Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 205

Lua Tisha’s eyes widened like saucers.

He said he wanted to have a lot of children?

When did I ever……?

But before Lua Tisha could even ask, an intense reaction erupted from elsewhere.

“What did you just say……?”

“You little punk!”

“……I’ll kill you.”

The three young masters’ eyes flashed sharply.

Seeing his grandsons, Tarenka smiled kindly.

“Everyone, calm down. Prince Sidrian is our benefactor.”

“But一.”

“You must speak respectfully.”

He dismissed his grandsons’ resistance with a single word and turned to Sidrian, smiling gently.

“Indeed, for the Prince to decide to go to the underworld so early in his young life. This old man will gladly assist with all his heart.”

“…….”

Lua Tisha’s expression became strange.

Grandpa, no…….

That’s basically saying一

‘The young brat is already rushing to his death. I’ll kill him with my own hands!’

一isn’t it?

Just because you say it politely doesn’t mean it’s not rude.

Lua Tisha shook her head.

Before anything goes wrong, I need to fix this situation.

“Making a family doesn’t mean that. I said let’s go to the Imperial Palace.”

“To the Imperial Palace to ask the Emperor for permission for our marriage一.”

“I’ll kill this punk, no, I’ll help him go to the underworld!”

“一isn’t that what you meant?”

No matter how Iksion shouted as he jumped up, Sidrian calmly finished his sentence, looking only at Lua Tisha.

His face was somehow triumphant.

What else could ‘making a family’ mean if not getting married?

Lua Tisha is currently 16 years old. And in a month or two, she’ll turn 17.

It’s not like marriage is a completely distant prospect at that age, is it?

‘First, we’ll get engaged, then move in together. And the honeymoon should be spent at a resort rather than the Imperial Palace…….’

In Sidrian’s mind, he had already planned to fulfill the number of children Lua Tisha had mentioned before.

No matter how he thought about it, there was no other meaning to those words besides marriage.

Because…….

Sidrian unconsciously touched his lips.

The memory of Lua Tisha pulling him in and kissing him in the garden came to mind.

‘……Why do I suddenly feel even dirtier?’

Iksion frowned.

Especially when he saw Sidrian blushing and touching his lips, he felt even worse.

The family members frowned with a sense of unease, but they anxiously watched Lua Tisha’s reaction.

Finally, Lua Tisha’s lips opened.

“No, it’s not.”

“……It’s not?”

At Lua Tisha’s nonchalant answer, Sidrian’s face became dejected this time, and flowers bloomed among the family members.

“It meant meeting Her Majesty the Empress. What…… marriage permission.”

“That’s right! What marriage! My granddaughter is still a babe in arms. It’s a hundred years too early.”

Well, I agree that it’s a bit early, but…….

Isn’t a hundred years too late?

It feels like I’ll be dead and having a spirit marriage or something.

Lua Tisha looked at her grandfather with a sullen face.

“The youngest will marry me.”

“Hmm? My sister will marry me.”

“What are you talking about? I promised to protect Cotton Ball.”

The Paeraton young masters began to bicker with each other, saying they would marry the youngest.

Lua Tisha sighed at the familiar pattern.

‘……Come to think of it, why is Dad so quiet?’

He’s been silent since earlier.

Glancing at him, she saw him sitting blankly, lost in thought with a serious face.

‘……Is something wrong with the family?’

Lua Tisha tilted her head.

Anyway, it’s a relief that Dad is distracted.

“It’s about meeting Her Majesty the Empress. Not getting marriage permission…….”

“You keep saying marriage. Her Majesty the Empress said she’s your mother.”

“Marriage is…… not…….”

“Hey.”

Lua Tisha looked at Sidrian as if he were ridiculous.

Did he have a hard time while he was in the Demon Realm?

* * *

“Um, Your Excellency…….”

Baron Erkel, the chief aide of the Paeraton Duke, called out to his lord with a cautious attitude.

The Duke had been sitting still without saying a word since earlier.

“Is there something troubling you?”

The Paeraton Duke’s gaze turned to Baron Erkel.

Baron Erkel stiffened without realizing it.

He had been assisting the Paeraton Duke for over twenty years, but this was the first time he had received such a sharp look.

“Do you call that a question?”

“I-I’m sorry, Your Excellency. If there’s an issue I haven’t grasped一.”

“My daughter is going to get married.”

“Pardon?”

Baron Erkel raised his head blankly.

“The young lady? When on earth…….”

“Didn’t you hear? Earlier一.”

Crack!

As if the events from earlier had come to mind, the armrest of the chair shattered in the Paeraton Duke’s grip.

‘That’s solid wood…… and it’s made of adamant wood [an exceptionally hard and durable wood], which is said to be as hard as diamond…….’

Watching the chair crumble as if it were made of sand, even without using magic, Baron Erkel swallowed hard.

Even if a rebellion had broken out in the territory, he wouldn’t have reacted like this.

‘If I say the wrong thing, I’ll end up like that chair.’

“Absolutely not. Didn’t the young lady also say, ‘What marriage permission?’ and act dumbfounded?”

“When she said that, her eyelashes were lowered more than usual.”

“……Yes?”

“Also, the angle of her neck was tilted exactly 17 degrees, and her breathing was slightly trembling. The breathing pattern had an unstable amplitude with no regularity.”

“…….”

“Furthermore, her body temperature rose by about 0.1 degrees. Didn’t you see her face turning bright red?”

Bright red, you say?

Far from turning bright red, she nonchalantly said, ‘No, it’s not.’

‘When you mentioned marriage, she was beyond dumbfounded; she was speechless.’

“I thought your abilities were at least somewhat decent, but…….”

The Paeraton Duke clicked his tongue, having read Baron Erkel’s thoughts through his expression, even though he hadn’t said anything.

Baron Erkel felt wronged.

“How could you not notice such clear signs of capillary dilation [widening of tiny blood vessels]? The diameter of her pupils also increased by about 0.1mm.”

Not 0.1cm, but how am I supposed to know the difference of 0.1mm?

If I could figure that out, I wouldn’t be human.

And what? Capillary what?

There were so many things he wanted to argue, but…….

“Ah, yes…….”

He had no choice but to nod in agreement.

It wasn’t like his lord had only gone crazy once or twice when it came to the youngest young lady.

He should understand this much with a generous heart.

It’s definitely not because I’m scared after seeing the broken chair.

“Marriage is absolutely not allowed.”

Bang!

The Paeraton Duke said firmly and struck the remaining armrest.

Baron Erkel sweated as he watched the armrest turn into dust and disappear.

“……I should have given her early education that marriage is bad.”

The Paeraton Duke gnashed his teeth fiercely, then suddenly drooped and took something out of his pocket.

It was a portrait of his daughter that he always carried with him.

The Paeraton Duke’s fingers stroked his daughter’s smiling face.

“Our Lulu…… she said she would live with Daddy forever and snuggled into Daddy’s arms.”

“…….”

“She said I was the only one she had…… I had to feed her; sometimes she didn’t want to brush her teeth, so I had to brush her teeth, and she often slept with her belly exposed at night, so I had to check on her every dawn…….”

“…….”

Baron Erkel quietly left the office, watching the Paeraton Duke wallowing in self-pity.

“Ah, did you have a good talk?”

The administrator asked with a bright face, holding a thick stack of documents.

“A-Are you going in now?”

“Yes, I have something to report.”

Baron Erkel was horrified and stopped him.

“Absolutely not.”

“Yes?”

“……It’s His Excellency’s order that no one is allowed inside the office.”

Baron Erkel dared to commit the crime of impersonating his lord’s orders.

But who would throw stones at him?

All of this stemmed from a tearful loyalty.

* * *

“Mama!”

As soon as she opened the door, Nike, who had been jumping up and down, ran to Lua Tisha and hugged her tightly.

“Nike missed Mama so much.”

Nike rubbed her face against Lua Tisha’s chest and smiled.

“Oh, my sweetie, did you wait for Mommy?”

Lua Tisha smiled as if she would die of cuteness and kissed Nike’s face.

“Yes! Nike missed Mama so, so much, but I endured it well. I didn’t cause any trouble, and I ate my meals quietly and behaved well.”

“You did, you did.”

The moment Lua Tisha was stroking Nike’s fur, she met Sidrian’s eyes.

‘Oh…….’

Lua Tisha awkwardly corrected her words.

“You did, you did.”

As if she had never said “You did, you did.”

“Mama?”

Nike tilted her head and wrapped her fluffy tail around Lua Tisha’s arm.

Lua Tisha awkwardly stroked the tail.

Nike frowned, jumped out of her arms, flipped over on her back, and raised her thick front paws in the air.

Love me more! Give me more love!

Unable to resist the cute attack, Lua Tisha immediately picked up Nike and kissed her again and again.

Sidrian, who had been watching with a sulky face, opened his mouth slightly.

“Does she usually kiss just anyone like that?”

Hey, you.

Lua Tisha stopped kissing and raised her head.

“Come to think of it, you said I was a playboy before. Now I see why.”

Sharp gaze, sulky cheeks, and slightly pouting lips.

‘Could he be pouting?’

It would be ridiculous to pout about kissing a human baby, but Nike was a mystical beast baby.

Moreover, she hadn’t grown at all compared to when she was born, so her appearance and inner self were no different from a real baby.

“I can kiss her if she’s cute. What’s so wrong with kissing?”

“Then the kiss you gave me earlier一.”

“Aaaaaah!”

Lua Tisha screamed and stopped Sidrian’s words.

Sidrian muttered sullenly.

“You pushed me against the wall, grabbed my collar, and kissed me一.”

“Aaaaaah! Stop! Stop it!”

“It was my first time.”

Sidrian lowered his gaze and muttered.

Lua Tisha’s face turned red at the feeling of becoming an unscrupulous person who pushed a naive young man and said it was nothing after taking his first time.

“I-It was my first time too?!”

“Liar.”

No, why am I a liar?

“You’ve done it so many times to that furball just now.”

Lua Tisha’s mouth dropped open.

“No, she’s not even human.”

“A spirit beast can transform into a human form, can’t it?”

“W-Well, that’s true, but she’s a baby.”

“She’s a boy.”

Wow…….

This is really impossible to reason with.

Whether Lua Tisha was dumbfounded or not, Sidrian glared at Nike with wary eyes.

Openly acting cute and charming was no ordinary feat.

And surely that charm was only for Lua Tisha.

In front of others, it would be a blessing if she didn’t act violently, let alone flip over on her back.

He had sensed it from the moment he first saw her.

But he wasn’t just thinking that based on intuition.

‘When she said she had been behaving quietly and well, the maids were sweating.’

That was solid evidence.

“I don’t know why you’re clinging to that thing so much. It looks like a clump of fur that hasn’t been properly put together; there’s nothing particularly cute about一.”

“Papa?”

Nike, sensing Sidrian’s gaze, peeked out from Lua Tisha’s arms.

“……Papa?”

Nike smiled brightly.

“It’s Papa! It’s Nike’s Papa!”

“……There are so many cute things about her that I can’t even explain them all.”
Pardon?

“She even recognized her dad right away. Where else in the world would there be such a smart baby? She’s definitely my baby.”

My baby?

Since when was she our baby?

Lua Tisha looked at Sidrian with hazy eyes.

Sidrian was already holding Nike in his arms and comforting her.

“This fluffy and soft fur. These dignified front paws. These bright eyes. There’s nothing that isn’t perfect.”

Hey, you.

You said she looked like a clump of fur that hadn’t been properly put together earlier.

“Papa!”

“Yes, I’m Papa.”

“Nike missed Papa. Mama was very sad because Papa wasn’t here.”

“Is that so? Papa was wrong.”

“Papa wrong?”

“Yes.”

“Umm, Nike thought about it carefully, and I think that’s right. It’s Papa’s fault for hurting Mama. Bad!”

Nike began to hit Sidrian with her thick front paws.

“I won’t forgive Papa if you hurt Mama!”

Thwack! Thwack!

Unlike a baby hitting her dad lightly, quite serious impact sounds rang out, but Sidrian was smiling, wondering what was so good about it.

“Papa is sorry. I won’t hurt Mommy again.”

“Really?”

“Really. Papa was far away, so Mommy was hurting, so now Papa will stay close to Mommy. Right?”

Nike tilted her head and

“Is that so?”

She muttered.

“Yes, so let’s get married as soon as possible一.”

“Hey.”

Lua Tisha snatched Nike from Sidrian.

“Don’t teach the kid weird things. Geez.”

Sidrian smiled and looked at Lua Tisha, who was grumbling.

“…….”

For a long time.

Lua Tisha’s cheeks, who had been patting Nike’s bottom, slowly began to heat up.

Her eyes wavered, and the rhythm of her patting began to falter.

Finally, unable to bear it, Lua Tisha asked Sidrian.

“Why, why are you looking at me like that?”

“I missed you.”

“…….”

“I really, really missed you.”

The two people’s gazes intertwined in the air.

Affectionate, heartbreaking, and yet, meeting again was just like a miracle一.

The two naturally grew closer.

It was then.

“But when is Black-Haired Papa coming?”