The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 18

Belzeon hurriedly wiped away his tears with the back of his hand.

But once the tears started, they wouldn’t stop easily.

Rather, they poured out as if they had been waiting for this moment.

Belzeon and Cheshire were both surprised by the endless stream of tears.

“Hic…….”

Belzeon even hiccuped, perhaps from being too surprised.

Hiccuping and shedding tears with a flushed face, he looked every bit the 13-year-old boy he was.

Not the eldest son of the Vasilios family…….

Cheshire patted Belzeon, who was crying earnestly.

Belzeon clutched the lily of the valley tightly in his hand and sobbed for a long time.

And only after his eyes were completely red did he stop crying.

“…….”

Belzeon took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his messy face.

The small cloth quickly became damp with moisture.

Was he embarrassed belatedly after crying it all out?

The tips of Belzeon’s ears turned reddish.

Belzeon, who was idly poking at the lily of the valley with his finger, suddenly muttered.

“Father and my siblings are all headstrong. They’re all like wild horses.”

That was something Cheshire agreed with.

Except for Belzeon, the rest were all impulsive and violent, like untamed beasts.

“My siblings need to learn that the capital and the East are different. It was okay to act like dogs in the Vasilios territory, but they’ll pay the price if they do that here.”

Belzeon pressed his lips tightly for a moment.

“I want to protect the Vasilios family. So that the Count can’t ruin it, so that my siblings can’t tarnish it… I want to protect it.”

The hand stroking the lily of the valley gradually slowed.

“It doesn’t work out the way I want…….”

Belzeon furrowed his brow deeply.

He suppressed the tears that were about to come out again and looked at Cheshire.

He himself seemed unable to believe that he had revealed his innermost thoughts to a child, thoughts he had never shown to anyone for a long time.

‘And the kid’s asleep, no less.’

Cheshire grumbled inwardly but generously understood Belzeon.

People of that age tend to think they’re adults.

Cheshire seemed to have thought so too when she was around thirteen.

“I’m going to send you out of the Vasilios family before the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting.”

Belzeon stared straight into Cheshire’s eyes and said slowly, as if repeating it to himself.

“So don’t get attached.”

Cheshire nodded her head slightly and thought.

It seems like Belzeon is the one getting attached.

“Stop doing useless things and go now.”

“Yes…….”

She was already getting a sore butt from sitting on the stone floor for too long.

Cheshire pretended to be listless and quickly got up.

Then, she toddled out of the study.

Finally, after going outside the study, just before closing the door.

A very small and faint voice was heard.

“Thank you for the flower.”

Thud.

The door closed.

Cheshire blinked for a moment in front of the door that had closed before she could even hear it properly.

She felt a little strange.

To put it in perspective, it felt like her heart was ticklish.

Cheshire, feeling a sense of something bubbling up, took a deep breath.

And she hardened her gaze.

“Count Rudin.”

This guy was the root of all problems.

‘This is annoying……?’

Seeing Belzeon cry made her even more angry.

Cheshire frowned, recalling the boy crying his eyes out.

‘This is really annoying?’

Was it because she had been living too quietly lately?

The desire to cause a ruckus was seething within her.

Cheshire clenched her small fist.

A sharp edge appeared in her soft pink eyes.

“I won’t let this slide!”

She was planning to do some proper mischief for the first time in a while.

***

The Rudin family was a prestigious family that had accumulated wealth and power under a long-standing tradition.

The current Count Rudin was working as the Emperor’s attendant and was receiving his full trust.

Having been recognized for his service to the Imperial Family with all his heart, he was also scheduled to receive a new title and territory soon.

It could be said that it was the most watched family among the various noble families.

Therefore, not only ordinary nobles, but even the dukes and marquises of the Empire could not treat Count Rudin carelessly.

Count Rudin became more and more arrogant based on his well-founded confidence.

There was a sudden dark horse that appeared to him.

It was the Vasilios family.

The Vasilios family was originally famous in the Empire.

In a bad way.

People couldn’t understand why the Vasilios family was called one of the Empire’s three great families.

Unlike other families, the Vasilios family had nothing special about them.

They didn’t even participate in the capital’s social circles or political circles.

They were just holed up in the dark forest of the gloomy East.

The end of the rumors about the Count’s family was that strange things were happening in that dark forest.

Then, just once, the Vasilios family suddenly overturned the Empire in an incident.

They brought a woman to the capital, who they didn’t know where she came from, and asked the Emperor for a title because they had to get married.

The capital’s social circles were in an uproar for a while over Count Vasilios’ declaration that he would marry a woman whose identity was unknown.

In particular, there were many rumors about the woman’s origins.

The basic assumption was that she was a slave.

There was even talk that she was a high-class prostitute from a foreign country.

The rampant rumors reached their peak when Count Vasilios took the woman into the palace.

The day Count Vasilios entered the palace.

Nobles who had gone crazy with curiosity gathered like clouds.

Count Rudin, the Emperor’s attendant, also pretended not to be interested, but eagerly awaited the Count’s entry into the palace.

The moment he saw the woman, the Count was involuntarily amazed.

“Oh, my. This is amazing…….”

The woman was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life.

Her elegant atmosphere was like an untouchable goddess of beauty, and just looking at her made him dizzy.

Everyone who saw her praised her as not human beauty.

Count Vasilios, who appeared with the woman, was also a surprisingly handsome man.

Many young ladies and madams who saw him fell ill with lovesickness.

It was expected that a new figure would shake up the capital’s social circles…….

For some reason, Count Vasilios went straight back down to the East as soon as he received the woman’s title.

The capital’s social circles, which had been gossiping about Count and Countess Vasilios for a while, gradually forgot about them.

And several years later.

The news spread that the Countess had died.

Like her origins, the cause of her death was also unknown.

The love of the lovers, which was as romantic as a fairy tale, ended in tragedy.

Count Rudin, who heard the obituary, clicked his tongue for a moment and felt sorry for her, but quickly erased her from his mind.

He was too busy to pay attention to such things one by one.

Count Vasilios, who had been forgotten, suddenly rushed into his daily life while he was carrying out the imperial order.

“Bring Count Vasilios to the capital right now!”

The Emperor, who had met the Holy Knight dispatched from Hildred, ordered with a pale face.

To send him to bring Vasilios of all people.

Count Rudin was offended, but he faithfully followed the imperial order.

He saw him again after a long time, but Count Vasilios hadn’t changed much.

He had expected him to be old and decrepit since he had lost his wife, but his face was taut without a single wrinkle.

There was no time to wonder about his ageless appearance.

It was because he was too busy being angry at Count Vasilios’ arrogance.

He was a country bumpkin from the East, but he wasn’t afraid of anything.

He was so arrogant to him and the Holy Knight that his eyes rolled every time the Count opened his mouth.

He should have been thrown in jail right away, but the Emperor cherished Count Vasilios.

He even called him aside after the Count left the palace and asked him to take care of him.

“He says he’s going to stay in the capital for a while, so you should take care of Count Vasilios.”

Count Rudin couldn’t bear the seething jealousy.

He couldn’t sleep at night thinking about crushing that arrogance.

Fortunately, God was on Count Rudin’s side.

The opportunity came right away.

“Haha! It was very satisfying today.”

Count Rudin burst into a hearty laugh.

Every time he thought about the eldest son of the Vasilios family, who couldn’t do anything in front of him, he couldn’t help but laugh.

He didn’t even need to eat because he was so full of the thought of taking this opportunity to get an apology from Count Vasilios as well.

Unlike Count Rudin, who was enjoying himself, his wife kept feeling uneasy.

“But will it be okay?”

“What is it?”

She poured cold water on him with unnecessary worries.

“I keep thinking about those red eyes…. It feels bad.”

“You’re worrying about everything. They’re all just kids anyway. I’ll take care of Count Vasilios.”

“If that’s the case, that’s a relief…….”

Count Rudin comforted his wife, who was worrying unnecessarily.

That night, the Count toasted alone in his study with wine.

Count Rudin, who was heavily drunk, fell asleep on the sofa in his study without even going to his bedroom.

It was when he was sleeping soundly.

The Count suddenly opened his eyes at some point.

It was because of a sense of threat that he couldn’t explain.

“…!”

He was startled and came to his senses.

And he realized that he was standing in a strange space.

It was a giant chessboard with black and white squares alternating in a grid pattern.