Chapter 47 – 06. Cohabitation With Retired Warrior Maman
Upon opening the door and entering, So-young greeted Si-woo.
“Welcome, Siwoo.”
“I’m back, aunt.”
“I’m back.”
“…I’m back, aunt.”
“Okay.”
Only then did Han So-young smile brightly.
I flinched at the cute smile that matched my appearance rather than my age. Han So-yeong was more suited to a slightly older neighbor than a married woman, a widow, or an aunt.
But when I was smiling like that, my heart fluttered for nothing.
‘It seems to be true that the more magical and yin she is, the more beautiful she is…’ .’
More precisely, magical energy enhances the level of appearance, and yin energy strengthens femininity and adds luster.
But either way, it did a good job of making the woman go crazy for the man.
Regarding this, the world’s leading scholars have come up with theories and hypotheses, but Siu did not know that far. She’s not interested
“Did the training camp have fun?”
“…”
She questions Siwoo while maintaining her smile.
The way she asked questions was like talking to a child after school.
‘Are you sure it’s a boarding school? It seems like weekdays and weekends have changed.’
I didn’t know if that was intentional, or if it was just a quirk in the way a married woman treats her son’s age. Siwoo, slightly hesitant about her answer, decided to match her first. She thought maybe it was because she remembered the son she had lost to illness.
“Yes, I was able to meet the party members from last week.”
“A party member?”
Han So-young found that word strange.
It wasn’t that she didn’t know what the party members were, it was because she had already decided to join the party. Due to timing, it would have been six weeks since she hadn’t met her a few times, and from what she said, it gave off the feeling that she was already a member.
“They’re friends I made before entering the training center.”
“Oh, yes?”
Soyoung’s eyes twinkled.
There are two cases where party members are decided before entering the training camp.
One is when the member country fully postpones it and connects it with a promising player in their country, and the other is when a member candidate is contacted in advance because he is known for his great talent in a specific field.
There was no doubt that both of them were talents that could be counted on one hand.
Siu had never boasted about himself. He didn’t stop talking about himself, but mostly on Earth. Other than that, he never sounded like a braggart. It was always a humble tone.
So it was unexpected, but at the same time, Soyoung thought it was natural.
‘Well, I expected it from the time the Empire brought in a candidate who was not even a hero to persuade me… It seems that Siwoo is a really great kid. The Glazer Empire is so incredible.’
A task is entrusted with the hope of success, not with the hope of failure.
Of course, the reason why the Glaser Empire entrusted Siwoo with the mission was because the imperial family highly valued his talent and believed in something. In reality, though, he has made some progress against himself.
The reality was completely different, but So-yeong could not know it.
“Who are they?”
This time, So-Young had the same tone of voice.
A questioning look at a new friend you made at school.
She even wiped the dusty chair in the corner of the room with magical power and placed it next to the chair by the window. It means sitting next to her and answering her questions. Perhaps because of the location of her chair, Siwoo remembered going to her grandfather’s house when she was little.
‘Hmm. Excuse me.’
Siu, who sat down in the seat she prepared for her, opened her mouth.
“One is a knight from the kingdom of Palania. She is the daughter of the captain of the royal guard.”
“The daughter of the head of the Royal Guard?”
“And her aunt knows the other. She is the third saint of the Holy Empire.”
“A saint there?”
Han So-young’s face became confused.
Neither has a light name. The former can be said so. The Kingdom of Palania is famous for being a weak country, so you can think of it as attaching people to its country’s promising players and putting them off with all their might.
But the latter case was different. She is the third saint of the main religion. First of all, they belonged to different countries, so it wasn’t even from the Holy Empire. If so, it means that one of the only four saints in the main church directly approached Siu.
Even before entering the training camp.
‘Is Siu really that great?’
After seeing what on earth, I wondered if a woman like a saint had approached her candidate for a hero first.
‘Anyway, if it’s a male hero…’
So-young’s head naturally goes down.
“Aunt?”
However, she was startled by Siwoo’s call and she had to raise her head in a hurry. It was a bonus that her cheeks were slightly reddish.
“Oh, yes. Yes. Why?”
“I wondered what happened because he suddenly didn’t say anything.”
“Ahaha… I was just a little surprised.”
“Are those two really that surprising?”
“Of course. By the way, Siwoo was such a great kid, right?”
“Ah, no. I was just lucky.”
“Luck is also skill.”
“It’s just that I was born with talent.”
“Huh…”
She is gifted. It seems that Siwoo was born with the virtues of a male warrior candidate.
Her origin is Earth, but Han So-Young has spent more time in this world. She also had enough of her perception and common sense twisted. It was her foundation because she was an earthling, but she had very little resistance to sexual things anyway.
‘Little… I’m curious.’
So she was curious.
Siwoo’s physical examination results.
It was never a strange intention. I was just curious and worried. Just in case the masculinity is reduced due to the negative energy in this world, or something else might happen.
“You seem a little tired. Shall we go back now?”
Siu asked as Han So-young kept asking questions, but as she mumbled her words and was lost in her thoughts.
“Huh? Oh, no. Sorry. I’ll focus now.”
After that, the two had a long conversation.
Most of the time, Soyoung asked questions and Siwoo answered.
Even though he hadn’t seen her for only two days, Siu sensed that she had become more curious about him. In addition, her behavior was somehow more friendly and active. The sudden big change made Siwoo uncomfortable.
‘Is there a reason?’
Come to think of it, the reaction from the entrance was strange.
After finishing the conversation, Siwoo came out of her room and asked the butler in a straight line.
“Master felt lonely.”
“Loneliness is always…”
“About Siwoo-sama’s vacancy.”
“Ah…”
It was something to be happy about.
It wasn’t enough to be close friends in a week, but it showed meaningful results.
It was a result that many people who visited Han So-young and her friends for two years could not achieve. Siwoo’s effort is also an effort, but the influence of coincidence after coincidence was greater. But in the end, even that luck belonged to Siwoo.
The person in question had a slightly confused look at the result that was so smooth.
“I think the owner seemed to be thinking a lot about the young master who passed away while watching Siwoo.”
“…”
“Please continue to take good care of the master.”
“Uh, um. Yes.”
Her butler smiled at Siwoo, who answered bewildered.
“If there is a chance…”
“What a chance…”
“I don’t think it’s bad for you to call the owner mother instead of aunt.”
“…Yes? I, butler? What else is that…”
Siwoo was so absurd that he tried to get her to say something, but the butler quickly disappeared as if he had used magic. Siwoo looked at the back of the butler who was walking at the end of the corridor in dismay and shook his head.
“Anyway, I’m not a mother…”
Even the title of aunt was awkward, but her mother was even more awkward.
At least Earth’s real mother had passed away, so she didn’t feel nostalgic, but she still thought that she wasn’t a mother. Like her looks, and her body, she might not be someone who deserves to be called a mother.
‘Still, if her son had been alive, would she have been 17? 18 years old? That’s about it, though.’
Han So-yeong got married quite early.
She became pregnant with her son when she was 20 years old. She was unusually summoned at a young age, and she spent more time as a hero than she ever lived on Earth, completing countless missions.
Thanks to this, her aristocratic husband, who was older than she was, was reviled by the warriors from Earth, but she was generally celebrated for her three-year love affair.
“She’s never a mother.”
But Siu didn’t know.
He never thought the day would come when he would call her his mother. And that day is not far off. She never knew now.
“Siwoo, let’s go for a walk. Are you tired?”
“Ah, yes! It’s okay! Let’s go!”
“Yeah~.”
To her soft voice and softly proposing, her Siwoo replied with her loud voice and hurriedly made her preparations.
It wasn’t long after she came down from her room that her proposal was a bit embarrassing, but her mouth moved right away when she remembered the two days she had gone for a lonely walk alone.
“How will it turn today?”
Siwoo hurriedly finished her preparations and went down to the front door.
Han So-yeong cautiously opened her mouth with her slightly nervous expression.
“Today… I’m going to the village.”
“A village?”
Siwoo and the servants who came out to meet them were also surprised.
Han So-yeong’s mansion is in a remote place, but there is also a civilian village a little far away. Ingredients and necessary items for the mansion are usually supplied by the merchants from the imperial family, but when things are urgent or the quantity is small, they also use the village.
“Are you okay?”
“…Yeah. Gwa, it’s okay.”
The reason why they treated Han So-young with a worried look was simple.
The village is the place where Han So-young and her son had their last date, and it was the place where her son collapsed. Han So-young hurriedly brought her son, who collapsed during her date, to her mansion, and since then, her son has not left her mansion.
In many ways, it was a deeply traumatic village for Han So-young.
“Don’t push yourself too hard, aunt. There’s no need to rush over it…”
“Yeah. No. Husband 6 years. Son 3 years. It’s not a short time, but this is enough to get out of here.”
Her will was firm.
“That person and that child will hope that I am not as sad as I am.”
“…Okay. Then let’s go together.”
“Yes. Then.”
The two of them came out of the mansion together.
Her village is a little far away and it takes quite a while to walk, but Han So-yeong decided to walk on her own two feet without fail.
The reason was that she went on foot even on a date with her son. It wasn’t even a tiring distance for the hero who had awakened her magical power and the candidate for the hero. He wanted to escape the sadness and trauma on his own, but there was no servant to stop him.
‘The results are so fast… ? This is a bit risky…’
Except for the spies sent by the Imperial family of the Glazer Empire.
She was dispatched a long time ago to figure out her dynamics by Han So-young, who was an SS-class warrior.
Except that she has to work as a maid, she has been very comfortable so far. Until now, Han So-young had never left her room, let alone her mansion, except when she was out for a walk, and her fellow maids and butlers were also very nice, so she continued to work without difficulty.
However, in just a week, a cataclysm was beginning.
‘I have to report right away.’
The superior of the intelligence unit who even listened to regular reports.
Then he gave her a week ago and warned her firmly. It’s good for Han So-young to make a positive change, but stop it if the two get too close or if Han So-young seems to make her return to active duty at Si-woo’s suggestion.
The return of an SS-class warrior was worth more than the rewards promised to Siwoo, but the problem was that Siwoo was presumed to have joined hands with the 3rd Princess Helena. After all, it was dirty political logic, but the spy was the dog of the imperial family.
The spy, who left a telegram message for his unanswered superior, sent a pigeon to the village.
To interrupt a walk for two people, a date.
