CH 66.3

When I entered the dining room, everyone had already started drinking around the table but they all went out to greet me.

「Yow! Congratulations!」

「Thanks」

My second brother, who was still wearing his Schenker merchant’s coat, tapped me on the shoulder while holding a drink.

「You’ve done well!」

「Aniki, you’ve got another girlfriend.」

「Eh? What are you talking about?」

My eldest brother showed no sign of learning from his previous deeds. I told him about the revelation of his misdeeds in the wall newspaper and he laughed with a disheveled look on his face.

「Congratulations. I heard you’re going to get your share at the dungeon. Leave the procurement of all provisions to me.」

「oi oi, we’re talking about Torquiva’s dungeon here, not an picnic.」

The head butler, who’s hair was beginning to thin from worrying too much about educating his irrepressibly dirty children, rubbed his hands together with a wicked smile.

「Serve the country well.」

「As long as they pay.」

My happy, complicated expression looking father, patted my head.

I thanked the Schenkers family again for their blessing and took a bite at the roasted turkey.

The last time I ate this dish was during my second brother’s wedding but well, it’s a good omen and I don’t care how many times I have to eat it.

It’s not that it’s so good but it’s not bad.

「How’s Laura-san doing?」

「She’s getting a little big so it’s been tough.」

「Are you going to make your children mages too?」

「That’s the plan.」

I was talking with my second brother who was sitting next to me when my eldest brother who was sitting opposite to me tugged on my sleeve.

「What is it?」

「You’re a noble now. Are you going to get a new wife?」

「I’m not.」

「Why not?」

「Because I love my wife.」

「Can’t you love your new wife too?」

「Jerstan, stop it.」

Father, who was sitting across him, stopped eldest brother impatiently.

「A noblewoman is very difficult to deal with. They are not the kind of women you can deal with.」

「Yeah, mom was a mage too.」

「Mom was scary.」

「That’s because the three of us are not good enough, right?」

「That’s right but it should be fine now since you’re a noble.」

Father nodded his head while we talked like that.

「She doesn’t hate you and I’m sure she wished you all the best from the royal capital.」

「Maa, I guess so. However, we love this city so much that we may never see each other again.」

「Sawadi, if you ever go to the royal capital, tell her that she has lots of grandchildren.」

「I’ll tell her that all her grandchildren are filthy.」

「Young master Sawadi, she won’t see them so you don’t need to tell the truth.」

The head butler said so with a troubled expression on his face.

Well, if I were to go to the royal capital and see my mother, I’ll probably fail.

The relationship between the men of the Schenkers family and my mother, who my father married to get mage blood, was too distant to be easily described.

My father had been forced into this marriage by his parents and I could understand why he was so uncomfortable and had an unquenchable fear of mages.

I’m a mage too.

My father should be afraid of me too.

Perhaps I should be happy with my warm father and son relationship with my father.

But still, I wanted him to accept my family, Laura-san and our child.

This could be the last selfishness I’ll impose on him as his child.

I wanted him to accept not only as his son but as a mage and a noble too. That includes my family.

Today’s dinner, I came here mainly for that.

However, when I looked at him, now 50 years old, with gray hair, I was at a loss for words.

『Name my child.』

I couldn’t say those words as I was afraid of hurting him more than he already had.