He took off his helmet and approached me. His expression looked strangely urgent.

I was a little sorry that I couldn’t find his brother right away, but there was nothing I could do.

I looked up at him with my neck high and asked confidently.

“Sorry, I couldn’t find him yet. Let’s go find him quickly!”

“……Lady Sien Mirmod.”

“Hmm?”

I glanced at him casually and was surprised.

His eyes were heavily bloodshot.

“……I think I found my brother.”

And the beautiful knight’s gaze was stuck as if nailed to the boy next to me.

“……Who is this.”

The boy looked at him with a cold face as if frozen and then stopped beside me.

“I have no family.”

I couldn’t understand what was going on.

I was rolling my eyes to understand the situation in the precarious atmosphere like standing on a knife’s edge.

Although they were brothers meeting after a long time, they obviously couldn’t fight in front of Felrod Street.

We got out of Felrod Street and headed to the next block.

In my haste, I used ten of my spare handkerchiefs that the maid sisters had carried with them to wipe the child’s face and body.

I didn’t mind at all.

Because that’s not what’s important!

Right now, Ted and Ted’s brother, instead of a touching reunion, were arguing loudly.

“I’m sorry, listen to me. I didn’t abandon you.”

“……No, you abandoned me. That person abandoned me.”

There was anger and hatred on the boy’s face.

“I kept…… I kept looking.”

“Liar. I remember that you left me in the dirty street and left.”

Ted’s gaze full of pain went to the boy’s shriveled left hand.

He washed his hands dryly and let out a long sigh. The boy, who had been watching him, asked in a voice mixed with hatred.

“But you…… became a knight.”

“I was too poor at that time……. I couldn’t find you. I’m sorry, Acid.”

The boy’s eyes, filled with hatred, looked at the Ted in front of him.

“Don’t call me Acid. Because I don’t have such a name.”

It seemed that there had been a misunderstanding between the brothers, but since the family history of the extras in the novel was not detailed, I found it tricky.

‘I thought it would go well if I just introduced them to each other.’

I rubbed my forehead, watching the two of them spinning around me in their conversation.
As a holy heroine, I, Melodia, who was not a saint, lacked the tact to fill the deepening emotional gap between the two brothers.

“What should I do?”

Looking at the little boy who kept trying to hide behind my back, I let out a long sigh and rummaged through my pocket. From the pocket, a sweet chocolate came out.

“Here, chocolate.”

“Th, thank you.”

Like a young puppy recognizing a stranger as its mother, the boy kept leaning toward me.

Ted, watching the boy who seemed to clearly guard himself, distorted his face as if he was about to cry.

Seeing his pain, I asked casually.

“……Ted, did you abandon your brother?”

“Absolutely not. I’ve been looking for him all along. Intentionally…… I’ve been here, continually…… in order to find you. I couldn’t go anywhere else.”

Looking at his desperate gaze, I nodded.

As a novel reader, I could tell. How much Ted cherished and loved his own brother.

But the boy seemed to not know.

This scene wasn’t in the original work. In the original, Ted’s brother found his family and was happy thanks to the saint. The happiness found by the saint was also said to have been greatly joyous……

‘I guess there’s a misunderstanding now.’

At this moment, the boy was trembling.

If entrusted to Ted’s hand, this boy would be frightened and be on guard at all times.

It could be more damaging than being in the nursery.

Although it’s my principle not to interfere in family matters, considering their personality differences, time was needed.

I took a deep breath and spoke.

“Listen to me both. I’ll offer an alternative.”

At my words, their confused gazes fixed on me.

I let out a long sigh and thought.

“Little one, would you like to live with me? Just for a while.”

“What does that mean[Dash].”

“Ted, wouldn’t it be better to give the kid, no, your brother some time to think?”

Even as I spoke, I wasn’t very confident.

Would this child choose me, a person he met for the first time today, or choose his only family that he had lost?

“I am…….”

The kid swallowed a dry spit once.

I, too, nervously licked my lips in response.

His gaze looked at Ted and me once each.

I firmly held the boy’s hand and climbed up the carriage.

The earlier incident flashed through my mind like a brief panorama.

The boy chose me, sitting between Ted and me.

And he hissed at Ted not to call his name.

The child, who was hurt by his family, had his heart closed tightly enough to follow a stranger rather than his own brother.

Ted surprisingly gave up reclaiming his brother quite easily.

All he did was looking at me with a half ambiguous, half trustfilled gaze and saying, ‘Please take care of him.’

Instead, it was I who became anxious and asked him.

‘Ted.’

‘Yes.’

‘Are you really not regretting?’

At my question, Ted spoke seriously.

‘……Please take good care of my brother. If you do, I am yours.’

I nodded my head and replied.

‘I’ll cherish your brother a lot. It’s not because I want to make Ted my ally.’

But I couldn’t wait long.

I didn’t have much time. There was a clear deadline of one month. Unless there’s a way to delay Axel’s arrival.

‘Still Ted, come to me within 2 weeks.’

At my words, he showed a subtle smile and bowed his head deeply.

‘……I’ll think about it and keep it in mind. One thing I can promise[Dash].’

‘Uh.’

‘I will never forget today’s event in my lifetime.’