Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 39

“Was it because you didn’t want me to see something bad that you covered my eyes back then?”

Ares had covered Ruatisha’s eyes when Phaeton attacked Allen, the real culprit behind the kidnapping.

“It was all an act. Deceiving the enemy to gain favor is also a strategy.”

“No. Ares was sincere.”

Ruatisha took Ares’s hand off and stood up to face him directly.

“Whether it was an act or not, Ares didn’t want me to see something awful back then.”

A resolute tone.

“So, Ares wouldn’t have wanted me to be kidnapped.”

A straight gaze.

“Ares didn’t help me get kidnapped.”

Ares was silent for a moment before opening his mouth.

“But I left you alone.”

He didn’t avoid Ruatisha’s gaze.

“I just stood by and watched you get kidnapped.”

“Really?”

“……”

“When Iksion found me, I hadn’t even left the estate yet.”

Ruatisha’s small hand gently grabbed Ares’s hand.

“Ares, if Iksion hadn’t found me and I had been kidnapped out of the estate…”

Ares wanted to shake off that small warmth, but he couldn’t.

“Would you have left me alone then, too?”

“Yes.”

The answer was quick.

And unwavering.

“No.”

But Ruatisha still shook her head with a firm attitude.

“Ares, you’re lying.”

Ares smirked.

“Why, because I like you? Are you going to keep talking nonsense like that?”

“That’s not it.”

Ruatisha shook her head.

“Ares wants to become the head of the family. You would have saved me to gain merit. Am I wrong?”

He couldn’t say she was wrong.

He had thought he had completely deceived this soft, pudding-like child.

After his true nature was revealed, Ruatisha had figured out Ares completely in that short amount of time.

And yet, she doesn’t avoid him and confronts him head-on.

“But to deny it so much, and to emphasize that you don’t like me…”

Ruatisha grinned.

It was a bright smile without a shadow.

“Isn’t it because you’re starting to like me more and more?”

A faint smile appeared on Ares’s lips as he stared at Ruatisha expressionlessly.

“So, I like you and would have saved you in the end, so I’m not guilty?”

“No?”

Ruatisha looked at Ares as if asking what he was talking about.

“Ares did wrong. I was so scared when I was kidnapped.”

“……”

“Later is too late. Ares stood by and watched me go through that. So…”

Ruatisha puffed out her stomach and put her hands on her hips.

“I won’t forgive you!”

Ares’s eyes wavered.

“If you want me to forgive you, you have to try!”

Ruatisha huffed.

Ares’s flickering eyes slowly calmed down.

He remained silent, staring at Ruatisha with an expressionless face.

And then, when his lips opened.

“Then I’ll have to try hard.”

A sweet smile, like a ripe, rotten fruit, bloomed on his face.

“To be forgiven by my lovely sister.”

With those words, Ares left the room.

Ruatisha blankly stared at his back.

‘That kind of smile is cheating…….’

Plop, Ruatisha collapsed onto the bed.

The favorability rating Ares showed at the end.

[-444]

‘It’s good that it went up, but why -444 of all things?’

What kind of favorability score is this?

They say that if you endure three times, you can avoid murder.

Then, if you die three times……?

‘Ugh……!’

Let’s not think about it, let’s not think about it!

Ruatisha trembled and hid under the blanket.

* * *

I was running down the hallway, ppyo-byo-byo-byo-byo.

“Young Lady, you’ll fall if you run like that!”

“I won’t fall!”

“Young Lady! If you walk slowly, I’ll give you fondant au chocolat [chocolate fondant] as a snack later!”

Ah.

Ppyo-byo-byo, ppyok-ppyok, ppyok, ppyok.

Then should I walk slowly?

I walked obediently and entered Father’s office.

“Father!”

“Lulu.”

Father seemed a little embarrassed by my surprise visit.

Still, when I approached him, ppyok-ppyok-ppyok, he naturally picked me up.

A doctor was kneeling in front of Father, his head buried in the ground.

‘So that’s why he was embarrassed.’

I leaned against Father’s chest and tugged at his clothes.

“Father, are you going to kill the doctor?”

“This one has not fulfilled his duty. He must bear the responsibility.”

“Are you going to kill him?”

Sparkling eyes.

Father hesitated at my wide-eyed stare.

“I’m really okay! I’m healthy!”

I made an arm muscle and winked at the doctor.

“Y-yes! According to the examination results, the Young Lady has become much healthier than before she collapsed!”

Father’s eyebrows shot up.

“It’s true. Her hands and feet were cold before she collapsed.”

Father held my two hands tightly in one hand and checked the temperature with his lips.

His long eyelashes stretched out from under his slightly lowered eyelids.

Wow…….

Whose father is so handsome?

“It’s warm.”

“Yes!”

“To think that vomiting blood is actually expelling bad energy.”

Father sighed softly and tapped my forehead with his index finger.

“Don’t worry me too much.”

“Father…….”

Father’s handsome face was stern.

Of course, he was still handsome.

Rather, the sensitive atmosphere added to it, making him more dangerous and decadent than usual.

But even with a handsome man in front of me, I wasn’t just happy.

‘He must have been very worried about me.’

My heart throbbed.

“Father, there’s a bread I want to eat.”

At those words, Father’s eyes flashed.

“You want to eat bread?”

“The Young Lady wants to eat bread! Tell the culinary department right away!”

“It might be bread from a famous dessert shop! Let’s buy all the bread in the country first, before it sells out more!”

No, why are the estate employees like this…….

Try to stop them, Father.

Father, receiving my gaze, nodded arrogantly.

“It doesn’t matter how much it costs. Buy it all.”

“Yes!”

Ah, no. That’s not it.

I was just preparing a witty joke to cheer Father up.

My pupils, are they trembling?

“Yes, what bread do you want to eat?”

He ordered them to buy all the bread in the country first and is now asking?

I was taken aback, but since I’ve come this far, there was no turning back.

Yes, it’s better than suffocating to death in a mountain made of bread.

I took a deep breath.

“It’s the bread that Lulu likes the most in the world!”

I smiled brightly and shot a love gun at Father.

“Ah-bread!”

“…….”

“…….”

Silence fell in the spacious office.

Everyone stopped even moving and looked at me.

Silence.

Solemn.

I, was this a bit too much?

Did I go too far?

Sorry.

I should have adjusted the level after acting a little spoiled.

At that moment.

Kugugugung!

Black magic soared around Father. This was the first time I’ve seen it soar so spectacularly.

“My daughter, my daughter…….”

Father rolled his eyes and glared at the employees as if he would kill them.

“Did you hear that!”

“We heard it!”

The employees nodded their heads wildly with excited faces.

Chuck, when Father held out his hand, Headwig, the chief butler of the estate, politely handed him a book.

The book, decorated with jewels and gold, looked unusual at first glance.

Shururuk一.

Father’s magic seeped along the gold plating of the book.

The book opened only after the jewel in the center turned black.

‘What kind of book is it that it takes this much?’

Is it a family secret book passed down from generation to generation?

Or a ledger that only the head of the family can see?

Whatever it is, it must be an amazing book!

I stretched my neck.

Soon, the title on the very first page of the opened book was visible.

♡Lulu’s Childcare Diary♡

“…….”

Excuse me?

What diary?

* * *

The embarrassment is momentary, but a person’s life is eternal…… um, anyway, it’s precious.

Anyway, the doctor survived safely from Father’s hands.

“Ahyo.”

I sat on the sofa, tapping my legs.

“What kind of four-year-old is this busy!”

I have to save people, find traitors, get recognition, and do business.

“Ah, come to think of it, didn’t I get an additional reward for completing the Iksion quest?”

Then a message popped up.

[Would you like to receive the additional reward now?]

“Yes!”

[Calculating additional reward…calculation complete.]

[〈Hermes HERMES Jjak〉 has been paid.]

Hermes……?

The Hermes I know?

Are there luxury goods here too? But why is it Jjak instead of Bag? Anyway, my heart was pounding. As if responding to my desires, a new window opened.

It was the same window that contained the 〈Lucky Potion〉 last time.

Inside the window, there was a Hermes Bag…… no, a very tiny Jjak was drawn.

‘No, the long-tailed tit [small, round bird] is cute, but why is it……?’

I started to feel an ominous feeling that something different from what I expected would come out.

I reached out to the long-tailed tit painting and felt a warm and soft touch.

And at that moment, a bright light flashed and a plump Jjyagi flew up.

A plump body.

Fully spread tiny wings.

Even tinier claws.

“Wow…….”

It was really a Jjak.

It wasn’t a Hermes Bag. I see.

No, I’m not disappointed.

It’s a cute Jjak, right?

Huhuhu.

〈Hermes HERMES Jjak〉

Dear Reader! You have obtained a precious messenger spirit!

It is a competent Jjak messenger who has been given the name of Hermes, the messenger of the gods!

“……What.”

The explanation properly marks it as Hermes, so why is the name Hermes?

Are you teasing me?

Don’t underestimate it because it’s small!

Like Hermes in mythology, this Jjak can freely travel underground and above ground, and even has free passage to the underworld!

No matter where the person you want is! Even if it’s beyond the River Styx [river in the underworld]! It is a faithful messenger spirit that can deliver letters!

It is truly a luxury Jjak, a messenger spirit!

– One word: “Get paid and use me, Jjak! I am the messenger of capitalism, Jjak!”

*The abilities of 〈Hermes Jjak〉 have been limited due to the reader’s low influence.

“Wow! It’s a really cool Jjak!”

I carefully held Jjyagi in my hand.

Hermes Bag or whatever!

I didn’t want it from the beginning!

Who buys bags these days? Jjak is the best!

“A animal friend, how wonderful!”

A world of innocence, kyarareuk!

“How cute! How lovely!”

I rubbed my cheek against the small bird’s head.

The long-tailed tit pushed my cheek away with its feet.

“I haven’t recognized you as my master yet, human!”

“Do you want a cookie? Do spirits eat cookies too?”

“You are my friend, Jjak!”

It was a bird with very clear intentions.

It was given a name from mythology, so why is it so steeped in capitalism?

‘I’m like that too.’

I think we’ll get along well.

‘But it can send letters to the underworld even with its abilities limited.’

What would be possible if its abilities weren’t limited?

“Let’s get along, Hermes Jjak!”

“……You mistreated me because it wasn’t a bag.”

The long-tailed tit glared at me and tapped the table with its tiny bird feet.

Did it know that?!

“No! I like you much better! Jjak is better than a bag!”

Hermes’s eyes, like black sesame seeds, were full of disbelief.

“Eat a lot, Jjyagi.”

I finely chopped the cookie so that Hermes Jjak could eat it easily.

“You are a good human, Jjak!”

It’s really…….

……It’s like me.

I opened the status window while watching Hermes Jjak pecking at the cookie with its beak.

Ruatisha L Phaeton – Contractor of Aphthanes

Trait 〈Rush and Cash〉

Trait Grade E

Summoning Novel 〈The Terminally Ill Villainess Doesn’t Want Love〉

Extracting Ability 1/5

Applying Ability 〈Cough, Cough, Gush!〉 2/3

Penalty 〈Flat Cider〉

Ongoing Quests 1. 〈My Assets Don’t Stop!(1)〉, 2. 〈You Must First Govern Your Home(1)〉, 3. 〈Clean Thoroughly!(1)〉

Completed Quests More ▼

Possessed Cash 25600 Cash / 3000 Cash Gacha Ticket,

2000 Cash Gacha Ticket, 1000 Cash Gacha Ticket

Possessed Item 〈Hermes HERMES / Jjak〉

Now there are only three quests left.

‘The mana stone mining business requires a secretariat, so I’ll put this on hold for now.’

I decided to cooperate with Ares to find the traitor.

‘Then all that’s left is to be recognized as a member of the family by Ares.’

Wait?

Isn’t this a little strange?