I’m the Main Character’s Child - Chapter 18

I sat next to Cardin and looked at the changing landscapes through the window 

“If you become a trainee at the magic tower, many troublesome things will happen. Do you still want to do it?”

Cardin, who has been silent for a while, asked me.

Cardin’s eyes were serious.

With that gaze, I also became serious.

“Yes, I want to learn magic. I’ll learn and protect Papa too!”

Cardin’s eyes got a little bigger as if he had heard an unexpected answer. Soon after, he smiled weakly, and slowly turned his head to the other window.

“Do whatever you want to do. I will make it happen.”

Cardin’s low voice rang out into the carriage.

I tilted my head and leaned on Cardin. His body temperature felt warm.

 * * *

[Give me water! Liel! I’m thirsty]

If it were usual, I would have covered myself with a blanket in the pouring morning sun, but I couldn’t because of that spectacular voice that wakes me up every morning these days.

[I know you’re awake!  Wakeee upppp!.]

“Sigh……. “

Even if I covered my ears, I could still hear his clear voice.

I kicked my blanket and approached the main culprit of the noise by the window.

“I can’t sleep in because of you every morning”.

[Hahaha. You have to wake up early in the morning to get the early morning dew!]

He danced happily while waving Merket stems from side to side, saying that he had just said a very cool thing.

“If you keep doing that, I won’t give you water.”

I said, staring at Merket sharply. These days I can’t have a quiet morning because of him.

[I’m not scared at all]

I am sure that If I can see Merket’s expression, he must be making a disgusting expression that would make me want to bite him.

I was looking at Merket, who was still shaking his torso excitedly, when I heard a small laugh from the back of my head.

“Are you talking to Merket again?”

“Nanny………..”.

As soon as I saw my nanny, I unknowingly let out a silly laugh.

A few days have passed since the day I brought Merket.

Whenever Nanny saw me talking to Merket, she looks at me cutely.

Perhaps if you heard Merket’s voice, you wouldn’t have looked at me so happily.

It was clear that my nanny will think like that as children my age, talk to dolls and objects and consider them friends.

Well, who would think that a child was really having a conversation with a plant? 

“Now, if you’re done with your morning greeting, you should wash up.”

“Yes. I got it….”

I followed my nanny into the bathroom. I still heard Merket’s laughter behind my back.

After talking to Merket for a few days, I was able to get quite a bit of information.

First of all, Merket was not an ordinary flower as expected. Merket introduced himself as a fairy.

It proudly explained the roles fairies play in this world.

In summary, in this world, fairies play a variety of roles to maintain nature.

When I asked why such a fairy was here, it said, an eerie energy came from somewhere, then he was suddenly trapped inside a flower bud.

In particular, his friends cried, saying that they were in the same situation as him.

Merket asked me to do something while making a crying sound. If you release this curse, I will do anything for you.

I was busy soothing Merket, who was crying after saying that I would find out about the curse.

Of course, even when Merket cried, it seemed to be dancing with its stem shaking.

After that, Merket spit out swear words, and I really wondered what the fairy looked like beyond that flower bud.

It seemed far from the fairy I thought it was.

“Princess, what kind of clothes do you like today?”

The nanny’s face, holding various clothes and putting them on my body, was full of laughter.

On the other hand, I just couldn’t like it.

Looking at the colorful clothes and shiny ornaments piled up on one side of the room, a sigh came out of my mouth.

The day after returning to the duchy from the magic tower, Cardin gave me a platinum bracelet with blue jewels embedded on it.

I knew it was a gift, but when I asked him what it was for, he gave the blunt answer that he just picked it up somewhere like a former male protagonist of a novel.

I just smiled and thanked him. 

Of course, it was good to receive a gift.

There was no reason to refuse because he wanted to give it to me. But the problem has arisen since then.

From that day onwards, clothes and various ornaments arrived in my room one by one until they couldn’t fit in my room anymore.

Of course, considering the wealth of the Duke Bardion family, this amount is not much for him. But it was too much for me to handle. 

Where am I going to wear all those clothes and jewelry?

Although the jewels are pretty, I don’t like going around wearing them, so it was really troublesome seeing all the gifts piled up in the corner of my room. 

I was about to tell Cardin to stop sending me gifts from today.

I wore a blue dress chosen by the nanny and headed to Cardin’s office.

The servants I encountered on the way bowed their heads to me and greeted me.

As I was greeted by the attendants, I felt that many things had changed from before.

Now, none of the servants in the mansion ignored my nanny and me.

It also felt like a long time ago when I enjoyed the watery soup with hard bread every time.

Among them, the thing that changed the most is the relationship between Cardin and me.

Although he was still blunt on the outside, sometimes the affection he has for me comes out just thinking about that makes me smile.

‘Whose dad, are you? Why are you so cute?’ 

I felt a little better and hummed myself on my way to Cardin’s office.

Now, I’m used to his office, I knocked on the big black door a couple of times before opening it.

“Papa!”

As I entered the office, I saw Cardin sitting at a glossy wooden desk first.

Cardin was looking at a pile of letters, frowning.

“What’s that?”

Red, pink, sky blue, etc. The envelopes were showing off various colors like a rainbow.

Cardin handed me a black envelope among them.

“It’s a letter from the pagoda. They say that full-scale education will begin in two days.”

“I see. But what are those letters?”

I was curious about the rainbow letters in Cardin’s hand, so I asked.

“………”

Cardin’s hand holding the letters was tense. Letters that were written in paper were crumpled little by little in Cardin’s hand.

“Oh. The letter is crumpled. What is it? Are these letters bad for Papa?”

Why did I feel bad again? I was curious as I looked at the letters in Cardin’s hand, Cardin held out the rainbow-colored letters in front of me.

“… It’s yours.”

“Huh? Mine?”

Why is there a letter for me? I carefully looked at the letters that were sent to me. At a glance, the material of the paper was very luxurious.

I carefully opened the letter.

“Dear Princess Bardion Emeliette…”

The letter began with praise for me.

They wrote a lot of phrases, but if I summarize it, it was roughly like this.

I heard the news that you were going as a trainee at the magic tower. That’s truly incredible. I’d like to talk more, but I’d appreciate it if you could accept the invitation to the tea party.

“ahmm…”

I also opened other letters.

I’ve read quite a few letters, but they were all about building friendships with them along with praises for me.

“Do you want to go?”

Cardin has asked for my opinion. Perhaps if I say I want to go, he will allow it.

But who am I? Although I am a six-year-old child, the years I have lived in a capitalist society were not in vain.

Who would ask a six-year-old child to write such praises and have tea together?

I frowned at the greedy letters of the nobles with the most power.

Suddenly, the news of me going to the magic tower seems to be spreading throughout the social circles like what Grandfather Mejihos said.

Perhaps the real purpose is not me, but Cardin, who holds the power of the Duke of Bardion.

“No. I don’t like things like this!”

I put the letters on the road desk.  The corners of Cardin’s lips moved upward as if he was satisfied with my answer.

“Then there’s nothing we can do about it. I got it.”

Cardin grabbed a bunch of letters in his hand.

Black gas rose from Cardin’s hand, smiling as if he was in a good mood, and a bunch of letters burned without a trace.

“Oh…..” 

You’re like a real villain.

I’m sorry, but Cardin, who was smiling while burning the letter, looked incredibly scary.

If I was a real 6-year-old kid. I might have cried after seeing that.

“Papa. That was cool just now.”

But I chose a white lie.

Seeing Cardin’s now familiar expression, I brought up the reason for visiting him today.

“Papa! Stop sending me gifts! It’s uncomfortable! Huh? Got it?”

I’m going to get a definite answer today.  If he doesn’t want to at least just send it in moderation!

“…I’ll think about it.”

The negotiation seems to be going wrong today.