Chapter 1239 – #289_The Story Continues (6)
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A gentle breeze rustled the leaves of the cork trees, and a small cabin nestled in a forest thick with wildflowers.
A natural landscape and a quiet environment.
There was no better place for raising a child, so Malika had been living here with Amelia since the war.
Childcare was a shared responsibility.
Siwoo was extremely busy, so he couldn’t spend as much time as Amelia, but whenever he had free time like today, he would come to play with Malika.
“Go, my little girl! You can do it!”
“Malika… that’s it, slowly, slowly. You can do it, right?”
Siwoo and Amelia watched Malika with serious expressions.
The inside of the cabin was usually a place where you had to wear slippers, but for Malika, they had laid out a lot of soft rugs.
On top of them, Malika sat awkwardly, staring intently at her mom and dad.
Chubby cheeks. Short arms and legs. Downy blonde hair and obsidian-black eyes.
Malika, already eight months old, was a genius among geniuses.
This wasn’t just the usual fuss parents make.
Malika already recognized people and remembered her titles, reacting to them.
Although her pronunciation was very awkward, she could distinguish and call her mom and dad as “Mawa” and “Ppa,” and she could also distinguish the names of simple objects.
Yebin said that she seemed to be growing much faster than other babies since she was a spirit from birth, but anyway, wasn’t she a genius of growth?
Moreover, every single one of her actions was a genius of cuteness that tried to kill her dad with a heart attack.
She was also a genius of hair, with as much hair as Amelia.
A genius of emotional control who hardly ever cried for her age.
A genius of sleep who wouldn’t wake up even if someone carried her away once she fell asleep.
Based on this genius, Malika had quickly finished rolling over and crawling during the war.
Recently, she had shown signs of moving to an even higher level.
Since they hadn’t been able to watch her roll over and crawl, they were determined to be there as parents this time.
“Don’t think about it too hard. Just let your body flow naturally with the rhythm.”
“Bwa…”
“Shall we try again? Come to Mommy, come to Mommy.”
As if she understood, a determined will appeared on Malika’s face.
She subtly furrowed her brow, narrowed her eyes, and then took a quadrupedal stance.
She placed her feet on the ground and slowly shifted her center of gravity from her upper body to her hips.
She guided the flow of gravity to the center of her body without resisting it.
“Ugh…”
That’s right.
Malika was trying to ‘stand alone’ no less.
Without holding onto anything!
“That’s it! That’s it! Like that!”
“You’re doing great, Malika!”
The cheers of her parents around her didn’t reach her ears.
The only things left in her world were Malika and the floor.
Resisting the force that tried to collapse her, she became a pillar connecting the floor and the sky.
Thoughts that had not yet become language made Malika’s soft brain hot.
“Eeyap!”
Making a strange sound, Malika stood up straight.
As if saying, ‘Ah, acting is boring,’ Malika lifted her chin and walked around nonchalantly.
Normally, with Malika’s level of growth, her head would be large, her center of gravity would be high, and she would lack the ability to control her body, so she wouldn’t be able to walk like that.
But Malika was strolling around the rug as casually and lightly as a model walking on a runway.
Not only was she walking lightly, but she also did a pirouette in the air like a ballerina, as if she had seen it somewhere, and then slowly came down.
Presumably, it was Odile and Odette.
If you asked her to do a moonwalk, she would probably do it.
“Ma! Ppa!”
Now, Malika was making a brazen face in front of her mom and dad, as if she deserved to be praised.
She was really, really cute…
But that was a cheat.
“Haa… that’s not it…”
“Oh my, she’s using magic again.”
That’s right.
The reason Malika could violate the laws of physics and biology was because she was using telekinesis.
Malika was a born witch.
She interfered with the surrounding magic as naturally as breathing, and she used it to create her own magic as naturally as breathing.
Just as a person doesn’t need precise calculations to move their fingers, Malika used magic as if it were part of her body.
The problem was that whenever she felt frustrated while moving her body, she would use magic like that.
Today, she was even showing off her cunning by hiding her presence with the minimum amount of magic, so as not to get caught using magic.
Infancy is a period when growth and development occur simultaneously.
During this time, physical activity and stimulation are very important for a child’s development.
Motor skills, the development and control of large and small muscles, and sensory and cognitive abilities all occur actively during this period.
But as a parent, when she kept using magic to cheat whenever she felt stuck, they couldn’t help but think, ‘What if she has problems later?’
“Malika, I told you not to use magic.”
Amelia used telekinesis as Malika had done and shook her head.
Malika quickly pretended not to hear and scurried around, looking elsewhere.
“Amelia, do you think Malika really understands everything we say?”
“No way. What are we going to do with her? She’s too smart.”
“Aahm…”
Malika yawned widely with her small mouth and then lay down on the rug.
They were worried, but they couldn’t help but smile. It must be the heart of a parent.
“Princess, if you sleep in a place like this, your mouth will go crooked. I’ll take you to bed.”
Siwoo gave a wry smile and laid Malika on the bed, and Malika soon fell fast asleep.
It was a time when she slept a lot.
“She’s asleep again?”
“Yes, she must have been sleepy.”
Amelia was tidying up the wooden blocks that Malika had been playing with.
“Ah, I’ll help too.”
“There’s not much left, and I’ve almost finished.”
“Still.”
As they were tidying up the blocks side by side, their hands touched like in a drama on the last piece.
“…Why are you staring like that?”
Amelia’s elegant eyes smiled.
She had been smiling a lot lately.
It was a change that was unimaginable for the stern associate professor.
It was the biggest change since she gave birth to Malika.
“I’m going to fall in love again.”
“Siwoo, do you know you say that every time?”
“Your smile is just so pretty.”
“Hmph, don’t do that outside. It’s embarrassing.”
Even as she said that, Amelia subtly intertwined her fingers with his.
Both of them giggled for no reason and looked each other in the eye.
And then…
Naturally, Amelia grabbed his collar and pulled him down, and they fell on the rug together. Their lips met as if they were meant to, and their soft tongues intertwined sticky and wet. Their breaths became slightly faster, and their hearts beat in time.
“Ahem, it’s still daytime.”
“Then what is this hand doing?”
“Just fiddling around.”
His hand had already naturally slipped inside Amelia’s dress.
Her small breasts were cupped in his hand, and the two of them exchanged trivial conversations.
“Shall we just kiss?”
“Liar. You always just say that, Siwoo.”
“How can I help it when someone keeps holding on and won’t let go?”
“I never did that.”
It wasn’t just sticky, sensual kisses that made the atmosphere hot.
Sometimes they would lightly touch their lips together and then pull away, sometimes they would lightly nibble on their lower and upper lips alternately, and sometimes they would kiss the eyelids where their eyelashes fluttered.
“Ah…”
As he brushed the stray hairs from her round forehead and kissed her, a heavy sigh escaped from Amelia.
“Okay, I’m going to work now. I have a dinner appointment tonight. I’ll come back with Sharon and my teacher later tonight.”
“Ah…”
As he helped her up and straightened her clothes, this time a regretful sigh came out.
“See? Amelia is holding on, right?”
“I don’t know. Go away.”
“No?”
“No.”
Amelia, with a sulky expression, was a spitting image of Malika when she didn’t like something.
That look was so cute that he couldn’t help but let out another sly smile.
“You’re always just playing around…”
“How can I help it when your reactions are so cute?”
Even when he tried to kiss her cheek, Amelia quickly turned her head away.
“Kuh! Is it a barrier! I can’t possibly kiss you through this wall of beauty.”
“……”
“Unbelievable! That beauty is a mother?! I can’t believe it!”
“……”
“Hehe, hey there, pretty lady. Don’t be so coy, and let’s have a good time together, huh? Good things are good, right?”
“…I give up, I give up. Siwoo is getting more and more outrageous.”
Amelia, who had been holding back her laughter at the continuous teasing, eventually smiled again and kissed him.
Just as a hot moment that Malika shouldn’t see or hear was about to begin.
-Knock knock
The sudden knock on the door made Amelia quickly get up and straighten her disheveled clothes, and Siwoo also hurriedly pulled up his pants.
The unexpected guest was his mother-in-law.
It was the first time they had met in the human world since the war.
Since Siwoo was busy, she had been wandering around in the human world almost all the time.
“Oh, Albiereo, it’s been a while. How have you been…”
Siwoo, trying to hide his embarrassment, was about to greet her when he felt his heart sink.
It was because her complexion was very haggard and pale.
“Is there a problem in the human world? Maybe the remnants of Hexennacht?”
Unless it was a serious problem, there was no way that the dauntless her would show such a gloomy expression as if she was about to die.
“Do it…”
“Yes?”
“…Get married right away.”
As the atmosphere was building with a spooky BGM based on a string ensemble, Siwoo was slightly dumbfounded by the sudden words.
“I’m just saying this in case, but if it’s not, please don’t mind it. This isn’t a proposal, right?”
-Thwack!
The answer came from his shin.
A terrible pain echoed in his shin.
Tears welled up in his eyes from the sharp kick with the tip of her high heel, and he snapped back to his senses.
“Shin Siwoo! Right now! Have a wedding!”
Of course, Albiereo wasn’t proposing to her son-in-law.
It was to have a wedding before he increased his lovers any more.
That was the special measure that Albiereo had prepared.
