Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 232

Precious and affectionate gaze towards someone dear.

Jeon’s face was expressionless, but Schuerella could read the emotions in his eyes.

Because she had received such gazes from Jeon before.

But now, that gaze was directed at Ruatisha.

Just like before.

‘No way.’

Schuerella approached Jeon with a pale face.

“Jeon.”

As she smiled, linking arms with Jeon, he turned to look at her.

Jeon was still looking at her with loving eyes.

However, cold sweat ran down Schuerella’s back as she smiled back.

‘……He almost shook me off just now.’

He hadn’t done that even once since the Saintess gave her blessing.

A sense of unease crept up her neck.

* * *

“Oh? Young Master Jeon!”

The young ladies who were enjoying a tea party in the garden were surprised and stood up from their seats.

Originally, they would have thought he came to pick up his youngest sister, but.

The young ladies’ gazes turned to Jeon’s arm.

Schuerella was smiling, proudly holding his arm tightly.

‘……Which of the two is he here to pick up?’

Schuerella hugged Jeon’s arm tightly, feeling their thoughts were so obvious.

“Jeon came to pick me up.”

“Oh my, is that so?”

“Young Master Jeon is so sweet.”

The young ladies exchanged glances.

‘Young Master Jeon really does take care of the Prussian Young Lady?’

It was surprising.

However, the young ladies’ attitudes didn’t particularly change.

No matter how much Schuerella was going to marry Jeon, was there anyone in Paeraton who didn’t know Ruatisha’s position?

How many family businesses Ruatisha was in charge of, and how many internal affairs she was overseeing.

‘With the Prussian Young Lady’s abilities, even if she marries, her authority will be much less than the Paeraton Princess’.

Moreover, Ruatisha’s reputation in social circles couldn’t even be compared to Schuerella’s.

When only Schuerella was around, they might praise her, but not in front of Ruatisha.

Most of all—.

‘Young Master Jeon has been looking at Princess Paeraton the whole time.’

‘Isn’t he practically here to pick up his sister?’

Everyone thought so in their hearts and looked at Ruatisha.

“Then, will you be leaving with us now, Princess?”

“It’s such a shame. You haven’t been here for long.”

“We’ll see you again, right?”

The young ladies asked Ruatisha with regretful faces.

Schuerella gritted her teeth at the sight.

‘Jeon came to pick me up! Why is everyone like this?’

She thought that the gap between herself and Ruatisha would be clear when Jeon came.

Because she could see that the young ladies didn’t quite believe her when she talked about how well Jeon treated her earlier.

She thought that now those bat-like creatures would believe everything she said and fawn over her.

‘The humiliation I just experienced will be the same for Princess Paeraton…….’

However, Ruatisha simply fanned herself with a fan and smiled brightly.

“It’s very nice to see Jeon taking care of the Prussian Young Lady.”

Ruatisha’s gaze reached Jeon.

The moment Schuerella’s eyes met Ruatisha’s, she felt Jeon flinch.

She didn’t want to feel it, but she couldn’t help but feel it because of the arm she was holding tightly.

“J-Jeon…….”

At her call, Jeon turned to look at Schuerella.

The red eyes fully contained Schuerella.

“…….”

Yes, the person he cherishes is here.

A fragile and small being that he must protect.

A being he wants to protect at any cost.

His family.

The only sanctuary where he can breathe.

‘But why.’

It wasn’t filled.

Clearly, in the past, just making eye contact with this child made him feel like he had the whole world.

Looking at her smile made him want to give her everything he had.

But now—.

“…….”

It’s empty.

Rather, even more so than before.

A terrible sense of loss shook Jeon.

A strange feeling as if he had lost something he should never have lost.

Jeon’s gaze drifted away from Schuerella.

Soon, what was reflected in his eyes was Ruatisha.

‘Why.’

Why does his gaze keep going to the bad person who tormented his family?

Even when he wasn’t looking, he thought of that girl.

The expression of being frightened and hurt.

Even so, she smiled brightly and came to him, saying, “Jeon, Jeon!”

The face that awkwardly smiled, saying, “Heart attack!”

The sadness that flashed by in between.

“…….”

His heart felt strange.

It was hard to breathe as if something was blocked.

‘Annoying.’

It’s irritating.

But when he looked at that girl, it was as if this terrible sense of loss was fading away a little—.

Ruatisha was laughing with the young ladies.

“Really? You’ll definitely invite me then, right?”

“I’ll be embarrassed if you look forward to it this much. It’s nothing special.”

“Nothing special! It’s a party hosted by the Princess. Even if it’s just a cup of water given in the marketplace, I’d be satisfied.”

“Hmm, but if it’s a party held in the marketplace, wouldn’t that be quite fun? I’m tempted.”

Ruatisha’s face, as she laughed, was always full of confidence and without any shadows, just like me.

However, Jeon’s eyes saw all the hidden wounds within.

Jeon clenched his empty fist tightly.

‘Why am I noticing that child’s pain?’

“……Jeon.”

Schuerella called him from the side, but Jeon didn’t even hear her.

He was simply so bothered by that child’s pain that he couldn’t stand it.

At that moment, Ruatisha raised her head and met Jeon’s eyes again.

Ruatisha very naturally avoided his gaze and stood up from her seat.

“It was really fun. Making friends with new people is always a pleasure. But I have other schedules, so I must be going now.”

The young ladies made regretful expressions again, but they didn’t stop her any further.

As Ruatisha turned her body, her long hair fluttered.

Like spring had come, flower petal-like hair covered Jeon’s vision.

When the fluttering hair subsided, Ruatisha’s face was not visible.

Ruatisha left the garden with a confident gait without looking back.

But.

‘She might be crying.’

He doesn’t know why he thinks that.

‘No, she’ll be angry.’

However, only that thought strongly dominated Jeon’s mind.

He couldn’t see or hear anything else.

His legs moved on their own.

“J-Jeon?”

It was the moment when a flustered Schuerella grabbed Jeon’s arm even tighter.

Thwack!

A rough hand pushed Schuerella away.

Schuerella was startled and looked up at Jeon, but he wasn’t even looking at her.

As if Schuerella was no longer in his eyes.

Schuerella called him with a desperate voice at the sight of his back getting further away with long strides.

“J-Jeon!”

However, Jeon didn’t even hesitate once.

As if he couldn’t even hear her voice.

“Jeon!”

“Didn’t you say Young Master Jeon came to pick up the Prussian Young Lady?”

At those words, Schuerella, who was hurriedly moving her steps to follow Jeon, stopped.

As she turned around with venomous eyes, the young lady who spoke shrugged her shoulders.

“No, I was just curious.”

“……He came because I asked him to pick me up.”

“Is that so? It doesn’t seem like that’s the situation right now.”

Schuerella’s face turned bright red.

“I’ll be going now.”

Schuerella left the tea party, leaving only those words behind.

As soon as her figure was hidden by the tall garden trees, she heard whispering voices from inside.

“Did you see it earlier? The Prussian Young Lady was clinging to Young Master Jeon’s arm and kept calling him.”

“Even though she did that much, Young Master Jeon didn’t even look at her.”

“Honestly, it was a bit…… pathetic.”

Schuerella’s footsteps stopped abruptly.

“I heard the Princess is obsessed with her family and interferes with the young ladies approaching her brothers.”

“When I saw it earlier, she didn’t interfere or even give them a look, did she?”

“Young Master Jeon came, but she only acknowledged him once and kept talking to us.”

“She even told Young Master Jeon that it was nice to see him picking up the Prussian Young Lady, and when I saw her giving up her seat, saying she would leave first without being able to go out with the three of them, I thought the Princess was rather considerate of the Prussian Young Lady.”

A short silence.

It was a silence of agreement that could be known even without being in that place.

“This, could it be?”

“Young Master Jeon hates her, but the Princess is only treating her well because the Empress Dowager told her to save face, isn’t that it?”

“No matter how I look at it, Princess Ruatisha is helping her.”

“Wow, but the Prussian Young Lady said behind her back that Princess Paeraton was interfering so much?”

“Moreover, her words were too harsh. Saying things like she doesn’t have a mother, or that she had problems in her childhood. My mouth gets dirty just trying to say it again. How could she say such things so nonchalantly?”

“That’s just the Prussian Young Lady’s personality.”

“She subtly acts like she’s a quasi-royal, looking down on people, right? The reality is that she lost in the previous generation’s power struggles, so everything is ruined.”

“Only Princess Ruatisha is pitiful.”

Schuerella clenched her fist tightly.

Her teeth were grinding on their own.

‘I was originally supposed to be a quasi-royal!’

If the Empress Dowager’s child, not the current Emperor, had become the Emperor, she would have enjoyed everything as the Emperor’s fifth cousin.

‘If that were the case, my reputation in social circles would have been much higher than Ruatisha Paeraton’s.’

She will never forget today’s humiliation.

Schuerella glared at the young ladies visible between the trees.

‘Once I become the Duchess of Paeraton, I’ll bury all of you.’

To do that, she had to bring Jeon back to his senses first.

* * *

‘Ah, this is really pissing me off.’

I tried hard to calm my pounding footsteps.

Seeing Schuerella sticking to Jeon and fawning over him made my insides burn.

‘She used fraud!’

The image of Sid suffering from the curse that used fraud kept coming to mind.

I was burning inside with worry that Jeon would be in so much pain if he kept Schuerella by his side.

How dare she use wicked sorcery on our brother!

‘And why did Jeon fall for such tricks?’

When you think about it, Jeon is the victim, but at this point, I was also angry at Jeon.

‘What? He can’t even recognize his own sister!’

Not being able to recognize his family, does he really not see anything!

Are his eyes just decorations?

Why does he even have them!

I was in the middle of huffing and puffing.

At that moment, someone grabbed my arm.

“Jeon?”

Why is he here?

Shouldn’t he be out of his mind because he’s not using his brain, and being all lovey-dovey with Schuerella or Schuerellala or whatever?

Jeon was silent.

He just kept looking at my face for a long time.

I glared at Jeon with all my rebellious spirit.

Only after a long time did his lips open.

“……What did you do to me.”

My lips parted slightly without me realizing it.

‘Wow, this line.’

‘I’ve never met a child like this before.’

Next is, ‘What did you do to me.’

‘Jeon is so consistent.’

Even in a situation where he’s under a spell and can’t recognize his own sister, Jeon was still Jeon.

That was reassuring, heartbreaking, and also welcome.

“I didn’t do anything.”

At my grumpy words, Jeon’s eyes wavered.

“Then why, me.”

Jeon’s lips, which seemed like they were going to say more, were tightly shut.

What is it?

Does he see me a little more like his sister now?

Has his brain started to work a little?

Expectation filled my heart.

‘That’s right. You don’t usually use these lines on someone you hate.’

Above all, Jeon’s eyes today were full of confusion instead of murderous intent.

“Me?”

Even when I urged him, Jeon didn’t say anything.

Rather, unlike before, he started to pressure me with a fierce momentum.

The eyes that were full of confusion became sharp.

“Tell me. What did you do to me.”

“…….”

“Just what did you do to make me so annoyed by you.”

What……?

Annoyed?

“I can’t stand being so 신경 쓰여서 [ 신경 쓰여서 (sin-gyeong sseu-yeo-seo) – bothered; to be on one’s mind]—.”

“Who’s the one who should be getting angry right now!”

Thud!

I pushed Jeon towards the tree trunk.

I thought he would stand firm and not even budge, but he pushed surprisingly well.

Thud.

I roughly placed my hand next to Jeon’s face.

“Do you know? I’m the one who’s pissed off. I didn’t do anything, but suddenly he hates me and tries to attack me for real. I keep approaching him because he’s still my brother, but he ignores me and pushes me away. The wrist that got hit was unfortunately the right one. My wrist throbs every time I sign documents, do you know how annoying that is? It was only that much because Azul healed me! He’s just strong and ignorant! He can’t even recognize his own sister and hurts her! And then what? Annoyed? I’ve endured as much as I can! I’m the one who should be annoyed right now?! He doesn’t even know what state he’s in and is all smiles with Schuerellala!”

Shooting out all those words made my stress go away.

As I caught my breath, I noticed something strange.

Jeon didn’t say anything even though I was shooting out all those words.

Above all, the way Jeon was looking at me was exactly—.

“……My youngest.”

—Like before.

‘Huh?’

“So, do you hate me now?”

Drip, drip.

Tears flowed from Jeon’s eyes.