Parenting In Full Bloom! The Former Villainous Noble Son Who Found His Love NestChapter 78

Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay

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Trigger warning: Nothing explicit in this chapter, but keep in mind it may still be triggering as it follows directly after the last chapter and some behaviours in this chapter is insensitive.

“Why are you……?”

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Appearing with teleportation magic, Jill deliberately raised a hand and waved it. Pale blue light wrapped around his arm, and the lightning crackled as it ran up the length of it.

“Could you perhaps step away from Lilius?” UFMTO6

As Jill uttered those words with cold eyes, his previously raised hand swung down sharply, pointing at the ground.

The man who was restraining me fell down with an ear-piercing scream.

And immediately after, the young man who masterminded this incident shrieked.

The pale blue lightning running over Jill’s arm had bitten into the young man, shredding into him.

Its form changed, transforming into a dragon to twine around the man’s body, its teeth sinking into the man’s throat. The man convulsed from the electric shock, then fell down prostrate on the ground.

It hadn’t even been a minute since Jill appeared.

The men now lying at their feet had been beaten in mere seconds.

At these well-practiced movements, it struck me that Jill was the sword that spearheaded this country’s troops. i zX6s

Unlike me, he was the hero of his country. There was no way for someone like me to be next to someone like that.

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We had been too close before. For us, a distance where we brush by each other—mere strangers—would be the correct distance.

“……”

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I knew that, but my stubborn mouth refused to move. Besides, even this guy hadn’t said anything, and he was the one who had appeared out of nowhere.

When I looked over there with dissatisfaction, Jill was keeping silent while looking down at me.

And yet, as soon as our eyes met, he looked away. For some reason, that behaviour made my chest hurt. fuEDV6

That kind of faint attitude sat unpleasantly in my stomach. Even though I had already told him to speak his mind if he had anything to say to me, he was still trying to hide it. It made me sick. The force of my anger made me spit out words that were not at all words of gratitude.

“There wasn’t any need for that.”

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“……”

“Even without you, I would have been able to settle it myself.” fPNkzH

“So then, why weren’t you struggling away when you had been caught like that?”

“I was about to do it! You’re the one that showed up right as I was going to.”

I didn’t know this utterly indifferent Jill.

Was he angry because I rejected him even though he had thought he could use me? HiWtjc

What, was his ego hurt because the man he had thought of as a simple-minded fool had rebuffed him?

The Jill that I knew was constantly laughing. He was a guy who, as soon as he thought it, would harp on and scold me with a peeved look on his face. Even though I didn’t need it, he would tell me to eat more, or to tell me that this or that was delicious. A troublesome guy who tried to feed me all sorts of things. But I didn’t hate it, those times. It was annoying, but I didn’t hate it.

But now, Jill was standing in front of me with cold eyes, like a doll without emotions.

It was like he had abruptly switched into a person I didn’t know. wuW4Zi

As if the Jill that I had seen, was an illusion that never existed.

Had he been acting since the beginning, to win me over?

……Liking me, that kind of thing, there was no way I would have believed such a stupid lie.

The hero of this country, falling in love with the younger brother of that woman? Such a story was ridiculous, the tallest of tall tales. 2ze6NQ

I couldn’t bear to keep standing in front of Jill.

I was ashamed of myself for thinking, even if it had only been a slight thought, that we might have become good friends.

It was pathetic how I had almost deemed Jill a good guy.

Jill had really left his mark in me, hadn’t he? And I only just realised that. How— 2BijtJ

—sad.

“……Just go home. I’ll use teleport to transfer these guys to the station. You’re a busy guy, aren’t you?”

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Turning my back to him in dismissal, I cast a restraining spell on the men.

Just as I was concentrating to gather the magic for the teleportation, Jill opened his mouth. xPpNeD

“You indeed have prodigal talent in magic. However, that is useless in actual battle. Being overconfident in your abilities will only lead to death.”

“……I guess you’d be troubled if a useful tool like me dies, huh?”

“That was not what I said. People like these men who try to force themselves on others exist. I’m simply trying to tell you to consider what would happen, if worst comes to worst.”

The words directed at my back stabbed through my heart painfully. EQuY92

Was he still planning to get closer to me? What was he scheming as he came close to me, pretending to be kind?

“……Shut up. I don’t need a stranger like you to butt into my business.”

“This isn’t the time to say pointless things like that! It wouldn’t have been surprising at all if they really had done that to you! What are you going to do if something terrible happened to you again?!”

“—!” ERu Wo

Again?

What did he mean, “again”.

The way he said that, “What if something terrible happened again,” didn’t it mean he knew the fact that I — that I had been raped, in the past?

Translator:
Jill’s tact/sensitivity is buried in a grave deep in the core of the earth. He’s treating Lilius like a rookie soldier because he’s an idiot commander, I guess. Someone please kick sense into him. Y63 kH

Also I might be wrong on this, but I’m fairly sure his behaviour toes the line of victim-blaming. Fiction-wise, I give Jill the benefit of doubt of ignorance and possibly magic. For you readers, it’s wrong to act like this! (This is something I felt I needed to say because it’s important.)