Chapter 9

“What?!”

“I want you to return to your property now, as I said before, there is a guest in this palace.”

“You’re arrogant!”

Baron Routine raised his thick right hand without taking his eyes off Charlotte.

Likewise, Charlotte didn’t close her eyes. She was willing to take a beating from him.

She knew he was that kind of person, unlike the reputable Baron Lannia.

Just by looking at what Charlotte did, you can tell that he was used to it.

What would happen if his actions were made public?

And that a Nobel  had beaten another Nobel’s daughter and the young lady of the house?!

And do not forget to mention that he tried to marry her under the pretext of debt!

It’s time for Charlotte to attack him with these thoughts.

“Sister, stay away from this dog!”

The gentle child’s voice rang out in the entire hall like a cat’s.

The little boy stood in front of Charlotte, and the look of his arms outstretched didn’t pose any threat but looked really cute.

“Theo…?”

Charlotte looked at him in astonishment, trailing behind, Emma, ​​who was breathing hard, said she.

“I’m sorry, miss, he wanted to go to you, so he ran·····”

“How can you let him come all the way here? Take him.”

Charlotte tried to send Theo, but he wouldn’t listen.

Instead, he was even more angry and looked at the Viscount routine and the strength in his eyes.

“Bad old man!”

“What?! Where the hell did this boy come from! ”

Baron Routine, who hesitated for a moment in embarrassment, raised his hand again.

Charlotte took Theo in her arms in surprise.

Then Theo screamed again from Charlotte’s arms.

“Go away! Bad Uncle!”

That was the moment when the evil child’s voice filled the hall.

Baron Routine, who was about to slap Charlotte in the face, lost his balance and stumbled.

He quickly tried to grab the stair railing.

But his hands slipped, and he fell straight down, that wasn’t the end, he started rolling down the stairs.

Charlotte quickly covered Theo’s eyes.

“Argh!”

Roll

Thump!

Falling to the end of the stairs, Viscount Routine crashed to the ground and made a faint sound.

His body stopped after rolling on the ground several times.

“Master!”

Viscount Routine’s servants, who were standing by the front door on the first floor, ran immediately to  help him.

The red blood dripping from his face fell to the ground.

“You will see! We have two days left! If you don’t pay off all your debts before that time, I will kill you!”

As his servants dragged him away, he shouted menacingly.

“You will regret treating me this way today!”

“Who would regret that?”

Charlotte stared at Viscount Routine, who looked away without showing signs of fear.

Theo, who had pushed Charlotte’s hand away from his eyes, was also irritated and looked at Routine himself.

All the corrupt bastards disappeared, and the palace doors were closed. Only then did Charlotte’s legs relax, and she fell to the ground.

Whether he was afraid or worried about Charlotte, Theo cried.

Charlotte muttered, and stroked her forehead against his forehead.

“I asked Emma to play with you in the room, and you walked out. What happens if you don’t you listen to your sister?”

“The tail·······.”

It was from a fairy tale book that Charlotte read to Theo last night.

A lying child under the influence of magic.

In other words, the length of the tail located on the buttocks increases each time he lies.

Charlotte told Theo, who was afraid to have a tail, that if he listened to his sister well, he would not have a tail.

“Oh really? You said you have a tail ? “

“Huh?!”

The more gloomy Theo quickly gropes around his butt bone with his right hand.

Only after making sure there was no tail, he grumbled as an argument.

“I ..I….”

Theo rubbed his face on Charlotte’s cheek

“I came to see you.”

“You came because you missed me?”

“Mhn”

His gentle voice made Charlotte laugh, and she kissed Theo on the cheek, forgetting to blame him.

Soon Theo’s face brightened, and he kissed Charlotte on the cheek as if to reply back to her

.

“I told you I’d be there.”

“Yes!.”

Kids have strange powers, the ability to make you laugh and remove all your worries.

‘I thought it was okay, but I think it was scary.’

She stood strong for a long time as she believed in herself, but she could not relax because her opponent was a middle-aged man.

Without realizing, Charlotte clung to Theo’s warm body with trembling hands.

The unique Theo baby scent  was like the smell of delicious milk or salty sweat, it smelled good anyway.

My heart which was beating fast due to the tension gradually slowed down, and my body was trembling a lot.

When Theo first came, Charlotte decided to treat him well.

Because she thought that this was the only way she could live and save Lannia.

But now Theo seems to have more affection for Charlotte than she for him.

It would be sad if Theo left.

Thinking that this house would be without this kid’s laughter, I already felt empty.

It had only been three days since I heard Theo’s gossip in the palace.

“Theo, do you want to go have a snack with your sister? They made the pudding with lots of fresh eggs today. It looks good, doesn’t it?”

“Wong!”

“Let’s go…”

Charlotte stands up with Theo in her arms, it seems that the disturbances in the Lannia mansion are over, the days passed peacefully before Theo suddenly collapses.

* * *

“I’m sorry miss…”

The doctor who had been checking Theo’s sweat a while ago shook his head.

Charlotte’s pulse eased and staggered. Emma helped Charlotte and asked instead

“What do you mean, sorry? What does that mean?”

“The reason is unknown. He has a high fever, but there are no other symptoms called febrile convulsions…”

“Really?”

“It could be a cold, there are no other symptoms at all. I’ve never seen a case like this before in my life, where he only has a fever!”

He was a competent doctor, as he is known in Lannia’s estate.

But If the cause is not known, no other doctor will know the cause.

“Or maybe he’s nervous because he’s in a strange place. Babies get a fever under stress, right!?”

“······.”

“As a kid, we can’t use sedatives recklessly, so we have to give him a fever reducer and see what happens. It would be good if the fever subsided a little after taking the fever reducer, otherwise, ·······. “

The doctor saved his words when he saw Charlotte, whose face was pale.

Instead of continuing to explain, he gave Theo a little water medicine.

Theo, who closed his eyes as if he had fainted, couldn’t swallow it properly either. Half of the dose fell from his mouth.

Emma carefully wiped the flowing medicine with a tissue. Charlotte sat on a chair by the bed and looked at Theo in a daze.

“Why did the fever suddenly rise?”

Theo was definitely fine when we came back to the room holding hands.

He whispered constantly to Charlotte like a sparrow babbling every morning, the main theme was snacking and going out to play in the garden, I want to see the flowers in the garden, I want to see the meow.

The meow he said meant a spotted cat entering and exiting the backyard of Lannia Palace.

The day after he came to Lannia’s mansion, Theo, who had seen the cat for the first time, went to the backyard every morning and evening.

This morning, he was clearly disappointed not to see the meow.

Charlotte entered the room after having a snack, so she calmed the child to go see her again.

That was when I was playing block games with Theo for a while, waiting for snacks.

As usual, Theo, who was running towards the blocks that had been piled up by Charlotte, suddenly collapsed.

Charlotte looked in surprise, his little body as hot as a ball of fire.

His forehead was cold sweat and his face white, it was a change that happened in less than a minute, I swear.

Theo was fine even before. He had no fever and his skin was normal.

‘······ No, I thought he was fine.’

‘I probably didn’t notice when he  was  already in disrepair.’

If she had known about the baby better, she would have known in advance and called the doctor.

If so, wouldn’t the situation have gotten so bad?