Dietrich shrugged at my question. His face didn’t look apologetic at all even though I would die right now.
‘This ungrateful child!’
Spit out all my milk you’ve eaten! You’re mean!
The rules laid down in the successor game of LaGrange are-
‘It’s only forbidden to kill workers.’
There was only one. This meant that no need to discuss ways and methods when removing other candidates.
Sneaking into other palaces and poisoning food has become so common that it happens about four times a week.
“Hikss….”
If cherry is poisoned -not sure if it’s poisonous or not- I could’ve died before I was rewarded for my hardship to take the place of Dietrich’s younger sister.
I wasn’t even a candidate or a successor so I wasn’t trained to resist poison.
Dietrich chuckles when he saw that my pupil was shaking like an earthquake.
‘You laughing?! Though I will die but are you laughing?’
“It will be fine. The killing game is over, and there is no candidate who doesn’t know that I will not die of poison.”
As Dietrich said, no other candidate can get rid of him with poison. He has been immune to all poisons since he was two years old.
This is because his mother Camille poisoned him every day.
‘She’s a crazy woman.’
Instead of being frustrated with her status as a slave of war and being sold to Lagrange, Camille tried to turn Dietrich into a weapon.
‘Even so, intentionally poisoned a baby who was only two years old. She is really.”
It doesn’t matter how Dietrich’s shadow abilities and body are strong. That’s still weird so I feel nauseous even if I only read the text.
‘The day when I can understand this family will never come.’
I tried to swallow the rare Cherry that I rarely get, but it stuck in my throat.
“Oh, Princess, are you here again?”
“Melilin!”
Marilyn entered the room, she was the new maid in place of Janine who had suddenly disappeared. 3
Janine was a woman who closed her door and saying I couldn’t be cured when my palm was torn, she was angry too when she said I had eaten her chocolate.
‘And I can’t see her again. Did she move to another palace?’
“Lancel doesn’t know what he’s must doing without the princess.”
Marilyn smiles and reaches out to me. I naturally embraced her.
“Oh, how can our princess be so pretty?”
I didn’t know what to do when she stroked my chubby cheeks. Originally, she was Dietrich’s maid, but these days she was taking care of me more than Lancel.
‘That’s because I surprisingly too cute!’
It was a cuteness that didn’t work for Dietrich or Janine, but it worked for Marilyn.
“Malilin, malilin!”
“Yes, Princess. You have to go back to your room now.”
I rubbed my head in Marilyn’s arms with a baby-like runny nose. It’s a kind of aegyo similar to rub my cheek on Dietrich’s leg.
‘Um. But why is the air suddenly cold?’
I immediately turned my head to the cool aura that felt behind my back, but Dietrich’s aura was as calm as usual. 1
“Detteli, Bubay.” (Dietrich, bye-bye)
I waved to Dietrich in Marilyn’s arms. If I had a sister like this, I would want to bite her because she was cute, but this child doesn’t even pretend to see me.
I grumbled back to my room, and Marilyn wasn’t visible the next day. 3
***
I searched for the missing Marilyn, and I started shouting everywhere in front of Dietrich. After all, she was the first adult to become attached to me.
“Detteli.”
“Detteli.”
“Oppa.” (Brother.)
“Oppa?”
“No, oppaa.”
Dietrich doesn’t seem to have any complaints about my poor pronunciation.
I was running alone in the garden because Marilyn, who had been playing with me was fired.
After realizing that I was alone, I started rolling on the grass and learned to improve my pronunciation.
“Oppa.”
“Is it because my tongue hasn’t grown yet?”
“Hung.”
I inflated cheek after hear my pronunciation that seemed to be pathetic.
“Baby pronunciation so unclear!”
Dietrich would have done that at my age.
No, I think Dietrich had spoken with perfect pronunciation since he was born.
‘This sounds like an unfair setting!’
I poured water that I got from the fountain this summer.
‘I will plant a fruit tree instead of a watering device like this.’
I turned my attention to where I planted the remaining seeds from the cherries I ate from Dietrich last time.
‘Can it sprout? I planted it together with Marilyn…..’
She was the one who most often asked me to do it, unlike Lancel or Dietrich.
‘Why she suddenly disappeared?’
When I think about it, Lancel hasn’t been seen well these days too. 1
“Oppa.”
“Why.”
“Whele’s Malilin?” (Where’s Marilyn?)
“Who?”
I can’t pronounce Marilyn’s name well so he pretends that he doesn’t know Marilyn.
I was convinced that Dietrich had a reason for Marilyn’s invisibility. I’m very sure even though there is no physical evidence. Even if someone asks me to bet then I will do it.
‘Because I don’t have anything, there’s nothing to do.’
“Dettli’s maid.”
“Why is she?”
“I miss malilin.”
Marilyn was the first adult to be friendly to me since I was born.
‘First and only.’
Lancel no longer pinched me or intentionally bothered me, but I’m annoyed because he never did anything to play with me.
‘Dietrich and Marilyn are the only ones who speak to me in this spacious palace.’
Besides, she was cuter than Dietrich.
Dietrich didn’t ignore me anymore, but he didn’t come to me first, read fairy tales, play dolls, or tell stories of the world like Marilyn.
It bothered me so I kept looking for her.
‘I need to know about the world!’
I liked Marilyn’s stories. It helped me understand this world.
Whether it’s the story of another family that didn’t appear in the novel or the legend of the Shadow Demon.
‘There was still a lot to learn, but why did you disappear?’
“She was sent to another palace for a while.”
I shook my head to Dietrich’s cold answer.
My ears can’t be lifted like a dog’s, but if that happens maybe my ears have fallen to the ground.
Marilyn was missing, so I was bored again and had to go back to a free life.
“When will she come?”
“Don’t know.”
‘It’s been a day or two since I played alone in the garden.’
I don’t know letters at all so I can’t read even though I want it when I’m bored. I don’t even see Dietrich very often, I really don’t know what he’s doing.
“Don’t cry.”
“I’m not.”
I haven’t cried in front of Dietrich for a while, but this guy knew that I would cry.
‘If you have a baby who doesn’t cry like me, tell them to come, boy!’
“Why do you like that maid?”
“Malilin got a book and she told me a story.”
Dietrich interrupted me and took a short breath.
“So you need a toy.”
‘No, That’s not it’
He raised his hand and summoned something before I could even deny his words.
I’ve never really seen it, but I knew what he was summoning now.
‘Is the name is Baal?’
Dietrich’s shadow demon was the most powerful out of the demons owned by LaGrange.
‘It was the Demon’
The demon is strong enough to compete with the god of the sun, Helios.
Baal’s role was large enough to make Dietrich the strongest villain in the world.
‘Wait, but why did he summon it now?’
The demon king Baal appeared black in the green courtyard and politely looked down at Dietrich who was only seven years old.
The attitude was so polite that it looks more like a butler than the demon king. Of course, an ordinary butler might have hair on his head instead of a horn.
“Did you call me?”
Baal didn’t have a face because it looked like the dark shadows were gathered together in a devil shape. I’m not sure if I was polite to look at it.
‘But the voice is very polite.’
“Play with her.”
“……Yes?”
“Uuhh?”
Baal fades for a moment at the time Dietrich gave the order.
Although it was a faceless demon, I could see that Baal’s aura was shaking because of embarrassment now.
Of course, I was very embarrassed too. My chin seemed to fall out with my mouth wide open because I was surprised.
‘What the hell are you asking me to play? The Demon King? Me?’
“Play with that baby, I’m bored.”
“…Is it a command to play with that baby?”
“Indeed.”
As Dietrich nodded briefly, Baal slipped toward me without hesitation. Demon-themed loyalty is very impressive.
‘If It was myself, I would have resisted my pride.’
The devil’s aura that came close to you was so dark and smelled bad.
I was frightened by the smell of Baal like a lump of rotten food waste and shook my head.
“Don’t want!!”
Despite my extreme rejection, Baal standing in front of me and made something like a hand from a shadow.
“Do you want to shake it?”
Cring-
It was the baby’s instinct to respond to the rattle.
Although it was obviously a shadow, the rattle made by Baal made a refreshing sound like beads rolling.
“Oh, no!”
Cringcring-
“Oh?”
Cringcringcring
“Oh.”
Oh, no. No. I shouldn’t be seduced by a demon-like this.
“Kyaaaa~~”
I ended up being seduced by the demon’s waving rattle.