Chapter 40 - Volume 3 (1/2)
Volume 3, Chapter 10: I turned Nine years old, Part 1
I turned nine years old the other day.
This time round, the birthday party was rather light. The reason being that I wasn’t in a very good condition.
When I say light, what I mean is that while the scale of the party was still the same, the amount of time that I had to show myself decreased. Honestly speaking, I was saved by the fact that I was unwell.
Recently, the number of people who are afraid of me seems to have decreased. Although I’m glad about that, the people that came to greet me wouldn’t go home without a fight. Their eyes were scary.
“Owowowowowow……”
In the stale-smelling house in the royal capital, when I stood up from the chair with a [Heave-ho], Vio and the housemaid gang looked at me in disappointment.
“Princess Yuru-sama……”
“It can’t be helped…… it hurts.”
Since I’ve been pampered for my entire childhood, I have no pain tolerance whatsoever.
When I soaked into the bathtub, I would groan with a [U~i~].
Right now, my leg is hurt. It fell asleep in the middle of the night. Also, it hurts in the parts I can’t mention. …… They’ve started to grow, recently.
Well, they’ve been lighter since a few months ago, but still, these growing pains…
Don’t those usually only happen in middle school? I’ve grown about 5 centimetres in half a year alone, rounding my height to approximately 150 cm, which is about as tall as Betty, who’s two grades older.
Although, Rick also shot up suddenly before his time, maybe it’s something in the constitution of the royal bloodline? While I yearn to be a tall girl, growing bigger than Father-sama would be unpleasant…
Because of that, my appearance has changed a bit.
Talking about the changes, my infant’s figure and pudgy stomach seem to have receded somewhat, and here and there I’ve rounded out and filled out, according to Vio and the housemaids’ words, it’s a complete shift in image.
Mother and Grandma have also stopped dressing me in children’s clothes and have begun to order dresses with adult designs… If they make it now won’t my size have changed by the time they finish?
In addition, Tina’s been giving me a carnivorous look every now and then. It’s scary.
“Too early.”
Today, I’m going on an inspection of the Touru territory together with Father. but my legs still hurt, so I’ve been hugging him while riding the carriage. After getting onto Father-sama’s knee after a long while, he said this to me:
“Is something the matter…?”
Because I’ve gotten bigger and it’s gotten hard to hold me, when I wrapped my arms around Father-sama’s neck he gave me a worried expression.
Whenever I ride on his lap, our lines of sight are almost the same, so I was happy that I could look at his face so closely.
“Oh… I think it’s still a bit too early for Yurushia to be wearing that dress.,”
“……Really?”
The dress I’m wearing today was the first adult style dress that I received from Mother.
Unlike the dresses from the parties, it isn’t stuffy. It’s a rose-coloured dress that comes up to my calves, with a chic blouse and a fluffily cute skirt. It’s a favorite of mine……
Father-sama quickly lowered his gaze from mine.
“Your neck is showing…”
“Yup.”
That’s true.
It’s silly that I hadn’t noticed until now.
Although I thought that the dress I’d been wearing up until now was for all children’s use, but apparently, it was actually a habit for a [Saint]. (TLN: habit as in “nun’s habit”)
After all, the sleeves went all the way to my wrists, and everything below my chin was covered. It was a dress that only exposed the hands and face.
The sleeves are the same as before, but this dress exposes the base of my neck. For the first time, a little bit of my collarbone can be seen. The collarbone is the foundation of eroticism.
“Father…… isn’t that too overprotective? Shelly’s arms are fully showing.”
“No, no, Yurushia is still only nine years old.”
But only my collarbone can be seen…Betty came to this year’s birthday party with a shoulderless dress that exposed her shoulders entirely, to say nothing of her collarbone.
Yes, that was sexy but cute.
Still, Father is still as dashingly handsome as ever.
Now in his mid-thirties, his sex appeal is more polished than ever, I can say that after ten years it’s definitely an outstanding talent.
But please take care of your hair. I still have a mountain of dried seaweed.
Incidentally, about the massive amount of seaweed that I pushed onto Millaine, she seems to have sold it in the form of seaweed bread and it’s become a special product of that city…… despite it being in the mountains.
I’ll have to get the vampires to teach me how to make the seaweed bread…… I’ve done nothing wrong. Nothing.
Millaine’s earnestness makes this Demon’s conscience hurt………
“……Yurushia”
Father-sama pulled me back from my dreamy thoughts about the seaweed bread with a serious voice.
“What’s the matter…?”
Although I thought I knew what he was going to talk about, since I’m a nine-year-old girl I tilted my head with a quizzical look.
Father-sama patiently stared into my eyes, then he gave a small sigh and began to speak.
“This year, in two months… Well, next year, Yurushia will become a third year student.”
“…Yes”
“Although you’ve been quite a small child all this time, you’re completely a lady now…”
“That…”
Even though I’m going to be an adult, I like to be spoiled, but then Father suddenly said something that sounded like I was about to be married away……