Matchmaking Baby Sister - Chapter 29

An adult spoke to a baby respectfully, so she wouldn’t be an ordinary baby.

Sika was wary again and asked carefully.

“Who are you?”

At his words and actions that were not like five years old, Alexander’s expression softened a little. However, Alexander answered with a friendly smile as usual.

“I am Alexander, Princess Amelia’s escort.”

“Princess Amelia?”

Sika’s eyes widened. He said the word princess that he heard so many times from his mother.

“Princess?”

“Abuu!”

He looked at Ariel to confirm it. The baby smiled broadly and waved her hand. It means that Ariel is really Princess Amelia.

“I, I…….”

Sika’s eyes fluttered in confusion.

Sika remembered clearly what his mother said while beating him.

“The princess has appeared! It’s all because of you!”

Madame Ricardo liked the fact that Tessa was single and had no heir yet, so she disliked the sudden appearance of the princess.

‘This child is that princess……?’

The likes and dislikes of our childhood often depend a lot on our parents.

It was the same for Sika.

Even if she was a bad parent and abandoned him, he had no choice but to follow his parents instinctively.

“You…….”

Sika got up without realizing it to get away from Amelia. Then he stumbled again. Lucinda grabbed him.

“Oh my, dear. Don’t wake up carelessly. You are very weak right now.”

“But…”

His mother told him to hate that child.

‘If my mother knew this, she would hate me very much.’

The hatred towards his mother and the desire to be loved by his mother were mixed up in the heart of the young boy.

Putting her hand on Sika’s shoulder, Lucinda said with a smile.

“You’re still a child. Take it easy on yourself.”

Realizing that Sika had calmed down again, Lucinda took her hand away from Sika.

“If you are dissatisfied, you can eat well and become healthy, so you don’t have to listen to me.”

“…….”

At Lucinda’s sweet but resolute words, Sika was at a loss for words to refute and quietly sat down. Alexander cried out to Amelia.

“Maybe the most powerful person is your aunt.”

“Uh.”

Amelia nodded. Seeing that, Sika frowned and looked at her.

Everything here is warm and sweet.

The whole place was full of strange things.

* * *

After saving Sika thanks to Pupu, I have a new problem.

‘Where should Sika live?’

It was because of Sika’s residence.

He can stay here if he was a little older, but he was still at an age in need of care.

‘The most ideal thing would be for his parents to change their minds and accept him again.’

Will Madame Ricardo change her mind? It wasn’t something I could guarantee.

‘It’s difficult, difficult.’

I sighed heavily. Now I was in Lucinda’s arms.

Lucinda lightly patted my diaper.

‘Oh, I’m going to sleep.’

When Lucinda patted my buttocks or back like this, I fell asleep.

‘I want to suck a finger.’

I’m still one year old. My body is still faithful to its instincts.

I buried my head in Lucinda’s arms and sucked my fingers. It was then that I heard something in my ear.

“Can I know more about Madame Ricardo?”

It was Lucinda’s voice.

Lucinda seemed to have the same thoughts as me about Sika. At Lucinda’s question, Alexander nodded.

“Well, there is no one in the capital who does not know about her.”

“Is she that famous?”

“Hmm.”

Alexander went outside and asked the maid to bring him any newspaper. This is the news on the front page of the newspaper that he brought with him not long after.

[Madame Ricardo, will her name change to Madame Joseph?]

“What…”

Lucinda was speechless and for a moment looked down at the newspaper blankly. I also looked at the newspaper while sucking my fingers.

‘A name change?’

For a moment, I couldn’t understand what it meant. But in a world where names change after their husbands surname, changing names meant only one thing.

‘Is he going to get married again?’

I gasped in shock.

Lucinda, who had come to the same conclusion as me, asked Alexander with an absurd tone.

“Hasn’t it been a few days since she left the Imperial Palace?”

It was a shock to Lucinda, but Alexander shrugged his shoulders calmly.

“She is a very popular person.”

“How come?”

“She’s beautiful, and the way she speaks is sophisticated.”

Alexander listed it one by one. Then he replied with a bitter smile.

“More than anything else, the fact that she was the emperor’s woman is attractive.”

“Huh?”

At Alexander’s words, Lucinda’s eyes widened. Alexander smiled.

“I’m not the type of person who is attracted to such things, so if you ask me, you won’t get the answer you want. However, she is also popular in the social world.”

“It’s absurd.”

Lucinda frowned. Then she looked at the kid and murmured.

“… … So what about that kid?”

That kid is of course Sika.

Sika must have been very tired, so he ate and fell asleep in bed again. I held Lucinda’s arms and looked at the beautiful chocolate-colored hair poking out of the soft duvet.

‘Sika.’

I couldn’t imagine what kind of heartache that little child must have experienced.

Alexander explained the situation.

“Lord Joseph is an old man, but he has an heir, so he won’t put much pressure on Sika.  Rather, it can be safer as more eyes are watching the child.”

“But the abuse… … .”

Lucinda frowned at Alexander’s words. I couldn’t help but also frown. Because our concern isn’t just about that.

‘If they don’t kill him, he may be severely abused.’

It seems that she had decided to abandon her son with remarriage in mind, but if his son reappeared in the house where she remarried, she was more likely to hate him.

‘I’m not afraid he’ll die. But he might be in a situation that is worse than death.’

In fact, it was difficult for me to conclude that this was never going to happen, having witnessed the scars on Sika’s face and body.

And it was the same with Alexander. Alexander shrugged.

“I can’t say for sure about that part. If his mother is abusive, Lord Joseph will probably leave him unattended. After all, he is not his child.”

“Then…”

Lucinda opened her mouth to refute, but eventually lowered her head with a sad face.

“He’s too pitiful.”

“……”

His mother refused to raise him, and even tried to kill him, but it was horrifying that she was the only place for him to return to.

‘Can’t we just raise him in the Imperial Palace? He can learn to work from a young age.’

Lucinda, who had thought the same as me, cautiously asked Alexander.

“He can’t be left in the Imperial Palace, right?”

“His Majesty won’t like it.”

Alexander’s answer was clear this time as well. To Lucinda, whose eyes widened as if in shock, Alexander explained the reason one by one in a pleasant voice.

“As soon as His Majesty the Emperor Lloyd passed away, Madame Ricardo made a commotion that the child was His Majesty’s son.”

“Huh?”

‘What?’

Not only Lucinda, but I also widened my eyes in surprise.

‘Of course I’ve never seen Lloyd.’

I glanced back at Sika again. Lloyd’s appearance was easy to be imagined. Because there have been several reports of him resembling Tessa

‘But they don’t really look alike, right?’

Sika didn’t have the slightest resemblance to Tessa.

Alexander smiled bitterly as Lucinda bit her lips at the story.

“When he’s a baby, it’s hard to see his features. And the baby didn’t have any hair. She could argue that it was black.”

“I see…”

The situation must be her only chance.

The emperor died, and there was no heir at that time, so he took a chance.

‘She’s cunning.’

But it seems that Tessa did not succumb to such lies.

This time, I’ll praise Tessa’s tenacious character.

Lucinda replied with sad eyes.

“That child must have suffered a lot.”

“Hmm.”

I was moved by Lucinda’s angelic heart, who cared for Sika even in this situation.

Alexander kept his mouth shut for a moment, and then smiled a little.

“You are special.”

“What?”

He lowered his head and moved it close to Lucinda. Then he whispered.

“You always put yourself in other’s shoes and see things their way.”

“Huh?”

Alexander’s voice was somehow strange.

It was unlike his usual voice.

‘Alexander, why are you like this all of a sudden?’

Did Lucinda’s concern for Sika hit a switch somewhere in his mind? But soon Alexander replied with a bright smile as usual.

“It means you’re a good person.”

“……Oh, thank you.”

Lucinda answered in a bewildered tone. I blinked my eyes.

‘He’s being weird…’

Was he able to make a voice like that?

I looked at Alexander with slightly curious eyes. Alexander rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, then said with a smile.

“Actually, there is a way.”

“What?”

“He can be supported by our family.”

“The Raphael family?”

Lucinda’s eyes widened at the unexpected words. Alexander explained in a friendly tone, as if teaching a child.

“Every year, we train countless knights. Among them, there are children who come in at a young age to be trained.”

‘It’s not bad.’

The Raphael family is one of the most prestigious families in this empire. Not only can they guarantee his future, but the family itself is also the safest fortress in the world.

Alexander calmly explained Sika’s situation.

“He can no longer use Ricardo’s surname, since his mother made this child dead. Wouldn’t being a knight be the best option?”

It was cold, but it was true.

* * *

‘She’s such a strange woman.’

Alexander looked at Lucinda’s back, while she was holding Princess Amelia outside.

‘She looked so frail.’

Lucinda’s overall body was smaller than that of women her age.

Her body was about half of Alexander’s body , and it seemed like she would break if he held her wrists and ankles tight.

‘But she said something quite interesting.’

She’s a woman who grew up in poor conditions, but she always thought of other people as if her sympathy was like a never-ending fountain.

‘Is that part of her personality?’

Well, the boy was very lucky.

Alexander asked Sika, who was pretending to be sleeping on the bed.

“Did you hear me?”

“……Yes.”

Sika, who had been pretending to be asleep, got up just then. Only his red eyes were clear on the face that had traces of tears.

Those were pretty sharp eyes. Alexander shrugged.

“The choice is yours. What do you want to do?”

“If I follow you, can I become a knight?”

“That would be up to you, but I can teach you.”

For an orphan boy with no connection, that alone was a great privilege.

From Alexander’s point of view, he simply wanted to erase his debt to Princess Amelia and Lucinda.

‘It’s a good opportunity.’

However, Sika, who only knew how to nod his head, asked a strange question.

“Can I meet Ariel?”

“Do you need an explanation of how much effort an orphan must put in to meet the princess?”

Alexander frowned. A young orphan boy strives to become a great knight and meets a princess?

It is truly a story that comes out of a romance book.

“It would still be the best way.”

Nevertheless, the possibility was not zero. In fact, it was also the path with the highest potential among the paths open to boys.

Sika, a young but clever boy, understood immediately. Sika wiped his tears with the back of his hand and nodded.

“I will follow you.”

At this moment, only one wish was in Sika’s heart.

‘I want to protect Ariel.’

That was the only way he could repay the child.