The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 16

Having received the imperial order, I rushed to the capital, but the Minor Saint Assembly was still more than three months away.

Thus, the Basilian family decided to stay at their capital townhouse until then before heading to the Holy Empire.

The Basilian Count’s capital townhouse was splendid.

Having been so accustomed to the gloomy castle in the East, I had no expectations, but it was quite unexpected.

It was more lavishly decorated than most noble families’ mansions.

The interior, decorations, and furniture were all in line with the latest trends.

What Chesha liked most was the garden.

The garden, filled with seasonal flowers, was delightful just to look at.

Chesha took a walk in the garden every day.

And every time she strolled through the garden, annoying pests would cling to her.

‘So annoying.’

Chesha grumbled inwardly, glancing back.

Behind Chesha, who was toddling along, the twins were trailing closely behind.

Karrha, with his hands in his pockets and a nonchalant posture, gestured at a flower blooming in the garden.

“Baby, look here. Pretty flower.”

Chesha ignored him and continued forward.

Then, Ishuel chimed in this time.

“Should I hold you? Your feet are so tiny. You’ll fall if you walk.”

Of course, she didn’t respond to him the same way she did to Karrha.

She diligently moved her feet, busily smelling the scent of grass and flowers.

Despite being consistently ignored, the twins giggled, finding something amusing.

They chuckled and followed behind Chesha, matching her pace as she toddled along.

Chesha, pretending to glare, glanced back, only to trip over her own feet.

“Kkyang!”

Just before she could fall flat on her face, she was grabbed from both sides.

The twins, each holding one of Chesha’s arms, grinned identically.

The way they smiled was so irritating that, if she could, she sincerely wanted to give them each a light flick on the forehead.

Still, they had caught her, so she offered her thanks.

“Thank chu.”

“Thank chu?”

“Thank chu, huh?”

The twins didn’t miss a single word from Chesha and teased her relentlessly.

Eventually, Chesha, failing to manage her expression, couldn’t help but make an angry face, causing them to burst into laughter as if they were about to suffocate.

The sight of the three bickering made the passing servants smile.

They laughed out loud before quickly composing themselves.

The servants of the Basilian family were usually very quiet.

Like ghosts, they only attended to their master’s needs, but recently, Chesha had been causing the servants to unknowingly smile more often.

After the death of the Countess, the Basilian family had long been filled with silence and stillness.

Since this was the first time such a thing had happened, the servants were awkward, unsure if they were allowed to laugh freely.

However, it was clear that they liked their new baby master.

Everyone was enjoying the situation, except for Chesha, who was annoyed.

‘Sigh.’

Chesha sighed deeply.

She had left the Snake’s Castle and come all the way to the capital townhouse.

Originally, she had intended to leave immediately, but there was still time left until the Minor Saint Assembly.

And because Kiern, whom she had observed while entering the Imperial Palace, seemed suspicious, she decided to investigate him a little more.

Hata had also been sent back.

‘But there’s still no progress!’

During the day, the twins, who were hooked on new toys, followed her around all day long.

In the evening, the twins would take turns going out, but one of them always stayed by Chesha’s side.

And at night, Kiern would torment Chesha.

Since coming to the capital, Kiern had hardly been home for some reason.

However, whenever he did return, he would always visit Chesha’s room.

And he would kidnap Chesha and take her to his bedroom.

“I’m scared to sleep alone. I need to sleep with Chesha.”

He would make such ridiculous excuses.

Every time, Kiern would always have a faint smell of blood on him.

She was curious about what he was doing and was thinking of tailing him soon.

In any case, she couldn’t recklessly wander around for long at night, not knowing when Kiern might come.

Whenever she had a short amount of time, she would steal documents from his office and read them, but there was no meaningful information.

‘It was the same in the Snake’s Castle, and it’s the same here…….’

She felt like she was missing something they were hiding.

‘I need to leave the Count’s family quickly before it becomes too much of a hassle.’

Chesha recalled the person she had met at the Imperial Palace.

A man wearing a pure white uniform, untainted by any blemish.

Still clean and beautiful blue eyes.

‘Hylon is a guard knight…….’

Considering his influence, status, and abilities in Hilderd [likely a region or organization].

Being assigned as the guard knight for a child attending the Minor Saint Assembly was an enormous waste of high-level personnel.

No, the fact that an Inquisitor [an investigator of heresy] was merely acting as a guard knight was absurd in the first place.

He was an Inquisitor who could make even crying babies stop their tears.

What kind of guard knight for little kids were those who slaughtered heretics with insane cruelty?

Yet, Hylon had hidden his identity and contacted the Basilian Count’s family.

‘Has he already started the investigation?’

The Inquisitors of the Holy Empire were disgustingly quick-witted.

Perhaps they had already finished collecting evidence and were setting a trap to seize the decisive moment.

Especially since Hylon himself had stepped forward.

That meant the Inquisitors considered Basilian a major subject of investigation.

‘This is really troublesome.’

Knowing that Kiern wanted to revive the dead made her even more anxious.

Before the Inquisitors tore the Basilian family apart, and before participating in the Minor Saint Assembly.

She had to leave quickly.

‘Let’s find out something today.’

It was when Chesha was hardening her heart.

“Young Lady!”

A servant approached with hurried steps.

She saw Chesha with her hands held by the twins, raised in a ‘hooray’ pose, and suddenly bit her lip tightly.

Having tried her best not to laugh, she succeeded in making a composed voice.

“The tutor has arrived.”

From today, Chesha would have a tutor to teach her etiquette.

Coincidentally, the twins would also receive etiquette training as a simple check-up before their social debut.

None of the Basilian family had made a social debut.

They hadn’t even done the most basic things that were taken for granted by noble young ladies and gentlemen.

Thus, they were scheduled to make their social debut at the Ivroyel Duke’s upcoming banquet.

‘I already know all the etiquette, but.’

She had pretended to be a noble and wandered around many times.

Because of that, she was more skilled in etiquette and eloquence than most noble young ladies.

‘Eloquence will be meaningless.’

No matter how skillfully she moved her short tongue, she would only produce petty pronunciations.

Pondering how to look like a baby learning etiquette for the first time, she headed to the drawing-room with the twins.

As soon as Chesha sat down in the drawing-room and saw who was elegantly drinking tea, she was genuinely horrified.

‘Count Rudin?!’

Count Rudin was sitting side by side with a noblewoman.

On the opposite side, Belzeon was seated.

Belzeon was expressionless, but there was a faint hint of annoyance in his red eyes.

Count Rudin, who was sipping his tea, raised his eyebrows as he saw the twins and Chesha entering the drawing-room.

The noblewoman immediately gathered her dress and stood up gracefully.

“Such adorable young masters and young lady. It’s a pleasure to meet you. I will be teaching you etiquette from today.”

She was Count Rudin’s wife.

‘Why of all people!’

There were many teachers who could teach etiquette in the capital, so why did Count Rudin’s wife have to be the tutor?

She even brought her husband along.

Count Rudin cleared his throat and spoke arrogantly.

“I have a special regard for the Basilian Count’s family, so I had my wife assigned as the tutor.”

“…….”

Belzeon wore a crooked smile.

He had a slight idea of what was going on.

Count Rudin had driven out the originally scheduled tutor and brought his wife along, acting arbitrarily.

Count Rudin’s eyes were busy scrutinizing the Count’s residence.

The reason why he was doing this was clear.

‘Espionage must be the purpose.’

The men of the Basilian family all possessed appearances that would inevitably attract attention once they started engaging in social activities.

Moreover, they were a family that received the Emperor’s trust to the extent that they had private audiences with him.

From Count Rudin’s perspective, he must have felt the need to keep them in check before they became competitors.

The fact that he had come at a time when Kiern was absent also revealed his intentions.

He must have judged that he could act as he pleased since there were only children present.

“Why is everyone so quiet?”

The Countess snapped sharply.

The twins, who had been silent as they pushed each other forward, belatedly greeted her with a ‘yes.’

Chesha followed suit and greeted them roughly.

Count Rudin’s wife’s eyes gleamed like a fox that had caught its prey.

“Then, shall we start with Young Lady Chesha? If you want to attend the Duke’s banquet, you must study diligently from now on.”

She covered her mouth with her hand and smiled.

“It would be troublesome if it was obvious that you came from an orphanage.”

Chesha blinked.

‘Such childish provocation.’

It wasn’t even funny.

She didn’t think it was worth responding to.

“……!”

Chesha’s eyes widened.

A small breeze shook her hair.

Karrha, who had been next to her until just now, was now standing in front of Countess Rudin.

Karrha was holding his sword in its scabbard in his hand.

He lightly tapped the Countess’s chin with the tip of his sword and grinned.

“Hey, watch your mouth.”

Ishuel, who was holding Chesha, tilted his head slightly and continued the conversation.

“We’d be in trouble if we heard such things too. It’s a huge dilemma, you see.”

The boy whispered in a soft, beautiful voice.

“Whether to kill you, or not.”