The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 82

Ithar burst out laughing as he saw Karha draw his sword.

“Are you trying to fight me right now?”

Karha wordlessly swung his sword.

It traced a path so fast it was hard to follow with the eye.

*Shhk*, the iron bars were sliced like soft pound cake.

Karha created a door and stepped out of the prison.

Theo, who had been stunned by the absurd turn of events, hurriedly rushed over and shouted.

“Even if you are royalty, you can’t just kidnap imperial citizens!”

“Kidnap!”

Ithar looked utterly wronged.

“I’m going to pamper the baby. Think about it. Which is better, living as the daughter of a mere noble family, or living as a princess of the royal family?”

Karha let out a short, hollow laugh.

His red eyes glowed crimson.

In a situation where someone could die at any moment.

Chesha raised her hand high and shouted.

“I want to be a princess, too!”

“Hmm?”

“What?”

“Excuse me?”

Before the men who were all reacting differently, Chesha spoke clearly.

“Make me a princess.”

Karha lowered the sword he had raised.

Chesha glanced at the bewildered boy’s face and then turned her gaze back to Ithar.

Ithar smiled pleasantly.

“Good, I’ll treat you like a precious princess. Baby, you’ll love the Skaya Kingdom. Have you ever seen the sea?”

He seemed pleased that the situation was going as he wanted.

Chesha didn’t miss the chance to speak when Ithar’s guard was down.

“If I’m gonna be a princess, please send me home. I have to say hi to my Abudi [father in Chesha’s native language]. I need to pack my things.”

“Of course, we should. I will give your family generous compensation.”

Ithar grinned.

Chesha smiled back at him.

Ithar acted as if he had already claimed Chesha as his own.

He poked her cheek affectionately with his finger and said.

“Baby, I’ll escort you home. I’ll have a carriage prepared, so you can come out slowly.”

Saying he would come out with her brother, Ithar let Chesha down.

Then, he left to give orders to his subordinates.

Theo, Karha, and Chesha were the only ones left in the prison.

Karha asked in a shocked voice.

“You… wanted to be a princess……?”

Chesha shook her head.

She waved her hands at the two men.

Theo and Karha reflexively bent down.

Chesha whispered softly.

“We’re gonna run away again now……!”

It was a suggestion to sneak away without Ithar knowing.

Princess, my foot.

Of course, she had no intention of going to the Skaya Kingdom.

But the reason she lied was because she knew Ithar’s personality well.

He was the type to break you if you didn’t bend.

If Karha had charged at him, there would have been bloodshed here, and Chesha would have been forcibly taken away.

Theo, the security guards, and Karha too.

They would have suffered considerable damage.

So, she chose to lie and run away.

She had a rough idea of how to clean up the mess afterward.

Karha was deeply moved by Chesha’s “run away again” remark.

“I thought the baby was abandoning us because she wanted to be a princess…….”

After muttering a short comment, Karha quickly picked up Chesha.

“Chief of security, is there a back door here?”

“Ah, yes. There is. It’s a secret of the security office, but we have no choice now.”

Theo also showed agile movements that didn’t match his size.

He touched a blank wall with his hand.

When he pushed a few bricks inward, a wooden door appeared.

“It’s an illusion magic spell.”

Theo explained as he pushed the door open.

‘Bear cub is indeed the young master of the Nemea Marquisate [a high-ranking noble family].’

There was no reason to cast expensive magic on a mere security office.

In case of an emergency, they must have cast this magic so that the precious young master could run away quickly.

Thanks to that, it was being used effectively.

The three people who came out into the alley behind the security office immediately started running.

They hadn’t run far when they heard an angry shout.

The timid Theo was startled and looked back, only to be scolded by Karha.

“Don’t get distracted and run!”

“I’m sorry…….”

Theo and Karha ran side by side and asked Chesha.

“But where should we go? The Skaya Crown Prince will start chasing us; we can’t keep running away.”

“That’s right. Baby, where are we going?”

There was no use in returning to the hotel, as Kiernan wouldn’t be there to resolve the situation.

And it was also the first place Basilian would search.

The Nemea Marquisate… it was ambiguous because they didn’t know Theo’s position within his family yet.

‘They might not be willing to fight the Skaya royal family. Moreover, it’s not Bear Cub’s problem, but Bear Cub’s friend’s problem.’

Going to Duke Ivoriel was also a bit much.

Knowing that she was Kiernan’s precious person, she didn’t want to involve her in such a troublesome matter.

After thinking for a while, Chesha came up with a wicked idea.

It was an idea that would bring tears to Ithar’s eyes.

“I have a place to hide!”

Chesha smiled slyly and said the place.

***

The Skaya royals, who inherited the blood of pirates, were warlike and greedy.

They didn’t hide their nature as plunderers, so they had to get what they wanted.

Ithar was also an excellent Skaya royal.

He had everything he wanted.

He would take and plunder if they didn’t give it to him.

The only thing he didn’t have was the Enchantress Richessia.

He happened to see Richessia while visiting the underworld and fell in love at first sight.

As soon as he saw her, who was like an ideal sent by God, Ithar proposed to her right away.

“Please be my wife!”

And he was almost killed by an axe.

A normal person would have come to their senses and run away from there.

But after barely surviving that time, Ithar became completely infatuated with Richessia.

The story of Ithar diligently visiting the underworld and proposing to the Enchantress for a while was known to all the residents of the underworld.

What stopped him from persistently clinging to Richessia was…

It was because an Inquisitor [an official of the Holy Empire tasked with suppressing heresy] intervened.

The Inquisitor, who appeared out of nowhere, arrested Ithar, who was innocent, on the grounds of heresy.

He attached various charges to Ithar and repeatedly interrogated him, putting him in and out of the Inquisitorial chamber.

It seemed that Richessia was considered a heretic because she was an Enchantress, so he was considered a heretic because he was related to her.

Ithar insisted on his innocence.

“I’m just chasing after the Enchantress because I love her!”

Then, for some reason, the interrogation became even more intense.

It was such a brutal interrogation that if he hadn’t been a Skaya royal, they would have cut off one of his limbs long ago.

Ithar stubbornly chased after the Enchantress even while being interrogated.

Eventually, the Skaya royal family, who didn’t want to turn against the Holy Empire, forcibly dragged Ithar away.

Ithar, who was forcibly dragged away, longed for Richessia and began to diligently collect items related to the Enchantress from then on.

Starting with Richessia’s wanted posters, the flowers she made, the accessories she wore, the handkerchiefs she used and threw away, and so on.

He collected all sorts of things related to the Enchantress and nurtured his longing heart.

Then, he came back to the Palen Empire under the pretext of the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting.

Hearing that the Enchantress had not been seen lately, the royal family allowed him to visit the Empire.

But no one expected him to meet a baby who resembled the Enchantress and become infatuated.

“Find her! I won’t leave the capital until I have that baby!”

Ithar, furious to the point of madness, raged.

To dare lie to me and run away!

But even that behavior resembled Richessia, so he wanted her even more.

The Basilian County was a family he had never heard of.

It seemed to be a humble family, so as long as he found them, there would be no problem for him to take the baby who looked exactly like the Enchantress.

Fortunately, the skilled mercenaries Ithar hired quickly found the baby.

“We found her!”

Ithar asked in a voice full of joy.

“Where! Where is she?”

“That is, she’s in the most expensive luxury mansion in the capital.”

“…What?”

At Ithar’s question, the mercenary blinked as if he was also puzzled.

“I checked, and it has nothing to do with Basilian. The owner of the mansion is unknown, but according to people, sometimes…”

He hesitated for a moment and continued in an unsure voice.

“A Holy Knight is said to come and go there……?”