was.
What suddenly appeared at the back of my head was those beautiful yellow-colored eyes of the demon boy we had lived with in the Royal CapitalーNoct. There was no blame or pleading in those eyes. Those eyes that looked straight at me were only filled with loneliness. I had looked away from those eyes somewhere in my heart. I wondered why I wasn’t able to not avert my eyes.
The reason I decided to reach out to Noct was because I couldn’t help but think that that child was similar to that man. I wanted to help that child when he said that he wanted to assimilate into the world of humans. But only now do I notice that the reason I wanted to help him was not just all that.
I had really thought that Noct resembled not just that man, but also the baby in my belly. I wanted to think that, by showering Noct with love, I would be able to love this child no matter what kind of baby was born.
That man had told the Head Knight that「Noct resembled my own child」, but I wasn’t able to find fault in what he said. How terribly I must have been acting. I was embarrassed at myself for not noticing that all this time.
……But, and although this is a bit more delayed than it should have been, I finally noticed it. And having noticed it now, I was all the more sure of that fact. In me was something that I was able to say confidently as a fact.
「No matter what kind of child it is, to me, this child will be a child more precious than anything. Is that not enough as an answer?」
No matter how many people call the child a monster, this was our precious baby. No matter who the enemy was, and even if the whole world was against our child, I would still stand by our child.
ーThat’s right. And I wanted to be like that for Noct too. That’s what I should have done. Once I reached my hand out to him, I should have held his hand to the end, no matter what, even if he rejected it. Yet, Noct ran away with his back facing me. My hand will no longer reach that child. I still regretted it a lot. I was very sad and very lonely.
I unconsciously started to caress my belly as I looked back into my lady-in-waiting’s eyes. Her lips formed a gentle arc. She then deeply nodded a countless number of times.
「I have a child too, so I understand how you feel.」
「You, do?」
「Yes. He’s quite a failure and a stupid son, and he’s caused me a lot of trouble, but he seems to be doing well recently, so I am quite relieved.」
The lady-in-waiting said while laughing. Hearing those ruthless comments she made,I couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly. Maybe it would have been better if I interacted with Noct like this too, without holding anything back. Maybe I’ll use this as a reference for the sake of my baby who will be born in the near future. As I thought that, I started to giggle. As my lady-in-waiting watched me, she let out a gentle laughter too.
「Madam Filmina, you really do treasure your child, don’t you?」
「Isn’t that only natural?」
「Yes, of course. But it’d be nice if Sir Agedilus thought so too.」
「……What?」
I couldn’t help but stiffen up when I heard the words that she casually continued with. I locked eyes with my lady-in-waiting. Why was it? For some reason, I wasn’t able to look away from her eyes. My tongue got tangled up and I couldn’t say a word. Maybe it was because I was so shaken up that even I myself was shocked. It was just supposed to be a passing comment, but it strangely bothered me.
「Edi, too……?」
About what? Was that what I was about to say? I didn’t even know. That man was the father of the child in my belly. But at the same time, he was the Royal Palace’s Head Magician. He was a hero who saved the world. When 「that time」came, what would that man do? The question that I avoided up until now suddenly came into my head. I froze. That was when the door opened loudly.
「I’m back.」
The person who stood there was the man I called my husband. It seemed that his swordsmanship practice finally ended and he had just returned. Hearing that man’s words, the lady-in-waiting quickly turned around towards that man with a smile on her face.
「Welcome back, Sir Agedilus. I will take my leave now. Please enjoy your time as a couple without any intrusion.」
With a graceful bow, the lady-in-waiting left the room. All I could do was watch her leave, still in the same state of shock that I felt before. I let out the breath that I had unconsciously been holding. Seeing that, that man furrowed his eyebrows in surprise.
「Filmina? Did something happen?」
That man asked, somehow noticing that I was acting strange. But even if he did, I wasn’t able to answer him. Because the reality was that nothing happened. That was why I just shook my head and gave him a cheerful smile. I had the confidence that I could smile just like I usually did.
「No, it’s nothing. More than that, Edi, you must be tired. How would you like some tea?」
「Yeah」
That man sat down on the chair as I urged him to. I then placed a teacup in front of him and poured in the herbal tea from the teapot that my lady-in-waiting had left for us. That was right. It was nothing. Repeatedly telling myself that, I shook off the anxiety that had surrounded me, as I took another sip of the herbal tea.
It was just the two of us alone. No, if I count the baby in my belly it would be the three of us. For now, it was a given that it was just the two of us, but would it mean that someday, it would become a given that there would be another person here? As that thought came into my head, I felt a strange feeling. I called out to the man who had already started reading the grimoire that he had brought in from the Royal Capital.
「How was your sword practice with Sir Yuri? It seems that you had quite a lot of fun.」
When I asked him, obviously showing my curiosity, that man shrugged his shoulders. I knew that it probably wasn’t directed at me, but I couldn’t help but think that it was a gesture that bore negativity.
「Even if the opponent were「the Hero」, there’s no way that I’d lose out to a self-proclaimed peasant noble who doesn’t usually hold a sword right?」
Hearing that man assert that he thoroughly retaught the Hero everything from the basics, I smiled wryly, saying 「Oh dear」. He really was a thoroughly difficult person.
「Edi, no matter how you like Sir Yuri, you shouldn’t bully him too much alright?」
This was just like how we said that grade-schoolers expressed their love in my 「past」world. Even though that soft-hearted…… or rather, big-hearted, kind hero allowed him to do this, for most people, it wouldn’t be strange even if they started really hating you, you know? Trying to convey that to him, I gently glared at him. In response, that man glared back, slightly annoyed.
「Who ever said that they liked anyone?」
「Of course you did, about Sir Yuri」
If I had intended to act clueless, it would have been a pretty bad attempt. I would have been gravely mistaken if I thought that I would be able to brush it off with just that. I mean, that man probably had no intention of bullying SIr Yuri, so I guess the way I said it was also wrong. That man was in no way bullying the Hero. He probably had no intention of doing so at all. It was really hard to understand, but that man definitely wanted to fight the Hero with good intentions in mind.
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