Everyone Was Obsessed With Me After I Became the Youngest Princess Favourite - Chapter 270

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“I don’t hate you that much….”
“Hm?”
At my barely audible whisper, Lucio suddenly snapped to attention.
Lia gazed at Lucio, her lips parting slightly.
I wanted to pour out everything I’d discussed with my family yesterday.
I’d only opposed it out of fear that we’d have a hasty wedding—but in my heart, my family had already acknowledged and accepted our relationship.
Yet despite my true feelings, the words wouldn’t come easily.
Hadn’t I felt countless times how desperately Lucio yearned for her family’s approval?
Most of all, I couldn’t convince myself.
‘That’s why I stopped them when they offered to tell him the truth.’
I was anticipating such a dramatic scene—Lucio baring his heart as much as he desired, my family moved to tears, granting permission for the marriage!
But now, watching him shorten our date time while believing he was still being rejected, I felt utterly frustrated.
Should I just give him a hint?
Or keep pretending I don’t know?
As I deliberated, I suddenly sensed something odd and blinked.
Normally, Lucio would call my name again and ask why I was acting this way.
But now, for some reason, he simply stared at me without saying a word.
His eyes gleamed so intensely that my face burned—as if it might melt away.
My confusion lasted only a moment.
‘Wait, surely not again?’
Realizing Lucio’s gaze was fixed on my lips, I flinched and covered my mouth with my hand.
“We can’t—we’ll arrive soon.”
If a kiss ended quickly, I wouldn’t say such things.
But once he started, he’d hold me so desperately that my head would spin every time, leaving me dizzy!
‘And my lips swell up too!’
It wasn’t a repeat of the clumsy, hasty mistakes from our first kiss.
Now I had experience and technique built up over time.
The problem was Lucio, who treated her lips as though they were a delicacy.
Especially today, he was being unusually relentless, so I bit his lower lip lightly in retaliation—only to be stimulated further, and now….
My lips were so swollen and numb that they didn’t feel like my own, forcing me to cast a healing spell. Still covering my mouth, I glared at Lucio.
“…I’m sorry.”
It had been so long since our last kiss that I couldn’t control myself.
Lucio apologized glumly, thinking even he’d overdone it.
My ambitious little dream of at least sharing a brief kiss before parting quietly faded away.
Seeing that expression, my resolve weakened again, but I turned my head away with a “Hmph!” and muttered softly.
“That’s what you get for insisting we stay for dinner too.”
If you hadn’t, we might have had more intimate time together….
At my words, laden with subtle implication, Lucio’s eyes widened slightly before slowly breaking into a smile.
Realizing what I’d said and blushing crimson, I found Lucio gazing at me tenderly before he suddenly stole a quick kiss.
“This is enough for me.”
It was true. Even without eating dinner, I felt full, and my heart swelled as though it might burst at even the lightest touch of his lips—feather-soft kisses rather than passionate ones.
That sincerity reached Lia as well, and soon identical smiles settled at the corners of both their mouths.
But the tender moment passed quickly, and at last it was time for the young lovers to part.
“Have a nice dinner with your family.”
“You too.”
“Let’s not feel sad about parting—we’ll have another date tomorrow anyway.”
If there’s anywhere special you’d like to go, think about it.
At his affectionate voice settling near her ear, Lia shyly nodded. Then she asked with a hint of worry.
“Will we really be able to have another date tomorrow?”
The question came from concern about Countess Amber’s situation.
During the date, they had been so focused on each other that they’d momentarily forgotten about it, but as they prepared to part, the worries they’d deliberately buried resurfaced.
I couldn’t quite tell whether the lack of any response from anywhere so far was a good sign or a bad one.
Lucio gently caressed the cheek of the anxious Lia.
“Don’t worry. I’ll let you know if anything happens.”
“Promise?”
…Was she doing it on purpose?
Watching Lia tilt her head to the side and bury her face in his hand as she spoke, the desires I’d been firmly suppressing began to stir.
The impulse to hold her close, hide her in my embrace, and slip away with just the two of us to somewhere no one would know.
But with my family still anxious about what might happen to them, such a thing was impossible.
Lucio, barely clinging to reason, agreed and sent Lia into the Marquis Residence.
Then he turned around himself and headed toward Duke Elrad’s Residence.
Just before entering the lobby.
“Brother!”
“Young Duke, I greet you.”
Lucio, along with Allen, encountered the man he had become more conscious of than even the Demon since recovering his memories.
In his previous life, he had taken Lia’s life, and in this life, he had sworn the “Knight’s Oath” to her.
“Jack Seidian….”
“Yes?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
As if he’d never wavered, Lucio shook his head indifferently. Then he asked Allen.
“Coming back from training?”
“Yeah!”
Allen answered spiritedly, then whined that today’s training had been particularly grueling.
As Lucio listened quietly to his words, he turned his gaze to Jack standing beside him.
Jack, mindful of the fact that Jane—who served as both Lia’s maidservant and guard knight—was already at Lia’s side, and that one day Lia would become part of House Elrad, had not left the Duke’s Estate even after swearing his oath to Lia.
Or perhaps from the beginning, he had never intended to leave, bound by something close to guilt….
It was then.
“By the way, didn’t you say you were going on a date today, brother?”
Allen asked, tilting his head curiously.
After the formal meeting and after he’d comforted Lia and brought her to the Marquis Residence.
Lucio explained his plan to his family, who were deeply disheartened by the failed engagement arrangement.
Though Duke Elrad still grumbled about his inflexibility, everyone brightened at the news that Lucio would be serving as an ambassador to Bellus Duchy and intended to spend his vacation with Lia.
But then.
“You came back already without even having dinner?”
He’d left saying he was going on a date, only to return this quickly?
Allen, who had never formally courted a Young Lady but had experienced several date-like encounters, wore a disappointed expression.
At that, Lucio let out a short chuckle and glanced at Jack once more.
Through his conversation with Allen just moments ago, the fact that he’d been on a date with Lia had come to light.
Perhaps Allen had also heard about what happened at the formal meeting.
Lucio was curious what reaction Jack would show upon hearing all of this.
Yet Jack himself.
“…?”
Simply blinked, unable to understand why Lucio kept glancing at him.
Realizing he’d done something foolish again, Lucio clicked his tongue softly.
Then, to the bewildered Allen and Jack, he said that if time permitted during this vacation, he would finally grant the sparring matches they’d been requesting.
Leaving behind Allen, who raised both arms in cheer, and Jack, whose stern expression couldn’t hide his delight, Lucio turned away.
‘If she finds out I was cautious again, I’ll catch her eye.’
Yet why did even that pitying gaze and expression feel so pleasant?
As Lucio smiled softly, anticipating Lia’s inevitable nagging, he suddenly exhaled a bittersweet sigh.
‘But it’s strange that I don’t mind even with that memory.’
He recalled fragments of a vivid past.
* * *
A boy brought along long ago when his youngest sister Diana went missing.
He showed talent in swordsmanship and became the adopted son of Taize Seidian, who belonged to the Lexion Knights, and alongside Allen became a Swordmaster, establishing himself as a key force in House Elrad.
Though he possessed such formidable martial prowess that he was called the Iron-Blooded Judge, he harbored no particular ambition for power nor a bellicose temperament.
That was the extent of what Lucio knew about Jack.
The notable point, if any, was that he was Allen’s unparalleled rival and close friend.
Thus, having long excluded Jack from his list of dangerous individuals, Lucio trusted his own judgment and harbored no particular suspicion.
One day.
“I heard you were searching for Lia.”
“….”
“I won’t ask why you’re looking for her, Young Duke. Only—please entrust this task to me as well.”
Until he suddenly came to me and brought up Tessar Orphanage, where he’d stayed in childhood, and spoke the name of the child he’d been pursuing for so long.
“Entrust the task to you…?”
Though his words were polite, it ultimately meant that since his path to finding the child had been blocked, he was asking for information.
As Lucio chuckled in astonishment, Jack immediately realized his true intentions had been exposed and bit his lip.
And with a face that had lost all composure enough to shatter his long-standing reputation for composure, he knelt and spoke.
“Please, help me. If you find Lia, I will do everything within my power.”

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