But still, he couldn’t concentrate.

His heated heart was not in a state to be calmed by work.

Lucia was injured.

And he knew that it wasn’t lifethreatening.

The spell had only taken the impact, not broken.

This was a fact he knew because he was the one who had cast the magic on the commanders.

But he was tormented because only the members had magic stones that revealed their locations, and he hadn’t secretly taken one.

‘I knew this would happen, and I should have stolen a magic stone. Stupidly…’

Leon, who had lived his whole life far from theft by the empire’s etiquette book for 26 years, regretted his foolish honesty today.

Unlike before, when he would have just worried, his recent obsession with her made him restless enough to lurk around the empty training ground of the Black Knights.

“Commander? Do you have any concerns?”

“I have no reason to go see her… No, never mind.”

He unconsciously answered and then suddenly looked surprised but soon put his hand on his forehead, looking gloomy.

They shook their heads at the commander who looked like he was suffering from the fever of love.

It had been like this lately, and they were even more frustrated.
“Again, again. Think about the gifts you sent on your own. It’s burdensome. You haven’t even received a thankyou yet, have you?”

“That’s right, that’s right. Especially if there’s a child, you need someone to rely on. That person is someone who cannot settle down in one place.”

Even though they were married women without love, so they couldn’t give good advice, but in Leon’s case, they were seniors who were already married, so he had no choice but to listen to even that.

‘Settling down. That must be the talk of the rumor. How hurt must he have been to say without hesitation that he himself was also hurt.’

He didn’t believe the rumors.

What he heard directly from the Emperor was that the man had abandoned the mother and daughter.

Moreover, Lucia didn’t even reveal her identity to protect that wretched man.

What a chaste woman to be meeting another man.

He rather laughed bitterly, thinking that he wished the rumors were true.

“Ah, Commander. I saw Commander Lucia and the child at the clothing store yesterday. Maybe you’re going to send her to kindergarten.”

“It’s a shame. It should have been the Commander you bumped into! To see the child’s face and shape.”

‘Ah, so it was a preliminary investigation.’

Leon remembered the embarrassing day when he saw a book containing his childhood appearance and stories, even though he didn’t read their words.

He solved the question today why he had picked that particular book out of many parenting books, but the help he had so confidently promised that day was now something he could not give.

Leon’s mother had avoided him for some reason for 10 years since he became an adult.

He sighed again at the helplessness.

“Sigh. More than that, it’s a shame about the entrance ceremony next week. Everyone will come together.”

“Ah, that’s a bit conspicuous…….”

Actually, the appearance of the Black Knight Commander there was more conspicuous, but they had no prejudice against Lucia, so they didn’t notice that fact.

He was just imagining the discrimination against unmarried mothers that the tenderhearted she would experience there, feeling heartbroken.

They didn’t do the work they were supposed to do in the office, and suddenly they became sullen.

Then,

“……Ah. Wait? I just had a good idea!”

Not knowing what she thought, Marien looked at Leon’s lonely face and couldn’t put down her puffedup cheeks for quite some time.