The Youngest Daughter of the Swordsmanship Family Turned Great Mage - Chapter 3
Would there be anyone else besides me who faces the person they killed?
No one had told me how to handle this situation. Even the books I read secretly from Duke Dallas didn’t contain such information.
After briefly moving her lips, Rosette instinctively muttered.
“……sorry.”
“Hm?”
“I’m sorry.”
Duke Adrien expressed his bewilderment.
“For what?”
“Just, everything.”
Rosette resumed crying after a momentary pause.
“I’m sorry for everything.”
The man before her has no memories. However, the fact that Rosette once killed him remains unchanged.
– Don’t cry, child.
– Never go back to that man.
Moreover, Duke Adrien worried about her being used by Duke Dallas until the moment he died at Rosette’s hands.
Rosette killed such a kind person.
Although Joshua’s tears were the final trigger, Rosette had been suffering from guilt ever since killing Duke Adrien.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
Duke Adrien looked pitifully at Rosette, who was prostrating herself and crying before him.
He could understand Rosette’s feelings. Commoner children of Rosette’s age would often apologize out of fear just from seeing a noble.
However, Rosette seemed different from them. Though clearly a young child of only about seven, she looked sorrowful like an adult bearing the full weight of life.
Duke Adrien felt an inexplicable sympathy for her and helped her up.
“Stop crying. You’ll collapse, no, faint at this rate.”
Rosette shook her head, resisting getting up.
“The wind is cold. Let’s go home now. Where is your home?”
At that moment, Jane, who had come to her senses, saw him and was startled.
“Ah, m-my lord!”
Jane, guessing the situation from Rosette’s crying figure, prostrated herself next to her.
“I-I don’t know what wrong my sister has done, but please, please forgive her just this once. P-punish me instead.”
Duke Adrien looked puzzled for a moment, then smiled and murmured to his aide standing behind him.
“What affectionate sisters. It’s heartwarming to see.”
“Master, I hear they are children staying at the nearby orphanage.”
“Orphanage, you say?”
“Yes. It’s the orphanage affiliated with the temple you were planning to visit.”
“That’s fortunate.”
Duke Adrien swiftly lifted Rosette up. Even though Rosette was small for her age of seven, he seemed to lift her as easily as a feather.
The watching aide helped Jane, who was beside Rosette, to stand up.
“Come now, stop crying and let’s go back.”
Rosette nodded quickly, trying to get away from him. Thanks to this, she returned to the orphanage in a carriage with Jane and Duke Adrien.
All the while trembling, not knowing what Duke Adrien was thinking.
“Good heavens, what on earth happened to you?”
The eldest sister at the orphanage exclaimed in surprise upon seeing Jane’s condition. Jane’s body was now covered in scabs where the blood had dried.
Only then did Jane let out a puzzled “Huh?”
“That’s strange?”
She felt around her body.
“I definitely got hit by stones, but it doesn’t hurt!”
“Stones? What stones?”
“No, people threw stones at me, calling me a thief for stealing candy…”
“What? Those people, really!”
The eldest sister narrowed her eyes. She rolled up her sleeves, ready to dash to the village right away. Jane quickly grabbed her waist.
“Sister, I’m fine! It doesn’t hurt!”
“How can it not hurt when you’ve lost so much blood? We need to call a doctor right away!”
“I’m telling you, it’s true!”
Jane lifted her bangs, showing her clean forehead. As the eldest sister’s eyes widened, she then showed her arms and knees.
“How…”
“I don’t know! When I came to after briefly losing consciousness, I was like this! Sister! Could it be that the goddess protected me?”
Unlike Jane, who muttered innocently, the eldest sister had already lost her innocence having seen much of the world. She didn’t believe this was due to the goddess’s protection.
“You said Duke Adrien came, right?”
Duke Adrien. It seemed he might have brought a magician with him. Since he brought Jane and Rosette back, he probably took pity on Jane and had her healed.
“Jane, when you meet Duke Adrien later, thank him.”
“Huh? Why?”
Jane instinctively shrank back at the mention of the duke’s name. Indeed, nobles were fearsome to children.
“Because it seems the duke healed you.”
“The duke? Why me?”
“He’s a kind person, so he probably couldn’t just ignore you.”
“But all nobles are bad!”
“Shh, I told you not to say such things…”
“I partly agree with that statement, but there are also good nobles. For example, Duke Adrien.”
The three of them simultaneously turned their heads towards the sudden voice.
A brown-haired man wearing clothes as expensive-looking as the duke’s was standing there. The young man, who appeared to be around thirty, pushed up his glasses as he approached the three.
He nodded slightly and handed something to Jane. It was the paper bag she had been carefully holding earlier in the square.
“Ah! The candy for Rose!”
Jane, who had snatched the paper bag, looked inside and drooped her eyebrows sadly.
“Oh no. It’s all crushed. I bought it for our Rose.”
“Sister, I’m fine…”
“I thought that might happen, so I prepared this.”
The brown-haired man handed over a paper bag he had been hiding behind his back. It was three times larger than the one Jane had.
Jane quickly snatched the bag despite the eldest sister’s attempts to stop her. Inside were various cookies, candies, chocolates, and more. Just opening the bag released a waft of sweet scent.
“I can give this to our Rose.”
To the delighted Jane, the man murmured apologetically.
“I’m sorry, but may I take the little miss with me for a moment?”
Me? Why does Duke Adrien’s aide want me? Rosette looked up at Jane and the eldest sister with a face that said she didn’t want to go, but there was no way they could go against a noble’s words.
Even if she said no, the man would have listened to them, but to the two children, nobles were still scary beings. The two children looked at Rosette and gently pushed her back.
Finally, Rosette opened her mouth with difficulty.
“I… don’t want to.”
“It’s nothing to be afraid of. If you come with me, you can have delicious snacks.”
“I want to eat snacks here with my sisters.”
The man hid his perplexity and smiled.
“Then tomorrow…”
Just then, Jude came running from afar.
“Rose! The head priest is looking for you!”
“Really? I’ll go right away!”
Rosette dashed off to avoid the immediate situation. If she had known who was in the director’s office, she probably wouldn’t have done so.
* * *
The orphanage director wiped his cold sweat as he looked at Duke Adrien sitting across from him.
Until now, Duke Adrien had only been donating to the orphanage, so they had never had a private meeting like this. When he suddenly requested a private meeting, the director was simply bewildered.
‘I heard he came with the children earlier, did the kids do something wrong?’
Duke Adrien was generally lenient towards children. If he was raising an issue about the children’s wrongdoing, it must mean they had done something seriously wrong.
The director asked with a complicated mind.
“What brings you here, Your Grace?”
“There’s a child named Rosette here, isn’t there? A child with pink hair and blue eyes.”
“Yes, there is. May I ask why you’re looking for Rose? Did Rose do something disrespectful?”
Rose is well-behaved, so that shouldn’t be the case. Towards the director’s puzzled look, the duke made a declaration like a bolt from the blue.
“I would like to adopt Rosette into our Adrien family.”
“…”
At this sudden proposal, the head priest was at a loss for words. The duke’s family already had two sons and one daughter. All three were rumored to be skilled in swordsmanship, befitting members of the Adrien family.
Why would they want to adopt Rosette when they already had three capable children?
The duke’s reputation was clean. Despite his position as a duke and being one of the most renowned knights in the empire himself, he always tried to remain humble without showing it off. He was said to be devoted to his family without any issues regarding women.
However, there could be another side behind the rumors. As terrible as it was to imagine, the director couldn’t help but consider the worst-case scenario.
Finding a new family was a great blessing for the children, but he couldn’t put a cherished child in danger.
Abuse, pedophilia, sacrifice, and so on. All sorts of negative outcomes flashed through the director’s mind.
But as if reading his inner thoughts, Duke Adrien smiled kindly.
“I can guess what you’re thinking, but it’s nothing like that, so please don’t worry.”
Then he told an interesting story.
“Did you know that Rosette has an aptitude for magic?”
“Rose? That can’t be.”
“No, I saw it clearly. I saw Rosette completely healing her sister who had collapsed after being hit by stones.”
“Hit by stones and collapsed? Who?”
“I believe it was the child named Jane.”
“Oh my! Jane!”
The head priest, about to jump up and rush out, was stopped by Duke Adrien.
“I confirmed that she’s fine without any injuries, so please don’t worry too much. Of course, I’ve also taken appropriate measures against the people who threw stones at the child.”
“Stones, why would they do that to such a young child…”
“It seems she was accused of being a thief. You can discuss that with the children later, but for now, I’d like to talk about Rosette.”
“Ah, is that so? But did Rose really heal Jane?”
“Unless you’re doubting my abilities, yes, she did.”
The director quickly waved his hands.
“Who in this empire would dare doubt Your Grace’s abilities? Then perhaps Rose…”
To the director asking hesitantly, Duke Adrien nodded.
“Yes, I would like to adopt that child and nurture her abilities.”
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s her child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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