“Ha…….”

Valter, while holding Edith in his arms, calmed his rough breathing.

Certainly, just when he pushed himself out of the office, his vision was spinning due to severe headaches, but when she came to find him and kissed him, the pain in his body intensified in a different direction.

It was pitiful to see Edith shedding tears, but at the same time, there was a strange sense of satisfaction, as if she was saying that she couldn’t live without him.

‘If someone hears this, they’ll probably think all the headaches are a pretense.’

Valter carefully brushed Edith’s hair, which was clinging to his chest. As he kissed her on the round forehead, Edith’s body, which had been restless at intervals, gradually calmed down.

“……Valter.”

Hearing her choked voice, a scene suddenly came to his mind from the turmoil that had become a battlefield in his head.

On a day when it was raining, desperately rushing through the damp trees, much like now.

Raindrops flew in through the gaps in the raincoat, clothes were getting wet, and the anxiety was escalating, but even then, his mind was clear, as if he was desperately searching for someone.

Finally, when he found a girl who was crouching and sobbing without realizing her long blonde hair dragging on the ground, he unconsciously let out a loud voice.

“Edith! I’ve been looking for you for a long time.”

‘……Is this Edith and my childhood?’

Thinking of that moment, Valter had a foolish thought that the splitting headache wasn’t all that bad.

How tightly his heart would have squeezed when he saw the girl who looked up at him with her head lowered.

How relieved and happy young Edith must have been to find him in the rain.

The momentary current that filled the space between the two, what kind of feeling it was, vividly remembered to the point of giving him goosebumps.

“Edith. There’s something I need to say.”

Valter said that and helped Edith up. Even in summer, clothes tended to rustle when wet.

Luckily, there was a nearby greenhouse with a warming spell, so Valter took her there.

Then he draped a blanket over her shoulders and put the kettle on the fire before speaking.

“There were some problems because I used the unleashed magic. I should have told you earlier, but…….”.

Looking at Edith’s face, who seemed frightened at the words ‘some problems,’ Valter stared at her with a mischievous smile.

“I don’t want the woman who carries my child to make such an expression.”

“…….”.

Edith quietly listened to his words while sipping the warm tea he brewed.

When she heard the story of going to the tournament despite knowing the danger to share magic with the child, the feeling was as if all the blood in her body drained away.

His condition seemed a bit worse than what she had expected, listening to the conversation between the doctors.

“Valter. Then…….”.

Edith took a deep breath to calm her chest and finally asked.

“What was it about raising the barrier as quickly as possible at noon today?”

“…….”.
“Did you try to make me the Duchess to secure an inheritance for Adrian and me?”

When Edith’s sharp gaze turned towards me, Valter unconsciously swallowed dryly. For the first time in my life, fear constricted my entire body.

No matter who the opponent was, I had never been tense like this, but hearing Edith’s questioning, my mind went blank as if a command had been issued.

Watching him stammer without answering, Edith sighed.

“Valter, if you thought you might die, did you hide your condition from me all this time?”

“Well……”

Edith was already visibly disappointed. Valter, who could hold his own in any situation with a sharp tongue, now seemed to be at a loss for words, and Edith was sure that if he said something irrelevant, tears would flow again.

In such a situation, he was desperate to find a way, and he soon found someone who could save him in this situation.

“For now, it would be better to hear Theo’s explanation over there.”

Valter gestured to Theo and the doctors who were lingering around to come into the greenhouse.

Clearly, before coming to the office, Theo was excited as if he had found a clue to Valter’s magic explosion. So he would have a solution.

“Lord, are you okay?”

“Yes. The headache has subsided, and whether it will be okay in the future depends on what you’ve been researching.”

Edith glanced at Valter, who was shifting responsibility to Theo.

But even she, now recognized as a genius within Lexion, earnestly hoped that this young wizard could provide some hope.

“Theo, you told me earlier. It seems very difficult, but there is a way.”

As she spoke, Theo, who was like a scolded student, nodded his head.

“Yes, thanks to the opportunities you gave me to learn, I found a theoretical way to prevent magical explosions.”

Theo explained the principles using terminology that even the magic-born doctors, George and Delma, couldn’t fully understand.