My Wife Waited in the Wheat Fields

#3 Harvest Festival (4)

After returning home, I encountered memories and relationships in the city center that I visited for the first time.

One day, what was placed as longing in the memory is newly overwritten.

To the disgrace of that, Elric’s time passed helplessly.

“It’s Harvest Festival from today.”

“I guess so. I was very surprised to see that all the wheat fields are bald.”

At the morning meal, Elric responded to Tyria’s words with a chuckle.

The wheat field that had colored the whole world in golden light became an empty field.

The harvest has been successfully completed, and now there is only one thing left to do.

Of course, it was the same for the young people.

“From now on, you will be busy in earnest.”

It wasn’t Tyria.

She had to organize and classify the harvested crops into those that were to be given to the royal family, those that were used for commerce, and those that were harvested for the territories.

After that, I had to do the troublesome task of organizing all the year’s profits.

If Aldio is right, from now on she will be under a really heavy workload.

Elric regretted the fact and asked.

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

“doesn’t exist.”

“Really? I know how to sort documents.”

“It is not very necessary.”

she was adamant

Should I just suck my fingers like this? That was the moment that came to mind.

“Please watch from the sidelines this year. I will teach you in general.”

Oh, that means you don’t need help.

Elric pouted.

“Um… .”

“Only large classifications will be learned. The details are complex enough to be understood only after years of training, so you won’t be able to master them all at once.”

It was a quiet voice, but for some reason the words were not light.

The softly drooping eyes add a sense of weight.

“It just went well. Let’s get into the paperwork today.”

“… Don’t you enjoy the harvest festival?”

“It is enough to stop by for a speech on the last day.”

Did you touch the hive?

“… I’m not very smart.”

“I will endure.”

Shouldn’t it have been said like this?

Elric floated a belated regret.

Nothing changed.

It’s time to pay the penalty for not knowing her patience.

Anyway, this guy’s snout was another problem.

*

“Save me.”

“I didn’t kill him.”

“I think I will die.”

“People don’t die that easily.”

‘Easy to die. A single sword is fair.’

Elric struggled to swallow the words.

The place is the office, the time is the morning of the last day of the Harvest Festival.

Her education was grueling.

The tenacious and meticulous personality did not move on to the next one until one understood the content of the class, and the patient tendency led to the worst result of continuing the class for several hours once it started.

Elric raised the idea that ‘maybe she is more talented in torture than the torture experts of the western war.’

It was that terrible, and that’s why today was so desperate.

“… Shouldn’t you be ready soon? A speech.”

“It is still morning.”

“Lee, are there any rehearsals?”

“I did it beforehand.”

“Which break?”

“You can split your sleep.”

Indeed, Tyria seemed to be a workaholic.

But Elric couldn’t give up.

More than anything, I felt like I just wanted to get out of this boring class.

“… How about taking a break instead? It’s the last day of the festival, so can’t we enjoy it a bit?”

Tyria’s movements stopped.

Elric was desperate. He hoped that the words of a little rest would come out of her mouth, and for some reason, the sky did not forsake him.

“… I thought briefly. For the head of household, this must be the first festival in 10 years.”

It wasn’t for that reason, but Elric nodded frantically.

The more excuses, the better, right?

It worked really well.

Tyria let out a long breath and organized the papers.

“All right. So, today’s class is just that much. Leaving a little early… It would be nice to look around the streets.”

“Good idea! I’m really looking forward to it! I’ll get ready quickly… No, I will prepare slowly and come!”

Elric jumped up and shouted and immediately reached for his staff.

I didn’t see it because I left the office in such a hurry.

Tyria pursed her lips tightly and lowered her head.

Her face was quite red.

*

I was finally freed from the boring classes.

I should have been able to rest for a day or so.

Did your body hurt a little from doing something that didn’t suit your temper in the first place?

For Elric, who hadn’t done anything other than cutting for the past 10 years, sitting still and looking at the ink marks was torture to the point of nausea.

“Bocchan, you should hurry up and change.”

“Let me relax.”

“That’s not enough time, it’s late.”

“Are you supposed to vomit at the master’s words?”

“It is advice. And if someone who can’t even pretend to be the owner properly does that, it’s not scary at all.”

“You fired… .”

“You can’t. Because the lady is responsible for personnel management.”

“… .”

No one was sympathetic to anything.

Of course, it’s funny to take the side of a guy who has returned after running away for 10 years, but isn’t feeling sorry for him?

I thought R.D.O would understand this feeling, but… .

“Bocchan, you can’t escape this time.”

he was adamant

For some reason, I felt like I was back in my childhood when I was scolded for not being immature.

I was aware that I was actually doing something immature, but feeling it was another story.

Elric grumbled and changed his clothes.

It was ready-to-wear.

“You will be on the podium. I don’t give speeches, but I have to dress up right away. I will call the maids.”

“Why do you need maids?”

“You also need to put on makeup.”

“A man in makeup? You are crazy.”

“If I am crazy, then all the nobility and royalty in the world, and even the imperial family, must be crazy.”

“R.D.O, your tongue is long today.”

“You are more immature today.”

Elric sank.

In the end, as R.D.O said, after going through all the nonsense of powdering the skin, I headed for the office with uncomfortable steps.

It’s not that I want to do more work, it’s because the window there is the perfect shape to look down on the outside of the mansion.

kiik-

The door opens and the sunlight pours down into the room before your eyes.

How can an office without work look so beautiful?

The moment the thought came to mind, Elric let out a chuckle.

‘… Now, when I look here, I don’t think of my father first.’

It was a fact that I realized belatedly.

Whether it’s because of her vicious education, or because it’s a thing of the distant past, even after entering the office, the papers she left behind, not her father’s face, catch my eye first.

The moment I open the door to my office, the first thing I think of is the scene where she is sitting at her desk.

This too was an overlapping memory.

Just as the changed downtown area was overlaid on the faded downtown area of the past, the scene drawn when thinking about the office has changed.

Bitterness and willingness came to mind at the same time.

Elric sat down at his desk in the office after looking at the bare wheat fields after harvest.

Took-

My hand touched the unorganized papers.

“hmm?”

Elric turned his head to check the papers.

“This… .”

It was something I learned today.

Didn’t you clean it up? Elric, who inadvertently lifted the document, checked the memo under the document.

From noble mtl dot com

Elric’s eyes widened.

『Deadline, 21st.』

The deadline indicated was today.

Although it was said that it was a timely affair, how can this document, which is not even half processed, be completed within today?

Dozens of what you can see, it would take half a day to solve all of them.

The moment he remembered that, Elric realized.

‘… It takes half a day if you do it while teaching me.’

It wouldn’t be this fast if she handled the work alone.

Elric knew himself to be a slow learner in the business world.

Tyria was teaching things at Elric’s pace.

It must have been because of himself that the deadline was tight in the first place.

The reason why I was allowed to go out early today even though I was so behind.

That, too, began to be engraved in Elric’s head only then.

‘Did you consider me?’

Maybe he slowed down to be considerate of himself who was exhausted.

I wonder if he was worried about his fatigue first even though he was so busy with work.

It was a self-conscious guess, but for some reason, it was because of the attitude she had shown so far that she couldn’t put it down.

Looking back, she was considerate of Elric at every moment.

“… .”

What would happen if it went out like this?

Due to her personality of not saying anything regrettable, she would have closed her mouth after taking care of her work while sleeping alone.

Then she would never have known that she suffered more.

Suddenly, shame arose.

This was just a kid who knew how to whine.

Elric frowned.

He even picked up a pen.

It’s really cunning to just receive without feeling grateful to the person who cared for you.

Elric didn’t want to be that kind of person.

So, I rummaged through the documents for a long time and began to fill in the letters bit by bit, remembering what I had learned.

It was about an hour after Tyria entered.

“house owner?”

She had a surprised face.

Elric said with a shy smile.

“I think the deadline was today. Why didn’t you tell me?”

“that… .”

“I’m sorry. I am not good at understanding your position.”

A look of surprise was evident on Tyria’s face.

It was so embarrassing. Elric lowered his head and said.

“I couldn’t do much. Can you help me?”

Her answer came a step late.

“… Yes, let’s try that.”

It was a quieter voice than usual.

I feel… It didn’t look too bad.

It was fortunate.