I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 1

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Prologue.

The original genre was definitely a tragic reverse harem.

A hellish tragedy where the male leads would even wage war to win the female lead’s heart, but she never gave her heart to anyone until the very end.

But at some point, the genre changed.

It seems like it started with the death of the original female lead… but even so, could things really change this drastically?

“Magnificent, isn’t it?”

Francois Cassel cast a brilliant illusion magic, making translucent whales and schools of fish fly through the air.

Francois was a genius magician of the century and the current head of the Magic Tower, one of the male leads who held the position of a madman in the original story.

And now he was also my prospective brother-in-law who had written a marriage contract with my youngest sister Emilia.

I gaped at the illusion magic he cast, then belatedly shouted.

“Yes! Amazing! Really amazing!”

“Then Lilliana. Try calling me oppa.”

“Huh, what?”

“Repeat after me. Op―pa.”

Francois lowered himself to meet my eye level.

When his angelically beautiful face was thrust right in front of me, I gasped and felt breathless.

Even though I saw his face every other day, he was so handsome that I still couldn’t get used to it.

“But youngest brother-in-law isn’t oppa, he’s brother-in-law, right? Lilliana has a separate oppa.”

“It’s fine. Since we’re family, Lilliana is also my little sister.”

“I think our oppa won’t like it…”

I hesitated and delayed my answer.

Francois did his best to win my favor, but I was a little scared of him.

In the original story, he was a character who suffered from madness and drove me, a supporting character, to the edge of a cliff.

He was a cruel person who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals, so I naturally became tense.

But I couldn’t bring myself to call him oppa as he wanted because I felt sorry for Andrea oppa, my real brother.

It was obvious that my youngest sister would hate it too.

‘Youngest sister is really scary when she’s angry.’

So I jumped up from my seat to avoid the situation.

“I want to go play!”

“Lilli, Lilliana―!”

I left behind my prospective youngest brother-in-law calling for me and ran down the corridor to ride the swing in the garden.

Then I suddenly misstepped and twisted my ankle.

“Uwah!”

Just as my body was about to fall forward, I was suddenly lifted into the air.

“Huh?”

When I opened my tightly shut eyes, I saw strong hands that had caught me.

There was only one person around me with hands so full of scars.

“Little brother-in-law!”

“I told you not to run in the corridors because you’d fall.”

His blunt voice made me feel deflated, so I mumbled my response.

“Mm-hmm. I won’t do it anymore.”

“Good, good.”

My little brother-in-law’s name was Leopold von Waldrafen, who was handsome in a masculine way but had a large scar across his face.

He was one of the male leads in the original story and possessed the strongest military power in this world.

Since Leopold was one of the strongest in the worldview, his height and build were extraordinary, so he would lift me up like a doll even though I was already seven years old.

Even now, he grabbed my feet and gave me a piggyback ride on his shoulders.

“Where were you headed? I’ll take you there.”

“I want to go to the garden! I want to ride the swing!”

The little brother-in-law I had observed closely over the past few months was a deep and thoughtful person.

He was also the one who installed the swing in the garden for me.

So I really liked my little brother-in-law.

The only problem was that he was slightly sulking at me for acknowledging Francois as a brother-in-law.

Still, I was trying hard to get along well with my little brother-in-law.

Since little brother-in-law wanted my attention, I had to understand him.

“Where was little brother-in-law going?”

“I was on my way to find Miss Regina.”

“Little sister?”

“Yes.”

My little sister, who was Leopold’s wife, got along better with little brother-in-law than expected.

Because she had a cheerful and bright personality, she proactively led the relationship with little brother-in-law.

Most importantly, little brother-in-law liked our sister so, so much.

Little sister really liked brother-in-law too.

“Lilliana.”

Little brother-in-law’s voice calling me was more serious than usual.

That’s why my heart was pounding.

“Mm-hmm.”

“…Among the brothers-in-law, I’m your favorite, right?”

Huh? For a moment I wondered if I had heard wrong and tilted my head.

Not the eldest brother-in-law or youngest brother-in-law, but little brother-in-law was saying such things?

But to check if it wasn’t a hallucination, I leaned slightly to look at little brother-in-law and saw his slightly reddened face.

Pat.

I placed my hand on little brother-in-law’s cheek.

I and little sister were probably the only people in this world who could touch the face of Leopold von Waldrafen, known as the most fearsome man in the Empire.

“Little brother-in-law is a fool.”

You just didn’t say it, but you wanted to become close with me?

Then my little sister Regina suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor.

“Little one. You were here? His Majesty arrived an hour early, so we’ll all be dining together soon.”

At Regina’s gesture, little brother-in-law put me down.

Then little sister made her characteristic nasal sound and asked.

“Hmph. What were you two playing?”

“…It’s a secret.”

“We’re best friends! We share secrets!”

When I firmly grasped little brother-in-law’s calloused hand and shook it confidently, his eyes subtly wavered.

Little brother-in-law had gone through male-dominated environments like boys’ boarding school and the knights’ order, so he was particularly surprised whenever I casually touched him.

He said I looked so small and fragile that he might hurt me if he didn’t control his strength properly.

I’m already seven years old, so I’m not a baby anymore!

Little sister stroked my head and said.

“Don’t fight with Edgar today. Understood?”

“Edgar is stupid.”

“Little one. Friends should get along well with each other.”

Edgar was little brother-in-law’s cousin who lost his parents at a young age.

Because of that, little brother-in-law acted as his guardian and raised him, so he lived together with us in this house.

“He’s not a friend, he’s a subordinate. He follows me around every day.”

I quickly ran to the kitchen because I thought little sister was going to nag me.

When I opened the dining hall door and entered, I saw eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law, who was the Emperor, who had just arrived from the Imperial Palace and hadn’t even sat down yet.

“Eldest sister―!”

I quickly ran to eldest sister and hugged her.

My sister hugged me tightly with all her strength, happy to see me after a week.

Then she spun me around once in the air.

“How have you been?”

“Yeah! I ate delicious food every day, learned to read and write, and slept well!”

“Really? Then you must have grown a lot taller?”

At my eldest sister’s question, my eldest brother-in-law who was beside her said playfully.

“She doesn’t seem to have grown taller though? She’s still a shorty.”

“I’m not a shorty!”

“But you are? You’re definitely a shorty? You only come up to here.”

When my eldest brother-in-law waved his hand around his waist level, heat rose to my face.

“Ugh…! I hate you, eldest brother-in-law!”

“You shouldn’t hate me though?”

“No. I’m going to hate you, eldest brother-in-law! Bleh!”

When I stuck my tongue out, my eldest sister giggled.

My eldest brother-in-law laughed somewhat frivolously with a “wahaha” and said.

“Since you stuck your tongue out at me, you’re banned from entering the Imperial Palace for a month!”

“Gasp!”

Being banned from the Imperial Palace meant I couldn’t go see my eldest sister.

When I gasped in surprise and covered my mouth with my palm, my eldest brother-in-law laughed gleefully.

“If you admit you’re a shorty, I’ll cancel the entry ban.”

“Uh, uhh…”

I looked back and forth between my eldest brother-in-law and eldest sister.

Even though my eldest brother-in-law was the emperor, he had no cool aspects and his words and actions were as light as a sparrow’s.

He was definitely the obsessive mad emperor in the original work, but now he was like an unemployed delinquent who only called me a shorty whenever he saw me.

If he weren’t the emperor, I’d want to stomp on his foot hard.

But the wife of such a person was our eldest sister, the kindest, prettiest, and most wonderful person in the world.

Not seeing such an eldest sister until a month later…

“Ugh… Fine. I’m a shorty…”

When I admitted defeat, my eldest brother-in-law smirked and suddenly spoke in a solemn voice.

“Since you honestly admitted it, I’ll issue a command for my youngest sister-in-law.”

“Huh? A command?”

“It’s an imperial decree. My youngest sister-in-law will live in the Imperial Palace receiving princess treatment.”

“Huh? Me?”

“You’ll live in the Imperial Palace starting today, so know that.”

I was so shocked that I covered my mouth tightly again and looked at my eldest sister.

My eldest sister seemed to already know, nodding with a gentle smile.

I was about to jump up and down excitedly at the thought of seeing my eldest sister every day.

Crash!

A sharp shattering sound echoed through the dining hall.

Edgar, who had been in one corner of the dining hall, had dropped the water cup he was drinking from.

“You, you, you…”

Edgar, who had turned pale, ran toward where I was.

Edgar rushed at my eldest brother-in-law without hesitation and rammed his head into his stomach.

“Oof!”

While my eldest brother-in-law made a gasping sound, Edgar shouted.

“She’s my subordinate! If you’re taking her, take me, the captain, too!”

“Why would I go with you! Stupid Edgar, bleh!”

“Brother! I want to live in the Imperial Palace too! If you don’t take me… I’ll never see you again!”

Edgar was also the cousin brother of my eldest brother-in-law, that is, Marius von Chemelhofen, the emperor of this country.

My eldest and youngest brothers-in-law were related by marriage, and Edgar was a child born between the Imperial Family and the Ducal House.

At Edgar’s outcry, my mischievous eldest brother-in-law’s eyes sparkled.

He stroked his chin with his hand and drew out his words.

“Should I?”

“No!”

I quickly made an X sign with my arms to my eldest brother-in-law, opposing it.

Then Edgar put his arm around my shoulder and shouted.

“We’re soulmates! Where I go, she goes, and where she goes, I go too!”

What is this kid saying!

I was about to shout angrily that it wasn’t true, but my eldest brother-in-law smiled brightly and said.

“Good! If you’re soulmates, we can’t separate you.”

“No, no way…”

I looked back and forth between Edgar and my eldest brother-in-law, and not knowing how to react, I decided to deploy the shameless strategy.

Which was to lie down on the floor and cry.

I buried my face in the marble floor and flailed my arms and legs.

“I don’t want to!”

It had been a whole year since I came to the empire.

I had gained three brothers-in-law who hadn’t existed before, and Edgar, my friend and subordinate, followed me around every day.

My eldest brother-in-law, who had been an obsessive male lead in the original work, teased me calling me a piglet squirrel or shorty whenever we met.

My youngest brother-in-law, who had shown devoted pure love, subtly claimed with a stoic face that he was the number one brother-in-law.

My prospective youngest brother-in-law, who had been like a mad villain, made a fuss trying to win my favor whenever he saw me.

‘The time when just the three of us sisters lived together was the best.’

It wasn’t this hectic every day back then.

Who would have known.

That the three male protagonists who had been obsessed with the original female lead would marry our sisters.

Though it was five hundred times more fortunate that it was our extraordinary sisters who were with the male leads.

‘How did it come to this.’

I had hoped the original story would be twisted, but I hadn’t done anything.

The original female lead just suddenly died one day.

Right in front of me, too.

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