I only remember those yellow eyes that were staring back at me in the dim light . The man who threatened me and took me away . The person who threw me violently . The person who coldly said, “Find her even if she’s weak or dead!”
The edge of that person’s mouth was slightly raised . I’m certain . He’s a bad person .
“Lei, what’s wrong?” Without replying to Bart’s voice, I unfastened the Rug Dragon’s pocket, scavenged through and walked to the man holding the short string I had scavenged . The man with yellow eyes raised his eyebrows as he watched me walk towards him .
I stopped in front of the man and looked up at him . We made eye contact for a while . People around us got noisy wondering what was going on . I measured the distance between us, turned sideways and dangled the pocket .
“Lei, what are you doing?” Nii-sama said hastily, and I twisted my body with all my strength .
*WHACK* The Rug Dragon made a heavy sound and hit the man in the shin .
“Argh!” The man’s voice leaked out, and he crouched down to hold his shin .
How is it? A Rug Dragon with a magic stone in it is pretty heavy .
I made sure to maintain eye contact with him as I stared at him closely .
“You…”
“Bad pershon . Lei didn’th forgeth . ”
I glared at him . He frowned and reached out towards me, but I was quickly pulled into a hug from behind . It was Bart . And Nii-sama stepped out in front before Bart lifted me up .
“How can this happen? Even though it’s something a baby did, my sister was rude to you . I’m sorry . ” He opened his arms and shouted so that everyone could hear .
“Are you alright?
“What? It’s just a stuffed animal . Your sister seems to be in a bad mood . Hahaha,” the man laughed emptily .
“Leila, apologise,” Nii-sama said, and I turned to the side . You should apologise for kidnapping me first .
“Lei . ”
“Ai . Sowwy . ” But, I can’t be stubborn after being told twice . I apologised straight away . I was a little selfish, but I’m sure everybody recognises me as a normal, cute baby .
And, he can’t do anything to me in front of everyone . I turned away from the bad guy and faced the King .
“Down . ”
“Don’t be naughty anymore,” Bart reminded me as he put me down . Nii-sama took me to stand next to Alistair .
“I’m Alistair Lisburn . ”
“I’m Leiwa Awbansh . ”
We can’t say formal greetings . This is fine . Still, I didn’t think that Alistair would name himself as a Lisburn .
The King, who had heard our greeting, nodded placidly and spoke to Alistair first, “I heard that you had a hard time after you lost your mother . You can live freely under the protection of the capital, Sebel . ”
“Yes . Thank you very much . ”
Then, he looked at me with stern eyes . They were eyes that people used to look at naughty children .
“You…”
“Oh my, how adorable,” The Queen, who was next to the King, interrupted him, stood up and went down the steps . She had wavy brown hair and gentle brown eyes . I reached out to her reflexively . The Queen quickly lifted me up, put me on the left side of her waist like she was used to it and looked at my face .
“You’re still so small, but you worked hard . Honey, honestly men . It makes me want to protect her if big people with scary faces look down at her . You have to be gentler . ” It was a rash order . However, my rudeness faded with this . The audience ended, we were taken to a different room and had a meal with the nobles .
We slipped out of the meeting place for a little and met up with Prince Huu .
“Lei, don’t tell me…”
“Threathened Lei and thhe othhersh . Bad pershon . ”
“No way! I’m sure their eyes were yellow, but that’s Easter’s Third Prince! Why would someone in that position do such a reckless thing?!”
“Noth jushth Lei . Threathened Huu thoo . ”
“But…”
Huu couldn’t believe this . Neither could I . Why did another country’s Prince attack me?
“Niini, do you wnow shomethhing abouth Eashther and Wingdom?”
“Nope . The relationship between the two countries is very good . I can’t believe this either . ”
Nii-sama immediately denied it when I asked him if the relationship between Easter and Kingdom was bad . However, it seemed like he thought of something .
“However, I don’t like his attitude . Your Highness, and Bart and the others, can you investigate Prince Cyrus as the culprit who attacked you guys?”
“We can’t . Lei is the only one who saw his face and confirmed his eye colour . I will send a messenger to Kaylie to see if he was really there on business, but the testimony is weak if we just go by Lei’s words . ”
“Regardless of it being weak, it can be labelled as an international incident . ”
Huu and Nii-sama looked conflicted .
“We don’t know if they’re the culprits behind Lei’s first kidnapping, or if they just took advantage of that incident . It won’t be good to cause a fuss now . But if what Lei said is true, then that means he could stay at Wester castle while looking as if nothing had happened after he’d attacked us . ”
If that really is the case, then I’m going to get dizzy by how wicked he is .
“No one would attack the Four Marquises in public at Kingdom, so we should return quickly . More importantly, Your Highness, Wester has it rather hard . ”
“Yeah, it’s bad to get stirred up by royalty from other countries . I’ll talk to him properly and be more vigilant . ”
“That’s good . This may be rude, but Wester is in Frontier, but you’re more idealistic than Kingdom . ” Huu made an indescribable face at Nii-sama’s words . He probably knows his father’s and brother’s personalities .
“At any rate, I was really surprised, Lei . Why did you do that?”
“He widnapped and thhrew Lei . Bad pershon . Hith . ”
“Lei . ”
Brother and everyone dropped their shoulders .
“Lei, if it’s a bad person who kidnapped you, then you should be scared and run away . I can’t believe you would counterattack as soon as you see him . ”
“Bufo . ” Kyaro burst into laughter . I thought he was going to do that soon . Honestly .
“You hit him with a stuffed animal, no, he wouldn’t respond at all from being hit by a one-year-old infant . It’s pointless . ”
I laughed .
“Well, or it’s not, right, Lei?”
“Ai . ”
I agreed with Mill’s words and handed Kyaro my stuffed animal .
“You… this is rugged . Oh!”
Kyaro handed the stuffed animal to my puzzled Nii-sama .
“What is this fluffy thing? Huh?”
Nii-sama squashed the Rug Dragon . “Oh, take care of it, alright?”
“Is there something inside?”
“A magic stone . ”
Mill grinned .
“It made a great sound, Lei . ”
“Ai . Whacw . ”
“This, this hurts . Lei knew this, argh, whatever . ”
I wonder if I got my revenge a little . Afterwards, Nii-sama hugged me .
When we returned to the room, Easter’s Prince wasn’t there anymore, and we were told that he left quickly because he had received a message from home . I’m sure he ran away because the situation wasn’t good for him .
“He probably didn’t think that an infant would remember him . What would happen even if she did remember him?”
Who would believe a one-year-old? But that one-year-old is me . There are a lot of people who I can trust . Anyway, he probably won’t do anything but flee for now .
“There are still some problems, but we’ll be returning tomorrow . The border is close by . ”
“Ai . ”
Then, I’ll be able to see Otou-sama soon .
Translator: Blushy
Editor: Sam