ARCHDEUS

SPRING(2)

Not far from where Alex was, Justin stood still while looking at the buds of flowers that had not yet bloomed. Whenever he saw his master and the two children, he would feel nostalgic with his two younger sisters. It had been two years that Justin had not returned home until he had only filled his yearning by writing a letter to his family.

Justin was shocked to discover that there were two women nearby. First was Clara who was one of the hostesses as well as the mother of the oldest young master. The second was a knight lady who had blue navy hair, Erline.

"Mrs!"

Justin shouted and immediately paid his respects. He also greeted Erline kindly.

Clara returned Justin's greetings kindly but her gaze could not be separated from the tall figure not far from them.

The figure was his son who was the person with the highest body in the mansion. Even Harol and Jared only have a height of 174 cm and 167 cm. 16-year-old Alex is 182cm tall!

But ....

Clara was lonely. Though Alex is a child born from his own flesh and blood but why is his son always with two children who do not even have a bloodline?

Clara could only look at the three people hugging each other with envy. This is what makes his hands a little bit scratchy.

"Dad! Merry can write!"

After they were satisfied enough to hug, Alex dropped off his two children. Merry and Alven doodled the snow above the ground using the branches of trees. Merry is the most enthusiastic person because he has managed to write his own father's name on the snow after going through a lot of effort. During the winter, the two children were personally taught Alex to read, write, and count. This was not too much for Alven who had a short education in the laboratory but for Merry who was a former slave, this was a very severe ordeal.

Every time the little girl gets new material whether it's reading or counting, she desperately wants to give Alex a pathetic look in order to get out of this 2 credits lecture session. But no matter how much he weld, as much as Alex refuses.

So since then he continues to learn to use his brain cognitively so that Merry can finally write the name of his beloved father.

Alexander Ivanov Fertiphile was the first sentence he wrote and was the most lively of all the other sentences.

Alex smiled at the writing of his son and did not forget to caress his son's head.

"Good, Merry is great!"

PLOPE ....

"...."

A lump of snow was thrown straight on Alex's face. It's too sudden that everything just shuts up and looks.

"Mahaha ...."

From afar the figure of an adult woman laughed cheerfully while holding her stomach from laughing too loudly. This woman was supposed to give a charm of elegance but why today is the woman named Clara acting like this?

"Mother ...."

PLOPE ....

Once again a snow throw landed on Alex's face.

"What's my son? It's the last day of winter, why don't we play for a minute?"

Clara laughed cheerfully and was seen already filling her ammo by holding a pair of snowballs in both hands. Actually, this laughter is just a veil that covers the envy and disappointment of seeing his son who rarely spends time with him.

Alex just sighed because his mother was too weird. Though on ordinary days her mother will be a graceful and frugal woman moves. But now this woman is like a chicken that just came out of the cage.

"Hey, what are you looking at?"

Clara shouted to Erline and Justin.

"Mistress?"

"Hurry and attack them!" shout Clara.

"...."

Erline and Justin just looked at each other in silence.

***

Spring is often referred to as the early season or the new season that starts the year.  It is customary that every time spring comes, farmers will return to plant seedlings and throw a spring-welcoming party. In addition, spring is also the season that starts the new school year.

This year Jared is 15 years old and has passed the maturity ceremony. Based on the invitation given to him by the Military Academy, this year was the first year for Jared to enter the Military Academy.

Initially Alex feels that the existence or departure of Jared from the mansion will not affect his life too much. But he was wrong.

After Jared went to the capital to study, Alex's martial arts training exponentially grew.

It's not without reason. Harol thinks because Alex did not go to military academy so to prevent his departure from Jared, Alex must get non-academic military training. This was because Harol hoped that the seeds of the House of Fertiphile that would later compete in the succession of inheritances were of the same quality that whoever was elected would be the best son in the county.

But the disaster Alex received was not only on increased training that caused his nolep time to decrease.

Alex is called by Harol to come to the office.

Harol is sitting in his work chair as usual while Alex is standing in front of Harol's desk. On the table looks a pile of white paper that does not seem to be working paper. Usually the working paper will be yellow and have a lower quality than this white paper. So it can be concluded that this white paper is a paper that contains special contents.

I don't know why Alex felt something bad was going to happen to him.

After he descends into the world as a human, Alex can gradually identify the various conditions sometimes experienced by living things.

Naturally mortal beings have the ability to understand things without going through rational reasoning and intellect. The condition is the interpersonal ability to feel the life experienced or in other words this is referred to as a premonition.

But in contrast to Alex who was pounding like an opposer who saw a meatball, Harol was adem ayem like a government employee who was only sentenced to one year in prison.

Harol tidied up a stack of paper of good quality then he handed it to Alex.

"Take it and look."

Alex moves stiffly. Normally as Archdeus, there was no way Alex would be afraid. But the longer he stayed in Midgard, the more he realized that he was only human.

Alex read one by one the papers that were on the table. All of these papers are filled with neat and clean handwriting but the problem is that each paper has its own illustrations.

"!!!"

D-shit!

Alex's red pupils shook as his bad premonition turned out to be happening. He only read and glanced at a glance but he knew the conclusion of all these papers.

T-this engagement!

There are about 20 papers that contain different return addresses and have different illustrations of women's faces on each paper.

"Pick which one you like."

Harol smiled sincerely at this eldest child. She is aware that Alex to date has not had an engagement while Jared (second child) even Hazel (third child) has had a fiancee.

Harol is convinced that Alex has been lonely and envious. But now no longer, especially with the age of his oldest child who has aged 16 years so it is the responsibility of Harol as a parent to find a mate to his son.

Harol excitedly introduced some prospective fiancees who became his recommendation.

"You can choose anyone. See, there is the 5th royal princess who is the younger brother of Prince William, there is also the eldest daughter of the County of Otilia, or you can choose your uncle's daughter from the County of Sinteny. It's up to you to choose anyone."

At least 20 engagement requests were sent to Harol to be able to betroth Alex to their daughter. Indeed, a Hexatheist can perform polygamy but because marriage between nobles is dominant due to political facts, then as a safe step usually before a noble child inherits the inheritance, they only have one fiancee. This is nothing but an attempt to be able to maximise external support in succession of inheritances.

Harol accidentally refuses the engagement request of the Duke of Sandwealth and Count of Morhust's extended family. The reason each of his two other children had an engagement with one of the two families. So when Harol re-open the relationship in the form of Alex's engagement, then this is the same as making the County of Fertiphile as a puppet of the two great nobles.

Harol still looked at his eldest son patiently. He noticed that Alex was still focusing on carefully observing the letters.

Right ... Really, don't rush.

Harol nodded in satisfaction as his son looked very meticulous and patient in analyzing profit/loss. In the engagement not only choose the prettiest of the others but consider the family background of the female fiancee should be considered.

"Dad ...."

"Huh? Yeah, did you choose?"

Harol stared with interest. He leaned his body closer to the table.

Harol is so excited that he is unaware of Alex's trembling voice. He recalled his youth when he decided to get engaged to Clara and they got married. She was also this lump of hers once but it was because she was so happy and carefree as if her head was full of flowers.

But his pleasure was dashed when he heard a reply from Alex.

"I can't get married."