Finally, the answer I had been waiting for came from Leydoux’s mouth, I had to confirm it once more because I couldn’t believe it.

“Really?”

“How dare I lie to the duchess.”

Right. This isn’t the kind of place where you can easily lie.

“By the way, I received the toy gift you sent me. Thank you. The children liked it. I was quite surprised because you knew exactly what our children’s tastes were.”

I had given a Winter Princess doll to Lucie and a toy bow to Lloyd. They both liked it very much.

“I wanted to buy a gift in return for His Royal Highness, but I didn’t know what he liked, so I wanted to ask you.”

Come to think of it, I knew what Kian didn’t like, but apart from the cake, I didn’t know what he liked.

In the original work, what he liked was weapon polishing, skill polishing, spirit art polishing, all polishing… Besides, I really don’t know anything other than that he likes folding colored paper.

“He doesn’t have a favorite yet. Since he’s a boy, can I ask for a toy sword?”

“Of course.”

“Then when will you start taking care of our Kian?”

Sicar asked about the most urgent thing as if he didn’t care what he bought for Kian, and Leydoux said a little hesitantly.

“Come from tomorrow.”

It was a satisfactory answer. Sicar also spoke, raising one corner of his mouth.

“I see.”

“Then I will wait with a gift that will please His Royal Highness.”

“When you meet Kian, refrain from such a title. He doesn’t even dream that he’s royalty.”

“Could there be?”

Finally. I knocked down the great iron wall named Leydoux. Sicar said as if he were spending a lot of money.

“Now that the headache problems have been somewhat solved, allow for free outings. However, it would be better not to think about running away. Even for Kian’s sake. If you are caught trying to escape, you will have to stay in a cage like a cage, not a comfortable room like now.”

And yet, I have something left. So I gave up on running away a long time ago.

The next day, as soon as I finished breakfast, I dressed Kian as beautifully as possible.

Kian was cool no matter what he did, but still, as the place where he first meets the female protagonist, he had to look good.

“Meiri. How do you see it?”

“The young master is always cool.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. I’ve never seen anyone with blond hair and blue eyes like our young lord in this Blake land.”

That’s right. That’s true.

“Then shall we go out dressed like this today?”

Kian, wearing a fur coat with fur cuffs, looked like a prince to anyone.

‘Lucie, wait. We’re taking your male lead now!’

Kian, excited for the rare outing, got in the carriage and looked at me with a bright look and asked.

“Mother. Where are we going today?”

“We’re going to study.”

“Study?”

“Yes. Now our Kian is of age to study. And now you’re going to have friends and a teacher.”

“Friend…?”

“Yes. It turns out that the twins of the duke are exactly the same age as you.”

To Kian, who has just started to socialize by making friends and has only lived in the mountain and the ducal house, the existence of a friend would be a mirage.

Even when he went to the orphanage, Kian was happy to see his peers, but he couldn’t easily start a conversation. He didn’t learn how to approach a friend.

So Kian couldn’t answer with a hesitant face. It was the same in the original work.

“Kian. Do you find the existence of friends difficult?”

Kian looked at me as if he knew how, then nodded weakly.

“At first, everything is difficult. Do you remember when you first came to the ducal house? It must have been very difficult then. But now you are very familiar. Don’t worry too much. They are just friends of the same age as Kian.”

And he won’t have the spirit to worry. The twins will fight every day, and he will be busy going around and breaking it up.

Sicar, who had been silently folding his arms and closing his eyes, slightly opened his eyes and said looking at us.

“Is the conversation over now?”

I nodded as if saying yes. Then Sicar picked up the box next to him and threw it onto Kian’s lap. Kian caught the box promptly so it wouldn’t fall to the floor.

Before I could ask what it was, Sicar spoke.

“It’s a stationery set. It was delivered late because we had to find it in a hurry last night.”

Stationery! I remembered when stationery was the most exciting gift whenever a new school year started.

Kian also looked at me with a thrilled face, wondering if I liked the stationery gift.

His eyes seemed to be asking if he could open it right now, so I nodded as if to say it was fine to open it immediately, and we opened the stationery box together.

Inside were all kinds of colored pencils, crayons, notebooks, and other stationery items. There was even an eraser among them.

“Look at this, Kian. This is an eraser.”

“Wow… the eraser is in the shape of a bear.”

“Since Count Sicar bought it to encourage you to study harder, you have to study even harder. Got it?”

“Of course. I won’t let you down.”