Melin's Salvation Plan

Chapter 2

Tepeo Hillderox.

Oh, should I just call him Tepeo since he’s not the Duke yet?

Anyway, he was the first male lead that Azley met among the three main male characters.

The two met each other when they were seventeen years old at the prestigious Military Academy in Lieberden, where Tepeo was the leader of the School of Sword and Azley was the leader of the School of Magic.

The two senior secretaries will stand side by side on the podium to read the oath of admission.

That was the first meeting between the two, and the moment Tepeo became obsessed with Azley.

Because Azley resembles the dead Melinia.

Wow, it’s creepy to think of ‘dead Melania.’

It’s my job now.

Fortunately, I still had a month left before I died.

Even the boy in front of me is not yet the Tepeo of the novel.

It was a ten-year-old, very nice-looking child like me.

Even people, who are quick-witted, think that his gender is a woman.

How did they describe his appearance in the novel?

【Blonde, like the sun over the wheat field.

The lilac-like eyes showed different shades of light from time to time.

In the dark it was like a deep lake; in the bright it was like a mist.】

“…..How is it the same as the novel?”

“Huh?”

“No, let’s go in. I’ll guide you to the nursery.”

When I turned around after finishing my speech, the children gathered at the front door and watched me.

“Would you step aside for a second?”

They started running away when I said that.

“Hick….”

“Hey, Don’t push me…..!”

I glanced back at Tepeo.

He was looking at the children running away with a face that didn’t know the reason.

He’s new here today, and he doesn’t know why, but I knew what was wrong with them.

Other children in the nursery were afraid of children being treated as special as me and supporting character C.

I mean, kids who eat with the highest food.

Hope was as kind as the children on the table, but he was relentless.

“Don’t worry too much. They’re all very sensitive.”

I naturally added explanations and moved into the orphanage.

Tepeo followed me well, twitching at the first time he saw me today.

Supporting character C glanced at Tepeo and whispered in a small voice.

“His hair is so pr, pretty… oh, not as much as yo, you are, but…..!”

And she added quickly whether she thought I would be jealous or not.

Tepeo looks like a girl who’s perfect for her eyes.

It was funny, so I laughed hard and started climbing the stairs.

The nursery school building had a total of three floors, and the room where the children stayed was the top of them.

Up to the end of the stairs, I passed the corridor and stood in front of the last room.

“Now, this is the room you’re going to use.”

“He, here…..?”

It wasn’t Tepeo who answered my question, it was the supporting character C.

She looked anxious and looked alternately at the door.

“Melin, this is yo, your room that you use alone…..”

“So he is staying here . I’m using it by myself.”

“Bu, but…….”

I opened the door without listening to her. A bleak but spacious interior was seen through the open door.

Ten children eating at the table were given private rooms like me, or were sharing a room with two children.

The other rooms were horribly wet, but the director didn’t care a bit about it.

“……is this your room?”

Tepeo hesitated to step over the door.

“No, it’s our room now. We’re going to share it.”

I played ‘Melinia who warmly welcomes Tepeo’ with the brightest smile I could make.

The time I was at now was when the novel’s main story hadn’t started yet.

Where I am was in the past story of male lead, so it was Tepeo’s past.

In Tepeo’s foreign country, Melinia lives in the same room, mistaking Tepeo as a girl from the orphanage.

This is not because Melinia is a fool, but because the nursery did not properly check the origin and gender of Tepeo in the first place and let him in.

Well, long-grown hair and pretty faces also contributed to the misunderstanding.

“Me, melinia. But isn’t it a bit weird to share a room with the pe, people you first met?”

I shook my head at the words of supporting character C.

It wasn’t just a pointless stubbornness, it was also in the novel.

Tepeo, who first entered Wigna nursery, was misunderstood as a girl by Edina, and later shared a room with Melinia.

“I like this kid.”

It would be better to maintain the development of the novel to control the various variables that can occur when escaping.

That’s what I thought, So I let Tepeo have to be in the same room with me today.

But Tepeo was still squirming like a child in front of the room.

He’s acting timidly.

“No, wait…….”

It was frustrating that he was puzzled, but when I smiled as if I didn’t know anything, he blushed.

Hmmm, it was kind of cute.

“Look around. Do you like it?”

I didn’t have much time to look around, but I said so.

I wasn’t too worried because I would say that we would stay here if we came to see the status of other children’s rooms anyway.

Then I suddenly remembered what advice supporting character C left behind.

I turned around a little surprised, but something else had happened, but he had disappeared.

I closed the open door without much concern.

Even then, Tepeo stopped at the position where I had been standing and was only looking around busily.

It was a boy who was obviously shy of the girl’s room.

You can’t do that.

If your gender is found out, my plan will suffer a major setback.

“I haven’t heard your name yet.”

Tepeo looked around the room and halted by my words.

I knew what his name was earlier, but I asked again and pretended I didn’t know.

“What’s your name?”

Perhaps he is struggling to tell my question right now whether to tell the truth or tell a lie.

In the novel, he introduced himself to Melinia as ‘Tepi.’

Because Melina was called by her nickname, he also spoke of her nickname, which marked the peak of the misunderstanding of being a girl.

Here, the answer Tepeo had to answer was fixed.

Now, say ‘Tepi’ now.

Did he hear my silent expectations?

“…..I am.”

After a moment of silence, the child hesitated and slowly tapped his lips.

“My name is Tepeo…”

He broke my expectations with a good look.

Why did you tell me your real name?

However, there was no room for doubt. I rushed to settle the situation.

“Tepeo? It sounds like a boy’s name.”

“No, I’m telling the truth….”

“Tepi! Can I call you Tepi?”

“Not that, but I……!”

“I’m so happy to share a room with such a pretty friend! I was so lonely living alone every day.”

By then, Tepeo looked resigned.

That’s a relief. First of all, I blocked the confession of conscience.

“Tepi, aren’t you happy to share a room with me……?”

I asked with a sullen look. Then Tepeo was surprised and waved his hand.

“N, no…..! I like it, too. It’s great.”

“Really? Wow, that’s a relief!”

I smiled and faced Tepeo with a relieved smile.

I can’t believe a child can make it so complicated.

It seems that Tepeo is not good at lying now. The child changed the subject before saying anything else.

“Since you know the location of the room, let’s get out now. I’ll show you around the nursery.”

“Okay….”

It’s like a main building or an old playground in the yard.

Among them, I chose a playground

The playground was not a strange place even if we were there, but at the same time, adults at the nursery did not visit often.

When Tepeo and I went out to the playground, some children were playing in the dust.

I was going to stay quiet, but it was so noticeable that the children quickly found us.

The children who met my eyes shook the soil and stood up from their seats.

Then, they began to fade away one by one with a look of fear.

Tepeo looked at me with a suspicious face.

“They’re having fun, but why are they all going in all of a sudden?”

“I told you earlier, they’re very sensitive.”

“……”

“Don’t worry. They’ll always end up like that.”

Tepeo didn’t seem to be very convinced, but he didn’t ask me as if he knew that he couldn’t get an answer.

I sat on a chair on one side of the playground and gestured for Tepeo to sit.

“Come and sit down.”

He sat next to me without a murmur.

Before that, Tepeo was so serious.

It was a wonder for me to remember the content of the novel.

“Listen. See the annex over there?”

“Huh? Oh, yeah.”

He immediately found out where the annex I was talking about was.

There was another small building behind the main building where our room was located, and the second floor of the two buildings was connected by a bridge of clouds.

I went on with my voice down.

“You can’t just go in there. Children are not allowed to enter that building.”

“I see.”

“And you can’t go out of the nursery. Edina’s going to scold you a lot. You remember that, right? The woman who brought you here.”

Tepeo nodded with a stiff face as if he had received a bad impression from her.

After that, I told him everything he needed to be careful about in the nursery.

It was mainly things that should not be done, or things that should not be done.

“……and the last, be careful of Father Director.”

“What about the Father Director?”

Tepeo asked back straight away.

He must have been curious about the reason for this remark after listening silently.

I looked up at the annex. Tepeo’s eyes were on the same place as mine.