Matchmaking Baby Sister - Chapter 33

The sun is shining, the grass is sparkling.

It was a day with a cool breeze and wide trees providing warm shade.

‘Oh, great.’

I rubbed my lips with the back of my hand. If it were a child, I could drool, but my ego couldn’t stand the situation.

Of course, I don’t have to create a situation where I will drool in the first place.

‘When will I be able to see something like this!’

I looked ahead with my eyes twinkling. A cool breeze brushed past my bangs. And in front of me, men wearing only a thin shirt and wielding swords eagerly, one, two, three, four…

This was the dancing hall at the back of the Pen Orchid Palace. And the soldiers guarding the Pen Orchid Palace were training hard.

‘Even those men are training so hard to protect me.’

If they won’t watch this, I will! I looked at them with my eyes lit up.

The maid who pushed my stroller asked me shyly.

“Princess, would you like to stay and watch?”

“Uh!”

“Aren’t you bored?”

“Abu!”

What’s boring?

‘This is heaven.’

I looked forward with ecstatic eyes. Of all the men, the one who caught my attention was undoubtedly Alexander.

‘Alexander is in great shape.’

At first, Alexander looked after the training and gave various assignments, but now he was training by himself.

He could see muscles wriggling inside his sweat-drenched shirt.

“Hey.”

“Look at that.”

Behind me, the maids whispered. I laughed.

‘Oh my look at them.’

Seriously, if they wanted to see them training for a while, they wouldn’t have been able to see it because they had no excuses. But now, if they say that the princess likes it, wouldn’t they feel comfortable watching them?

‘This is a win-win situation.’

Thinking like that, I smiled. After some time, Lucinda, who had been to the main palace for a while, came back with a towel and water in her arms.

“Are you still here?”

“Mama!”

Lucinda’s return was also a reminder of the time. When Lucinda appeared, everyone put down their wooden swords and started tidying up.

“Today’s training is over!”

Alexander also approached me with a light step. Sweat dripped down his sharp nose. Lucinda handed the towel she was carrying to Alexander.

“Here is a towel.”

“Thank you.”

Normally, I didn’t know it because I only saw him smiling next to me, but his muscles were no joke.

‘Alexander, this is the first time I’ve seen you like this!’

His eyes, which I thought were just smiling, even looked quite terrifying. Lucinda asked, tilting her head. I wondered whether she was as astonished by Alexander’s unexpected appearance as I was.

“How often do you train?”

“I think it’s usually about 4 hours.”

“Then when are you going to bed?”

Most of the day was spent protecting me by my side, and if he had private training time, there was little time left. Alexander shrugged his shoulders and answered as if nothing had happened.

“I usually sleep for about four or five hours. In fact, once you reach that level, it’s okay to not sleep at all for a week.”

His schedule was surprising. I pursed my lips.

‘Alexander, you are a greater man than I thought!’

I blinked my eyes.

‘Am I worthy of being escorted by such a great person?’

I suddenly had a thought. I blinked my eyes slowly.

Then, my shoulders feel heavy.

‘I forgot that I’m the princess and have a heavier burden.’

That was what I thought when I pouted my lips. Lucinda gently pushed the stroller I was sitting in.

“Now, Princess, it’s time to study. Sir Alexander, see you later.”

“Yes.”

What does studying mean for a one-year-old? I contorted my face.

***

It was an unexpected person who greeted me in my palace.

“Hello, Princess. This is Baron Pietro, who will be in charge of the princess’s language education.”

“Abu!”

The man with soft green hair and green eyes smiled leisurely.

‘It’s that man!’

It was the man who carried me as I fell out the window during the ball.

How did we meet again like this?

“Abububu.”

In delight, I let out a babble and clasped my hands at Baron Pietro. Baron Pietro also smiled at me.

Lucinda grabbed her skirt and greeted him politely.

“Hello. I’m the Baroness, the nanny of the princess.”

“It is an honor to meet you.”

He was very polite to grab Lucinda’s slender hand and kiss the back of her hand. I covered my mouth with my palm.

‘OMG. Oh my God!’

Kissing the back of the hand, I thought I could only see it in movies!?

‘It’s so romantic.’

Baron Pietro had a very neat demeanor, and I snorted with excitement.

Lucinda, who hastily pulled her hand away from the unfamiliar kiss, asked with an awkward smile.

“Were you very surprised last time?”

“Sometimes I heard that the princess’s familiar plays a prank.”

It seems that he has already heard about Pupu. The fact that I sometimes fly in the sky was because of Pupu.

Baron Pietro said with a playful smile.

“I have to exercise from now on. To receive the flying princess.”

“I wish it never happened.”

Lucinda’s sigh was filled with tiredness. I promised myself this.

‘I’ll be careful going forward.’

After a greeting, Baron Pietro took out a large book and placed it on the table.

“First, I picked out a few books.”

“Ugh.”

Another book? Without realizing it, I made a disgusted sound as a habit. Baron Pietro’s  green eyes looked at me and subtly curved.

“……It looks like you’ve already read a lot of books, so let’s start with the block game, shall we?”

“Abu!”

I love this man!

Baron Pietro’s language class had already started at max level of my liking from the start.

***

The strange thing about coming to this world was that everyone in this world treated me like an adult.

“Princess, you need to take care of your image.”

“You need to be more quiet.”

“You can’t sit like that.”

‘That’s absurd.’

I pouted my lips. Lucinda was the only one who told me that I could be a child.

‘No, now there are two.’

Baron Pietro spread the mat wide on the floor and sat down next to me. Then, colored blocks were laid out.

“Shall we make the shape we want to make?”

The block was a little bigger than my fist. Baron Pietro showed an example of fitting the corners.

“This way, it fits and stays in place.”

“Oh oh.”

I grabbed the block. Is it because my body is a baby? From the moment I saw the colorful blocks, I started to feel excited.

‘It feels good to take a customized class for children after a long time.’

Hehehe.

When I was excited, my body shook spontaneously. I hum and play with the blocks. It wasn’t difficult at all to play with it.

‘Give me something like this earlier.’

They gave me something like a rag doll, I had a love-hate relationship with it. If I had given the block right away, I would have played so happily!

‘Should I make a word?’

Because I’m a possessor, I was able to use the Empire’s language as well as my native language.

Since the alphabet of the Empire seems to be simple, it was good to make it with blocks.

After that, letters were created automatically. I looked down at the block with a happy expression.

[I love to play!]

I hummed a song to myself with excitement and shook my hips. Then, suddenly, I felt uncomfortable.

‘Oh, right.’

I was one year old. Not only was I a baby who had never learned letters, but I couldn’t pronounce mom and dad properly.

But suddenly I made letters.

‘Won’t they look at me strangely?’

I slowly lifted my head and looked into Baron Pietro’s eyes. Baron Pietro looked at me and smiled, furrowing one eyebrow.

“Are you done? Shall we make something else now?”

‘……He doesn’t seem very strange.’

I tilted my head lightly. Then, suddenly, a thought occurred to me.

‘Well, the children of this world might start writing letters early.’

It was evident from the fact that Madame Fenrir read me a boring book that made me yawn just by looking at it.

‘Then let’s try a little more.’

I tried to recreate the letters with blocks. The thing I desperately need the most right now!

[Choco.]

‘When will Alexander give me chocolate?’

When I think of chocolate, my mouth is watering again. Sweet and bitter, soft like an angel’s breath, and sticky like a devil’s kiss.

The only drug the state allowed me was chocolate.

‘No! I haven’t even gotten permission yet.’

I want to grow up quickly. I want to talk well, but I want to eat chocolate!

“Wow.”

As I nodded at the thought of chocolate, Baron Pietro quickly offered another thing.

“Are you not having fun? So, shall we do this this time?”

‘What?’

What he held out was a wide, white piece of paper and a pencil with thick dots.

“It’s a dot-to-dot game.”

After hearing Baron Pietro’s explanation, I couldn’t help but laugh. Because it was so easy.

Instead of writing letters, you want me to draw a straight line?

“Dada.” (That’s easy.)

I grabbed a pencil. And I drew the lines. I kept missing the pencil due to lack of strength in my fingertips, but I still managed to draw a straight line.

‘After all, it’s me.’

Will they talk about my bizarre development?

‘I was famous for my bad handwriting in my last life.’

Still, shouldn’t this be enough? What do you wish for from a one-year-old?

“Papaw?” (Well done?)

I asked triumphantly, sticking out my chest. He looked at it and smiled.

Then he immediately spoke to Lucinda with a serious expression on his face.

“I would like to see Madame Fenrir. Of course, you must also listen to the story.”

“Bu?”

You’ve been playing well with me so far, so why did you suddenly change your expression?

I tilted my head and looked at Baron Pietro. Lucinda asked Baron Pietro in a trembling voice.

“Uh, what’s wrong?”

“No. Please call them all at once.”

“Yes!”

Lucinda, thinking that something was wrong, hurried out and called Madame Fenrir and Alexander.

I sucked my fingers with the rising anxiety.

‘What? What’s wrong?’

I don’t think it’s a problem because I write that I like playing the best, right? Do you want to say it is against the princess’s etiquette?!

At Baron Pietro’s summons, grown-ups with serious faces rushed into my room. It was a strange composition, where I was the only one sitting on the floor and the adults were standing.

“What’s going on?”

Madame Fenrir asked nervously. Baron Pietro answered with a hardened face.

“The princess seems to know how to write.”

“Yes?”

“How can a one-year-old know how to write?”

Everyone’s eyes turned to me for a moment. I was just drawing a line on the paper and stopped. In my hand was a pencil as long as my arm, and it was the hand that Baron Pietro was pointing to.

“But isn’t the hand holding the pencil stiff? The line is straight.”

At that, I was startled.

‘What, couldn’t we hold a pencil?!’

What do normal one-year-olds do when they hold a pencil? Not knowing at all, I just blinked. Without missing the moment, Baron Pietro pointed to one side.

“Most of all, this…….”

[I love to play!]

“It is the sentence that the princess made herself.”

It was none other than the block letters I made. Seeing this, Madame Fenrir trembled and said,

“No way, it can’t be.”

To those who looked at us in disbelief, Baron Pietro said with a very, very serious face.

“The princess must have been a genius.”

“Yes?”

“Abu?!”

At his words, I licked my lips. It was ridiculous.

‘No. You haven’t been surprised at all. You encouraged me to do more and just clapped your hands.’

But he suddenly said I’m a genius?

‘Is that a camouflage operation!!!’

If he hadn’t been so carefree, I wouldn’t have shown my abilities!

‘You cheated on me. You lied to me!’

Now it’s too late.