New Family. (2)

It’s been about 12 years since I met my teacher. It’s been about 10 years since I met Yuria.

And I simply defined the relationship between the two as one of enmity.

“Wow!”

“Kang! Kang Kang!!”

But I guess that wasn’t the case.

The two of them fought each other in human terms, but when they fought with the princess and her older sister, they both turned into real beasts and pointed their fangs at each other, so it seemed like they were enemies.

“Why are you fighting?”

“Rudis! This guy… !!”

“This watermelon guy is bragging that he’s going out with you today! So the girl is following him, so she’s trying to bite him!!”

“?”

Today is the academy’s weekend off, and it was already decided that my sister and I would go out.

I don’t know why the princess was angry that her older sister bragged about it, but anyway, I sneaked in between the two people who had given me my personality back and spoke to the princess.

“That’s right. I’m going out with my older sister today, and the princess can’t come with me.”

“Oh my gosh!! Are you abandoning the girl?! The girl did such a good job!”

“… What did you do well for me?”

“I gave you the leftover strawberry milk!”

“Can I give you some of my leftover black coffee as compensation?”

“That’s just giving away trash!”

I shook my head as I watched the princess grumbling at my words, wondering if she thought those words would boomerang back at her.

No, anyway, seriously, the princess shouldn’t come with me today.

“As I said earlier, we need to dispel the strange rumors about the princess before they spread any further. If anyone sees us hanging out together outside on a holiday, it will really cause problems.”

“The girl said it didn’t matter!”

“The princess may not care, but what about the crown prince and the emperor, the supreme rulers of the empire?”

“Pfft!!”

I bent down to meet her gaze, who cutely puffed out her cheeks and furrowed her eyebrows as if she understood what I meant, but also as if she would not accept it.

“Princess, to be honest, I also enjoy spending time with you. However, please understand that before we were classmates at the academy, we were a commoner and a member of the royal family.”

“… Saying that, I’m thinking of having fun with that watermelon fox, except for the girl! I’m thinking of having some sticky fun!!”

“Oh, you shouldn’t say that. And, I had promised Yuria and I a few days ago that we would go out today. I have to pick up our ‘new family’.”

“New, new family…? Adoption…!”

-Ttaaak!

“Kyaa-hung?!”

My older sister has a daughter who is pretty even though she has the fire attribute, and I am a man who has never been in a proper relationship.

When I slapped the princess’s evil forehead, who was trying to suddenly turn me into a man with a child, she looked at me with crimson eyes as if she was truly resentful and in pain.

“I’ve never been hit by my brother or father!”

“I am honored to be the princess’s first.”

“I didn’t think I’d be honored with that, huh? And I’ve been hit by my mom! So it’s not the first time! “

But when I saw her pouting as if she was really shocked at being hit by me, I smiled bitterly and continued talking.

“This is not adoption, this is adoption. I want to raise a pet.”

“Animal?”

“Yes. He’s a bit big and has a vicious temper. And if he sees the princess, he’ll definitely kick her with his hind legs. “

“Oh my! You shouldn’t raise such a violent pet! A girl can’t live with it!!”

I said I had no intention of letting her live with the princess, and she shook her head no, but I convinced her that for that reason, she really couldn’t go with me today.

“You promised the girl too… “

“Oh, right. Then, let’s go next weekend. I thought I should update myself a little.”

“… Without the watermelon fox?”

“Haha. Is that so?”

“No! Rudis, me too…!!”

My sister grabbed my shoulder and pulled me towards her, saying that this was absolutely not a chance to end this situation. I followed her without any resistance and quietly answered her.

“Let’s sort it out for now, and then we’ll go hang out together. Since you probably don’t have any friends and are bored, I don’t think you’ll say much if we just hang out together.”

“… Oh. Oh, really? “

My older sister, who has good hearing because she is a child, perfectly understood even my smallest words and smiled, and thanks to that, I was able to finally organize this place.

“I promised! Next weekend, I’m going out with the girl alone!”

“Yes. Go in and rest!”

“Go quickly!”

“Wow!!”

“Grrr!!”

After seeing off the princess, who was barely able to return to her quarters, and her older sister who was growling at her, we headed into the city.

*

“Rudis, I think it would be better to keep your distance from the princess. She’s really weird, isn’t she?”

“Hey, and by the way, you play well with the princess too.”

“This isn’t playing! This is fighting!”

As the princess disappeared and we headed towards our destination, Yuria linked her arms with mine and started gossiping about the princess while pushing against her soft maternal pouch, but I found even that cute.

“When I was crying because I spilled my Soboro bread, wasn’t it you who took care of me first?”

“That, that’s it! A fully grown adult is crying over a piece of bread…!”

“I saw my sister preparing strawberry milk for me separately when I was just blankly staring like the sky was falling because she bought tomato juice instead of strawberry milk?”

“Uh…! Th, how did you see that?!”

“Also, Harb told me that he always sits next to the princess who is completely out of place in the swordsmanship department and takes care of her like a mother. He even takes care of the textbooks she didn’t bring.”

“This is so funny! Why does he repay kindness with enmity?!!”

“Pfft! There are still a lot of good stories about my sister that I heard from Harub. Can I tell you all of them?”

“Don’t do it! Oi! Next training he’s really dead!!”

-Malkan!

My sister’s actions of furrowing her eyebrows as if she was really angry and tightly hugging my arm made my pocket of consideration change shape as if it was going to explode, and although I flinched at the soft feeling, I was able to treat her calmly, thinking that my sister was indeed a motherly person.

“I know you’re only growling in front of me on purpose. If you’re doing this because you’re worried that I’ll get into trouble by getting involved with the princess, then you don’t have to do it.”

“… No, that’s not true. We’re really fighting.”

Looking at Rudis, who was smiling brightly and talking, Yuria puffed out her cheeks and thought.

‘It’s fortunate that I don’t have any tact in my heart, but how can I be so tactless?’

Piana herself had never directly revealed her feelings for him, as there was a slight age difference between them and they were both acting to connect their disciples and daughters with him.

But I can say for sure that I never stopped liking him.

Furthermore, even though our daughter doesn’t know it, Nora, who entered puberty, clearly showed her love for Rudis by chasing her around, but even then, he often treated her as just a younger sibling or a close family member, just like he does now.

But I was young back then. I just thought I was a bit dull, but things are different now.

Even if you say you’re insensitive to love, honestly, it’s to the point where you wonder if it’s okay to be this insensitive.

It’s almost as if the subject of love has been deliberately excluded from the opposite sex.

And honestly, I don’t hate the princess herself.

I think he’s a cute kid who acts a little absent-mindedly and whose speech may seem arrogant, but who never says anything wrong, and although it’s a bit hard to say that he’s right, his actions of fighting injustice with injustice don’t seem all that hateful.

It’s just that if I leave that kid alone, he’ll easily outwit me and sit next to Rudis, so he’s afraid of that and that’s why he keeps acting hostile.

‘…Youth is scary, scary, but he’s so direct that it’s scary.’

A cute and pretty child who doesn’t care about what other people think, is very honest about her feelings, and is very pretty.

Even with her voluptuous and attractive body that is no match for Nora or Piana, her beautiful hair that shines like silk, and her straight crimson eyes that show no regret or hesitation in her actions, she harbors a determination that ‘we’, who are trying to stay by his side in a dark and vulgar way, cannot do.

I was a little embarrassed, but I couldn’t help but think that she was scary and that was why she kept growling at me so hostilely.

If things continue this way, even this man, who is incredibly insensitive to love, will soon notice the princess’s affection for him.

-Kkook, Malkang!

“Sister. Your arms are a little… “

“Don’t worry about it.”

“Is this my arm?”

“Today is a date.”

“… Isn’t going to the Adventurer’s Office a date?”

“A man without tact is not popular.”

“Yep… “

Right now, there’s no way around it other than making her look only at me with as much skinship as I can.

Today, we decided to go to the Adventurer’s Office. After stopping by there, we have to go back to our lodgings and ask our love teacher, Ms. Pola, for advice.

With that in mind, I thrust my ultimate weapon at him and reached the Adventurer Management Office building. He moved to slightly pull his arm away, but I matched his movement and clung much closer.

‘Ohhh…! It turned red!’

Did he finally realize that his arms were touching my chest?

We entered the building, feeling slightly relieved to see his face turn a little red with embarrassment.

“This is Yuria Portward, who I was supposed to meet with today.”

“Oh, yes. I’ll check for a moment. Please wait.”

“Sister… People around me are watching.”

“Tell me to look. I like it.”

“… … “

Rudis seems to be a little concerned about what others think, but I can actually hear everything with my hearing.

-What is that?

-Are you dating that black guy and that pretty girl?

-Wow, what a waste for a woman.

-Should I go and try to seduce him? The guy doesn’t seem like much of a guy.

-Oh. I’m so jealous! I’m jealous! He’s grabbing your arm with his chest, eating it up.

Of course. I’m still active, and in their eyes, we’re lovers.

By making sure to capture the attention of those around him, he must make it clear that there is a woman by his side, and he must create a situation where neither Piana nor Princess Coti can interfere.

I held onto Rudis’ arm and waited for guidance, not forgetting to make the owner of the voice that occasionally scolded Rudis unable to speak sharply about living.

“… Oh, I found it. You came two weeks later than scheduled. You are late. Would you like to pay now? “

“Ah… “

“I’ll do it.”

Rudis hesitated a bit when he heard that the monster he had entrusted to her because he wanted it would cost more, but he didn’t miss the opportunity to naturally take out his wallet and pay first.

I think this kindness of his, not being flustered or blaming me when he sees me here, is one of the things that keeps me from escaping from his captivity.

“Yes. I paid 156,000 gold. Would you like a receipt?”

“No. Please organize it.”

“Yes. Then… please go to hall 5 here.”

The paper I received had the location of the medium-sized monster breeding room written on it, and we headed to our destination with it in our hands.

“Keee!!”

“Eww?! This crazy bicorn is acting up again!!”

“Oh my.”

“Purungah…!!”

And there, the bicorn we had captured a few months ago was running wild, headbutting a male keeper.