I Raised Snow White!

66. Romance novels to read with mother (3)

[Chapter 66] – Romance novels to read with mother (3)

That night, I had a dream.

It was a dream in which an adult Titania appeared.

Her hair, which was shorter than it is now, reached her shoulders, and her eyes slightly sharpened. And, the ruby-like red eyes that used to shine brightly were shaded and dark, unlike now.

In my dream, I was sitting on the bed and looking closely at Titania standing next to her. Perhaps noticing my gaze, Titania only glanced back at me with her head. Unlike her face, which always smiled at me, there was not a single smile on Titania’s face.

In her dream, I raised her head and asked Titania.

“Would you like to laugh for a while?”

“Why?”

“I just thought… you don’t laugh that often anymore.”

Titania, who was looking at me in her dream, was silent for a moment, then opened her eyes round and smiled with the corner of her mouth lifted. At the sight of Titania in her infallible childhood, the me in my dream began to laugh out loud, laughing at what was so good.

“Whoa, that’s right, that expression. You laughed so often when you were little.”

“…Does your mother like me when I was younger?”

Titania, who was sitting next to me, tilted her head and asked me. In her dream, I rested my chin on her chin as if contemplating for a moment, and gazed at Titania sitting next to her. Titania gives her a childish expression, but it looks awkward enough that you can tell she’s forced.

In my dream, I looked at Titania’s expression, leaned on her chin, and replied like this.

“No, I just miss it. No matter how you grow up, there’s no way I’ll hate you, right? Just…”

Cheolgeureok-

As I crossed my legs, the chain on my right ankle clattered and made a loud noise.

I didn’t feel the weight, perhaps because it was a dream. However, the feeling of the cool chain touching my skin was so cold that I felt it even knowing that this was a dream.

In my dream, I showed Titania the chains tied around my ankles and smiled bitterly. I shook her ankles and made clatter, clatter, clatter, but Titania just looked at me.

“It would be better if you let me out of here.”

She looked at the shackles on my ankles, and for some reason, Titania smiled lightly. In stark contrast to the bright smile of 10-year-old Titania, she answered me with an adult’s smile, gently curling the corners of her eyes.

Her smile even contained a sense of composure.

“I can’t do that.”

*

“…Kids these days have no clue.”

“…? Yes?”

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The next afternoon.

After lunch, I decided to have tea with Mrs. Serena. Originally, I was going to spend time with the princess in preparation for tomorrow’s hunting competition… But since this morning, the princess suddenly started avoiding me, so I had no choice but to spend time with Mrs. Serena.

I’ve been thinking about what I did wrong last night, but I couldn’t really remember anything. Surely, didn’t he fall asleep from exhaustion while playing with the princess? The princess also recalled only memories of being happy, but she couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong.

‘Did he even talk in his sleep when he was dreaming?’

I felt like I had a dream today, but I couldn’t remember what it was. When I woke up, I was in a cold sweat and my heart was pounding, so I could only guess that it was a scary dream. Maybe he hit the princess while talking in her sleep…

I put the teacup down and looked at Mrs. Serena in a slight grumble as I continued.

“Sometimes he hugged me saying he likes me, other times he avoids me saying he doesn’t like me.”

“…Are you talking about the princess?”

“Yes, the child who struggled to fall asleep in my arms last night, but today, for some reason, he is avoiding me. What the hell is wrong… Ha ha.”

As I spit it out, a long sigh like a sigh naturally came out. As soon as I woke up today, the image of the princess who ran away right next to me seemed to flicker in front of my eyes. She didn’t even answer when I asked why she was angry, she just glared at me with her cold eyes.

‘What the hell did I do wrong…’

As I let out a deep sigh, Mrs. Serena, who was looking at me like that, let out a chuckle. I puckered my lips slightly and looked at Mrs. She covered her mouth with her hand as if trying to contain her laughter.

“Whoop, whoop. Her Highness must be worried too. Whoop whoop. A child’s growth always agonizes her parents.”

Mrs. Serena, who sipped her tea, put down the cup and looked at me with a smile as if she was choking from laughter.

“Isn’t it natural for a child to try to separate from her parents as she grows up?”

“The princess is still ten years old…”

“A ten years old is enough. As for my daughter, Viola, she was already trying to leave me at the age of nine. At some point, the title she calls me also changes from her mother to her mother…”

Mrs. Serena smiled bitterly, saying that she was bitter that her daughter had left her side. Is ten years old already? Aren’t they old enough to flirt with her parents a lot? I thought for a moment and stared blankly at the black tea in the teacup.

“The princess is starting to reach puberty too. Haven’t both I and Her Highness the Queen experienced it at least once in my childhood? The fiery period when I wanted to fight against my parents and didn’t like anything.”

“……”

Puberty…

Certainly, even in the game, the princess’ puberty existed. But what about puberty in games? Puberty in the game was a time of rebellion for the princess, which naturally begins at the age of 15 if the child is raised normally.

The time when I didn’t even attend the scheduled classes, and sneaked out of the castle to play whenever I had a chance. The time when you get scammed by a strange old woman living in an alleyway for claiming to be learning witchcraft.

The princess who went through such a stormy period was more troublesome than she could have imagined.

Of course, the princess’s puberty did not start only at the age of 15. Sometimes, even at the age of ten, the flurry of puberty began.

Anyway… It’s real now. Even if the contents of the game aside, the fact that the princess seems to have reached puberty already gave me a bigger shock than I thought.

I expected it to come someday, but I hate it already! Go away! Don’t stick! It felt like my heart was breaking at the thought of hearing that.

“After… Puberty…”

As I let out a deep sigh, Mrs. Serena clapped her hands to change her topic, and started talking about the hunting contest.

“Ah, don’t Her Highness and the Princess really want to attend tomorrow’s hunting competition? For now, we talked about accompanying the scholars, but…”

“No. Do you think I can pull a bowstring with my forearm? The princess and I intend to visit the forest. Rumor has it that there are many strange animals… I hope the princess will have pleasant memories.”

“I see…”

Before arriving here, I had already made it clear to Mrs. Serena that I would not be attending the hunting competition in a letter. After following the scholars to see the forest with the princess, they said they would enjoy a picnic with the princess. He replied that he would visit the hunting competition but would not directly attend.

Mrs. Serena couldn’t help but look slightly disappointed with her sullen expression. Yes, as much as she is the master of the forest, her hobby is hunting. She said she wanted to hunt with me, but…

“I invited you to the hunting competition, but I’m sorry I acted on my own. I think it’s still too early for the princess to show killing animals…”

“Oh no! Her Highness, the Queen, has no reason to feel sorry for me!”

When I apologized, Mrs. Serena shook her hands in amazement. I was so surprised that even the way he spoke became stiff for a moment, so I burst into laughter.

Well… I said this, but I had a different purpose. While enjoying a picnic with the princess, after biting the knights who followed as an escort for a while, he intended to ride a horse into the deep forest ‘Mist’.

I memorized the path of fog in the game, so I didn’t have to worry. While the knights were away, it was my plan for tomorrow to ride quickly into the mist and talk to the dwarf in the ‘hut’ in the mist.

Unlike in the game, even if you get lost in the fog, fairies don’t wander in the fog, so if you need help from Ainsel, it’s enough.

“Didn’t you say that you will also attend the hunting competition? I’m looking forward to a great game.”

“Whoops, leave it to me! Even Her Highness the Queen will bring her jaw-dropping game!”

Mrs. Serena lifted her arms up and into a bicep position, she showed me the muscles of her arms. She didn’t know it when she was in the dress, but when she strained, her small muscles bulged out, revealing how much she had trained her muscles to shoot a bow.

No matter how much this is a game world, women hunting was something that was avoided even here. By the way, Mrs. Serena grew her arm muscles for her hunting… She also thought that she was a fun person as she was recommended by Bang Shaw.

And so again the next day.

The day of the hunting competition has finally arrived.

In the carriage heading for the forest, I could see the colorful autumn forest through the window. Autumn forest starting to turn yellow and red leaves.

And then, deep in the forest, I saw a hazy mist settling down. The fog stayed in one place to the extent that it seemed bizarre and refused to invade everything.

“We have arrived! Her Highness the Queen!”

As the coachman shouted, the escort knight opened the carriage door. As the door opened, a cool autumn breeze brushed the nape of my neck and I saw a misty mist in the distance, and I finally realized it.

The realization that the princess can finally meet the ‘dwarf’ of the hut.