ăYuuri-chan is just a girl, so if you say she is the memento of a loved one, our family will allow the adoption.ă
Eh? His family would approve of it if Rofas-san claimed that I am a memento? Would a boy get the same treatment as well?
ăIs that the thing where, once the adopted girl grows up and resembles the manâs loved one, sheâd undergo a class change from an adopted child to a wife? And even if that doesnât happen, the man could use the girl politically by offering her as a bride to somebody else.ă
Bwah.
I accidentally spat out the wasabi soy sauce daikon.
Cough, cough, cough.
It hurts, it hurts! The wasabi went down the wrong place.
ăAre you okay, Yuuri-san?!ă
ăHey, calm down.ă
Rofas-san placed his big hand on my back.
His hand was big, warm, and tough. It was a manâs hand.
Wait, my mind shouldnât wander in that direction. I have to think of something elseâŠ
Adopting a child in order to make her a bride⊠Waiting until the child grows up⊠Those indicateâŠ
ăThe Hikaru Genji PlanâŠă(*1)
No, nobles from any world are⊠Or rather, the plan doesnât only exist in that story, but is something that happens in real life.
Uwah, I donât like that. If the person who was your father figure became your husband, wouldnât that be the worst?
ăWhat? The what plan?ă
ăNothing. Anyway, I wonât become Rofas-sanâs family! Iâll never, never, become your child nor your wife.ă
Rofas-san looked incredibly sad there.
Stop it! Stop looking at me with those puppy eyes! Thatâs unfair!
I mightâve said too much, I thought.
ăIf Rofas-san gets married and his wife gives birth, heâd want a caretaker to take care of his child and the household chores. When that happens, please hire me.ă
Saga-san placed his hand on Rofas-sanâs shoulder.
ăThatâs it, I guess. Sheâll be by your side as a helper once you get married.ă
ăUgh, marriage⊠ă
Rofas-san went silent.
Does he really not want to get married that badly? Rofas-san seems to like children, and his children would surely be incredibly adorable.
ăNii-san, whatâs your type? Iâll introduce you to some ladies.ă
Saga-san asked Rofas-san, and he held his head.
ăMy type⊠Iâve never thought about it. Iâve dated and broken up with a few girls, but they were all different. If there was a strict one, there was also a kind one. Iâve dated a tall girl as well as a well-built girl too.ă
Uwah, he wasnât the type to have trouble getting a girl. Rofas-san⊠So youâre quite popular.
ăWell, I only went out with them because they asked me out, but most of those relationships ended up with them asking me for money.ă
Eh? Really?
ăNo, um, well, yeah. Itâs fine. I wanted to help them out, since they were having trouble with money.ă
I knew Rofas-san was a nice person, but wasnât that a little too nice?
ăIn other words, you donât know who you really liked yourself, right? In that case, arenât you fine with any type of girl? It feels like Iâve made some progress in understanding who you are, nii-san. Do you want to go pick up some girls that match your criteria?ă
Pick up girls that match his criteriaâŠ
Saga-san sounded like those marriage interview mediators. Huh? But arenât marriages between nobles that sort of thing anyway?
ăN-no, my type, my type of girl isâŠă
Rofas-san looked at me.
ăS-someone who will worry about me would be nice. Also, she has to be good at cooking, and would smile at children. Yeah, a woman like that would be nice!ă
Ehh⊠Rofas-sanâs type was surprisingly normal.
That sounded like a woman you could find anywhere.
She could be blonde, have big eyes, a slim waist, maybe even big breasts, and sheâd travel together with him as an adventurer⊠Or rather, if he doesnât give out more conditions like those, wouldnât he find someone really quickly?
If even then he still couldnât find someone, does that mean he could only attract slightly bad women like the ones heâd dated before?
Pwah, went Saga-san. He then bursted into laughter.
ăI see, thatâs a hard one. You might have to wait another five years at least.ă
Eh?
Really? Were normal girls like that rare in this world?
Which part made it difficult? Could it be the cooking condition? Maybe the hutâs food condition wasnât especially poor, but rather because there werenât many people who could even cook a proper meal in town to begin with. But surely that couldnât be itâŠ
Bryce-kun glared at Rofas-san with a scary look.
ăThank you for the food! It was yummy. Kirika likes kraken now.ă
ăMe too. Itâs kinda sad not knowing when we can eat it again.ă
Before I realized it, Kirika-chan and Kurtz-kunâs plates were empty.
ăWeâre going to clean up first. You can finish up whateverâs left in the pot. Enjoy the meal.ă
I finished up the daikon I had left and stood up.
The three of us went to wash the dishes and cleaned up.
Afterwards, I looked back before I went back to the room.
Bryce-kun and Saga-san were talking about something enthusiastically.
Rofas-san took the pot and brought it to the table. It looks like itâll be empty by tomorrowâŠ