My twins, who have recently been learning how to speak more and more, are also chomping it with delight. However, they basically like everything aside from vegetables.
When I feed them small pieces of bread, they beg for more and more until their cheeks look like buns.
Laura-san, who was holding up Lacus, who was chewing her bread with a happy expression on her face, stroked our daughter’s hair, which was the same color as hers, and smiled happily which looked similar to her daughter’s.
「I wish my eldest brother, who will come next week, could have some of this.」
「Wouldn’t he be offended if I served him bread mixed with millet?」
「Well, on the front line, even the royal family eats millet porridge. They won’t care about that.」
「In that case, let’s do so.」
「Bread, more〜!」
「More〜!」
Noah, whom I picked up on my lap, shouted for more along with Lacus on Laura-san’s lap.
Laughing at these two baby birds begging for food, Laura and I continue to feed them small pieces of bread.
If they always eat this much, I’m afraid we won’t be able to keep them both on our knees soon.
「When I was a kid, I rarely eat this kind of bread.」
「Why is that?」
「According to our family tradition, a good soldier starts to train his jaw so all we had on the table was hard bread. In those days, my elder brothers and I would look up at the white clouds and dream of soft bread.」
「Heh, then, let’s eat soft bread everyday.」
「No, well……I no longer mind eating hard bread now.」
This time, I thought something while smiling……Laura-san also had dreams when she was a child.
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In the end, I wasn’t able to feed brother in law bread when he came a week later.
Bread aside, he brought along an adult woman who could shake up the whole Torquiva.
「Kariya. Kariya Slayra, brother-in-law-kun」
「Ah, ye-yes……Sawadi-desu, sister-in-law-san」
Inside the Slayra mansion, with a large number of uniformed military personnel stiffly waiting outside, I exchanged greetings with a big shot.
She was holding our twins tightly in her slender arms and her lapis lazuli eyes, like Laura-san’s, gave me a strong sense of oppression as she simply stared at me.
She is a real royal princess of this country and my sister in law.
She is the second daughter of the second prince, the head of the entire army, Princess Kariya.
「Thank you very much for the drinks you sent. I always enjoy them.」
「Ah, in that case……yes, it’s an honor desu……」
「Why are you talking to me like a government official?」
She asks that with a curious look on her face but as expected, my mental capacity is not enough to openly speak with a royal princess I have never met before.
The best I could do is to not move my right hand along with my right foot when I walk.
「Kariya-anesama*, my husband is always like that.」
TN:A more formal way of addressing an elder sister.
「Fuuhn, maa, it’s a family occasion. You can relax a little more.」
「I-I’ll do my best……and sister-in-law-san, what brings you to Torquiva……?」
「30% sightseeing, 30% meeting my niece and nephew, 30% work which is basically inspecting the super behemoth beast type magic construct(the giant spider), and 10% of……」
While she was talking, Noah and Lacus both pulled her golden hair.
「Meeting the number one dangerous person of Torquiva.」
「Ah, ha, haa……」
Even though she did not say anything damning, I could feel sweat pouring down my back like a waterfall.
Sister-in-law-san, please forgive me……
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First, work. Sister in law-san, who will be staying in our guest room, comes out from time to time to take a break and play with Noah and Lacus.
The innocent twins are overjoyed to have the company of a beautiful lady but in the meantime, a vast amount of documents for the construction of the super behemoth beast type magic construct are being brought into the guest room.
This is a world without the “d” of digital.
The only way to fully grasp the content of all the paper based documents was to come to the site and read them.
Even so, I couldn’t understand why she was so interested in the documents of the project to build a super behemoth monster.
Of course, even though she had been married off, she was still a former royalty, and there was no problem showing her the documents of this project, which had royalty involved in its inception.
However, reports are sent to the royal capital every step of the way, and reading them should normally be enough.
Why did she take the trouble of coming all the way to this shitty countryside of Torquiva and peruse the piles and piles of documents?
I couldn’t figure it out and while I was feeling somewhat sick to my stomach, night quickly came.
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While the twins, who had finished their meals before me, were dreaming in bed, I was having dinner in the dining room, tense from feet to neck.
I cut up a piece of stewed pork with a fork and knife and brought it to my mouth but I couldn’t taste it at all no matter how much I ate.
Because the princess is watching!
My table manners are for a wealthy merchant, not for royal places!
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