Elysia sat Evelia on her knee and began to gently educate her.

“Baby, if anyone prattles about things like marriage, being a lady, or anything so trifling…”

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

“……Of course it is. Of course it’s beautiful, but not before our baby becomes an adult. Anyway, if anyone mentions such things, kick them in the vital spot I taught you before.”

“Vital spot! I know! It’suh.”

Elysia quickly blocked the little one’s mouth that was about to express what she had learned.

“Didn’t I tell you not to utter that word anywhere?”

“But mom taught me!”

“……I taught you for you to remember easily.”

It was a lie. It was a clear mistake.

Elysia, who had roamed the battlefield with Hugo, was not so polite in reality.

In fact, when directing strategies against the demons, Elysia even made Emperor Carlile and Hugo freeze.

Therefore, recalling the men who are obsessed with her young daughter, it was a mistake caused by a past habit to use such a blatant term.

Yet, it was hastily rectified. The word recanted after being spit out felt somehow more weird, but what could be done, she had already made a verbal error in front of her daughter.

Elysia, fearing her mistake being caught by Hugo and her sons, was very thorough in gagging Evelia.

“……”

“……”

Arkan and Cedric locked eyes and shook their heads simultaneously.

No way. There’s no way our wise and noble mother would teach our baby an undignified word.

During the time Elysia had briefly gone upstairs. Hugo, who corrected the bad habit of the Artina Knights, returned.

There was no one who followed Hugo’s back and returned to the duke’s house among the many knights that headed to the practice field.

Because the onesided beating disguised as a duel made even the knights with good stamina unable to get up from the practice field floor.

As soon as he returned to the parlor, Hugo focused his gaze on the children. The expressions of his two sons were somewhat serious as they were discussing something.

“What’s the word mom taught you, baby?”

“Also teach it to your brothers.”

Hmm. It seems the lady taught our baby something.

Hugo listened casually as he took off his tunic.

“It’s a secret. Mom said not to say it anywhere.”

Her coquettish voice, halfclosing her eyes as if she was sleepy, was adorable.

“Just whisper it to your brothers. Okay?”

It was unusual for Arkan to be so persistent about such a trivial matter, so by this point, Hugo also began to show interest.

Cedric is one thing, but Arkan is indifferent to unnecessary things, with a temperament that exactly replicates Hugo himself.

“No. It’s a secret. Mom said not to say.”

“Shi~ We’ll definitely keep it a secret.”

“Okay, if you tell me, I’ll get you Beibe crackers tomorrow.”

Cedric promised once more to bring ‘Beibe’ crackers, which Evelia was recently addicted to, and Evelia, who was falling asleep, whispered in a small voice with her eyes tightly closed.

“It’s really a secret…… precious egg……”

What egg?

“What?”

“What egg?”

When the brothers asked once more while holding the chubby cheeks of Evelia, who was about to drift off to dreamland, Evelia, annoyed, turned her head as if to tell them not to bother her anymore and stated firmly.

“Precious! Egg!”

“……”

Is that precious egg the precious egg I’m thinking of? The truly precious one.

Arkan and Cedric, who doubted their ears, asked again, but the chick, who had already fallen into a deep sleep, did not answer.

Elysia, who was about to return, heard her daughter breaking the promise and shouting her mistake again and again.

Traitorous daughter! I’ve asked you to keep it a secret!

In the end, she had to turn back from where she was coming, her face burning. She just couldn’t face her husband and sons.

“……Ha.”

From the mouth of Hugo, who was about to lay his daughter in her room, a deep sigh leaked out.

Hugo had only one wish. To raise his daughter seeing and hearing only good things.

If she were a princess, that would not be too difficult.

But there were too many traitors in the duke’s house.

“Even the lady……”

His little daughter was diligently learning survival etiquette infused with courtesy from her mother.

Cold and intellectual, but sometimes dull in one corner, exactly like her mother’s character.

Hugo, who thought Elysia would correct and educate Evelia in due course, had to pay the price for his complacency soon.

A month later, while Evelia was out at the night market, leading several knights of Agares and Artina.

She ran towards men who were teasing a woman.

“I will smash your precious eggs!”

In the bustling streets, of all places, and with her hood off, she clenched her fists fiercely.

Agares and the knights, who saw this up close, laughed uproariously.

It was probably the first time in Agares’ demonic life that he laughed so much.