The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 70

The baby fairy said that her mother, driven mad by experiments, had experienced something so terrible that she had finally lost her mind and escaped the lab with Cheshire.

The end of the mad fairy was terrible.

All the stories Cheshire had heard about her mother were disgusting.

The power of the insane fairy went against nature.

Everywhere her feet touched, life was lost.

Flowers withered, grass dried up, and the ground rotted black.

Clean lakes turned into foul-smelling puddles, and animals became ferocious and attacked humans.

Slave hunters who rushed to catch the mad fairy all became corpses under her feet.

Her mother kept singing as she headed somewhere.

A song that humans couldn’t understand.

It was the lullaby that Cheshire had as the only memory of her mother.

“…….”

Cheshire plopped down on the floor.

For some reason, she felt drained and just wanted to sit.

She was just sitting there, breathing in and out.

She felt someone approaching.

Cheshire quickly got up from the floor and ran inside.

And as if she had been engrossed in reading until just now, she played the part of a cultured baby.

She sat on the sofa, picked up a fairy tale book, and put on a suitably serious expression.

Knock, knock, the door opened with a knock.

Beyond the slowly opened door, two tall men were visible.

It was Hylone and Kieren.

Unlike Kieren, who hesitated and couldn’t take a step, Hylone entered the room without hesitation.

And, as if to show off, he stroked Cheshire’s head.

“Were you having fun?”

“Yes…….”

Cheshire subtly covered the fairy tale book she had been holding upside down and lowered her eyes slightly.

She was going to return to the Vasilios County [a region or estate governed by a Count of the Vasilios family].

But after blowing up the Count’s residence and destroying the temple, she felt a little awkward to suddenly return.

Cheshire’s plan was a touching story of undergoing serious anguish and conflict, but ultimately returning to the family’s embrace.

Since it had to be the kind of anguish and conflict that a 2-year-old baby would have, she kept it simple and not too deep.

It was a perfect plan.

However, the various lines that Cheshire had prepared so meticulously.

The moment she made eye contact with Kieren, they somehow disappeared.

“…Cheshire.”

Kieren, still standing at the door, smiled.

It was a smile to hide his nervousness.

“How have you been?”

The venomous look that had pushed Hylone with clever words and actions until the end of the war was nowhere to be found.

Anxiety was evident in his finely trembling red eyes.

It was unexpected.

She thought he would entice Cheshire with some shamelessness and a bit of pity, as he had done with Hylone…….

Kieren was showing his face beneath the mask.

Surprised by the unexpected attitude, she couldn’t answer, and Kieren’s smile disappeared.

He bit his lower lip.

But he quickly raised the corners of his mouth again.

He tried to make a smiling face and asked carefully.

“Maybe… did you miss Daddy?”

Not only was he forcing a smile, but Kieren was also talking nonsense.

“Ah, if you didn’t miss me, what should I do…….”

Hylone seemed a little embarrassed to see Kieren, who had lost his snake’s tongue [lost his ability to be manipulative].

He couldn’t believe that this was the same person who had been fighting with him with a knife in his mouth just a few minutes ago.

Unable to watch any longer, Cheshire eventually put away all the lines she had prepared and soothed Kieren.

“Missed you.”

“…Really?”

Kieren hesitated and took a step inside.

But that was the end.

He couldn’t move any further.

He still muttered in a gloomy voice.

“It’s okay if you don’t force yourself to lie, Cheshire.”

Cheshire jumped off the chair.

And she approached Kieren and reached out her hands to him.

“…….”

Kieren looked down at Cheshire with a slightly incredulous look.

Then, after hesitating for a long time, he quietly picked up Cheshire.

It was as if she would break if he touched her wrong, his touch was so careful.

The moment their warmth touched, Kieren let out a soft breath.

Cheshire felt a little sorry.

She was well aware that he was mentally unstable.

Still, until then, he had been barely holding on.

It felt like something had broken down a bit more because of this incident.

It seemed that he had become a little more obsessed with Cheshire because of that.

‘I should take good care of him while we’re together.’

There are all sorts of excuses and reasons piled up for deciding to return to the Vasilios County.

Leaving all those things aside, anyway, Cheshire also…….

She missed the men of the Vasilios family just a little bit.

Not a lot, just a little bit.

For the week they were apart, they kept bothering her like invisible thorns.

“Daddy.”

Kieren stopped breathing at Cheshire’s call.

“Cheshire…. Can I be Vasilios?”

“Please do.”

He answered immediately without even breathing and whispered again.

“Please be Vasilios, huh?”

“Okay!”

Kieren, hearing Cheshire’s answer, leaned his face as if collapsing.

He buried his face in Cheshire for a while, then pleaded softly.

“Cheshire… don’t leave now.”

His words were filled with old wounds.

Wounds that couldn’t even become scars and were still bleeding every time they were touched.

He leaned his face against Cheshire.

“Daddy is asking you.”

“…….”

Kieren, quickly realizing that he was being too heavy, smiled brightly.

He quickly brushed away the heavy atmosphere and playfully whined.

“Without Cheshire, Daddy can’t sleep or eat…….”

He rattled off nonsense and kissed Cheshire’s cheeks playfully.

Cheshire dutifully soothed the whining Kieren.

It was hard to tell who was the baby.

“Shall we go home now?”

Kieren was about to leave with Cheshire in his arms, smiling brightly.

Clatter, a pure white chain stretched out and wrapped around Kieren’s waist.

“Who said you could take her as you please?”

Hylone, who had been watching quietly, even took out the Chain of Atonement [a magical artifact used to bind and punish wrongdoers] and grabbed Kieren.

Kieren frowned and retorted irritably.

“You said you would leave it to the child’s will.”

“That was when I didn’t know the Count was a black magician.”

Hylone changed his words as easily as flipping his palm [changing his mind easily].

“It’s obvious that it won’t be good for the child’s emotions and education, so I can’t let her go.”

“…Haa.”

Kieren ran a hand over his face irritably with the hand that wasn’t holding Cheshire.

Then he suddenly whispered to Cheshire.

“Cheshire. Tell the knight that he’s unsightly if he’s being so clingy.”

Of course, it was a whisper that Hylone could hear as well.

Hylone’s eyes narrowed.

Before he could destroy the mansion, Cheshire quickly stepped in to mediate.

“Cheshire wants to go home. But…….”

She knew that Hylone wouldn’t let her go easily.

So she had already thought of a way.

“Cheshire will miss the knight too.”

This time, Kieren’s eyes narrowed.

Cheshire, caught between the two men staring at her with narrowed eyes, declared confidently.

“So even if Cheshire goes home, Cheshire will come to see the knight!”

And she smiled brightly and said to Hylone.

“Sir Knight, come visit Cheshire too.”

“…….”

Hylone avoided her gaze for a moment.

He didn’t like the compromise, but he was afraid that Cheshire would hate him if he said he didn’t like it.

Kieren also had an unpleasant expression, but he accepted Cheshire’s mediation in his own way.

“Since it’s what my daughter wants… come visit sometimes. You can come and check if she’s corrupted or if she’s okay.”

He emphasized ‘sometimes’ very much.

Hylone quietly looked at Cheshire.

He retracted the Chain of Atonement and slowly approached and held Cheshire’s hand.

As if making a knight’s oath, he whispered in a serious voice.

“I will come to see you often.”

And he lightly kissed the back of Cheshire’s hand.

Kieren made a really annoyed expression and pulled up the shadows quickly.

Before the black shadows completely covered her vision.

Cheshire secretly waved her hand.

Hylone smiled faintly.

That’s how Cheshire left the Inquisitor’s mansion.