[Episode 43]
“Eirin? I honestly don’t care because I’m not interested in Gaju or whatever… First of all, isn’t this Etam? father.”
“well.”
“Well, is there a possibility?”
“I haven’t tested it.”
Callan looked at Erno, then shrugged and took the seat next to Eirin and lay down.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m going to sleep because Eirin asked to sleep with me.”
“…don’t you know that men and women can’t share the same room?”
“You’re my little sister.”
“There was no blood.”
“I heard you haven’t been tested before.”
At the words of Erno Etam, who changed his words in an instant, Callan quickly grabbed Eirin’s arm.
It was because he was afraid that he might be forcibly removed.
“father…?”
“Cillian.”
“Will your father sleep too? But there are no empty seats next to Eirin.”
Silian passed Erno Etam casually and lay down on the empty seat next to Eirin.
“Hey, why are you coming in?”
“After hyung left, Eirin asked me to sleep with her too.”
“You didn’t really care if he came back or not.”
Silian snorted at Callan’s breathless words and closed her eyes while holding Eirin’s hand.
“Anyway, I don’t care if my brother becomes the head of the household.”
“house owner? Will you make your father, Eirin, the head of the household?”
“maybe. Then you won’t disappear carelessly.”
“Ah…”
Silian sighed low and nodded.
It seems like it will take a while for the lineage issue, but Erno Etam somehow managed to do what he always said he would do.
“Not bad.”
Similarly, Silian, who had no interest in the position of head of household, answered casually.
“Oh right. Father, can you read Southern Continental?”
“why?”
“They say that Suin needs a good environment to grow and grow well.”
Erno Etam nodded at Kalan’s words.
“I airlifted some books about prisoners from the southern continent. They say lizards like rainforests or wet swamps.”
“…Right.”
Erno Etam rubbed his chin lightly.
“Let’s try demolishing the remaining lot.”
Erno’s gaze reached Calan Etam, who had her eyes closed, and Silian Etam, who was tossing and turning.
“Don’t stick around too long.”
“why?”
Erno’s mouth was closed at Silian’s question. Kalan Etham opened one eye slightly at the sight of her silence, as if at a loss for words.
“…anyway.”
Erno rubbed my chin a few times and then left Eirin’s room.
* * *
‘You’re doing something stupid.’
Erno Etam, sitting in the carriage, clicked his tongue low.
Kids can sleep together, but I couldn’t understand myself for saying strange things about it.
‘I’m tired.’
He had recently experienced firsthand how tiring it is to be on one’s nerves for only one person.
“I don’t think it was like this when Callan and Silian were together…”
The two children were very self-willed, but there was nothing to worry about.
If you get hit by one, they’re the ones who give you back ten, so there’s no reason to worry.
Upon arriving at the imperial palace, he was guided by an attendant and headed to the drawing room, where he touched the beads on his earrings.
With the return of the child, the berserk has considerably stabilized.
‘Is it because of the earrings…?’
Now that three more fragments have been added, the tumultuous emotions have calmed down.
‘…or not.’
Is it because of the fragments of balance and the return of Eirin?
‘It would be nice to look into a villa in the southern provinces.’
The child seemed to like warm things, too.
It was just as he entered the drawing room.
“Ah, is Etam Sogaju here?”
“…If you’re already senile, you’ll be in trouble. Didn’t you say it wasn’t sogaju?”
He was a man in his mid-thirties with beautiful blonde hair and deep blue eyes.
“Still, the roughness hasn’t changed. Aren’t you being too cold for a close friend you haven’t seen in a while?”
“What about a close friend…”
Etam clicked his tongue briefly, but obediently sat down on the sofa the man was pointing at.
“Yeah, I heard you had a big accident recently… I’d like to thank you.”
“There’s nothing to be thankful for. I just touched my daughter and dealt with it.”
The emperor only smiled as if he had just heard a story he already knew.
“Coincidentally, my youngest son was also caught up in it, so your sweeping it once was a big help. The rest will be taken care of by the imperial family.”
“…You’re saying it very noblely, Your Majesty, that you’re going to eat all the balls in the imperial family.”
“Your words are still rough. The tip of his tongue is so sharp that sometimes I’m just afraid that I might pull out the sword.”
“Is that staggering sword brushing through my hair?”
The emperor raised his eyebrows at the plain sight of arsenic, and then quietly tilted the teacup.
“I’m not saying you’re going to eat anything for free. If there is anything you want, tell me without hesitation.”
“Please allow me to put my daughter’s name on the genealogy of the Etham family.”
As if waiting, Erno Etam opened his mouth.
“It looks like you are raising a lizard. Haha, it seems it’s fashionable to raise a beastman these days?”
Erno Etham parted his lips with a smile at the way he spoke as if he were raising a pet.
“trend?”
“Yes, not long ago, Duke Colin also asked me for permission to adopt a beast child.”
The emperor touched his chin as if he was quite happy.
“It’s amazing how animals can be considered human beings just like us when they can only walk and talk like humans.”
A crack formed between Erno Etam’s eyebrows at the emperor’s words. He clicked his tongue briefly.
“Your Majesty, will you stop doing things that displease me only if I get rid of my little manners?”
“I was just saying what I thought. I have no intention of blaming you.”
The emperor shrugged his shoulders with a womanly face.
“But didn’t you quite agree with me in the past? It must be because it is amazing that you have changed like this.”
The smile on Erno Etam’s lips grew wider.
‘I feel bad.’
The worse the mood, the brighter the smile. It was a really crazy person.
The emperor, who watched his change quietly, shrugged.
“Come to think of it, I had to say thank you for this.”
“this?”
“Yes, thanks to the medicine your first son gave you, your youngest child is fine.”
“Ah…”
“The kid who came to his senses kept sending someone to get medicine from the Etam family… I didn’t know he made a promise without my knowledge.”
Erno Etam narrowed his eyes.
It was probably Eirin who made the promise. Judging from the traces near the barbed wire, there was a high probability that they were locked together.
“Since I was a weak child, if I had been neglected, I would have gone to the worst situation, but thanks to you, I survived.”
“Ah yes.”
Erno Etam answered without a soul.
“As expected, the bloodline of the Etam family is different, but what is different? How did you know something like that would happen?”
“My daughter told me about it.”
“…what?”
“The child Your Majesty treated as an animal told me about it.”
The soft voice dripping with honey and the bright smile on his face made the emperor swallow his saliva involuntarily.
If he had been a woman, he would have fallen for her even though he knew the other person was hostile.
“…I see.”
“It seems that the disease was spread intentionally, but have you found the culprit?”
“The anti-aristocrats are looking for them. It’s just that I haven’t been able to find the leader yet.”
Erno Etam nodded.
“So what is the child’s name?”
“This is Eirin.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor’s face hardened.
“…what?”
“I said Eirin Etham.”
“…Huh.”
The emperor frowned as if he was embarrassed, rubbed his chin lightly, and shook his head.
“I was going to do all of your requests, but this one will be difficult to do.”
“…Are you saying that you’re going to pretend to be with me in a noble way?”
Emotion disappeared from Erno Etam’s expression in an instant. It was a lifelike gaze.
“Can’t you show some respect to the emperor?”
“If Your Majesty is polite to me, there is nothing I can’t do.”
“It’s nothing else. Is that kid a lizard beast and Eirin who is five years old? A mutant with silver scales.”
“…you’re right.”
“If he is, he has already approved adoption.”
What kind of nonsense is this?
Erno Etham, on rare occasions, couldn’t understand the other person’s words at once and chewed them over in his head several times.
“Has the head of the family come?”
“no.”
“I don’t think Terem is going to be so quick-witted.”
“Of course not.”
The emperor dragged on the prodding horse.
Erno Etam’s patience had just reached its limit.
“Duke Colin went with the approval exactly two days ago.”
After a long silence, the emperor answered with a short sigh.
As soon as he finished speaking, the air froze.
