20 years had passed when I woke up! ~ The villain's daughter’s thereafter and after that ~ - Chapter 13

Translator: Darling | Editor: Nebosuke

Fioria qualified as a tamer.

She should be able to keep the Mofumofu family openly!

Shouldn’t she?

“What are you going to do with 101 of them? Take them back to the woods.”

Graham De Florence.

It was the man who was once called the “Ice Prime Minister” in the imperial court, and Fioria’s father.

He shook his head with an ice-cold expression.

“I’ll look after them.”

“Can you feed them all? No, wait, what do Fenrir species eat in the first place?”

“They are carnivores. They were happily chewing on Wyvern flesh and bones.”

It just lately happened that a large swarm of Wyverns rampaged near the capital.

However, they caused no damage after all, because Fioria and her three companions (Saar, Kiji, Nooy) exterminated them all. By the way, all of the Wyvern’s carcasses were collected by Fioria and fed to Mofumofu and his family.

“Don’t worry about the feeding cost. I may start a new business. Lex, can you bring that over?”

“Surely, my lady. Right away.”

Her servant, who was waiting diagonally behind Fioria, walked out of the room immediately. 

He came back within a few minutes holding a tea cup in his hand. 

“Dad, try this first? It’s a bit bitter, but you’ll love it.”

“Wow…, what is this?”

It was coffee.

Coffee beans were recently discovered on the new continent.

A few people knew it, even they didn’t know that it could be a beverage though. 

Fioria, however, had a memory from her previous life.

She knew that it was expected to be a popular product on a global scale, so she had already started managing a coffee bean farm on the new continent.

“It’s strange… it’s bitter, but I want to drink more for some reason.”

“That’s what coffee does. I’ll sell it to the Tristan aristocrats via the Granford Company. After that, I’ll export it abroad.”

A trading company founded 20 years ago by Fioria.

That was the Granford Company.

Its main business was trading with the new continent and the East. The company was already generating huge profits by then. 

Nowadays, it became one of the top trading companies, not only in the Kingdom of Tristan, but on the Bristolian Continent. The company managed to become a royal purveyor of several monarchs. 

“And that’s not all. We’ve got permission from Mofumofu to cut their hair each season. Fenrir fur clothes or rugs do not exist anywhere in the world yet, right? I think selling their fur products will easily cover up the food cost.”

“Typical Fioria…”

Graham grinned. 

He really intended to give her an okay right on the bat.

After all, it was a request from his beloved daughter. He had no way to say no. 

But, if he said yes on the spot, the chat with his sweet daughter would end there.

Graham just wanted a talk with his daughter, and for just that reason, he answered no.

A twisted 59-year-old man. 

A brusque, clumsy and shy man who was almost 60 years old and formerly a Prime Minister.

His personality was quite hard to understand. 

“What do you think, Dad? Do you still mind if I keep Mofumofu and his family?

“Okay, but on one condition,” Graham said with a stern look.

“Can I pat Mofumofu?”

*****

Graham had a secret desire.

He wanted to touch fluffy animals.

He wanted to pet and rub them.

If he could bury his face in the fur, it would surely be such a joy for him. 

However, it had never been achieved even since the day he was born.  

“I want to get along with animals, but … they always run away.”

“Dad, you are too intimidating.”

“You are intimidating too, Fioria.”

On the contrary, animals loved her for whatever reason. 

It seemed to be so strange to Graham.

Fioria kept on going.

“If the animal is afraid of you, you need to teach them who their boss is. Once the discipline is done, be nice and kind to them. Then any animal will love you.”

In a nutshell, carrot and whip.

But the truth was, animals might die in shock as she gave them a whip.

“Now, let’s call in Mofumofu. Patting his fur is so comfortable. Please hold your mind tight.”

“What does it mean?”

“It’s extremely hypnotic. Even I get sleepy.”

Fioria clapped her hands.

It was a signal to call her pet dog.

Fioria and Graham stood in the courtyard of the villa, and within a few seconds, two shadows appeared right in front of them.

“What can I do for you, master?”

“You look gorgeous as usual, my lady Fioria.”

Both were magical wolves boasting their amazing power.

The white one was Mofumofu.

It was Fioria’s loyal dog pet that had evolved into a new monster breed over the past 20 years.

Recently, the Demon Research Department of Royal Academy had registered him as new species named “Fenrir Albino”.

The black one was Lemuris.

She was the so-called Fenrir demon.

She was also the wife of Mofumofu.

“Mofumofu, I wonder if you can make my father’s wish come true.”

“Okay, as far as I remember, your dad was a Prime Minister of the imperial court. Do you want me to tear his political rivals into pieces? Or do you want me to delete their territory from the map? I can do it right away, whichever one you want.”

“No. Just stay still there for now. Don’t move no matter what. All good?”

“Huh? Okay…”

He responded so, but Mofumofu couldn’t get it.

Lemuris, on the other hand, seemed aware of what was going on, and winked at Fioria.

Lemuris was somehow too sexy as a demon wolf.

“Go ahead, Dad.”

“Alright then.”

Graham cleared his throat.

He checked his clothes and straightened his coat and pants hem for whatever reason.

His eyes suddenly became scary.

Graham’s ambiance turned to be intense and even fierce. 

He himself was just so excited for his long-cherished dream to pat an animal, but for people who didn’t know him, he only looked like he was going to beat up the wolf monster.

“…!”

“…!”

Graham and Mofumofu met eyes. 

Tension between the two went up.

Graham moved first.

He stretched out his arms and touched Mofumofu’s back.

So fluffy!

“Oh, oh …”

There was a startling expression on Graham’s face.

“Uh, oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!”

Fluffy, fluffy, fluffy.

“What a touch! What warmth! This is heaven …!”

Fluffy, fluffy, fluffy, fluffy, fluffy, fluffy.

“Nice, so nice. Oh, Flora, you came to pick me up …!”

“Go easy, Dad!”

Fioria grabbed and shook Graham’s head because he was about to pass out being overjoyed and ecstatic.

“Do you want to jeopardize the reputation of Florence family? Do you want your cause of death to be ‘petting family pet’? It would be a shame for our descendants. It’s much better if I cut you in half and end your life here right now.”

“Forgive me… this is fantastic. So cool. Wowww. Nice, nice, niceeee!”

Graham laughed like an anime villain character in a roleplay game.

He was totally exhilarated.

“… Master, what’s going on?”

Mofumofu didn’t know what to do and frowned.

“I never thought your dad would be like this.”

“Let him be, because his life-long dream has just come true.”

Fioria kindly and warmly looked at her father more than ever. 

“Oh, I’m so happy. I love it!”

Graham seemed totally satisfied and finally stepped away from Mofumofu. 

“Thank you, Mofumofu. You made my day.”

“Great if I made you happy.”

“If you don’t mind, can I pat Lemuris too?”

“No way.”

Mofumofu replied in a slightly lower growling voice.

And then, he stood in front of Graham as if he was guarding Lemuris.

“I’m the only one guy in the world who can touch Lemuris.”

“Right.”

Graham nodded.

“I shouldn’t have asked you that. I understand. I would do the same if someone tried to touch Flora’s hair. Forgive me.”

“Apology accepted. Forgive me if I was rude to you.”

“Oh, no, I was rude to you. Not you.”

“No, I was rude.”

Mofumofu and Graham kept apologizing to each other. 

And there, they heard a puppy whimpering. 

“Koon, koon, koooon…”

The youngest of the 99 offspring, Pofupofu, who looked quite like a little puppy, ran up.

Pofupofu held Graham’s trousers in his mouth and pulled it over.

It was like he was saying, “Play with me!”

“What……!”

Graham was utterly shocked, because it was the first time in his life that an animal had come up to him voluntarily.

“Graham, Pofupofu seems to like you. Would you mind playing with him?” Mofumofu kindly asked Graham. 

“Why not!”

He felt he had never been so nervous, even when he worked as Prime Minister.

Graham carefully held up Pofupofu.

“Lap, lap, lap.”

“Huh, ha ha! Oh, that tickles! Ha ha ha!”

Graham looked as if he returned to his childhood while Pofupofu licked his cheek.

He looked so innocent and Fioria couldn’t stop smiling.

However.

The sweet time was disturbed all of sudden.

Urgent news arrived.

There were three men of the Canossa family who were supposed to be imprisoned because they embezzled the Knights’ funds.

They were Conrad the head of the family, his eldest son Bruno, and his second son Heinrich.

Three of them all escaped from jail and raised their army within their territory of the Duke of Canossa.

“Well… I wonder if someone deliberately let these men escape.”

The three men were from the Duke family and had a wide range of connections.

Because of this reason, the investigation of their fund-embezzlement was going nowhere, and their trial was postponed again and again.

In order to resolve everything quickly, a totally different tactic was desperately in need. King Vincent might’ve been the one plotting this. 

“Yeah, I really like it if so, Vince! Shall I lend you a hand?”

She couldn’t stop smirking and thought about how to unleash an attack on the Duke of Canossa.