Two months have passed since the visit to the clinic.
And way too many things happened in this two months period to the point I don't remember when was the last time I had an 8 hours sleep, but for the first time Mom and Dad 'Exercises' aren't the blame for my lack of sleep, instead the real blame is the civil war that almost happened between the villagers, and the one who is the blame for this, as usual is.. me.
What happened is after we kicked the two adventurers because the incident (which Dad knows nothing about yet, he just kicked them out, all he knows that they had fight with us before we asked him to interfere) many of the original Buena villagers wanted to kick most of the new residents including one of the new Reeves.
And because of that we had a daily visits from the villagers for example: Daniel visits on the afternoon mostly complaining about one of the new villagers who everyday he squabbles with.
In early morning it's usually a visit of the newest Reeve who everyone treats him with disdain for no reason except for being the 8th Reeve which increased the accumulated tax from from 28% to 32% of the fields and the hunted animals. (Just you know this tax are put on the fully free villagers, that doesn't include the bought slaves, people who took loan from the Lord for the house and to buy the fields or the people who only owns the house. Those who mentioned earlier take even lower percentage and the fully slaves only take a salary of 9 big copper coins for working in the fields, as for the hunts they only owns one kilo of meat what they had killed, in other words, this is the only way they are going to get meat on the first place).
Also this isn't the only tax put on the villagers there's many and it stops at 66% formally and now it's 70% of the income of the village are going to nobility. (Which is very high compared to the price of living in whatever country it is, it is almost like you went to Soviet Reunion and lived their during the great empire was there, to put it simply they live with the communist rules).
At the evening it is a visit from Mr Peter who reached his late 50th this year and can't move without a cane yet he cuts a distance daily that almost on the same level like passing from our house to Sylphy's house, and even worse to go to his house you has to cross the stream.
The reason of the visit saying he worked 20 years hardly to fully own the piece of land that he handed to his son and his son will hand it to his, (should I tell him that the chances that Somal is his grand-child is the same as my father never got any other women than Mom pregnant which I'm sure it's impossible. Anyway), he came complaining that this 4% is equivalent of 3 silver coins annually (to us this is our monthly expenses to a farmer this could be his entire pure income for the year), and he continued by saying the Reeves were useless in the last crisis in the first place and only a few of them are dependable, but he usually crosses his limit by saying if we returned all of the Reeves and says we dont need them anyway, by doing that the tax will decrease by a lot and he knows this can go unpunished because of Dad being noble himself and even better a relative to the main family, so the Reeves are not really needed in here especially with Dad's strength. But Dad always cuts him saying he needs the Reeves to do his job perfectly and the right way, and ask him to not to open the subject again only to be repeated the next evening.
(Okay just to explain what's the Reeves to understand what are those: the Reeves are slaves or former slaves to be more accurate, who mostly comes from the children of the northern territories' farmers where on average Asuran nobility buys 300 slave a year.
There's three futures waiting you after being bought by Asuran nobility, the first is if you attracted the noble who bought you will be trained to work like a maid/servant, but on a lower class, and just you know Paul when he was five he was stripping the maids naked, jumping under skirts or even do some straight se**al harassment to them just because he seen his father done it once before and when he tried it he found it fun, and important to note, those mentioned were the legitimate daughters of low nobility, so I will leave your imagination what those bastards will do to the Reeves who will work there.
The second one, having a talent for anything, if it is with horses then into the stables, if you are good with a weapon then guarding something, if you can read and write you will help with documents, if know math then tax collector it is and if you have all and you are trustworthy then you will be send to guard villages like the Reeves we have here. In other words, the Reeves we have in here are the best of the best.
The third future and the worst one is your looks aren't the best and you don't have a talent they will give you a worn out weapon and you will be dropped in the conflict zone to the country of the noble who own you sponsors. In other words a death sentence especially if you are still a young boy.
As for how it is distributed usually, the girls 45% are going in the first list and those are the lucky ones, the unlucky one will be usually either dropped to the guards where the rate is four to one, prostitution in a company belongs to the noble who owns you, a dropped toy after the virginity being stolen which usually works as a way as the preparation for the former usually, or finally using them as S** slave until death. And the reason I mentioned this here alone because their future is worse of the maids mentioned before, and believe when I say these is worse than the maids mentioned earlier then it is way worse, they don't have any pity or remorse on the state of the toy after they finish playing, after all no one will be sad after its beyond broken and even if they got caught with it, it's called the 'the venting process' where they will never be punished for the amount of bodies you can find.
There's another lucky situation for the girls where one of the village Reeves who had done a great achievement can ask for one of them to be his, where the girls have no right to refuse him no matter the age difference and even worse probably she wouldn't have her virginity by then because only those with 'that' great achievement deserves the full prize, which usually will be at best case scenario will be 9 sometimes the village guard Reeves receives them when they are 4 then he raises them until he couldn't anymore then you know what happens next.
As for what makes the Reeves working for the villages so special is the fact they versus a normal knight they can both beat him in physically using their numbers and with authorization they have above him.
In other words, they are originally deployed to be the knight's chains to the noble who employed him, but to save money they both guards the fields and be the nobles ' eye on the knight and fields.
And as for what Mr Peter means he is saying that since father is already both strong enough to protect the village on his own and the noble who supervises the village trust him then there's no need to Reeves in the first place, and that would save them more than one gold coin annually).
Well Mr Peter idea is flawed in many ways, first thing the original Reeves are almost more loyal to us than either of Lord Sauros or Lord Philip.
Second thing even if Dad's powers compared to superhumans he is still a human who has stamina and with numbers can be overwhelmed. (Especially with the fact the strong battles he participates in daily).
Third thing the Reeves mission on her is to make sure no casualties happens until Dad deals with the source of the problem.
Fourth and most importantly Dad here after begging for a job not because he is wanted in the first place, they gave him the job on a whim and when they did gave him a job they were waiting for a crisis to happen).
Last visit from our common customers is Mr Rous who usually visits to complain about another one of the new villagers who works as a farmer mainly but had a weapon and can work as a militant villager. (See both have the same abilities and even better for the new villager he is lower on the prices for his services and stronger by a lot).
That makes a big problem for Rous threatening he could lose his value in the village because he is one of the former slaves and he increased his debt by getting married and he has a son and a daughter who at Pete's age.
(And if it continues like this then the worst case scenario is possible, this will happen if before he paid his debt both his children reaches the age of 15 or at the very least he didn't have enough money to buy both freedom then they will be taken as a talented Reeves for the boy if he have a talent or a farmer in a different village if he hasn't, they do this to avoid making villagers too connected to avoid uprisings.
And as for the girl if she has the looks then worst case scenario for the normal Reeves it is, the reason for they can't work as a maid because they have many strange rules in the nobility echelon one from it, that farmers can never enter there houses of nobility except as a visit for a complaint that they will ignore.
But there's a hope for the girl is for she to be married to a free villager who can pay her debt and save her, which is why you can find many of these girls exhibits there bodies by bizarre ways so it can be counted as indecency.
So usually what happens is for those villagers is they make there girls try to find a partner with fear of there chastity and they gather money for the boy, as for what Mr Rous making I found his daughter many times watching Dad's trainings next to Mrs Eto and if you want my opinion who is more dangerous to the family safety then in the first place is Eda then it is the Rous' daughter).
So Rous hopes to find any mistakes on that new villager to be kicked out of the village by Dad, he usually drops nonexistent rumours about the new villager or make a wild claims about him.
But the strangest one was the one he talked about yesterday he said he tried to force his way on his daughter but his daughter beaten him up and escaped. (The reason for it's impossibility is the man's build is on the same size as the biggest man on the bandits I killed, in other words he is taller than me from my former life by at least 10 cm and I was called a giant in my past life because I was 193 cm long).
"So theoretically speaking if he did try to force himself on her and he catched her then she is a free meat, sorry for the way explaining it but there's no better way to explain it."
After Mr Rous said the situation I laughed saying the same words.
He found himself in a badspot he was excepting the idiot father of mine to rush immediately towards the villager and kick him out but instead he listened to my reasoning and he even let me ask Mr Rous the very common questions in situations like this.
(The questions I asked were: when, where, was there any passers-by to be witnesses and if there was any did they help or just watched and finally do have any proof for the claim like at lease the words of the girl herself).
All of those made Mr Rous position is even worse so when he found no solution to his problem he played with his lifespan by saying. "Stay out of it, demonic child."
Needless to say Dad almost cut him into two halves if I didn't interfere and just kicked Mr Rous out of the house.
When Mr Rous found no use in try to persuade Dad to kick the new villager out he went there himself and repeated the wild claim in front of everyone to make him have a bad reputation to be at least be a left out in the village.
What happened is the new villager got a proof he was at outskirts of the village at the new area that we built, and Mr Rous words said what happened is at the stream under the bridge where his daughter were washing her clothes.
With the proof in front of everyone Mr Rous situation got even worse and most of the people looked at him with disdain.
That's when Mr Rous attacked the villager and started a big squabble where it almost grow into a fight with swords. (The one who showed the sword was the new villager because he grow tired of Mr Rous harassment and want to end it, thankfully one of the Reeves were in the area and stopped the fight immediately until Dad reached there and solved it by disarming both before he was put on a bad situation that he has to do a choice immediately to solve the problem).
Which made Dad kick yet a new resident, but after he kicked the new villager out, I told Dad that he has to set an example to the original Buena villagers too, when he raised a brow, I just told him to take back some of the advantages given to Rous.
Which he also didn't understood, so I had to do it myself, and after taking Dad's permission, I thought of the perfect punishment.
First I retrieved the sword I gave him after my killing spree with the bandits. (He had another short sword he was using it at first, but it was a lower grade in quality compared to the other one and in the first place the bandit's sword was a wasted falchion blade).
Second I forbid him from joining the monsters hunt for the next month. And reminded him, he is just a farmer nothing more and he should know his place. (You don't know how I hated myself while doing this part).
Third and final punishment, I made Dad scold him at the mayor's Manor's hall in front of audience of many villagers. (I was breaking his ego to avoid making him pick argue with the other new villagers, not for another reason and I mean it, I don't care the slightest about being called by my new nickname demon, I used to be called with yet worse nicknames, either it was on my dreams or past life this nickname compared to the other could be seen as a compliment).
After setting an example, things calmed down for a bit, but the village still seems at brink of a clash. The only problem is the original villagers are about 112 adult and the new one are about eighty-four, so if a clash happened many casualties will happen.
And this how the villagers is opinion about the matter:
Most of the original villagers just want us to fortify ourselves and no need new helping hands, naming them almost all of the villagers about 73% of the village agrees to this.
Some of the original villagers like Mr Smith, Mr Laws and others are okay with the new villagers even without knowing the real reason, and they are happier with the decision of only with accepting the people who won't cause troubles to the village, (in public we are saying we are improving village because we need helping hands to lessen the burden on our shoulders
But already most of the villagers who agrees on the new villagers are not farmers or they already know the lie I said about the war we will possibly be in so they are okay with increasing our numbers).
But it is clear its more than that, so we had to add another reason which is improving the life of the villagers. And that brought yet another problem on father's head. (I will explain it later).
Some of the new villagers are here because they heard we are rich village, but when they come here themselves, they saw only certain individuals who are rich and the rest are just above poverty. (Like any normal village). So they want to leave again but travelling between villages is a very high risk in the first place, because of bandits on the road, the prices of the expenses of the travel, the time they waste travelling without doing a job and finally the tolls between cities.
And even if they found a nice village to stay in not all the Lords are open minded about villagers travelling between villages also because of all of what we did Dad's called to Roa just after being there not long ago. (In other means he is being called to be scolded and that's the problem I mentioned earlier).
Which we agreed we will go there as a whole family next weekend, (in this world naming will be the free day, the 5th or the 10th day it depends on the lifestyle or the city you live in), but for some reason Lilia at last second she apologised of coming with us and she reminded Mom that Sam is not one year old yet, so she can't leave the house yet).
(But I feel it isn't the real reason for her sudden apology to the trip, and even if I knew the real reason I will keep it to myself, because both she helped more than I can count also she knows almost 90% of my secrets so hiding a secret or a two for her won't matter).
And Dad has called a wagon (even though wagons is called carriage in this world) at the house's garden that we will travel in it will be 9 hours going and other 9 returning but Dad say we probably will sleep at Roa and return the next day.
And with that we was preparing our package, travelling gear, some water and food, finally some elegant clothes compared to normal, because we all are going to join Dad at visiting the manor for some reason.
(Even though I was going to use this chance to go shopping, I had taken all of my remaining money to buy some essentials, needed future tools and etc.
I know about the bandits and the dangers of travelling with such huge amount of money, so to solve the problem I hid them well not in my pocket then prepared a small bag to be worn in my neck like a pendant.
Also not all of the money is inside it I only put a small portion on it the rest I asked Mom to be the one who is responsible for it.
I have a very bad experience with what happens if you left a huge amount of money visible in one place, even if it is hard to reach and it contains high danger pickpocketing knows no limits).
Right now me and Lilia are sitting alone taking a break after finishing preparing the wagon and after two hour we will move. (We chose to move in mid afternoon because this way we will gave a chance for both Mom and Dad to finish their work for the day and both just doing the final touches that can be done from home).
"Ms Lilia, can I ask you something?" I said suddenly while Lilia was resting her back on the chair.
"Of course, how can I help you young master Rudeus?" Lilia said as usual with her poker face after standing up and taking a serving pose.
"Haaaah, Lilia for the 1000th time I'm son of father and mother who both hate nobility and what are you doing just tenses the mood with all of us for no apparent reason, so please as long as we are family together please hold back on this professional maid robot mode and talk with us like normal human please?" I sighed before talking with a very bored face asking her to stop this robotic talk and return to be human.
"... Professional maid.. Robut mode, what does those words means? Normal human, but young master I'm a normal human and even you who are a Miko, you are still a human with special powers no more, no less." Lilia asked confused about 30% of my words she didn't get them. (Crap I messed up bad this time, I used words commonly used back in earth while here they have no meaning in here).
"This words I invented Ms Lilia the first means the people who are too great at their job so they improve it more to gain more earnings, and the other means the people who repeat things over and over again especially with words normal no one uses." I tried my best to fix my mess up until I realized I made another one.
"This words you invited seem more like you are making fun of than complementing me with those words, and are you not saying me as a normal human this pretty offensive. Young Master Rudeus!" Lilia said with a serious tone almost scolding one. Her brows twitching hard her facade broke for the first time in my life Lilia poker face broke. (Crap, Crap! I'm on trouble Lilia who could keep facade on the worst circumstances lost her cool).
"What do you mean by saying I'm making fun of you?! I was just complementing your hardwork and dedication to the family, and no human is normal, everyone is special like there's no way that there's someone like Dad, Mom, you, me or even Sam everyone has his own personality different between than the rest. Isn't that right Ms Lilia?" I said in very hurried way trying to prove my innocence even so I'm not innocent in the first place. (Almost all of my bad habit transferred with me to this new life, and this bad habit is one of them).
Lilia looked most of the time confused by why I'm speaking this fast but when she realized I'm doing my best fixing the situation she just excused herself and was about to leave me alone to go to her room. (The situation is beyond mess with her, I angered the house pillar, let's hope the situation settles peacefully).
After apologising for her before she left she just looked at me once before leaving. (Let's hope the situation gets solved I feel I'm going to be punished really bad for this, and I didn't even ask the question I wanted to ask).
After jumping and giving myself many pushes with wind and gravity magic I reached the doorstep in a second.
"Mom, Dad I will see Sylphy and An before leaving I will be back soon." I said in high voice, before leaving the house.
(After the day where I left Sam to go the clinic, she started to get used to be with other people than me, which in a way I feel both sad and happy at the same time, happy for the fact she started to recover gradually (( I mean mentally )) and sad for the fact that I feel less needed from my sister is kind of like repeating the past which is... anyway let's keep going). I thought after slowing down because I felt depressed for a second before picking up the pace again and started running towards Sylphy's house.
After reaching my destination it was the Laws's hut, where to my surprise, I found they too had prepared a travelling sack for Mr Laws and he was waiting at the doorstep.
"Oh little Rudi! Is everything ready should I head to the carriage?" Asked the confused elf-hunter and semi-dejected because he thought Paul had send me to call him.
"It is, but I'm not here for this, probably Dad himself will come and call you himself when it's time to move." I explained the situation.
"Oh is that so? Then can I help you with something?" Asked the still confused elf-hunter.
"Yeah I was going to talk with Sylphy before leaving, but since you are going there with us then you talk with her first I'll be waiting here." I said as cross legged and sat.
".. what are you doing? You know, you can for once get inside the house I'll talk with Luffy first, then I'll call you."
And with that I entered Sylphy's house for the first time in my life, it's about 50 m² square where most of it is put on the living which also contains the kitchen, the dining and the guest's room.
The hut has only one bedroom which they share with Sylphy and when I got in, I saw Sylphy was taking a nap wearing a black sleeveless pajama. (First time seeing it, even when she was sleeping last time and visited us she was wearing a different pajama, maybe this was a new one).
"Should I come back later?" I asked meekly as I saw Sylphy and returned to the doorstep.
"No need little Rudi, I was going to wake her up anyway to say goodbye to her father." Replied Mrs Laws, while handing me a snacks bowl.
"Oh good morning to you Ms Rose and thanks for your hospitality." I said as I went and sat next to Mr Laws and put the bowl between the two of us and then took the initiative by eating one of the snacks and he understood what I meant by doing this and started to eat with me.
With that me and Mr Laws chatted for sometime where he for the millionth time asked me about what happened and how it happened the killing spree of mine with the bandits.
(Which is irritating in a way, but I can understand him for two reasons: the first is he is still slightly worried about my existence near his daughter, the second he used my ideas as a way to improve his skills as a hunter, and his hunting rate increased by 30% after he started to use them in the hunt).
Which also made him asking me for more advices for hunting which also increased his hunting rate, but to the thrice of the usual before following any of my advices, because I advised him to use many things like: sedated traps, fake scarecrows to make the prey feels surrounded, some foot traps moat filled with spikes (I suggested for him to add sign next to the traps humans capable falling in it to avoid it) and finally I suggested for him while hunting carnivorous animals to use pieces of raw meat above the trap.
(He is a great hunter without any of those, he alone hunts double the amount of all the village's hunters combined, also being half-elf makes him even better in hunting, like better eyesight, hearing, sense of smell and above all he has better sense of knowing where he is. While Dad was drunk before he was boasting about Mr Laws skills, he was saying he can return from anywhere in the world even without even knowing where he is, and he continued to brag to saying he can do it in middle of the night too, which cause the elf to blush because he is way too shy and the drunk Dad won't realise anything even if an earthquake hit us
To simply explain what does he have:
He has something like a compass inside his head and he can talk to forest spirits to help him too, all of that and Mr Laws always says his mother was even better at those two department).
Somehow telling him to do what is the basics of hunting improved his hunting rate to more than 300% which made Mr Laws the richest hunter the village by a huge difference too. (His monthly income increased from 1.5 silver coins to 3 silver coins, which is the same amount of money we spent monthly as the Greyrat family, the living expenses are way too different from a hunter to a knight in the first place, all of that not mentioning that Dad is a knighted noble meaning if not for our circumstances we should be mid-ranked knight at worst, high ranked knight at normal circumstances and best case scenario a special retainer to high level noble, all of that not counting taking his original rank as a nobleman).
As usual Mr Laws after finishing the conversation thanks me for it and asks if anything I want in exchange everytime I say to him. "Should friends ask for something in exchange for helping each other?" Which he always he gave a nice satisfied smile before saying "I'm good person even better than my father."
Today however I broke the loop by telling him. "Teach me how to hunt when I grow up a little, of course after my parents permission."
Before he could say anything we were cut by a young girl with beautiful green hair, she was wearing short black skirt and white short sleeved shirt, and she had a beautiful smile when she was running to hug her father.
She kept hugging him thanking him for the new gifts at least for the third time in front of me. (To my knowledge he decided to put most of his savings into the gifts going to Sylphy and he even bought here an early 1st birthday gift).
The gifts are:
1_ As I said before for her birthday gift a nice red dress that goes perfectly with her ember eyes. But of course her father didn't bought it to be fit on her now. He bought it to be worn from age 5 to 7 or 8 depending on her growth. (Then how she wears it now from time to time the answer is simple her mother is a master class seamstress she tightened and shortened the dress while making it seem like it was made this way in the first place and even better she didn't cut a single fiber from the dress to keep it new to be worn at it's right time perfectly).
2_ He bought her the black skirt she is wearing now. (And believe me Sylphy looks great in girl clothes).
3_ Also the white shirt is new. (She used to wear a sleeves balck shirt with short black shorts before).
4_ He bought her a stack of paper with some ink and a quill. (Believe that or not it was the most expensive thing he bought, in a illiterate world like this just the stack of papers are worth 2 silver coins).
5_ Finally he made her a heart shaped necklace not any heart shaped necklace can be made by anyone, this necklace has 4 faces. Yes 4 faces, the first face or the front face is where the heart can be opened and it contains 3 sides the first face or the breakable heart contains my and An's name and from the inside the two separated sides that can be gathered as long her heart is closed has her parents names finally the inside and the most important side is left empty.
He is leaving it for her to put her lover when she passes her second birthday it's like a way for asking her father and mother's blessings about the relationship.
As for the back of the heart there's written a special thanks for her to be born and being his ever beautiful daughter.
(What's amazing about the whole necklace it is about 3 cm width at the biggest part of the heart shape and 2.5 cm length at the tallest side, in other words a one of a kind master piece, especially in medieval age like this one).
Also he bought many other things but those are the ones that are visible to everyone. (Proof on that, is the new pajamas Sylphy was wearing 15 minutes ago).
That raises the question how did he bought all of this in such short time. The answer is simple do you remember the money I left with him for Sylphy.
He kept those with the money he got from the hunt joined with Dad during that day to be the only money he had.
The rest like the emergency funds, the monthly salary, his savings all spent on gifts and some essentials he bought from Roa which were barely enough for most of the known gifts except the first one which he bought later on after following my advices about hunting. (The reason for this many gifts was to make her forget what she had passed through the experience wasn't the best thing a child could pass through not mentioning a toddler.
But according to them when she sleeps hugging them she never has nightmares or bad dreams she just wakes-up normally and even better she starts the day by hugging them again.
In a way they managed to make her stop thinking about what happened, but me and An knows she doesn't forget anything easily, especially with the fact she asked me after 3 months of knowing I'm a Miko, she asked me what does this word means and what makes me different.
Funny enough our parents only heard the later parts without the Miko word so they all though she was asking what's difference between me and her and An.
Which caused all of them to tell Dad to shut up before he talked, they were all afraid he would say something will traumatise us.
The best solution they reached is telling them is boys work hard because of their natural born strength and girls have the ability after getting married to birth children.
That day Mom and Dad later tried to explain to me the real difference between the two I just told them to close the bedroom on themselves afterwards.
When they raised a brow I explained I had seen many things to the point I fear I can no longer be traumatised with what happens to me.
And my request is for Sam's sainty.
The results for two day they didn't do anything, but they were looking at me with eyes full of concern more than the day I massacred the bandits.
Also worth mentioning I received a nice punishment that day but this is another matter).
As usual I spent some time playing with Sylphy before for some weird reason today, she said goodbye to me with a hug. (Not that I mind, but it was weird especially with the fact she is the shy kind of girl).
After that I went to the mayor's Manor where I met Mr Smith at the door, where he was standing carrying his travelling sack too! But a small problem happened, he wasn't alone I found an angry dark blonde swordsman waiting for me next to him. (Shit! What's Dad is doing here?)
When I reached near the Manor's garden I found Dad standing crossing his arms with his legs knocking on the floor. (Okay let's calm down Dad's angry but that doesn't mean he is angry because of me).
When he spotted me stood near the fence gate and he almost blocked the way for me to enter.
"Do you know why I'm angry, Rudeus?" (Crap! He is really angry with me).
"Don't know, maybe because Ms Lilia didn't understand my complement and thought I was making fun of her?" I asked meekly as I was keeping my distance. (Not that I'm afraid that much of him, Mom's hits is way worse, but the situation is bad, and I'm not fan of being hit, in the first place).
"No, ..why would.. what did you do? Anyway, ..I was angry because you didn't wait for our permission while leaving the house. Now what did you do to Lilia?" Dad was confused at first and when he found my guess to his anguish he stopped for a second then he explained the whole situation less angrier then with serious face he asked me what did I do.
"Well, what happened is I wanted to acknowledge Lilia is hardworking nature by making nicknames for it, but she got it all wrong and she thinks I was making fun of her." I explained calmly because this what really happened and I didn't make-up any part except for the fact when I said the words I meant it as an offence, but I reflected on it.
"And what are those nicknames?" Dad asked still with a firm face.
"Professional maid, robotic mode and special human." I replied immediately no need to hide anything anymore.
"And what did you mean with those?" Dad asked with many question marks above his head to the point I thought of pointing them out. (Well anyway I will explain the nicknames).
After wasting 30 minutes of explaining the situation to Dad and the meaning of each name and the wanted purpose behind it he nodded in acknowledgement.
"I got what you wanted to do Rudi, but still you have to apologise to her. When we go home apologise to her. The real man never back down on his word, never lie, never hurt a woman and never think he is too mighty to apologise." Dad as usual plans to solve the situation with five fingers principle he is planting in my head like his five golden rules. (Also usually he adds the fifth rule: men are strong to protect their family but he didn't add it this time because it has no place for it in the conversation.
He can do at least this much when it comes to intelligence).
"Okay Daddy, when we go home I will apologise to Ms Lilia." I said cheerfully. (With Dad's help talking to any women will be easy, as irritating it is he has his ways with women is a masterclass).
He gave me an acknowledgement nod with a satisfied smile afterwards.
After that I asked him his permission to say goodbye to An before returning home in which he agreed, but he gave me time limit for both An and Sam to be less than half an hour, and as usual he choosen to use this chance to tease me by saying: "We don't have much time for spending it on girls, when we return you can stay as much as you want with your girls."
Which only got him an angry huff from me.
After that I stayed for less than 10 minutes with An where we talked a little before she asked me to take her with us, as we are taking her father she asked with her cheeks puffed.
And after explaining the situation that we aren't going because we want to we just got called from Lord Phillip we got no choice in that she puffed her cheeks even bigger but after comforting words from me, and the Smiths she finally yielded. (And I still have about 20 minutes to say goodbye to Sam).
After saying goodbye to An and Mrs Smith and telling Mr Smith I will leave, I set my way towards home.
Where Mom was angry and decided to punish me by a quick pinch to the hair.
After that I apologised to Lilia yet again and she just sighed and accepted it.
And the rest of the time I kept playing with, hugging and singing to Sam.
"Sam, I know I haven't been with you much this last period I'm sorry, but for some reason me and Mom will go today with Dad to Roa, so we will leave and return by tomorrow's evening. When we return I promise you to stay with you for toooo long until you get bored of my face." Sam looked at me when I called her name, she started to do that since she became a six months old.
After that she looked at me while waving her like she gesturing me to carry her and I complied as I continued to talk.
When I reached the part saying we will leave her alone with Lilia I embraced her, and she grasped my shirt from the back afterwards.
And finally when I said I will return I started to tickle her until I finished talking where she was laughing and pushing my hand to stop tickling her.
(Somehow even though I know more than Lilia that what I do is useless yet, I continue to talk to Sam when I want to talk to someone. Is that because I want someone to be my conscience, since my real one is dead? But if so I chosen the wrong person, because an infant at best will cry when they want to refuse something.
Maybe it's because I feel closer to her than the others, or is it because the feeling that I have because she really needs me unlike the others. Whatever the reason Sam is the most person I care about.
Just to explain caring about some the most doesn't main that you love him the most, the person I love the most is Mom as expected, next is Sam, then Lilia, finally it's Paul.
Somehow he is the only person in my family I feel close to his age to the point it's a miracle up until now I haven't called him by his name).
After kissed Sam's forehead I carried her to the bed where I sat on while carrying her then I hummed a lullaby before singing another.
And when I looked at her she was sleeping peacefully on my hands.
After I put her on the bed, descended it, then put back the bed's fence to leave the room.
(Is it me or somehow I'm doing things certainly impossible for a young child? And I'm not talking about the kill spree, I'm talking about how do I carry Sam with ease, grow up fast or finally I reached the height 50 cm 3 months ago, and now I'm 55 cm even though I'm yet to be 3 years-old.
I know in the first place my daily training with weight and sword improved my build, but let's say theoretically if I had the same weight as build back on Earth my limit will be carrying half of Sam's weight).
Anyway just wandering around won't solve anything let's get ready to leave. (We separated the room of me and Sam after I grumbled for an hour about after leaving the crib just to transform my bed into one.
So as a punishment and to solve the problem they send me to the room they used to sleep in when I was younger, and I'll return to my room when they stop using my bed as Sam's crib).
When I entered my room I removed my shirt to wear the travelling gear and as I was opening the cupboard I heard someone coughing.
"Ahem, Young Master Rudeus, it's pretty rude to ignore someone, and to remove your shirt like he isn't around is even more rudeness."
Ms Lilia was talking as she was sitting on the chair I dropped my shirt on, and when I looked I found the shirt on her face. (Oh come on, it's like I'm meaning to be mean to her, like ignoring her wasn't enough, I dropped my fucking shirt filled with sweat on her face).
"Sorry and I didn't see you just let me." I apologised meekly as I pulled the shirt with gravity magic to wear it again.
"Could you please refer from using that while I'm near, even if I know it's existence, it's still scary." Said the maid while her hands slightly trembled. (Sorry Ms, I was doing my best to solve the issue I made).
"Yes madame, now how can I help you?" I replied using the same tone Lilia uses.
"Are you mocking me, Young Master Rudeus?" Ms Lilia asked clearly irritated.
"Nope, I'm show you how irritating it is to talk to someone who treats you with extreme formality for no reason, it feels wrong isn't it?"
"Got it Young Master, I will consider talking more casually with you when there's no guests."
After apologising for the third time to Lilia, she said she had already forgiven me and she was her to hear what I wanted to ask in the first place.
After that I asked the question that was stuck on my throat from yesterday. "Why did you apologise at the last moment?" Where she answered by repeating the same answer she told Mom.
And after telling her that's a lie because if so she would have said it way earlier, but she chosen this time to not leave any alternatives for Lilia being the one who stays to take care of Sam.
After a she started sweating I apologised to her again but for pushing her to the corner this time, and told her if she wants, she can trust me as I trust her, before telling her to tell me when she feels she can trust me.
And afterwards she excused herself and left the room.
And I changed my clothes and waited for my parents at doorstep where Mom carried me and said I look cute on the travelling gear, before hugging me.
(As for what are my travelling gear and the difference between it and my normal clothes.
My pajamas are the kind of normal pajamas you find anywhere in the world, the white shirt with white trousers that have some drawings in it.
My normal clothes: white shirt with a tea blonde overcoat that matches my hair, and with red shorts that have white trims that's my normal clothes where for some reason they bought me two sets of the same clothes when they could very easily buy me a different set.
As for the travelling clothes: they are a nice fur jacket with the inside making you feel always warm even though it's snowing right now, underneath it a white shirt with crest attached to it, as for pants, it is unfortunately still a short but an elegant black shorts it is with no trims but since they found the shorts won't be good with this cold they changed it to brown leather pants.
Also worth mentioning, I have a brown trousers too, I wear it if it becomes to cold be moving with shorts, I usually wear it instead, and when I'm training or in hottest days of summer I stop wearing the overcoat and wear only the shirt above
Also I have another two white shirts but with short sleeves instead of the one with long ones I wore under the overcoat).
As for Dad's travelling gear it's almost the same clothes he were when he was hunting but with many crests attached to his clothes and less joints protectors.
But it did have a better breastplate than the other gear.
As for Mom's gear it's very different than her original clothes where she wears that red blouse with white long skirt almost reaching her foot, this clothes however is red shirt which looks little tight and worn out slightly too, with the same skirt she wears usually in her day to day clothes but the difference she doesn't wear the long boots she wears instead she wears a sandals and white pants reaches her knees.
Prioritising movement over covering her skin she also removed her stomach holder too. (She doesn't need to a good shape when travelling ,it would be better to have better movements than good shape).
After Mom finally had enough of hugging me tightly, she decided to keep carrying me to the carriage, while ignoring my pleads to let me move on my own while Dad was making fun of me.
After that when we reached the carriage I found both Mr Smith and Mr Laws riding their horses and Carravaggio is leashed to the carriage.
After the courtesy greetings where everyone complemented how cute I look wearing the fur jacket for some reason. (I don't see why the fur jacket looks good after all it's the same colour as my hair and I don't like my hair colour in the first place).
We got on carriage where Dad took the driver's role and Mr Laws took the lead and Mr Smith took the guarding role.
And we moved slowly until we left the village passing through the new gate surrounded with the moat digged around the wall with the foundation built for the wall being ready.