Chapter 21
21
Chapter 5. I've Decided on My Future Dream (3)
"Then have fun, everyone."
Ella, Maria, and Bailey, with very cheerful faces, shoved us into the playroom.
Evelyn, Leon, Ian, and I watched the door close for a moment.
'I feel like I'm on a bomb disposal squad?'
It's like they're trying to get rid of us by throwing us all into one room because it's too hard to play with so many kids.
Somehow, Ella and Maria seemed uncomfortable with children, even though they were hired as babysitters.
Even Bailey, the nanny, was like that.
Seeing her just watching Leon, who burst into loud sobs, from a distance with a bewildered expression, it didn't seem like she had much experience being around young children.
'What was it like when I cried?'
Instead of being flustered, they calmly said, "Shall I give you a bottle? Shall I change your diaper?" All three of them did. Somehow, they were grinning in a way that made me feel uncomfortable.
'So I thought they were different because they were professional sitters…….'
In fact, the three of them might have even less experience taking care of children than I do.
"Hngh…."
Leon sniffled and wiped his nose with his sleeve. That snot-nosed kid.
I squatted down at Leon's feet, just like I did outside, and looked up at his face.
He was crying his eyes out with snot and tears outside, but now he was just sniffling, with only snot running down his nose.
Maria, Ella, and Bailey were just standing there blankly, and Lloyd was just watching as if it was fun, so I barely managed to soothe him, but is he going to cry again?
"Leon…. Are you going to keep crying?"
"N-no, no, no! I'm not crying? I'm definitely not crying!"
Leon shouted, his nose turning bright red. My ears hurt. I unconsciously covered one ear and frowned slightly, and Ian covered my ear and said to Leon.
"Wipe your nose and talk. Don't shout."
"Ian, don't act so high and mighty!"
"I never acted high and mighty."
"You didn't even try to stop me in a cowardly way…."
"You ran off without listening even when I said no. You were secretly happy for the chance to swing your wooden sword, weren't you?"
"……."
"How childish. That's why the wooden sword you received as a gift from Father got broken because you acted without thinking."
The 7-year-old twins are fighting among themselves. Feeling drained, I distanced myself from the twins and quietly sat in the corner of the playroom.
The carpet, cluttered with blocks that Father had made by hand and picture books that Ella had stopped reading, was practically my designated spot.
This soft carpet was with me when I first crawled and when I took my first steps.
Creak.
Evelyn put her nose on my leg. My sedative. You're my angel. I stared at her so adoringly that she seemed a little burdened and turned her head, sitting with her back to me.
'I heard that a dog showing its back means it trusts you a lot, a lot…!'
A wave of emotion washed over me. She might be a little annoyed, but who cares, she showed me her back. Her tail is still wagging.
Just then, the twins, who had noticed that I had distanced myself, stopped fighting among themselves and approached me.
"How cowardly! We're fighting, but you're not paying attention and playing with the dog?"
"Uh……. Did I hab to listen?"
Weren't you ignoring me? My ears hurt too. When I asked with my eyes, Leon and Ian avoided my gaze, looking embarrassed. Leon said, as if trying to change the subject.
"Do you like the dog that broke my wooden sword that much?"
"I wike her. I wike her the most."
"……Even though you haven't known her for very long……."
Is his voice trembling right now? Suspecting something between us.
"But we've awweady sweeped togeder!"
"What?!"
Ian shouted loudly. I was a little surprised that Ian, who seemed to have a relatively calm personality compared to Leon, raised his voice.
"We've been togeder ever since we met, wight!"
"Woof!"
Listen to that bark……. So cute…….
"Evelyn said she'd be wif me fowever."
"As a guard?"
"We're fwiends."
What guard. I didn't have the ability to pay Evelyn a salary. If she wanted to work at the mansion when she became an adult and needed a job, well, my parents would hire her.
"Then we're not rivals."
"Wha…."
"Because our dream is to become your knights."
"……You know, Ian."
I said seriously.
"What's the point of becoming a knight? I can't pay you much."
"Who would become a knight because they need money?"
"……You're young. If you don't have money? You can't do anything."
"Who are you calling a child?"
"I don't have money."
"Who would believe the only daughter of Duke Wentworth when she says she doesn't have money?"
Are you going to keep saying such materialistic things to a 3-year-old? It's a good thing I can filter it out.
"It's not my money."
"It will be yours."
"Even until I die! Even if it's not mine! It won't be!"
Ian seemed to realize he had made a mistake and apologized quietly.
"……Are you saying you won't make us your knights because you don't have money?"
You're not even knights right now. I was dumbfounded by Ian's words, as if he had already become a knight.
"Yeah. I don't have money."
"……."
"You're not that gweat to dweam about, and you're not pwomising. Go somewhere else."
"Do you think we'll give up just because you say that?"
You're not listening to me.
"Why are you doing this to me?"
"……Do you hate us?"
"Can't we just be fwiends?"
Ian and Leon stared at me intently. This is my chance. If I persuade them a little more, they'll give in. I spoke seriously, paying even more attention to my pronunciation.
"Let's be fwiends. I want to have fwiends."
"No."
"No."
These brats. They're more stubborn than I thought.
"Why? Why?"
"We want to protect you."
"I'm not in danger…."
Evelyn will also become very strong when she grows up, and I knew that Maria, Ella, and Bailey were also very strong people.
More than that, my parents……. I don't know how strong my father is, but I don't think the twins' help would be needed with just my mother alone.
Ian said, as if my thoughts were written all over my face.
"How long are you going to be with your parents?"
"Probably until I grow up?"
"The Wentworth couple are busy people. They can't be by your side all day."
"That's…."
That's right.
My parents loved me dearly, but as high-ranking people, they seemed to have many places to be called to. That's why they assigned Maria, Ella, and Bailey to me.
Of course, they made sure to kiss me every morning and evening, and they tried to take time out to play with me at least once every three days.
I couldn't doubt that love because they were such honest people that honey dripped from their eyes. Just like the way my dad in my past life looked at Mina and me.
Shana Feli Wentworth was really lucky.
"And…."
Ian looked around the playroom.
What is he looking for? Ian frowned as if dissatisfied after scanning the desk used by adults. Then he picked up one of the blocks scattered on the floor. A block that Father had carefully carved…… Oh.
Thud!
"Ack! What! Are you doing, ack!"
"Ouch…."
Ian calmly put the block down. I was so surprised that I ran to him, but Leon was silent without saying anything.
"Blood, blood, there's blood!"
"Ouch, it hurts."
"Of course it hurts……. Look, look. Hoo, aah…."
That crazy bastard, really. Blood was smeared because he hit it so hard. It hurts just looking at it. I made a crying face and gathered mana in my palm. Clay clumped together around the bean-sized mana.
Seeing the wound directly made it look even more painful, so I made the Clay softer and spread it on Ian's forehead like ointment.
The wound disappeared as if it had been washed away.
"Wow…."
"Amazing."
"Pwaise me all you want, nothing's coming out. Don't do this again. Got it? You have to know how to take care of your body!"
Ian smiled brightly.
"We can make money with this."
"……Huh?"
"We can make money with this and make us your knights."
"……."
"Then there's no problem, right?"
"……Why wouldn't there be a pwoblem……. Is that what you're twying to say……."
"Yeah. I did it on purpose."
"……You cwazy bastard……."
What kind of crazy bastard is this?
Ian smiled brightly and asked me back, "Huh?" I thought he was a handsome red-haired child, but when I looked again, there was a subtle madness in his eyes.
He was crazy.
"There's no problem, right?"
"……There's no money……. With just this……."
"Why isn't there? We'll make it if there isn't."
Leon, who had been silent, chimed in. You shut up too. A pair of crazy brothers.
My head throbbed, so I covered my forehead with both hands.
'Lloyd is an honest and cheerful normal person, so how did these kids come out?'
Could it be that Lloyd's wife is……, no, I was just very rude.
The twins were urging me to answer, but this time they were silently pressuring me. You guys seem to be forgetting, but I'm a child. I'm 3 years old.
"Shana?"
What's with the 'nim' while speaking informally, 'nim'.
However, even while grumbling inwardly, I was overwhelmed by the madness of the one who hit his head with the block and couldn't say anything.
'Don't smile so brightly after doing something like that, you crazy smiling bastard.'
Is this sense or nonsense? Making money by treating people, is he talking about opening a hospital or something? Does he think anyone can open a hospital? You need a doctor too…….
'Huh? Can't I do it?'
I completely cured my mother at just 6 months old, and I easily cured Evelyn, who had suffered a fatal wound at 2 years and 6 months old.
No, no. I'll need a nurse too.
'Oh. It seems like I can make a new contract with Ella, Maria, and Bailey, who have been freed from being sitters? And there are two people who want to be my workers?'
No, no. To build a hospital, I need a building…… initial capital…….
'My parents are rich. What's a building, they give me necklaces that cost the price of several castles without thinking it's a big deal.'
Huh?
Huh?
……Opening a clinic is totally possible?
