Chapter 454 – Matilda (2)
Dinner time. A large painting covered with cloth appeared in front of the family, who were eating leisurely. Everyone in the family tilted their heads and looked at each other. Because I was wondering who did this. But even when he looked at me, I didn’t know why, so I only blinked. I stopped breaking the bread and asked the chamberlain.
“Chairman. What is this?”
“Yes, Your Majesty. This painting was ordered to honor the achievements of His Majesty and A.A. Hero when they defeated the Demon King in the previous dynasty. Originally, it was planned to post this picture in the lobby on the first floor of the royal castle to widely commemorate the great achievement, but it was left in storage because His Majesty said that now is not the time to celebrate defeating the demon lord. “
Perhaps, as soon as he defeated the Demon King, the fact that Evangeline was black was roughly revealed, so he seemed to be wary of this.
“A picture when you defeated the demon king?”
A.A said with a bright smile as if he was happy to see you. Erina, who was next to her, looked at her painting with a complicated expression. For her, her defeat of the demon king was the turning point that separated her from A.I. If Erina hadn’t been rude to me then, would she have been any different? It was a problem that I couldn’t figure out even if I came here and asked the question.
“The time to defeat the demon lord, it really reminds me of the old days. Warrior.”
“I know, right. Priest. Do you remember when I was sleeping and the hem of my clothes caught on fire and woke me up?”
“Oh, I remember. I thought there was an attack, so I got up with a fuss, but the warrior stepped on the hem of my clothes and put out the fire.”
“I miss you. Really.”
Matilda was listening to the two of us talking with her eyes twinkling. A.A looked at Matilda’s shining eyes a little uncomfortably, then slightly averted her eyes. I said.
“Show me the picture. Take a look and decide. Should I hang it on the first floor?”
“Yes!”
At the gesture of the chief chamberlain, the cloth covering the painting slide down like oil. Eve, who was looking at the painting, let out an exclamation, and Elsie and Laika tilted their heads. Karin nodded her head, and Sieri and Aira clapped their hands in admiration. Sellu smiled and laughed, as always. Erina smiled slightly raising her head as if her image of her was drawn, and A.A scratched her head while laughing slightly.
Soya praised the drawing, saying it came out well. Evangeline chuckled, and Dagon wiggled her head around like a metronome, frowning.
The painting seemed to depict a scene from a typical heroic epic. In fact, it felt more like a cover photo of a classic Western RPG game than an adventure story between me and A.A. A.A, who has strong muscles that can kill an ogre with a headlock, was in the lead, holding the head of the demon king, and next to him, I, who had a cunning and mean smile, fought the monsters behind me with a mace. There was.
Matilda, staring blankly at the painting, said.
“By the way, that… Why is your mother a man?”
“Ah.”
A.A, who was embarrassed for a moment after seeing the figure in the picture, stopped laughing at Matilda’s question and stiffened as it was. A.A was now full-term. Matilda looked back and forth between the hero in her painting her and A-A now, and she seemed really confused.
Both Elsie and Leica tilted their heads and said.
“Right. The hero is a woman, but the picture came out wrong.”
“You’re right. Warrior. These days, it is called a woman born in heaven. Painting is truly manly.”
“Pooh!”
Eve covered her mouth, trying to contain her laughter. Sieri tried to explain, but when Selu whispered something in her ear her next to her, she closed her mouth with a wry smile. A.A looked at Matilda with her embarrassed face of her, and also at Laika and Elsie. Laika looked at A.A.’S belly and said, as if she was really curious.
“Do men get pregnant too? It’s obviously a woman. Warrior. I have big breasts too.”
“No, so that…”
I held A.A’s hand and smiled. He pulled Erina with his other hand and looked around at the wives who still disagreed.
“I’m going to talk to you for a minute.”
And he took the two of them out of the restaurant.
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“I-Shouldn’t I tell Matilda the truth now?”
“Lucius. How long did she intend to hide the truth from the child? Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyin, letting her know that she used to be a guy…”
As soon as the two went outside, they poured out such stories. I lightly rubbed the shoulders of the two to soothe their excited hearts. Little by little, the shoulder muscles, which had been strained, relaxed, and the tone of the two people could be felt. I said.
“Calm down. Both. Warrior. The hero thinks it’s right to tell Matilda the truth about her, but that’s a mistake. Matilda is still young. She’s now she’s 15 years old. She is in the midst of her adolescence and is confused, how betrayed she must feel when she finds out that her closest mother was a man.”
“That’s why I think I should say it now. That… Yes, she used to be a man.”
A.A hesitantly said. But I had no intention of revealing that A.A. Was a man.
“What if I tell you that, and Matilda is so shocked and distorted?”
“Yes?”
A.A was started by the story of Matilda derailing. I continued talking with a depressed expression on my face.
“It is a sensitive time. Telling a child that he was a boy doesn’t help at all. I’m not telling Matilda to hide the facts at all. She says she’ll put off talking about Matilda until she’s an adult. She’s not lying outright, she’s just putting the facts back a little bit.”
“… She would be more shocked to know that she cheated.”
“When she’s grown up, she’ll understand a little bit. Ay. How about it? For Matilda’s sake, will you do as I say?”
I spoke with A.A. Facing her face her. She licked her lips and wiggled her fingers. After thinking for a long time, she finally nodded her head and said.
“Later, are you sure to tell the truth?”
“Absolutely.”
She said that she was going to lie, so she couldn’t help but think that she was Erina. She couldn’t help it, and she promised to follow her A.A. And keep her secret her. Then I came into the dining room and my wives were chatting about paintings. The chief chamberlain and the attendants who uploaded the pictures were still standing there like statues. I said looking at the picture.
“It’s good that we expressed our hero’s heroism, but since we expressed it too exaggeratedly, our hero came out like a man.”
“Yes?”
The chamberlain frowned and looked at me. I said.
“Please fix it. Because our hero is a woman.”
“Yes? No, that…”
“You are a woman. Yes?”
“Ah… Ah! You’re right! You were originally a woman! It seems the painter had the wrong prejudice! Yes! I’ll go and ask for a fix!”
He said that he had worked in the palace for decades, but it seemed that he was not lying. The chief chamberlain agreed with me with a ghostly gaze and went out again with the painting. Matilda saw my conversation with the chamberlain and said,
“What? Then that… Did it come out wrong?”
“Yes. Our warrior used to be a woman, so she dressed up as a man to avoid being ignored. At that time, he must have misunderstood that he was a real man. Yes? Erina? And the warrior?”
I asked both of them to agree. Erina, who was about to sit down and drink her dessert tea, pricked her ears up and nodded her head.
“Cancer! By the way! Our A.A. Was originally a woman!”
“No, that’s right! I’m that… Whoa, she was originally a woman… That… Dressing up as a man was my hobby! Yes!”
Eve blushed and slammed her head into her desk. Selou held her own her, but kept her mouth shut with her cheeks slightly inflated, so she felt like she would explode if anyone touched her with a finger. Said Elsie.
“The hero definitely seems to like dressing up as a man. She remembered that in the old days she said she was a man.”
“That, that kind of play!”
Again, Erina shouted in bewilderment.
“Ahahahahahaha!”
At the words of such a play, Eve finally burst out laughing and grabbed her stomach. Matilda asked Soya beside her with her bewildered face her. It was because Soya always gave clear explanations to various questions.
“What do you mean by that play?”
“…Ask Dad.”
Of course, there was no way for me to answer that unanswerable bullshit. A.A was painting her face her red, and Erina belatedly took care of it again.
“So, that kind of play means, now, your dad is dressing a woman as a man… !”
“Go there. Erina. I look like a strange person.”
I thought I would get into trouble if I said more, so I shut Erina’s mouth. Erina heard my mute command and immediately shut her mouth her. Even though she tends to jump out, she listens very well to me. Matilda asked A.A. Again if she had lost interest.
“Mom. That, this time I want to hear the story of the hero’s mother.”
“Yes? My story? My story wouldn’t be that interesting, would it?”
A.A was started as she wrapped herself around her own belly. But she couldn’t escape Matilda’s shining gaze of her.
“I still want to hear it. The story of my mother becoming a hero, the story of her adventures her as a hero, the story of her traveling her with my dad… ! This and that! Everything!”
“Ah, that… ! So… !”
“Oh, can’t I?”
Matilda asked with a sullen expression. In this way, she had no right to deny Ai. A.A gave me a look of salvation. I leaned on her shoulder and whispered to her.
“I’ll tell you in moderation. I will do it once.”
“Oh okay.”
A.A. Nodded her head, then looked back at Matilda. A.A. Started talking. She tells her own story of being a ‘woman’, her warrior her.
“I was born to parents who were farmers in the Balpur estate, a little far away from here. Since I was the only child I saw late, my parents loved me very much…”
“…The only child?”
“…The only daughter. I was an only child.”
Dangerous from the start?
