Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 266

Running the Romance Fantasy with Baby’s Cash – Episode 266

☆ Episode 266 ☆

“Where is Tiriel?”

Liriel, who was glaring at me, trying not to lose her composure, flinched.

“Why are you asking me that?”

Why else would I ask?

Because you’re messing with my friend!

And you’re going down in the process.

* * *

Tiriel Adenrsen coughed up blood.

As the dark red clots poured out, the pain seemed to lessen.

No, her condition didn’t improve.

She was just losing her senses.

Was she even breathing?

She didn’t really know.

Perhaps her breath had already stopped.

But seeing that she wasn’t dying, she must have become a monster.

Just like Liriel said.

“You’re doing useless things, Tiriel.”

Liriel’s words, spoken with a smooth smile, repeated in her head over and over.

“You are my subordinate. The more you resist, the harder it will be for you.”

“You… monster.”

“If I’m a monster, what are you?”

Liriel laughed as if it were amusing.

“A bug that prolongs its life with the power of a monster?”

“No!”

“Pfft…!”

“No, that’s not it! I’m human!”

Even as bloody foam bubbled up, Tiriel shouted that she absolutely wasn’t, that she was different from the likes of Liriel.

‘But I don’t know anymore…’

Could she really call herself human?

“Foolish thing. You were designed to obey me from birth.”

A few months ago, during the public competition for the water management project, when magic power erupted from Sheila’s body.

That’s when something strange happened to her body.

Everyone instinctively felt an unpleasant and uncomfortable sensation from the 〈magic power〉, but she felt something different.

When exposed to magic power, she felt vitality surging through her whole body.

And that night.

Liriel came to find her.

From then on, Tiriel’s life was turned into a nightmare.

“You are a tool I have prepared for myself.”

“When your mother carried you in her womb, I infused my magic power into you.”

Liriel said she had planted her subordinate in a human fetus.

“To grow up mixed among humans without knowing anything, and when the time comes, awaken and become my hands and feet.”

Half human, half monster planted by Liriel.

“Now, obey me, your source and master.”

When she didn’t follow Liriel’s will, her whole body started to ache.

When her toes turned black and rotted, she was truly terrified.

As a noble young lady who had lived comfortably within a safe fence, everything was unimaginable for Tiriel.

Liriel came from time to time and tortured her.

To tell Ruatisha false information, or to spit out information about Ruatisha.

Sometimes, she really wanted to give up everything and follow Liriel’s will.

It was horrible to hear the dirty power of Liriel dwelling within her whisper, asking if she didn’t want to be comfortable.

When her body was so damaged that she couldn’t even walk anymore, she thought it was rather fortunate.

When she thought she wanted to disappear like this.

Ruatisha came to find her.

Tiriel almost hugged Ruatisha and burst into tears.

She wanted to tell her everything she had experienced, everything she couldn’t even tell her parents.

But Lulu doesn’t know anything.

And if she told her, wouldn’t the way she looked at her change?

I’m a monster….

Even though she thought Ruatisha wouldn’t do that, she was scared.

So she just smiled.

Smiling with all her might, energetically, as usual.

She pressed her to tell her what had happened, and what had happened with the prince.

Ruatisha was clearly worried, but soon hid it and chattered as usual.

She liked seeing that face.

Especially because Ruatisha was making Liriel look foolish.

“Is there anything else?”

“Anything else?”

“…Did Liriel do anything to you behind my back?”

Ruatisha shook her head.

“I see. You’re okay. That’s a relief. Really… a relief.”

She was happy.

A sense of relief came over her, making her chest sink.

That her enduring like this wasn’t in vain.

On the one hand, another thought crept up from the bottom of her heart.

Maybe.

If Ruatisha was safe and sound like this, could she just tell Liriel just one thing?

Could she just be a little more comfortable?

So that Ruatisha wouldn’t be too troubled, even just one of the very minor pieces of information that Liriel had requested—.

“…You know what I said before. That water management project.”

“Yeah.”

“Have you decided where to hold it?”

When Ruatisha, who was tidying her clothes, looked at her at those words.

Tiriel’s heart sank.

Her clear and transparent eyes, like glacial water, seemed to see through everything—.

Tiriel opened her lips, feeling ashamed like someone who had been caught in a shameful act.

“No, you don’t have to tell me. It’s just—.”

“I’ve decided. We’re going to do it in Reikel.”

What was Ruatisha thinking when she answered?

Was she just not knowing anything, and she was just feeling guilty?

“I’ll come again. You have to get well soon by then?”

The moment she saw Ruatisha smiling as she said that.

‘She noticed something.’

Tiriel was convinced.

She was a friend who had been arm in arm since she was young.

Just as she had read something from Ruatisha’s expression, Ruatisha had also sensed a change in her expression.

‘…And yet, she’s trusting me?’

Tiriel lay there motionless for a long time after Ruatisha left.

Still covered with the blanket that Ruatisha had carefully tucked in.

Tears flowed incessantly.

That night, Tiriel, who had lost consciousness and opened her eyes, realized that she was in an unfamiliar place.

Liriel’s figure was visible in her tilted vision.

How many days had passed since then?

Tiriel didn’t say anything about Ruatisha.

If she said it, she would feel better, but one word that she thought was trivial might kill Ruatisha.

Liriel raged, trampling on Tiriel.

“It’s your instinct to listen to my orders! What’s so great about that bitch!”

That’s right.

What is it?

I don’t know either.

I hate it now. It hurts. It’s painful. I want to die now.

Still—.

“Lulu, she… trusts me.”

That she won’t give up.

Tiriel had never lived with much conviction.

The future was uncertain, and she was worried about what dessert to order to be satisfied.

But.

When Ruatisha said that the strawberry tart would be delicious and she chose it, it was really delicious.

So—.

“I, hic, trust everything she, hic, chooses.”

Whether that word completely stimulated Liriel, she made a fuss, unable to control her anger.

Serves her right.

Even though her breath was heaving, Tiriel laughed at the sight.

Although her lips, which had lost sensation, couldn’t make a proper smile, it was still a smile.

Liriel paused at the sight of Tiriel, then smiled cruelly.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t say it. There are plenty of other ways to find out. Thanks to you, I’ve come up with a good stage.”

“It’s just wriggling when a bug resists. Realizing that there’s nothing you can do now will be a great lesson for you.”

* * *

I headed straight to the Adenrsen mansion from Mount Reikel.

Tiriel was lying quietly on the bed in her bedroom.

“She’s been like this since the day after you visited last time, Lulu,” said the Countess Adenrsen with a haggard face.

I nodded and left the bedroom.

Sid, who had been waiting outside the bedroom, immediately stuck to me and escorted me.

Ever since he was trapped in the collapsed water source, Sid had been trying not to leave my side for a moment.

It was the moment I got into the carriage with Sid.

“You’ve made a plausible shell. The human priests these days don’t have much ability, so they wouldn’t have noticed it was a doll,” a human figure suddenly rose from my shadow.

“You…!”

“Hello. You look beautiful today too.”

Cain smiled slyly.

Ha. It’s really not exciting at all.

‘No, that’s not the problem right now.’

“Did you see everything?”

“Of course, I saw everything.”

“In a lady’s bedroom!”

“Hmm. That’s a human standard. I don’t care about that.”

Cain said, lazily narrowing his eyes.

“If you’ve come to the human world, follow the standards here.”

“I think I’m keeping it pretty well? If it were the demon standard, I’d already be in your bathroom—.”

Crack!

Cain’s hand, which was reaching towards my face, froze in place.

Looking at the blue ice on the back of his hand, an ordinary human would have gotten frostbite and lost flesh.

“Get lost.”

Sid spat out with murderous eyes.

“Just kidding, just kidding.”

Cain, who shook his wrist and grinned, was thrown straight into the carriage seat.

I was a little surprised.

Sid gave off a strangely dangerous aura, but anyway, his behavior in front of me was gentle.

But he has such a rough side.

‘…He seems a bit cool. His expression is also very sexy.’

Is it because I have a thick filter [referring to a biased perception] that I think that?

But right now, Sid’s face is objectively sexy to anyone.

Cain was laughing, even while being subdued by Sid, wondering what was so good.

“Oops! You shouldn’t kick me out? Your girlfriend will need me?”

Cain looked at me with his vertically torn pupils.

“…I know that the Tiriel lying down earlier isn’t real.”

“Oh, how? It would have been hard for humans to recognize?”

“With the power of friendship.”

“….”

The demon, who didn’t know anything about the awesomeness of friendship, had a bitter expression, but I proudly puffed out my chest.

Well, half of it was true.

As soon as I returned from meeting Tiriel the other day, I summoned WBD [White Baby Dragon] and SSS [Super Smart Slime] and ordered them to monitor and protect Tiriel’s safety.

‘That dawn, Sandra clearly sensed an anomaly.’

She didn’t know that Tiriel was fake, but she found traces of intrusion into the Adenrsen mansion that led outside.

WBD and SSS were working together to track down the traces, but it stopped completely when I was trapped in the water source.

The problem was that if the magic power tracking stopped in the middle, it had to be done again from the beginning.

“Surely if you follow those traces, you’ll find Tiriel. We have to find her quickly.”

The last time I saw her, Tiriel’s face was as pale as a corpse.

‘I deliberately told Tiriel where the water management project would be held and went to the water source according to Liriel’s words.’

Asking Liriel where Tiriel was was also for Tiriel’s safety.

Hoping that the shrunken Liriel would let Tiriel go.

‘But it looks like it didn’t work today.’

“Shall I find her for you?”

Cain said subtly.

Until now, I really thought Cain’s seduction was useless, but this time it was as sweet as the devil’s temptation.

The moment I was about to nod,

“I’ll find her.”

Sid said, holding my hand.

“Hmm? I’d be better at tracking magic power than you.”

“I’ll find her.”

Sid said again as if he couldn’t hear Cain’s words.

‘…Why are they competing in a place like this?’

I was a little dumbfounded.

Frankly, Sid and Cain shouldn’t be competing.

“Why are you competing? It doesn’t matter who finds her anyway.”

“I don’t like that guy being helpful to you.”

“Anyway, he’s like a chair or a desk to me. You don’t have to be jealous.”

“Hey, that’s a demon discriminatory remark!”

“I’m jealous.”

Sid’s gaze towards me was intense.

I was embarrassed for no reason, so I fidgeted with my hands.

Sid smiled, holding my hand.

Ah, he’s handsome.

“Hey, hey. Can’t you see me? Ha, how can I be treated like this.”

Doesn’t he know when to join in and when to back off?

We have to go find her quickly.

Time is of the essence.

* * *

“Cough!”

Tiriel curled up her body.

No, she tried to curl up, but she couldn’t really move.

She couldn’t even move a finger.

It was long and long.

This cursed body, which had been alive even when she stopped breathing, seemed to have reached the end of its life.

“Do you know what humiliation I’m going through because of that bitch Ruatisha?!”

Liriel roughly trampled on Tiriel’s chest.

As even the mythical beast appeared and Liriel’s revelation clearly lost credibility, the prestigious noble families rose up.

The influence she had gathered as a saintess had fallen to the ground, and rather Ruatisha’s influence had become stronger.

Even bugs like humans were daring to put her on trial!

“Ugh….”

“If you had given me the information in the first place, I wouldn’t have even suggested opening the water management project publicly.”

If that had happened, there would have been no such humiliation.

“Thinking about it, I think it would be better to just kill you than to make you obedient and absorb the power I planted in you. Humans are bugs, but they’re quite good nutrients.”

Liriel looked down at Tiriel and smiled slyly.

“Don’t worry too much. You’re becoming a part of me. Even in death, you’re fulfilling your mission as my tool. Aren’t you happy?”

It’s terrible.

She would rather die, but she didn’t want to become a part of Liriel.

“I, I hate it. I’m not a, a monster….”

“Puhahaha!”

Liriel burst into laughter.

“Are you still saying that? Ah, is this a complete comedy? Is it because you’re half human that you have such weak and buggy traits?”

Liriel’s ridicule was not heard by Tiriel.

Like a candle burning brightest just before it goes out, Tiriel thought with a clear mind even in the pain of her body being burned.

“I—.”

I want to die as a human.

It was that moment.

Bang!

The door opened and light poured in.

“Who’s calling my friend a monster! Do you want to die?”