Hey, you guys know anything about this?

　I asked a certain Mr. Drug Compounding and Mr. Celestial Theory - Julia and Tetra.

　Both of them are half-naked with just a cloth on top.
　The candlelight illuminated their skin in a glossy way.

　Julia is the same age as me, twenty-five. Tetra is twenty-three.

　They both said that children were fine until the war was over, so they avoided dangerous days and did things on safe days, and made sure the seeds didn't hit the flowerpots.

　But, inspired by Alice's birth, and the war being over...

　We are just starting to actively try to have a baby again.

　Since it's our time as a couple, I asked about the kids.
　It was about Fiona and Anx's friends.

　'Yes, I knew them. Fiona, we talked about them a lot.
　Anx didn't know that?

　I had no idea, Dad.
　Sad thing is....

　Well, you didn't feel comfortable talking to Alms, did you?

　Yulia comforts me not to think too much.
　Well, even though it has nothing to do with children, parents are nemesis to each other.

　Honestly, there are so many city-states and sub-states I've defeated that I can't remember them myself, and the ones I fought in the first place were Bartolo, Alexios, Ron, Rosward and Gram....

　I don't have any feelings about it at all.

　But I understand that it's hard to say.

　But maybe we should talk some more.
　'Hmmm, I don't know.　Well, I certainly haven't been able to make time for it lately.

　I think back to the time I spent with my kids.
　Spending my evenings with Julia, Tetra and Alice...

　The mornings and afternoons were basically filled with political duties.
　I certainly didn't have a lot of time to interact with the kids.

　That's a reminder.
　Maybe we should have a few more conversations.

　I mean.....

　Where did you two talk?
　I mix herbs and teach spellcasting and stuff like that.
　I'm math.

　Apparently, I'm communicating with the kids by teaching them my one trick.

　Okay, I'll do something too....
　There was nothing.

　The kind of thing you could teach a child

　It's probably too early to know how to handle a vassal or anything else...
　It's unnecessary for the girls, Fiona and all that, to begin with.

　'Don't worry, we all like Almus. I'm sure Almus would be happy to talk to you about it if you asked him, right?
　Really?
　Yeah, they're just being modest.

　Well.....
　So let's talk about it.




　Fiona is a girl with purple-red (lavender) hair and gray eyes.
　Her face looks like Yulia's, and her personality is more like Yulia's as well.

　Maybe it's because she's learned about magic and other things from Julia, but she still seemed to be interested in medicinal herbs and curses and such.

　Well, as far as Fiona's upbringing is concerned, there's no problem if you leave it to Yulia.


　Anx inherited her gray hair and blue eyes from Tetra.
　Her face looks very much like Tetra's, but her personality is more like mine than Tetra's.

　She doesn't like to study much and often runs away from Tetra.

　Tetra seems to want to teach Ankus the beauty of mathematics, but Ankus doesn't seem to have much interest in it.

　Ankus seems to like moving his body more than studying.
　I gave him a light fight with the wooden sword, but.....

　No.....
　I'm not gonna be flattered if I lose to a seven-year-old kid.

　After lightly taunting Anx, he patted her head.

　'But I'm stronger than I was when I was your age. That's great, Ankus.

　I don't remember being seven years old to begin with, but I don't care about the details.
　As long as it encourages Ankus, it won't be a problem.

　I think he was happy to receive praise from me, but Ankus said he would continue to practice hard with his sword and one day beat me.

　Hmmm.....
　Maybe in ten years we'll lose....

　Without a blessing.
　If it's a blessing ant, I can push through with my physical abilities.

　However, it's a problem if you only wield the sword and don't study.
　I told Anx to study properly, not just with a sword.

　Julia's child, three-year-old Sophia.
　She has gray hair, eyes like mine, but her face is similar to Julia's, and I can't wait to see what kind of beauty she will become in the future.

　She's very quiet.

　Three-year-olds have the image of being curious and going away as soon as you let them out of your sight, but Sophia is always quietly playing with her dolls.

　Compared to her older sister, Fiona, who was born from the same belly and is rather tomboyish, Sofia's maturity is noticeable.
　The people around me, including Julia, seem to be worried about her, but I'm not that worried.

　I'm sure you're not the only one.
　The standard is Yulia, who goes off by herself without a care in the world, so they just feel uncomfortable.

　Isn't Sophia rather close to the standard for a princess?

　Come on, sir!
　Yeah, I get it.

　Sofia often wants to read picture books.
　There aren't as many picture books as there are in Japan, so she has to read the same story over and over again, but she doesn't seem to get tired of it.

　At first, she sits on my lap and listens intently, but soon she falls asleep.
　That's the usual process until they leave it with the servants.


　Tetra's child, three-year-old Flora, who is Tetra's child.
　She has the same blue hair as Tetra, and her eyes and face are similar to mine.

　But inside, she seemed to resemble Tetra.

　She was very quiet and rather serious, and I had no idea what she was thinking about.
　He would occasionally look at the clouds and ask me, "What are clouds? He asked me.

　Yes, Tetra asked me the same thing a long time ago.

　But as expected of Tetra II, she's still too young to understand the theory very well.
　When he grows up, will he be as clever as Tetra, or not as clever as Tetra... or even more so... he's a child to be watched as he grows up.


　Finally, there's Marcus, the crown prince.

　He has strong black and gray hair.
　He has a face that looks like mine.
　The only thing Yulia gave me was lavender eyes.

　In terms of personality, neither Yulia nor I are very similar.

　Maybe it's because she's still small, but she's a very shy child and hides immediately when strangers come around.

　I have the impression that Bartolo, in particular, doesn't like the smell of alcohol and is avoided.
　On the other hand, he approaches Alec rather well.

　Well, it's a pity to compare a middle-aged man who smells of alcohol to a handsome, good-looking young man in the first place.

　Honestly, of all the kids, Marcus is the one I'm most worried about.

　He's too mature.

　When I say this, it's a contradiction to Sophia's. You might say, "You're too mature.
　You might say.

　But Sophia is a girl.
　There's nothing wrong with being quiet. No, rather, given the Adelnian value of women, they prefer a quiet, attentive girl like Sophia to an active girl like Fiona.

　But Marcus is a boy.
　It is also the child who will inherit the crown of the Kingdom of Romalia and become an ally of the Commonwealth of Romalia.

　Being too quiet and too feeble is slightly problematic.

　........Well, I feel too sorry for him to carry the burden.

　On top of that, Marx is very weak.
　He catches a cold easily.

　When he gets a little older, we'll need to get him to exercise and exercise his body to some extent.

　.........
　Well, it's still small.
　I guess you could say it's up to him to grow up.

　From what I've read so far, it may seem as if Marx is the worst of the worst, but he's only weak in body and mind.
　But it's only his body and mind that are weak.

　I don't know if he's smart or not, but his language development is also quite rapid.


　Also, and this is a slight concern...

　He doesn't like Julia very much.
　No, he likes her as a mother, but she's pretty smoky.

　Well, I'm sympathetic to Marcus on this one.
　The reason is that Julia is overprotective.

　She overreacts to something when it comes to Marx.

　It's not hard to understand why Julia would dote on Marcus, since he is the boy she's been waiting for, but.......
　I think it's a little different than a parent's mindlessness, but no matter how much Julia loves her, from Marcus' point of view, she must be annoying.
　Marcus runs away from Julia and hides in various places.

　Not long ago, he used to run away to the servant's room or something like that where he's usually taken care of, but I guess he understood that he couldn't escape Julia's pursuit there, but lately he's been running away to me or Tetra's room.

　The other day, she also seemed to have escaped to Raimondo's room, and for some reason Raimondo was happy to see her.
　I guess he's happy that he's starting to miss his niece's child, who has been distanced from him until now.

　It's your niece who caused that, is it good?
　No, she's my wife, too.

　And the other thing is that Tetra and Marcus seem to be good friends.

　I don't stay in my private room for basic government business, so even if she hides in my private room when I'm not there, Julia will find her.
　But Tetra is basically in her room, reading books, looking at numbers, and developing magic, so she's always there.

　That's why Tetra's room is the one place Marcus frequently uses to escape to.

　Tetra also seems to sympathize with Julia's overprotective nature and often lets Marcus hide in there.

　The stepmother bullying seems to be the story's template...
　It doesn't seem to be adapted between Tetra and Marx.

　That makes Julia look bad though...

　Nevertheless, the rapport between Tetra and Marx was one of concern.
　It would be fortuitous that the two of them were on good terms.