Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 63

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Chapter 63

For the past few months, she had gone anywhere there was a woman with blonde hair and green eyes to check their faces directly.

She no longer even had money to hire a guild. The guild that Joseph had introduced as his last resort had initially shown results by finding the wedding dress and scroll fragments that Mellis had discarded, but that was all. After that, they made all sorts of excuses to extort money and then disappeared completely.

It was a mistake to trust that suspicious man called Vivian or whatever from the beginning.

Sandra, who had even borrowed money recklessly to pay the commission fees, was truly at the edge of a cliff. She had long since sold off all the household items, and even mortgaged her husband’s house.

It was no longer at a level that could be resolved with Mellis’s dowry, but she turned away from that fact. Her head was still full of hope that if she just caught Mellis, everything would return to normal.

Sandra went straight up to the Empire and lurked around the Duchy. Since he was someone who received so much attention, it wasn’t particularly difficult to mix into the crowd and follow him around.

The moment Sandra looked directly at the woman standing beside the Grand Duke, she felt an intense pleasure as if struck by lightning.

‘That’s definitely Mellis…!’

Although her hair color was different from the photo in the article, Sandra was convinced that she was Mellis. She immediately ran back to her quarters and told Joseph this joyful news, but his reaction was unexpectedly lukewarm.

“But that doesn’t make sense. You said she was definitely a beastkin, right? You’ve been convinced many times before that other women were Mellis, but they all turned out not to be. So how could a beastkin be Mellis? She’s probably just someone who looks similar.”

“But…”

“You haven’t been sleeping properly for days since coming here. You must be mistaken about something.”

“But I heard the Grand Duke call that woman Mellis!”

When Sandra screamed, Joseph let out a tired sigh.

“Mellis isn’t such an unusual name, and Portier is a surname commonly used by beastkin too. Most importantly, would your daughter, who deliberately left home, use her real name? She would obviously use a false name.”

Joseph rolled his eyes as he said this. He truly loved Sandra and thought she was the companion who would spend the rest of his life with him, but lately that thought had been increasingly shaken.

The dream of marrying her and making something of himself in the Baron House seemed to have already sailed away, and her once beautiful appearance had long since withered. On top of that, her attitude of treating him like a subordinate at every turn and her constant hysteria were becoming too burdensome to bear.

Moreover, seeing her insist that a beastkin was her daughter made him even more suspicious of her mental state.

“You need some rest. Let’s stop obsessing over Mellis anymore and live a new life.”

Joseph let out a deep sigh and left the room. Sandra, left alone in the narrow room, clenched both fists tightly.

Where exactly did things go wrong? From when she pushed for Mellis’s marriage? Or was it wrong to blindly trust that suspicious guild? Or maybe, as Joseph said, was it wrong to still be obsessed with Mellis?

“Haah…”

She resented her ruined life once again and downed cheap alcohol. But for some reason, the image of that woman she had seen downtown earlier showed no signs of leaving her mind.

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During early lunch time, the Central Garden of Gwen Academy was filled with a warm and friendly atmosphere. Mellis opened the lunch box she had prepared and got ready for lunch.

“Mellis! Look at this! This is what I made today!”

Garulus said while placing a paper boat made from folded drawing paper on his head. It was a boat beautifully decorated with colorful colors and various stickers. It had already been ten days since Garulus enrolled at the Academy.

For the first few days, she had only worried about whether he would be able to adapt well to the unfamiliar environment, but fortunately Garulus quickly adapted to Academy life and showed a bright demeanor. Even when he came home, he would talk about everything that happened all day and always went to bed early, saying he was looking forward to the next day.

Garulus’s enrollment brought major changes to her schedule as his caretaker as well.

Every morning she would head to the Academy with Garulus, and during the two hours of morning classes, she would wander around the area killing time. Then during lunch time like now, she would eat with Garulus and in the afternoon wait for another two hours of classes.

When that nearly five-hour wait was over, she would take Garulus back to the Duchy.

“Garulus. Ah-”

“Ahhh-”

Mellis put a finger sandwich into the child’s wide-open mouth. Garulus, who was absorbed in origami, was busy wiggling his fingers while chewing and accepting the food. Thanks to this, he didn’t seem to notice that cucumber, which he usually avoided eating, was inside the sandwich.

‘He’s so cute anyway…’

She poked his plump cheeks with her finger for no reason and smiled faintly. Of course, the time spent with Garulus was happy, but waiting for classes was too lonely.

The Academy strictly prohibited students’ servants from entering the campus to maintain a scholarly atmosphere. Thanks to this, Noel, who was a guard, was completely unable to enter the campus, and she, who was a nanny, also couldn’t enter the building’s interior.

Of course, if they didn’t impose such restrictions, doting parents like Kermanomon would send all sorts of servants trailing along, so it was unavoidable, but from the position of being that servant, it was just a little disappointing. To think she couldn’t see Garulus concentrating on his studies!

All she could do was wait for the short lunch time when she would sit with Garulus in the backyard and eat.

“Ah, Mellis! They say there’s no need to pack food starting next week!”

“Why?”

“The Academy says they’ll distribute some kind of food? I wrote it down in the notice note, so I’ll show you later!”

“Ah, I see.”

It seemed like they would be serving meals like other academies. At those words, Mellis glanced down at the basket placed beside her.

‘Then we won’t even eat lunch together anymore.’

She knew it was unavoidable, but thinking that they wouldn’t even share lunch time anymore made her feel regretful.

“I think I can stop eating now. I’m full.”

Garulus, who had eaten plenty of sandwiches, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and stood up from his seat.

“Already? You haven’t even touched the fruit and snacks.”

“I promised to play hide-and-seek with Benjamin upstairs! I’ll eat them on the way home later!”

“Benjamin?”

“He’s a classmate I became friends with today!”

“Oh, really? What kind of friend is he…”

Just as she was about to ask about his new friend, children’s shouts calling for Garulus could be heard from the upper floor.

“Garulus, hurry up!”

“Yes! I’m coming now! Mellis, see you later!”

Garulus waved his hand and quickly returned to the campus without even having time to say a proper goodbye. Left alone unexpectedly, she slowly waved her hand toward the child’s retreating figure.

“He’s gone…”

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After cleaning up, Mellis walked slowly with the basket in one hand. While she was happy to see Garulus adapting well to the Academy and playing with his friends, on the other hand, an indescribable disappointment washed over her like a tide.

Of course, she never thought Garulus would forever be her baby Young Master, but wasn’t this too fast, even if it was fast? Suddenly, unpleasant imaginations began blooming in her mind.

‘Your Grace, I’ve now become a proper adult, so I don’t think I need a nanny anymore.’

‘G-Garulus. What do you mean by that!’

‘Really? That’s good. Mellis, did you hear? You’re fired now.’

“No, that can’t be…!”

Why hadn’t she thought of this until now! Making the Ducal Residence her lifelong workplace wasn’t something that could be achieved by her will alone. As Vivian had said, there was definitely no other place that would treat her this well. No, it was even uncertain whether she, who had no particular skills, could find another job.

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