Everyone Was Obsessed With Me After I Became the Youngest Princess Favourite - Chapter 63

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“Sword training?”
“That’s right. You haven’t seen it yourself, have you? How nimble and quick this one is. If she learned swordplay, she’d be flying through the air.”
Allen suddenly interjected, embellishing the old tale of how I’d thrashed the servants with exaggerated flair.
“It wasn’t really that impressive….”
I cautiously tried to interject, but Taize was scrutinizing me with fresh skepticism in his eyes.
“Truly? With such a small frame, I wonder if you could even wield a sword.”
“It’s true! And besides, it wasn’t a sword—it was a comb.”
“Ha ha. That’s right, now that I think about it. Well, if you make a sword thin and light enough….”
Taize nodded to himself while stroking his chin, then suddenly posed a question to me.
“Lia, why don’t you learn swordplay from me?”
“Pardon?”
It was my daily routine to fall behind my peers and endure grueling special training from Master, and now they wanted me to experience that again between two prodigies?
I quickly shook my head in refusal.
“Then at least self-defense techniques….”
Taize called out to me with lingering regret in his eyes, but I firmly turned away.
I already had all the physical techniques memorized in my mind and planned to train alone later.
‘That much should be enough to protect myself.’
Then I suddenly noticed Jack, who had been sitting silently with his mouth firmly shut all this time.
“…Jack?”
Even when I called him, Jack simply stared at me with a dark expression and said nothing.
I tilted my head for a moment, then easily deduced the reason.
He’d noticed my situation early on and asked several times if there was anything he could do to help, but now that this had happened, he was both angry with me and felt an unwarranted sense of guilt.
‘His sense of responsibility is just too strong.’
There was no need for it at all—Jack was simply too kind.
“Jack, come here.”
I called him again and gestured, and Jack obediently bent down.
“Thank you. I’m so glad you’re here.”
I said this while gently stroking his gray hair.
“…!”
In an instant, Jack’s body went rigid, and his entire face flushed a deep crimson from his neck upward.
At this startling change, Allen frowned as if witnessing something unseemly, and Diana cried out, “Sister, what about Dana?!”
“Of course, the young lady as well. I was able to endure because I care for you so much.”
“Hehe, Dana loves sister so much too.”
Diana giggled and threw herself into my arms.
Seeing this, Taize let out a stifled sound and suddenly clutched his chest.
It seemed our Diana was quite endearing to his eyes as well.
That was when it happened.
“Um….”
A new Maidservant carefully entered through the open door.
“What is it?”
Allen, whose face had been brimming with mischief just moments before, now fixed the Maidservant with a cold stare, his tone dripping with icy disdain.
“It’s just that the Adjacent Room is all prepared, miss. We could move you there right away…”
The Maidservant’s voice grew smaller and more timid as she trailed off, her body shrinking inward.
Allen turned his head sharply toward me and asked.
“What do you want to do? Move now? Or rest first if you’re tired?”
His gentle demeanor—so starkly different from how he’d just addressed the Maidservant—caught me slightly off guard, and I answered accordingly.
“I’ll move now.”
Truth be told, I hadn’t said anything, but being settled so firmly in the Duchess’s Bedroom and receiving visits while bedridden made me deeply uncomfortable. However, the moment I tried to rise, the room began to spin.
“Ah, you can’t move suddenly like that.”
Taize clicked his tongue in disapproval, then threw back the blanket and scooped me up without so much as asking my opinion.
“Ah, sir!”
Startled, I grabbed his shoulders and looked up at him, only to see Taize’s face contort in shock.
“Good heavens! Lia, you are human, aren’t you? How on earth are you this light? You’re lighter than a feather!”
“That’s not the issue here! What if you drop me suddenly!”
“Not the issue? Then what is the issue? From now on, whether it’s swordplay, magic, or medicine—you need to eat more. Physical strength is the foundation of everything you’ll learn.”
“You’re sneakily throwing swordplay in there too.”
I shot him a pointed look with narrowed eyes, and Taize burst into laughter.
“Regardless, this way is better. You can’t be walking around right now.”
His firm tone left me no choice but to nod in agreement.
Besides, I was barefoot without shoes, dressed only in a white sleeping gown, so walking would have been embarrassing anyway.
‘Well, since this body is still a child’s, I’ll just bear with it.’
I swallowed my embarrassment and leaned against Taize’s body.
That’s when I noticed Diana, who was sitting on the bed, blinking her eyes rapidly.
“Would you like a ride too, miss?”
Taize chuckled at being treated like a beast of burden, then extended his other arm.
Diana, who was often carried around by the Duke anyway, squealed with delight and bounced into Taize’s embrace.
“Ugh.”
Taize’s brow furrowed and he let out a pained groan.
“I let my guard down… I didn’t expect… Surely the young miss is even smaller. Why…”
Taize’s eyes trembled as if an earthquake had struck them.
I nearly burst out laughing, so I quickly turned my head away—and saw that Jack and Allen were also fighting hard to suppress their laughter, their lips pressed tightly together.
“Pfft, pffahahaha!”
I couldn’t hold back any longer.
As I broke into laughter, Diana, oblivious to the reason, bounced excitedly on Taize’s arms.
“Ugh, young miss…!”
Taize let out a short sigh, but Diana didn’t hear it.
And so we made our way downstairs, riding on Taize, toward Diana’s room.
“Kyaa! So high, so high!”
Diana, who had been bouncing with her arms raised, sparkled her eyes as she spoke.
“Sister, I remember that!”
“What do you mean?”
“Jack carried me and Dana somewhere fun and burned things!”
“Oh!”
Diana’s words suddenly sparked a memory, and I gasped in surprise.
“Young Miss, you remember that?”
“Dana is so smart!”
Diana lifted her chin with an arrogant expression as she spoke.
I offered genuine admiration.
“Truly. You’re remarkably intelligent. Our young miss really is a genius.”
“Of course! Whose little sister am I, after all?”
Allen, who had been following us, added his own boastful comment from behind before asking in a quieter voice.
“But what exactly did Jack do?”
I hesitated for a moment, wondering if I should share the story of Diana’s time at the Orphanage in front of Allen.
But since he seemed unbothered by Jack and me now, I thought it would be fine.
“When we were living at the Orphanage before, the young miss and I went to a nearby Lake to do laundry.”
“Laundry?”
“Yes. The young miss’s clothes had gotten dirty. Anyway, we were hungry and the path was rough, so the journey back was quite difficult. Jack carried both the young miss and me all the way back to the Orphanage. In one go, no less! Isn’t that amazing?”
As I smiled and looked at Jack, his neck flushed red once again.
“Both of you at once?”
Taize, who was currently holding both Diana and me in his arms, asked in surprise.
I explained earnestly, moving my hands to show how Diana had clung to me while I was carried by Jack.
Though the image of being carried that way was rather ridiculous, looking back on it now, it was such a fond memory that I couldn’t help but grow excited.
I glanced at Allen to gauge his reaction, and while he’d been asking enthusiastically at first, now he seemed lost in thought about something.
“He must not have eaten well back then. I’m amazed he had the strength for it. Truly impressive.”
“It wasn’t much. Lia was just so light.”
Jack replied quietly to Taize’s comment.
At that, Taize laughed heartily, saying that was certainly true.
Then, abruptly, his smile vanished as if he’d seen a ghost, and he stopped walking.
“I greet the Young Duke.”
Since Taize was holding Diana and me, he could only offer a silent bow as a sign of respect.
Only after seeing Taize transform instantly into a composed knight did I notice Lucio standing in the Corridor.
‘How long has he been there?’
Surely he hadn’t heard me excitedly boasting about being carried by Jack.
Having already shown him embarrassing moments multiple times, including yesterday, I inexplicably disliked appearing childish in front of Lucio.
“You shouldn’t be moving about when your body hasn’t fully recovered.”
Lucio, who had approached without warning, furrowed his brow.
“Where are you taking her?”
“Lia’s Room is ready, so we’re moving her now!”
“Room?”
“Yes. It’s the Adjacent Room to Diana’s!”
It’s the room across from mine, Allen said, glancing at me sideways.
He seemed to be looking for some kind of reaction, much like I had moments before, so I tilted my head in confusion.
“Then I’ll come along too.”
That was when Lucio said something unexpected, looking at me.
“I brought the books you were reading. I thought you might be bored.”
Though you don’t seem like it.
At his parting remark, I finally noticed the stack of books Lucio was holding.
They were all ones I’d been reading in the Library.
Normally I would return books to their proper shelves after finishing them, but yesterday I’d gone to the Dormitory to fetch some stationery while in the middle of reading, and I remembered leaving them on the table.
Bewildered by this unexpected kindness, I watched as Lucio’s gaze fixed upon Diana, myself, and Taize.
Taize flinched slightly, his body trembling, before asking carefully.
“Miss, are you going to see the Young Duke?”
“Hmm?”
Diana, who had been nestled quietly against Taize, tilted her head at the sudden question.
Then, looking at Lucio and saying “Brother?”, she obediently reached out and let him hold her.
Lucio held the books in one hand and Diana in the crook of his arm, his expression utterly unchanged, yet the sight was quite pleasant to behold.
Taize too seemed to release a tension he’d been holding, exhaling quietly where no one could notice.

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