Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 102

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Chapter 102

Feeling something unsettling about that eerie smile, Mellis shook her head.

“I’m sorry, but that’s not what I meant. No matter how precious a child is…”

The woman paid no heed to her words and glanced at Mellis’s empty left ring finger.

“I see you’re still unmarried, but judging by your thoughtful demeanor about children and your appearance, you must work as a governess for some noble family.”

“…”

“That’s why you can’t understand what I’m saying. Don’t be too hasty in your judgment. Your thoughts might change once you bear a child yourself.”

The woman smiled faintly and calmly picked up her teacup.

“Having someone who becomes your ally unconditionally… it’s more touching than you’d think.”

As if recalling the past, the woman maintained silence for a long while. Soon, Mellis, uncomfortable with the atmosphere, emptied her teacup and stood up with a bow.

“…I understand what you’re saying. I’ll take my leave now. Thank you for the invitation.”

The woman didn’t try to stop Mellis as she left. Left alone, the woman silently gazed outside the window for a moment.

As she looked at the quiet street covered in snow, memories from the past flashed before her eyes.

“You wicked thing, you’ve gone and conceived His Imperial Majesty’s child just to protect yourself!”

“No! I never wanted a child with such thoughts…!”

“Do you really think the child you’ll bear can be happy? You’re pushing your child into hell because of your shallow selfishness!”

It had been decades since then. So much time had passed that she could now recall those events with indifference.

“That you’d do anything to protect your child…”

Saying that was natural parental love. That naive attitude only brought forth a hollow laugh. Of course, she couldn’t justify her past with such words now, but she didn’t regret what happened back then either.

Protecting a child born as the weak in this harsh world was never an easy task. So that woman’s words from earlier were close to an illusion.

Still wearing an expressionless face, she murmured in a low voice.

“If only someone had said such things to me back then…”

Would things have been a little different? She quietly sipped her tea and silently let the past that had already gone by flow away.

* * *

A few days later, on a late afternoon, Garulus was lying on his stomach on the floor, holding crayons in one hand while deep in serious contemplation.

“Hmm…”

Around the child were piles of toys he had played with since childhood and clothes that had become too small for him to wear anymore.

Anna, who had just entered the room, discovered them and asked in bewilderment.

“Huh? What’s all this? Mellis, didn’t we just organize the luggage not long ago?”

“I don’t know either. He’s been like this since morning… He brought out all the stuff from the warehouse!”

“…”

Noel, who had been listening to their conversation, also entered the room and examined the items. He looked at tiny baby clothes the size of two palms put together and tilted his head in disbelief.

“Lady Mellis, I have one question… What is all this about?”

Even Malcolm, who rarely visited Garulus’s room, was there. The surroundings were bustling with people for once. Finally unable to bear the noisy atmosphere, Garulus stamped his feet and shouted.

“Everyone be quiet! I’m contemplating a very important matter right now!”

“What’s the matter?”

“I’m coming up with names for the baby. Since the baby will be born soon, shouldn’t we prepare in advance?”

Baby names, huh. It seemed like he had probably picked up some insect eggs from somewhere again. Anna crouched down to match his eye level and said with an awkward smile.

“Young Master, it’s fine to come up with insect names, but shouldn’t you clean up all this mess first? Otherwise, Mellis will have a really hard time later.”

“Insects? I’m coming up with names for a real baby. I’m going to give all these things to the baby when it’s born.”

“What? What baby is being born?”

“Aren’t Kerman and Mellis going to have a baby soon? I saw them making a baby on the bed yesterday.”

At this bombshell statement, everyone around fell silent with their mouths agape. All three pairs of eyes naturally turned toward Mellis.

* * *

So all of this had started yesterday.

“Hmm, this is quite difficult.”

Garulus, who was on winter break, had been sitting at his desk since early morning working on his vacation homework. With a serious expression, Garulus pondered deeply and recalled his teacher’s words.

“Now then, everyone, your vacation homework is to create a promotional poster introducing your favorite thing. Any topic is fine. Think about what you like most!”

“Yes!”

When Garulus heard the homework topic, he naturally thought of insects right away, but there was one problem. It was winter, so there were no visible insects around. The insects he had been raising indoors had all been released back into nature before winter came.

After pondering for a while, Garulus came up with the excellent topic of “the life cycle of insects” and began drawing enthusiastically.

“First, the stag beetle lays eggs… The larvae hatch from the eggs, and the larvae become pupae to prepare for adulthood. Adult stag beetles mate and lay eggs again.”

As Garulus was working diligently on his homework, a question suddenly popped into his head.

“Mellis. How are babies made?”

“What?”

“Well, insects mate and lay eggs, so do people also mate to make babies the same way?”

Mellis’s face showed bewilderment at Garulus’s sudden question. The moment she had been dreading had finally arrived. She was sure she had seen good ways to handle this in parenting books, but now that she was actually facing the situation, it was hard to find the right words.

“Um, well… When a woman and a man love each other…”

“When they love each other? Then do couples have babies every single day?”

“Not that kind of love, I mean…”

But no matter how much she thought about it, explaining the hazy images floating in her mind to match a seven-year-old’s perspective was definitely not an easy task. After hemming and hawing for a while, Mellis finally came up with a clever solution.

“Well, I’m not a beastman so I don’t really know. How about asking another smart beastman instead of me?”

“A smart beastman?”

At those words, Garulus suddenly thought of someone and jumped up from his seat with one eye raised. Then he hugged his sketchbook and crayons tightly to his chest and ran upstairs with quick steps.

“Malcolm!”

The person Garulus sought out was Malcolm. Malcolm was the smartest and most knowledgeable person he knew. Didn’t Kermanomon always praise Malcolm as an excellent talent?

Spotting Malcolm having a conversation with Anna in the distance, Garulus called out in a loud voice.

“Malcolm, how are babies made?”

“…What?”

At the sudden question, Malcolm’s eyebrows twitched and shot up. Garulus, who had approached him, grabbed his pant leg and shook it while asking.

“Mellis said she doesn’t really know and told me to ask a smart beastman. Malcolm, you’re a genius, aren’t you? Huh?”

It seemed the shy nanny had passed the task onto him. He let out a light sigh and glanced briefly.

‘She probably tried to brush it off vaguely with talk about love and such.’

Anna, who had been watching the two from the side, suppressed her laughter and urged him on.

“Malcolm, what are you doing? Our Young Master is curious about how babies are made. Hurry up and explain it to him.”

“That’s right. Tell me quickly! Or you could draw it in pictures in my sketchbook here!”

“….”

At the sight of Garulus suddenly holding out his sketchbook, Anna finally turned her head away and burst into laughter. Malcolm let out a light sigh at the situation he found himself facing.

Both Anna and Mellis – what were these grown adults doing acting so childishly? No matter how embarrassing it might be, what needed to be taught had to be clearly explained. What was so difficult about this that they were avoiding the topic?

Clearing his throat softly and adjusting his voice, he began to speak in a gentle tone.

“When the reproductive cells that exist in each male and female body meet and fertilization occurs, a single fertilized egg is formed. After the fertilized egg undergoes implantation in the body and goes through the process of growing from embryo to fetus, it is born in the form of a newborn that you know after about 40 weeks, Young Master.”

“….”

“Do you understand?”

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