Guinevere decided in this life she would never teach magic to William again.
If he doesn’t know magic, he wouldn’t have to use the time regression spell.
“Don’t bother and just go to the knight’s academy and learn swordsmanship.”
“Mother, if that’s the case, I’d rather learn alchemy.”
“Alchemy can be self-taught anyway, right?”
William looked surprised at this. It seemed he didn’t expect Guinevere to know.
‘Has he just started self-learning at this time?’
Still, the barriers he set up in the mouse holes were of a high standard.
“With your current level, you could skip grades and graduate early from the academy. Why bother? Continue self-learning alchemy and receive knight training. Go and graduate as valedictorian.”
“…….”
“You’re not going to say you can’t do it, are you?”
“No.”
William felt bewildered. He had expected his mother to insist on him applying to the magic department.
Although she strongly recommended the knight’s academy, she didn’t deny his alchemy.
He felt, perhaps for the first time, that he was recognized by his mother.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“No, just… I’ll do that. Go to the knight’s academy and…”
“William, that’s great. We’ll become knights together?”
Larissa smiled brightly and pulled William’s hand. Then, holding Guinevere’s hand with her other hand, she said,
“I’ll work hard to become a knight who protects mother!”
‘Is this why everyone goes on about daughters?’
Guinevere unknowingly smiled warmly.
William had never had a single cute aspect since birth. It was his first time seeing a child-like child.
On the way back to his room, William still felt bewildered. Guinevere’s words kept coming back to him.
‘Even with your current level, you could skip grades and graduate early from the academy, so why bother?’
His mother not only knew he was secretly learning alchemy but also gauged his skill level. It was quite shocking.
Guinevere Rodante is a woman with not the slightest interest in her children. That was the general opinion, and he thought so too.
‘Maybe she does care a bit since I’m her only son…’
William scratched his head, feeling slightly embarrassed. Being forced to choose the knight’s academy was a hundred times better than being forced into the magic department.
“William will surely be very cool as a knight.”
“Really?”
“Of course. Yeah, yeah!”
Larissa, holding a tree branch, made sword-swinging motions in the air. Her movements were clumsy but very cute.
“Lara would be cool as a knight too.”
William rubbed his nose and said, using a nickname for the first time.
Everyone, even the back alley pickpocket gang boss, called Larissa ‘Lara’, so why should he be the exception?
“Eh? What did you just say?”
“Huh?”
“Did you call me Lara?”
“Um. So, what if I did?”
Larissa clapped her hands and said,
“Wow! Are we getting closer now?”
‘Weren’t we close already?’
William felt hurt.
“Then, can I also call William by a nickname?”
“……Sure.”
His delayed response was because no one had ever called him by a nickname.
William felt that this little girl Larissa was completely changing his life.
“Then I’ll call you Willi!”
“Why? Don’t people usually call you Bill or Liam?”
“But Willi is way, way cuter.”
Larissa said confidently. However, seeing William’s expression, she whispered cautiously,
“I’ll call you William in front of others. Willi will be our secret nickname, okay?”
William smiled broadly and replied,
“Okay.”
Thinking about others calling him ‘Willi’ made William want to beat someone up, but what did it matter what Larissa called him when they were alone?
William didn’t care either way.
Then, suddenly startled, William’s expression hardened.
‘…Isn’t this dangerous? She’s only 7 years old?’
Why did he nonchalantly imagine being alone with a 7-year-old child?
William was filled with self-loathing.
‘Get a grip, man. Larissa is only 7. She’s a little and precious person who needs protection!’
He desperately tried not to hate himself and blamed Guinevere.
‘It’s all mother’s fault. Why did she bring her here to marry me?’
If Guinevere hadn’t said that, Larissa would have just been a grubby pickpocket kid from the slums to him.
So, it was all Guinevere’s fault for having such foolish thoughts. He rationalized it that way.
Larissa examined the keepsake she reclaimed from Jeje, her mother’s relic. The portrait inside the locket looked exactly like her mother.
“Mom…….”
I miss you.
She knew the person in the portrait wasn’t her mother.
Unlike her mother’s unkempt white hair, the woman in the portrait looked like a noblewoman with green eyes, different from her and her mother’s red eyes.
Yet, whenever Larissa missed her mother, she looked at the portrait inside the locket.
‘Maybe it’s my grandmother, my mother’s mother?’
This locket was something her mother never sold no matter how hard or poor life was.
It wasn’t treasured to the extent of never leaving her side, but she never sold it even when they were starving, so it must have been precious.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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