Chapter 23

“You look sweet and gentle. Like a family.”

Dad was smiling languidly, holding the door of the now wide open carriage.

“Yo-Yo-Yo-Your Grace…”

The vassal uncle shivered with cold sweat.

“Huh? What’s the matter with you? Did you want me to pat pat me like that? Oh, I’m sorry. I’ll stop teasing you.”

I grabbed the vassal uncle’s hand and put it on my cheek.

However, the vassal uncle was as hard as a stone and didn’t move at all.

“Now, pat pat!”

Frustrated, I slapped my face on the vassal uncle’s palm.

“Now that’s it! I am a good child who keeps her promises!”

I put my hands on my waist confidently, but the expression of the vassal uncle wasn’t good.

It’s like he was foaming at the mouth……..

Then, I heard Dad’s voice from behind.

“Ho, a promise…”

When I looked back, Dad was staring as if he was going to chew the uncle.

“I’m really curious what promise it was.”

Hey, what you’re curious about is the promise, right?

You’re not curious about how long a person can withstand your glare, are you?

I had doubts, but I couldn’t figure it out.

My dad dragged the vassal uncle and disappeared somewhere.

It happened in an instant, so there was no way to stop it.

As I jumped off the carriage, the housekeeper laughed at me.

“Did you come back, youngest lady.”

Ah.

Yes, I had a home to return.

There were people who welcomed me.

My house.

“Yes, I’m back!”

I laughed loudly.

***

The Duke of Paeraton looked at his little daughter with a serious face.

This child was really dangerous.

She had the ability to control the body of others, but the problem was that it has nothing to do with the will of the child herself.

Even now, his hands tightened as he watched her eating a chocolate cake.

He wanted to pat that fluffy hair.

‘It feels like something violent had awaken’

When he saw those chubby cheeks shaking as she ate, he suddenly had the urge to break a wall*.

(*t/n: in Korea, when they saw something cute they say they feel like wanted to break something like walls or buildings)

It wasn’t just that.

‘That’s weird.’

The Duke of Paeraton swept his chin to observe his youngest daughter.

‘Why am I full just by watching?’

He hasn’t even touched the tea or refreshments since he entered the tea room.

Because he was seriously educating his daughter.

But somehow he was full.

‘Is it controlling the body’s response? It’s really dangerous.’

She was the first Paeraton that is born without magic.

‘There is no precedent, so I don’t know what this ability is.’

It is certainly a dangerous ability anyway.

After a short thought, he opened his mouth.

“Lulu.”

“Huh?”

The child raised her head with a face smeared with chocolate.

Momentarily, his hand was about to go out, and the Duke clenched his fist.

“Did you understand what I’m saying?”

“Yea!”

The child smiled wide and nodded her head.

‘…I had a very violent impulse again now.’

He wanted to destroy the entire mansion, not just the walls.

‘My daughter’s laughter has tremendous destructive power.’

He endured it, anyone else would have been screaming and wreaking havoc through the streets.

“Then let’s check.”

This is a really big problem.

The Duke of Paeraton’s eyes shone sharply.

“What if someone else strokes your head?”

“No!”

“Poke your cheek?”

“Don’t like!”

“Let’s go eat some snacks?”

“Ew!”

“Kiss on the cheek?”

“Hit! Hit!”

“What if they wanna hug?”

“There’s a kidnapper!”

The child banged her cotton ball-like fist into the air.

“You’re smart like me, as expected.”

The Duke of Paeraton nodded.

But there was only one thing in his mind.

‘The words are too weak.’

Stop moving. You wanna send your wrist flying?

Wouldn’t this be more appropriate?

Anna taught me like that because she said, “You should only use nice words and right words for children,” but it was very good.

‘It’s not a threat right away and even warns you kindly. Then isn’t it fair?’

The Duke of Paeratton seriously agonized and reached out to his daughter.

From what he’d taught her, he didn’t think she’d be shocked.

“No!”

Flinch.

Duke Paeraton’s hand stopped in the air.

“I do not like it!”

With the words that followed, Duke Paeraton’s complexion turned pale.

Luatisha raised her hand and pointed at Duke Paeraton.

“The kidnapper!”

“……!”

The eyes of Duke Paeraton shook with extreme shock.

Killer on the battlefield.

Black slaughter horse.

He, who had not been agitated once in any terrible situation, stopped breathing at the words of her daughter.

What’s weak?

It is a problem because the effect is too strong.

“Lu, Lulu…….”

The Duke of Paeraton again reached out to the youngest, but she only refused him again.

“Ew! Hit! Hit!”

Luatisha slapped the Duke’s hand.

That doesn’t hurt the Duke of Paeraton.

But the Duke felt excruciating pain.

For the first time in his life, he realized what it was like to have a knife in his chest.

It’s bleeding severely.

The daughter, who didn’t even know that, smiled very brightly.

As if she did well.

***

Clatier bit her nails.

Originally, it was a fingernail with a pink gloss that had never been damaged, but now it was as tattered as if a mouse ate it.

But Clatier couldn’t afford to care about it.

‘How come?’

How did this happen?

She looked around the dim room.

The room, which had been decorated like a fairy-tale room, turned into a mess.

The flowers in the vase were withered and dusty in the corner.

‘What, I’m sick of that doll already. Why are you in my room?’

Come to think of it, she originally bought a new doll every day, but that was a long time ago.

The employees were laid off in large numbers and even the few remaining employees did not do their jobs properly.

People came every day and yelled at her dad.

Her mom kept fighting with her father and left home saying that she would be at her parents’ house for a while.

She asked her if she would come with her, but Clatier shook her head.

‘That, mom was from a viscount family.’

Leave this Marquis house to live in a viscount’s?

‘She’s an illegitimate child and she lives in the Duke of Paeraton!’

That would never happen.

‘This is all because of her!’

Everything has changed since the day she came.

Clatier recalled Luatisha who came to the Marquis of Tarenka.