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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
The official name of Queen Floria’s castle was Amamiya Castle.
The name was a simple one, but since the castle was located in Amamiya Tower, they left it named that.
Incidentally, the city of the 5th Floor was named Amamiya (City).
It still did not have an official name, but as it was the castle town of Amamiya Castle, it could have been called Amamiya.
Three years after the establishment of the Kingdom of Razequa Amamiya, the name “Amamiya City” was completely established by the residents.
One corner of Amamiya Castle, the residence of Queen Floria, was assigned to another non-royal residence.
That other person was Sylvia, who was in a supporting position to Floria.
Sylvia had initially tried to rent a house in the castle town, but Floria forced her hand.
The reason was that it was too much trouble to send her subordinates to the town every time she wanted to rent a house.
Sylvia was puzzled by the reason, but Floria’s aides were pleased to hear it.
Sylvia rarely meddled in political matters.
She sometimes consulted with Floria and listened to her, but usually she left such matters to the ministers in her entourage.
The reason Sylvia stays by Floria’s side was to deal with religious issues when they arise.
Simply put, she dealt with the various issues that arose involving Kousuke, the current living god.
Razequa Amamiya was not a point of contact for Kousuke, but it was completely aligned with him from the view of other continents.
No matter how many times they said it had nothing to do with Kousuke, it was all for naught.
Razequa Amamiya also believed that they had no choice in this matter, so it was left for both sides to make up their own minds.
But that did not stop Razequa Amamiya in handling Kousuke’s matters on their own.
After all, it was a matter that concerned God, and there was a possibility that the country itself would disappear if they made a bad move.
Even though Floria was the Queen, she could not make a mistake in this regard.
In fact, that was why it was necessary to make a clear distinction between the two.
That was what Sylvia’s position represented.
Sylvia, who was already known to the public as Kousuke’s Priestess, was the perfect person for the job.
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Sylvia opened the door to the room she had been assigned after finishing her duties for the day and couldn’t help but smile at the sight before her.
“Oh dear.”
A fox had curled up and was sleeping with her child, as if protecting her recently born child.
Of course, the nanny was right beside them in case anything went wrong.
She noticed Sylvia coming into the room and greeted her with just a glance.
Sylvia too bowed her head so as not to wake the child.
Sylvia, who was busy as a Priestess for Kousuke, could not raise the children on her own, so she decided to hire a nanny.
Like Floria’s children, Kousuke was rarely directly involved in their upbringing, as he was too much of an influence on the people around him.
Kousuke himself looked disappointed, but there was nothing he could do about it.
If Sylvia had not been involved in the management of Razequa Amamiya and spent her time only on the management floor, this would not have been the case, but Sylvia persuaded him not to do so.
Sylvia named her first child Kokoro.
She named him Kousuke.
In Kanji, the name was written “Shinyu,” but in this world, where the concept of Kanji doesn’t exist, it was written in local letters with the pronunciation “Kokoro”.
Kousuke’s current ambition was to eventually teach kanji and their meanings.
Anyway, the fox by Kokoro’s side was Wanri.
Like Floria’s two children, the foxes had always been by their side.
When the children were about to cry, they comforted them by using their tails and bodies, and when they were unhappy, they would let the nanny know.
The children would even get grumpy when the fox was not around.
It might be due to the fact that neither of their parents was around, but both Floria and Sylvia were grateful for the help of the foxes.
Perhaps there were some standards among the foxes, but only those who could be humanized came to help with child-rearing.
However, they rarely humanized themselves in front of the children and nannies, and spent most of their time in fox form.
Sylvia asked Wanri once why, and he replied, “Because it is easier for them to understand the children’s feelings when they are in fox form”.
The reason she occasionally shows her humanized form was so that the children would not be surprised when they grew up.
When Sylvia asked the reason for this, she was impressed that Wanri was thinking that far in the future.
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Wanri, though asleep, or perhaps could be said to be a quicksilver fox, had not lost her wildness, and she immediately realized that Sylvia had returned.
She looked up slightly to see Sylvia, but quickly put her head down and fell asleep again.
When Wanri was present she was completely focused on babysitting, perhaps because she was in her fox form.
She rarely comes close to Sylvia, as if to insist that her main focus was Kokoro.
That did not mean that she did not want Sylvia to pet her, though.
“Fu… fuee…”
She heard her daughter cry for a moment as she listened to her nanny tell her about her day a short distance away from where she was sleeping.
Apparently she woke up and tried to cry because she thought there was no one beside her, but Wanri noticed right away and wagged her tail.
She was still following the wagging tail with her eyes left and right.
The child, however, got bored fast.
She soon lost her concentration, but when Wanri noticed this, she would lick her cheeks.
Sylvia watched the funny scene with a smile, but when Kokoro noticed Sylvia and reached for her, she decided to pick her up.
Wanri knew what she was doing and curled up again without protest.
Kokoro remained quiet in her mother’s arms for a while, but it was Wanri who first noticed something was wrong.
She was sitting on a chair holding Kokoro in her arms, when Wanri came over to her.
Sylvia noticed her attitude.
“Oh my. Should I change her diaper?”
She looked at Wanri as if to confirm, but it was apparently the right answer.
“Hai, hai. I have a new one ready.”
The nanny, who immediately noticed the exchange between Sylvia and Wanri, brought a replacement diaper.
“Thank you.”
Sylvia received the diaper and changed it in a familiar manner.
Wanri was not wrong.
“Dah!”
Kokoro, now in her new diaper, waved her hands around in a good mood.
As one could see, the foxes were very good babysitters, and that did not change at all even after the children grew up.
When they were small children, they would move around as playmates, and when they reached adulthood, they would stay by their side as a comforting presence.
