I am the eldest daughter of the Lee family. (Well, technically.)
If I'm the eldest, I'm the eldest. Why the asterisk?
Because there is another "firstborn" in our house traveling through dimensions.
“Maria~ Where are you?”
So, even though I was born first, I'm the second. Everyone treats me as the eldest, but anyway, I'm number two.
It's stupid.
“Maria? You should have answered if you were here! I almost went out to look for you.”
“It's the time I'm usually home, why are you calling me?”
“It's your graduation soon, isn't it? I came to ask what you're going to wear. I've laid out about ten outfits for now...”
The clothes on the living room floor. Did she really confidently bring those out calling them clothes?
She's my mom, but she's truly innocent. She tries to wear clothes meant for Mass to a graduation ceremony.
What the hell is that soutane? Is she bragging "I'm a religious figure"?
“Put all that away and wear a suit. The one Big Mom bought you.”
“Huh? But my characteristics will die in that...”
“Mom, your silver hair with those highlights stands out too much, that's the problem. Kill your characteristics a bit.”
Is it okay for a religious person to dye their hair like that? And to say her faith is real after doing that... scary.
“Puu... Mom is hurt.”
“Are you planning to make your daughter die of embarrassment on her graduation day?”
“Noope. I will go put them away!”
As you've heard, my graduation day is coming soon. The graduation ceremony that decorates the end of high school.
Every other family would be happy about their child's graduation,
But not me.
To me, graduation is murder.
-Click!
“Daughter! Dad just came to ask...”
“Get out.”
-Bang!
A space for social suicide where my embarrassing dad and moms gather.
It's a hell where everyone is so beautiful that you can't shake off people's gazes even if you try.
Before I entered kindergarten, I thought our family's looks were average.
Even after entering, I didn't find it strange that peers and teachers were exceptionally kind to me.
I felt it during the open class day when everyone was just staring at my mom.
Our family consists of criminals who cause discord in other households.
When Mom innocently smiled and talked to other parents, everyone grinned like idiots as if they had planned it.
Naturally, the wives standing next to them looked at their husbands as if they wanted to kill them.
The fact that only mothers came to the next open class... was probably the connection to that.
Though Dad came that day and turned things upside down again.
Ah, I don't know. I don't want to think about it.
The time I almost died from embarrassment the most was when my youngest mom, Draco, got hit on by my middle school friends and they asked for her number.
I didn't know why Youngest Mom gave out her number so excitedly back then, but now I know.
’To think that was all to induce Dad's jealousy. It really gives me goosebumps.‘
The final graduation. It‘s not middle school, but high school graduation; how bad will it be?
It might be worse, but it certainly won't be less.
’God, Buddha, Allah, please!‘
Still, please. I pray that at least this final graduation passes quietly.
Fuyuki's last winter is too cold.
“What did Maria say?”
“She didn't even answer me and slammed the door.”
“What do we do? Is Maria going through puberty?”
“Maria has always been sensitive. It's her high school graduation, so she must be even more sensitive.”
“I still haven't decided on clothes...”
Johanna mumbled with her lips before speaking.
“Is a soutane too much after all? But since it's Maria's graduation, I wanted to generously bless her with Holy Words...”
“Hmm. It feels like a miracle will occur at the graduation if you do that, so let's not!”
“Aww...”
Pope. Living as a housewife seems to have made you forget your true identity.
You are a real Saint!
You really could feed everyone attending the graduation with five loaves of bread and two fish!
“Instead of that, let's ask Tamamo about the clothes.”
“Ah, right! That would work!”
“I'll send you a knit top and jeans, so please wear those. You can just wear a light windbreaker for the cold. Could you please put away that soutane that reeks of holy aura?”
“Yes!”
It was really fortunate to have a fashion model in the family.
How luxurious is it that a woman who has held the spot of the industry's top fashion model for 10 years gives fashion advice when you call Italy?
Johanna accepted without complaint. Actually, it suited her very well.
“Oh, right. Tamamo.”
“Yes, Father?”
“We're married, so that title is... Never mind. You can come to Maria's graduation, right?”
“Of course. I cleared my entire schedule starting a year ago. I didn't even book any schedules that would interfere with family events in the first place.”
“Perfect. Very good.”
Tamamo's eyes curved beautifully over the video call.
“Come to think of it... It's about time to have a second one, Father♡ Right?”
“I'm hanging up.”
I need to call the others overseas too.
“Of course. As it is Maria's final graduation, we are preparing a celebratory performance that is second to none. Naturally, I will participate too.”
“Huh? Didn't you miss the middle school graduation?”
“Fairy-Britain Corporation's growth matched our predictions perfectly, so I have free time for exactly this week.”
Morgan also seems to have made time amidst her busy life as a conglomerate chairman.
Judging by her words, she seems to have timed the company's stabilization for now, but let's not think too deeply.
Asking "Is that possible?" stopped being a thing by the third year of marriage.
When Gilgamesh said she acquired Apple or Tesla. I stopped judging with my own common sense.
It was also around that time that Morgan built her company as if competing.
I still remember Gilgamesh hitting the ground in regret when Morgan bragged about acquiring Samsung.
What did she say back then?
-Was playing company fun? I focused more on Kyle's homeland. You lack love, Gilgamesh.
-Damn it... You caught me off guard!
I don't know what acquiring a Korean company has to do with me, but anyway, Gilgamesh was very regretful.
Which one has a higher market cap now, Fairy-Britain or Babylonia? I should look it up later.
“That's amazing. As expected of Morgan.”
“Of course, Kyle. I plan to arrive tomorrow on my private jet.”
Competition is the wives' share.
Giving pleasant words like ’Fighting‘, ’I'm always cheering for you‘, and ’I love you‘ is the job of a trophy husband.
I'm essentially a cheerleader.
“Right. Maria will be really happy if you come. She was secretly disappointed last time.”
“I will bring Baobhan Sith as well. We have a present for Maria, so I'm already looking forward to it.”
“Isn't Baobhan Sith's graduation coming up soon too? How is the Clock Tower? Is she doing okay?”
“Who would dare touch our daughter? Rest assured, Kyle.”
I could clearly picture Morgan smiling.
We chatted about this and that.
We just talked about recent events, but two hours passed in a flash.
Considering the time difference, it's about time to hang up.
I asked one last thing.
“Morgan. About laying down the Fairy Kingdom. Do you regret it?”
Silence followed. Just as my hands were about to sweat, Morgan let out a smile.
“Wasn't it you who taught me what is truly precious, Kyle? I am happiest right now.”
“...That's a relief then.”
“However, there is something I haven't obtained yet.”
“What is it?”
“A successor. Why am I the only one who can't get pregn...”
I pressed the end call button.
The next day. Gilgamesh visited.
The golden sports car revved its exhaust so loudly that it was impossible not to know.
It's not just paint. That shining body is entirely gold.
Technically, she said it was a new alloy made with alchemy, but I don't remember well.
Anyway, I walked down to the entrance of the mansion to welcome Gilgamesh.
The car door lifted up, and a woman adorned in gold stepped out.
“Welcome back. Gilgamesh, if you said you were coming, I would have gone to the airport to meet you.”
“Hmph. If we did that, the subjects blinded by my radiance would have surely bothered you. I cannot commit such a dull act.”
“You say that knowing your golden sports car has become a Reels and Shorts specialty, right?”
“Silence. Take care of our child.”
Child?
“What are you doing! Come out quickly!”
At Gilgamesh's command, the passenger door opened.
Golden hair resembling Gilgamesh and purple eyes resembling me. Shoulders hunched due to a timid personality—it's unmistakable!
“Enkidu, you came too!”
“Yes... Dad. I'm here.”
“Yeah, yeah. Mom bullied you every day, right? You've been through a lot. Let's go inside quickly.”
“Ha! I merely taught him an attitude befitting his name.”
Enkidu is mine and Gilgamesh's son and the third child of our family. The eldest son.
His name was naturally taken from Enkidu, and perhaps because of that, Gilgamesh cherishes him exceptionally even among our children.
However, the only worry is that his personality has become completely timid due to listening to Gilgamesh's shouting since childhood.
Wait, Enkidu is a worry? No. That's not it.
-Ring-ding-dong.
“...Is that a girlfriend calling?”
“No. Dad... it's a senior.”
“If it's a senior, is it the one who came to the house begging to marry you for 300 million won like you mentioned last time?”
“That senior already transferred schools. This senior is someone I bumped into coming out of the restroom, and she's been contacting me ever since.”
“...She doesn't give you 1 million won every month?”
“Not 1 million, she sends 3 million won...”
I touched my forehead.
Son. Did you seduce another woman?
“Hahahaha! That is natural for my son. Suck the marrow out of them, Enkidu.”
“What are you teaching your son?! Are you trying to ruin someone else's precious daughter's life?”
“Oho. It is natural for subjects to offer wealth to the King. Do you not know taxes?”
“Because you say things like that, Enkidu carries around four phones! One for calls, one for texts, one for checking remittance texts, and one for personal use!”
Enkidu poked my waist slightly.
“Um, Dad. It's five now. I added one for returning the money.”
“This is driving me crazy, really. Why that one?”
“I don't know why, but it seems a competition started among the noonas regarding the allowance amount they give me. Because of people trying to go into debt to give me allowance... Big Mother made me one more.”
He does all sorts of things.
I pinched Gilgamesh's side as she was about to burst into laughter again.
“Are you controlling your Mystic Eyes well?”
“I can't be sure. So I'm planning to receive a Holy Relic from Small Mother (Johanna) this time.”
“Johanna's? I don't know if a Holy Relic will be effective.”
Our son inherited the Mystic Eyes of Charm that Gilgamesh possesses.
Since ordinary people don't have Magic Resistance, we taught him techniques to control the Mystic Eyes strictly from a young age.
Gilgamesh opposed it, but she lost 4 to 1 in the family meeting.
Morgan taught the control, so there should be no problem.
But why do women keep swarming him?
Tamamo said:
-Our eldest son is, how should I put it... He stimulates women's maternal instincts? Since he exudes pheromones like a rain-soaked puppy just by breathing, it's natural that they can't leave him alone.
-That exists? Even though he's Gilgamesh's son?
-He is also Father's son, you know?
The heaven-sent looks possessed by Gilgamesh.
The pheromone(?) that attracts women given by me combined to create this son.
He became a human disaster where women faint just by him walking, men with flushed faces speak to him, and entertainment agencies fight to recruit him.
“Um, can I go inside? People keep staring...”
“Yeah. Go in quickly. Dad will talk to Mom and then go.”
“Okay...”
We purposely bought a mansion in a sparsely populated area, but people started approaching as if possessed.
Poor Enkidu. He even developed social anxiety because of the unwanted popularity.
The worry is endless.
I sent Enkidu inside the mansion quickly and glared at Gilgamesh.
“Gilgamesh. I recall sending Enkidu to study abroad to cure his social anxiety?”
“...Ahem. I did my best. I sent him to a high school in a region facing extinction in Korea and gave him the best care. The first year was fine, but we couldn't stop the subjects moving to see Enkidu.”
...Moving, not just transferring schools, just to see Enkidu?
“They begged him to stay for regional development. The President did.”
“The President...?”
“He promised the best support. He said he would completely exempt taxes imposed on Babylonia.”
“Completely exempt... corporate taxes? Does he know how many Babylonia merchant ships go in and out of Busan Port?”
Gilgamesh shrugged her shoulders.
This means the President valued the benefit Enkidu alone brings to regional development higher than the damage the Korean economy suffers by exempting taxes on goods carried by dozens of cargo ships weighing thousands of tons.
“Money can be created, but people's hearts cannot be controlled, can they? If one can control people's hearts with money, it is an attractive deal.”
Gilgamesh's explanation didn't enter my ears.
My head is throbbing.
Maria and Enkidu are one year apart. That means they are still minors.
How chaotic will Enkidu's graduation be? My head hurts already.