The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 288

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Side Story. Kanaelle and Adrian ⑵

Tian’s expression became blank.

He barely managed to ask back.

“Huh?”

“I could tell right away. The atmosphere between those two became strange after Adrian holed up in his room and came out.”

As if telling him to listen, Annellia leaned close against Tian.

“Look, before that incident, Sister Kanaelle and Adrian were…”

She grabbed Tian’s cheeks with both hands as if to show him and kissed him all over.

“Oh my, oh my, how pretty, my baby. What can’t my baby do? Smooch smooch, my cute and lovely baby! It was that kind of feeling.”

Tian’s eyes narrowed.

Come to think of it, what Annellia said seemed really right.

At that time, Kanaelle looked at Adrian with the same expression he and Annellia now had when looking at Yuriadne.

No matter what Adrian, who was two spans taller than her, did, she was busy smiling with a motherly smile.

But after she started her first relationship with a man, and Adrian holed up in his room.

After they broke up not long after.

“…There was some kind of awkward atmosphere flowing.”

“That’s exactly what I’m saying!”

Annellia jumped up and continued speaking seriously.

“I happened to overhear that the atmosphere at the Hunt Ducal Family was really serious back then. It seems Adrian said something to Sister Kanaelle.”

“What did he say?”

“I don’t know exactly, but roughly…”

“Roughly?”

“If the Dowager Empress and we were the ones who replanted him after he was uprooted, then Sister Kanaelle was the one who helped him take root, spread branches, and unfurl leaves.”

It was quite accurate content for being “rough,” but Annellia’s words didn’t end there.

“He said Sister Kanaelle was his sun, soil, and water, and that he couldn’t live anywhere but by her side.”

“An eighteen-year-old.”

“Yes, an eighteen-year-old!”

Tian closed his mouth.

If that was the case, he could somewhat understand why Kanaelle’s expression had looked complicated back then.

“She must have been flustered and worried.”

“Right? She must have been extremely worried about both Adrian and herself.”

At that time, Kanaelle hadn’t married even past marriageable age.

There was only one reason why her marriage was delayed.

“Yan still has a long way to go before he’s fully grown, so how can I leave the ducal house? Yan is more difficult than he appears. Without me, the vassals might harbor other thoughts at any time…”

Kanaelle was always only worried about Adrian.

Whether Adrian might get hurt, whether he might fall ill.

Whether someone in the Hunt Ducal Family he was leading might try to harm him.

Whether his past as the seed of a traitor might hold him back, and whether that might cast a shadow on his heart.

“Even if he’s of age, eighteen is too young. Just wait and see, I’ll get married right after Yan turns twenty.”

But one day, she suddenly found out what feelings he harbored for her.

Moreover, Adrian was blind with devotion.

Enough to fester in his room for two weeks without food or water.

“You know Morgan Victor, right? Sister Kanaelle’s sister.”

“I know. The person who works under the director at the Academy of Pharmacy.”

“According to what that person told Mom, one day she got a call from Sister Kanaelle who was completely drunk.”

“Really?”

“Then she said, ‘Sister… I might not be able to get married.'”

Tian gulped.

He felt like he understood why novels, plays, operas and such were popular these days.

“She had to get married someday, but she was worried that Adrian might go down the wrong path if she got married.”

“…I see.”

“But why was she worrying about that, honestly?”

“Huh?”

“She should live her own life too, she can’t be tied to Adrian forever. She should know how to cut him off cleanly if Adrian says something immature.”

“That’s true.”

“But the fact that she was struggling means it’s one of two things, doesn’t it?”

Annellia’s eyes sparkled.

“Either she really planned to give up everything and live only as Adrian’s guardian, or.”

“…”

“Through various incidents, she came to see Adrian differently, and she was also shaken by those childish feelings.”

Silence fell in the room.

Tian and Annellia looked at each other with serious faces.

“I’m tired.”

Kanaelle looked with surprised eyes at her husband throwing his outer garment onto the bed.

However, she soon carefully picked up his outer garment and said.

“Are you very tired? Since you’re departing early tomorrow, I deliberately planned the schedule to finish in the evening.”

Her husband said nothing.

He just sat in front of the small table attached to the bedroom and poured alcohol into an empty glass.

“…Ricardo?”

Kanaelle frowned and called his name.

She was flustered by a side of him she had never seen before, but only briefly.

“Why are your family members so arrogant? As if having some connection with the Empress is such a big deal.”

Her expression became blank at his sharp voice.

Doubting her ears, she barely parted her lips.

“What did you just say?”

“You’re the same way. Did the Empress even come to today’s wedding? She didn’t even come. His Majesty the Emperor was there so quietly I didn’t even know, then left just as quietly…”

Kanaelle’s eyes widened at this unfamiliar side of her husband.

She soon replied with a flustered expression.

“That’s because I deliberately arranged His Majesty’s seat in a quiet place…”

“So why did you arrange the seating like that, that’s what I’m saying!”

It was then that her husband Ricardo slammed down his glass with a bang.

Kanaelle flinched and stepped back.

Her husband’s eyes when he raised his head were filled with irritation and anger she had never seen before.

“Do you know how much I bragged to the branch family members that the Emperor and Empress would come?”

Ricardo poured alcohol into his empty glass once more.

“Among my cousins who each hold positions in the Imperial Court, I’m the only one who wields a sword! My father looks at me with a disgusted expression dozens of times a day because he finds me, who does physical work, unreliable! I told you so many times!”

“…Ricardo.”

“Did you know what they said about you in the marriage market? A cake left to spoil at an old party. That’s what they called you.”

Kanaelle’s eyes wavered.

“I took in even someone like you because of your connection to the Imperial Court…”

“You’re not young either in terms of age!”

Angry Kanaelle couldn’t hold back and shouted.

But Ricardo just burst into laughter and added one more comment.

“Look here, are men and women the same?”

Kanaelle stared blankly at Ricardo.

“And I was late to marry because I was busy working around the frontier. It’s not like I just played around and wasted time like you.”

A heavy stone dropped with a thud into Kanaelle’s chest.

“How can you compare yourself to me, who worked on battlefields for over 10 years to establish my position as a knight, when all you did was take naps and eat desserts!”

Her face flushed red with humiliation.

Taking naps and eating desserts was all she did?

What Kanaelle had done was nothing like that.

She had worked tirelessly day and night to rebuild the ruined Hunt Ducal Family.

Organizing finances, hiring vassals, governing the territory…

“What exactly did you do? I know you went around playing at the Hunt Duke’s house all the time, but if you were going to do that, you should have at least built some proper connections I could use!”

“…”

“All the relatives came here thinking they’d get face time with His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress, but neither of them even showed their noses…”

“You trash!”

Ricardo flinched.

Kanaelle opened both eyes wide and threw the outer garment she was holding at him.

The wine glass on the table toppled over, soaking Ricardo’s pants thoroughly.

Ricardo’s face contorted as he shouted.

“What are you doing!”

Kanaelle spoke through gritted teeth.

“If I had known you were such a piece of trash…!”

But she couldn’t continue and closed her mouth.

“Did you really observe what kind of person that man is, whether he’s truly suitable for you?”

It was because Adrian’s voice overlapped in her mind.

Tears welled up in Kanaelle’s eyes.

Yes, Adrian had warned her.

“I’ll give up, so I won’t bother you anymore.”

Not to marry as if being chased.

That it was fine to take time, so please think carefully.

To go with a wise and intelligent man, a man she could be happy with.

It was when Kanaelle wiped away the tears that were about to fall.

“Are you crazy? Can’t you see what’s in front of you!”

Ricardo approached and grabbed her wrist with fierce strength.

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