Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 100

☆ Act 101 ☆

I looked up at Sid, who was standing close, and swallowed hard.

My mind was a mess.

‘What is he thinking?’

I couldn’t read anything in his violet eyes.

But meeting me wouldn’t be pleasant for Sid.

No, it would be rather unpleasant.

‘…Could it be that now that he has regained his status as a prince, he is trying to take revenge on me?’

Still, in the end, I let him go, saying he was free when I was in my own body.

Besides, Grandma treated him so well!

‘…I’m nervous. He’s not one to be trifled with.’

If things go wrong, I should bring up Grandma’s story.

It was the moment when I was on guard and bristling.

“……!”

A warm sensation enveloped my hand.

Long fingers gently intertwined with mine.

As my palm naturally opened, Sid placed something in it.

“I came to return it. Master’s item,” a voice whispered in my ear.

Sid’s face was very close.

I blankly stared at his smiling face and then lowered my gaze.

A small key.

“This is……”

I was sure.

This is the key to the restraint I put on Sid before.

My mind went blank.

Why this?

I quickly raised my head and shouted.

“I’m returning this一.”

But all I could see was a well-manicured garden tree.

Sid was nowhere to be found in the empty space.

He disappeared in an instant, as if we had never met in the first place.

However, the hard, cold sensation of the metal in my hand told me that it was real.

I stared blankly at the key.

‘What does this mean?’

I couldn’t figure out his intentions even after staring at it for a while.

When I clenched my fist tightly, the end of the key pricked my palm.

‘…Let’s go back for now.’

* * *

Clatie didn’t like the current atmosphere.

She should be the one getting the most attention, but the situation was turning out strangely.

Most of all, the young ladies’ reactions were favorable to Ruatisha.

‘In the end, all she showed was her nasty temper. But why?’

As expected of her rude personality, she didn’t try to be gentle at all.

She didn’t even try to fit in with the group, and Clatie couldn’t understand why these high-nosed young ladies were tolerating it.

“Oh my, look over there. It’s Young Master Delbatren.”

“Oh my, he must have skipped class. He has leaves in his hair.”

“I like diligent people, so Young Master Delbatren is not my type……”

“Oh, come on, that’s his charm.”

“You keep glancing at Young Master Delbatren even though you say you don’t like him?”

“Well, he is handsome.”

The young ladies giggled.

Clatie didn’t show any reaction, but she slightly raised her head and fluttered her eyelashes.

It was one of the secrets to becoming the first love of all kinds of young men.

‘The Delbatren family is a decent family.’

She wouldn’t be criticized for associating with him. No, far from being criticized, she would be the envy of others.

‘Of course, my goal is higher.’

Clatie recalled Prince Esteban, whom she had seen earlier.

Naturally, she also thought about how he had ignored her and talked to Ruatisha.

‘Hmph, just you wait.’

It wouldn’t be a bad idea to use Young Master Delbatren to provoke jealousy.

While Clatie was burning with fighting spirit, Ruatisha was deep in thought.

‘No matter how much I think about it, I don’t understand.’

*I remember you being my master. Do you remember? Look forward to it. I’ll slowly torment you from now on.*

‘It can’t be 一, right? It shouldn’t be.’

But somehow, that seemed right.

This key was proof that Ruatisha had dared to insult the imperial family.

She was presenting evidence of a crime, so what else could it mean?

‘Sob, I miss Dad.’

As she kept thinking, Sid’s face lingered in her mind.

‘He’s grown a lot taller.’

His hands are big, and his shoulders are broad.

He was already a surprisingly handsome child, but he really grew up well.

‘As expected, he should have twelve children…….’

“Hey.”

At the sudden call, Ruatisha raised her head.

The crimson-haired boy she had seen earlier was glaring at her with a sullen face.

“Me?”

“Who else is here besides you?”

“There are a lot of people.”

Ruatisha looked around.

As she said, the large hall was filled with young men and women.

After tea time, men and women gathered in one place under the control of the adults.

“You’re the only one who gave me a diving kick to the stomach earlier.”

“……I said I was sorry about that.”

“Is that all you have to say?”

Ruatisha quietly examined the boy.

He looked perfectly fine. He even looked like he was in very good condition.

“Are you hurt? Does it hurt?”

“Do I look that weak to you?”

“Then why do you keep obsessing over it?”

“Obsess?”

The boy raised one eyebrow as if he was dumbfounded.

“It’s because you trampled on me.”

She was already feeling restless because of Sid, and now that a boy was picking a fight with her, she got annoyed.

“Consider it an honor.”

“What?”

“There are tons of people who want me to trample on them if you go to my house.”

Ruatisha turned away with a snort.

It was then.

“Then it seems like everyone has been paired up!”

An elderly woman smiled and clapped her hands.

‘Huh? Paired up?’

Looking around, the young ladies and gentlemen were standing awkwardly or smiling at each other.

Looking at the young ladies and gentlemen glancing at each other and blushing, it seemed that the Dawn Festival was doing its job as Cupid [Roman god of love].

‘Everyone…… is paired up?’

“What are you doing? Take my hand.”

The boy in front of her frowned and held out his hand.

Ruatisha took his hand without realizing it.

For some reason, Clatie was glaring at them as if she wanted to kill them.

* * *

The hall door opened.

The young ladies and gentlemen gathered in groups of three or five and poured out from inside.

They usually hung out with friends of the same gender, but some children walked with the opposite sex, maintaining a subtle distance of three steps away.

Their faces were flushed, and their eyes glanced at each other.

There was no way that Ares, who was leaning against the carriage, wouldn’t notice that.

“This is, well, I don’t like it.”

“Why are they doing it with those guys? If they’re going to pick Eos and Aurora separately anyway, it’s better to separate them completely.”

“We need to clean up.”

Ixion and Zion also said a word each.

After a while, they saw their long-awaited youngest sister coming out with a bright face.

She looked very excited as she chatted with the young ladies her age, arm in arm.

The fierce energy of the three men was instantly softened.

But that was only for a moment.

“What, why are there so many guys glancing over here?”

“Those bastards only have eyes for high places.”

“Shall I pluck their eyeballs out?”

The three men’s faces hardened when they discovered the young men around them glancing at Ruatisha.

“This won’t do.”

Zion stretched out his long legs and stepped forward. Ares and Ixion joined him.

“Oh my?”

“Oh my gosh, it’s the Phaeton princes!”

“To see Zion again, ha…… I can die now.”

“Don’t die! Open your eyes and take in his handsomeness even a little bit!”

“Ares and Ixion must be by his side.”

“Hoo, from today on, I am a follower of Ares. Ares’s face is light and the sun.”

“I wish Ixion would play a prank on me. So I want to be terribly entangled with him.”

“It’s like morning is dawning because handsome people are together.”

Ruatisha looked at the young ladies with slightly jaded eyes.

She wondered if these were the same dignified young ladies from before.

‘Well, this is cuter. Everyone is young.’

They were like girls in their early teens who had seen a celebrity.

“Youngest.”

Zion picked up Ruatisha.

Ruatisha habitually stroked Zion’s hair.

Zion narrowed his eyes as if he felt good.

Ares smiled softly and stroked Ruatisha’s hair.

“Did my sister have fun today?”

“Yes!”

“Let’s see. I need to check if the cotton ball is crushed.”

Ixion turned Ruatisha’s face around and around, then smiled and pinched her cheek.

“It’s getting crushed because of Ixion!”

“Who else would crush it if not me? If there’s anyone like that, I’ll have to beat them up.”

When he said the last words, Ixion erased his smile and looked around.

The young men around him flinched and stepped back at his cold gaze.

“Let’s go home quickly.”

“There’s plum tart that my sister likes.”

“Yes! Young ladies, see you next time!”

Ruatisha waved her hand at the young ladies she had become friends with while being held by Zion.

The young ladies who received her gaze also waved back with embarrassed but happy hearts.

Zion pressed Ruatisha’s head against his chest and cast a cold gaze at the young men with a expressionless face.

Ares and Ixion were the same.

The young men who had already stepped back stepped back even further at the three men’s gazes.

“I hope no one approaches my sister unnecessarily.”

“That’s right. There shouldn’t be.”

Ixion grinned, revealing his teeth.

It was a look that said he would make it disappear even if it existed.

The three Phaeton princes held their youngest sister in their arms, made a lot of threats, and disappeared.

* * *

When I came back home and took a clean shower, even Dad had returned.

Everyone wanted to hear how my day went.

I sat on Dad’s lap, ate plum tart, and shook my legs.

“I guess it’s the first day, so there wasn’t much. I listened to the congratulatory speech, had tea time with the young ladies, and then practiced dancing.”

“Dance practice?!”

The gazes of Dad and my brothers, who had been listening to my story quietly, immediately sharpened.

“Why are you practicing dancing there?”

“Well…… the finalists dance later, right? That was the excuse, but it must have been a test.”

To be the center of the social world without being able to dance a social dance, the visible was as important as the substance.

Since the skills were all similar, the one who looked good and had good manners would have an advantage.

‘They must have also wanted to see my attitude towards the opposite sex.’

I thought it was a schedule with its own reasons, but somehow my family’s atmosphere was unusual.

“The finalists dance…… you said?”

Ares smiled softly.

His smiling face was very pretty, but somehow it made my spine chill.

“I have to participate in the Dawn Festival.”

“No.”

Dad immediately rejected Zion’s absurd words.

Huh, still, Dad has thoughts一.

“I’m going out.”

Dad, how can you go out to a festival for kids in their early teens?

“Don’t be ridiculous. I’m going. I’m qualified.”

Ixion said with a relaxed smile.

Ixion can’t either. Get a grip.

More than anything, the moment Ixion participates, my victory will be out of the question.

The moment another young lady picks a fight like this afternoon, everything will be over.

“The Dawn Festival has already started. It’s impossible to intervene in the middle according to the rules.”

“Where is that unfair rule?”

“No, it’s fair.”

“We must immediately amend this evil law. It’s unfair that only young people can participate in the Dawn Festival.”

“Certainly. Immediately put it on the agenda at the cabinet meeting so that I can participate in the middle…… I’m the one who dances with my daughter.”

“……”

I’m doomed.

These people are out of their minds.

I was worried that if things continued like this, they would really propose such a agenda at the cabinet meeting.

‘Then it’s a shame that will really be recorded in the history books!’

I quickly opened my mouth.

“Why is everyone taking it so seriously? If I get eliminated in the preliminaries, there’s no need to dance.”

“There’s no way you’ll be eliminated, my sister.”

“Everyone will kneel before your feet.”

Kneel for what.

This is not a duel.

“We’ve danced a lot among ourselves. It’s not particularly important一.”

“It’s important.”

Did they eat a sweet potato [metaphor for feeling frustrated or stifled]? Why are they like this?

‘Ha…… I have no choice.’

This is the last resort.

“I…… wanted to play with the young ladies my age, but it’s hard because Dad and my brothers are here.”

“I won’t interfere.”

“Okay, I’ll stay still when you’re playing with the girls.”

“Of course, unless those kids dare to stand up to the cotton ball.”

“That’s not it……”

I put my hand on my mouth and looked at my family with sparkling eyes.

“It’s because Lulu’s dad and brothers are so, so handsome.”

“Huh?”

The four men’s expressions became strange.

“The other young ladies won’t say anything because they’re watching Lulu’s dad and brothers. Because Dad and my brothers are so~ handsome.”

I checked Dad’s slowly rising mouth corners and closed my eyes tightly.

“Then Lulu has to talk to the wall, but that’s so sad!”

Dad hugged me tightly as if he was upset and patted my back.

“Yes, I can’t help it. Lulu’s dad can’t even go to the racetrack. Because I can’t speak.”

“……”

“My youngest brother is a sculpture, so people will keep watching silently.”

“……”

“My sister’s brother is a heavenly mixed-race, so people will be curious and won’t have time to talk.”

“……”

“There’s a wall called perfection in my sister’s brother, so people will feel pressured and won’t be able to talk properly.”

“……”

Everyone get out.

I want to be alone.

How long are you going to keep reusing that?

“So, did you play well with the young ladies today?”

Dad stroked my hair and asked.

Anyway, it seemed like I had protected the cabinet meeting records.

“Yes! I made friends too. They’re cute young ladies.”

“More than me?”

Ares suddenly stuck out his face.

When I stroked Ares’s hair, Zion stuck out his head, so I stroked Zion too.

Ixion frowned and messed up my hair.

Dad straightened my hair and lowered his head.

Huh?

When I blinked, Dad said with a very sad face.

“When you were young, you used to play with Dad’s hair.”

That was when I was a four-year-old baby!

Besides, that was only when I became a real baby because of the penalty!

Dad was expressionless, but his red eyes were very sad as if they were hurt.

And I’m weak to those eyes.

In the end, I decided to become a parricide [the killing of one’s father].