Chapter 76
“Huh?”
“I’m going to the hunting festival banquet.”
“Are you really planning to come?”
Due to having invited out of courtesy but not expecting her to really come, the genuinely flustered Edenberg stammered.
“Yeah. I changed my mind.”
“You don’t need to force yourself to come. You don’t have to come if you don’t want to.”
“No. Asil is definitely going. Promise.”
It’s natural to want to go more if told not to come.
Asil made a pinky promise with him. She also rubbed palms and stamped it firmly.
But unfortunately, Asil’s plan was not smooth at all.
* * *
“That damned wench!”
Bang!
The Crown Prince, furious to the core, slammed the desk.
Thinking about Asil lifting his wig in front of everyone still made him grind his teeth.
He wanted to storm the Erzebet Count’s house right away and make them kneel for insulting the royal family, but he was known to the world as a benevolent Crown Prince.
He had to graciously forgive the mistake of an ignorant child.
Because of that, he couldn’t do anything and was just boiling inside.
Bang!
“Erzebettttt!”
His scholarly image gone, he, turned into a beast, shouted at the wall.
Knock knock, it was then that someone knocked on the door.
“May I come in, brother?”
It was the 4th Princess Ailpecia.
At the appearance of his most favored younger sister, the Crown Prince tried hard to calm his anger.
“Of course, sure.”
The Crown Prince, returning to his original gentle expression as if nothing happened, guided her to a seat.
The reason the Crown Prince liked Ailpecia was just one.
The luscious silver hair that symbolized being a descendant of the imperial family to anyone who saw it.
That moved his heart, who had the shameful younger sister Iokaste.
Moreover, she only did actions that perfectly suited his taste.
Just like now.
Ailpecia delivered the good news with a sweet smile.
“I found suitable twin children. The half of the pendant you mentioned has also been completed.”
“Well done. Now, only taking them to Count Fayrent remains.”
“Hehehe, I heard Duke Monlepe is holding a banquet soon? And there’s talk that the Payrent family will attend…….”
Ailpecia’s eyes sparkled brightly.
“I’m going to take the twins there. I’ll make Sir Dylan Your Highness’s escort knight right there. I have to make the Duke feel the sensation of having an excellent knight snatched away right in front of him.”
She harbored resentment towards Edenber who rejected her in front of everyone.
‘How dare he push me away?’
For her, who had never heard a word of rejection in her life until now, it was a tremendous humiliation.
She absolutely couldn’t let it go.
She intended to teach him a lesson this time.
The Crown Prince, who had been thinking about something for a moment, couldn’t hold back his indignation and said through gritted teeth while clenching his fist.
“There’s talk that Lady Erzebet is also going to the banquet. The one the Duke has in mind must be Lady Erzebet.”
“Oh my…….”
Ailpecia smiled with her eyes as if displeased.
“I’ll have to make the lady detest Monlepe to the point of shuddering.”
Seeing that, the Crown Prince also quietly twisted one corner of his mouth.
* * *
Finally, the day of the hunting festival victory banquet dawned.
Asil was on her way to Duke Monlepe’s house by carriage.
However, she wasn’t in a very good mood. Because she was thoroughly sulking at Arcian.
‘How could he eat Asil’s strawberry!’
During breakfast, a strawberry fresh cream cake came out, and she had set aside the strawberry to eat later, but Arcian, thinking Asil wasn’t eating it, quickly ate it.
“Asil- Daddy will buy you a whole strawberry field. Hmm?”
“No need.”
She still hadn’t cooled her anger towards him.
Asil puffed her cheeks like a balloon with a dissatisfied face and turned her head away.
“I hate uncle. Go away.”
While doing so, she moved her butt to the opposite side.
In response, Arcian also moved his butt the same way to stick close to Asil’s side, and to coax Asil, he diligently shook a cat fishing rod with bells.
Jingle jingle, jingle jingle.
The bells rang cheerfully.
However, Asil didn’t budge.
“Asil, look at daddy. Wow, there’s such a fun toy here?”
“No need. Asil is not a baby.”
“Here’s a white and soft feather that Asil really likes. Oh, tickle tickle. Tickle tickle-”
“No need!”
“My pretty daughter, daddy will do really well today. So please stop being angry now. Hmm?”
Arcian, who got hit directly with the baby dragon’s anger for mistakenly eating one strawberry, snapped his fingers.
Then, suddenly enveloped in hazy smoke, his appearance changed in an instant.
“Ta-da-”
It was a baby dragon exactly like Asil’s original form.
Arcian said confidently.
“How is it, completely the same, right?”
Hmm, no, not the same. It was the same before opening the mouth.
“Asil can’t speak human language in that state.”
“Ppyaa?” (Is this okay?)
“Not ppya, it’s ppiya. Ppi-ya.”
“Ppya-”
But no matter how many times he tried, he couldn’t pronounce it like Asil.
……If it’s like this, the plan will go wrong?
Asil decided to return to her original form for a moment and teach him directly.
“Ppiya-”
“Ppya-”
The chorus of two baby dragons echoed in the carriage with soundproof magic.
Arcian stretched his neck long and diligently imitated Asil’s cry.
However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t do Asil’s ‘ppiya’.
It was because, just like human fingerprints represent individuals, beastmen’s cries also represent individuals.
“Ppiya-”
“Ppya-”
No matter what he did, ppya was the best he could do.
Inevitably, Arcian decided to keep his mouth shut as much as possible in front of humans.
Soon arriving at Duke Monlepe’s house, he returned to human form and humanized Asil again.
And as if he came to drop her off, he got out of the carriage and naturally escorted his daughter.
“Daddy will handle everything so you absolutely won’t get caught, so Asil, forget everything and just have fun. Trust daddy?”
“Yeah.”
The pronunciation is a bit different, but since daddy is a beastman who can do anything, he’ll do well.
Asil, who forgot that she was sulking at Arcian because of practicing pronunciation all the way here, hurriedly ran towards the banquet hall entrance.
Then suddenly turned around and gave Arcian a thumbs up.
“Uncle is the best.”
Because thanks to daddy, she can have fun without any worries, she has to give thumbs up.
Then she ran back to the banquet hall.
“Keuk.”
At the unexpected praise, Arcian covered his mouth.
Indeed, my daughter is the cutest in the world. Look at her giving daddy thumbs up with those maple leaf-like hands!
‘My daughter resembles me the most.’
Otherwise, she couldn’t be this cute, adorable, and lovely.
The only thing she resembles Briana is the small size. Everything else resembles me, daddy! Yes!
Arcian indulged in internal fawning for a while.
Then, only when it was around time for the banquet to start, he transformed into baby dragon form and headed to the divine beast’s room.
* * *
Since it was a banquet celebrating the victory of the hunting festival, most attendees were knights of Monlepe.
The external invitees were only Lilibette, Briden, and Asil.
“Lady Asirian Erzebet is entering!”
The doorkeeper’s voice announcing the arrival pounded hard on the eardrums.
Even though she had her daddy on standby in baby dragon form, she couldn’t help but be tense about someone recognizing her.
Asil entered the banquet hall moving the same side arm and leg at the same time.
‘I’m nervous…….’
“Sir Dylan Fayrent and family are entering!”
“Sir Adleton Hunting and Lady Lorraine Elizabeth are entering.”
Familiar figures were seen entering with family and lovers as companions
As the number of familiar faces increased, cold sweat formed on her palms.
Asil drank strawberry juice and diligently did mind control.
‘Asil is a super cool black dragon. No one will recognize Asil. Asil is a super cool black dragon. No one will recognize Asil…….’
Just then, Dylan, who recognized Asil from afar, approached.
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By Anna 💓
