Everyone Was Obsessed With Me After I Became the Youngest Princess Favourite - Chapter 6

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“Such a tiny thing, yet you eat a disgustingly large amount.”
Diana, who had never been reproached for her appetite until now, felt terribly hurt.
As Diana clamped her mouth shut and her lips trembled with welling tears, it was Lia who found herself startled instead.
‘Jack! She’s the lady you swore to serve! You need to be kinder to her!’
Unaware of Lia’s earnest concern, Jack tossed aside the twig and approached the pile of clothes set to one side, retrieving half a loaf of bread to hand to Lia.
“Huh? Why are you….”
I wasn’t even being difficult today.
As Lia murmured in a small, timid voice, Jack inexplicably grew more irritable.
“Just eat it.”
“But Jack, you saved that for yourself. You gave me some yesterday, and if you give me more today….”
“If you don’t want to keep begging for scraps, then provide your own share!”
His sudden outburst caused Lia’s body to flinch.
“Yet you’re the one sharing your portion with me….”
Lia murmured softly, barely audible, and stared silently at the bread in her hands without eating it.
When Diana fixed her gaze upon that sight, Jack spoke harshly.
“Don’t even think about coveting it!”
“I’m not!”
“Liar.”
Diana, now pouting indignantly, puffed out her cheeks.
Jack matched her glare without backing down.
Watching Jack bicker with a child so much younger than himself, Lia couldn’t help but laugh.
In her memories, Jack had always been a silent, taciturn boy, but seeing him now, she realized he had a childlike side to him as well.
“Why are you laughing?”
Jack narrowed his brows and asked, suddenly noticing Lia’s laughter.
At this, Lia’s lips moved of their own accord.
“I just realized you’re quite handsome.”
During her time at the Guild, spending days with aging executives had made flattery a habit—words that slipped out unconsciously—yet it wasn’t a lie.
Despite his youth, Jack possessed distinctly defined features befitting a beautiful boy.
‘That’s why he’ll later be surrounded by female admirers.’
It couldn’t possibly be due to him being a Sword Master or one of the Three Knights alone.
As Lia nodded to herself, Jack suddenly fell silent and turned his head sharply.
The back of his neck seemed slightly flushed.
‘Is it from training?’
As she tilted her head in confusion, Diana, sensing the subtle shift in atmosphere beside her, suddenly let out a loud cry.
“No way!”
“Huh?”
“He’s not handsome! Our oppa is better!”
At Diana’s confident declaration, hands planted firmly on her hips, Lia burst into laughter once more.
Jack opened his eyes to narrow slits as he asked.
“You have an older brother?”
“Two! There are two of them!”
“Two people, you idiot.”
“Dana’s not an idiot! Sister, our older brother is way more handsome!”
Diana shook Lia’s sleeve as she shouted.
In that moment, Lia recalled the face of Diana’s older brother, Lucio, whom she had seen just before her death.
‘Yes, he certainly is handsome.’
With refined features that bore a striking resemblance to Duke Elrad, and a composed expression befitting his nickname as the Ice Prince, he was a beautiful man who looked like a sculpture.
But Lia didn’t think he was as cold as people said he was.
‘…What am I saying? I barely knew him.’
Suddenly realizing how absurd her own thoughts were, Lia hastily shook her head.
Diana, misinterpreting the gesture, pouted.
“Really, our older brother is so handsome….”
“Oh? That’s right. If Dana looked like him, she’d be incredibly handsome too!”
“Agreed!”
At Lia’s hurried words of comfort, Diana broke into a bright smile.
Seeing this, Jack twisted his lips as if about to say something else, so Lia quickly changed the subject for the sake of the future master-servant relationship between these two.
“But Jack! Are you training alone here?”
“Training? No, I’m just doing this because I’m bored.”
“I see. Still, you were working hard at it… it was impressive.”
As Lia offered praise without much thought, Jack’s neck flushed red again.
Diana also puffed out her lips.
‘Why is the atmosphere like this?’
Their relationship couldn’t be this strained.
Though she didn’t think their fate would necessarily fall apart so easily, Lia continued speaking, uneasy.
“So you want to become a knight, right Jack?”
“What? A knight?”
Before she could finish, Jack’s expression darkened.
“Do you think someone like us commoners can become a knight so easily? I’m going to be a mercenary. There may be no honor, but the pay is good.”
“Ah….”
Watching Jack declare his ambitions so bluntly, Lia stood with her mouth agape, and then found herself laughing.
A mercenary—the childhood dream of a knight who would one day make a name for himself across the empire.
“I think you’ll become a knight, Jack.”
“What do you know! Do you have any idea how difficult that is!”
No matter how ignorant of the world, that wasn’t an excuse to mock someone!
Jack was about to snap in anger, but the words caught in his throat when he saw Lia’s face—completely free of any mocking intent.
Looking into her eyes, which sparkled with absolute sincerity, he found himself unwilling to give her an answer that would disappoint her.
“It’s difficult, I know, but you’re more than capable. You want it too, don’t you?”
So Jack answered without thinking, to her calm words.
“…If it’s possible, then yes, I want to.”
“Then keep working hard just like you are now.”
You’re kinder and more sincere than anyone else, so you’ll eventually receive blessings.
Lia swallowed her unspoken words and smiled brightly.
* * *
After Jack’s training ended, on the way back to the Orphanage.
I felt a warm contentment watching Jack glance back occasionally as he walked ahead, checking to ensure we were following properly.
‘Pretending not to care while looking after us. Despite his grumbling, he really does worry about Diana.’
Indeed, if that weren’t the case, he never would have stepped forward to shield Diana in that moment from the past when no one else dared.
‘After all, chivalry isn’t some separate thing—it’s about protecting the weak.’
“Ugh.”
A small groan escaped my lips without my realizing it.
It was because I’d been walking faster than before to keep up with Jack ahead of me.
My calves ached terribly.
“Sis, I’m tired. Carry me, please.”
As if on cue, Diana also tugged at my sleeve and called me to a stop.
“Alright, I’ll carry you.”
I was just about to crouch down, thinking it best to return as quickly as possible.
“What are you doing? Why are you getting carried?”
Jack, who had been walking ahead, suddenly returned and grabbed my arm. Then he bent his back before Diana as if telling me to ride on him instead.
“No way! Sister is….”
“Sigh.”
Jack exhaled deeply, glared at Diana for a moment, then twisted his body toward me.
My eyes widened at the sight—though shameless, I’d been about to ask him to at least carry the freshly washed clothes and the water bucket.
His posture, with both arms spread back and his back exposed, unmistakably meant he wanted me to ride on him.
But why was Jack doing this in front of me?
“What are you doing? Get on.”
“Huh?”
“You carry her, and then you get on my back.”
“…What?”
What kind of nonsensical thing was he saying?
Even though I knew it was impossible given Jack’s serious nature in all matters, I laughed it off as a joke.
But there was no hint of playfulness in Jack’s dark eyes.
“Hurry.”
Watching Jack urge me again, I awkwardly scratched my cheek.
“Sis, carry me, please.”
And Diana was tugging at my sleeve too.
Would they resemble each other because they’d eventually become master and servant?
Seeing how stubbornly both of them held their ground without the slightest compromise, I had no choice but to nod.
It looked a bit odd and felt embarrassing, but it would be Jack who’d be doing the hard work, not me.
Wondering why Jack would go to such trouble, I picked up Diana.
“Now you get on too.”
I hesitated as I watched Jack bend before me, then slowly lowered myself as well.
As he carefully wrapped his arms around my neck from behind and hoisted me up, my vision suddenly rose with surprising ease.
“Wow, so high!”
Diana, perched on my back, giggled with delight.
* * *
The reward for enduring my embarrassment was as sweet as honey.
Fortunately, no one caught sight of our peculiar arrangement on the way, and I arrived at the Orphanage entrance without my body tiring in the slightest.
“Thank you, Jack.”
As I spoke with fidgeting fingers, grateful yet apologetic for the easy journey, Jack abruptly turned his head away without a word.
‘He certainly knows how to embarrass people.’
Yet considering how he carried me this way and even prepared bread for me, Jack was truly a good child—just taciturn by nature.
‘Yes, I should be mature about this.’
Though I was currently two years younger than him in age, I had lived until eighteen in my previous life, after all.
When I smiled brightly without heeding Jack’s reaction, his pupils dilated and I felt his breath catch.
‘Is my smile really that strange?’
It was then that I found myself absently stroking Diana’s hair.
“You two! Where do you think you’re wandering off to?”
The Director stood at the entrance, coat in hand, apparently preparing to go out.
“Eek! Scary mister! So dark! I hate it!”
Diana whimpered and buried herself in my arms.
Since she had always been frightened of the Director in the past as well, I hastily shielded Diana and spoke to the Director, whose eyebrows were twitching.
“We just finished the laundry.”
As I quickly lifted Diana’s dress hem to show him, the Director, who had been glaring at me with cold eyes for a moment, suddenly asked Jack an unexpected question.
“How old are you now?”
“…Ten years old, sir.”
“Mm, good. Very good.”
When Jack answered reluctantly to this cryptic question, the Director nodded with evident satisfaction, then passed by us and left the Orphanage. Like yesterday, he seemed to be heading out to drink.
“Hmm…”
I found myself wondering where the Director kept getting his money from.
“You should go inside now.”
It was then that Jack stirred me from my observation of the Director’s retreating figure.
Not wanting to trouble him further, I took Diana’s hand without complaint and headed toward our room.
Upon returning to the bedroom, the other children had already prepared for sleep. The moment I lay down on the bed, Diana, exhausted from the brief outing, soon began nodding off.
Watching her adorable form, I turned my gaze toward the window.
The sky had grown dark as the sun set.
And shortly after, once I confirmed that everyone in the shared bedroom was completely asleep, I quietly rose from my bed.
In the past, Duke Elrad had lost consciousness, found Diana and Jack trapped in the Attic, and swiftly disposed of the Director.
And now, I intended to protect Diana while ensuring the Director met the same fate.
‘And in doing so, I would also save the Orphanage children who would otherwise be cast into the streets for ignoring Diana.’
For someone who vividly remembered the miserable street urchin days of my past, this was something I absolutely had to do.
‘So I need to report the Director first and earn Duke Elrad’s mercy.’

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