Chapter: 34

‘Ah.’

Count Melford, an old friend of her grandfather, was almost the only guest to visit her grandfather’s mansion.

Astelle doesn’t know why he spoke useless things to a child.

“No, it’s another emperor, and you should never talk about that in front of other people. Because the emperor is the highest person in the empire, you must not say anything bad about His Majesty, and you have to obey His Majesty in any way. Okay?”

“Yes.”

Theor listened earnestly to Astelle’s words and nodded seriously.

“And Theor, you can’t call me mother yet.”

“Still?”

“Yes, not until we get back to our house. We have to keep playing the play. Can you do it well?”

Theor smiled with an expression of confidence.

“Yes, I can do it well!”

Astelle stroked Theor’s head. In fact, it was fine if Theor mistakenly called her his mother.

When Count Melford, a friend of her maternal grandfather, visited the mansion for the first time, Theor had accidentally called Astelle his mother.

Astelle showed a sad expression to Count Melford—who was surprised—without any embarrassment.

“Because Theor has never seen his mother, he sometimes calls me his mother like that.”

“That……poor kid.”

Count Melford sighed long, looking at the child with a sad glance.

“Because I’m always a person who takes care of him by my side, I’m like a real mother to him.”

Count Melford, without any doubt, stayed in her maternal grandfather’s mansion for a week before returning.

“She’s my granddaughter, but she’s amazing.”

Her maternal grandfather looked at her and said so, not knowing whether it was a compliment or sarcasm.

Theor was still 5 years old. So sometimes he made mistakes like that.

In the first place, few people could doubt that Theor was Kaizen’s child.

They only stayed as a couple for one night, and they divorced the next day.

Most people thought they wouldn’t have spent the first night either.