I think that I was drifting about in the warm and a gentle place. However, as soon as I thought that suddenly from a dark and narrow painful place I wandered off to a bright place, an unbelievable voice came out from my throat.
“Ugyaa ugyaa”
“Congratulations. It’s a girl!”
What’s this? My eyes, which tried to understand the situation despite being surprised, couldn’t see well and my limbs felt heavy. Only human-like forms kept going back and forth in the bright space.
Soon, something wiped my face, rubbed my body and after covering me with a cloth-like subject, the surroundings clattered around, everything became quiet and only somebody’s sobbing voice could be heard.
“What should we say to the Milord…”
“There is no other way but to tell as it is…”
At that time,
“Please wait! If you enter the delivery room, Claire-sama will-!”
“Shut up! Are you trying to order me?!”
Along with that shouting voice, the door opened with a bang and somebody seemingly entered the room.
“Claire!”
“Actually….as soon she gave birth….”
“How can this be….Claire…”
It sounded like that somebody crumbled down on the floor.
“Milord, this is the child that Claire-sama give her life to give birth to. She’s a very adorable little girl.”
After those words, somebody lifted me up.
“Claire’s….daughter…”
There was a presence of the man who said those words approaching. I tried several times to open my eyes in order to see the surroundings, but I couldn’t help feeling sleepy since a while ago. Despite that, a shadow of a person was reflected in the eyes that I desperately tried to open.
“Oh, not only the golden hair but also the purple eyes of the Duke family…”
In the middle of such a surprised voice being raised, the man I peeked at added.
“It would be better if at least the color was similar to Claire’s.”
“Milord! It’s valuable for two people to have light purple eyes in one generation. You mustn’t say such things!”
“That’s enough already! She’s Claire’s daughter. It’s fine to just find a wet nurse and nurture her enough so she doesn’t die.”
The man declared as if it was something that didn’t concern him.
I seem to have been born as a baby, I thought while I was about to fall asleep.
“If you weren’t born, Claire wouldn’t have to die.”
As I was dozing off, only the man’s muttering remained in my memory.
Next time I opened my eyes, the only thing I felt was a fierce hunger. As I entrusted myself to my instincts and cried, somebody came and put a warm breast in my mouth. Then my diapers were changed and I was bathed. From the second time on, regardless of if I were hungry or not, I was fed milk at a fixed time and a person who would change my diaper would come.
When that rhythm settled down, I got used to having a baby’s body and started to think about various things.
This is one of those, so-called reincarnated-into-baby things. Being a book lover, I often used to read books with such dreamy premise.
When I traced back my memories, although it wasn’t definitely, I had a feeling that I died on the hospital bed. Going back further into my memories, a warm feeling rose up inside of me. Gentle husband and cute children. A child who was supposed to cry in the bed was already at an age to have grandchildren. That’s right, it ended a bit too early but I’m sure that I died happily.
So why have I turned into a baby? Moreover in a state with the memories from the past life remaining, being able to think in an adult-like way and understand the words?
I was made to drink milk and my diapers were changed once again. That person always held me and while swayed me around for a little, talked to me while looking into my eyes that were gradually starting to see clearly.
“How pitiful. Not only did your mom die, but you are also hated by your dad. Even though they originally said that finding a wet nurse would be fine, they didn’t even search. Assigning a commoner like me to you, I really don’t get the nobles.”
However, even this comforting time doesn’t last for a long time.
“Martha, how long are you going to take for breastfeeding? We are lacking people!”
It’s because somebody like a coworker comes to call for her soon after.
“Actually, I should be holding you and talking to you more, but I have no idea what the people in this mansion are thinking.”
Still, despite saying so, Martha who’s trying to stay with me even a minute longer is truly a good person.
During my excess time, I tried recalling and thinking about events that have happened until now.
What I learned from the fuss after my birth is that my mother in this world passed away right after I was born. That’s why I’m neglected by my father. Apparently, I was born in a Marquis family. The room which I saw after being able to see was dreary but it still spacious. Though I still don’t know what kind of place does a Marquis hold in this world.
Golden hair and purple eyes. They said that there were two people with light purple eyes so I should have an older brother or a sister. I haven’t met them even once though. Like a baby, my face couldn’t move well, but I still smiled ironically. It would probably look quite eerie if somebody saw me at that moment.
The people I have seen are the person who breastfeeds me and a person who bathes me. My father hasn’t come even once.
Ah, there is one more person. I’ll leave thinking about it for later though.
They must be thinking that as long they feed me and keep me clean, everything would be okay but babies don’t grow up that way. You must hug them a lot, talk to them a lot and sometimes even let them soak into the sunlight instead of the dim light coming from the window.
Comfort them if they cry and be happy with them when they laugh. That’s how they grow up into being humans.
Even for a nobleman, there’s no way that this kind of neglected child situation is normal. Probably because father hates me, everybody else is afraid that if they do something to me they’ll be reprimanded so nobody is trying to do anything.
However, now that I have been reborn I don’t plan to live in misery. If nobody nurtures me, there’s no other way but to do it myself. For the time being let’s try to move this body that doesn’t listen to me well a lot and cry much.
Because that’s the job of a baby. That’s what I had resolved myself for, but I lost to the sleepiness and fell asleep without doing anything. What a blunder.
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Notes:
uwu what’s this? a new teaser instead of doing the chapters for the other main projects? Yes.
Milord is actually “family head” but I thought it’d look awkward in sentences
Somebody tell isekai writers that being vague about everything isn’t necessarily a good writing.
A cloth-like subject is probably just a cloth
SAme with “seemingly”, “apparently” and etc
You know the drill. Tell me about mistranslations, grammar and typos.
also, I suck at summaries so hopefully someone better changed it
P.S at least write what turned you off if you’re giving the story 1 star from the very 1st chapter :”<
P.P.S. Chapter title is “Life on HARD MODE”