We were back home.
A house with a thatched roof. With a small field surrounded by wooden fences was nearby. The golden wheat grown there blew by the wind and waved.
Opened the front door and entered the house.
The living room was quiet.
"Chichiue, I can't see the figure of Meryl."
"It's weird. She was in the bedroom when we went to sword training..... Could she be, not waking up yet."
I looked to the bedroom for confirmation.
――She was there.
My prejudice was right.
The futon was still as it was when I saw it this morning.
Meryl, who looked like a turtle from a futon, laid down in peaceful sleep, leaking a sound of "Suaa~...".
".....Oioi, It's already near lunchtime you know?"
She sleep too much
"This kid is really really lazy."
Anna put her hand on her forehead and had an amazed face.
From the point of view by a firm person, Anna, Meryl, who was still sleeping until noon, it was a flagrant view.
"Meryl. Wake up. It's already noon."
I shook Meryl's body wrapped in a futon.
"Nnya. Me-chan, still want to sleep."
"No. Get up now."
"Muu.... I understand. But if you want me to really get up, papa, kiss on my cheek."
"What are you talking about?"
"You see, a princess awaken with the kiss of the prince ?"
"What are you talking about?"
I said it again.
"Meryl. You're not a princess. You're a little sister of mine. So don't bother Papa.....Chichiue further."
"Mou. Elsa is still stubborn as usual yes. It's okay. Separately. Papa. Hurry kiss on my cheek ?"
"Will you get up afterward?"
"I'll get up. I'll get up. I'll get up immediately."
"... Geez, I have no choice."
Then I crouched at Meryl's bedside, I lightly kissed the cheek that Merrill was holding out.
"Will you got up, as promised?"
"Unn? Papa's kiss is good?!"
"..... if so, it's a good thing"
Even if my daughter said that I was good at kissing.....
Meryl smiled and raised her upper body from the futon.
Cute and rounded eyes. Separated by good nose. Cherry blossom-colored lips. The youngest, Meryl, was the most girlish girl of the three sisters.
And, he was also a spoiled child.
She almost always glued to me, and when I eat, she almost always said "ahhhhh" and tried to make me fed her.
Meryl said while looked at Elsa's face beside me.
"Nee, is Elsa also want to be kissed?"
"――!?"
Elsa dyed her clean face like pottery, in bright red.
"Don't say foolish things! A, a weak thing like a kiss ... A swordsman like me doesn't need it!"
"It again. But you're embarrassed. Elsa is also a spoiled child yes."
Meryl said and opened her hands towards me. When she looked up, she made a sweet voice like cream.
"Papa~. Please change my clothes from pajamas~?!"
"Meryl is too spoiled to me"
"Because I love papa much~ ?"
It made me smiled unintentionally.
However――I have a cause for spoiling her every time.
It would be unavoidable to be reproached as an idiot doting father if I saw my ten-year-old daughter was changing pajamas into clothes each time.
But she was so cute that I couldn't help with it.
It was not limited to Meryl. Elsa and Anna were about the same.
"Meryl. What happened to the magic school? Today has a class, right?"
Anna asked with her arms crossed.
Meryl attended a magic school in the village to study magic.
"Ehehehe. I'm skipped."
"Skipped.....you are. It's not free to attend the school you know. Papa has paid it with money."
"Because it's so boring. The class level is too low. I'm even better at using magic than the teacher at school, you know? look, look here"
Meryl said that, and lifted her index finger.
Then――.
An Ice crystal flower bloomed at her fingertips.
"Is it ... ice magic? Meryl. Where did you learn it?"
"The other day, papa taught me water magic, right? That's why I was able to do it while I was trying various things."
The application of water magic――It was not a technique that could be done by 10 years old child.
There were many adult magicians who could not reach this area. And she achieved it easily.
Meryl was by far the most skilled at the magic of the three sisters.
She also learned and swallowed quickly.
She absorbed the magic I taught her like a dry sponge. Not only that, she also could do the application as it was now.
It was such an incredible talent that I was looking forward to her future.
"Ehehehe?! It's amazing, right. Compliment me compliment me~?!"
When I patted Meryl's head, she joyfully loosened her cheeks.
She looked like a kitten.
"It's better to study magic like this while flirting with papa at home rather than going to class to study magic."
"You can't, papa is busy. He doesn't have time to focus on Meryl only. So you have to go to school and take classes properly."
"Hu-hu-hurd! Anna, it hurt! It's hurt you know! Don't pull my ear~"
"Do you will go to school properly?"
"Going! I'm going!"
"Then, it's good ?"
Anna smiled and turned to me, then said,
"Papa, don't worry. I'll responsibly make Meryl to attend the school. Papa just need to concentrate on the job."
"Ye, yeah"
Anna was really reliable.
So, Meryl might have grown up from that spoiled state soon.