There is a sharper thing than an adult’s imagination and that is a baby’s hearing.
I listened to the footsteps walking down the corridor and instantly pretended to lie on the bed and to be asleep.
After a while the room door opened and the elf girl looked inside. Perhaps she had finished doing the laundry, so she probably came to check on me.
As grateful as I was, I wanted her to stop checking on me for a while.
But the timing might not have been bad.
It took about thirty minutes to walk, but my feet trembled with pain.
“Huh, sleep well, Nicole.”
The elf girl walked up to me, looked at me and checked if I was asleep.
Of course I was pretending to be, but there was no way for her to know that.
By the way, what was her name, what was it? Although Maria had hired her to look after me, the elf girl did not introduce herself to me.
No, it may be funny to introduce yourself to a baby who does not even understand the language …… Ordinary is it not?
The elf girl gently kissed my cheeks with Funi Funi which gave me a feeling of satisfaction.
As I kept pretending to be asleep, the elf girl looked around her surroundings, and confirmed that no one was there.
There was no one in this mansion now. Even though I knew that, I repeated the same behavior humorously.
And after I was convinced that nobody was there, I gently touched my cheeks, and started stepping out of the room with a clatter of footsteps.
I wondered why she ran away … … If you think about it, one may become disqualified as an employee if one kisses the cheeks of one’s employers’ daughter.
I was a man … …. Because I was mentally a man, I was pretty happy that the elf girl was so loving.
From that day I kept training until I managed to walk on my own.
And there was another thing you had to do if you were a baby at that time.
I decided to do just that today in front of my parents.
“Maria, I came back home”
Lyel said in a slightly sluggish voice, when he came back to the mansion.
Lyel was hired as a knight by the lord who governed this district.
This district was particularly terribly infiltrated by the evil dragon, so the monsters’ breeding was so intense that his assistance was necessary.
With the money he was paid, he got a mansion and raised me.
Maria, stopped her preparing meals in the kitchen, and headed to greet him.
I was observing the situation from the living room.
Then the elf girl picked me up and headed for the entrance. She seemed to have been assisting Maria with the dishes.
“Wow?”
“Let’s receive Lyel’s greetings, Nicole-sama.”
The girls’ smile blew me away.
I lost my words without thinking of that smile. No, I could not talk.
“Oh, Nicole came out to meet you, Finia too?
“No! I can’t do much work yet! I’m just bothering Maria.”