Duke' Mama Boy Chapter 5

 'Uubvv?! Uh... … town?'

After struggling in the pond for a while, Juan felt a hand touching the floor, tilted her head and stood up carefully.

“Huh, haha… … .”

shallow Why didn't he realize that it was a pond with a depth that barely reached the knees of his short stature?

I was staring at the pond like that.

“More than that… … What is it?”

Unlike himself who woke up from the pond, it was as if someone was struggling in the pond and shouting for help.

And, although it's blurry, you can see a face from beyond the pond, and it looks very desperate.

Juan looked at him like that, and was ashamed at the thought that he himself was such a shameful figure.

He looked around and luckily no one was watching.

Juan was relieved by the fact and reached out his hand to rescue the man from the pond.

“Utcha!”

“Khehe?! Cologne! Cologne!”

When I pulled it out, I saw that it was a child of the same age as me.

A child drenched in water and vomiting up the water he drank.

Juan carefully reached out his hand and patted his back, as he looked so pitiful.

“Go, thank you… … is."

“Before thanks, were you the one who pushed me?”

"sorry… … . running too fast... … . I can't see ahead... … .”

"Hmm… … .”

I didn't understand for a while that I couldn't see ahead, but

It was only then that I understood the piles of straw floating in the pond and the things that were randomly rolling around.

Whether for horse food or for laying in a stable, the dry straw looked very good.

Still, at one time, I was able to distinguish between good straw and bad straw because I had made a bed with straw.

“There are no injuries anywhere.”

“Sorry, I’m sorry. sorry… … .”

I patted her on the back and asked, but the child kept saying she was sorry.

Apparently, this is a luxury resort.

Knowing that everyone who visits this place is noble, he was just an ordinary child who had no choice but to apologize for his mistake.

But that wasn't as pleasant as it was, so Joo-an raised the child upright and said.

“Because it’s okay. Rather, are you really okay?”

"Yes Yes. Fine… … hey?!”

"yes? why?"

“Wave, leek, on the arm… … .”

It was fun to see the child's pale blue face, but Juan tilted his head, not knowing why he was so embarrassed.

Rather, the appearance of the child was quite peculiar.

Well, he looked like a pitiful kid doing the worst thing here, but his appearance wasn't unusual.

His white hair was also unusual, but there was something about his blood-red eyes that made people feel uncomfortable.

Above all, the problem is that I have a memory of seeing a face like this once.

Rather than remembering something exactly, it was a very unpleasant memory.

Rather than that, the blue-eyed child stuttered and pointed to his arm, and Juan turned his head to look at his right arm, wondering why he was doing this.

“… … blood?”

There were drops of blood on the small wound, probably because he had struggled to scratch it.

Then he turned his head to look at the boy, and he, too, had numerous scratches on his elbows and arms.

Rather, it looked like he had been scratched a lot because he struggled harder than Juan himself.

"sorry! sorry! sorry!"

And the child's act of kneeling down on his knees and apologizing was quick and looked so desperate.

Well, I understood that it had to be the case, but it was not comfortable for a child my age to apologize like this.

It was because she looked superimposed on her figure when she was powerless.

“It’s okay, so get up.”

"Sorry Sorry. I'm really sorry."

“Because it’s okay.”

“Wow, uh… … .”

Juan patted the child and forced her to stand up, startled.

Her face was completely covered in tears, and she was trembling with fear.

Seeing this, Joo-an smiled bitterly and read the child again.

“More than that, how did you get in here?”

“No, because the horses don’t have enough hay… … . An order came in, and I wanted to move it... … .”

“Ummm… … . After all, the soldiers will also use their horses to destroy the stables.”

They should have been informed about the number of people, but the owner or manager of this hot spring would never have imagined that all the soldiers who came with him would also come on horseback.

It seemed that he was not able to put all the horses in the stable, so he was putting the horses in a temporary stable on one side of the garden and moving a lot of hay.

In the past, there was a case where more personnel were brought, but at that time the soldiers were not given horses.

This time, it was decided to come spontaneously without any preparation or plan, so they all used horses to move quickly.

“You are not a worker here.”

“Yes, yes. I'm just running errands where they call me."

Most of the children who do these chores do not have parents, so it is very difficult for them to do things on their own.

So, in most cases, they were called from here and there to work.

I couldn't cover my work, and I wasn't in a position to cover up.

Before Juan returned to the past, he might have done the same thing if he had only grown older.

That is why the focus at the time was so desperate.

“Yeah, that’s great. You look the same age as me.”

“… … .”

At Juan's words, the child stopped crying and stared blankly at Juan.

It was because it sounded so sweet and warm that I doubted whether the words were really sincere.

Children who do this kind of work like myself could not properly approach the nobles.

There were times when I was forced to approach, and I heard a loud frown.

It was the first time a nobleman patted his back and said reassuring words like this.

“But what is your name? Age is?"

“Ah, I, I… … .”

After a moment's hesitation, the boy said as he roughly wiped his eyes with the sleeve of his robe.

“My name is Tommy. I am fifteen this year.”

“You are the same age as me. But your name is Tommy? nice name... … Is it?”

Juan's expression, which had been smiling to reassure him, hardened for a moment.

White hair, red eyes.

And Tommy's name and age.

Seeing him here, he looked like a child from the Empire.

And Juan, who had compared the synthesized information with a certain person in the future, shouted in shock.

“Hey, that’s that, that’s that… … thing!"

"Yes?"

Tommy tilted his head at Juan's sudden action, but Juan couldn't keep up with his words and covered his mouth with his hand, swallowing his words.

Tommy.

No, there was a nickname more famous than that name.

The best sword in the Western Continent.

Swordsman, Tommy.

* * *

In the East, there was a sword, the Demon King, and in the West, there was the sword, Tommy.

They were the strongest swordsmen on the two continents, and it was impossible to know who had the upper hand because they had never had a proper duel, but only those two were mentioned if they had the best swords on each continent.

A rank 8 swordsman who said that only three appeared in the Western Continent.

The one who defeated all rank 7 knights and swordsmen in the Western Continent.

The one who stabbed the last sword in the heart of Imperial Xenopol.

When he wielded his sword, no matter how hard the gates were, they split at once, and even if he was far away, he could not avoid his sword as long as he was within his sight.

Although I did not see it in person, by killing Count Bastiano, a rank 7 knight of the Xenopol Empire and commander of the Imperial Guard, all rank 7 knights remaining in the time fell by his hand.

And he officially became a new Absolute Rank 8.

"there… … ?”

Tommy tilts his head as if it's strange to see Joo-an, who is shocked and unable to speak.

Thoughts were crossed, and all of a sudden, distant memories began to come to mind.

Juan certainly didn't study to the point of being stupid, and he didn't have much knowledge and had a bad memory.

Because of this, I did not know much about the sword castle Tommy, who was on the side of other lords and other kingdoms, who opposed his family and the Xenopol Empire itself.

He simply had no idea why he had put his sword against his family and empire, until the day of his death.

Because Juan herself was so stupid.

But here, when I met Tommy and the present situation had arisen, I could barely see the fragments of his memory that had been sleeping on one side.

‘… … Coming here was already planned. Because it was her mother's decision.'

It's sudden and improvised, but I'm sure I've come to this place on that day as well.

Unlike now, it would have been a vacation that only her mother, Angela, and herself enjoyed.

At that time, the same soldiers also came on horseback, and the stables collapsed.

The time was different, but while on a walk, I bumped into a child who was working until late at night and fell and suffered similar injuries.

This made her mother, Angela, very angry, and she scolded the owner and manager of the place.

‘What did I do then? … ?'

As he pondered, he realized that he had done nothing.

He really didn't do anything.

So, it means he didn't care what happened to Tommy.

It was natural.

‘Because he was a meaningless person to me.’

The people who were meaningful to them at the time were Mom and Dad.

And only his grandfather and uncle and family.

Other than that, they were nothing to worry about.

His own world was just that, and more than that was the lives of others.

‘… … Apparently, he said he picked up the sword because of his family.’

He had no idea what the family had to do with him and the Empire.

Juan swallowed his saliva and said.

“Hey, maybe you… … Do you have a family?”

"yes? One younger sister... … .”

“… … .”

it was certain

Tommy would have been kicked out for that.

Did he simply get kicked out? I would not have even set foot in this resort, this city.

His mother's power was so strong, and it was clear that the people in the city who had to keep an eye on her mother must have treated Tommy badly.

That must have happened to her sister as well, and she must have hated herself, her own family, and her mother and her family for the cause.

Juan's mother, Angela, only questioned the matter, but she never thought about it until the outcome.

She said that she had enough power in herself at the time, and he had a status that didn't have to think about responsibility, but Tommy, who had to take responsibility, didn't have that status at all.

“You, never tell anyone this.”

"Yes?"

“I accidentally fell and fell into a pond. Then you passed by and saved me. This wound and your wounds are all because of that. Okay?"

"However… … .”

“But and whatever, just do it. Do you know who my mother is?”

At first, if she asks who her mother is, it wouldn't be strange to ask how she would know it, but for that, the rumors about the person staying here were not serious.

That's why Tommy was able to know at least a little bit.

The Duchess, Angela, and her son, Juan, came here.

A boy of the same age. In addition, he thought it was certain that he even mentioned his mother.

The best mama boy in the empire.

It was Juan Martinez.

Juan said as Tommy nodded his head and pretended to know.

“Yeah, so you know how scary my mom is, right?”

“That, that… … .”

“If you found out that I was hurt, and that it was because of you, you would be very upset.

”

“Hey?!”

Except for the emperor and the prince, the mistress of the duke family, who is at the peak of power, is angry with the duchess, the daughter of the current emperor.

Tommy's face turned as pale as the color of her hair, with an ominous premonition that a child like her would disappear without a mouse or a bird.

Juan realized how her mother was being perceived by Tommy's appearance, she said with a bitter smile on her face.

“I don't want it to be like that. Because if my mother gets angry and a child like you gets hurt, she will only be cursed.”

“Ha, but… … .”

“Because I am fine. And it's not for you, it's for my mom."

"Ah yes… … .”

When Juan, who is called Mamaboy, said that, Tommy nodded as he was strangely trusted to say it was for his mother, even if it was a bit daunting.

“Well, then, let’s get some treatment for you too.”

"yes?! me, i'm fine It’s really good.”

“I’m not okay. No matter how hard I try, I'm not hard-hearted enough to leave a child who was hurt like this."

“This can get better with just saliva… … !”

“If you apply saliva, the wound will heal. I don't even know... … I guess.”

He was well aware of the fact that citizens like Tommy, who did not know the proper treatment and had no money to buy medicine, depended heavily on folk remedies.

Even when he became poor, he relied on folk remedies.

However, there was a common sense that applying acupuncture only made the wound worse rather than healed.

“Anyway, it’s my fault, so I’ll heal the wounds.”

“Sir… … .”

It was also Tommy's fault for running with so much luggage he couldn't see, but there was also a certain amount of his own fault for not seeing Tommy like that.

That's why he cares about it, but in fact, other reasons were bigger.

‘… … Let's not be enemies, never!'

And by building up a suitable affinity, let's induce it to be helpful to the family.

It was calculated for Juan to be kind to Tommy, but he couldn't help it.

In the future, Tommy will become an enemy and help destroy his family and empire, but what if he gets a crush on him?

It also means that you can get help when your family is in danger.

Even if he was a skinny kid because he couldn't eat properly right now, it means that his talent was so outstanding that he became the strongest swordsman in the western continent.

In the end, whatever time he had, Tommy would stand out, and he was the guy who would stand at the top of his powers.

“Come on, let’s go.”

“Oh, Confucius… … .”

He was almost half crying, but Tommy today was just a fragile child who had no choice but to follow Juan's lead if he held his hand and led him.