I! Cleaner!

"Yes, yes, yes! Sister-in-law is right!"

Under Lyon's dubious gaze, Melanie, who secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nodded her little head repeatedly, and echoed with a serious face:

"I am such a genius! So I didn't betray big brother at all. The reason why I accepted sister-in-law's bribe was just for the harmony of big brother's family. There is absolutely no personal gain in it... or maybe there is, but not much!"

"..."

If you didn't add that sentence, I might have actually believed you...

Looking at Melanie, whose eyes were constantly rolling around, wondering what kind of trick she was up to, Lyon couldn't help but shake his head and asked helplessly:

"Where did Anna go? Why isn't she home?"

Escaped!

Seeing that Lyon took the initiative to change the subject, knowing that her butt would not suffer, Melanie was immediately overjoyed, and then hurriedly replied:

"Sister Anna went to work! After the poorhouse opened in the back, she went to work there to get paid. Whenever William and I go to school, she will go there to help.

Originally, she didn't have to go to work today, but I don't know what happened there. A lot of old grandpas and grandmas with gray hair came all at once, and even the corridor was crowded. There weren't enough people, so Sister Anna had to go to help first."

"And then I came over."

After Melanie finished speaking, Veronica added gently:

"William has been feeling a little uncomfortable these past two days, so Anna asked my lady official, hoping to find someone to help take care of William. And I happened to be free today. After dispatching some people to the poorhouse to help, I came over with the doctor to take a look."

"William is feeling unwell?"

"Don't worry, it's just a slight fever."

After looking at Lyon's slightly worried expression, Veronica explained softly:

"Children have weak constitutions. He must have caught a cold at night or something. After drinking two small bottles of alchemical supplements, the child's fever has subsided, and he has already fallen asleep in the inner room."

"I see..."

It seems that William should just have a common cold, otherwise Anna would definitely be worried and would definitely come back to take care of him herself.

Using the Black Goat's soul vision to look into the inner room, confirming that William's soul was normal and just sleeping soundly, Lyon was completely relieved.

And just as he turned to look at Melanie, wanting to ask what had happened these days since he left home, Veronica's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she leaned over to sniff him lightly.

"What's wrong?"

Following her example, he raised his arm and smelled it, confirming that there was no strange smell, Lyon couldn't help but ask strangely:

"Is there a strange smell on me?"

"It's not exactly strange, and it's even quite pleasant..."

After sniffing twice again, Veronica frowned and said:

"Lyon? Did you drink before you came back?"

"..."

I didn't drink alcohol... but I did swallow a bead of the God of Wine...

Nodding and answering vaguely, recalling the process of fighting with the director for the soaked bead and then swallowing it whole, Lyon couldn't help but breathe into his hand and smelled it, and then said rather helplessly:

"I went to the bureau first before I came back, and accidentally drank a big gulp... Is the smell very obvious?"

"It's not very obvious... but the effect is a bit strong..."

Unable to resist sniffing lightly again, Veronica's cheeks couldn't help but flush slightly, and then she blinked her eyes and said with a puzzled face:

"I just smelled it twice, but it feels like I drank half a bottle of strong liquor, a little... um... Melanie? Melanie?"

"Huh?"

After being called twice in a row, Melanie finally reacted, raised her flushed little face, and said with half-open eyes:

"Big brother... I... I'm a little dizzy..."

"..."

Alcohol smell? Dizzy? Could it be...

Looking at the dizzy big and small figures in front of him, Lyon couldn't help but hiss as he realized what was happening. He quickly touched the back of his hand with his tongue, and then a mellow and spicy alcoholic aroma rushed straight to his forehead along the taste buds on his tongue.

Damn it, I seem to have been soaked in flavor by that bead!

Getting up and moving away a little, leaving a little space, Lyon couldn't help but scratch the back of his head as he looked at Melanie, who was so drunk that her eyelids were starting to droop. Then he had to take her to his room and let her sleep for a while to sober up.

When Lyon came out of the room, Veronica, who had probably guessed what was going on, also began to instruct the two lady officials with drunken eyes to help take care of the two sleeping children.

And after the two lady officials left the living room and entered the rooms to take care of the two children, Queen Veronica, whose neck was flushed, got up and took his hand, looking over with watery eyes.

"Lyon~"

"Stop!"

Feeling that the atmosphere was a bit wrong, vaguely developing in a strange direction, Lyon quickly leaned back, pulled his hand back, and reminded:

"My situation is not right now, you should stay away from me."

"Okay, I'll listen to you~"

After blinking her bright eyes, Veronica took a step back, then wrinkled her nose, smelled the suddenly richer aroma of wine in the house, and then said with a smile:

"Lyon, why don't we change places? The smell of alcohol on you is getting stronger and stronger. If you continue to stay here, they will probably be fainted even through a layer of door."

"..."

"Let's go, I'm really getting drunk."

Touching her hot cheeks with the back of her hand, Veronica said with increasingly moist eyes:

"I haven't seen you for several months. I have so many things I want to tell you, and I don't want to just get drunk like this... Lyon, take me to a ventilated place, let me blow some wind to sober up... How about my balcony?"

"Okay..."

Looking at the two little rascals and the two lady officials' souls at home, confirming that there would be no problems, Lyon, worried that the alcohol smell would continue to leak out, had to accept Veronica's suggestion and entered the mirror world from the shiny door handle, traveling all the way towards the palace.

"Um... It's much better now."

After being carried out of the window by Lyon and placed on the wicker chair on the balcony, Veronica, whose blush was even more intense, couldn't help but joke:

"As expected of the man I chose, I almost got drunk just by being hugged by you."

"..."

You almost got drunk, I'm really drunk...

Bringing the back of his hand close to his nose, smelling the alcohol smell that was already as surging as the waves, Lyon couldn't help but secretly say that he was unlucky, and then explained his situation with a sigh.

"So you accidentally took the bead of the God of Wine, so your body will continue to emit the smell of alcohol?"

After listening carefully to Lyon's explanation, Veronica, with her eyes half-open and half-closed, nodded, and then said with a smile:

"If that's the case, then I should have accidentally taken a bead too... Lyon~ Did you smell the flavor emitting from my body?"

"Ah? What flavor?"

"The flavor of missing you."

"..."

...

Um? This flavor is...

Just when Lyon was embarrassed all over by the sudden cheesy pickup line, trying his best but still unable to overcome, Anna, who had rushed home, just reached out and pushed open the door, but the soaring smell of alcohol inside made her jerk her head back.

And when she opened Lyon's bedroom door, which was ajar with confusion, and saw Melanie lying on the bed sprawled out, sleeping soundly with a red little face, Anna's face suddenly darkened.

"Melanie!!!"