Chapter 76
Chapter 76: I’m 100% a Child
It’s not possible for a one-year-old to talk about this even when asked . I couldn’t do anything about being annoyed at not being able to speak .
I felt at ease when I thought that and looked around the room . As expected of the best room in the inn . The bedroom is probably in a different room, and this is perhaps called the living room . There’s a couch and a dining table and chairs to eat at too .
The couch is fluffy and comfortable .
“Leila . ”
It would probably feel nice if I jump on this .
“Leila!”
“Prince, your voice is loud,” Mill called out to the irritated Prince . No one else would say this except for Mill .
“But…”
“Lei may look like she knows everything at a glance, but she’s not even two-years-old yet . She’s still mostly a child . ”
What is mostly? I’m 100% a child .
“But…”
“Lei,” Mill interrupted the Prince and called me .
“Ai . ”
“Lei, I wonder if we can tell the Prince what happened at Lentforce . ”
I looked at Bart . He nodded reluctantly . Then I looked at Alistair . He looked conflicted, but he didn’t disagree . Then I guess it’s okay .
“Ai . ”
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“Then, we’ll tell him . You can play . ”
“Ai!”
“Aite, Lei . Let’s build blocks!”
“Ai!”
“Wait!”
Alistair went back to his room to get the blocks . The guards chased after him casually .
Actually, the mayor had said, “Advertise the blocks if you’re going to the capital . ” So, he gave us a set . Of course, we can play with it on the way too .
*THUD* Alistair came back holding the box . The guard behind him was also holding a box and smiling wryly .
“Lei, I’ve brought it . ”
“Ai! Bwocwsh . ” (Blocks . )
We sat on the floor and turned the box over . The box that the guard brought was also turned over .
I grinned broadly . If Dory were here then she would probably say, “Oh my, don’t sit directly on the floor!” Alistair saw me grin .
“Lei, what’s up?”
“Dory . ”
“Dory?”
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“No shiththing on fwoor, shhe shaysh . ” (No sitting on the floor, she says . )
“Guhaa . ” The guard burst into laughter instinctively . Alistair looked as if he got it and grinned like me . Dory is the kind of person you get fed up with, but can’t hate .
I made a small building . It was big enough for my Rug Dragon to enter . Alistair used the two boxes of blocks and built a large building .
The people in the room continued talking while looking sideways .
“Then, Bart . I’ll leave it to you . ”
“You want me to do it?!”
Mill passing the troublesome tasks to Bart was also something that usually happened .
“So, why did you save Lei?” The Prince urged briefly .
“Lei survived because she’s smart . Are you not satisfied with this answer?” Bart said, and the Prince shrugged .
“It was good that Lei was saved . Honestly, we thought that she was already gone . However, how was a one-year-old able to take attackers and escape safely? It’s unbelievable, isn’t it?”
It really is . It was hard . I put my Rug Dragon neatly into the stack of square blocks . Yup . It’s cute .
“But in the end, it was your blunder that got her kidnapped, and Leila did save herself in that situation . And yet, it’s strange, you say it like she has some sort of responsibility . ”
Bart is harsh . The Prince looked at me as if to say, “You say something too,” but I’m busy . I’m making more room for my dragon .
“And I don’t want to say why because it will raise Lei’s worth . In other words, I don’t want you to use Lei for the sake of a country called Wester . ”
“Which means Leila has some secret after all . ” The Prince’s face said, “I knew it . ”
“I can tell you if you promise that you will keep it between us and not tell this country . ” That was Bart’s condition . The Prince folded his arms and looked up at the ceiling .
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“Kingdom said to protect the child with the violet eyes . And I knew from the beginning that she was a toddler . As long as we use Leila as a trump card for our negotiations with Kingdom, Wester has no other choice but to return her there no matter how much she is worth . ” The Prince looked at me and answered Bart .
“So this is simply my personal interest . How did Leila survive?”
“Will you swear to keep what you hear in this room?”
“… I swear . ” The Prince swore to Bart’s question even though he was reluctant to .
But that solemn moment ended with Alistair’s voice, “Won’t you join your house with mine, Lei?”
All the blocks were gone by the time I became aware of it, and Alistair not only completed his big building, but he was also aiming for my blocks .
“Nu!” I protected my house from Alistair .
“Hey, I’ll make a room for the rug dragon . ”
“Meh!”
It won’t be this small and nice house that I’ve just created . It will become something that Alistair built . Shouldn’t Alistair be the one to give me his blocks?
“Awishthair hash heapsh . There’sh no more bwocwsh . ” (Alistair has heaps . There’s no more blocks . )
“Tsk . ”
Alistair pouted . He destroyed his blocks and started making a new building . When I tried to take some of the blocks he’d destroyed, he said evilly, “You didn’t give me any blocks, so I won’t give you any . ” He wasn’t mature when it came to blocks . I’m going to cry .
“A vow is a vow . But in this situation, with her nerves . Does the innocent playing baby really have a secret?” The Prince said in amazement .
“Well, isn’t it fine for her to act like a kid?” Bart said, sounding a bit shocked . Well, it can’t be helped .
“Lei, as you know, didn’t just get kidnapped this one time . She also got kidnapped when she was in Lentforce . You guys also investigated this, didn’t you?”
“Yeah . But we only chased after the criminals, we don’t know what actually happened . ”
“Lei was, as you know, kidnapped right before the Hollows appeared . Along with the mayor’s daughter . ”
“Is it because the criminals have barrier boxes?”
They certainly did use six or more barrier boxes this time . So it’s possible .
“No, it’s possible that they had someone with a barrier box nearby . But the criminals that kidnapped her didn’t have any . ”
“How do you know?”
“They deserted Lei and the mayor’s daughter in the middle of the Hollows at night . ”
The Prince and the guards gulped .
“Apparently not a lot of time passed . Everyone at the mayor’s mansion had already given up by the time we came . But they were safe when we reached them . ”
“I thought Lei had a hidden barrier box . Just enough to fit one person . ”
“That would be nice if she had such a barrier box . ” Mill interrupted .
“Mill, don’t interrupt right now . Lei doesn’t have a barrier box . ”
“Then, why?”
The Prince looked at me .
“Lei can make her own barriers . ”