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[Episode 66] – Romance novels to read with mom (3)

That night, I had a dream.

It was a dream with an adult Titania.

Her hair is a little shorter than now, down to her shoulders, and her eyes are slightly sharper. And, the ruby-like red eyes that once shone brightly looked darker and darker than they do now.

In my dream, I was sitting on the bed and looking closely at Titania who was standing next to me. Titania must have noticed my gaze and turned her head to look down at me. Unlike the face that always smiled at me, Titania’s face didn’t have a trace of a smile on it.

In my dream, I raised my head and asked Titania.

“Do you want to laugh for a moment?”

“why?”

“It’s just… I thought you don’t smile much anymore.”

Titania, who was looking at me in my dream, was silent for a moment, then opened her eyes round, lifted the corners of her mouth, and smiled. At the sight of Titania in her perfect childhood, I in my dream began to laugh out loud, wondering what was so great about it.

“Hehehe, yes, that’s the look. “When I was young, I laughed so often.”

“…Mom, do you like me better when I was younger?”

Titania, who was sitting next to me, tilted her head and asked me. In the dream, I rested my chin as if thinking for a moment and looked at Titania sitting next to me. Titania was making an expression like she did when she was younger, but it looked so awkward that you could tell she was forcing it.

In my dream, I looked at Titania’s expression, rested my chin, and answered like this.

“No, I just miss it. No matter how you grow up, there’s no way I’ll hate you, right? just…”

Grumpy-

When I crossed my legs, the chain hanging on my right ankle made a loud noise.

Perhaps because it was a dream, I didn’t feel any weight. However, the feeling of the cool chain touching my skin was enough to feel cold even if I knew it was a dream.

In my dream, I showed Titania the chains tied to my ankles and smiled bitterly. I shook my ankles and made loud clanking, clanking sounds, but Titania just looked at me.

“It would be better if you let me out of here.”

Titania looked at the shackles on my ankles and smiled faintly for some reason. Completely different from the bright smile of a ten-year-old Titania, she answered me with a gentle, adult-like smile with the corners of her eyes curled.

There was even a hint of composure in that smile.

“That’s not possible.”

*

“…Kids these days have no idea.”

“…? yes?”

The next afternoon.

After lunch, I decided to have tea with Mrs. Serena. Originally, I was going to spend time with the princess in preparation for tomorrow’s hunting competition… but the princess suddenly started avoiding me this morning, so I had no choice but to spend time with Lady Serena.

I thought about what I did wrong last night, but I really couldn’t remember anything. Surely, wasn’t he tired from playing around with the princess and fell asleep? All I could remember was how happy the princess was, and I couldn’t figure out what I did wrong.

‘Did I talk in my sleep when I dreamed something?’

I felt like I had a dream today, but I couldn’t remember what I dreamed about. When I woke up, I was slightly sweating and my heart was pounding, so I just assumed I had had a scary dream. At that time, did he hit the princess while talking in his sleep?

I put down the teacup, looked at Mrs. Serena with a slight grumble, and continued speaking.

“Sometimes he hugs me because he likes me, and sometimes he avoids me because he doesn’t like me.”

“…Are you talking about the princess?”

“Yes, just last night the child was trying to sleep in my arms, but today, for some reason, he is avoiding me again. “What on earth is the problem? Haha.”

When I said it out loud, a long sigh, like a sigh, naturally came out. As soon as I woke up today, the image of the princess who ran away from me seemed to flash before my eyes. Even when I asked him why he was angry, he didn’t answer and just glared at me with blank eyes.

‘What on earth did I do wrong…’

As I was sighing like that, Lady Serena, who was looking at me like that, burst into laughter. When I slightly pursed my lips and looked at my wife, she covered her mouth with her hand as if trying to suppress laughter and continued speaking.

“Hehe, hehe. Her Majesty the Queen must also be worried. Hehehe. “A child’s growth always causes parents distress.”

Mrs. Serena, who was sipping tea because she was so tired of laughing, put down the tea cup and smiled brightly at me.

“Isn’t it natural for children to try to move away from their parents as they grow up?”

“The princess is still ten years old…”

“Ten years old is old enough. My daughter Viola was already trying to leave my arms at the age of nine. “At some point, the title for me changed from ‘Mom’ to ‘Mother’…”

Lady Serena smiled bitterly, saying she was bitter that her daughter had left her. Is ten years old already that old? Aren’t you old enough to show cuteness to your parents yet? I thought for a moment and just stared blankly at the black tea in the teacup.

“The princess has also begun puberty. Didn’t you and I, Her Majesty the Queen, experience this at least once when we were young? “It was a fiery time when I wanted to confront my parents for everything I did and I didn’t like anything.”

“……”

It’s puberty…

Certainly, the princess’s adolescence existed in the game. But what should we say about adolescence in games? Puberty in the game was the princess’s period of rebellion, which naturally began at the age of fifteen if she was raised normally.

It was a time when I did not attend scheduled classes and sneaked out of the palace to play whenever I had time. It was a time when he was scammed by a strange old woman living in an alley, claiming to be learning witchcraft.

The princess, who was going through such a stormy time, suffered more than she could imagine.

Of course, the princess’s puberty didn’t just start at age 15. Sometimes, when I was about ten years old, I started going through a turbulent period of puberty.

Anyway… Now it’s reality, so regardless of the content of the game, hearing that the princess seems to have already reached puberty gave me a bigger shock than I expected.

I expected it would come someday, but I already hate my mom! go away! Don’t stick! It felt like my heart ached at the thought of hearing that.

“Huh… puberty…”

As I sighed heavily, Lady Serena clapped her hands to change the subject and started talking about the hunting competition.

“Oh, by the way, do you really have no intention of attending the hunting competition tomorrow, Her Majesty the Queen and the Princess? First of all, we talked about accompanying the scholars…”

“There is none. Do you think I can pull the bowstring with my forearm? The princess and I are thinking of going to the forest. It is rumored that there are many strange animals… I hope the princess will have happy memories.”

“okay…”

Before arriving here, I had already made it clear to Lady Serena in a letter that I would not be attending the hunting competition. He said he would follow the scholars to the forest with the princess and then enjoy a picnic with her. He answered that he would visit the hunting competition but would not attend in person.

It was inevitable that Lady Serena looked slightly disappointed and sullen. Well, since she was the owner of the forest, her hobby was hunting. You said you wanted to hunt with me, but…

“I invited you to the hunting competition, but I’m sorry for behaving as you please. “I thought it was too early to show the princess killing animals…”

“Oh, no! “Your Majesty the Queen has no reason to feel sorry for me!”

When I apologized, Mrs. Serena was shocked and waved her hands. I couldn’t help but laugh at the way his tone of voice became stiff for a moment, probably because he was very surprised.

Well… I said this, but my purpose was different. While enjoying a picnic with the princess, I planned to briefly bite the knights who followed as escorts and then ride a horse deep into the ‘fog’ of the forest.

I had memorized the Path of Fog a lot in the game, so there was no need to worry. The plan for tomorrow was to ride a horse quickly into the fog while the knights were away and talk to the dwarf in the ‘hut’ in the fog.

Even if, unlike in the game, you get lost in the fog, it’s a fog that fairies don’t wander into, so all you have to do is get help from Angel.

“You said you would also attend the hunting competition, right? “I’m looking forward to some great hunting.”

“Hehe, just leave it to me! “I will catch such amazing game that even Her Majesty the Queen will be amazed!”

Lady Serena raised her arms and assumed a bicep posture, showing me her arm muscles. I didn’t notice it when she was wearing a dress, but when she applied strength, her small muscles bulged out, showing how much she had built up her muscles to shoot an arrow.

Even though this was a game world, hunting for women was something that was avoided even here. But Lady Serina even grew her arm muscles to hunt… I thought she was an interesting person, as expected, as she was recommended by Bangchot.

And so the next day.

The day of the hunting competition has finally arrived.

On the carriage heading to the forest, I could see a colorful autumn forest beyond the window. An autumn forest starting to turn yellow and red with fallen leaves.

And, deep in the forest, a hazy fog could be seen settling in. To the extent that I thought it was bizarre, the fog stayed in one place and refused to be invaded by anything.

“Im here! “Your Majesty the Queen!”

As the coachman shouted, the driver who followed as an escort opened the door of the carriage. As the door opened, the cool autumn breeze brushed the back of my neck, and I saw the hazy fog in the distance, it finally felt real.

Finally, the feeling that the princess can meet the ‘dwarf’ of the cabin.