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"It's okay, Grace. Even being so cute is lovely. Our daughter is cute because you're cute."
It was a time when I was barely able to calm down a woman who was throwing a tantrum like Torazin Ellie and started caressing her again.
Suddenly.
The sound of a doorknob turning was heard. As soon as Grace, who had frozen and forgotten that she had locked the door, let out a sigh of relief, a child from outside banged on the door.
"What are you doing? Why doesn't anyone play with Ellie? I play with her too. Ellie is lonely."
Grace threw a handkerchief at the man and pushed him away.
"What are you doing? Ellie is lonely."
"See you at night."
The man didn't show any sign of regret and immediately stepped out, saying this.
"What do you see at night?"
Grace, sitting back in front of the vanity, sighed as she looked at herself, looking like she had had a wild night since morning.
"...What the hell am I doing?"
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The early afternoon sunlight poured in through the high window. In a long lounge chair with its back to the sun, a child was napping under a blanket, holding a stuffed rabbit. With its eyes closed, it seemed even more like the major.
"The remaining one escaped...."
As the child mumbled in his sleep, Campbell lowered his voice even further.
"They found him hiding in a warehouse in a nearby factory and surrounded him. However, he resisted fiercely and then died on his own... ."
Campbell cut short his speech. The riding club lounge was too peaceful to make such a grim report. The major, dressed in riding clothes, narrowed his eyes as he caught the omitted words.
This morning, we received a tip that some suspicious individuals were hiding in a warehouse in an industrial area an hour away from Prescott by tram. After investigation, we confirmed that they were rebels. We attacked their base right away in the morning when they showed signs of escaping, but failed to capture either of the remaining members.
"Are you sure there are two people?"
The major looked at him with sharp eyes, his forehead pressed against his. Campbell knew from long experience that he should never say anything to the major that he could not be sure of.
"That's what we found after investigating and searching this morning."
"Also, conduct a search of the surrounding area. Find out who came and went there before and after the assassination attempt."
"Yes, I will do that."
It was understandable that the major's nerves were on edge because he had failed to capture the culprit. While the king wanted the special task force to be disbanded, the remnants were gaining momentum again. The major had an excuse to maintain the special task force, and the king had no excuse to disband it.
Perhaps because of this, a dark rumor was secretly spreading in Army Headquarters that the assassination attempt was a fabrication by Major Winston. And in the midst of all this, the failure to capture him only served to further strengthen the rumor that it was a fabrication.
Whoosh, whoosh. The riding whip that had been cutting through the air and hitting the major's knee-length leather boots suddenly stopped.
"Don't worry about failing to capture him."
The major muttered as if he was thinking the same thing, then looked at the sleeping child and added something incomprehensible.
"The end is coming anyway."
It was while I was hastily compiling the information I had obtained during the first investigation this afternoon to report to the major before dinner that the door to the study of the suite where the operations headquarters was located opened.
"hi."
The officers and men who turned their heads to look at the door froze. The person who waved and greeted them was none other than the major's young daughter.
"What are you doing?"
Maybe she was too young to feel the air freezing because of me. The child came inside, smiling brightly and pushing a toy stroller. The soldiers exchanged glances in confusion. The major's daughter was harder to predict and deal with than the major himself.
"Miss, if you are here, the Major... ."
The moment Campbell approached the boy and tried to get him out, the boy frowned like a major.
"I'm not a lady."
"Uh... then... ."
"She's a princess."
The child pointed to the toy crown on my head and whispered to me as if to encourage me to keep up with his play.
"Oh, yes. Princess, what brings you here...?"
The other officers began to hold back laughter at the sight of Campbell, the only officer who was not afraid in front of the fearsome major, but who was intimidated by the major's daughter.
"Candy mug."
The child smiled in satisfaction at being called a princess, then took out a bundle of individually wrapped candy canes from the stroller. She handed them out to each soldier sitting at the large conference table, imitating the major's tone of voice.
"Thank you for your hard work."
"Thank you, haha."
"Thank you for your hard work."
"Sigh, the Major hasn't given me candy in the past three years... ."
When a captain held his nose and pretended to hold back tears while accepting a piece of candy, a child burst out laughing. Everyone thought that he was just like Major Winston on the inside and out, and at that moment, everyone did the same thing, even though they couldn't say anything.
"Ellie learned to ride a horse today. Oh, it was so much fun. Do you guys have a horse at home? Dad said he's going to buy Ellie a horse. Don't you think it'll be fun?"
"Oh, that sounds good."
The excited child began to chatter and even made hand gestures as the soldiers responded.
"Uh... um, princess... the men are working right now. If you go out alone, your father will be worried."
Campbell tried to take the boy to the major, but the boy asked him an unexpected question.
"Sir, are you working?"
"yes."
"Where do you find work?"
I don't know why he asked that, but Campbell answered anyway.
"Usually you can find it in the newspaper."
"Really? Where is the newspaper?"
Campbell handed over the newspaper as he was told, although he did not know why he was looking for it.
"Hey, this is it."
At that moment, Ellie was smiling happily and putting the newspaper in the stroller. The tip of a black shoe appeared through the open door. At that moment, a loud noise of a chair being dragged was heard, and the men all stood up at once.
I looked up at the men in surprise and saw that they were all putting a hand on their foreheads. Should I do it too? The atmosphere was somehow uneasy, so Ellie also put her hand on her forehead and turned her body timidly toward the men.
Hey, what?
I thought someone scary had come, but no one standing at the door seemed scary.
"Ellie, come to Daddy."
Leon had to hold back his laughter as he saw his daughter awkwardly saluting him. I wondered where she had disappeared to while I was on the phone, but she was playing around here. When Ellie came to him, his expression hardened and he asked his subordinates.
"The results of the investigation are."
"After completing the first round of inquiries, I am currently organizing the report. I will submit the report within an hour."
Leon nodded briefly to the captain as he was about to take Ellie out.
"Ellie, get this."
The child smiled proudly and held out the newspaper.
"That old man...."
Then, as he pointed to Campbell, Leon felt as if he had been hit in the back of the head.
"The job is here to find. Ellie will find a job for Dad."
"So you thought that Dad didn't have a job and just spent all day playing with Ellie...?"
As the child nodded innocently and cruelly, Leon pressed his throbbing temple harder.
"Mom, I have to go to work."
The child believed that all adults should go to work and earn money.
"Ellie, Daddy has work too."
He is much higher than your mother. He has much more money. But the daughter thought that her father was worse than her mother.
"But why don't you go to work?"
"Well, my father is too high a person and has too much money to need to work at a desk. He makes the men in that room do that for him."
Then I explained to him that his father was a military commander, a businessman, a member of the House of Lords, and a count, but a two-year-old with no concept of money or status understood all of this.
"Where is the Count?"
Even when I explained about the title of count... .
"Are you lower than the king?"
He looked disappointed when he heard that he was the king's subject.
"My daughter, I'm sorry that your father is not a king."
Leon hugged his daughter, who looked at him with pity for her father, who was only a count, and apologized.
"But I promise you. You will be more precious than a princess."
The king will soon follow me.
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"Kiss Mom."
The child lying in the middle of the bed turned his head to the right and kissed his mother.
"Kiss me, daddy too."
This time, I turned my head to the left. The man who had received the child's kiss smiled and looked up at Grace. I thought he had a very serious face. Until he said this.
"Mom, dad, kiss me too."
This crazy guy... .
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