14. Great Teacher Vivian (1)
[Episode 14] – Great Teacher Vivian (1)
The time system of ‘Snow White, a parenting simulation game’ is largely divided into four parts. It was a system in which Snow White grew up in the order of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, named after the seasons.
Spring from 5 to 10 years old.
Summer from 10 to 15 years old.
Fall from age 15 to age 20.
And after the age of 20, winter is the ending.
In this way, every five years, except for the ending ‘winter’, the names of the four seasons are set as standards.
In each season, there were ‘main events’ that had to be cleared unconditionally, and the way to play ‘Snow White’ was to grow gradually with the goal of clearing the event.
Currently, the princess is 6 years old.
It is even said that he will turn 7 on his birthday soon.
The ‘main event’ of spring is held on the princess’s 7th birthday, but I didn’t have to pay much attention to it. In the first place, it was an event in the early season, so it was an event that could be cleared regardless of training.
It was more like a ‘declaration’ than an event.
Now I’m more concerned about that event…
It was the princess’ timid personality.
In the original game, she was a tomboy princess who would get thorns on her body if she didn’t play with her once a day, but the princesses I’ve seen so far don’t seem to have that kind of personality.
Perhaps it was because of the unusual situation that was not in the game and the suppression of the Marquis’s wife, the princess’s ‘timid personality’ seemed worse than expected. I want to be a little less timid from the age of 10 until ‘Summer’, but…
“Princess, it’s not scary, so get on board quickly.”
After getting on the boat to go boating, I reached out to the princess, but the princess shook her head vigorously and was busy hiding behind Ellie’s skirt.
Usually I would have given up if the princess hated it this much, but today I couldn’t. This lake was the most suitable for testing what I practiced with Ainsel all night last night.
The princess, who buried her face in the hem of Ellie’s skirt, refused to make eye contact with her as if she really hated it. Looking at her, I let out a small sigh, then got off the boat and approached the princess.
“Princess, don’t you want to play boating with me?”
“Oh, no…”
“Then, are you afraid of the stomach? Or a lake?”
The princess glanced at my question and looked at the small boat. Perhaps it was because she was afraid of being on a small boat, and the princess grabbed the hem of Ellie’s skirt and tightened her grip.
“I can’t help it.”
“Ugh!”
I grabbed the hem of Ellie’s skirt, put my hand between the princess’s armpits, and lifted it up in an instant. In an instant, the princess’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Poetry, I hate it..! Ellie! Ellie..!!”
The princess, who was lifted up by my hand and struggled on her feet, called out to Ellie with her tears in her eyes. Ellie heard the slender princess’s cry and struggled with her hands from behind, at a loss for what to do.
“Wow, Her Highness the Queen… Do I really need to get on the boat…?”
“What would you do if you were afraid forever? And don’t worry too much, I won’t be going that far today.”
The hanging princess struggled so much that I had no choice but to hug her.
Using my hands on his hips as a chair, the princess spread her legs and put her arms on top of my shoulders and was busy hugging me as if strangling me.
I buried my face in my shoulder and covered my face with a sniff as if I didn’t want to look at the lake. Every time the princess whimpered, he could feel his shoulders getting more and more damp.
So I hugged the princess and climbed onto the boat. I sat in the middle of the wooden boat and sat the princess between my legs. Normally, they rode facing each other, but the princess was so scared that she couldn’t help it.
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“Ellie, I will be back, so please prepare something for the princess to drink later.”
“Would you really mind if it was just the two of you?”
I smiled at Ellie’s worried young face, then lowered her head to look at the princess. The princess sitting between my legs didn’t want to move except for his body like a worm.
“Princess, you should wave to Ellie for a visit.”
At my words, the princess did not raise her head, but only lifted one of her hands, which was wrapped around her knee, and gently waved her hand at Ellie. Ellie looked at her and gave her princess a small wave.
“Now then, let’s go.”
“Huh-“
Rumble.
When the oars were moved, the wooden boat rocked greatly. I started rowing to a place where no one else would hear the story of the princess and I, even though it wasn’t too far from the land.
As we slowly rowed across the lake, the shaking lessened a lot. I looked down and asked the princess caught between her legs.
“Princess, raise your head. The scenery is beautiful.”
On the way here, the princess, her dress soaked in tears, slowly lifted her head. The princess shook her head, as if she couldn’t see properly because she had shed so many tears.
“Slow down, it’s okay. It’s not scary.”
I carefully wiped the eyes of the princess, who were drenched in tears. She cried so much that her palms quickly became damp and she needed a handkerchief.
The princess took a slow breath, straightened his back and looked at the scenery from the ship. The scenery seen while sitting on a boat that cuts through the wind.
It was a small lake in the royal castle, but it was still beautiful enough.
I could hear the cool lake breeze hitting my body and the sound of a wooden boat cutting through the waves in my ears. Slowly moving landscapes and clear skies were engraved in his wide-open eyes.
The princess no longer hugged his knees.
Slowly spreading her knees, leaning against me, the princess lifted her head high and looked up at the sky. As if trying to capture the slow-moving scenery like clouds with both eyes.
“How is it, isn’t it scary?”
I smiled and looked down at the princess. The princess turned her head and began to look at the surrounding scenery without saying anything, as if she was slightly ashamed of crying.
After paddling like that, I was able to arrive at the right place before I knew it. At such an obscure place, not quite in the middle of the lake, but still a little far from the land, I stopped rowing.
Now then… It was time to start class.
“Princess, don’t stick your head out of the boat and take a good look at the lake.”
-Do you remember what we practiced yesterday?
Recalling the things I learned from Ainsel all night, I nodded my head slightly. Then, slowly, he reached out his hand outside the boat and tapped the calm surface of the lake with his fingers.
Challang.
I felt something circulating in my body slipping through my fingers and seeping into the lake. Every time something slipped away, ripples rippled from the fingers that touched the lake, and the sky above the surface of the water fluctuated.
Challang. Slap.
As the chittering sound repeated, I felt something slowly creeping up my fingers. Gloop, Gloop. The sounding water crawled up my arms, slowly forming small shapes.
Something that climbed up in my hand had the appearance of a cute little mermaid with the lower half of a fish and the upper half of a human.
– Did you call? Did you call
“Yes, I called. Undine.”
As she stroked Undine with her finger, Undine giggled and started rolling over her palm. When I put such Undine on the palm of the princess, the princess blankly looked up at me.
“Yeah, of course. Is Her Highness the Queen a witch…?”
“Ugh, huh?”
At the unexpected question, I tilted my head and looked down at the princess. Usually when I show something like this, it’s like, ‘You can see Her Highness, too!’ I thought he would deny it saying ‘I-I don’t know that.’
The princess looked up at me with a slightly uneasy look. Looking at her gaze, I looked at Undine playing on top of the princess’s hand with a smile.
“Why do you think so?”
“Well, but… The Marquis said that… This is because I am cursed by a witch… That Her Highness put a curse on me… That, so… I I’ll see…”
“……”
You hold on to my ankles until the end. Marquise Madame.
I gently stroked the anxious princess’ hair and continued her words.
“First of all, it’s not because you’re cursed that you see this.”
“I, really..?”
“Sure. Rather, it’s like a blessing. These ‘existences’ are not something anyone can see. You and I are the only ones who can see these children in this vast castle, right?”
As if I was right, the undine on the palm of the princess started jumping up and down. The princess looked at Undine and smiled bashfully, perhaps because Undine was cute.
“And, there are not necessarily bad witches in the world. There are a lot of good witches.”
“…I can’t imagine.”
Actually, me too.
I hadn’t met any other witches, and the witches in the game had a bit of that kind of personality. Still, there must be at least one good witch somewhere.
Hmm. I cleared her throat and looked at the princess again with a big smile.
“Anyway, being able to see something like this isn’t a curse or anything. And why would I curse you? You can’t bully a child like you, can you?”
“Yeah, but the other day, you called me a damn bastard…”
Damn Vivian.
There’s nothing I can’t say to a six-year-old. I didn’t say anything, but I didn’t know how to get through this situation, so I gasped for a moment.
I let out a small sigh and turned the princess to face me. The princess’s cheeks began to swell as if the memory of that time was really hurt.
“That, back then… I’m really sorry. Won’t you forgive me?”
I apologized while pressing my fingers on the princess’s swollen cheeks. Then, the wind came out of the princess’s mouth like a fish. At the same time as the wind is gone, the princess’s impression is strong! Crumpled.
The princess raised her head and frowned as if she had a lot to say, but I patted the wrinkles between her eyebrows with my finger as if I wasn’t interested in her expression.
As if my touch was tickling, the corners of the princess’s frowning lips began to droop slightly. I didn’t miss the moment and asked the princess.
“Will you forgive me?”
“…Only this once.”
“Whoops, thank you.”
The princess was reluctant, but as if he couldn’t help it, he turned his head and forgave me. The princess turned her back on me and looked at Undine sitting between my legs and resting on his hand.
Perhaps Undine was trying to make the princess feel better, she was busy playing tricks on the princess’ hand. Do somersaults, or spin round and round on the palm of your hand. Anyway, I ran around hard.
I pointed my finger at Undine and talked to the princess.
“To say it again… What does the princess think of this child in her palm?”
“I don’t know… The Marquis said it was a demon or something.”
In response, I put my hand back into the lake and scattered the ‘magic power’ circulating in my body over the lake. Then, unlike before, the undines gathered drop by drop rode on my arms and rode aboard the ship.
One, two, three. As more than 10 Undines gathered and played tricks, the princess looked at them and exclaimed, ‘Wow, Wow’.
“These children are fairies.”
A undine leaping fondantly from the boat got on the princess’s shoulder. The princess seemed preoccupied with watching Undine while listening to my story.
“In my next class, I will teach you about ‘fairies’.”
Until you meet the ‘Seven Dwarfs’.
