Matchmaking Baby Sister - Chapter 37

Chapter 37

I’m very angry right now.

‘Tessa Illuminas, you’re so stubborn!’

I pouted. Lucinda smiled awkwardly and sat next to me, comforting me.

“My Ariel, are you mad? You’re hungry? Shall we drink hot milk? Or would you like to eat?”

“Sigh!”

Auntie knows what kind of child I am! How could I be annoyed by being hungry?

‘I’m mad now! It’s because of my uncle!’

It was a day after Tessa and Alexander made a dramatic reconciliation because I cried.

Tessa said to me until the end.

“No.”

‘Why?! Besides, you are the emperor! You can do anything!!’

Tessa was very adamant.

‘He hated the Ricardo family so much that he wanted to drive them out of the capital! Then you’re telling me to let Sika go like this? How can such a young child live away from the capital?’

Thinking that way, I was so upset that I stomped.

As I was kicking the soft floor with my small feet, Lucinda cautiously approached me.

“Ariel.”

I looked at Lucinda with a sad face. Lucinda looked at me with caring eyes and said.

“His Majesty must have been thinking of you. Why don’t you try to understand His Majesty’s feelings?”

“Mama!!”

How could my aunt even say that?!

‘When did they become so close?’

Lucinda, who I thought would take my side and offer to help Sika, said this, and I became more angry. I said, waving my little palm.

“Mama, Papa no pway.”

“What? You don’t want to play with him?”

“Uh! No pway! Pap, bad.”

“Ariel… … .”

I meant it sincerely, but Lucinda chuckled and laughed.

Then she said, stroking my hair gently.

“I’m sure he’ll listen to you if Ariel is sincere. Don’t be angry, let’s talk to His Majesty. His Majesty really loves you.”

“No!”

“Ariel.”

He’s the one who told me to kill a child like Sika! He’s the one who said that even if Sika is a good child, I should let him go.

‘It’s because my aunt doesn’t really know.’

Knowing how cruel Tessa could be, killing Sika was no joke at all. I pouted my lips. It was then.

Knock, knock.

“Princess, it’s class time.”

The door slowly opened with a knock, and a man with green hair entered. Lucinda quickly got up from her seat and bowed her head to greet him.

“Hello, Baron Pietro.”

“Hello, Baroness. You are beautiful today.”

Baron Pietro smiled and kissed the back of Lucinda’s hand. Then he asked with a worried expression.

“Are you okay?”

“Huh?”

Lucinda opened her eyes wide as if she did not understand him and looked at Baron Pietro. Baron Pietro answered, scratching his cheek with his index finger.

“No, I think we broke up in a very bad atmosphere yesterday.”

They were talking about me being a genius, and in the middle, Alexander said he had something to tell me, so they sent this man out. At that time, it seems that he had already predicted that it was not going to be very good.

‘He’s quick. Uncle score plus 2 points.’

I watched the situation calmly (?) and continued to evaluate my uncle without hesitation. However, at Lucinda’s subsequent words, I opened her mouth.

“It’s okay. His Majesty is a gentle man.”

“Ah.”

The bashful smile on his face wasn’t fake, it was sincere. Baron Pietro, as well as me, couldn’t control our facial expressions and became stunned.

There is someone in this world who looks at Tessa Illuminas and says that he’s gentle! That’s my aunt!

‘No, really, when did you get such an image? Did you two even meet without me knowing?’

Lucinda leaves my side only for a few hours as she learns etiquette. Other than that, you couldn’t meet Tessa because you’re always with me?

‘No way… … Did the two of you develop a crush like the original?’

The moment I imagined it, I got goosebumps. I crumpled my face. If I could, I just wanted to tell you this.

‘Aunt! As for my uncle, I’ll find it for you, so please stay away from him!’

Following the uncle candidate, we must also quickly find a mother candidate for him. I took a cautious look at my increasingly busy matchmaking plans.

Seeing me like that, Baron Pietro laughed.

“The princess is making a funny expression today.”

I shrugged my shoulders and sat back.

“Bad.”

“Yes?”

“You bad”

How dare you deceive me with lies.

I still get goosebumps when I remember that the palace was turned upside down because of that man calling me a genius.

‘If he was a little surprised, I wouldn’t have been playing around making letters like that.’

Of course, it’s also my fault that I was preoccupied with the block I saw for the first time! I was so excited about the new toy.

‘Still, if he had been surprised, I wouldn’t have shown that I knew the letters!’

How can you make such a big mess in my normal baby life? Since I was found not only to understand their words, but also to read the letters, the reaction of Madame Fenrir was obvious.

“I think we can start the education schedule for the princess, so I’ll have to plan it out in earnest.”

‘No! I mean, I don’t want to do anything. Even now, I’m not doing anything, but I want to do nothing even more intensely!’

As I turned my back and pouted my lips, I heard a funny voice behind my back.

“You won’t even look at me now, baby princess?”

“Huh?”

It was a funny voice, as if it wasn’t Baron Pietro’s voice. Curious, I turned around to see Baron Pietro holding a hand puppet in his hand and making a funny voice.

“I was going to show you a fun puppet show today… … .”

“Uh!”

The moment I saw the giraffe-shaped hand puppet, my eyes twinkled.

Baron Pietro watched my reaction secretly and then lowered his eyes.

“If you don’t like me, I have no choice but to leave… … .”

“No!”

Ah, my instinct.

My mind may be an adult, but my body is a child. Or have I been bored for so long?

In the end, I succumbed to the hand puppet. Happy, I looked only at Baron Pietro’s hand. Lucinda smiled and bent her knees.

“Then I will start now.”

While I was receiving Baron Pietro’s education, it seemed that Lucinda was also going to study on her own. Baron Pietro tilted his head slightly.

“But why isn’t he here today?”

“Sir Alexander is put on probation.”

One of the reasons I was angry with Tessa was Alexander’s probation.

Of course,  if he dared to confront the emperor, he’ll be punished for being in prison for a month, but…

‘Still, Alexander was trying to take my side.’

Alexander was so angry at Tessa’s order to kill Sika, regardless of my heart.

‘I want to see Alexander. I also want to say thank you.’

Without Alexander, I couldn’t even go for a walk. I put on a sad expression.

***

Baron Pietro’s class was fun today. Unlike Madame Fenrir, he told many interesting stories.

“Once upon a time, there lived a person named Jack, who gave a cow to a farmer he met on the road and got a small bean.”

I heard it and thought it was Jack and the Beanstalk story.

“So Jack got angry and buried the farmer on the ground.”

There was also a story about justice.

“Once upon a time, there was the most beautiful princess in the world.”

I heard it at the beginning and thought it was a common princess story.

“She defeated a careless dragon with a frying pan.”

But it turned out to be a nonsensical story.

Hearing so many stories like that, I laughed a lot, and I grew tired. Around that time, Lucinda returned again.

“You worked hard, Baron. I wish you all the best next week.”

“IYes. It is an honor to be able to teach a brilliant princess. I will see you next week.”

I sighed and waved to Baron Pietro as he left.

‘I’m tired of studying too.’

He said it all, and I just listened, so why is it so tiring?

‘I’m sleepy.’

Now I just wanted to take a nap. As I yawned, Lucinda hugged me.

“Ariel, let’s eat lunch outside today. The wind is very warm.”

“Bu~.”

Going out is always welcome. Most of the time I spent is in my room anyway.

‘Can we go out without Alexander?’

After Alexander’s probation, of course, a new escort was attached to me. But maybe because he couldn’t trust him, he told me to avoid going out as much as possible.

‘Well, I’m fine.’

Does it make sense that Alexander is in probation for a full month or that I am not allowed to go out? I was excited and put myself in Lucinda’s arms.

‘The wind is nice.’

A warm breeze blew softly when I came out in Lucinda’s arms. I squinted my eyes and enjoyed the wind.

Just as I was entering the garden, I saw a black head between the roses in full bloom.

“Huh?”

What, this fel ominous. There’s only one person here with black hair.

‘No way?’

I narrowed my eyes. It’s only been a day since the uproar, did you come here to see me? No way.

No way!

“Papa?!”

Why aren’t my bad predictions wrong? Sitting at the set up table was none other than Tessa.

I asked, pulling Lucinda’s sleeve.

“Mama? Papa Pu?” (Why is my uncle here?)

“Ariel.”

Lucinda smiled awkwardly.

“His Majesty wants to talk to you.”

“Mama?!”

No, Lucinda, how could you!

I opened my mouth and struggled to communicate my thoughts to Lucinda, but Lucinda, with an unusually determined attitude, sat me in the baby chair opposite Tessa.

‘Ah, it’s awkward.’

With this seating arrangement, I have no choice but to see him face to face. Besides, the baby chair is impossible to escape!

“… … What is this?”

Perhaps Tessa was also awkward, he was frowning. As Tessa and I turned away from each other, Lucinda called out to Tessa in a friendly voice.

“Your Majesty.”

“… … .”

Tessa frowned and looked at Lucinda. Lucinda replied with a bashful smile.

“As Your Majesty said, Ariel will not be able to remember things well when she was young. So don’t take it to heart.”

“Ah.”

Tessa and I were so awkward. But without Lucinda noticing, she bowed her head.

“Then I will leave.”

Where are you going! Why are you leaving me?

When I was trembling as I watched Lucinda leave me alone in this awkward place, I heard a sigh and Tessa called me.

“… … Ariel.”

I turned to Tessa with a stiff face. Tessa said, brushing my dark hair.

“I took over Sika Ricardo’s case. I will send him to the North.”

“Papa!”

What are you going to do by sending that little boy to the North?! When I called for Tessa in shock, Tessa added more kindly.

“I will have a trustworthy guardian attached to him, so don’t worry. Rather, it would be much better than being used by Raphael. And I… … .”

Tessa’s face contorted in pain. No matter how hard he tried not to show, it was visible.

“… … Similarly, I was almost taken advantage of by Raphael. So, for a moment, I couldn’t control my emotions. I’m sorry.”

At those words, I widened my eyes. Tessa spoke and turned his head to avoid my eyes. He was still stubborn.

“Papa.”

I called him. And his green eyes gently turned towards me.

At that moment, the feeling hit me. I asked involuntarily.

“Papa, Ariel like?”

The emotions that I wasn’t sure about all this time rushed into me right now, at this moment.

‘Tessa is very fond of me.’

To the extent that he intervenes in matters related to me.

But Tessa answered in a bitter voice.

“……I don’t know. I never liked anyone.”