Chapter 2. Dad and brother are strange2020.02.08.
Suddenly, at the door that opened, someone slanted and screamed.
“Oscar.”
At Esteban’s low voice, Oscar secretly averted his gaze. The one who dared to stand in front of the emperor’s office was the first prince of the Hermano Empire, ‘Oscar Alle Hermano’. Oscar, who decided to go out confidently after being caught anyway, entered the office.
“Emperor. When the hell are you going to let me go?”
Even at the age of six, Oscar’s speech was precocious. Silver hair, like Esteban’s, shone in the sunlight. The green eyes inherited from the former empress shone with intelligence. Unlike Mabel, Esteban looked at Oscar with a calm gaze. it’s permission The permission Oscar was talking about was permission to meet Mabel. In fact, it wouldn’t be difficult to briefly look at the face of a one-month-old baby, but Esteban resolutely cut it.
“Can not be done.”
“Why? He said it would be done in a month.”
“I’m sure you’re the one who’ll drop Mabel while trying to hug him, you Oscar.”
“Ugh…”
It wasn’t a groundless refusal. In fact, Oscar had a history of dropping and smashing Esteban’s cherished items while looking at them. Oscar was visibly depressed.
‘Is it not possible today? It was just one month old, so I couldn’t even sleep all night…’ I
deliberately finished my swordsmanship class early, but it wasn’t worth it. Esteban, seeing his puppy-like son wet in the rain, tore up the letter from the Holy Nation and stood up.
“I can’t help it. Come with me, Oscar.”
Oscar’s expression brightened at Esteban’s words. Esteban smiled lightly, stroked his son’s head roughly, and left the office. Since I was missing Mabel, it would be nice to introduce you to my older brother.
‘I’m too young to remember anyway.’
***
Who said the life of a baby was easy. All of that was just an absurd thought that could have been done because he had no memory. Because humans are oblivious animals! It was so painful that I couldn’t stand it at all. I couldn’t turn over on my side, and I couldn’t lie down either, so I almost felt like I was practicing. All I could do was lie upright and watch the nanny and the maids and attendants.
‘iced coffee. It’s boring…’
As I was staring at them blankly, the nanny approached me with a smile.
“Come on, Your Highness. Time to pamper yourself.”
“Ew…”
The fortunate thing is that you don’t have to drink your own breast milk. The nanny checked the temperature of the liquid in the baby bottle and glared fiercely at the maid who had brought the powdered milk.
“Larima! It’s too hot!”
“Ah sorry. I will do it again!”
Larimar, the maid, panicked and disappeared to make milk again. Looking at Larima’s back, the nanny let out a deep sigh. Then he turned to the servant Xavier who was standing next to him.
“He must have made mistakes like that every time. I wonder if I’ll be able to get married then…”
“Larima doesn’t seem to have any plans to get married or anything like that?”
“Then there is nothing you can do. Xavier has no choice but to marry Larimar.”
“Eh? Why are you doing this to me?”
Xavier freaked out, and the nanny laughed. Listening to their conversation, I could tell how close they were. It was my nanny, Madame Loupe, who was in charge of my child-rearing. When my mother was alive, I remembered hearing at first glance that she was an aide-de-camp. Larimar, the maid, was taken by the nanny at the request of an acquaintance, and Xavier, the maid, was the nanny’s nephew. It was fun to listen to the conversation because we know each other well. Especially when Larimar and Xavier growl and fight, it’s the most fun. Usually, after that, they suddenly caught fire and started dating.
“Haam…”
I was staring at the ceiling, but suddenly I felt sleepy. The blurry mobile was spinning slowly.
‘Did they come from milk powder from the beginning…?’
My eyelids were heavy. nod The head swung sideways. When I was about to surrender everything to the rushing sleep-.
“What about Mabel?”
A low voice was heard. I woke up from sleep in an instant. Flash your eyes! When I woke up, I immediately regretted it.
“I closed my eyes for a moment. cute guy.”
He met eyes with a human named Dad.
‘I’ll just pretend to sleep.’
As I frowned and blinked, the nanny ran hurriedly.
“oh. You shouldn’t sleep. It’s still before dinner.”
“meal?”
The man stared at me. Feeling burdened, I secretly averted my gaze. However, in a low place where there should be nothing, there was a face I had never seen before. It was a boy who was looking at me with a somewhat flushed face.
“Emperor. The baby is looking at me…!”
He tried to hide his emotions, but his cheeks were flushed with excitement. I narrowed my eyes slightly and looked at the boy carefully. I had already obtained some rough information through the chatter between the nanny and the other two.
‘So… is that boy my half-brother?’
Oscar Alle Hermano. Yes, it was definitely that name. It was clear that he had the same hair color as the human father and had a similar appearance. The boy’s green eyes twinkled and he couldn’t take his eyes off me.
“I’m not seeing you because my eyesight isn’t fully developed yet, Oscar. Make no mistake.”
It was so adamant that I was even more perplexed.
‘When do you think I’m looking at you? They said it seemed like they met eyes!’
I noticed a different attitude than when he called me. Why am I acting coldly while calling her ‘my Mabel’ and saying ‘don’t get me wrong’… What’s even more absurd is that Oscar doesn’t look heartbroken at all. As if he couldn’t hear what my father was saying, he fixed his eyes on me and just stared at me as if he was possessed.
“So cute….”
“Ooh…”
I wanted to say something, but I didn’t have any teeth yet, so babbling that didn’t even look like that kind of babbling was the best.
“right? No way… brother? Father. I’m about to say that Mabel is my brother…!”
“Don’t guess, Oscar.”
The man who responded coldly looked at me with a soft smile.
“I guess you meant to call me Daddy.”
“…”
Both are wrong. I was trying to tell them to be quiet and not to make noise…
‘Someone do something with these two!’
I looked at the nanny eagerly. The nanny, who tilted her head at my gaze, let out an exclamation before long.
“oh. Your Highness must be very hungry. Is Larimar far away?”
“It’s all done!”
The delivery of my eyes failed spectacularly.
‘Even my nanny abandoned me.’
The nurse held me drooping in her arms in despair and tried to drip a few drops onto the back of my hand. The Emperor and Oscar watched the scene without exception. I put the baby bottle in my mouth in that burdensome gaze. And he started sucking vigorously.
“Your Highness must have been very hungry.”
‘That’s not it, nanny.’
It’s because I want to quickly get rid of them and get those humans out of my sight. It was when I was struggling to catch my breath after drinking half of it. The emperor, who had come close to me before I knew it, reached out his hand to the nanny.
“?”
The nanny blinked, and the emperor glanced at me.
“Give me.”
‘Uh uh…?’
The tip that was half-bitten in the mouth slipped out. I opened my mouth and tried to understand the absurd situation. But the emperor was faster than that. Before I knew it, the emperor took up a chair and took me from the nanny.
“Come on, Mabel. Dad will feed you.”
“Aww…”
‘I don’t need it!’
I put my head back and resisted desperately, but the emperor clumsily supported the back of my neck and pushed the bottle in.
“Mush!”
No matter how much I resisted, there was no way I could defeat the emperor, a strong adult man. In desperation, I sucked on the nipple of the baby bottle.
“Right. Eat well.”
‘Black. Why am I a baby?’
I couldn’t even express my dislike, and I felt like I was going to die of sadness. The Emperor’s gaze at me as if he was loving me was very, very burdensome. So I just closed my eyes. Because you can drink powdered milk with your eyes closed.
“I’m almost done eating now.”
I had sucked in as hard as I could, and with the powdered milk still in my mouth, I quietly opened my eyes. And –
“Pooh!”
I stopped spitting out milk powder.
‘Why are you sticking your face in like that?!’
It’s not normal if you’re not surprised by the emperor’s face as soon as you open your eyes.
“Oh my! Are you okay, Your Majesty?”
The nurse hurriedly approached and handed the emperor a handkerchief. He smiled mildly, without any hint of ill-will.
“Okay. The powdered milk that our Mabel exudes is holy water.”
‘…what did I just hear?’
I was so dumbfounded that I didn’t know how to react. Instead of wiping my face with a handkerchief, the emperor wiped my mouth as I stared blankly at him. And after the area around my mouth was clean, I wiped my face.
“Anyway, eating well makes me feel good.”
The emperor, who had touched my cheek, picked me up and hugged me, patting me on the back. I gazed at the nanny sadly while cradled in the emperor’s arms.
‘Please someone save me…!’
But the nanny just looked at us as if she was happy. Oscar, who had been looking at the emperor with envy, took a step closer with his fists clenched.
“Emperor.”
“why?”
“If I hug you too…! I can’t. I know. I don’t know.”
“I know.”
The emperor laughed lightly and began teasing me again. Oscar looked at me with sticky eyes. In the meantime, I felt my eyes go round and round. Could everyone please turn their attention away from me?
***
Clearly there is no God. Otherwise, I can’t disregard my wishes like this. I earnestly begged him to turn off his attention, but instead the level of interest intensified. The Emperor and Oscar came to see me every day. The emperor came once in the morning and once in the evening, and Oscar came unexpectedly. Apparently, the emperor didn’t allow me to see him, so he came secretly.
“Huh.”
It’s annoying, so please don’t come to me. Today, I stared at the ceiling while praying in vain. The mobile spun round and round. From the first time I saw the mobile, I thought it would be something unusual, but it was really a great mobile. It’s like a mobile made by smashing an heirloom of the imperial family in the treasure house of the imperial castle. They said that pretty things are good for children’s emotional development, and that the emperor himself destroyed them. It must have been a really precious item, and the shards at the end shone brilliantly.
“Ubev…” (Crazy…)
I don’t understand. I glanced to the side. Nanny was concentrating on knitting while the other two were busy growling and fighting.
“Larima. did you hear that The egg of the divine beast in the northern forest. They hatched it. On the day Your Highness was born!”
“What are you talking about? Wasn’t that an ornament? Where else have you been hearing nonsense?”
“If you don’t believe me, go out and ask. The knights ran and it wasn’t a fuss, right? It looks like a cat, but its fur is also golden!”
“How come the cat is golden? Anyway, how are you going to survive in this harsh world because you are so naive? huh?”
“No, that’s true…”
I licked my lips as I listened to Larima and Xavier’s story.
‘It’s the egg of the divine beast… It must be delicious. I want to eat boiled eggs.’
Suddenly, the topic of conversation between the two changed. I blankly stared at the ceiling. The mobile, which was more expensive than my ransom, was spinning round and round.
‘It was good.’
While they were paying attention to me, I wriggled and moved my body little by little. He turned his head around and wiggled his fingers. Perhaps thanks to secret practice, I was able to easily hold a toy with my hands wide open. Manse wasn’t that difficult either.
‘Then, shall we practice something more difficult today?’
How to lift your neck! It was an essential gateway to pass through in order to flip.
“Aww!”
He sighed and gave strength to his neck. But it only went up a little bit, and it quickly lost its strength.
“Ewbububu!!”
I tried one more time, but it was the same this time.
‘Ouch! At what age did this happen? I can’t even speak! I can’t even walk!’
I tried to throw a furious kick into the air, but even that failed. It was then.
“Mabel.”
I stopped going crazy at the sudden voice and turned my gaze towards the direction where the sound came from.
“I am not sleeping today. thank god.”
Oscar, who had sneaked in today, was hanging from the cradle with soil and leaves all over his body. Then the nanny threw away her knitting and hurriedly ran.
“Your Highness the Prince. Do not touch Her Highness with dirty hands!”
‘Dirty hands…’
No matter how much, I’m a member of the royal family, so can I say that? But neither the nanny nor Oscar seemed particularly bothered.
“Mmm.”
Oscar glanced at my hand and at my face, then scratched his cheek.
“nurse. Can I borrow your bathroom? Nanny knows, but I’m not in a position to go back and wash up.”
“Then, what if His Majesty finds out?”
“Perhaps you already know?”
Whether that was true, the nanny couldn’t answer right away. As if he knew that, Oscar smiled and walked toward the bathroom. As if I had never exercised, I lay quietly and stared at the mobile.
“oh?”
My nanny, who was tidying up my cradle, suddenly touched my forehead.
“Why are you sweating so much?”
It’s not cold sweat, it’s just sweat.
‘I’m sure they won’t find out that I secretly exercised, right?’
“Oh my goodness! Did you catch a cold? Larima Larima!”
At the urgent call of the nanny, Larimar hurriedly ran.
“Why are you like that?”
“Call the senator. Your Highness is still breaking out in a cold sweat.”
“Oooh!” (No!)
I shouted at the nanny, waving my arms, but they didn’t listen to my cries and Larimar dashed out of the bedroom.
“majesty. Please wait a moment.”
The nanny wiped my face as if she was worried, but the more she did, the more wet the cold sweat came out. A huge sense of guilt came over me.
“nurse. Why are you making such a fuss all of a sudden?”
Oscar had finished his bath before he knew it, and came over, wiping his dripping hair with a towel.
“what. …Is Mabel sick?”
