2nd Rank Has Returned - 2nd Rank Has Returned chapter 260

260 – To be called second-in-command-1

“…That kid, relax…? Huh…?”

“There is nothing to cheer yourself up. “I have no anger.”

Even as he said that, Ein turned his head without making eye contact with Leonardo. To be precise, Ain was not ‘angry’.

From Noble mtl dot com

“Is there a need to comfort a child who never gave you joy in the first place?”

It’s just that I don’t really understand the feeling of being upset yet.

“…Ain…”

Leo was finally able to understand why the idiots Gladio and Marken were so embarrassed by Aria.

“Dad… I was wrong…”

She would feel like she was standing on thin ice if her own daughter, who loved her so much, suddenly sulked.

[You’ve done a great job. Ahh…]

When the sage intervened without notice again, her demi-human retaliated with her fist. Even though the content of her words was the same, her harsh tone challenged human patience.

“I am the only one who can curse at my father now.”

Although she said she wasn’t angry, the heat was clearly coming from Ain’s face. She had the same face that Aria had when she was upset.

‘…I need to comfort you somehow, but I want to see you just a little longer…’

Maybe it was because she looked so much like her mother, but her pouting was so cute that I wanted to hug her tightly. If it were any other time, it would have been resolved with a hug, but given the situation, I couldn’t expect that kind of happiness.

“…Well… I’m not just taking Dad’s side. Can her mom explain…?”

“Yes, mother.”

Unlike Leo, who delivered her speech directly, Aria, who showed her cool-headed and developed side, was an Ain who looked at her with a deadpan expression.

The sight of Ain, who always took her side, at least her own, so coldly ignoring her, made her heart bitter.

“…I’ll do it in a whisper.”

“Yes, I’m never taking your father’s side, so it’s okay if you don’t listen.”

She was only targeting Leo with a pin point and cursing him, so it wasn’t just bitter, it felt like her heart was being broken.

When their son-in-law already understood the pain of the head of the family, they were busy giggling about what was so fun.

They’re just tree frog demons that I didn’t know from my tadpole days.

“…So… In that sense…”

“Hmm… I see. All right.”

Ain, who had chimed in several times with Aria Spiel’s quiet explanation, nodded her head when she finished her story.

Judging from the fact that the wave of emotions connected to her as a familiar had subsided, she seemed to have calmed down to some extent.

“Father, I apologize for misunderstanding you due to my narrow-minded prejudice. I’m really sorry.”

It was a pretentious explanation, apart from politeness, but Leo could understand. Ain understood himself not simply by Aria’s orders, but by her persuasion.

‘… Before she knew it, she had become a real mother.’

It was a sight that both touched and tickled her heart.

In terms of Aria’s age, she was much younger than herself, and she couldn’t help but feel strange that she was already a mother when it was still time for her to innocently look for her parents. There wasn’t.

‘… It seems like her mature s*xiness came naturally…’

“…Father? “Are you very angry?”

While Leo was distracted by Aria, who had achieved her (obviously mental) growth, Ain was keeping an eye on her father, who did not accept her own apology.

Perhaps Leo was offended by his careless behavior, but Ain, who was naturally very emotional, couldn’t help but pay attention to Leo’s feelings.

“Leo, I will apologize too, so can you forgive me? “It happened because of me in the first place.”

Aria Spiel, now mentally mature, approached Leo’s gaze and encouraged her daughter’s apology.

She felt Leo’s spirit return to his benevolent appearance and the breadth of his generous heart revealed.

“Oh, no…! What is there to be angry about? “I made a mistake in the first place, so it’s right for me to apologize.”

Although he was embarrassed, Leonardo gently wrapped Ain’s apple. Even people around them who knew the inside story smiled warmly at the sight of such a close-knit family.

“It’s okay. “I was the one who misunderstood her expression of wanting to make her mother experience ‘pregnancy’ and ‘birth.’”

“Okay. Then… huh?”

Is it because of my mood that something that should not be said from a child’s mouth seems to come out in the most casual and shocking form?

As I slowly turned my gaze and saw everyone’s heads wide open, I could clearly see that I was not the only one hearing the hallucination.

Even Eileen, who tries to keep her cool at all times, and Sage, who usually gets on people’s nerves with jokes that cross the line, couldn’t help but be surprised by this remark.

“…Ah…Ain-ah! “That’s not what you’re saying…!”

As Leo and her companions all looked at Aria, she hurriedly begged Ain for an explanation. She may not have done it at other times, but right now she explained it as soundly as she could as a mother.

‘Ain, I’m sure having the child that dad is talking about means that he will keep his promise to give Ain a younger sibling.’

Of course, to summarize this to the extreme, it is pregnancy and childbirth.

‘Ain, she’s definitely a good and wonderful daughter, but she hasn’t gotten out of the habit of thinking she’s a familiar yet, right? ‘There must be a desire to defeat this bad b*tch called the Demon King and free him from that bondage.’

As her parent, Ain himself also encouraged her to escape from her obsession. What was important was the latter, not the former.

‘…I don’t completely…Don’t like it, but…’

It was an important role for her as a mother to give birth to a healthy younger sibling for Ain, herself, and Leo.

Her curvaceous, large breasts and pelvis were useless in battle, and it was a body shape that was clearly helpful for her childbirth.

The basic plan is to have two daughters and two sons, but if Leo wanted, she could have up to 12 children and aim for a masterful figure who could even form a knighthood.

We had already prepared the names of our sons and daughters, 10 for each of the 12 people.

“…Oh, wasn’t it a misunderstanding? Actually, I really…”

“It’s not like that! “Absolutely not!”

This time, Leo protested first. It was too much to bear to see even the slightest sign of crying.

Ain’s words were blatant, but they were not wrong. Although it was an ambiguous expression that she kept hidden, s*xual expression was clearly present.

She was just embarrassed because she had openly used the words ‘pregnancy’ and ‘birth’ to her own daughter, who was only about a year old.

Marken and Radio, who were surprised, were staring at her with her narrow-eyed smile, the veins on her forehead bulging, and the fact that she was glaring at herself was one of the factors that caused their confusion.

“…Then did I understand correctly?”

Ain’s face looking up from below, there is definitely no malice in that face. Rather, he was such a true child that he deserved to be praised as his emotions became richer.

“…Okay. “Once we finish catching the devil, we will get married and have many younger siblings.”

“Yes, thank you.”

It was clearly a happy accident, but Leo’s expression was as if he had suffered death.

Now, in front of him, the two heads of families who did not want to leave alone the bastard who stole his daughter made Leo’s eyes turn dark.

“…You, Leonardo.”

“…Leonardo’s knight.”

Gradio holds his right hand and Marken holds his left shoulder.

I would have been happy to be punished by the black and white Aria, but this current situation was extremely painful and unfair.

“I really wish they could give me the opportunity to be named. “Let’s have a quick drink after work.”

Gladio grabbed Leo’s right hand and shook it gently.

“If you make her granddaughter a widow, I will not sit still and be shameless.”

Instead of squeezing his shoulder, Marken patted him a few times as if to encourage him and then walked away in the other direction.

The reaction was completely different from what he had expected. Leonardo was groping to see if this reality was because he was experiencing an illusion because he was in extreme pain.

[It’s reality. The heavy congestion has finally gone down and is being digested. Would you be angry?]

In the midst of experiencing the frustration of drinking a shake made of plaster with sweet potatoes as a side dish, I finally felt the refreshing sensation of drinking a sweet soda. What kind of person would get angry?

Even Eileen did not disintegrate and was celebrating in her own way with a wry smile.

“…Ha…This is actually more surprising than holding the holy sword.”

The fact that those two people, who were on the verge of extinction, recognized themselves was an event more miraculous than lifting the holy sword.

{Can you hear the voice of the Ariasviel warrior inside the Holy Sword?}

“…Not strictly speaking. “I don’t know about Arya… but she doesn’t, at least not to me.”

You can visually tell the level of emotional movement in a rough way, but there were too many flaws to say it was at the level of communication.

More than that, she wondered if she was listening to everything she said correctly.

“Conversation itself is possible… But it seems like there is no intention to communicate. “It’s just me, but really…”

Slap…!

“Kyaahan…!”

Baek Aria let out a moan as the sacred sword on her waist bounced and hit the wall, making a persistent hitting sound from her buttocks.

It was too coincidental that we were in the middle of a conversation about Black Arya to call it a coincidence.

“Are you okay?!”

“…It’s okay…It hurts a little…Are you hurt?”

While saying that, Baek Aria slightly curved her backside. Aria Baek had already mastered her natural seduction skills that spanned her line.

In response to such nonchalant behavior, Leo could only look at Aria’s pelvis hesitantly, like an adolescent boy who had just discovered his s*xuality.

“…It wasn’t swollen, right? Can you check the bruises later? I guess…”

“…Uh, it’s not swollen… Just a moment…”

Unable to answer the question of whether he could check the bruise on his buttocks later, Leonardo had no choice but to take the cause of this awkward situation into his own hands.

“…Are you all listening?”

The holy sword containing Black Arya, I thought it was strange since the hearing, but now it gives me complete confidence.

“Don’t pretend you can’t hear. I made a hole in the ceiling with a beam earlier. Uh? “When we worked together as an executive engineer, she forgot how to communicate in Morse code or something?”

Although the sight of her talking to an object naturally reminded her of a conversation with a childhood friend she had been close with since she was very young.

“Hey, hey! Don’t gain weight recklessly! Do you know how many times I dislocated my arm because of you in the first round?!”

While her relationship with Baek Aria was more of a master/slave relationship.

Her relationship with Black Arya was strongly colored by her friendship.

‘…My childhood friend’s position…’

She was no slouch, even Black Aria.

She was deliberately solidifying her position in this way and in other ways.

“…Still, it’s more surprising than I thought…?”

“Yes? What? Mr. Amery?”

She asked Ameri back in a tone that was 180 degrees different from the way she spoke to Black Aria.

Recently, Ameri was going through the hardships of having to manage both her black tower business and her love affair with Rios without being able to detoxify the side effects of her caffeine.

As such, this level of consideration would have been natural.

“Surprisingly…”

“You don’t seem to be holding any grudges. “Not only Reinhardt, but even Ariasviel in the first round.”

It was Eileen who cut off Amery’s words.

Ameri’s loose speech was frustrating, but more than that, it was because I was curious about the source of Leo’s loyalty.

“Why do you talk like that? “How dare you speak such a profane tone to my love and to the God of Love…”

“That’s enough. Rios. There’s no need to exaggerate too much.”

“God! There is no exaggeration in love!!”

Leo, who felt burdened by Rios’ fanaticism, soon turned his attention to Eileen.

“There is no particular reason to be resentful. “The Senate, the source of the problem, is gone, and the rest is mostly just a matter of time.”

Even if she is not confident now, it was a difficult situation that could be overcome if Arya Spiel did a good job as the head of the family and other immediate family members cooperated.

“…Even so, it would be quite difficult to come back after being kicked out of a job where you had worked for several years…”

Although I didn’t like Eileen’s opinion, other people seemed to be curious about her secret.

Leo always gave vague explanations like this.

“Common sense tells us that there is no reason to hold on to a knight who was born as a commoner and has mostly fought with a 2-star core for a long time, right?”

“Ah… Now that I think about it, I see. I just…um?”

Eileen Temperius of the world is shocked twice a day, but no one is surprised by it.

Because other people were already surprised by Leonardo’s words.

“…Wait…What do you mean the core is 2 stars…?”

“It’s an Auror core. “I reached 3 stars by the time I was 19, but it probably didn’t mean much because it was the end of the story.”

It wasn’t that surprising from Leonardo’s perspective. Because their mana and growth were outside the standards in the world to begin with.

[…Where on earth did you abandon your conscience and what kind of recklessness did you have to call yourself second in command?]

“…Ah…Well…Some of the immediate family members were generous…”

The holy sword was trembling subtly.

Has Black Aria also remembered old memories?

“Except for Aria, her immediate family members had a record of winning once, so they were given recognition in their own way. “In the first round, she was a candidate for vice-captain of the Executive Knights.”

Everyone opened their jaws.

“There is clearly no problem with my brain condition…?”

What does that mean? Ameri’s sister-in-law?