The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 77

Kieren’s eyes narrowed.

Chesha didn’t miss the chance to tattle.

“He’s the one who took the hat!”

Kieren vividly remembered Ishuel’s tantrum about someone giving the clothes to another family.

He nodded slowly and asked Chesha in a soft voice,

“Shall I kill him?”

“No!”

She would love to, but Basilian’s social standing was a factor.

Committing murder publicly would be problematic.

Especially with his history of having dealt with Count Rudin.

“Give him a proper punishment.”

“Hmm…”

Kieren let out a groan of contemplation, as if it were truly difficult.

Marquis Milton, who had been openly listening to the father and daughter’s whispers, asked in disbelief,

“What are you doing right now?”

The Marquis glared and said,

“Wasn’t this supposed to be an opportunity to impress me? You shouldn’t be acting like that.”

“Ah, of course, that’s what I intended.”

Kieren said with an embarrassed smile.

“But it’s a bit difficult to impress someone who hasn’t educated their child properly. Let’s just forget about it, shall we?”

“What?”

Marquis Milton shouted.

As if waiting for it, his son also yelled.

“They’re the ones! They spilled juice on me!”

Ishuel retorted with a crooked smile.

“Let’s get the facts straight. You spilled it first.”

“I made a mistake! And you used magic!”

“I made a mistake too.”

Ishuel mimicked Kieren’s tone, taunting the screaming boy and scratching at his nerves.

“I’ve only just started learning magic, so my skills are lacking. I often make mistakes.”

“Argh! You insolent brat!”

The Marquis’s son screamed, his neck veins bulging.

He had only ever been around people who fawned over him, so he seemed to be acting out even more because he had never been treated so arrogantly.

The Marquis’s wife hugged the boy and tried to soothe him, but it was no use.

Kieren, watching the boy scream with ear-splitting sounds, said something strange.

“What a loud skylark.”

“…Pardon?”

“Our baby bird must be annoyed.”

“……”

It was a mystery where he had learned such strange words.

Chesha, who had been mentally attacked, chattered with a tired face in an instant.

“Don’t do that……”

“Skylark? Or baby bird?”

“Both……”

Kieren chuckled as he watched Chesha cringe.

While they were exchanging playful words, Marquis Milton stormed over.

“Apologize, Count! If you apologize now, I’ll let it go.”

“What should I apologize for? From what I hear, it seems like a mutual mistake.”

“Count! Are you believing your children? They’re just kids who can’t even tell right from wrong yet!”

“If you put it that way, isn’t the same true for your son?”

“Isn’t your child an adopted orphan from an orphanage? How do you know what kind of blood is mixed in?”

Marquis Milton even clicked his tongue as if he were very foolish.

Kieren, who had been playfully parrying the Marquis’s words, paused for a moment.

Then he stared intently at Marquis Milton.

His crimson eyes were hard to look at for long.

Chesha noticed the faint smile in his eyes.

Kieren was now contemplating which of Marquis Milton’s weaknesses he held in his hand to torment him with.

The Marquis swallowed hard as he met those eerie red eyes.

His lips, which had been closed, opened gracefully.

“Your son……”

Kieren’s voice lowered.

“Doesn’t resemble Marquis Milton at all.”

“…!”

“Rather, hmm…. Your son seems to resemble your secretary, Baron Keiler, more?”

The room instantly turned cold.

Marquis Milton trembled with anger.

“To insult me, my family, with such baseless words……!”

However, Kieren’s smile only deepened.

Kieren added a word in a voice that sounded like he was having the time of his life.

“Well, have you never thought about it, Marquis?”

It was as if he had given him a shove in the back.

Marquis Milton’s eyes shook violently.

The Marquis, who was about to retort, couldn’t hold back and turned his head to look at his wife.

The young wife who had given him his only child after three marriages.

Her face was pale, almost blue.

***

Kieren finished off Marquis Milton with a few words.

Marquis Milton could no longer demand an apology from the Basilian County family.

Because he had immediately caused an uproar on the spot.

Leaving behind the chaotic scene of the Marquis scolding his wife, the wife denying it while crying, and the son occasionally screaming and yelling.

Kieren leisurely left the room with Chesha and Ishuel.

Walking down the hallway with Chesha in his arms, Kieren spoke in a tone as if suggesting a cup of tea.

“What if Marquis Milton’s scandal is on the front page of tomorrow’s morning paper? It would be fun if everyone in the capital knew the truth about the Marquis family.”

“Yes, Father.”

Ishuel smiled brightly and replied.

“I’ll discuss it with my brother and prepare it right away. To the point where the Marquis family can never show their face in society again.”

The father and son couldn’t have been more in sync.

She could only admire the smooth process of burying someone.

‘So this is what it takes to be a master of the underworld.’

The most unbearable thing for nobles who live on pride was shame.

Seizing Marquis Milton’s private secrets and then spreading them.

And then, publicly exposing his flaws in large letters so that Marquis Milton couldn’t even achieve mental victory was vicious.

She wondered where Belzeon’s work ethic came from, and it was right here.

Blood couldn’t be deceived after all.

“When you’re done, take Carha and check out the banquet too. I’ll take care of Chesha.”

“Yes.”

Ishuel bowed politely and immediately disappeared using magic.

He was quite skilled at using teleportation magic, even though it was short-range.

His skills seemed to have grown rapidly in a short period of time.

When they were alone in the hallway, Kieren pretended to bite Chesha’s cheek.

“Did Chesha put the flower on Ishuel?”

“Yes!”

Instead of biting her cheek, he kissed her with a peck and said,

“I’m glad Chesha is a Basilian. We can only think of trampling on them.”

If something like today happened, he would have taken revenge on the guy who bothered Ishuel.

But he praised Chesha’s cleverness, saying that he wouldn’t have been able to soothe his mood and allow him to return to the banquet hall.

Chesha felt quite proud as she listened to his praise.

Kieren, who was smiling as he looked at Chesha, drooped his eyes and said, “Ah…”

“I suddenly don’t want to work……”

Then he made a sudden declaration of striking [refusing to work further].

“Shall we go sightseeing in the Duke’s residence with Chesha?”

He had come all the way to the banquet hall, but he was being lazy and not working.

Normally, she would have had to push him on the back.

But Kieren had the merit of dealing with Marquis Milton to his satisfaction.

So Chesha decided to play along with him.

“You know that the Duke’s family’s symbol is a unicorn, right? So there are unicorn patterns and sculptures everywhere like this, and the sculpture over there has a golden horn.”

Kieren, who was showing her around the Evroyel Duke’s residence, knew the place well.

He acted as if he were familiar with it, as if it were his own home.

“Oh, and if you see anything you want, tell me. You can just take it.”

“……”

It was a problem that he acted too much like it was his own home.

Chesha was careful not to show any interest even if there was something interesting.

She was worried that Kieren would just pick it up and take it.

After looking around for a while, she suddenly wondered what the relationship between Duke Evroyel and Kieren was.

To know the inside of the house so thoroughly, it didn’t seem like they were just guests who came and went.

He even used magic to find a runaway child, and he covered up his adopted status by making Chesha his goddaughter.

Today, Marquis Milton ended in tragedy, but anyway, the Duke had arranged a place for him to make connections.

What was the reason she was helping Kieren so devotedly?

It couldn’t be explained by simple friendship.

“How does Daddy know everything?”

When she asked vaguely, Kieren looked at a vase with an exotic appearance and replied.

“Hmm, Daddy learned magic from the Duke. I’ve been to the Duke’s residence often, so.”

“So you are close?”

“Um…. We’re close because we’re master and disciple…. We’re also close because we’ve both been each other’s saviors in life once. The Duke saved Daddy.”

Kieren took a flower from the vase, smelled it, and smiled.

“The Duke helped Daddy become a black magician.”