The Grand Duke’s Little Lady - Chapter 33

Chef Holston said that it would be better if Ariel ate healthy food so he prepared a meat stew that tasted like herbal medicine at her every meal.

The stew contained bones and meat with an unusual shape, but Ariel could not imagine an animal similar to that shape no matter how much she looked at it.

‘Hmm…, if I had to think of something similar, could it be a Drake I once saw in a book? ‘

After Ariel woke up, Mathius came to her and asked her bluntly if she was okay, then he stroked her head for a long time without saying a word.

For some reason, Ariel felt like the one being touched gently is her heart.

Mathius’ hands were big and warm, it felt good.

The maids also held Ariel’s hand and wept when she met them.

“We thought something bad happened to you, Young Madam.”

“That’s right. You look lifeless when you came in, so…”

When everyone in the mansion acted like Ariel’s illness was a big deal, she became a little confused.

‘Isn’t it natural to suffer after using magic?’

She couldn’t ask anyone because it was related to her past life, but she thought it might be.

‘Maybe it wasn’t normal to endure the pain.’

Ariel, who was finally alone in the room at sunset, recalled the moment of the carriage accident.

‘What happened to the girl?’

She prevented the carriage of the purple-haired girl from falling, but she could have also been hurt by magic.

‘I wanted to know the news, but I didn’t know who to ask.’

‘And the carriage was weird.’

The carriage was definitely being controlled by something.

The coachman’s eyes were clouded.

‘I think it was done by magic.’

‘What was that?’

While Ariel was lost in thought, the window of the room swung open.

Lucian came in with a flexible movement like a jaguar in the open window.

“I thought you were sleeping.”

Lucian, who stormed in at will, said lazily when he saw that Ariel was awake.

The cool wind shook the curtains together.

‘Wait…How did he open the window when it was locked inside?’

‘No, nevermind.’ 

Ariel decided not to care about Lucian’s actions.

Even when they first met, there were many things about him that Ariel did not understand.

‘I think it’s because, as Allen said, Lucian’s not an ordinary person.’

What’s more important to Ariel right now is that Lucian did not return to the academy immediately.

He can go back immediately if he wanted, but Ariel thinks that he’s staying because of her.

“I thought you went back in the Academy.”

Lucian frowned when she said that in a small voice.

“How far are you going to make me a villain? I was already upset to hear that my wife had collapsed.”

‘It sounds like Lucian is worried about me.’

“I don’t want to see anyone touches what’s mine.”

‘Of course. He doesn’t want anyone to touch his property. Because I’m a wizard owned by Lucian.’

But she didn’t feel disappointed about that.

Lucian and her relationship had always been like that.

Ariel looked at Lucian from the window where the sunset had fallen.

‘He’s really beautiful… ‘

Underneath his black hair that’s as black as obsidian, a cold but beautiful face was situated.

In order to give authority to the word beauty, the Creator seemed to have created him to test and create the highest level of beauty that humans can contain.

Even the undeveloped facial lines, which are only revealed during the period between boys and men, stimulated maternal instinct.

The white skin without a speck blemish and his high nose reminded her of a marble statue.

The red lips had a vicious color, and the long eyelashes added to his arrogant and intimidating atmosphere.

‘But the most beautiful thing…’

It was his dark blue eyes.

Lucian’s eyes contained some aura that humans could not resist.

All who see his eyes will be tempted, destroyed, or frightened and run away.

‘If you mix the deep ocean with the darkness of the abyss, will that color come out?’

“You.”

Lucian suddenly opened his mouth.

That scared me. Was I staring too intensely?

“Instead of releasing the magic ban, I’ll give you another order.”

Ariel nervously swallowed her saliva.

“What order?”

Lucian stared at her.

He looked angry for some reason.

He brought his face close to Ariel’s face as if he were pressuring her.

“Don’t try to involve yourself to anyone else again.”

‘Ah, he must be talking about saving the girl with purple hair.’

“You’re the only one you need to know. Ariella.”

He spoke arrogantly.

It was a commanding voice that makes you want to say “yes” in an obedient way.

“And all you need to know besides you is me.”

“Because you’re my husband…right?”

Lucian lowered his eyelashes as if he were satisfied.

“That’s right, so don’t worry about the other bugs, whether they die or not.”

He added sweetly enough to sound tempting.

“If you save someone again, I will kill you.”

Hmm? Wait a minute. That’s…

The boy, who whispered like a devil, raised his body and changed his expression.

“Another one.”

Ariel looked up at him, waiting for his following words. There was a tense atmosphere.

Lucian, with his arms crossed, spoke in a feisty tone.

“Paper boat.”

“Yes?”

“Fold one for me.”

‘Huh? Why so sudden? ‘

Ariel tilted her head.

‘Why does he want a paper boat all of a sudden? What’s Lucian thinking?

Without any more time to think about it, he ordered her to start making one on the spot.

“Hurry up.”

She stopped trying to figure out Lucian.

“I’ll fold it for you now.”

“Pink.”

“….yes? Yes. “

Ariel reached for a bunch of colored paper near the bed. A few days ago, she learned how to fold paper boats from gardener Woods so she folded a lot of them in excitement.

The people of the mansion who saw it each received one.

‘Mwoo, there’s no way I can refuse to Lucian anyway.’

‘He’s also my husband.’

While Ariel whined internally and folded the paper boat, Lucian stood crookedly and watched her clumsy hands move.

‘I don’t know why I wanted that, but I had to.’

He was a person who always gets anything when he thought he would have it.

But he had always had a stronger desire to break things than to have them.

“Here you go, Lucian.”

Finally, a pink paper boat folded by Ariel came into Lucian’s hand.

Once it got in his hand, he suddenly got annoyed.

“From now on, paper boats are banned.”

“What?”

Her eyes turned to him with the most unjust look.

‘Oh, my God, I folded a paper boat and it got banned. ‘

Lucian proudly raised his chin and spoke.

“If you want to make it, make as much as you want. But you can’t give it to anyone other than me.”

“Ah… Yes. “

Ariel was relieved to hear that folding itself was not forbidden.

Looking at her, Lucian, who satisfied his desire to monopoly her, happily raised one corner of his mouth.

Prince Lucian Desmond Lacartel’s stay at the mansion was set for two weeks.

He was originally given ten days off, except for the three days for when he passed the gate, but unlike other people, he was able to pass the gate in one day, and so his vacation lasted two weeks.

That’s Ariel was able to see what her husband was doing in the mansion for the first time. Unlike Ariel, who has a limit to walking on short legs, Lucian’s radius of action was very wide.

Lucian didn’t seem to be burdened by the enormous mansion even a bit.

Ariel, who woke up late in the morning like any child, ate a warm soup in a bread bowl made from digging the inside of round bread and watched Lucian practice sword training at the training grounds.

‘I couldn’t go outside because I haven’t fully recovered yet.’

Susan put a small rocking chair and fluffy rug by the window for Ariel where the training grounds were well visible.

Ariel sat there with both hands on her chin and looked at Lucian.

Lucian’s black long steel sword was made of bluish-colored steel.

Ariel opened her eyes widely.

‘Isn’t that… a royal iron?’

When she was in a group of wizards, she saw such steel used as an ingredient for magic potions.

Unlike ordinary iron, which is common in mines, blue-colored royal iron is a rare material, so it used to be traded in powder form.

‘I had never imagined melting it into chunks and using it as a sword.’

‘I’ve never thought that a person with that much wealth would exist on earth.’

‘But that’s my husband …’

Lucian was even using that sword for training.

Training sword is a sword that young swordsman or knights need to replace when they grow up. It could be said that it was a temporary sword.

‘How rich is the Grand Duke?’

She was curious at first, but I didn’t want to know more and more.

The more she knows, the more surprised she’ll get.

Lucian’s training partner was a big knight Ariel saw for a while on the wedding day.

Ariel squinted at him.

‘It’s the man who made Lucian drunk, isn’t it?’

‘If we meet while passing by, I should give him a glare.’

She narrowed her eyes as if practicing.

‘By the way, isn’t the size of his sparring partner too large?’ 

‘Even though Lucian is the youngest Sword Master, isn’t the weight difference too much?’

‘Even though he was taller than his peers, Lucian was only a 14-year-old boy. He has slender, with a beautiful face Wouldn’t it be unfair if you put a sword together with a muscular adult man like that?’

However, Lucian’s expression was relaxed, overshadowing Ariel’s worries.

She could see the tip of his slightly sweaty bangs flapping heavily.

He took a light leap and struck the knight’s sword.

*Kwaaang *

As soon as the steel touched each other, flames erupted and a sharp noise was made.

The knight’s foot, which was attacked by Lucian, was pushed behind.

 ‘I don’t think he’s losing in terms of strength.’

‘Is it because he’s the Sword Master?’

Ariel knew a lot about wizards, but she didn’t know much about knights or swordmasters.

Therefore, she did not think it was particularly strange to see Lucian’s power to completely ignore the difference in the strength of the human body.

The two swords clashed and it seems that the big knight is pushed by the boy.

Ariel stood close to the window with her eyes wide open.

‘It’s black!’

THE PAPER BOAT BAN!!! that’s adorable. AND HE WANTED PINK PAPER BOAT BECAUSE ARIEL GAVE MATHIUS A PINK ONE AHHHHHSKLDKSLDK