PMBPHP Chapter 109

“The weather is nice, so why don’t you have a cup of tea in the garden?”
Mia, the maid, suggested it, and I decided to enjoy afternoon tea with Gresis-sama and the others.

I enjoyed tea alone enough, but it’s definitely more fun to have it with Gresis-sama and my brothers-in-law.

My brothers-in-law are strict about sweets. I told the cook in advance, so there are all kinds of sweets on the table.
Black tea was also prepared with tea leaves that are not found in the Tenar Kingdom.

“They’re wonderful sweets. All of them are exquisite. Lilith try it too.”
Timir-oniisama tried to feed me cookies, and Gresis-sama took it and ate it.

“Gresis is completely narrow-minded. It’s just a friendly appeal to show the people around us that we’re not scary.”
“What is a friendly appeal?”

Gresis-sama doesn’t seem to be convinced.
I see, Timir-oniisama’s behavior made sense.

“Um, Gresis-sama.”

It’s embarrassing to do it in public, but in order to appeal that they are friendly, I picked a bite-sized tart and put it in Gresis-sama’s mouth.

“. . . .”
Gresis-sama widened his eyes for a moment, and then ate it.
His lips touched my fingers and my heart throbbed.

“Lilith, can you feed me next?”

Timir-oniisama said with a smile, but I hesitated.
Timir-oniisama has a loving wife called Sherry-oneesama.

“Even if it’s your sister-in-law, if Timir-oniisama is eating from the hands of another woman, I think Sherry-oneesama doesn’t like it.”

Timir-oniisama put his cheek on the table and smiled softly.

“Lilith doesn’t like me, do you?”

Maybe I’ve been misunderstood.
I make excuses in a hurry.

“No, it’s not that I don’t like Timir-oniisama. . .”
“It’s okay, I know. Good for you, Gresis. You’re loved.”
“You don’t have to tell me that.”

Gresis-sama coughed and drank a sip of tea.
Timir-oniisama, who was somehow looking around, widened his eyes.

“Even so, the garden here has a wide variety of flowers. There are many types that are not in our country. I wonder if it’s the difference in altitude.”
Timir-oniisama is seriously looking at the flowers.

“Is Timir-oniisama interested in flowers?”

“That’s right, beastman women are fascinated by rare flowers. There are a lot of good effects, so it’s good for gifts. Especially beastman men have a hard time with presents, so before they know more about flowers and jewelry, they will become familiar with various things.”

Certainly, my father-in-law also said that he wanted to give my mother-in-law the flowers of the Kingdom of Seiran as a present.

“That’s right. Mia, can you call the gardener?”
“Understood.”

Before I waited long, the gardener came.
Ganza, a male gardener who has been playing in the soil with me since I was young.

“Ganza, I want to take the flowers here back to the Tenar Kingdom, is it possible?”

The flowers in the royal palace basically require my father’s permission.
But only in my garden, I can do it freely.

“Please go ahead. I raised it for Lilith-sama. I’ll send it to you to receive when Lilith-sama arrives at the Tenar Kingdom, okay? With Lilith-sama’s carriage, flowers don’t hold.”

“Really? I’m happy. If you have seeds, please. Oh yeah, do you remember that flower that I was told couldn’t bloom? It’s only a little, but the gardener of the Tenar Kingdom made them bloom.”

I didn’t do anything, but I reported it with pride.

“That one? Oh, the beastman gardener is also quite good.”
The gardener Ganza’s eyes shone.
I felt like he could be a good friend with the gardener, Fermes.

“Tymir-oniisama, they can send me flowers. Would you be happy if we all shared it?”

Timir-oniisama had a big smile that I had never seen before.

“You asked for me, didn’t you? Thank you, my wife and mother will definitely be happy. Hey, Frair, our sister-in-law is too cute.”
“Isn’t it too late. She’s always been cute.”

Frair-oniisama said something embarrassing while chewing on macaroons.

“Don’t touch Lilith. It’s beyond a brother-in-law’s territory.”

Gresis-sama brushed off the hand of Timir-oniisama who kept petting me.

“Rare flowers, the women of the royal family will be the envy of the social world.”
“The wreath and the ribbon, Lilith is involved in everything.”

Timir-oniisama and Frair-oniisama started talking about the social world.
I felt like my name came out.
The party should have only been attended once by me at the National Foundation Festival.

“Did I do something at the dance party of the National Foundation Festival?”
I was worried and asked Gresis-sama.

“You were so beautiful that there was no problem.”
“. . . !”

I’m caught off guard by the sudden compliment and blush.

“Lilith, is the friendly appeal over already? I want to eat the cookies there.”

It’s a little cute to see Gresis-sama pointing at a cookie with nuts and complaining.

“I completely forgot. It’s better to continue until the tea party is over.”

If we stop suddenly, they might think it’s an act after all.
While carrying a cookie to Gresis-sama’s mouth with my hand, I suddenly remembered the feel of the lips that touched my finger earlier.

“Um, please don’t eat my fingers.”
“. . . I’ll be as careful as possible.”
After saying that, I saw a smiling face and guessed.

He definitely doesn’t want to be careful!

 

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Lilith is catching on to Gresis’s way of thinking.

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