Chapter 338 – A Family (5)
[Matilda. I heard that this time you are sponsored by a very famous family. Talk to the lord there and ask him to send 5 gold home. Since there is no rice at home, I am starving to death, so please send it to me as soon as possible. The last lord still sent me the money, but since the lord changed, there is no money in the house.
What if you had been a little patient then? I used to think like that. The lord has a lot of money, and he seemed to really love you. Isn’t that what you might have been married to? If the lord sends money well this time, please bear with me no matter what.
Dear mother]
Matilda couldn’t read her letter her addressed to her and tore it up. The shattered pieces of the letter scattered around the room like flower petals. Matilda rose from her seat, holding back her tears. She couldn’t possibly study in this mood. She only had to write the last page of the report, but she couldn’t even pick up a pen.
All I had to do at this time was to take a walk. Matilda opened the door. Soya held her ruler in the hallway and she was measuring all over the place. She had been in this mansion for over a week, so she was used to Soya’s eccentricities in her. Matilda bowed her head to her Soya.
“Hello.”
“Hi. Miss Matilda. Right. A letter came in your name from the office, so go find it.”
“… Aira-san gave it to me earlier.”
“So?”
Soya examined Matilda’s complexion and nodded her head. Soya could tell from Matilda’s expression that her letter was not very pleasant. Matilda quickly changed the subject before her mood she became awkward.
“That… What are you doing?”
“I need to install a hallway light, so I’m trying to get an estimate. Originally, she only carried a lantern, but the other day an attendant fell and almost set the mansion on fire.”
“I almost got into trouble.”
“Right? So, Mr. Eve told me to put some lights up ASAP, so I’m on the way. Where are you going?”
“I’m going to Mr. Eve. I have a headache for a while, so I want to go for a walk together.”
“You like to walk…”
“I don’t like to go for walks. It’s just that, after walking around the neighborhood, I forget all the useless problems.”
“Okay? What are you worried about?”
Soya put her chair down and looked at Matilda. Matilda said.
“Well, shouldn’t we get an estimate quickly?”
“Oh, yes. I asked for it to be delivered by today… Sorry. I’ll go then.”
Soya staggered down the hallway, using her cane again. Matilda moved her steps back to her office her. Eve was still in her office her today. She was Today’s work assistant Sieri, who did not go to church. She said to Eve, wagging her tail at Matilda’s knock as she was sorting through her papers.
“Mister Eve. I think Matilda is here.”
“Is it time for a walk already?”
Eve looked at the clock hanging on the wall of her office and made a puzzled expression. Because today came earlier than expected. Matilda’s voice came through the door.
“I am Matilda. May I come in?”
Eve said while looking at Sieri.
“It looks like a ghost.”
“Yes? After this happened, my senses became a bit more sensitive, and it became more convenient. I can see at a glance the people who are dozing off during church services, so it’s easy to wake them up.”
Sieri had turned into a demon lately, and was in the process of finding the good points one by one. The best thing about her was that her senses her became more sensitive and her slightly taller height her made it easier for her to grab objects from high places. Eve said as she rose from her seat.
“Come in.”
“Ah yes. Excuse me.”
Matilda carefully opened the door. Xie Li waved her tail and hand together and smiled. Matilda was still not used to Sieri’s transformation her into a demon. Eve said as she gathered her coat.
“Are you going for a walk?”
“Ah yes. Please.”
“No. I like going for walks too.”
Unlike Matilda, who seemed sorry for interrupting her while she was busy, Eve seemed very happy. Sieri found the difference in expression funny and had to hold back her laughter. In front of the gate, Elsie was warming up before the full-scale training. She asked after seeing the two of them coming out rather early.
“Mermaid. Where are you going with the kid? It looks good.”
“Yes? Walk.”
“I think I am leaving a little early today. Little. No matter how much the mermaid begs to go for a walk, don’t go too often. Mermaids get spoiled.”
“…Am I a pet dog?”
Eve couldn’t hide her absurd feeling at Elsie’s remark her. Elsie shook her head at her Eve’s reply her.
“A mermaid is a mermaid.”
The answer was very common sense. Eve has lost her pulse. Selu, who was at the pool, stuck her head out. She looked at Eve and Matilda and asked.
“Are you going for a walk? I want to go too.”
Eve said she knew, and she had the attendant bring the wheelchair. Seeing the wheelchair at the edge of the pool, Selou smiled and wiped the water from her body her and climbed onto the wheelchair. Eve said to Sellu.
“Mom. You will pass through the village, so put on your clothes.”
“Mermaids don’t wear clothes.”
“Are you leaving?”
Hehe.”
Sellu grumbled and entered her mansion. Matilda was unaccustomed to the way her cellu her hopped around, so she stared blankly. Eve asked.
“Interesting?”
“Ah yes.”
“So do I.”
After a while, Selu came out dressed in her clothes. Standing in front of the door, Aira was tying the ribbon of Selu’s clothes to her. She was being cared for by Aira very calmly for her mermaid who said she hated her clothes. She was a child, she said with a satisfied expression.
“It’s done! Have a good trip!”
“Okay!”
Eve catches her as she jumps out of the front door again and runs across the dirt floor. Selu, caught by Eve while floating in her air, wagged her tail in fear.
“What, what!”
“Mom, your clothes will get dirty. Sit quietly in the wheelchair.”
And Eve sat Sellu in her wheelchair. Sellu felt quite at ease when her Eve picked her up and carried her away.
“Can’t I just hug you?”
“Mom can’t because it’s heavy.”
“It’s too much. I didn’t even gain weight.”
“Mermaids are naturally heavy. Especially the tail part.”
The mermaid’s lower body, which swims all day, was tightly packed with muscles. Sellu was able to stand on the tip of his tail her using this muscle, and it was possible to get up with tail power from a prone position. Of course, these actions felt quite bizarre even from her perspective of her, so Sellu did not dare to do them.
“Let’s go.”
Eve grabbed the handle of her wheelchair and began to slowly push her forward. Seluu hummed her and waggled her tail. Matilda couldn’t take her eyes off Selu in her wheelchair. She said with a smirk as Matilda stared at her.
“Did you like it?”
“Yes?”
“Hehe, keep looking at me like that. I was curious, so I asked.”
“Mom. Don’t say anything weird to the kid.”
“Oh, no. It’s not against that. The two of them have a mother-daughter relationship… Are you wearing it?”
“Right?”
Selu nodded her head and looked up at her. Suddenly Selou’s eyes met hers, and Eve pressed her fingers against Selou’s forehead on her. Selu threw her head back and wiggled her tail. Eve asked.
“But why?”
“Oh, no.”
Matilda actually had a lot of questions about the relationship between Eve and Sellu. But she just couldn’t ask because it seemed very rude to ask in any direction. Questions kept popping up in Matilda’s mind, such as what race Eve’s father was, and whether Selu was her real mother her.
“Push me faster.”
“If you go faster, Matilda won’t be able to catch up.”
“That’s right. Then let’s just go slowly like this.”
Selu was looking around her village her, humming her song her. It was surprisingly rare for Eve and Sellu to appear together, so people looked at them curiously. The coachman, who was resting in her tavern her, waved to Eve with her nose red.
“Gosh! Isn’t that Mrs. Peta! I should have reported her return her first, but the greeting was delayed!”
“What the fuck. Where did my groom go and did you come alone?”
Eve saw the coachman drinking her nose her crooked and she frowned slightly. Matilda was taken aback when she saw the tightness in her hand gripping the handle of her wheelchair. The coachman shook her hand and she hurriedly explained.
“Oh, madam! How could I abandon the lord! Before the lord goes looking for that monster, tell me. From now on, you may be embarrassing diplomatically, so he told you to get out of the dwarves before they harm you. So, I came back first… That, why do friends go after just one drink? I should have given you the report first… Aigoo, sorry.”
“…Coming to think of it, isn’t this your wife’s pub?”
“Gosh! Ma’am! Please keep it a secret from my wife! If you get caught, you die!”
“Well done. Sick child. If you don’t like your wife and me like dogs, go home right now, wash your face, dress properly, and go up to the office. Sieri will be there, so write a report for her and send it to her.”
“All right!”
The coachman opened her eyes as if she had been drunk, and she hurried home. She heard a loud thud from the cracks in the street as she receded. Eve grumbled.
“That man is all nice, but is it a problem because he likes to drink? Fuck, you’re not driving drunk with my husband, are you?”
“Hehe, but they say you don’t drink alcohol while driving. It’s a long way to the dwarf kingdom, so how much do you want to drink?”
“Tsk.”
Eve clicked her tongue. Sellu asked Matilda.
“Have you ever had a drink?”
“No. Her sponsors don’t drink because they have to follow the tenets of practitioners of the Daecheon Shinkyo religion.”
“My husband ate well. Can I eat the head priest?”
Cieri, too, had never spoken to anyone about her drinking problem her, unless someone drank excessively. Said Matilda.
“I know adults don’t care. When I went on a field trip to the Central Church of the Archdiocese of Heaven, I saw a few priests drinking alcohol during lunchtime.”
“Okay?”
Matilda looked up at her Eve her face her, who nodded. Selu stretched her hand over her and was touching her Eve’s face. Eve naturally bent down to make it easier to touch her face her. Eve grumbled as her cellu her kneaded her own face like clay.
“What are you doing.”
“I like the feel.”
At that moment, Matilda remembered her mother’s letter to her. She got depressed again.
