Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 323

Running the Romance Fantasy with Baby’s Cash Side Story (2)

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Nike had been singing about wanting a sibling for a long time.

But this was the first time she had spoken with such certainty about having a sibling.

Instead of me, who was too flustered to say anything, Sid stepped forward.

“A second child… Nike has a sibling?”

Nike chuckled and shook her body.

“Nike knows everything! Nike has a sibling!”

“…When did this happen?”

“Last night!”

“……?!”

“……!!”

I was taken aback by Nike’s bright-eyed answer.

Last night, she says!

‘What are you talking about! What does a baby know!’

As a mother, I had many thoughts and mixed feelings.

‘Is this how Grandpa felt when I talked about Mom and Dad’s good relationship when I was young?’

Grandpa was broken back then, but now I’m the one who’s broken.

Nike, who had dropped the bombshell, seemed to be in a good mood, purring as she spoke.

“I wonder if Nike’s sibling will be a boy or a girl?”

Unlike me, who was broken, Sid asked with ease.

“Which one does Nike prefer?”

“Hmm, hmmm! Nike, Nike likes a little sister! Nike will make her flower rings and flower crowns…”

“Don’t you like a little brother?”

“N-Not that! I like a little brother too! Catching crickets and grasshoppers with my little brother! It sounds like so much fun!!”

“Then do you like a little brother more? Your little sister would be upset.”

“N-No, that’s not it, I like both, Nike…”

Nike groaned at Sid’s teasing.

Listening to that sound in the background, I covered my head.

‘Putting aside how Nike knows how siblings are made…’

The important premise is wrong.

‘Nothing like that happened!!!’

Nothing that would lead to a sibling happened.

No, it couldn’t have.

‘It takes two to tango!’ [Meaning: it requires the cooperation of two people to accomplish something.]

I glared at Sid with resentful eyes.

It was the first trip I had ever taken with Sid.

I paid a huge price and made enormous sacrifices to come on this trip alone with him.

‘What kind of nonsense did I do to my family for this trip…!’

Just thinking about that nonsense made my left arm feel like it was summoning the Black Dragon, and PTSD was about to kick in.

It was a trip I had worked so hard to get after so many twists and turns.

And Sid, that bastard….

Sid, oblivious to my resentment, was placating Nike.

“It’s okay, Nike. You’ll have both a little brother and a little sister.”

“Really?!”

“Yeah, we have to contribute to humanity.”

Sid smiled at me.

It was such a tempting smile that even my resentment momentarily flew away.

The problem is that he doesn’t do anything even after smiling like that.

‘It’s a crime to seduce someone and then act like you don’t know anything!’

My resentment doubled.

“But Nike, why do you think you have a sibling?”

At Sid’s question, Nike stood proudly on all fours.

“Hehe, Nike is an adult now! I know everything I need to know~!”

“What…?”

It was shocking.

Of course, I knew that the spirit beasts hated Nike acting all grown up and talking with a lisp.

I also knew that Nike, as a mythical beast, was practically fully grown.

‘Still, our Nike is still a baby…!’

My baby, who throws a fit when she wants to sleep with Mom, knows everything she needs to know….

And she’s saying she’s an adult!

“Mama, Nike has a spirit beast she loves. Nike wants to marry that spirit beast.”

“What? A baby getting married! Absolutely not!”

“Nike is an adult now. I’m going to marry that spirit beast and have spotted babies and live happily ever after!”

‘Nooooo!’

My hands and feet turned cold at the thought that flashed through my mind.

Spotted, she says….

Just then, Nike’s cheerful voice broke through my thoughts.

“There was a full moon yesterday!”

Huh?

“Mama, why are you looking at me with such surprised eyes! Nike knows everything, you know?”

“Knows… what?”

“Babies are born when there’s a full moon. Mom and Papa hold hands and pray with love on a night with a full moon, and then a stork brings them!”

“…….”

“…….”

Sid and I stared at Nike with speechless eyes.

“Ahem!”

Nike tilted her chin and boasted, as if she knew what we were thinking.

“The stork brings babies when Mom and Dad hold hands tightly and pray with love on a night with a full moon. Right?”

That’s what I had said a long time ago to protect Grandpa’s innocence(?).

Back then, Nike was still an unhatched egg.

‘So she thinks that’s the truth!’

Mythical beasts can hear and feel everything even when they’re in an egg!

‘Should I be relieved or not….’

I looked at Nike with mixed feelings.

Nike flew around me, asking.

“Where is Nike’s sibling?”

Sparkling, sparkling.

Looking at Nike’s expectant, twinkling eyes, I felt like I had to make her a sibling right away, even if I didn’t have one….

“Nike doesn’t have a sibling.”

I glared at Sid.

“Papa didn’t pray.”

“What~!?!!”

At my words, Nike looked at Sid with a shocked expression.

“How could you do this!! Papa knows how much Nike wants a sibling!”

“That’s what I’m saying. Papa must not want to give Nike a sibling.”

“Papa, I hate you!!”

Nike, who had been looking at Sid with tearful eyes, shouted loudly.

“Nike doesn’t have a Papa!!”

With those words, Nike flew out the open window.

Scattering pearl-like tears along her trajectory.

‘Geez, our Nike really does take after me.’

It was a statement that reminded me of my past when I threw a fit, saying he wasn’t my dad.

As I stared at the blue sky where not even Nike’s shadow could be seen, Sid approached.

“The ice in your coffee has all melted. Should I make you a new one? Master likes to drink coffee with ice in it, right?”

Sid knew my preference for iced drinks very well.

Since there was no iced Americano here, my taste was quite unique.

But honestly, isn’t it a setting error of Aftanes that there’s no iced Americano when he created the world based on romance fantasy novels?

‘But thanks to me, it’s become a trend.’

It was a kind and devoted lover’s offer, but I looked at Sid with a sulky face.

Is now the time to make coffee again?!

‘You said we have to contribute to humanity, but you’re not doing anything!’

A vigorous man and woman, huh?

And they’re even engaged!

They came on a trip alone…!

To a hot summer resort where even non-existent sparks would fly!

‘Even though I’ve never been in a relationship, I know that just holding hands and sleeping here is definitely not the way to go!’

“Why?”

Sid, who received my blazing gaze, tilted his head.

His violet eyes were simply indifferent.

‘Are you really asking because you don’t know?’

“It’s nothing!”

I turned my head away with a sulky face.

* * *

The secret garden of the Paeraton Estate (a garden created with great care by Duke Paeraton to commemorate RuLu’s fourteenth birthday).

Duke Paeraton was spending quality time with his daughter.

“The pudding that Daddy makes is the most delicious in the world!”

Ruatisha said, munching happily.

Duke Paeraton’s face softened like the spring sunshine.

“Then Daddy will have to make RuLu pudding for the rest of his life.”

“Yes, yes! I don’t want anyone else! RuLu will live with Daddy forever.”

“You always said that when you were little.”

Hehe.

The daughter laughed playfully.

That laugh was no different from when she was little.

‘Good.’

There is no one in this garden except himself and his daughter.

Neither the sons who were always hanging around his daughter, saying it was their turn, nor the father-in-law who suddenly complained of back pain and tried to get his daughter’s attention by asking her to give him acupuncture.

‘Most of all—’

—that annoying and unlucky special thief who steals his daughter’s attention with his fox-like behavior!

Just thinking about that fox made his blood pressure rise vertically.

But soon, Duke Paeraton calmed his mind.

‘This secret garden is just for RuLu and me.’

It was at that moment.

Rumble!

Thunder and lightning began to strike in the clear sky without a single cloud.

The wind was blowing ominously.

And,

“Master.”

The special thief, who appeared like the Dark Lord, kidnapped RuLu.

“RuLu!”

Duke Paeraton hurriedly reached out to his daughter.

But no matter how much he reached out, no matter how desperately he called out, he couldn’t reach his daughter.

Rather—

“RuLu wants to go to the southern country with Sid!”

Wasn’t his daughter smiling brightly in the arms of that robber he wanted to tear to pieces?

As if she had completely forgotten her father!

“RuLu! RuLu!”

At the same time that his hand desperately waved in the air, Duke Paeraton opened his eyes wide.

The dark and familiar room greeted him.

‘…It was a dream.’

It’s a truly terrible nightmare.

Duke Paeraton staggered out of bed.

Standing in front of his daughter’s portrait—there were different sizes all over the room—he let out a tired sigh.

‘Even reality is a terrible nightmare.’

A house without his daughter was hell itself.

The Duke, who had become gaunt in a day, left the room with weak steps.

He felt that he would have to go to his daughter’s room to alleviate this burning anxiety even a little.

It was when Duke Paeraton opened Ruatisha’s door.

“…What are you doing here?”

The room, which should have been empty, was full of people.

His three sons and father-in-law were sitting in the dark room with faces as pale as ghosts.

The dark circles around their eyes made their situation look similar to his.

The five men looked at each other in silence.

The first to speak was Ixion.

“How long do we have to keep doing this? I’m 솜뭉치’s [Sommungchi: a cute nickname] family! Why do we have to be apart!”

“Logically, I, who am family, should be with my sister rather than a stranger who isn’t related by blood.”

“I’ll die without my youngest.”

“I don’t have much time left to live, so I should spend as much time as possible with my granddaughter.”

The hearts of the four men were united.

We can’t just sit still like this!

Duke Paeraton nodded.

“My daughter said she would live with me forever.”

The five men left the estate with more determined faces than ever before.

* * *

After brunch, Sid and I went outside.

Before my eyes, a dazzling sea stretched endlessly.

“Wow, the sea is the color of Powerade!”

“Powerade?”

“Yeah!”

I felt good.

The sea of a foreign resort that I had only seen in pictures in my previous life.

It was unfolding before my eyes.

And it’s a private beach!

‘This beach is mine!’

Hehe, this is the life of a successful rich person.

It’s amazing!

I quickly dipped my hand into the sea.

Each time the waves crashed, the cold seawater tickled between my fingers.

“Take this!”

Feeling playful, I splashed Sid with seawater.

It’s definitely not because I’m sulking that nothing happened last night.

I’m just playing around.

“What is it.”

Sid, who had been hit by the water, swept back his wet hair.

‘How can he look like a pictorial even in that state?’

It was like a perfume pictorial taken on the beach.

‘And he even smells good.’

He definitely didn’t spray any perfume, so why does he smell so good?

“Luatisha.”

“…Huh?”

At Sid’s call, I quickly came to my senses.

Sid’s face was already right in front of me.

Hypnotized by his beauty and scent, I had unknowingly gotten too close.

“T-This is…”

Too honest with my desires and embarrassed, I quickly looked away.

I splashed Sid with seawater again.

“Is that a challenge?”

Sid splashed me with seawater.

Not wanting to lose, I splashed him with seawater as well.

We were running away, running away, joking around and laughing.

“Kyaa!”

My feet got tangled in the sand.

Seeing me falter, Sid quickly reached out his hand.

Swaaaaaa—

The sound of the waves crashed in my ears.

The seawater soaked my body lying on the sand.

And.

“…….”

Sid’s body covering me was hotter than the summer sun.

Wet breaths heated my skin.

Sid’s eyes, lowered to a dangerous degree.

Something deep and dark flickered in his eyes.

The moment I became aware of it.

“……!”

Our lips met.

Each time the waves crashed, seawater splashed.

But neither of us cared.

We couldn’t care.

All our nerves were focused only on each other.

As if all our senses existed only to feel Sid.

Is Sid feeling this way too?

‘Ah.’

The question dissipated the moment I saw Sid through my heat-blurred vision.

A face that desires me.

It’s so hot that it feels like I’ll get burned just by facing it.

I willingly reached out my arms towards that longing.

It was then.

“W-W-What is this…!”

Along with an angry voice,

Kwaaaaaang!

The sea parted.

* * *

“D-D-Daddy, brothers, and Grandpa, why are you here?!”

“My sister, is that what’s important right now?”

“That bastard! That beast!”

“My innocent youngest…!”

“This grandpa doesn’t think this is right. How can you be so much like your mother?”

Mom, what did you do in front of Grandpa?

Unlike my brothers and grandfather, who were at least saying something, Dad was frozen in shock.

‘What should I do? He seems very shocked.’

I clicked my tongue.

‘But I’m an adult, and he’s my fiancé. I can show some affection!’

I looked at my family with dissatisfaction and opened my mouth.

“You said you wouldn’t come here.”

“We said we’d come if something big happened.”

“…Did something big happen?”

At my words, my family nodded with serious faces.

Seeing that, I felt a sudden worry.

‘Everyone has dark circles under their eyes….’

Their jawlines have also become sharper, and they’ve even gotten thinner in a day.

‘What on earth happened?’

It was at that moment.

Something that hadn’t been seen even once in the past three years appeared before my eyes.

[A quest has arrived.]

After driving out Kiyas Edel and saving the world.

The notification that hadn’t appeared again after peace had come.

But at this moment.

A quest has appeared again.