I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 107

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Ekian declared as if speaking to himself.

“I will find her.”

At those words, everyone cleared their throats with a “ahem.”

When someone looks excessively haggard, it becomes difficult to know what to say.

The other person’s grief had already exceeded an understandable level, reaching a point where even the standard of ‘is it okay to say this’ became blurred.

Because Judith’s disappearance was exactly that kind of thing for Ekian, they couldn’t help but be mindful and unable to respond.

Ekian also seemed to expect no comfort from anyone, paying little attention to the helpless reactions around him.

After all, it was an anxiety that could only be resolved by bringing Judith before his eyes and holding her tightly in his arms.

“Karl, see you soon.”

In the midst of it all, he didn’t forget to hug Karl tightly, whose eyes were brimming with tears.

“You’re my brother for life.”

Karl sniffled while hugging Ekian tightly and asked.

“Then what about my nephew? I don’t really understand…”

It was a tone of genuine curiosity because he truly couldn’t understand.

“Um, that’s… um.”

No matter how much Ekian was radiating an unhappy atmosphere that could cut through steel with his gaze, he couldn’t help but roll his eyes in embarrassment at the child’s question.

The words he finally uttered were such a bland response.

“Uh, it’s adult matters. Sorry. Don’t try to understand it in detail.”

He wanted to organize and explain it, but the situation was too complicated to organize at all.

However, Ekian lifted Karl up and smiled brightly while making one promise.

“But I’ll bring back both your sister-in-law and your nephew soon.”

“Brother, you’re not planning to threaten and confine them, are you? Your expression looks exactly like that… You look a bit scary.”

“No.”

When Ekian put Karl down, this time Alteon stepped forward.

“Ekian, since you’re going anyway, try to do well. You’re going to welcome Judith as the Grand Duchess, so shouldn’t she become a welcomed Grand Duchess? The Grand Duchess you bring will be treated well only if you do well. Blending in with the territory’s people you’re meeting for the first time isn’t an easy task.”

Alteon could only comfort Ekian with such words. To be honest, he was being careful even about uttering a single word because he was mindful, but it seemed like he needed to use Judith as an excuse for anything to work.

“The child that Judith is carrying… will also grow up as the heir to that territory, so you need to establish yourself well. You wouldn’t want the Grand Duchess and that child to be awkward with the territory’s people, would you?”

Alteon’s concern was natural.

In fact, Ekian was well aware that going to an unfamiliar territory as a leader wasn’t easy. He even had to be prepared to struggle for the first few years.

“For Judith to be welcomed by the territory’s people without any sense of alienation, your role will be important at least in the beginning… Anyway, someone needs to adapt well first.”

Alteon repeatedly urged with a worried face.

Arten Territory.

“Teacher! Teacher!”

An excited voice could be heard from outside Judith’s room. It was a sunny afternoon, but Judith, who had been dozing in her room, yawned and opened the door.

A thirteen-year-old girl full of freckles was smiling brightly with her hair down.

“I have a question! About Act 3 of 【Come, My Waves】!”

“Really? Would you like to come in first?”

But there wasn’t just one child standing at the door. As soon as she opened the door wide, several elderly people came rushing in along with the children.

“I also have a question!”

“I came to listen too…”

Looking at the elderly people with sheepish expressions coming in with the children, Judith smiled broadly.

At the very beginning, when she came to Arten Territory disguised as Kastin’s assistant, she couldn’t have imagined such a situation.

She really planned to quietly help with Kastin’s work while listening to news from the Empire.

But something went wrong from the day she helped interpret a book that a young child was struggling to read while bedridden.

‘Hmm, this spelling is… hmm…’

‘This looks like ancient language rather than Imperial language? How about trying to interpret it in ancient language?’

‘Ancient language? I only know the basics, but then maybe this part…’

She had only taught once what she saw over someone’s shoulder. The problem was that Judith had originally worked as a visiting teacher in the Empire’s capital for three years. And she had packed her schedule with lessons every single day.

From her perspective, she had only helped a little, but for that child, it seemed to be such an excellent lecture that it opened up a new world.

From then on, a few children began to timidly visit Kastin’s makeshift medical office.

By the third day, there were more children coming to hear Judith’s lectures than patients coming to see Kastin.

Unlike the peddler’s exaggeration, the number of patients was fewer than expected. Aside from people who had suffered minor bruises during the evacuation, there were no particularly serious injuries.

【I feel like I’ve just become someone who came to tour the Empire. I came prepared to struggle.】

Kastin felt embarrassed, saying that when she actually came, there was no need for her to come. Then she gently suggested to Judith.

【Since we don’t lack any helping hands, how about teaching somewhere else entirely? Don’t we seem to be interfering with each other?】

【That’s true, ahaha…】

Eventually, Judith had no choice but to take the children and go outside. Then the girl who had first asked her a question said briskly.

‘Would you like to come to our school? We don’t have any high school teachers left…’

That girl’s name was Anne. Hearing Anne’s cheerful suggestion, Judith tilted her head and asked back.

Unlike the capital where calling visiting teachers or private tutors was natural, this place had been operating schools since long ago due to an absolute shortage of teachers.

‘But in this large territory… there are no high school teachers?’

‘Yes. They all left saying our territory imposed too many taxes on teachers.’

Judith had no choice but to follow the children in bewilderment.

As it turned out, Arten was quite a prosperous and livable territory, but the education level was excessively low.

According to what people told her, the original lord disliked the territory’s people studying.

The territory’s policy was that even children should receive military training instead of studying time in order to fight the barbarians.

The decrease in the number of teachers must have been an intentional result of the lord’s policy.

‘This isn’t right… To think they’d prevent children from studying. Could this be a policy to keep people ignorant?’

Being on the Emperor’s side was already bad enough, but actually coming to the territory made her antipathy toward the Marquis of Arten even stronger.

Anyway, Judith eventually went to the only high school in Arten and answered the children’s questions.

But an even more surprising thing happened next.

‘Excuse me, teacher… This old man also has a question, could you spare a moment to look at it?’

‘Teacher, I’m really sorry, but my wish in my old age is to read this book…’

The elderly people also began to visit her with sheepish faces.

‘She was a famous teacher in the capital, right? They say there’s nothing she doesn’t know…’

Nothing spread faster in the territory than rumors through children’s mouths. By then, Judith had become a tremendous intellectual from the kingdom.

“Teacher! Here in Act 3, does the ‘bluebird’ represent children? I couldn’t sleep last night because I was curious!”

“You shouldn’t lose sleep over it.”

Judith said with a bright smile.

“But there are more people than expected, shall we go to an empty classroom at school to talk?”

The number of children who came to ask Judith questions wasn’t that many anyway.

However, rumors about Judith as ‘an incredibly smart adult who can answer anything’ were spreading at an tremendous speed.

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