Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 539: Wet nurse (Volume 10 END)

I found out from Mimir-sama that Queen Lumia…… no, she would scold me if I didn’t call her Madam Lumia. I was informed that Madam Lumia would stay in the Sanctuary for at least half a year.

At present, under the sharp gazes of Gina and Ana who warn not to interfere with work, an emergency meeting was held.

The four participants were, Sophia, Charlotte, Mimir, and I.

「Now then, how about we raise the issues?」

「Yes. hen I will start.」

Charlotte raised her hand and began to speak.

「As you may already know, I am no longer the daughter of a noble, but rather a civil servant of the Iruma family. Because of Takumi-sama, I am happy to have been reunited with Mother, however…… her desire to settle down was unexpected……」

「Right. Viscount Packard also often didn’t want to return home, but Madam Elizabeth showed no intent of going home.」

Madam Elizabeth seems to be settling in fully. I heard she had been trying to talk to Dwarven and Elven craftsmen residing in the Sanctuary for some reason.

Well, it looks like the place she will live in to be this house though……

「Mother seems to have already checked out of the Lodge.」

「Her room is steadily getting more furnished.」

「My apologies.」

「That is likely my mother’s doing.」

As Sophia said, the reason why Madam Elizabeth was staying in this house was a result of adding additional rooms for Freesia-san. I didn’t want to add just one room, so I added four rooms in total to the first and second floor, and she said she would stay by her daughter’s side if there was an empty room.

「Honorary titles don’t have any work, huh.」

「No, they usually have some kind of work, but Mother is a special case. That’s because of the situation being as it is.」

「Is that so?」

Madam Elizabeth lives in the Sanctuary, but wasn’t she getting bored? When I tried asking Charlotte this, she answered in a surprising way.

「The games room, bowling alley, concert hall, as well as the Cathedral for prayers, just those seem to be enough to keep Mother happy everyday, but the reason she is settling down here is because of the the Mistresses’ pregnancies.」

「Uhh, why is that?」

「Mother seems to want to take care of children.」

「Eh, I don’t get what you mean……」

According to Charlotte, Madam Elizabeth loved children, but she herself only had one daughter, and was discontent over that.

Come to think of it, plenty of people in this world have large families. This was the same for both nobles and peasants.

「……I see, do the heads of noble families have wet nurses?」

「Yes. If it’s here, then eyes around wouldn’t be a concern.」

The truth was that Madam Elizabeth wanted grandchildren from Charlotte, but she knew that was already unreasonable. That’s why she thought that if things go well, she could fill that void with my wives’ children.

「It must be because it is my mother’s first grandchild, but as to whether she wants to go home………」

「It seems Freesia-san will stay for a while even after the birth.」

Freesia-san first simply wanted to be there for her daughter’s first delivery, so I can tell she was happy.

Darphy-kun was still an unmarried man, but if he did get married to someone, she didn’t know when she would be able to see her grandchild’s face because they would both be Elves.

「And so, the problem was Queen Lumia.」

「My apologies. I had expected Mother to come to the Sanctuary frequently, but…… I never could have imagined that she would stay for an extended period of time here with her maid……」

Mimir-sama was also concerned that Queen Lumia was bringing a large amount of luggage with her to stay for a long time.

It seems she thought about the implications of the Queen being away from the the country for an extended period of time and seems to have told her to return many times.

「Mother is first and foremost the Queen, the mother to my brother and I, but my brother was born a hundred years before, and I suppose I can say I am a more recent as an elf, but……」

「Does that mean she wants to embrace my child?」

「Yes. It would seem she is jealous of Madam Freesia……」

「Umm, why is that?」

「The citizens of Yggurle Kingdom were like children to Mother. As such, Freesia-san’s grandchild is like Mother’s grandchild……」

「That is such an absurd reasoning.」

「Yes. It is far fetched.」

「Uwaa~」

Living as a member of the Royal Family of Yggurle Kingdom, there aren’t many chances to come into contact with children. Even under normal circumstances, it was difficult for Elves to bear children, and since the youngest in the Royal Family was Mimir-sama, she wants to hold a baby even if it was another person’s child.

「Fuu, so, in the end?」

「「You should let them take care of the babies.」, it seems.」

Freesia-san I can barely understand, but it looks like the head of a noble family, and a queen plan to take over the roles of wet nurses.

……I have to write to Dante-san and King Yggurle.

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Footnotes:

1. The way Takumi refers to Mimir will be changed to Mimir-sama when they’re in a private setting mostly to show more familiarity since the Queen will be called Madam Lumia.

TLN – This is the end of Volume 10. Thank you very much for reading and supporting all the way to this point.  I will see you all in the next update. Please take care and, once again, thank you.