Training camp dormitory.
As usual, Lucia returned home on her way back from work with Nia. However, unlike other days, there was someone waiting for the mother and daughter.
“Did you have a good time? Wasn’t anything uncomfortable?”
“Yes! Lady Lucia, there was someone helping me all the time, so it was a bit awkward, but she was really nice.”
Isabel, who had dressed up like any noble young lady thanks to maids from the palace instead of the dull, stained apron, asked, rather than the usual, her face shining with excitement.
“Oh, I see. Weren’t you bored?”
“I didn’t have time to be bored. There are many toys I’ve never seen in my life, and the clothes… Nia is really lucky.”
The child no longer called Nia “Ani” now. Lucia had asked her to hide the fact that she came from an orphanage for a while. And the child understood. There was the cowardly situation of an adult deceiving as a natural daughter like adopting a baby secretly. It was a common occurrence in aristocratic families concerned about their reputation. And at least she thought it was better than being adopted to a good place and becoming a servant like herself.
“Is that so… But Isabel, where does it hurt?”
“Oh! No, I’m just so happy… I couldn’t sleep.”
When Lucia lightly touched the forehead of the strangely cheerful child, Isabel, startled, took a step back.
It reminded Lucia that Nia, except for the day she first came here, had had a hard time falling asleep for quite a long time.
After all, children seemed to find unfamiliar places difficult.
“…You’ll have a tougher time ahead, big trouble.”
As Lucia worried, Nia, who had been watching their conversation, slowly approached Isabel.
“Unni, are you okay?”
“…Yeah, I’m fine. Don’t worry.”
For some reason, at the bitter response, Nia hugged Isabel and pressed her face against her.
Then, in that small warmth, the child finally smiled a little.
Lucia and Nia’s bedroom, a windy night.
Perhaps because of the sound of the wind today, the child couldn’t sleep deeply.
Lucia watched the child for a while and whispered softly.
“Nia? Can’t you sleep?”
The child hesitated at her mother’s words.
“…Um. Isabel unni seems scary for some reason.”
“Then what do you want to do? It might be cramped to sleep together.”
The words they shared in the evening seemed to have bothered the child. And who would understand that feeling more than anyone?
“So, please, I’m begging you.”
“Huh?”
“…I want to sleep with Nia. It’s warmer when we sleep together.”
“…Ah, right.”
The recent somewhat unknowable child was still the same. How many five-year-olds would worry so much about others that they couldn’t sleep?
Although Lucia hesitated, she eventually took the child’s small hand and picked up a lantern.
And she took the child to Isabel’s room.
Perhaps she opened the door quietly, thinking Isabel might be sleeping, but the lady was gazing out the window with a slightly uncomfortable look, as expected.
The child ran to the girl and hugged her.
“Huh? Huh? Ani? Ah, no. Nia?”
“Um. That’s right.”
“…Ah. No. It wasn’t necessary, but thank you. Sorry for bothering you so late, Lady Lucia.”
Lucia, who met the apologetic eyes of the child, nodded lightly and quietly closed the door.
She didn’t want to share the warmth of the child who had always slept by her side, but she shouldn’t have such feelings for a child who had worked so hard.
Lucia sighed softly and turned her steps to her room.
The children left in the room naturally lay down together on the small bed.
“It’s been a while. Who are you sleeping with?”
“Isabel unni, are you still scared?”
“Yeah, no. I don’t know. Just… let’s sleep.”
The child hugging Nia looked out the window with an unknown face as seen before.
Staring at such a sister, the heavy eyelids of the child who had been watching for a long time quickly fell.
[Star icon]Preparations for the banquet.
“Commander, I’ve brought the mask for the banquet.”
“Okay. Hang it over there.”
Berl carefully hung the mask on the hanger behind Lucia.
Watching him, the members, who had been lying on the sofa however, threw out a word.
“Wow, it’s incredibly gorgeous. If the commander is giving that, what on earth do high-ranking nobles wear? Do they go around with a house on their faces?”
It was Gilli’s joke about the splendid mask symbolizing the eagle of Eldarion.
On the day before the peace talks, there was a banquet dinner where envoys from various countries gathered, wearing masks representing their respective nations.
Due to the nature of the talks, the event symbolized an egalitarian peace.
“Hahaha, that’s right. It’s just for show. Those higher up would wear masks even more magnificent than that.”
“Right, that’s what I’m saying. To surpass this, should I wear the puppet mask I used on the last picnic?”
“Kukukuk!”
Vernon and Gilli chuckled heartlessly even at Lucia’s sour expression.
But even she somewhat empathized.
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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