I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 277

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“She didn’t come out of her room again today?”

“No, Baron.”

“Hah.”

After hearing the maid’s report, Diane let out a hollow laugh and looked up at the second floor.

Today marked the third day that Leilah and Kalian had holed up in their bedroom.

She had wanted to fulfill Leilah’s wish, so she gave her all sorts of advice and even gifted her underwear… but who would have thought it would be this effective.

“Still, isn’t staying cooped up for three days a bit too much?”

Even if it was a honeymoon, if you came to a foreign country, you should go around and see places!

Besides, it was festival season right now, yet they were spending all their time in their room!

And if you really thought about it, they’d been married for four years, so they weren’t even newlyweds!

“Mom.”

Diane, who had been grumbling while looking up at the second floor, turned around with a bright smile when she heard her beloved son’s voice.

“Jeremy.”

Her eldest son Jeremy, who was the spitting image of Diane, came running with quick steps and threw himself into his loving mother’s arms.

Ber walked leisurely behind Jeremy.

Ber smiled warmly as he watched Diane lovingly embrace Jeremy, then looked up at the second floor.

“Are the Count and His Majesty still holed up in their bedroom?”

Diane nodded.

“It’s already been three days. Unless they’re beasts, there’s no way they’d do that for three straight days, so I have no idea what they’re doing in there.”

At her completely unfiltered, blunt words, Ber gasped and hurriedly covered Jeremy’s ears.

“Your young son is listening, watch your language.”

“He doesn’t understand anything yet, so it’s fine. Besides, he’ll find out someday anyway.”

“Diane.”

When Ber called her name reproachfully, Diane pouted.

“Fine. I’ll be careful, okay?”

Ber shook his head at her attitude, which showed no sign of remorse and was clearly just a reluctant response.

Even though she had become the mother of two children, her childish thoughts and stubbornness remained unchanged.

More importantly, Leilah and Kalian hadn’t come out of their bedroom for three days.

“Nothing’s wrong, is there?”

When Ber spoke worriedly, suddenly afraid, Diane waved her hand with a laugh.

“That’s definitely not it. The maid said that whenever she brings meals to their door, the plates are always completely empty.”

“Then that’s a relief…”

“Don’t worry. The two of them are just trying to have a second child.”

A second child?

“Ah, so that’s why His Majesty asked the astrologer about that.”

Ber muttered, finally understanding why Kalian, who didn’t believe in superstitions, had visited an astrologer.

“What? What happened?”

Meanwhile, Diane, who knew nothing about it, urged him to tell her quickly.

Since it wasn’t really a secret, Ber readily explained.

“Well, when we went to the beach mall, His Majesty visited an astrologer’s house. And he asked to know what gender it would be if they had a second child.”

“I knew it!”

Diane’s eyes sparkled like stars.

She had suspected it, but Kalian also wanted a second child!

But there was something more important to Diane.

“So, what did the astrologer say? Did they say it would be a daughter? Or a son?”

She hoped it would be a daughter.

Not only because Leilah wanted a daughter, but also because that would fulfill Diane’s long-held wish.

“Well, the astrologer said it would be a daughter.”

“Oh my goodness!”

Diane’s mouth opened wide like a washbasin.

Her upturned lips looked like they might reach her ears.

“Hehehehe.”

“D-Diane?”

When Diane made strange sounds while laughing, Ber called her name in surprise.

Jeremy also looked up at her with a slightly frightened expression.

After laughing like a crazy person for a while, Diane suddenly stopped laughing and grabbed Jeremy’s shoulders.

“Jeremy. I think I’ve found your bride.”

“What…?”

“What are you talking about, Diane!”

Ber asked in shock.

“Don’t tell me… if His Majesty and the Count’s second child is a daughter, you’re thinking of marrying her to our Jeremy?”

“Yes. That’s exactly what I’m thinking.”

“What kind of ridiculous idea…!”

“What’s so ridiculous about it.”

Diane’s eyes sparkled once again.

“I’ve wanted to become in-laws with Leilah for a long time. The time has finally come to realize that dream.”

Ber let out a hollow laugh.

“What kind of… You didn’t say that when Amy was born.”

“Well, Leilah’s son is currently first in line for the throne. Even if the current Emperor has an heir and he gets pushed back, he’s still the Former Emperor’s son who will become a Grand Duke someday.”

Diane wrinkled her nose.

“Most of those high and mighty people live for their own glory and neglect their families. I don’t want our Amy to marry someone like that.”

“There are people who aren’t like that.”

When Ber said this while glancing at the second floor, Diane shrugged.

“His Majesty is an exception.”

“And Leo is the son of that exceptional person.”

“Hmm, when you put it that way, it’s not bad.”

Diane muttered while stroking her chin.

“Double in-laws sounds pretty good too, maybe I should pursue that.”

“Haha…”

Even though imagination was supposed to be free, wasn’t this going too far?

Ber laughed in bewilderment, then looked down at the confused Jeremy and imagined a daughter who looked exactly like Leilah standing beside him.

…It wouldn’t be bad.

No, they would look good together.

Ber would welcome with open arms if a daughter who was the spitting image of Leilah became his daughter-in-law.

The problem was Amy.

This time, Ber imagined Amy, who had grown up considerably, and Leo standing side by side with their arms linked.

“…”

Soon, Ber’s face contorted miserably.

“…No way.”

Objectively speaking, Leo’s conditions were a hundred times, no, a thousand times better than Amy’s.

But from a father’s perspective, Leo was far from good enough for Amy, so he absolutely couldn’t give her away.

* * *

Leilah and Kalian emerged from their bedroom one day later, in the late afternoon.

Unlike Leilah, whose complexion was pale as if she might collapse at any moment, Kalian’s face was full of vitality.

“Her energy’s been drained, completely drained.”

Seeing this, Diane clicked her tongue and muttered to herself.

Her voice was so small that others couldn’t hear it, but Ber, who was right next to her, heard it clearly.

“….”

Ber flinched and glared at Diane, but couldn’t say anything.

If he did, everyone else would find out what Diane had said.

Meanwhile, as Kalian and Leilah, who was being supported by him, approached, Diane smiled slyly and asked.

“Did you have a fun time in the bedroom for four days?”

At the barbed words, Leilah couldn’t say anything and hung her head low.

On the other hand, Kalian smiled and retorted.

“Of course. We had a fun and very beneficial time befitting the purpose of a honeymoon.”

“Oh my. That’s fortunate. So did you have some results?”

“Well. We did our best, so probably.”

“Of course there should be. You poured everything into it for four whole days, so if there aren’t any, it means His Majesty has a problem.”

“D-Diane.”

At the words that crossed various lines, Leilah called out to Diane in embarrassment.

“Stop it, Diane.”

Even Ber stepped in to stop her, so Diane shrugged and closed her mouth.

“Don’t worry, there’s no problem at all.”

But she couldn’t stop Kalian’s mouth.

“If there are no results, then I’ll work twice as hard as now, so don’t worry.”

“…!”

At those words, Leilah’s face turned red like a radish, Ber made a very bewildered expression.

“…Ha, saying he’ll work twice as hard as now. Is he even human.”

And Diane sincerely doubted Kalian’s identity.

Some time later, fortunately it was revealed that Kalian’s four days of effort had not gone to waste.

When news of Leilah’s pregnancy spread to the social circle, nobles competed to send congratulatory gifts.

The amount was so great that the butler made a tearful face, saying there was no place to store the gifts.

Indeed, would the child to be born this time be a daughter or a son.

“It’ll be a daughter.”

When Kalian answered with confidence, Leilah rolled her eyes.

“What are you going to do if it’s a son when you say such things?”

“That won’t happen. It’ll definitely be a daughter.”

Kalian kissed Leilah’s belly, which had already swollen like a hill.

“Leilah, a pretty daughter who resembles you will be born.”

* * *

On a warm spring day when pink petals fluttered.

The second child of the Aster Estate was born.

As Kalian had wished, and as Leo had said, it was a daughter who looked exactly like Leilah.

“She’s pretty.”

Hes, who had come to see his lovely niece under the excuse of checking on the people’s livelihood, looked down at the child half-dazed.

Esramel was the same way.

It looked like drool might flow from her gaping mouth.

What parents would dislike others adoring their child.

Leilah smiled contentedly as she looked at the two people.

“…By the way, where is Elder Brother?”

Hes, who came to his senses first, looked around and asked.

“I haven’t seen him since earlier.”

“His Majesty is sorting through congratulatory gifts and letters.”

“Huh? Why is he sorting them out?”

“Well… he says gifts and letters from families with boys of similar age must have sinister ulterior motives….”

“What?”

What kind of nonsense was this.

Hes laughed incredulously and looked down at the child again.

The child sleeping peacefully, oblivious to the world, was like an angel descended from heaven.

“…I think I suddenly understand Elder Brother’s feelings.”

Just imagining some scoundrel taking away such a lovely niece made anger rise, so how much more would a father feel.

At the same time, Hes felt sorry for the man who would marry the child in the distant future and quietly mourned for him in his heart.

He didn’t know who would marry this child, but that man would surely face harsh trials like someone in mythology who endured twelve trials from a goddess.

[I Don’t Pick Up Trash I’ve Thrown Away, Special Side Story Complete.]

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