Chapter 42
Today was my parents wedding anniversary day so I came to eat dinner together with my family. Luler also wanted to come, but this day was like a family day for us, so he can only stay moodily in his room alone.
Onee-san!
Shio, we havent seen each other for a long time.
My brother was eleven years old now. He should be studied in the elementary school for two more years then moved to the middle school just like me. I would be studied in the high-school when Shio moved to the middle school.
My parents had been waiting in the dining room for the headmistress. We decided to eat dinner here because we didnt have to waste our time to go to a restaurant outside. We ordered the restaurants chef to cook here. Um, my mother is the headmistress here so thiss normal.
Its pity that I couldnt bring you to a good place. Even though this day is our wedding anniversary My father, who sat at the head of the table, lightly sighed.
It cant be helped. We have work and our children also have to study.
If its for my family then Im ready to drop everything.
But you cant drop the royal command!
Love, you have to make it up to me tonight.
Dont say that! We are sitting in front of our children!
It didnt matter much to me but Shio was still listening to the two of you
Tonight? Onee-sama, are we going to have a party tonight? This was it! This was a normal reaction for a child that I didnt have! I turned to Shio with a smile, the smile that looked really suspicious.
Um, father want our mother to help him with work tonight. Its the royal command.
Oh? You two have to work even at night. One day, when I grow up, I want to help lighten your workload to the best of my ability.
You dont have to hurry, Shio
I-its not more than we can handle.
My father had a smiling face contrary to my mother, who acted a little funny. I didnt think Shio suspect anything. He was a child with a pure heart. I prayed that in the future, he wouldnt let someone else exploited him. although that possibility was very high.
We have a chance to have a dinner together today, why dont we eat now? We can talk about work later.
Thats right, Shiwa. This is a family time, so we should spend it as such.
Clang!
My father tapped a champagne glass. Waiters were starting to serve us many delicious-looking dishes. We ate and talked about both old and new stories. Its really a family time.
Oh, Shiwa. I want you to help me with something.
Yes?
The teacher at the medical room had resigned recently because shes pregnant. We only have a substitute doctor who could only work here in the morning and another doctor could only work in the afternoon. We dont have any person working at noon. Shiwa, you have the beginner doctor certificate, right? That should be equal to a middle-grade doctor. I want you to work in the medical room at noon. Can you do it?
The medical rooms doctorThat would be good.
I can do it, mother.
Another thing isIt seems abrupt but we will have two students, whore at the same age as you, come to study here. They are a kind of special people so I hope you will take care of them.
Special?
They are a dragon and a mermaid.
I have never seen them study here before.
Thats right. Thats why its special. They dont normally come here, do they?
I hadnt seen the water-demon clan in this school before because the environment here wasnt suited to their habitat. I didnt know whatever they had their own school or not, but for them to come studied here, It must be really special.
This school also didnt often have the dragon studied here. They are few in number. We could even say that only one dragon would come here in every hundred years or in every thousand years. I feel a little excited to see a real dragon.
If they have any problem, come to me immediately.
Yes.
I feel relieved now that theyre in your care.
How would I divide my time after you entrusted this to me? I also have to study and worked in the medical room. This was like telling me to take care of them.
After we finished eating dinner, I escorted Shio to his elementarys dormitory. Its already night time when I reached my room.
*Open the door*
I wearily opened the door and took my socks off.
Youre late, Shiwa.
L-luler! Youre scaring me a bit there!
His red eyes became vivid in the dark. Its a good thing that I hadnt strip my clothes to take a bath yet. This was my room so I should do whatever I want, right?
Didnt you tell me that you would come before 6 PM?
I can be late, cant I? I had to send Shio to his dormitory. When did you come here anyway?
5 PM.
If you come here every day, others will get suspicious. If you arent careful then
It doesnt matter because we are engaged.
I already told you that its not like that. Forget it, if doing this makes you happy then do whatever you want.
You dont have to be worried about this, Shiwa. No matter whatI will take responsibility for all of themcome here, we should sleep together.
Yes, your highness. May I excuse myself to take a bath first.
I grabbed my wardrobe and my pajama to the bathroom. Why couldnt I be more firmly? If I had stopped him from entering my room from the beginning, I didnt need to be worried like this.
*Sigh*
He told me that he would take responsibility for all of them. Did he know what did he talk about?
Its as thoughHe was going to propose to me.
Dangerous. Really dangerous.
I opened the door to come out of the bathroom when Im finished with my bath. Who knew that I would be surprised with an unexpected thing like this?
*Grabbed!*
Kya!
Shiwawhen you just finished your bath
I was hugged from the front leaving me stunned for a moment. Luler hugged me all of a sudden. Did he forget to shake his medicine?
What are you doing, Luler!?
Lookz told me that girls smell good than normal after theyd just finished bathing.
Hm, Lookz? Where did he know something like this?
Dont tell me he?
Luler, you dont have to do everything that you heard from others.
No, its not like that. I want to do it so
Moreover, jumping into a lady isnt what gentleman is supposed to do, prince Luler. I pushed his shoulders away and shoved him to bump against my bed.
Will I get punished?
Do you want to be punished?
I pushed him to fall into my bed. Yes, Im straddling him right now. I know that thiss considered inappropriate but nobody was looking in here, right?
Luler, do you still insist that you want to stay with melike this?
Like this? Did you mean when youre straddling me? I like it actually.
Thats not what I meant! I meant the matter about us.
Why?
We are engaged because of a political reason. You do know this, right?
Its not like that
Even if its not like that but it is still a fact.
What the problem?
Its!
Shiwa dont like to be engaged because of a political reason. Am I right?
Not quite
I want to be whats special to Shiwa.
Cant I be special to Shiwa?
I still havent told you that you cant be yet.
You didnt have to make sad puppy eyes, idiot!
Im really a soft-hearted person after all. I could only sigh many times. I only want to pressure him, but in the end, Im the one who is pressured by him.
What was I scared of? I knew that Luler wouldnt harm me.
He wouldnt do a thing like that ever.
I had an ideal family and a perfect life.
My life is good but thats what made me scared about the future the most. In my past life, I also had a good life and a love that should be beautiful.
But everything
was falling apart in front of me.
Its the same to the point that its scary.
In the future, If I meet with the same old story, Is it because of Hadess curse?
Are you alright, Shiwa.
Im alright. Its just
?
I feel like I cheat.
?
Luler, if I told you that I knew everything that was about to happen, Im not Shiwa whos supposed to live in this body and I was the reason that you changed to this
Would you think that I cheated?