Chapter 172 - First Day of the (1/2)
“Dahhhh! Aaaaah!”
“What’s wrong, Nana-chan? Are you feeling bad? There, there.”
Aoi, who was breastfeeding on the sofa, lifted Nana up and nursed her.
Nana’s face was even redder than usual, and she was crying in a voice that was not as cheerful as usual, which was very pitiful to see.
“Uuh?”
“Hmm? Ah, Nana looks like she’s in pain, are you worried Jaja?”
“Dah.”
Jaja, who was playing with me on the bed, has been worrying about Nana since a while ago.
Whenever she heard her pained voice, she glanced at Nana and appealed to me.
You’re a sweet big sister, aren’t you?
Don’t worry. Nana will get better soon. So for now, let’s just play quietly in this room, okay?
“Dah.”
Oh?
You understand me now?
As expected of a big sister.
A day has passed since we arrived in the demon nation of Dailan.
At any rate, I seemed to have been asleep all day and have no memory of yesterday.
All I can remember is arriving at Prince Atol’s house and being seen off by my father, Yuri, Wera and Azui.
I woke up once last night and asked Shouhei to explain the whole situation to me, but I couldn’t remember a single thing.
I was sent to a different place by a transference accident, and was missing for over five hours… that’s pretty important, isn’t it?
Why can’t I remember anything?
This general malaise, the aching muscles in my limbs, it’s all too mysterious.
I heard that bastard Alba found me and Aoi carried me to Prince Atol’s main house here, but what the hell was I doing for five hours?
Hmmm.
I don’t know.
I have no idea.
So I gave up thinking about it as soon as possible.
There’s no point in dwelling on something I don’t know.
It would be better for my mental health to take care of the twins instead of worrying about it.
That damn rat disappeared before I could even see him.
Next time I see him, he’ll have to explain everything to me.
“There we go.”
“Dah!”
I lifted Jaja up with my hands at her sides and fell backward onto the bed.
Jaja smiles a carefree smile as she jiggled her arms and legs in delight.
I can’t get enough of this.
The time I spend lounging with Jaja on the big canopied bed is priceless.
It would have been even better if Nana could have played with us, but she’s not feeling well right now, so she’s on absolute bed rest.
Apparently, she’s a lot more delicate than we thought, and the unfamiliar air has given her a fever.
When I touched her forehead earlier, I was startled by the ridiculously high fever and panicked, but Aoi said it was nothing to dragons.
I was a little skeptical, but if Aoi says so, then it must be so.
I heard that Alba’s examination was over and he gave us some medicine, so for now we’ll just have to wait and see.
I’m worried, you know.
Dragon or not, a baby is still a baby.
Even a small cold or illness can put a much greater burden on a baby’s body than on an adult.
Nana, in particular, cries so loudly that it makes me uneasy to watch her.
A while ago, I was so worried about Nana that I was pacing around Aoi with Jaja in my arms when I was told angrily, ‘Kunpei-san is also like a sick person, please stay in bed!’ She got angry at me.
Well, my worrying won’t make Nana feel any better, and I can’t do anything for her.
At best, I could do the joint breastfeeding that I couldn’t do yesterday.
We just finished that, and now there’s nothing more I can do for Nana.
“Papa, you really are incompetent…”
“Hmm?”
When Jaja heard my complaint, she tilted her head.
It’s so cute.
“She won’t let go of my breasts, will she?”
Aoi, sitting on the sofa smiled as she held Nana who was squirming.
“You want to be pampered, don’t you? It’s because you’re sick.”
Everyone wants to be pampered when they are sick.
Even Shouhei comes to me in a tearful voice when he has a fever.
It may be hard to believe, but it’s true.
He seems to be in good health these days, but up until the year before last, he was always sick in bed when the seasons changed. My brother.
“Nana? You’re full, aren’t you? Mama wants to go to the bathroom.”
“Huh.”
“Haha, okay.”
As soon as I tried to release Aoi’s breast, which Nana was holding in her mouth, she immediately started to squirm.
It’s been almost an hour since Jaja and her started breastfeeding, but Nana never took her mouth off the breast.
“I guess a pacifier won’t work. I mean, they’re kind of similar.”
Both Nana and Jaja don’t use pacifiers very often.
“It’s all about the temperature and sound, isn’t it? Didn’t father-in-law say something like that before?”
Yeah, the one about the mother’s heartbeat.
“The shape is different, too. A pacifier and mine’s.”
“Is that so?”
“Would you like to check?”
Aoi turned her body towards me and Jaja with a somewhat triumphant look on her face.
I quickly turned over and looked away.
That was close. I almost saw it.
Don’t do that.
You startled me.
“You can touch me if you want. You’re more than welcome.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m saying that if Kunpei-san asks for it, I will never refuse.”
“You…”
Let’s not talk like that when Jaja and Nana are awake, okay?
It’s embarrassing.
I don’t know.
Something’s wrong with Aoi.
I can’t really explain it, but it’s like she’s more aggressive, more proactive, more excited than usual.
The usual Aoi is also very flirty, but today she seems to be one step more than that.
When I woke up once last night.
What was Aoi trying to do then?
She was trying to… kiss me, wasn’t she?
In the past, she would touch my body, but she would wait for my action, or rather, she would be passive from there.
In the morning, she gave me a big hug when we met, and while we were eating, she kept looking at my face and smiling.
When I tried to take a bath, she tried to come with me, and when she buried her face in the clothes I took off, I felt a little scared.
What is it really?
Is she in a hurry?
It’s like a big dog waiting to be fed in front of you.
…Did something happen yesterday after all?
Did I do something?
“Shouhei-san and Ru-anesama, went out to eat, right?”
“Oh, yeah. Prince Atol said he would show them around the city, so they went out to eat for lunch.”