Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 260

Runs the Romance Fantasy with Baby’s Cash – Episode 260

☆ Episode 260 ☆

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“Where are Dad, Grandpa, and the brothers?”

“The Duke is in his study, the Marquis in the garden, Zeon in his bedroom, and Ares and Ixion in their personal training grounds.”

I nodded at Anna’s reply.

“Miss, please help me. I can’t breathe because of the Duke and the young masters.”

Nancy clung to me, looking tearful.

I got up from my seat.

“I was planning to do that anyway.”

I had finished replenishing my sugar with pudding, so it was time to soothe my family.

* * *

The moment I opened the study door, a dark and gloomy aura washed over me.

‘Oh, my!’

I wondered if Dad was using magic, but that wasn’t it.

‘How bad must he feel for such an aura to emanate from him?’

Dad was leaning against the bookshelf, staring at a book with murderous intent, as if he were about to tear it to shreds.

There was no way you could call that reading.

The illusion of the book dripping with cold sweat and tears was visible…….

I looked around.

Even Baron Erkel and Heinz (the Duke’s chief butler), who were used to dealing with Dad, were huddled in a corner, barely breathing.

Baron Erkel, who met my eyes, desperately sent me a rescue request.

‘Please save me, Miss!’

I gave him a thumbs up and winked.

‘Trust me!’

“Dad!”

Dad flinched and slowly raised his head.

He must have noticed my presence before I entered the study, but he was sulking and pretending not to know.

Even so, the murderous intent that had been swirling around him subsided as soon as he made eye contact with me.

‘After all, my dad is still my dad.’

I walked up to Dad and asked.

“Dad, why are you being so hard on Sid?”

“……!”

Baron Erkel and Heinz, who were standing behind him, screamed silently.

They looked like they were asking why I was strangling them when they had asked me to save them.

I paid no attention and asked Dad again.

“Why are you being so possessive?”

My question shocked him so much that even his usually unwavering eyes trembled.

‘Hehe, of course, he’d be shocked.’

Am I snapping at my dad, who is now dying to live because I have a boyfriend?

Like, raising a daughter is useless, and so on.

‘……Huh?’

But Dad’s reaction was a little different from what I expected.

Far from resenting me, his red eyes filled with sadness, and then—with murderous intent towards someone.

‘Eek!’

I quickly shouted.

“Settle in my heart!”

The raging murderous intent subsided in an instant, like a snuffed-out candle.

Dad stared blankly at me.

I threw my arms around Dad.

“There’s only Dad in Lulu’s heart! Even if I don’t try to, Dad keeps settling in Lulu’s heart!”

I laughed and looked up at Dad.

Dad quietly looked down at me.

Soon, a large hand stroked my hair.

“You surprised me.”

“Why are you surprised? I wouldn’t say anything to Dad. I wouldn’t say anything even if Dad were plotting treason right now.”

“…….”

“Because Dad has already settled in Lulu’s heart.”

Dad chuckled and pressed my head down.

“So, am I more important to my daughter than anyone else?”

“Of course!”

“Even more than that rascal?”

Oh, so childish.

But I had the sense not to say those words to him.

I smiled as brightly as I could and shouted.

“Of course, Dad is Lulu’s number one!”

The corners of Dad’s lips turned up arrogantly.

And he asked.

“Did you hear that?”

“As always, whether she was young or now, the youngest lady’s number one is only you, Your Grace!”

“To receive such unwavering love from his daughter! You are the only father like this in the world!”

Baron Erkel and Heinz shouted at the top of their lungs.

Baron Erkel’s eyes were moist, and it seemed that he was crying with joy for his survival.

‘How much murderous intent was Dad emitting?’

It was funny because it was so over the top, and on the other hand, it was touching.

I tugged at Dad’s sleeve.

“What about Dad?”

Dad looked at me.

I looked into his eyes and asked.

“Am I Dad’s number one?”

“…….”

It was a playful question, but the smile slowly faded from Dad’s lips.

An indescribable emotion swirled in the red eyes that looked at me.

Joy, elation, happiness.

But within it were also sadness, pain, and regret.

The saying that loving too much is painful.

I thought that was nonsense.

How could such a thing exist in the world?

But—.

“……From the moment you were born.”

A soft voice fell on my ear, on my heart.

“You were as precious as my life.”

—I think I know when I look into Dad’s eyes looking at me.

“What.”

I looked down at the floor for no reason and kicked the ground with my foot.

“You haven’t changed since you were a kid. You always do that when you’re embarrassed.”

Dad chuckled and rubbed my cheek.

Dad knew my habit that I didn’t even know about.

I snuggled into Dad’s arms.

* * *

I rubbed my nose and came out of the study.

‘I went to comfort Dad and ended up filming an unexpected family healing scene.’

But my steps to bring peace to the Paeraton Duchy could not be stopped.

I went straight to Grandpa, who was in the garden.

Grandpa was sitting on a wisteria bench, looking at the flowers with a gaze that seemed to be reminiscing about his life.

They were pink flowers that looked just like my and Mom’s hair.

“Grandpa, Lulu is leaving.”

When I said quietly, Grandpa was startled and looked at me.

Then his face contorted miserably.

“In the end, are you leaving with that rascal! Like Inais [Lulu’s mother]? Lulu, you’re still too young!”

Oh, Mom.

Did you say you were going to marry Dad when you were my age?

I would have been against it even if I were Grandpa!

“How can you be so much like your mother in this way! How can you break your grandfather’s heart like this!”

As if his trauma had been triggered, Grandpa clutched his chest and hugged me.

‘This isn’t it…….’

“It’s not that I’m absolutely against it. No, I’m absolutely against it, but…… anyway, it’s not that I’m absolutely against it.”

Grandpa started rambling.

I could clearly see that he was conflicted, afraid of losing even his granddaughter if he opposed too much.

“……Lulu is leaving now. I’ve decided to devote myself to the god I love.”

Stop.

Grandpa’s hand, which had been stroking me with trembling hands, stopped.

“Devote yourself to God? Suddenly?”

“Because he’s a god I love so much.”

Grandpa looked like he didn’t know what this was all about.

I winked.

“It’s you.”

Grandpa’s eyes widened.

“Lulu will devote herself to Grandpa, whom she loves so much, and live with him forever!”

Oops.

I threw my arms around Grandpa.

I didn’t plan to say that I would live with him forever.

I was a little worried because I remembered Dad crying, saying that I had decided to live with him forever.

‘It’ll be fine somehow! The future me will take care of it!’

“Oh, that kid. I thought my heart would stop.”

Grandpa smiled and hugged me tightly.

“Yes, yes. Let’s live happily together forever with this grandpa.”

“Yes!”

“I’ll have to buy a lot more castles and islands in the resort! It would be better to change castles every season than every year!”

Yes?

I was a little hesitant, but I smiled and nodded.

‘It’s okay if Grandpa is happy.’

Now I had soothed Grandpa well, and it was the next turn.

* * *

Zeon was sprawled lazily on the sofa.

His posture was as if all the affairs of the world had nothing to do with him.

But in his arms was a pink hamster doll, its plump cheeks pressed down.

It was then.

Zeon’s eyes, which seemed like they wouldn’t move, sparkled.

‘It’s the youngest [Lulu].’

A different light flickered in his eyes, which had been out of focus.

Footsteps like snow piling up.

Only the youngest had such a lovely presence.

Zeon looked at the door with expectant eyes.

But the sound of footsteps, which had been getting closer, never stopped and faded away into the distance.

Zeon’s sparkling eyes became sullen.

“…….”

He hesitated for a moment and got up from his seat.

He wanted the youngest to come to him first, but at this moment, he was sadder that he couldn’t see the youngest’s face.

When he opened the door and went out, he saw the youngest’s figure in the distance.

Ruatisha was chatting with the maids in the small living room at the end of the hallway.

“How is the young lady?”

“Young Master Zeon is the most handsome, right?”

“The young lady said, ‘Young Master Zeon’s face is welfare and a country—’ [Meaning his beauty is a national treasure].”

Zeon’s ears perked up.

He also knew very well that the youngest liked handsome men very much.

And now was the chance to hear the youngest’s one-pick [favorite].

‘I like Zeon. Zeon is the best.’

—When I think of her smiling the brightest in the world, it’s still me…….

“Gee, what’s so handsome about Zeon?”

Stop.

Zeon’s body, which had been approaching the youngest, froze like a stone statue.

Just a while ago, she was smiling the brightest in the world, saying, “Zeon is the most handsome”……!

Could it be that Ares and Ixion had been flirting with the youngest?

‘Or—.’

His heart sank.

‘Could it be, Sidrian the Prince?’

He knew that the sly rascal was constantly hitting on the innocent youngest.

But even such words came out of the youngest’s mouth.

It was the moment when Zeon staggered in shock.

“Zeon is handsome.”

Ruatisha spat out casually.

“If you don’t know, memorize it. It’s not that Zeon is handsome, it’s that handsome *is* Zeon. The definition of handsome is Zeon.”

“Oh my! That’s right.”

“Then Young Master Zeon is the best for the youngest lady, right?”

“Of course! I like Zeon the most in the world!”

“Oh my!”

“…….”

Zeon, who had been listening to the conversation quietly, moved his feet.

“Zeon?”

Ruatisha looked at him in surprise.

Zeon sat next to Ruatisha and leaned on her.

“Stroke me.”

An invisible tail was wagging back and forth.

Ruatisha smiled and hugged Zeon and stroked his head.

And she said in a subtle tone.

“Zeon, you need to be a little more generous to others.”

“……Generous?”

“It can’t be helped that there are many people around me, right? But can those people be compared to Zeon?”

“…….”

“Handsome Zeon, please bear with it. It can’t be compared anyway.”

Zeon stared blankly at Ruatisha and nodded.

‘After all, I’m the youngest’s number one.’

It was possible to be generous because he didn’t know that he had already said the first thing to Dad and Grandpa.

* * *

The world was covered in darkness.

The leafy leaves fell and the paving stones were shattered into pieces.

Ares Paeraton stood in the middle of it.

It was his true self hidden behind a smile that smiled like the spring sun.

It was not for nothing that Ares was known among his vassals as the most ferocious and cruel of the three Paeraton sons.

But the magic power that had been expanding endlessly as if to cover the whole world with darkness disappeared in an instant.

Ares turned around.

There stood his sister, holding a parasol.

As if he had never emitted that murderous magic power, a bright smile appeared on Ares’ face.

“My sister, did you come to see me?”

“Yes. But why are you training so fiercely? The employees are too scared to approach.”

“This isn’t training.”

“Then?”

“It’s a rehearsal.”

“…….”

Who are you trying to kill?

Ruatisha couldn’t bring herself to ask.

Because I felt like I knew the answer.

Instead, she lowered her eyes with a sullen face.

“My heart is always cloudy because of Ares.”

“What does that mean, my sister? Why am I clouding your heart?”

Ares asked, folding his eyes softly.

Ares’ smile was like the warm spring sun more than ever, as if a halo was shining from behind him.

But Ruatisha became even more sullen.

Usually, if he smiled like this, Ruatisha would smile along.

But now, on the contrary—.

A look full of disappointment.

‘My smart sister knows who I’m thinking about and scattering this terrible magic power.’

“Could it be because of that guy?”

Because I don’t like that guy?

Is that bastard so precious?

More than me?

It was the moment when the smile disappeared from Ares’ face.

Ruatisha’s lips opened.

“Heart attack.”

Ares’ eyes widened.

“I like Ares so much that I keep having heart attacks!”

Ruatisha shouted with a face that she didn’t know what to do.

“Take responsibility!”