I Found a Husband When I Picked up the Male Lead - Chapter 5

“Look at these dark hair and red eyes! It must be the child the Duke is looking for! “

A man with brown hair, looking like a weasel, pushed forward the child standing next to him, showing him proudly.

He inflated his chest as if he was confident and did not forget to put on firm expression.

“That’s right, black hair and red eyes. It definitely matches the kid I’m looking for.”

The spacious parlor was splendidly adorned with expensive ornaments. It might have been decorated like this to intimidate the coming visitors and showcase the magnificence of the duke.

In the living room, there was a man elegantly sitting cross-legged on a luxury leather sofa under a large chandelier.

Duke Chester Halos, the current Duke of Halos, who inherited the title of Duke after Iorn Halos died.

He was wearing a cravat around his neck. In the middle of cravat was a green emerald, like a lush forest, surrounded by a frame made of gold, all real, and is currently the most popular designer made jewelry. It was the one and only jewel of that kind in the world that was made to exist, which would cost a few months of labor for ordinary aristocrats.

“It is the child the Duke is looking for! “

The man glanced at the jewel on the Duke’s cravat. The greedy eyes flashed wondering as to whether the precious stone worn by the noble figure is real.

“I’m glad you came. “

“…Is that so?”

Duke Chester glanced at the boy standing up, crouching. The sharp red eyes glanced past the child. Obviously, as written on the leaflet, he was a boy with dark hair, red eyes, and a small body.

However, somehow, the grayish black hair and the red eyes as dim as the eyes of a dead fish to him look artificial.

However, it is not yet possible to quickly decide. That kid might have been a real Raphelion. Chester has never seen his nephew. The leaflet with the image of a child was from what he always heard of through his brother’s words. The appearance of a child who is said that his brother’s eyes and hair were the same as him.

“Where did you find the child?”

After observing the kid, Chester stared at a man who couldn’t take his eyes off his jewelry.

“Ah, yes! I found him at the western nursery and brought him. Three months ago, someone brought a child who wandered on the street and took care of him.”

The man who was gazing at the jewelry gulped and replied quickly. He began to get excited by the attitude of the duke, who showed interest in the child, thinking that the Duke believed him, and he would take the child soon.

The greedy man had the idea of ​​running to the gambling board immediately when he received the 100 shillings, ignoring the threats he kept getting from his pursuers.

The Duke, who was watching all this with his sharp eyes, gestured to Lohan, who was standing behind him.

“Yes, Master?”

“Are you going to let the Raphelion stand still?”

At the words of the Duke, a man like a weasel smiled widely.

It was obvious that the Duke believed me and accepted the child as Raphelion. Finally, I can get my hands on 100 million shillings!

“Sorry, Master Raphelion, does your legs hurt already? Would you like to sit here?”

Lohan pulled a little velvet sofa and said to the child. The child hesitated and grabbed the man’s pants, afraid of the unexpected favor and attention he was given.

“Ah, father……..ouch!”

“Raphelion must have been very nervous!”

The man shouted, pinching the child’s arm in a hurry.

If I had not cut off the child’s words, everything would have been in vain. No one should know that this kid is my son. 

It took 10,000 shillings to change the color of his hair and eyes by feeding his son an intermediate magic potion that he obtained while struggling with debt.

The money was the living expenses of three families a month.

“Lapel, there’s nothing to be nervous about, I’m your uncle.” Chester, catching the man pinching the child, made eye contact with the boy with a subtle smile as if he did not see it.

“That… that……”

The child staggered at the smile of a stranger and looked up at my father,

Then the face of his father, who seemed to be angry at once, was formed in the blurry enemy.

“Hahaha. I think the child became shy due to living in an unfamiliar place, and meeting a lot of strangers. ”

The man glanced at the child with a threatening expression on his face. Go ahead to that sofa and sit down. 

“Yes…….”

Eventually, the child took a small step from his father’s coercion. Walking the distance of more than a meter, and the child looked at his father countless times in fear.

But the father only refused the child with a determined expression. The child sat on a chair with a face that seemed to burst into tears at any moment.

“Lapel. It’s okay.”

Chester patted the little boy on the shoulder. Lohan left the parlor for a while saying he will bring something to drink.

“That, then the money……. ”

The man glared at him and opened his speech to the Duke Chester. I wanted to get paid a little sooner and escape this place.

When I bought the magic potion, I was told that I would never get caught unless I took the antidote, but I couldn’t help but worry about getting caught.

“Oh, yes. I’ll give you a reward.”

Tak.

The noble flicked his finger and opened the door of the parlor and two big men came in carrying a big chest. Before long, Lohan also came into the parlor with a drink that children often like.

“It would be better to be accurate, please confirm your award. “

The men put the chest they brought down in front of the man. A heavy sound rang in the parlor denoting how heavy the chest is.

“Oh, no! The duke would never cheat, so I’ll just take it with me.”

Even with the man’s dissuasion, the men opened the lid of the chest. Tens of thousands of gold coins were glittered..

“You must be thirsty Master. Please drink this. “

Lohan gave the glass he brought to the child. Chester stared at the boy as he sipped the drink immediately, enjoying the orange taste of the drink.

“This, this is really 100 million shillings …….”

The man touched the shilling inside the box with his trembling hand.

Chester clicked his tongue and stood up, seeing the man distracted by the money. He strides greatly with his long legs and stops in front of the man at once.

The face of Chester looked down at the man who smelled the money while drooling.

“The child’s father is you. “

“Yes, yes it is. ……yes?!”

The man responded thoughtlessly to the low voice and raised his head in surprise.

“What do you mean, am I, oh, his father?” … This, no way. ”

Lohan appeared in front of the man holding a child sitting on this couch. At that moment, the man’s eyes grew bigger and bigger.

“Brown eyes and brown hair just like you. “

The child sipping a drink in Lohan’s arms was smiling at the delicious drink he had tasted for the first time in his life. The child’s dark hair and red eyes soon turned brown.

“Spare me Duke!”

I’m doomed. Everything was caught.

The man quickly knelt in front of Duke Chester and lowered himself. Lohan walked out of the parlor with the child at Chester’s glance.

“Did you think were the only one who used this shallow trick?”

His eyes glaring so coldly looked at the man.

“Please, please, have mercy on me……. “

As the man grasped Chester’s hem with his trembling hand, his knife-shaped pants were wrinkled in the man’s hand.

At the moment, Chester’s eyebrows furrowed. He relentlessly kicked the man’s hand with his foot.

“Take care of him. ”

It was a cold order without a hint of mercy. Like a sharply forged blade, the light of his eyes was bloody as if passing through the man’s heart.

At the instruction of the duke, the two large men grabbed the man’s arms and dragged him away.

“Duke! Please! Please! Please save me! ”

A screaming voice rang in the spacious living room, but there was no mercy.

After the man was dragged out, Chester, who was left alone in the parlor, buried himself on the sofa again. He stretched out his long legs and put it on the table.

He pressed the crinkle forming in the middle of his brows.

(TN: Did you know it’s called glabella? Hehe. Anyway, this is originally translated by manhualyle in wattpad)

“Bastards,” he said darkly, like a warning of a beast.

It was already the eleventh time he had faced such a scam since he started looking for Raphelion. Iorn hid the woman he loved and Raphelion tightly.

Because his father, the former duke, Louis Peter, tried to kill them.

It was the logic that a woman from commoner origins will not be welcomed as a partner and duchess of his son, and a child who inherited that blood could not be the successor of the duke, so he had to cut it from the beginning.

So, even Chester didn’t know Raphelion’s face.

However, somehow, this fact leaked out. No one in the Dukedom has seen the boy in person, so nobody knows what he looks like.

Since then, people who are blind to the rewards have come to the duke. Insisting that a child that was brought from a nursery school or an orphan wandering on the street, or his own child is Raphelion like today. Making use of a magic potion, changing hair and eyes together.

“For money that he won’t even use for his own family and he’s selling his own son.”

Predicting this situation, Chester fed the children with the antidote he had prepared, and soon the original hair and eye color returned.

The scapegoats were always children in the fraudulent behavior of those blinded by greed, and these young children who did not know anything were forced by the hands of selfish adults.

My head hurts so bad. Chester swept his head roughly and deeply sighed.

When Chester responded to the incoming knock, Lohan stood in front of him.

“Master.”

“The child?”

“Fortunately, his mother came crying looking for him, so I sent him back.”

“Okay.”

Chester rubbed his face and lowered his weary eyelids. Raphelion, who he was looking for day and night, was still in the dark.

Even though I was looking everywhere like this, I couldn’t even know he is still alive or not. Chester became increasingly anxious.

Please, you must be alive. 

“Get out. “

“Yes.”

After Lohan went out, the reception room was swept in silence.

Chester was exhausted. And he was disillusioned with those who tried to deceive him because of being crazy about money.

If there is someone who tries to get money again and engages in such a scam, I will never let him go. 1

A red glow from the setting sun shone behind Chester, who has a reputation for being cold-blooded in the social world.