Chapter 19

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That day, in the sunny garden, Hanna seriously began to examine the chickens.

“Hmm…”

Bbokbokbbokbbok.

The chickens were crying loudly.

And among them was Coco, like a duck among swans.

As if she were the leader, she pushed the chickens away and took the center position.

“Who the hell are you?”

“Kreuk…”

It felt strange when the little one grumbled as if she were answering with her own words.

Hanna took the bread out of her pocket.

“Eat this.”

“Kreuk!”

When Coco saw the bread, she waddled over.

“Your legs are plump, too.”

Coco’s hind legs were very strong and her toenails looked very strong, too.

To explain her appearance, her gray fur was covered in a soft layer and her head and body were one-to-one ratios.

Oh, let’s just say it’s because she’s still young.

The beak was pretty cute because it was yellow as well.

Her completely black eyes were shiny enough to reveal Hanna’s pink hair when she looked into it.

Well, if you look at it like this, it wasn’t a big problem.

However, …

“Why do you have a horn?”

That horn was the problem.

Isn’t the horn on the forehead too suspicious? It’s not a unicorn.

“Share some. Ash loves bread, too.”

Coco was pecking the floor with her beak, not planning to yield a grain of bread to the chickens at the henhouse. Coco had a big appetite.

It was amazing that they ate everything the children gave even though it’s a lot of food.

“Where the hell is all that food going into that little body?”

Honestly, there are a lot of awkward parts, but Coco was one of the cute ones.

If you get attached to it, she’ll actually look pretty.

“You’re pretty even if I haven’t seen you for a long time.”

The study, which began to find out what Coco was, concluded that she was cute in any way.

“Yeah, whatever it is, grow strong.”

Since we’re raising villains anyway, what else can we do with a suspicious bird?

“But please don’t be a dragon. We won’t be able to afford the food.”

“Kreuk!”

Seeing that even the strange crying sounds cute to me, the time that I secretly wanted to throw it away has been forgotten for a long time now.

“Will you come out?”

As soon as I opened the coop door, Coco jumped outside.

“Let’s take a nap in a sunny place.”

With her short legs, Coco followed Hanna as she moved to her napping spot under the old tree.

Sitting under the tree, Coco sat next to Hanna’s shoulder.

Then she leaned her head on her shoulder.

“Your horn is poking me.” Hanna, who closed her eyes, said.

At the words, Coco turned her head a little sideways and buried her face.

Hanna thought Coco’s head was quite warm on her shoulder and took a nap.

* * *

Hannah baked cookies with the kids today.

The cookies, which were baked with lots of delicious nuts, smelled savory and tasted good.

Hanna went somewhere with a pretty plate of cookies baked much more than usual.

“Are you there?”

The place where Hanna arrived was the resting place of the paladins.

“No one’s here.”

Since the change of the head priest, several paladins have been employed in the temple.

Perhaps they were following Cesar, the lion of the goddess, and not to protect this weak temple.

Hanna’s search for them was simple.

“I was going to bribe everyone and get a free swordsmanship teacher, but it seems that they caught onto it. They were gone just like ghosts.”

If that’s true, the paladins must be very sensitive more than I thought.

“Bribe?”

“Oh, my God!”

I was secretly peeking in the room with my eyes, but when I suddenly heard a voice I was startled and almost dropped the plate.

“Ah, were you surprised?”

“Good afternoon. Sir Moisei.”

“Yes. Good afternoon, teacher Hanna.”

I looked at Moisei as I grabbed my chest because my heart was beating in surprise.

“There aren’t any paladins here?”

“We just had a little training, and they’re all washing up.”

“Ah…”

Come to think of it, Moisei’s hair was a little wet.

“Do you have any business with them?”

“Oh, nothing, I baked a lot of cookies and brought it for them to taste it.”

Hanna smiled brightly and lifted the plate.

“Thank you.”

Moisei had a rather stiff personality.

I don’t know if it’s because he’s a knight or if his personality is a little angular.

“Hm. That, sir.”

“Yes.”

“It’s a temple on the outskirts, so you’re easily bored here than the central temple, right?”

“Not really.”

That shouldn’t be the case.

Why aren’t you bored in this boring countryside?

I was embarrassed by Moisei’s immediate and determined response, but I didn’t give up and threw the bait.

“Hmm, do you happen to have any hobbies?”

“No, I don’t…”

“It’s a pity that you don’t have a decent hobby in this lonely temple.”

Of course, there was nothing to be sad about.

Moisei couldn’t figure out what Hanna was trying to say.

“So, do you have any free time? Can you spare it for me? You can think of it as a hobby.”

“Yes……?”

As Hanna curled her body and blushed, Moisei thought, ‘No way!’

‘This is ·····.’

The woman who has been baking cookies, asking for time, and blushing cheeks.

There was only one thing that all this pointed to.

‘Confession?’

Moisei suddenly found this situation very embarrassing and burdensome.

He never thought he and the nursery teacher would get entangled in this way.

A love affair at the temple where he came to work.

It was absolutely out of place with his own values.

Furthermore, the nursery teacher seemed to be much younger than himself.

Moisei vowed to refuse unconditionally.

Although the nursery school teacher is pretty, she takes care of the children like an angel, even the baked cookies smell amazing!

‘That’s not gonna happen.’

Hanna carefully opened her mouth, scratching her cheek with her fingers, not knowing Moisei’s inner conflict.

“Do… Do you have any plans to raise a student?”

“I’m sorry. I understand your heart, but it’s a private matter where you work.”

The two people’s words intertwined almost simultaneously.

“What?”

“What?”

Hanna was embarrassed by the refusal to return as soon as she finished speaking.

Did you just listen to yourself?

“What did you say?”

“Why don’t you raise a student?”

“Oh, no.”

“I think you said something personal.”

“That’s the wrong word.”

Moisei’s face was heated up.

What kind of misunderstanding did you make?

His hand covered his face.

“What does your student mean?”

Moisei quickly changed the subject in case his delusion was caught.

“What? Why are you blushing all of a sudden?”

Hanna didn’t understand Moisei’s sudden stuttering attitude.

“No, no, you know Jeremy in our nursery? A brave child with black hair and round eyes.”

“Oh, I remember. The kid who liked my sword?”

“Yes! That’s right!”

Moisei remembered Jeremy, and somehow I felt like things were going to go well.

“Jeremy’s dream is to be a prosecutor. But I can’t leave Jeremy, who is going to be a big person, to anyone else. I think the one who can take care of Jeremy is someone as good as the greatest paladin in the temple.”

In fact, there were three reasons why Hanna wanted to make the paladins a teacher of Jeremy.

The first is that the paladin’s personalities are nicer than ordinary people, so they can embrace Jeremy’s eccentric personality.

The second is that if he learns the sword from a paladin, he will not use it to do bad things even as a courtesy to his teacher.

And the third is……

It was because I thought free classes would be possible.

In fact, the third was ahead of the previous two reasons.

“Disciple……”

Moisei was still a young knight.

I thought it would be too early for such a person to have a student already.

“But I haven’t yet…”

Whenever Moisei’s mouth opened, Hanna listened to him with sparkling eyes.

“Not yet ··· This··· Err····.”

As he said no, Hanna’s expression was slightly frowned upon and turned into a tearful face in real-time.

“……”

“I promise it won’t take up too much time. Jeremy is smart, so he learns quickly. How about twice a day, an hour in the morning and evening?”

“Twice, in the morning and evening?”

“Is that too much? Then one night? Two hours?”

“Two hours is a little…”

“Then an hour for dinner!”

Moisei was never meant to agree.

After two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, he was surprised to see that it was becoming a compromise for one hour in the evening.

“Then I’ll tell Jeremy that! He’ll love it. He sings a song every day, saying Moisei was cool!”

However, he could not bear to say no to Hanna, who had already decided to accept it and smiled broadly.

“Then I’ll have to go tell him the good news.”

Hanna turned around with a bright face, and Moisei couldn’t catch Hanna.

He couldn’t even say it wasn’t like that because he thought it might seem like he was going back on his words.

“Oh, by the way!”

Hanna, who was walking as if she were running, turned around and approached Moisei again.

“What, what is it?”

Then he held Moisei’s hands with both hands.

“I couldn’t say thank you. Thank you so much. You will be blessed.”

Hanna smiled pleasantly and waved his caught hand up and down, then ran again.

*Tak, tak, tak.*

Light steps moved away through the hallway.

” ……”

Moisei wondered what it was like to have his eyes opened and still cut his nose.

“She got you.”

“You’ve been completely beaten.”

His fellow paladins, who he did not know returned already, saw him and picked up the cookies on the plate and put them in Moisei’s mouth.

Crispy.

The savory cookie broke in his mouth.

It’s delicious.

Fortunately, the cookies were to his taste.