Please Take Care of the Baby! - Chapter 29

“Well, I’ll go to his house, so I have to. But we don’t really do anything together.”

“I see.” 

“So is your mother coming with you?” 

“No. She died when I was eight.” 

Cedric and I have known each other for just over a month. 
We didn’t talk much about each other’s personal things. 

So Cedric seemed to have asked this question inadvertently. 

I answered casually because I was used to this. 

But Cedric didn’t seem all right. 

He opened his eyes wide in surprise. 

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know. I didn’t mean to….” 

“No, it’s alright. Don’t worry too much.” 

I quickly changed the subject because I was afraid that he would continue to feel sorry. 

“What do you do on vacation?” 

“Me? I think I’ll go to the villa with my parents and my siblings. It’s by the lake, and in spring, flowers bloom a lot, so we float our boats and look at them. Oh, right……” 

Cedric clapped his hands lightly. 

“Elena. Do you want to come over?” 

“Me?” 

“Yes. My siblings would love it if you did.” 

“Thank you for the invitation, but isn’t it a bit too far?” 

Our estates are at the southern end, and Cainte’s at the northern end. 

Spring break is too short, only a month long. 

It would be a tight schedule if I decide to go home, then to the Christian mansion, and then to the Cainte estate. 

“Really? That’s too bad. Do you want to come over during the summer vacation?” 

“Okay, I’ll think about it then.” 

“Ah, Let’s wrap up here for today. Give me the wooden sword. I’ll put it back.” 

“Thank you.” 

I gave Cedric the wooden sword and headed for the dorm. 

No…… 

I was going to head. 

If it wasn’t for the voice from behind. 

“Elly, come here for a second,” 

It was Felix. 

While I was speaking with Cedric, he was organizing his wooden sword in the corner. 

Since the day I started learning swordplay from Cedric, Felix came to the training room regularly while pretending he doesn’t know me.

So this was a very unusual situation. 

“What?” 

“Is your training going well?” 

Did he call me to tease me? 
Felix did pretend like he didn’t know me, but he would often watch me practice. 

How I knew..? It was because every time I saw him, our eyes met. 

Felix was as good as most swordsmanship students, so he knows that my skills are the worst. 

I asked him with a sharp voice. 

“Did you call to tease me?”

He lightly ignored me and reached out to my hand. 

“Let me look at your hand for a second.” 

“What about my hand?” 

“Show it to me for a second.”

I extended my hand after checking that no one was around us. 

Felix clicked his tongue looking at my callus palm. 

“You’ve got a lot of calluses.” 

“Are you one of those narrow-minded guys who think that women shouldn’t have calluses on their hands, do you?” 

Felix squinted and frowned more than I did. 

“What are you talking about? Who cares about that? It’s just….” 

He blurted out. 

“Just what?”

“No. When will you learn self-defense if you are like this anyway?” 

Ugh, I know that, but it hurts when Felix points it out. 

“Won’t you be able to someday?” 

“So you’re training for someday, which you don’t know.” 

“Did you call me to tease like this?” 

Felix, who I thought would say something, unexpectedly shut his mouth. 

Then he took a small dagger out of his bag.  

The dagger was as long as my palm. 

However, the blade was very dull to call it a dagger.  

“Take this.” 

“Why?” 

“Why don’t you just do what I say. Do I have to explain each and everything?” 

Grumbling inside, I steadily grasped the dagger he had handed me. 

Certainly, the dagger was lighter than the long wooden sword. 

‘But why this?’ 

Felix stood behind my back when I was about to ask. 

I could feel Felix’s hard body touching my back. 

A hot breath settled down on the back of my neck. 

My mind went blank. 

I stopped breathing for a moment. 

There was a time when I was in a similar situation while learning swordplay from Cedric. 

Cedric said it was to fix my posture. 

I was nervous when I was hugged by Cedric from behind. 

Anyway, he was a boy, and even if there was a good reason, it was the first time I had such close contact with a boy. 

But this time it was Felix. 

My childhood friend, Felix, is actually like my family. 

I never thought of him as a boy. 

No, biologically he is a male but I treated him almost like a same-sex. 

So I could walk around his dorm room as if it was nothing. 

I don’t go to another boy’s room like that. 

It was a family-like physical contact with Felix, but now I was nervous with his touch as nervous as when I was with Cedric. 

No, maybe my body was tired. 

It’s Felix. 

Yes, that’s what it should be. 

It’s the Felix I knew from when I was a kid.

We have touched a lot, and fought a lot, so there is nothing to be nervous about with him. 

Felix, who couldn’t understand my complicated feelings, reached out and grabbed my hand holding the dagger. 

I dropped the dagger in surprise. 

“Wha….Why did you hold…..hold my hand suddenly?’ 

“Why are you so surprised?” 

Felix picked up the dagger and held it back in my hand. 

Every time he spoke, his hot breath passed through my ear. 

I was upset because I was the only one who was embarrassed.

There was no change in Felix.
 
I spoke with the utmost calmness. 

“So why are you holding my hands?” 

“Watch what I do.”

But unlike what he said, he didn’t do anything. 

He just stood still holding the dagger in my hand. 

“What the….” 

I was about to ask coldly what he was doing, but suddenly the dagger began to glow blue. 

I quickly understood that Felix was pouring magic into the dagger. 

Felix then took my hand and swung it. 

“You said you’re learning self-defense because of Angus, who escaped last time. right ?” 

“Yes.” 

“No matter how much you learn, you can’t beat that person.” 

“But if my opponent is off guard…” 

“Even if he’s off guard. Your muscles aren’t strong enough to do that. If you aim for his vitals in such a situation, it will only make him angry. Didn’t Cedric say anything about that?” 

Cedric never said anything negative like that. 

He always praised me for doing well. 

Cedric, who gives hope, and Felix, who tells reality coldly. 

I don’t know which way is better. 

But I asked in a concerned voice because what Felix said was what I was feeling. 

“Then what should I do? Do you want me to wait for someone to come and save me?” 

My voice went up without realizing it. 

Felix hissed near my ear. 

“I didn’t say that.” 

“Then?” 

Maybe it’s because he answered primly. 

Felix’s answering voice made me slightly irritated. 

“I’m trying to teach you what you should do in such situations.” 

What? 

I stared blankly down at the blue-glowing dagger. 
“Elena, I was a little harsh at that time, but you’re a student at the Berk Academy which is hard to get into. You’re capable enough.” 

Hmmm. 

I grumbled to myself, 

It was something I did know, but it was also true that I felt a little happy because I somehow felt recognized by Felix. 

“So during such situations, you should think about sticking with your specialty – Magic.” 

“How?”  

“This dagger or things around you, if you’re in a hurry, put your Magic into it. Stabbing the vitals with concentrated Magic could be much more effective than just stabbing with force. If the opponent’s magic resistance is weak, he might faint.” 

Felix held my hand with both hands and lowered it from top to bottom. 

But I cared more about his posture than his behavior. 

He held me with his hands and held me from behind. 

My face started to blush. 

Even without looking in the mirror, I knew that my cheeks were turning red. 

“Remember this feeling well. You pull out the magic from your body and concentrate it into the dagger. It may be hard at first, but it’s easy to do it if you practice a lot.” 

” Elly. Are you listening to me?” 
I quickly escaped from Felix’s arms, shaking away his hands. 

“Why is your face so red…Elly” 

“It’s because it’s hot! Yes, because of the training, it’s so hot. right?”