Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 15

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Chapter 15

Moreover, looking at Mellis’s behavior up until now, if she were to be deceived, she would be the one getting deceived. She wasn’t the type of person who would go around doing bad things. Since he had good instincts in this area, he trusted his judgment this time as well.

“She looks naive at first glance. She’s not someone who would go around doing bad things.”

“You shouldn’t judge people by their appearance. You never know what’s in a person’s heart.”

Even while saying this, Malcolm didn’t try to persuade him further. If there had been anything suspicious about Mellis’s past actions, he would have continued investigating personally, but the fact that her past was suspiciously clean was merely circumstantial evidence.

Rather, he hoped that Mellis was a good person.

“Earlier you scolded me for scaring her, and now what do you want me to do?”

“Please treat her well so she doesn’t run away, but I hope you won’t let your guard down too much.”

“You ask for a lot.”

“To be honest, regardless of what kind of person she is, I think she’s quite excellent as a nanny. Among all the nannies who have come and gone, hasn’t the Young Master never opened his heart to this extent to anyone?”

At those words, Kermanomon quietly shifted his gaze. Malcolm’s words were true.

All the nannies that Garulus had gone through so far were renowned throughout the Empire and were children of high nobility. Compared to them, Mellis’s disciplinary and care methods had clearly lacking aspects. However, Mellis had a different atmosphere in important aspects compared to the nannies he had met so far. Garulus also seemed to treat her like a friend rather than a nanny.

“Actually, there’s something I wanted to ask you about regarding the Young Master.”

This was also the first nanny to come to him first and ask about Garulus.

‘Is the one I brought with my own hands different…?’

As he was lost in thought for a moment, Malcolm added,

“So even if you can’t treat her well, I hope you won’t give her a hard time at the very least. There are no more nannies we can find in the Empire.”

“Ha, it’s not even my fault that all the nannies keep running away, so what do you want me to do?”

“Of course the Young Master would be the main reason, but Your Grace’s influence isn’t entirely absent either… Anyway, that’s how it is.”

Malcolm, who belatedly noticed that one of Kermanomon’s eyebrows was twitching, quietly cut off his words.

“You’re really tiresome in many ways. I’ll handle it myself, so get out.”

“Yes.”

Kermanomon glared at the spot where his aide had disappeared with narrowed eyes, as if he didn’t like him. Malcolm, who had excellent insight and observation skills, was a capable talent, but he found Malcolm’s interference quite annoying.

“My influence isn’t entirely absent? What nonsense is he spouting.”

Slouching in his chair, he casually picked up a tart while putting his feet up on the desk. In the past year alone, they had gone through well over ten nannies. Most couldn’t last even a month before submitting their resignation letters, and among them were those who quit their jobs as if fleeing after just a few days.

Adding the three-month period to Mellis’s contract terms was Malcolm’s idea. It was because he thought Garulus would be hurt if the nanny he had brought ran away again soon. However, Malcolm and others thought that Mellis wouldn’t even be able to keep that condition. Kermanomon felt the same way.

“…Well, it tastes good.”

He muttered as he licked his lips where tart crumbs remained.

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That evening, while tidying up Garulus’s bedroom, Mellis picked up the toys scattered on the floor with somewhat rough movements.

“What? Someone who will leave after three months? How am I supposed to reconcile those two?”

She grabbed the tiger doll and vented her frustration by waving the doll in the air. The brief conversation she had with Kermanomon a few hours ago was still stuck in her mind.

At first she was flustered and upset, but soon those feelings turned into irritation and defiance. They had barely ever had a proper conversation, so what did he know about her to act so arrogantly? In the end, Mellis had shot back a retort right to his face.

While she was afraid of the aftermath, she had no regrets. At least she had done that much; otherwise, she would be suffering from frustration right now.

“How annoying, really! Rude tiger!”

Mellis turned the tiger doll upside down on her lap and spanked its bottom with one hand. Her determination to reconcile the two people by any means necessary burned fiercely. Only then, by making the arrogant Grand Duke say words of gratitude and regret, would her anger be satisfied.

Mellis lifted the doll by placing her hands under both its armpits and glared at the blank-faced tiger.

“Three months? Hmph, I’ll work for one year, ten years, and collect my severance pay fair and square!”

She glared at the unresponsive doll and made a resolution. She would become a very capable nanny and make herself indispensable to the ducal residence. So that on the day she submitted her resignation letter, he would desperately try to hold onto her.

“Just you wait.”

Mellis’s eyes burned and blazed with desire.

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From that day on, Mellis planned a grand project. The so-called “Suppressing the Brothers’ Conflict.”

Of course, she still hadn’t figured out the cause of their conflict, but that couldn’t be helped. If she couldn’t resolve the past, she could start by solving what was right in front of her, couldn’t she?

“Trumpety trump! The elephant is coming through!”

Her gaze turned to Garulus, who was sitting on the floor playing with toys. Three days had already passed since the ant army incident, but Garulus was still avoiding Kermanomon. Very diligently at that. Usually, he would have come looking for Garulus first, but this time he must have been truly angry as he hadn’t shown himself for several days.

‘Garulus should be the one to apologize first.’

Of course, Garulus also had his grievances due to the misunderstanding about deliberately ruining the meeting, but considering the sequence of events, Garulus’s fault was greater, so receiving an apology for the misunderstanding should come after that.

Moreover, Garulus was also very uncomfortable with this situation. Having belatedly learned that the person was the Academy Dean, Garulus thought Kermanomon would hate him. He just couldn’t bring himself to apologize easily due to embarrassment and his pride up to this point.

‘The problem is how to persuade Garulus…’

For her, who failed even at getting him to wear pants every morning, persuading Garulus was by no means an easy task. As she was frowning and racking her brain, Garulus suddenly let out a big yawn.

“Yaaawn- This body should sleep now.”

“Huh?”

It had just passed eight o’clock. Garulus’s usual bedtime was nine o’clock. For a child who usually insisted on playing just a little longer before bed to climb into bed on his own. It was puzzling, but thinking he might be a bit tired today, she didn’t think much of it.

“Mellis. Will you read me a book today too?”

“Shall I?”

“Yes! Please finish reading the book from yesterday. I’m curious about what happens next!”

At Garulus’s words, Mellis took out the children’s storybook that had been tucked away in the corner of the bookshelf. Since he really hated going to sleep, she had started reading books to him when he lay in bed recently, and it seemed he quite liked it. Her lips naturally curved upward at his cute request.

When Mellis climbed onto the bed, Garulus wiggled to the side to make room for her. Mellis stroked the child’s head and opened the book they had been reading the night before. It was a book titled ‘The Dreaming Monkey.’

“Pururu, who went to bed early, had a very pleasant dream that night too. It was a dream of jumping into the sea he had seen during the day and playing with his fish friends. And the next day, Pururu came in first place at the swimming competition.”

Garulus, focused on the book, leaned in with his eyes sparkling brightly.

“When his friends found out, they asked, ‘Pururu, what happened! You couldn’t swim before!’ Pururu answered, ‘This is a secret, but I went to bed early last night and had an amazing dream.’ And…”

Just then, a thought briefly flashed through Mellis’s mind as she pondered the content of the storybook. On a hunch, she flipped back through the book and quickly scanned with her eyes the part she had read to him yesterday.

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