[Episode 29]
‘Really crazy looking…’
Duke Colin was a man so beautiful that it wouldn’t be strange to say that he was an ice spirit who had been trapped in ice for a long time.
The cold sky-blue hair went down, as if snow had fallen on a snowy field, and it became pale white.
It had hair similar to Richard’s. Looking at it this way, the appearance is very similar.
Who will see this man as a married man?
‘But the snow is too cold.’
There was no anticipation at all, just a gaze that seemed to be contemplating how to kill that swindler.
It’s understandable, but the backbone is frightened.
“Aren’t you talking?”
“Ah… long hair… purple eyes…”
I said to myself, and he nodded as if to continue. I swallowed in a gulp.
‘Crazy, I’m really going to die.’
It was clear that the moment I gave even one wrong answer here, it would be an invoice.
“Purple… hair… You look like an old man… Richard’s hair gets lighter the further down he goes…”
The moment he said that, light shone in his emotionless eyes for the first time. .
“…what?”
“yes?”
“What did you just name her?”
“Richard…”
“The hair gets lighter the lower it goes?”
“Yes…”
He took a deep breath and slowly rose from his seat. Then slowly sit down on the sofa.
“Sit there.”
“Yes.”
I obediently sat across from him.
“What else do you remember?”
“Uh… wear the silver earring on the right. This long thing…”
When he said it with one finger spread out, Duke Colin’s expressionless expression wavered for a moment.
“Does it look like this?”
The calm-looking man got up impatiently, pulled out something from a drawer, and showed it to me.
“yes! This is it.”
“…”
He looked at me in disbelief, then looked down at the earring again.
“…that kid.”
“yes?”
“Where is he?”
“Let’s go to the capital.”
“I’m in the right place…”
I hurriedly grabbed the hem of his clothes as he was about to get up from his seat.
“Ouch…”
I grabbed it too quickly and slammed my knee into the sofa table.
“What are you doing…”
“I’ll come back tomorrow. No rental today…”
“…why?”
“Richard is going to be angry…”
“Angry? why?”
It was clear that I was very upset because I left without a word.
“Uh… come out secretly to Richard, who bought me.”
“…what?”
“So you have to comfort me.”
I pursed my lips and smiled bashfully. Then Duke Colin fell silent for a moment, as if speechless.
“Come tomorrow.”
“What nonsense…”
He furrowed his handsome brow.
“Richard isn’t ready to meet you yet. I’ll come back to you.”
“…How did you know he was mine?”
Um what should I say?
“It’s a rumor.”
“rumor?”
“Let’s spread rumors that we will give you money.”
It was true.
For several years, he had been conducting rumors about his child with a huge bounty.
However, the only people who came to him so far were net scammers.
The scammers who were looking for money sometimes disguised themselves as their own children and brought them.
“Money…”
He lowered his head, sweeping his face as if laughing at my words.
“Ha, I’ll give you anything like that… if only I could meet her again.”
At that, I smiled awkwardly and nodded my head.
“Yes, the bar tomorrow.”
“Who are you?”
“Hey A-ring.”
At my answer, he was silent for a moment as if he was speechless, then changed his words to a question.
“What is your relationship with that child?”
Speaking of my relationship with Richard, BamBam and the owner…?
“Pets?”
When he first picked me up, he said he was raising me as a pet, so from Richard’s point of view, maybe that’s the case?
“…what?”
Duke Colin asked with a face full of bewilderment.
I nodded once more.
“It’s a pet…!”
“…”
First of all, it’s because it’s a lizard.
But somehow he looked at me with a shocked look on his face, his mouth tightly shut.
“I will send a wagon tomorrow.”
Duke Colin looked at me with a shocked expression on his face, and with the words he had uttered after a long time, he issued a congratulatory order to me.
On the way back, the soldier asked me incessantly about how I survived, which bothered me a bit.
Not only that, but as soon as I came out, the future minister ran straight to me like a puppy and got stuck.
I even took it with me and headed back to the dorm.
* * *
So now what?
I went out and picked up a certain person, and it was clear that Richard was going to have a lot of goals.
Standing in front of the inn, I turned my head to see a boy wearing a robe… perhaps the future high priest.
“Is this why you’re chasing me?”
“yes.”
“How far?”
“Because you are the master.”
“I am not the owner.”
“I gave you something to eat, so you are the master.”
I saw a boy staring at me and smiling brightly.
‘I wasn’t such a naive kid in the novel.’
I’m sure there must be some ulterior motive, but I don’t know what it is.
‘Richard will be leaving home tomorrow anyway…’
Doesn’t it matter?
However, I wondered if it was okay to take this child to an orphanage.
I took a short deep breath and cautiously entered the inn room.
“Wait a minute, wait here.”
“why?”
“I have to explain it to An Ching-gu.”
“…yes.”
The high priest of the future obediently nodded.
Click.
The first thing I saw when I entered the room feeling uneasy was a boy sitting on a chair at the table like a stone statue.
As I entered he opened his eyes wide and glared at me.
I smiled awkwardly and carefully opened my mouth.
“…Hello Richard…”
“Where are you from?”
“Wait… a walk…?”
“Will you take a walk from morning to evening?”
“Ugh… I lost my way.”
“Didn’t you run away from me?”
Richard jumped out of the chair and strode towards me.
Richard approached me with a very excited face and grabbed my shoulder.
“Are you going to abandon me too?”
“…No, I won’t throw it away.”
I shook my head hastily.
“Come back. I bought some bread here too…”
I took out the scones I bought on the way to relieve Richard’s anger at least a little.
When I slipped the scone into Richard’s arms, the boy’s eyes softened slightly.
“…I woke up and was surprised you weren’t here.”
“I wrote a letter…”
“…Yes, I saw it. But…”
Richard took me into his arms. A warm breath hit the nape of his neck as if to soothe his excitement.
As if he had been very nervous, his fingertips were cold and even trembled slightly.
‘Still, he must be worried.’
Being abandoned by someone must be Richard’s trauma.
As if I made an appointment with someone and throughout the waiting time, I was anxious every time whether or not I had made an appointment to tease me or was deceived.
“My wife.”
“No, let’s go together next time. I hate being alone. You promised to stay by my side.”
“huh.”
I reached out and tapped Richard on the head a couple of times.
“Let’s go to the value tomorrow.”
“Where?”
“Find it!”
As I spoke while holding Richard’s hand, Richard looked at me with a slightly stiff face.
“…what?”
“family! Richard Daddy!”
“…you found my father?”
“huh.”
“…Did you go there?”
“huh.”
“…to return me to the family who abandoned me? Are you going to throw me away because I’m a bother?”
“huh! …huh?”
How can you interpret the words that you found a family like that?
I looked at Richard, who clenched his fists, unable to hide his bewilderment.
The boy’s face, filled with a sense of betrayal, was flushed red, as if he was about to burst into tears.
“You were also bothered by me after all…”
I blankly reached out my hand to him as I watched the tears welling up.
Richard took a step back and wiped his eyes with his sleeve. I hurriedly approached and grabbed Richard’s hand.
“Leave this.”
“no.”
“What’s wrong, I don’t need a family who abandoned me! you don’t need it all! You and I are family! We decided to make each other family! You promised!”
In response to Richard’s unexpected rage, I remained silent for a moment and slowly approached him again.
Every time I approached, Richard took a step back.
[Since you and I are all alone, how about becoming a family to each other?]
[Don’t leave my side. you are like my family So stay by my side.]
A memory that I had forgotten for a while passed by.
‘I must have hurt you.’
The words that she thought were insignificant were too sincere for the child.
‘I thought it was just a child saying…’
It was clear that the traumatized Richard thought he had a family by picking me up.
“I didn’t throw it away.”
“lie.”
“Me too… I won’t abandon my family and Richard.”
I carefully grabbed Richard’s hands.
“Richard, you’re not going alone tomorrow, you’re going with me.”
“…together?”
“yes.”
“Go with me and leave me alone, so that BamBam goes back? I hate that.”
This guy is pretty sharp.
“…”
I thought so… but
when I didn’t answer, tears began to form in Richard’s eyes again.
“Bam-Bam is abandoning me…”
I reflexively shook my head at the appearance of a dog that would have drooped if it had ears on top of its head.
“…no?”
“Yes.”
“Are you still with your family even after you find them?”
“…Until Richard gets used to it.”
Of course, this is only possible if I persuade Duke Colin…
“What if I can’t adapt for the rest of my life…?”
“Uh….”
“Then, are you here for the rest of your life?”
“Perhaps…”
Is that so?
“Really?”
Richard’s eyes twinkled, as if he had never drooped.
“Eh…”
“Did you promise?”
“Yeah…”
It must be my mistake to think I’ve caught something, right?
Click.
The door opened just in time, and a voice came from behind as if waiting.
“Have you finished talking to the master?”
