I Became A Thief Who Steals Overpowered Skills - Chapter 17:

“Oh, that looks interesting.”

Meanwhile, murmurs echoed through the ballroom.

Those who saw Krasue kick the boy began to crowd around him, curious as to what was going on.

The boy’s expression was a combination of bewilderment and panic.

Krasue lashed out hard at him in a fit of rage, but the boy knew that what he had done wasn’t right either.

“I-I only followed Princess Cladia’s orders!”

Given his young age, he seemed to feel pressured by the current situation and blurted out the name of the person who had ordered him to do so.

At that moment, the murmurs stopped.

The noble teenagers began to leave quietly.

Krasue pondered the name and soon remembered a person.

‘Cladia Staron.’

It was the name of the second princess of the Staron Kingdom.

‘Why would the princess want to see Bianca?’

“Princess Cladia entrusted me to take Miss Bianca to her seat, so I tried to comply. Miss Bianca refused so insistently that the only option left for me was to drag her away because it was a royal family command!”

‘Royal family command? That’s ridiculous.’

A princess didn’t have enough power to act on her own on behalf of the royal family.

However, it was frowned upon for a noble to refuse to meet with a princess. It was even worse if it was a woman she wanted to see.

‘But what would she want to talk to Bianca about?’

While Bianca was the youngest daughter of the ruling family of the north, she was held in low esteem by the nobles because of her curse.

In fact, most of them looked down on Bianca.

A princess who only likes to be surrounded by her loyal subjects called her? Frankly, it didn’t add up.

Just then, a memory from his past life flashed through Krasue’s mind.

‘Anix.’

He was the eldest son of the Graiza Family, known as the ‘Wooden Bow’. Besides, he was the man the second princess loved.

Krasue frowned as soon as he remembered.

In fact, Cladia was so in love that over the years managed to marry him.

However, Anix had one problem.

‘I remember. He was terribly obsessed with my sister.’

Anix had been one of those who faced Charlotte in the Holy Land of the Stars and had lost miserably.

All his achievements in the Graiza Family had led him to be considered a genius, but Charlotte effortlessly crushed him as if he were an ordinary person.

His pride had been completely shattered.

Anix hated and loathed Charlotte.

No wonder, since she was the one who made him belittle himself.

But at the same time, he admired Charlotte’s strength.

He was also considered a genius, so he wanted to become like her. As a result, it turned into a love-hate feeling over time.

In short, Bianca and Krasue were now affected by that incident between Anix and Charlotte.

‘Did he think that once he attracted Bianca through the princess, he would attract me too?’

He was no match for Charlotte, so he probably thought he could at least take it out on her younger brother.

“Ha.”

Krasue snorted and slowly pulled back his hair at the front. It was an action that he used to do when he was angry.

‘There was no need to touch Bianca to attract me.’

The noble boy flinched as anger flowed openly from Krasue’s eyes.

Then he frowned, as if his pride had been hurt by being momentarily frightened by Krasue’s gaze.

As much as he was a direct descendant of the Valheim Family, Krasue was younger than him.

To top it off, he was Valheim’s good-for-nothing.

The rumor that his family had ostracized him was already a fact known to all.

He didn’t dare touch Krasue for fear of his family.

However, Krasue himself was just a brat without any power.

“Y-You..!”

“What?!”

“Ah, nothing.”

The boy tried to speak loudly, but looked away at Krasue’s stern voice.

Krasue’s fierce presence made him lose all fighting spirit.

“I’ll go with Bianca.”

The boy looked up as soon as he heard that.

If he did not carry out the princess’s order, he would surely lose his position as her loyal subject.

The moment his face lit up, the next words that came out of Krasue’s mouth were totally unexpected.

“I’ll go see Anix, not Princess Cladia.”

“Why? Why to Anix?”

Krasue stared at the self-proclaimed loyal subject and clicked his tongue.

“How is it possible that you are a follower of the princess, and have not realized that the princess gave you that order at the request of someone else? What do you really have eyes for?”

Well, the princess also seemed to have poor eyesight because she was possessed by someone like Anix.

Just as his face was about to turn red at the realization that he had been belittled, Krasue grabbed Bianca’s hand and walked away quietly.

Krasue couldn’t leave her here because it would attract more flies, so he would take her with him.

Then a thought came to Krasue’s mind.

“Bianca.”

“Yes?”

“Why didn’t you follow him, even though he came on the princess’s orders?”

Since he was a returner, he grasped the situation quickly.

Bianca was pretty smart for her age, but she was only twelve. Bianca didn’t know how Krasue and Anix were related.

So why didn’t she listen to the princess’s order?

“You told me to wait here.”

Krasue blinked. That meant that she put his words above the princess’s order.

Krasue looked for a moment at the expressionless Bianca, then raised his other hand and stroked her head.

“Well done.”

He praised her. Bianca’s head moved from side to side with Krasue’s caresses, perhaps because of its small size.

Krasue laughed and withdrew his hand.

His anger had faded a bit, so his mood improved.

Still, he had to make some things clear to Anix.

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