Matchmaking Baby Sister - Chapter 40

“Hurry up and return it!”

I feared that I might suddenly become the owner of the duchy, so I said to Tessa. Then Tessa tilted his head.

“Return it?”

“Yeah!”

“To whom?”

“Oh, that’s… … .”

When I answered, I was also confused.

‘Why would ownership of the country be discussed here? It’s because the ownership fell to the Empire.’

I also want to talk about the one who conquer it. A person who has not been seen in the Empire for a while and has just returned home.

‘General Raphael.’

As for why he participated in the war, I had no idea. It seems that it was a war on a large scale that took away a country!

‘But why are you giving it to me!’

I cried.

‘It was taken with a lot of hard work, but if you say this is for me, of course it’s not going to happen.’

How could it be like that?

‘Or he can give it to the person who stole it… General Raphael.’

There was no way Tessa, who was at odds with General Raphael, could give it to him.

‘What to fo?’

When I stared at Tessa anxiously, Tessa looked at me and shrugged.

“At that age you can have one or two territories. There is no need to be burdened.”

“What…?”

“Isn’t my name 14 words long? They are all names of territories that I own. You too can’t just remain as an ‘Amelia’.”

“Is that so?”

I thought it was a crazy idea to show off their territory, but it seems like that’s the case.

‘Well, if we look at romance fantasy novels, the main character doesn’t have only one territory. Sometimes they’re called the loser of the East, or the leader of the North.’

When I heard it, it was also plausible. I nodded.

“Then I’ll just take it.”

“Yes. It has already been taken care of, so you just need to take the paper with you.”

“Yes?”

What is up with this speed?

In a blink of an eye, he gave me back the paper.

‘It feels like something is wrong.’

He was strangely reluctant, it was a strange feeling and I didn’t know what the problem was. As I stood blankly, Tessa looked at me with a blank expression.

“Do you have anything else to say?”

“Oh, no.”

Then, what did I come here for? I tilted my head. I thought I could get the answer if I thought about it a little more, but Tessa cut my thoughts right away.

“Then rest.”

“Yes. Uncle, finish work quickly and rest.”

I finally answered stupidly and left the Emperor’s office with the paper.

The aides and Alexander, who seemed strangely nervous, gathered in a circle and stared at me. Alexander asked with an awkward smile.

“……Are you done?”

“Yes. But why are you so nervous? Do you think I’m a dog?”

“The princess is not a dog! Maybe a cute puppy.”

“That’s what I think too.”

Why are they so nervous? I narrowed my eyes.

Alexander asked awkwardly.

“But what about that paper?”

“This?”

I held the paper and tilted my head.

“Uncle tell me it’s time for me to add one more name to me.”

“A name?”

“Yes. I’m a princess too, but how could I only have Amelia as a name? So he wants me to become Amelia Alchisus Illuminas.”

I, who was not yet familiar with this world’s naming tradition, muttered in a shaky voice. Then, Alexander clapped his hands.

“……Such a plausible lie.”

“What?”

“U said that the name is pretty!”

When I was about to ask what Alexander was muttering, my uncle’s aide interrupted our conversation. Then the other aide nodded their heads.

“You are very pretty, Princess. I think the name fit well.”

“Actually, what names would not suit the princess?”

“The Territory of Alcysus is the crystal producing area that the princess said beautiful the last time.”

“The white and fine sandy beach is also great!”

The aides poured out praises, and as they ran out of words, they told me what they knew about the Territory of Alcysus. Hearing that, I frowned.

“Crystal? Beach…?”

All of these were stories I had heard sometime in the not-too-distant past. Oh, maybe in a literature class with Baron Pietro!

“Wow, look at this picture. Where is it? How cool is this?”

That’s right. Then, we talked about the beach. I also said I wanted to visit once.

When I finished the lesson, Baron Pietro gave me a pen studded with crystals as a gift.

“Wow, I’ve never seen such a brilliant pink crystal. Thank you, I will cherish it.”

Although I received many gifts from my uncle and aunt, I seemed to have reacted even more happily because it was the first time for Baron Pietro. It’s not because the crystal is prettier.

‘But why is the story here?’

Isn’t it too much to be called a coincidence?

‘And out of many countries, do they really want to take over a country where there are things that I said are pretty and give it to me?’

I looked at those who were staring at me with eager eyes. My eyes narrowed spontaneously.

“No way…?”

“What, what?”

Alexander stiffened again and answered awkwardly. That was an affirmative answer. I had no choice but to go back into the office screaming loudly.

“Uncle! Talk to me again!!”

It’s not enough to show off the country but he’s even trying to change it to my name? Uncle, let’s talk seriously!

***

Talking seriously with my uncle didn’t change anything. I pouted my lips and grunted.

“Anyway, my uncle is too much. Don’t listen to that dictator.”

My aunt smiled as she filled the teacup in front of me.

“Did anything upset you today?”

“Listen to me, aunt.”

I looked at the woman standing in front of me, with long, shiny golden hair.

Baroness Lucinda. It was my aunt.

‘She’s too pretty.’

Lucinda’s face, which used to be pitiful from poverty and hard work, was now like a rose in full bloom after she had been living in the imperial palace.

Cheeks dyed in pink, large, brilliant dark brown eyes shaded by golden eyelashes, and a gentle smile.

‘My aunt is only getting prettier every day.’

Back to the topic, why is my uncle doing this? I pouted my lips.

“He’s too much. What will everyone say when they see me and my uncle?”

“I would say you have a good relationship as uncle and niece.”

“My aunt is so positive.”

“You must be worrying too much, Ariel.”

Lucinda started tying my hair, which had been messed up on my way to and from the Imperial Palace. A slender finger moved gently through my hair.

‘I’m really worried about this.’

To be honest, I was aware that my position was vague.

With Tessa’s full support, sarcastic comments such as calling me a child out of wedlock and illegitimate children all disappeared.

‘Tessa is my uncle, not my father. I am not a child, but a niece.’

No matter how much Tessa loved me, it was only natural that his children would take precedence over me. Because it was the lineage of the imperial family.

But after giving me something like this over and over again, I’m worried about what I’m going to do in the future.

‘I have no desire to become an emperor.’

People around me seemed to be expecting me to become the next emperor, but I could say no to that.

‘I have become a gold spoon where I can play until I die, so why do I have to work?’

The scariest thing about being born as a princess is to spend the rest of your life with someone you don’t even want through an arranged marriage, but seeing Uncle Tessa, it didn’t seem like he would hand me over to such a place.

‘Therefore, I just hate being in the spotlight! I just want to spend time with my aunt peacefully.’

As I thought about it, a conclusion flashed into my mind.

‘It’s all because my uncle didn’t get married.’

The fact that people predict my potential as an emperor, and that many things keep pouring into me.

‘It’s because I’m his only family!’

I suddenly jumped out of my seat. Lucinda, who was tidying my hair, was startled and screamed a little.

“Ariel!”

“Aunt!”

“Yes?”

As I called my aunt more forcefully, Lucinda hardened with a shaky expression on her face. I clenched my fists and said.

“Let’s go to the Imperial Palace!”

“What?”

“Come to think of it, there’s something I couldn’t tell my uncle!”

Earlier, I was so startled and angry, but now that I look at it, a better word came to mind.

‘Yes. If that’s the case, my uncle won’t be able to back down any more.’

I clenched my fists.

***

So today, like never before, I stepped on the door of the Emperor’s office twice. The aides who were preparing to finish the day’s work were surprised to see me again.

“Oh, Princess. And Baroness too?”

“I’m here again because I have something I forgot to tell His Majesty before.”

When I said that, the aide replied with a perplexed smile.

“The document that has already been stamped with the princess’s seal cannot be returned.”

“No, not that!”

If you say so then give me my seal. You can’t do that after using it recklessly!

For reference, my seal is kept in the same place as the Imperial Seal.

“Is His Majesty very busy?”

“Yes, His Majesty is always… Ouch!”

“No. All important events are over, and now we are about to take a break.”

Another aide slapped him in the side who was about to answer. Then he answered me with a pained smile.

‘How suspicious.’

Seeing that there is something wrong between the two of them, it seems that one of them is lying!?

‘But I have to see Tessa now!’

“I see! Then I’ll go in!”

I hurriedly knocked on the door of Tessa’s office, with no time for the aides to grab it.

“Uncle!”

“……Ariel?”

Tessa, who was looking at the office door with scary eyes, realized that it was me who came in, and softened his expression. Lucinda, who came in after me, gently grabbed the hem of her skirt and greeted him.

“I greet you, Your Majesty.”

Tessa went straight to the point without showing any signs of being happy.

“What’s going on?”

“I came here because my uncle finished his work today. I have something I want to say to you.”

“I finished my work?”

At my words, Tessa’s gaze turned to the open door behind me. Tessa muttered, still staring at me.

“……Yes. Shall we go to the garden?”

For some reason, Tessa, who had the element of fire, felt like his temperature was dropping below zero. I waved my hands.

“Okay, uncle. I like anything.”

“Then have refreshments.”

“I don’t like that because I’m full. Sit down here, uncle.”

“…….”

Tessa looked at me with a slightly strange expression .

I casually sat down on the sofa in the center of Tessa’s office. Tessa sighed and sat across from me.

“What’s going on?”

First of all, I nodded my head. Whatever the case, I was rude earlier.

“I’m sorry. My uncle just wanted to give me what I wanted.”

Tessa pursed his lips at my words, then gently turned his head in the other direction.

“It’s not like that.”

What’s not like what? …This man.

Even after a few years, I didn’t get used to this awkward way to show affection.

‘Okay, now’s the time.’

I clenched my fists, my eyes twinkled, and my lips opened.

“But there is something else I really want, uncle.”

“… … What?”

He also pretends not to be interested, but expresses his interest in my words like a fish caught on a fishing rod. I shouted out loud.

“Please get married and have a child!”

How about that, uncle! Can you grant this niece’s wish?!