I can"t get used seeing a house so big, I got a bit tense and entered the house.
There seems to be many employees here, somehow it smells really nice.
Sweet fragrance of flowers tickles my nose.
In the meantime, my mother leads me by my hand and inviting me to seat down.
“Sakura-san, come here,I still need to invite someone”
“?”
Who does she need to invite, wile puzzled i come inside the reception room.
What I hear through the door is the voice of my stepfather and the voice of unfamiliar man.
Who is it? While wondering, I look inside the room from the back of my mother-in-law who opens a door.
“……?”
In the room was father-in-law and a unknown person.
The first thing I saw was red hair. We are indoors, so it looks dark a bit, but it seems to be deep red.
But sun shines against my eyes so i can not see his face properly.
When I am trying to keep my eyes on him, I was pushed by my mother-in-law.
“Bring two tea and the sweets. Oh, give Sakura sugared violet fruits.”
At the words of a mother-in-law,a man said “I will bring it right away" And left the beautiful room.
My stepfather spewed a sigh of relief as he was amazed by her mother-in-law’s words.
“You again ….”
"What is it honey? I"ve brought Sakura san, this type of talk is better done quickly ”
I do not know what is this story about,and stood still at the entrance of the room.To me, my mother-in-law said “Sakura-san please sit down.”
Well, sitting is okay, but what exactly is going on?
Who is this person? I glimpse at the man sitting on the sofa.
Mother – in – law gazed at me and the man alternately, smiling and said,
“Greedrich-sama, here is the wife of Louis, I was talking about a while ago, Sakura-san.
Sakura-san, this is Greedrich-sama, son of Duke Aster, he want to meet you a little,so i brought him in. “
My mother-in-law who smiles coquettishly and father-in-law who seems tired fromher suppression.
After that, I looked at the red-haired men with a steep expression,
I have to give a greeting first.
I can see him now properly,he looks at me with this face and move his eyebrows with a twitch. I was about to stiffen, but I finished first greeting and sat down on the sofa as my mother-in-law said to me.
It was at the beginning of the tea ceremony which was never fun.
My mother-in-law speaks, my stepfather nods. Griedrich-san nods as well. I also nod. The tea ceremony proceeds with such a flow.
On the way, tea was added three times to the mother’s cup, but the contents of the remaining three cups did not decrease particularly.
Women’s love for small talks is the same in every world.
I don"t say I hate talking, but there is no gap to aquiz in words from her speech.
My stepfather seemed a bit tired, tried to stop her “Hey” but she did not feel like stopping
“What? Do you want to refill your cup?
A man with red hair is wrinkled around the eyebrows whether he is tired from mother – in – law nonstop talk or not.
Tis kind of tea ceremony which is not at all gentle was to be interrupted by mother’s
“Hey, Sakura-san”
“Sakura,Could you please show him the garden.”
“Uuh? Me?”
Sudden suggestions surprised me.
Right now, did not we talk about beautiful workmanships made in some parts of the country?
How did the story finished with me showing the garden?
And, to put it other way, I do not know anything about the garden of my parents’ house, but after receiving three pairs of gazes, I nodded ambiguously.
At the end I tried a little,
“I do not know it very well,”
but
“It"s okay, it’s not that wide, now the roses are beautiful, so please take a look at the roses, and smile”.
Just to see the roses,okay, I nodded, and I took off with the Griedrich to the garden.
Griedrich-sama was released from a long talk of mother – in – law and breathed a little.He looks tired.
As mother said, the garden don"t look wide.
However, of course, if it is compared with the common sense of contemporary j.a.pan, it is very wide. Even though it"s small for ordinary families, there"s no fountain.
Several types of flowers were planted in the garden, but as I was told, I took him to the front of the roses.
And I looked up at him.
“Well, it is a roses.”
“By looking i can ynderstand”
It is, right?
I nodded while cranky laughing.
However, for me, roses do not have information other than the name of roses.
There is no such thing as flower language, interesting story about rose, or grandmother’s knowledge.
“B..beautifull”
“That ‘s right.”
I managed to hold on the black eyes staring unintentionally.
From the beginning, he had a sullen atmosphere.
Not letting out even one word, i was scares, wanted to return to the room as fast as possible,can"t stay here any longer.
However, this facial expression is just for outsiders, I guess surely he will have a slightly softer look for their close friends. Maybe.
It seems not to be bad if the face loses wrinkles between the eyebrows and because he is a duke, he probably has money and statusl.
And yet I glance at him while thinking.
—He looks so gay.
A while ago, when he got away a bit with step father, I heard from my mother-in-law.
o
“Since long ago he seems to be women-hater, even d.u.c.h.ess is worried a little, she hoped that he would find someone sometime, but not long ago she seemed to notice that..”
I could not understand well at first, and was thinking about the meaning for a while,
“He likes man.”
I flew up with a strange voice saying “What??”
Mother-in-law puts his forefinger on my lips and quietly tries to calm my upset.
I trembled with the fact of astonishment and nodded nicely.
She also hides a voice.
“I heard that Mr. Griedrich went to the Adergelte Academy in his childhood, and feelings woke up to a boy at that time.”
“My mother-in-law, he is too fast at his decisions,as expected…."
He just didn"t meet a women he would have liked,i thought.
But my mother-in-law gave me an eyebrow.
“It is said that the d.u.c.h.ess inquired directly to Greedrich,
"Do you like men, do you have favorite person in the Ardergarte academy?"
Griedrich seems to denied it with a rare and panicking appearance. I do not know well, but the d.u.c.h.ess is his mother. I wonder if something was felt in the hurried way of that time. Well, there you live in a dormitory with only boys, you surely want to do a lot of things, but did Louise told you anything like this? Sakura-san ”
” Well, yes, that’s right … ”
But, i think of remembering something … ….? What could it be?
Mother-in-law keeps on talking,and i drift away in my memories.
“Look, Louise had a cute face in the past, it looked like a girls, so I got a bit worried — that is not something to say in front of his wife, sorry. Don"t tell Louise. “
I remember that Louise used to have a cute girly face, but probably I did not feel such an atmosphere around him, so please be relieved mother.
I wanted to say so, but I can not say it. I decided to return only ambiguous nodding.
My mother-in-law breathes out. Mr. Griedrich is also a wonderful person unfortunately, she says.
“It seems that the d.u.c.h.ess have also persuaded some women to introduce him to someone, and the Duke himself was convincing him” just to enjoy it for one night “, but … …
How can father say something like this?
While thinking so, I looked at a troubled mother-in-law.
Mother-in-law also gazed back and aske,
“Hey Sakura-san, what do you think about?”
“Uh, that, no, I think that each person has his own strange hobby, why it should bother me …?”
When asked sneakingly,mother swung her hands near my face.I feel like she is in a bad mood.
“I was asked by the d.u.c.h.ess, why Louise was escaping for so long, but decided to marry the sakura whom he just met? ”
Well to describe it in detail,we spent almost a year together,10 years ago, thinking that i agreed vaguely.
So far, Louis and Vias’ explained to their parent"s that they fell in love with each other at first sight.
Which house is she from? I heard a lot, it came to this,i was kidnapped from far away neighborhood, from near the border of the kingdom, and brought here—.
Although this love story was suspicious, it seemed that the mother-in-law of the two families liked it very much.
Perhaps they even looked through my background, but since nothing good or bad came out, it may have been okay.But if you think about it, it doesn"t look normal to me.
But what exactly is the reason for this?
In other words, do they mean that my lightning speed marriage with Vias and Louis is some kind of luck we can share?
Strangely,I leaned my head and asked her with my gaze,the mother-in-law nodded,
“That’s fine, though.” There seems to be other aims for “but” to be attached. Wondering what i was thinking,to me, mother-in-law dropped a bomb.
By the way the first blow was of course that he is h.o.m.os.e.xual.
“What do you think about publicially accepting your third husband?”
Ah mother in law! I don"t have courage to marry h.o.m.os.e.xual at all.