I Summoned the Demon King and Got a Dad - Chapter 59

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59. New Year Festival (5)

“No, sister! You can’t eat it like that!”

“Huh?”

Fortunately, before Theodor could step in, Shuria’s voice was heard.

At Elisia’s question, Shuria looked exasperated as she held up her own macaron and took a bite.

“Like this, you have to hold it and eat it!”

“Can’t I cut it and eat it?”

Elisia answered like that but didn’t stop cutting with her knife.

Watching this, both Theodor and Shuria felt their hearts being butchered along with it.

But Elisia didn’t stop there.

She turned the macaron she had cut in half and cut it in half again.

In other words, she separated the shells from each other.

Watching Elisia scrape away the cream with her knife, Shuria shouted.

“Don’t remove the cream!!!!”

It was the first time seeing Shuria raise her voice so loudly.

Theodor had seen it occasionally, but this was Elisia’s first time.

Surprised Elisia opened her eyes wide and looked at Shuria, but Shuria didn’t back down either.

Looking at Elisia as if she couldn’t believe it, she opened her mouth again.

“If you’re going to do that, you shouldn’t eat it! That’s picky eating too!”

For the first time, Theodor agreed with Shuria’s words.

Elisia, seeing Shuria like this for the first time, seemed momentarily flustered, but it didn’t last long.

“It’s nothing but bad for your body, how is this picky eating?”

“Eating sweet things makes you feel good! Your mood is part of your body too!”

It seemed a bit strange, but he thought it wasn’t wrong.

At that moment, Elisia looked at Theodor.

She seemed to be asking for help, but Theodor couldn’t forgive Elisia’s actions.

Eating macarons that way was an insult to macarons.

Realizing that Theodor had turned away from her request for help, Elisia opened her mouth after a moment of contemplation.

“Shuria.”

“Yeah.”

“Sister will give you two more macarons, let’s make up.”

“Okay!”

Thus Shuria and Elisia made up dramatically, but Theodor couldn’t accept this situation.

Who decided to give away two more macarons on their own?

Theodor was about to say it wasn’t allowed.

But at that moment, his eyes met with Elisia’s.

The moment he felt the killing intent directed at him, Theodor realized.

That if he interfered here, neither he, Elisia, nor Shuria would come out looking good.

It was right to think that two macarons was getting off easy.

Having finished their meal, Theodor burst into laughter belatedly.

No matter how many times he thought about it, it was absurd.

It was the first time in his life receiving such a look.

To think there was someone other than Shuria who could look at him like that.

Theodor stood up from his seat.

Since Elisia and Shuria seemed to be playing together, it was to rest alone.

Childcare was also a type of work, so according to Filton Empire culture, today was a day he could rest.

He wanted to take a good afternoon nap for the first time in a while.

But Theodor’s thoughts didn’t last long.

“Where are you going?”

Because Elisia grabbed his arm.

“…I was thinking of resting.”

“No, family should stay together.”

Elisia said this while lifting Shuria and handing her back to Theodor.

Theodor knew Elisia was having a hard time.

Normally she wouldn’t act like this.

Even knowing that letting Elisia rest today would be good for both of them, strangely he found Elisia annoying.

So Theodor ended up doing something he wouldn’t normally do.

Holding Shuria, Theodor grabbed Elisia’s arm with his other hand.

“Aren’t you also my family, Pink Princess?”

At Theodor’s words, Elisia burst into laughter as if she couldn’t believe it.

He was going to rest.

Today was a national day of rest.

In the past, it was a day when everyone rested, to the point where rest was legally mandated.

“We haven’t married yet, so we’re not family.”

But there was one fact Elisia overlooked.

Shuria was being held in Theodor’s arms.

Would Shuria really let that statement slide?

Sure enough, Shuria, who had been in Theodor’s arms, squirmed and turned around.

Elisia and Shuria’s eyes met, and Elisia belatedly realized Theodor’s scheme.

“…Aren’t we family?”

Tears welled up in Shuria’s pink eyes.

At the sight of Shuria who looked like she would cry any moment, Elisia finally shouted and grabbed Shuria’s hand.

“We are family!”

It was Theodor’s victory.

Theodor smiled with satisfaction and put Shuria down on the ground.

Thus Shuria’s left hand was held by Theodor, and her right hand by Elisia.

Holding both their hands, Shuria smiled brightly and spoke.

“A flower in each hand!”

“Don’t say things like that.”

“There’s only a flower in one hand.”

At Elisia’s words, Theodor looked at her.

To be honest, Theodor knew he was on the handsome side.

He didn’t particularly care about appearance, but that didn’t mean he lacked aesthetic sense.

When he could tell he was handsome just by looking at his reflection in water, how could he live without knowing that?

So he didn’t really care about such comments.

Really.

“Pink Princess, you are beautiful enough, there’s no need to put yourself down like that.”

Really, he didn’t care at all.

At Theodor’s words, Elisia rolled her eyes as if she couldn’t believe it.

“If I’m not a flower, then who could possibly be a flower?”

“I think the same about myself.”

Watching the strange atmosphere and the argument between the two, Shuria thought.

Childish.

In a way, it was natural.

Both of them would still be in their twenties even after this year passed, so they were young if you thought about it.

“Objectively, I am more beautiful.”

“My goodness, such overflowing self-love.”

“It’s not self-love, it’s called confidence.”

But neither Theodor nor Elisia knew they could become this childish.

“Shuria, which one of us is prettier?”

Finally unable to bear the childish question that went beyond “Do you like Mom or Dad better,” Shuria shook off both their hands.

“You two play together. Shuria is leaving.”

Family or whatever, it seemed better to play alone than to be stuck between the two of them.

And so Theodor and Elisia gained their vacation.

Though it was what they had wanted, the feeling was strangely unpleasant.

The two briefly met each other’s eyes before heading to their respective rooms.

Of the two, Theodor was the first to speak.

“You may rest for a while.”

Only after Shuria left did he realize how childish his behavior had been.

Though Theodor’s action was meant to give Elisia a vacation along with his belated reflection, Elisia interpreted his words differently.

For a while?

From now on?

Forever?!

Resting forever was no different from being fired.

Elisia hadn’t thought Theodor was such a petty person.

To act this way over mere macarons.

Elisia strode forward.

“What do you mean by that?”

“Exactly what I said.”

“You call that an explanation?”

Theodor couldn’t understand why Elisia was so angry.

Shouldn’t she be happy to receive a vacation?

“You seem to need rest, so I was just suggesting it.”

“What on earth do you…!”

Elisia staggered and pressed her forehead.

She couldn’t return to the Imperial Palace yet.

With her younger brother the Crown Prince not yet having ascended to the Emperor’s throne, if she were even broken off from her engagement with the Duke, it was obvious what would happen to her remaining marriage prospects.

In that case, this place was better, even if it was busy, difficult, tiring, and even childish.

Elisia bit her lip.

“I can’t go back yet.”

Had she fought with the Imperial Court?

The Emperor of Filton came to Theodor’s mind.

There seemed to be plenty of reasons to fight.

He thought that even if he sent her to the Imperial Palace to rest, she would probably just come back with more work.

“Then couldn’t you rest at the manor?”

“What?”

“Would two weeks be sufficient?”

Only then did Elisia realize that Theodor had truly been proposing a vacation.

Along with relief, strength left her legs.

Elisia collapsed on the spot, and Theodor, who had approached, caught her waist.

Was she really that happy about it?

If he had known this, he would have given her less work or let her rest sooner.

What had he done to someone who worked so diligently?

Theodor’s guilt was stirred once again.

“Are you alright?”

“I’m… fine.”

Elisia’s face reddened as she stood up with Theodor’s support.

She felt sorry for having such an absurd misunderstanding and misjudging Theodor.

Unaware of this fact, Theodor was wallowing in self-reproach, wondering if he had been too terrible a superior to Elisia.

“Just one week would be enough.”

Fortunately, that didn’t seem to be the case.

Relieved by Elisia’s following answer, Theodor smiled and extended his hand to her.

It was a request for escort.

“Understood.”

Elisia took Theodor’s arm.

And so the two walked to Elisia’s room without saying a word.

They didn’t speak during the journey, and the distance between the two that had deepened due to misunderstanding still couldn’t grow closer.

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