Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 254

I was thinking that when the communication stone shimmered.

“Everyone, go now. I need to rest.”

“Weren’t you going to see His Grace the Duke?”

“Huh?”

I was taken aback by Anna’s question.

“J-Just later. Later.”

Laura tilted her head.

“Wasn’t the Young Lady’s communication stone not this shape? Did you buy a new one? No… I definitely saw it this morning.”

I flinched.

‘As expected of a stalker…! Her attention to detail is amazing?!’

I fiddled with the communication stone, fidgeting with my hands.

“I just got one more for work.”

“Hmm? It doesn’t seem like it’s for work, though?”

“It seems like there’s another reason—”

My sisters’ cheekbones soared to the sky, and their eyes narrowed.

“I don’t know! Don’t tease me!”

“Oh my, how could we tease you, Young Lady?”

“Here, put this on your head.”

Anna said, putting an accessory on my head.

“I haven’t seen this before?”

“His Highness Sidrian gifted it to you. Secretly, so His Grace wouldn’t find out.”

The ribbon, full of flowers, had a small gem charm attached.

The purple sapphire sparkled as I moved my head.

“It suits you so well, Young Lady. His Highness Sidrian has such good taste.”

“Anything would suit our Young Lady, though.”

“……But this, it’s the same color as His Highness’s eyes, isn’t it?”

“Oh my!”

“Hehe, His Highness Sidrian, really. How sly.”

“Isn’t the intention too obvious?”

My sisters grinned.

‘Why do they like it more than I do?’

I fiddled with the ribbon on my head.

In the mirror, my face held a smile I had never seen before.

“Ugh, to make our Young Lady like this, you thief! I should think, but also, I’m happy.”

Tilda hugged me tightly.

“Since it’s His Highness Sidrian, I’m just accepting it. But cancel that engagement. Not yet. Never.”

“You have to get married as late as possible. Got it?”

“I’ll be a grandma by then!”

“That’s great. Staying with you at the estate like this, always.”

My sisters smiled and left the room.

I stroked the ribbon once more and turned on the communication stone.

Then Sid’s face appeared before my eyes.

Sid paused, startled by my appearance.

‘Why is he like that?’

Is something wrong? I glanced at the mirror, and a low murmur escaped his lips.

“……It suits you.”

What?

“This is bad. It suits you better than I thought.”

Sid’s cheeks were slightly red as he looked away.

I chuckled.

“What’s that?”

A faint smile appeared on Sid’s lips as he looked at me.

“Do you have time?”

“Why suddenly time?”

“The Viatrenze [a social gathering or ball] was postponed because the Imperial Palace collapsed. I happen to have two opera tickets.”

Opera tickets with ornate gold leaf fluttered between Sid’s long fingers.

“Ah, what should I do? I was going to see it with Raphael. Raphael is surprisingly interested in romance dramas.”

Like a young lady in a romance novel, I had a hobby of elegantly holding opera glasses while watching operas.

Aside from my family, the person I spent the most time with was Raphael.

“Funny, isn’t it? You’d think he’d like action or heroic epics. He even cried at a tragic love story the other day.”

I laughed as I remembered Raphael wiping away tears with his fist, shouting, “S-Something just got in my eye. Damn it!”

“It’s a good thing we were in a box seat, just the two of us. If we had watched it in an open space, Raphael’s popularity would have plummeted.”

I giggled, but then I felt a sense of unease.

Sidrian had been too quiet since earlier.

“You’ve been to see it with Delbartren a lot, haven’t you?”

“U-Uh…….”

“Just the two of you in a box seat?”

“Jasmine and Tyrrell were there sometimes. Claudia came too.”

Sidrian’s eyes narrowed.

“R-Raphael is just a friend. Just like Jasmine and Tyrrell!”

“Anyway, you watched an opera in a narrow box seat alone with that bum?”

“Bum, you say…….”

Grandfather calls Dad a bum, Dad and my brothers call Sid a bum, and Sid calls Raphael a bum…….

‘It’s not a food chain, it’s a bum chain.’

“I can’t do this. I can’t rest easy.”

“What did I even do?”

I pouted.

“It’s not just that orange-haired guy, is it?”

“Huh?”

“Who is that black-haired guy? Who is he that our child even calls him Dad?”

That’s you.

‘Fool.’

I was going to tell him, but I closed my mouth.

‘Hmph!’

“You’re not really interested in opera. If you suddenly have tickets, go see it with the Empress. The Empress would want to go with her son.”

“Heavens!”

Huh?

I was startled by the familiar voice and looked at the screen.

Varen suddenly poked his face out next to Sid.

“How can you be so clueless! You’re like a love idiot who’s never been in love before!”

No, suddenly hitting me with the truth?

“Do you really think this suddenly happened by chance? These golden tickets are impossible to get even with money!”

“Isn’t that just a box seat the Imperial Family has……?”

“Do you think that would just suddenly fall into the commander’s lap?”

My mouth hung open.

So, he deliberately did it because he wanted to see it with me……?

Come to think of it, it was a very classic and common date invitation.

If Jasmine or Tyrrell had been proposed to like this, they would have grinned and teased me about flirting.

‘But when it actually happens to me一.’

My face flushed red.

“Do you get it now? But to think you were going to see it with another bum, it makes me furious一.”

“Get lost.”

Sid pushed Varen away.

I could hear Varen grumbling, and then the door slammed shut.

Sid glared at the closed door, looking displeased.

But I could see that he was secretly embarrassed.

I smiled brightly.

“You wanted to go to the opera with me?”

“……Yeah.”

“Sid doesn’t have a hobby of watching operas.”

At those words, Sid looked at my face silently for a moment.

“I think I’ll come to like it.”

He tilted his head slightly.

Smooth, fine blonde hair slipped down, and transparent purple eyes reflected me.

“I’ll come to like it if I see it with you.”

A small smile that he doesn’t show to others.

Ah.

I want to meet you.

I’m seeing you now, but I want to see you.

Not through this illusion created by magic, but with my own eyes.

So that I can reach out and touch you一.

“I miss you.”

Sid said.

Like a lie, exactly what I was thinking.

“Yeah.”

I nodded.

“I miss you too.”

It was nothing special, but just saying it made me shy and excited.

My face must have turned red, so I couldn’t look at Sid and lowered my head.

It was the moment Sid reached out to me.

“Cotton ball!”

Ixion burst into the room, opening the door.

Ixion paused for a moment, seeing the video of me and Sid.

And the next moment,

“No wonder I felt so disgusted. Some bum was trying to seduce my innocent cotton ball. Are you going to take that hand away?”

Ixion, with a face contorted like a gangster, strode forward as if he was going to break his wrist right away.

“H-However, it’s just a video communication stone! No matter how much you reach out, you can’t reach me!”

“The very fact that you tried to touch my cotton ball is wrong! It’s impure!”

No, if we’re talking about being impure, I’m the most…….

“You should be careful even to look at my cotton ball, who is as high as the sky! Lulú, you should never be with such a wild man! Of course, it would be better if you didn’t meet him at all!”

“S-Sid, see you later!”

“See you later, my foot! You bastard, you’re dead! How dare you to my precious sister一.”

I quickly ended the communication stone.

Ixion cursed at Sid, who had now disappeared.

“What’s going on in my room?”

“What’s going on?”

Ixion’s eyes shook with shock.

“I knew it. Grandpa is right after all.”

What are you talking about?

“Can’t I come unless something’s going on? I used to come even when nothing was going on.”

“That’s…….”

To be honest, I felt a little guilty.

I was going to go to Dad just now, but I didn’t go after receiving Sid’s call.

“Hey, Ixion too. Of course, you can come even if nothing’s going on. You came because you missed me, right?”

I smiled brightly and linked arms with Ixion.

Ixion made a sulky face, but the corners of his lips were slowly rising.

I sighed, whew.

‘You absolutely can’t destroy the Imperial Palace again.’

It was fortunate that the Emperor just laughed it off, but destroying the Imperial Palace, even if it was the outer palace, was a serious crime.

The Emperor said it was an old and dilapidated building that was hundreds of years old and could be rebuilt.

I quickly said that Phaeton would rebuild it, in case the Emperor changed his mind.

‘But I think we could have said we wouldn’t rebuild it.’

That’s because the Emperor continued to be in a very good mood after that.

Constantly to me一.

“Do you like my son? Do you like him? Yes, when should we hold the engagement ceremony, no, no. I’ve already declared him as your fiancé, so all that’s left is marriage. Let’s get married soon.”

一He urged me to get married.

‘He even sent letters about the wedding day morning and evening, and Dad burned them all.’

What about the Empress?

“My dear.”

She was calling me as if I were her daughter-in-law.

“Which palace would you like, my dear? Lake Moon Palace, Blue Rose Palace, Black Lion Palace. Choose whichever you want. Ah, there’s no need to prepare a separate palace? You can live with Sid in his palace.”

“My dear, when will you come to the palace? The preparations are already complete. Sid is being so filial to me. My dear is becoming my dear.”

‘……Should I say it’s fortunate that this ended well even after destroying the Imperial Palace.’

Of course, it wasn’t without any noise.

“The arrogance of the Phaeton Duchy is excessive! How can they destroy the Imperial Palace and一.”

“Be quiet, Empress! Will you take responsibility if this ruins the marriage with Lulú?”

The Empress probably wanted the marriage to be ruined, though.

“Why are you trying to create controversy as soon as you lift the confinement order and come outside!”

I had no choice but to shut my mouth at those words.

I had to pretend to be self-reflecting, at least.

‘……But I don’t think I should destroy it twice.’

But I promised her that I wouldn’t do that again, so she wouldn’t get angry and emit mana anymore, right?

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Crackle!

The newspaper crumpled with a rough sound.

Soon, black mana covered the newspaper and burst into flames.

The newspaper was erased from this world as if it had never existed, leaving no ashes.

“How dare they write such an article? And what’s with the magazine promoting itself in the midst of this? It should never be published. Tell them to dispose of the entire quantity.”

“Will disposing of the entire quantity be enough? Replace the president altogether. So that they can never publish such a magazine again.”

“Get rid of all the reporters too. What combination! They haven’t even gotten engaged, and they’re putting out such trash articles?”

Duke Phaeton and Marquis Tarenka, at the words of these two giants, Baron Erkel expressed his condolences to the innocent reporters.

‘He pretends to be docile in front of the Young Lady, but in the end, he’s like this behind the scenes……. I wonder if Prince Sidrian is okay?’

Maybe he even sent assassins in secret.

At this point, I almost feel sorry for Sidrian一.

‘No, I don’t feel sorry for him! How dare he seduce our innocent youngest Young Lady!’

Baron Erkel, who pretends to be normal, was also a fool for Luatisha, whom he had watched since she was a little girl.

* * *

Because the four fools with crazy eyes caused the Imperial Palace to be destroyed, the Viatrenze was reopened at the Imperial Family’s villa near the capital, the Schuasfel Palace.

Although it wasn’t intentional, the Empress was furious because the first grand banquet she hosted after lifting the confinement order was completely ruined.

She put in a tremendous amount of effort to restore her prestige, but it all went down the drain.

In addition, the Viatrenze, which reopened today, was co-hosted with the Empress for the reason that the preparation period was tight.

‘Anyway, she’s blocking my path at every turn.’

The Empress drank wine under the pergola and looked around.

Everyone at this place was talking about Luatisha and Sidrian.

If there was a name that was occasionally heard among them, it was Liriel.

However, it was not in a good direction at all.

“So, the Saintess kept interfering between the two and stirring up trouble?”

“She interfered before, saying that Prince Sidrian and the Young Lady weren’t anything to each other.”

“That was funny too. Young Lady Jasmine and Young Lady Tyrrell, who are close to the Young Lady, know better, so why did she step in when they were asked questions?”

The Empress clicked her tongue, tsk.

‘Anyway, why is that child Liriel approaching Sidrian?’

She didn’t like it at all.

But she still had some use left.

After all, Liriel was a Saintess.

‘Today, if Luatisha’s power ends一.’

If the problems of the water control project come to the fore in such a high-profile place, even Luatisha will be hit hard.

‘一Liriel will fill that spot.’

The Empress’s lips twisted into a crooked smile.