[He did go through a lot. If I was the Duke, I would execute those two on this very day. They kept glancing at each other meaningfully even though he was right there.]
Ferdinand glanced at Dimo right when a teardrop fell from the corner of his eye.
[He's crying even in his sleep?]
He gently dried it with his thumb and quickly withdrew it when he realized what he had just done.
[What's with that feeling?! I suddenly felt like I wanted to protect him and all that.]
'He couldn't help but sympathize with Dimo as well.'
Arabella smiled at the look on her husband's face. His protective instincts were getting triggered, and she wondered why it was even a surprise for him.
"That's a normal feeling. You may have only felt that kind of protective instinct towards the younger generation of your kind before. But now, you are in a human body so it's natural to feel it for human children as well."
[Right. I did begin to feel a lot of things again when I began living in this body.]