Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
The next morning, due to sleeping with Andrea in a cramped bed, my body hurt everywhere.
Andrea’s figure that clung to my chest in his sleep inspired a feeling that was quite hard to describe.
I woke up Andrea, who grumbled while half-asleep, and led him to eat breakfast. Even though Andrea was here, my daily rhythm hadn’t changed.
Since I had to deliver remedies, I had to go to the village. I also had to go over to the town to deliver medicine. After that, just like yesterday, I would probably make medicine while teaching the village children. If I were to be honest, Andrea was actually a bother.
“Let me go with you.”
“There won’t be anything fun to do, you know? Even if you say you are tired, you won’t get any breaks.”
“I’m still going.”
As expected, this situation occurred. Sure enough, I couldn’t get Andrea to separate from my side.
“It’s fine if you want to go. I just want you to answer one thing.”
“……What is it?”
“Are you a half-beastman?”
“What, is that bad?!”
“No, I just thought of it, that’s all.”
Those called “half-beastmen” were children born from a beastman and a human. They were born without possessing physical beast traits, but had the abilities of the beast.
Last night, he knew the location of the lake before I told him, hence I came up with this guess. I suppose he followed the smell of the water to find his way to the lake.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
“……For me, my nose is the best. That’s why I’d tracked you down, since you give out the same scent as Mother’s. But even so, you turned out to be a man and not Mother.”
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“……”
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“Anyway, if you want to follow along, you have to keep two promises.”
“What, tell me already!”
“You sure are full of yourself……. Oh well. First off, those accompanying me is as much a commoner as I am. Even if you are an aristocrat, as a healer you must not discriminate. So Andrea, you also have to be careful of your words.”
“…………”
“So, your answer?”
“……I’ll try my best.”
For the most part, I suppose most nobles believed that there was no reason for them to care about common people.
If it was the old me, I probably would have point-blank refused. With that in mind, Andrea could still be considered quite upright.
“The next promise is, if you sense any danger, you must run away. Understood?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“When you are with me, if you sense anything dangerous, or even if you feel just a hint of danger, you will run. I can defend myself, but you can’t, can you?”
“Are you taking me as an idiot?!”
“Well, all children are pretty foolish, aren’t they?”
“Tch, adults are also just as dumb!”
What was this child saying when he hadn’t even grown up?
Ignoring Andrea who was making a fool of himself while stamping his feet, I quickly took off my nightwear and changed into plain shirt and pants. After putting on a white cloak—proof of a healer’s identity—I snatched up Andrea’s hand.
I drew a magic circle and teleported us to the village entrance.
Both the children running towards us and the villagers showed curiosity towards Andrea. In this rural area, it was pretty rare to chance upon such a beautiful young boy.
Andrea’s parents were certainly as beautiful as him, and probably just as conceited too.
“Lilius-san, thank you for your continued support.”
“I don’t mind. This is my job after all.”
“Is that so, is that so. Yesterday, my idiot grandchild caused you trouble again, didn’t he?”
“…… I can’t deny that. It’d be good if he could be a bit more steady.”
The grandmother of the fox boy, hearing my reply, laughed happily for some reason.
Today too, I looked around the village to make a note of any shortage of herbs and medicine, and also to see if there were any abnormalities.
When I listened to the villagers’ questions, although there were some silly ones mixed in, I heard them out one by one. By the time I finished, the sun had already risen high up.
“Andrea, we’re going to the town soon.”
“Got it.”
I wonder if he’d been too tossed about by the village children?
I took the hand of Andrea, who seemed rather tired, and teleported us.
Then, at the town we arrived at, we were immediately enveloped by a huge commotion.
“…….”
In this empire, there was a person so famous to the point it was said that not a single person didn’t know his name. This person was the commander who led the Order of Magic Knights — Jill Reid Moorwright.
Not only did he join the Order of Magic Knights at a young age, he was also now at the height of prosperity as the brilliant Knight Commander.
His family held the court rank of Duke, his appearance was beautiful, and his character was frank and honorable. He was the rumored Hero of the Empire.
That Moorwright-sama’s son seemed to have gone missing yesterday.
His name was Andrea, and the age was six years old.
A boy who had white-silver hair, and honey-colored eyes darker than gold.
“Seriously, you really are a pest.”
“……I didn’t want to go home. It can’t be helped, can it?”
The moment I teleported into the town, let alone the Watch Committee, I was even surrounded by the Empire’s Knight Order — as Andrea’s kidnapper.
TL note:
ML to appear soon!
This is a bit late but just a quick clarification about this story’s tags on NU. When I first got it approved some weird tags were added to it. I’ve removed them for now.
If any of those elements do appear in the future, I’ll be adding those tags in, but until then I’ll keep the tags as close to what the story is currently like.
Shota? Wow, I did not know this was tagged like that. I didn’t really check on the NU page since I found this originally in this site. But it’s good that you removed the tag since many people might turn away not knowing the elements aren’t present in this.
Anyway, looking forward to the ML’s appearance!
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
TYFYT<3
Thanks for the chapter! 💕
Tha
Poor Lily. He was Just being nice with a kid and he’s his kidnapper now? Ugh.
I hope his dad Listen to Andrea and this matter resolve.
Thanks for the chapter!
Luckily I read over the cruelty tag, but I saw the mpreg tag 😕 I’m kinda sad, but oh well. It doesn’t matter, I’ll still continue this cute novel!
Thanks for the chapter! 😘
I didnt see these tags, a good thing because I dont like cruelty and shota. I hope Lily wont be arrested!
Maybe just maybe all those weird tags were there for a reason. Seems like someone read to 200+ and said it isn’t as light hearted and have some dark past from lilly coming up.
Ignore me, the website is wonky and somehow replied it to your comment. Apologies.
Thanks for the chapter. Lol for some reason I think he will react as Andrea.
More please the story is developing well. Looking forward to seeing the ML and twins. Thanks for this translation.😊
I didn’t check NU _(:’3/ I like in this place now (CG)
I want to see ML~
Thanks for the hard work love the story ^_^
so there is really no mpreg?
🥺
As far as I know, there isn’t. But I only read up to around chapter 100 so who knows
I see… I’ll wait till it show up!
Thank you for the chapter ❤❤❤❤