Dungeon Master Makeup Money (formerly known as Dungeon Master Funding)

"It's late..."

Dinner time.

Basically, I decide to eat while I'm at the mansion as much as possible before everyone gets ready. Nevertheless, not everyone is always in line because there is no choice for someone who is working and going out.

My brother was also due to get the job done before sundown today, so we were all supposed to get it together.

But there are those who are not working and are not in the living room.

Elmer won't show up when it's almost time to get dinner ready.

"Where did Elmer go?

Ask Chris, who came to the living room.

Elmer should have gone to school today.

"We went to school together in the morning. But after school, we came home alone because we couldn't see what we were trying to do together."

It's not particularly unusual. Elmer also became acquainted with someone other than his sister, Chris, who started going to school. Besides, there are things you might want to go somewhere by yourself.

But those are also stories if you're going to be back by dinner time.

"How about the two of you, Jem and Jilly?

Ask Jem and Jilly, who have been playing in the living room since before we got here.

These two have some problems at times and I haven't sent them to school, but they usually live in the same room while they're at the mansion, and Elmer and I should have been close.

"We haven't seen each other since morning."

"Me too."

They both say it's a breakup cut in the morning.

"... go find it"

It bothers me so much.

There's a possibility of running away from home, but there shouldn't be enough power to get to Elmer somewhere far right now.

"Shall we go too?

Sylvia, who was helping me prepare dinner, asks.

I don't really want Sylvia out right now. Besides, I don't even think the boy who ran away from home wants a woman to pick him up.

"... no, I'll go look for him by myself"

Exit the mansion.

I can't imagine going out of the city, so we should be able to find them soon. If you want to find it in the first place, you'll know in an instant where it went, etc.

"Where are you?

The answer came back as soon as I asked.

"That's a park. Okay."

It was Shadowgenger who made him lurk in Elmer's shadow who returned the answer.

I make them paste it for escort, and usually I don't need to report it, but if I mainly want to know where I am, I can know, and they can tell me what the escort is doing.

- There he is.

There, the park where the kids are making it a playground. A number of playthings are placed, overflowing with the innocent voices of children before sundown.

"Thank you very much."

"Ah, Mr. Mars."

Say hello to the soldiers who were in front of the park.

Because it is a park created with the will of the lord for the development of the city, it is a patrol route for soldiers so that no crime is committed. I have heard that the killer was captured at the hands of soldiers even immediately after the kidnapping.

A soldier's gaze is directed to Elmer, who sits on a bench behind the park.

"He's the kid you keep in your mansion, isn't he?"

"Yes."

I've become a famous adventurer in the city. For this reason, the matter of Elmer kept in the mansion is easily passed on to the soldiers as well. Nevertheless, not as someone who was having problems at one time, but as a child who lost his way.

"I've been sitting on the bench like that since after noon. I was more lonely than saying I was worried about something…"

"Thank you"

A soldier's job is only to patrol so that no crime is committed. I was going to call you if it was too late to go home, but I came before that because I was the guardian, so I left it to you.

Approach Elmer sitting on the bench.

He did have a dark look that seemed lonely somewhere, as the soldier would say.

"What's up?

"Ah, Mr. Mars."

When I spoke, Elmer also raised his face when he noticed the presence approaching him.

"Nothing..."

"There's no way a guy who doesn't care would look like that."

Sit next to me.

The park, where no one was left in the evening, was kept quiet and lonely.

"You're not going back to the mansion?

……

"We were all worried."

"Guys... Who are you talking about?

I stared at him with an unexpected look.

"It's about my family in the mansion."

"Family...... are you really family?

"What do you mean?

"Anyway, Ira and the kids are cute because of Sierra and the kids that are born."

Could...

Lately, Ira was aggressive when she saw that Sierra was always trying to get Sylvia to take care of herself every time something happened.

Because of that, until Sierra was born, she had a shorter time dealing with Elmer, who was adorable like her own child.

That wasn't funny to Elmer.

"Jealous?"

I had forgotten because of Elmer's wit and good sense of things, but Elmer's age is ten. Around the age I still want to sweeten my mother.

I had asked Ira to replace her mother, who was gone, and Ira had left all alone with the children she had and no longer cared for me.

"I'm sure Ira's been spending less time with you these days."

"... that's not why"

Elmer denies it, but if you look at his face, you can tell it's a lie.

"I know how you feel, too."

"Huh?"

"When my sister was just born, I started to think that my mother cared more about me because she only cared about my sister."

Makes Elmer ask about herself as she remembers what happened back then.

"But Chris missed me so much for ignoring my feelings. It just got silly to be jealous of my sister, who doesn't know anything when she thinks so. How about you?

"The Sierra thing is so cute."

Elmer was actively taking care of the young Sierra because he was the youngest.

I couldn't have hated Sierra.

But it was also true that I had the feeling that they had taken Ira apart from that.

"Jealousy is nothing to be ashamed of. You're just a kid, so you just have to be sweet with Ira."

"But..."

"Is there a problem?

"We had a problem."

What Elmer told me was what happened today.

Instructors teaching swordsmanship at school. Today, a knight was specially dispatched by the Knights to hold classes. So Elmer was able to fight an active knight against him. He was a humble Elmer, but praised me that someone who taught Elmer the sword at that time was good.

It was a great pleasure for Elmer.

I was praised for Ira more than for myself.

I wanted to let him know about it sooner than anyone else. Elmer tried to report to Ira that he was in a hurry to get back to the mansion.

"But even when I spoke to Ira, I kept crying to Sierra, and she wouldn't listen to me."

Elmer, who was ignored about himself, flew out of the mansion in shock.

At that time, no one would ever know that he had jumped out of the mansion because no one had accidentally seen him.

"Ira can't help but be cute about her own kids now, too. But you never hate Elmer or anything like that."

"Yes......"

Saturnful Elmer is convinced of my words and determined to return to the Mansion.

When we went back to the mansion together, there was Ira, who stood Jen royally on the doorstep.

You know what I mean.

"Yes......"

"Everyone was worried."

There were circumstances.

Still, it's true that I jumped out and made you worry.

"Let's apologize to everyone for 'sorry'. And then you can tell me what happened today?

"Huh..."

Elmer losing words.

I shared what thoughts Elmer had popped out of the mansion, including the circumstances, in a pronouncement, but Elmer, who did not know the pronouncement, was confused.

However, I immediately understood that I had told him in some way.

"Yeah......"

Elmer nodding and joining hands with Ira.

Like I said, he decided to be sweet.