episode_0214

A week later.

Luna grew up safely, receiving full support as a child of one of the three great magic families.

“Ouch. My eyes opened.”

“You look just like me.”

Luna opened her eyes today.

The bright, sparkling eyes that resembled Ellen’s made me smile happily.

however.

“… Honestly, I wish I looked more like you.”

Ellen’s hair rustled subtly.

“Purple hair and blue eyes are so iconic of Bertha.”

“… Elin.”

Luke understood what it meant.

He gently held Ellen’s hand.

“Huh?”

Ellin was startled by the sudden call without even mentioning her title.

“There’s no need to be stuck in the past. Wasn’t it because of Bertain’s appearance that he was resentful?”

Luke locked eyes with Elin and spoke seriously.

“That’s…right.”

“Luna is clearly our child, Berklin. If Luna had heard that, she would have been upset.”

“Yeah… Sorry for saying something weird.”

Elin, who had become gloomy, gently tickled Luna’s stomach with her fingers.

Then Luna bursts into laughter.

A baby’s distinctive laughter had the ability to brighten up a heavy atmosphere.

Click.

“Is it okay to come in now?”

It was around that time that other families arrived.

“Come in. Luna just woke up too.”

As soon as Luke’s permission was given.

Vivian, Benedict, Victor, Dien, Rudy, and Nia.

The entire household rushed in.

“Oh my! Look at this little thing.”

Vivian smiled broadly as she looked at Luna lying in her crib.

A symptom where one reflexively smiles when seeing one’s grandchild.

It was proof that I had become a grandmother.

“Did you say daughter?”

“Yes.”

“I’m jealous. Raising a son is useless.”

Benedict tapped Luke on the shoulder.

“One guy is busy with his next job and doesn’t even talk to me. Another guy cut off contact with me during the four years I was at the academy.”

“… … ”

I wanted to say, ‘Your father isn’t the type to be easy to talk to, is he?’

I felt like I was really going to get angry if I did that, so I just bowed my head.

“I’m sorry.”

Even if it’s difficult to talk to Benedict.

There’s no way to explain why I didn’t even contact Vivian.

“If you have a daughter, it’ll be a little better. Let’s get along well from a young age. Don’t become like me.”

“I will keep that in mind.”

Benedict, who had been throwing out harsh words until the end, approached Vivian.

Benedict’s expression is so blank that I worry that his smile cells may have completely died.

“This guy is so cute.”

Let’s face Luna who is smiling brightly.

He smiled without resistance.

This was only the second time Luke saw his father smile.

When I saw Rudy.

And when I saw Luna.

Smiling only at his grandchild also meant that he had become a grandfather.

“Ahem. It seems like you’re in the same situation as me.”

Victor, who was hit hard by Benedict’s words, opened his mouth and coughed.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“Luna looks exactly like Elin. I don’t see a single trace of you in her.”

“Hmm.”

Only then did I understand what Victor meant.

Although she is still a newborn, Luna is the only one who has been singled out by Elin.

Rudy also doesn’t see Victor at all.

It’s believable even if you say that each wife gave birth to the children alone.

“I wonder if Berklin’s genes are inferior.”

“Do you really say that, brother?”

What on earth are you talking about when your family is all there?

Luke looked around for no reason.

Fortunately, everyone seemed to be so focused on Luna that they didn’t hear.

“If you look at it that way, doesn’t it make sense that we resemble our father?”

“What are you taking so seriously? It was a joke.”

“How can I know you’re joking when you make that face?”

While failing to understand Victor’s bizarre sense of humor.

“Honey, isn’t Luna really cute?”

Dien, who had come closer without notice, poked Victor in the back.

“Yeah, he’s cute. Reminds me of Rudy when he was little.”

Let Victor answer honestly.

“Then shall we make a second child?”

Dien came rushing in.

“… I think I misheard.”

“You heard right. Luna is cute.”

“There’s no correlation between Luna’s cuteness and our plans for a second child.”

“Why not? Mom would like it too. Rudy would be lonely alone too… .”

Victor desperately trying to let it out.

Dien trying to break through somehow.

As the fierce battle between the older brother and his wife continued.

Luke sneaked out and approached Nia, who was holding Rudy.

The reason why I came to Nia’s side.

“Why are you doing that?”

“Ah, brother… .”

Among the smiling family members.

It was because I was the only one who was in a state of shock and lost in thought.

“It just seems like time goes by too fast.”

Of course, it was shocking.

My younger sister, with whom I read high-brow romance novels when I was little, has already had a child.

I always expected that we would become a family someday.

The child who looked so much like Elin was smiling brightly.

I couldn’t help but feel some subtle emotions.

“Nia. Now prepare yourself.”

“Huh…? What?”

Luke advised the dumbfounded Nia.

“My brother and I had a child. But you don’t have a partner.”

“… … !”

Nia, startled, lowered her voice.

“… Is my next target me?”

“You are the only one the arrow will return to.”

Nia, who was gradually approaching marriageable age, was a perfect subject for her relatives to ask her questions.

“Hoho, so Nia, don’t you have anyone you like? Looking at our new baby, don’t you want to have a child?”

“Ah, haha… I haven’t thought about it yet.”

Just like now.

Nia is about to be bombarded with questions from Vivian.

“Your acquaintance is really small… !”

Rudy muttered, his eyes wide open.

The little cub that came out of the small body looks at his two-year-old younger sibling and says, “How small is that?”

It’s funny to hear someone who hasn’t even learned to speak for that long say something like that.

“I don’t think that’s something you should be saying?”

“Huh? I’m only here later?”

“Phew. He’s really big, our Rudy.”

“Graham!”

The Bucklin family burst into laughter.

“Thank you, Rudy… !”

Nia, who escaped the crisis, thanked Rudy.

* * * * *

After a noisy family visit.

After finishing dinner, Ellen and Luke hurried back to their room.

“Uuuuung… .”

“I’m sorry. Did Mom realize it too late?”

Because Luna was crying for food.

Elin immediately took off her top and gave Luna a breast.

“It gets quiet right away.”

I guess you were really hungry.

Luna became quiet as if she had never whined before.

Luke admired Luna suckling for a while.

Babies are originally cute.

Babies who don’t cry are twice as cute.

“I wonder if this is what would happen if I gathered all the cuteness in the world.”

I felt the urge to poke Luna’s chubby cheek.

I held on desperately.

“Huh… Luna is cuter than me?”

“Right… Yes?”

Luke, who was about to answer absentmindedly, raised his head.

Knock knock knock.

A fool’s quill that sways to a steady beat.

It was a move that was obviously intended to make people answer well, so I let out a sly laugh.

“Honey, I’m just asking just in case, but are you jealous of Luna right now?”

“Yeah.”

“… … ”

I was speechless at the answer that came back so sharply.

“No, where in the world is there a mother who is jealous of her own daughter?”

“Here you go. I want my honey to love me the most.”

“You can’t say Luna isn’t cute because she’s cute.”

“I’m not saying don’t be cute. Luna, I’ll be cute for you too, so just be cute for me.”

How many times did the word ‘cute’ come out?

Luke, momentarily dizzy, wanted to stop this pointless argument.

Well, Ellen’s request wasn’t particularly difficult.

“Okay, then do that.”

I tried to finish by nodding my head.

“Huh huh. Then honey, do you want to try this too?”

“… Yes?”

“Because Luna was staring at me so intently while I was eating, I thought maybe I wanted to eat it too.”

Until you say something that can’t be heard.

“Don’t joke around. Why am I stealing Luna’s food?”

“So you don’t want to try it? It’s only available now.”

Shudder.

Luke’s body trembled.

It feels like a limited edition sale to talk about the changes in your body that occur when you feed a baby.

But as a father of a child, I had to firmly refuse.

“Honey, it’s piled up so much right now. I can’t do it all at once, but I wanted to help after a long time.”

I was swayed by Elin’s softly seductive words.

“If you don’t like it, there’s nothing I can do… .”

“Wait a minute.”

Luke held out his hand and cut Elin off.

Because I had a gut feeling that if I bounced back one more time, I really wouldn’t get another chance.

Reason was still screaming at me to reject it cleanly.

Because men are creatures who sometimes don’t think only with their brains.

“… I want to try it.”

I ended up confessing that I wanted to be a terrible father who would take away my child’s food.

“I knew it. You pervert.”

“Didn’t your wife suggest it first?”

“I asked because my wife is a pervert, but I didn’t know she would actually ask for it.”

“… … ”

Elin let out a devilish laugh.

He woke up holding Luna, who had fallen asleep.

“Then, should I put Luna to sleep and go to my room?”

Passing by Luke.

He lifted his brow and whispered.

“But should I still leave some food for the baby?”

“… Let’s go put him to sleep quickly.”

“Hehehe, honey, you’re really a pervert.”

That night.

Luke got a special play from Elin.

After a long time, I finally relieved my sexual desire.