Gaiden Episode 4

His daughter, Friede, is in his latter half of life, and spring has come to Mirardia.

With his neck and hips settled, Friede finally crawls all over the place.

I renovated my childcare room so my daughter could do whatever she wanted.

"Remove all the furniture once. It is dangerous if it falls down. We will set up this fence to prevent it from being caught or hit by the door."

Place the circle made by Jerilik and place a thick cloth on the floor. Don't use carpets for mites.

Friede crawls freely in the circle and hangs drool.

"It looks like a ranch"

Ilia nodded because Ilia had a comment.

"Because neither a human child nor a horse child is much different. Both are mammals. Rather, human children are born more immature than other mammals, so this is fine now."

People can walk only about a year after birth.

At the age of one, humans can only be as new to other mammals as other mammals can walk on their birth days.

So raising children is harder than other animals.

Iria checks the fence spacing to make sure that the head of Friede is not pinched.

"It's safe even if Friede crawls. Is this also a previous life?"

"Oh, I was like this when I was a baby."

My circle I saw at home was much smaller.

Friede grabbed Jerik's building blocks and swung them around, sparkling his eyes.

"Daw!"

I'm fine.

I often do dangerous things because I'm a baby, but I won't stop at the last minute.

If you stop, Friede's quest ends.

"He's investigating this unknown world now, even when I was reincarnated."

"How was it when you reincarnated?"

Ilia puts Friede on her knees and laughs while hesitating.

I laughed a little shy.

"When my brain was fully developed and my mind returned, I first asked a few days a year and observed if the star placement changed with the seasons. I want to know if this land is a planet. It's so cool. "

"Planet?"

"I'll explain now"

In hidden villages where the horizon cannot be seen, it is not known whether the earth is a sphere.

When I was convinced that I was arguably a planet resembling the earth, I was quite relieved.

In a world where the edge of the world falls into a waterfall and falls into nothingness, it is necessary to learn physical laws from the beginning.

"It just seemed that the elders thought it was a weird child. Nobody objected when I reported that I would apprentice to the great sage Gomoviloa."

Then came Jerikh, who carried the carpentry tools.

He is a blacksmith, but he also likes woodworking recently.

Jerilik, who married Fern's partner Pier, a wolf, is making her new home furniture.

"What about you, General?"

"No, it was my childhood story."

Jerik checks the rattle of the circle and carefully checks for nails and screws.

He laughed happily while working.

"The general was a prodigy."

And Ilia seems interested.

"Is a prodigy?"

"That's right, Majesty the Majesty."

Jerilik didn't like the finish on the rim of the circle, and began to cut it thin with a plane. Just move it gently and a new smooth curve will be drawn.

"From the days of the kid, the general was so sly and clever and interested in strange things, and he noticed something that nobody noticed."

I didn't notice, I just checked.

I'm distracted and distracted, but Ilia is happy.

"I see, that's right."

"I thought from that time that the general wasn't just a person. Probably so were the other wolves, so everyone joined the Demon Army and followed her here."

This is probably a two hour course.

It's been a long time when Jerilik started talking about the old days.

At that time, the smell of the example came at a good time.

"I shit!"

"Oh, sure."

I and Jeriku immediately detect the wolf's sense of smell.

Slightly late, Ilia also noticed.

There are no disposable diapers in this world, so I change cloth diapers in a familiar way.

"Smell, smells Friede. Yeah, it's a healthy shit."

"Don't call me too stinky, General, my daughter?"

Since we started baby food, the shit isn't much different from the smell of an adult.

But if you think it's your child, there's not much resistance.

After defecation, it is time for nursing and nap, so have Jerilik return.

After Friede sleeps, Eyria drinks sencha at a table outside the circle.

"I was prepared, but raising children is still difficult. I have no brothers and I have never been a baby-sitter."

"I've helped babysitters, but it's really hard to raise children."

"But you're a disciple of a great sage, and now you're an instructor at the University of Milardia. What are the secrets to nurturing people?"

Even if you say so ...

I thought with my arms folded and remembered that there were things I was careful about.

"Is it an observation?"

"Is it an observation?"

"It's my teacher's habit. The motivation, temperament, and interests of the disciples are different, so he seems to carefully observe and think about how to grow up."

My philosophy is that teaching is not a one-way street but a two-way exchange.

This is a natural belief in the past, but it seems to be quite advanced in this world.

"Observing well will also help prevent accidents during childcare, because you can usually understand what seems likely."

In the case of my daughter, she wants to escape anyway, because she is adventurous.

Diaper changing seems to be the biggest escape chance for Friede, and every time it is a serious battle between parents and children. If we were careless, Friede would turn his butt out and try to depart somewhere high-high.

It seems that there are quite a lot of these children.

"The more you observe, the more you will spend together in the same place?

"why?"

"Because the bond between parent and child is born."

Everyday life is the same as a battlefield for a baby.

The surroundings are full of unknown things. I can't move well and I can't speak. The guys around you don't know if you're an enemy or an ally.

I can't afford to show affection to anyone in this state.

First of all, it's impossible to get love from others.

I explained so and drank steamed green tea. There is a fragrant aroma of roasted soybeans, but it's a bit unsatisfactory because it's non-caffeine.

"If we spend a lot of trust and affection together, we will turn our children's affection on."

"Spend together ...?"

In every country, aristocrats tend to leave their childcare to nanny and educators.

Many decent nobles are busy with territorial management and serving. They may be far away from the mansion and cannot return for weeks.

And sometimes you can afford to hire a good specialist because you can afford it.

Of course, he teaches himself the most important part, but he seems to be worried that he can not easily take the time to spend together.

In addition, if you become an aristocrat who is indifferent to childcare, she says she meets her once a year.

At this point, it seems like an abuse to me, but it doesn't seem unusual in this world.

It's a world where the words pedagogy and developmental psychology don't exist.

Fortunately, Ilia has spent a lot of time with her father. The former head, who lost his wife, dedicated her life to raising her only daughter, Iria.

So Ilia seemed to agree with my words.

"It's important, of course, that this child has a lot of fate from birth. If the Demon King's child becomes a poor person, it could be a source of turmoil."

I feel seriously responsible for Friede's education because I recently went to a country where childcare failed and was destroyed.

That said, you don't have to be excellent, you don't have to be great.

It would be more than enough if they grew up mediocre in general.

After that, I want you to find your own happiness and live freely as long as it does not bother others.

"So I'm going to give Friede a lot of affection, and he'll be a kind person."

Now, is this enough for the foreword?

I searched for myself and showed my wife what I had purchased the other day.

This is a tasty taiko drum imported from Wa country.

"So, as part of his father's affection, he made this folk craft Friede ..."

Ilia smiles.

"Vight"

"Yes"

"You said yesterday that you shouldn't give too much toys?"

"Yes"

I certainly said.

I don't think this is too much.

I listen to my wife's complexion and try to sound a very small denden drum "teten, tenten."

It's not like Chogokin Friedenrichter DX or coalescing deformed Jinro Robo.

Then Ilia laughed.

"It's sly. If you look like that, you can't say it's useless."

"What kind of eyes"

"I won't tell you"

Ilia laughed and took the denden drum from my hand and turned it around.