The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 35

I was just going to pretend I didn’t know.

But after hearing Ishuel’s story, my pride was hurt.

‘And those bastards dared to steal what’s mine!’

They even took the hat Hata made, so I couldn’t let it go even more.

I didn’t know which family they were from, but I had to dress better than them and crush their arrogance.

Not with clothes they might have already worn, but with completely new clothes.

‘If I meet the guys who stole the clothes at the banquet, I won’t let them off easily.’

It wasn’t just an emotional decision.

‘It’s necessary to go to the underworld with the twins.’

If I went to the underworld with the twins under the guise of visiting a hat shop and a dressmaker, I might be able to get a clue about how Basilian is involved with the underworld.

So, the next day, Cheshire went to find the twins on her own.

“What, the baby’s here?”

“My younger sibling came to find us first?”

Karha and Ishuel were awkward in the unfamiliar situation.

It was because the twins always came to find Cheshire first.

They used to come to the bedroom every morning to harass Cheshire.

Cheshire raised one hand in front of the twins and said.

“I wanna go, too.”

“Where to?”

“Where you guys are going today.”

“Uh… the underworld? The baby’s going too? It’s dangerous there.”

Karha nudged Ishuel with his elbow.

It was a signal for him to stop her.

Ishuel earnestly tried to persuade Cheshire.

“No way. A small child like you could get into big trouble in an instant in such a dangerous place.”

The notorious enchantress in that dangerous place was none other than Cheshire.

Cheshire said with a straight face.

“But you guys will protect me, right?”

It was definitely not an exaggeration.

Cheshire had already seen Karha and Ishuel’s skills.

With the two twins, they could easily handle any trouble in the underworld.

They were more than capable of quickly resolving any issues and getting away.

The twins seemed to be thinking the same thing.

“Well, that’s true.”

Karha and Ishuel looked at each other.

Not missing the twins’ hesitation, Cheshire drooped her eyes to look as pitiful as possible.

She pouted her lips and made a sad voice.

“I weally wanna go…. I wanna go on an outing with you guys…….”

“…Ugh.”

Karha groaned, hit by Cheshire’s pitiful attack of wanting to go on an outing with them.

He pondered for a while before coming to a conclusion.

“Let’s take her!”

“Are you crazy?”

Ishuel was horrified, and Karha tried hard to persuade him.

“What’s wrong with it? When I think about it, we’ve never taken the baby out properly.”

“The first outing is the underworld…….”

“Isn’t that just like Basilian?”

“Haa.”

Ishuel sighed deeply.

Although he disliked it, he didn’t seem to be actively stopping her.

Ishuel seemed to really want to go out with Cheshire.

“It’s good to try on the hat directly.”

The reason was that he knew his father’s or older brother’s hat sizes well because he had ordered them several times, but it was his younger sibling’s first order, so he didn’t have a good sense of it yet.

While Ishuel was leaning towards taking Cheshire, Karha looked around Cheshire and asked.

“But, younger sibling.”

“Yes!”

“Where did the dog go?”

The puppy went to open the store.

He was probably busy preparing the hats by now.

Cheshire smiled brightly and lied.

“I let the puppy out to pway for a while!”

“Is that so?”

Karha subtly expressed his wish that it would disappear completely, now that it was let out.

He had agreed to raise it because of Cheshire, but he still hadn’t gotten over being hit on the paw by Hata.

“Since it’s a dog we brought from the street, it must be stuffy just staying inside the mansion.”

Ishuel added his own analysis of Hata’s outing.

Cheshire enthusiastically agreed with Ishuel’s logic.

Karha, who wasn’t interested in the dog’s psychology, yawned and then widened his eyes.

“But if we take the baby to the underworld, Belzeon will be really mad, right?”

“…Ah, Older Brother will scold us.”

The twins looked at each other at the same time.

Then they grinned.

With the same mischievous smiles, they shouted slyly.

“We just have to not get caught!”

***

As luck would have it, today was the day Belzeon was away.

Kiern was away from home as always.

Since he had said in advance that he was going out yesterday, the twins confidently left the gate.

The servants were flustered to see the young masters taking a young lady out of the blue, but they couldn’t bring themselves to stop them.

However, they looked at Cheshire with earnest eyes.

Cheshire could hear their inner voices.

‘Please say you don’t want to go, young lady!’

But Cheshire, whose desire to go soared to the sky, pretended not to know.

The twins used a hired carriage that they had called in advance, not the Basilian family’s private carriage.

The coachman, who picked them up on a road a little away from the mansion, looked slightly embarrassed.

He didn’t expect that the customers who had booked a carriage to the underworld would be two small boys and a baby who seemed to have been born yesterday.

All three were wearing hooded robes, but it was impossible not to recognize them because of their small size.

The coachman kept glancing back as if he wanted to say something.

But after seeing the two swords Karha wore on his waist, he quietly shut his mouth and drove the horse.

“You can drop us off here.”

The coachman dropped off the little customers at the entrance to the underworld.

Even while taking the coins, he kept glancing back until he drove away.

Karha shrugged his shoulders and said.

“He must be staring because the baby is pretty.”

It was a corny joke.

How could he know she was pretty when they were all wearing hooded robes?

But only Cheshire seemed to think it was a joke.

“Isn’t that obvious?”

Ishuel retorted as if it was obvious.

Then he walked away, holding Cheshire in one hand and a parasol in the other.

It was somehow like Ishuel to use a parasol even though he was wearing a hood.

Karha followed Ishuel, trotting along.

The underworld was a district bordered by a large circle.

As if someone had cut it off sharply, the road where wildflowers and weeds continued turned into a wasteland as it entered the circular area.

There was no separate sign saying ‘Underworld,’ but you would realize it the moment you stepped on the sharply divided, dry dirt floor.

That this was the underworld.

The shops in the underworld opened one by one from around sunset.

As the sunset was just beginning, people were slowly showing themselves on the streets.

The shop owners were also starting to prepare for business late.

“Follow me.”

Karha strode ahead.

Cheshire, held in Ishuel’s arms, carefully observed the twins’ attitude.

Both were calm, as if walking a familiar street.

The streets of the underworld were so different from the outside that first-timers couldn’t help but be surprised and fascinated.

Bizarre, strange, peculiar.

The underworld was a space that went well with all sorts of suspicious modifiers.

The appearance of the shops was also unique, unlike the outside.

Except for Hata’s hat shop.

The twins stopped in front of the hat shop and looked up at the sign side by side.

The shop, decorated to Hata’s taste, had a cute atmosphere, unlike the other underworld shops that were decorated with iron bars and other ominous things.

Ishuel seemed a little embarrassed by the quite different appearance, and blinked his eyes so fast that his eyelashes fluttered.

“Is this it?”

“It is.”

While Ishuel was examining the exterior of the shop, Karha opened the door with a bang.

The small bell hanging on the door shook wildly and rang as if it would break.

The twins entered the shop.

The messy shop was neatly organized again.

Ishuel’s eyes widened when he saw the hats displayed in the shop.

“Is anyone there?”

When Ishuel spoke in a slightly raised voice, a hesitant answer came from the inner door.

“Welcome…….”

Then Hata cautiously opened the door and came out.

As soon as he saw Hata, Cheshire held back her laughter.

He was wearing a tuxedo, bow tie, and top hat to look like a cool hat shop owner.

He had a small boutonniere [a floral decoration worn in a buttonhole] made of evening primrose on his chest.

It was to cover up Hata’s scent with the scent of flowers, as Karha smelled like a beast.

Because it was a flower that Cheshire had made with the power of a fairy, it was much fresher and more fragrant than ordinary flowers.

Even though it was enough to cover the smell, Hata rolled his eyes anxiously.

He seemed worried about getting caught.

“Huh?”

Karha raised his eyebrows as soon as he saw Hata.

Karha walked up to Hata and looked up at him.

Even though he was bigger, Hata made a strange noise and froze.

Karha stared at Hata for a while and then suddenly said.