I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 104

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Chris’s cheeks had become gaunt in just a week.

“It’s unrealistic. How could I possibly break the Marquis’s seal?”

“I’m just asking you to try.”

“But no matter how I think about it, it’s too dangerous.”

“Earlier you said you couldn’t break the seal. Then it’s not dangerous, is it?”

“Th-that’s…”

Chris, defeated by my logic, pressed his temples with an even more gaunt face than before.

I placed my hand on Chris’s shoulder with a thud.

“Chris. Let’s just try it once.”

I don’t expect ten-year-old Chris to actually break Francois’s seal.

I just feel like I need to do something to ease my mind.

Chris briefly contorted his face as if about to cry, then quickly pulled himself together and explained about magic.

“I’ve been researching seal-breaking magic for a week. I don’t think I can directly break the Marquis’s seal. So I’ll go around it…”

Chris showed me seal-breaking books stacked as high as he was tall and continued his confusing explanation.

I barely managed to hold onto my bewildered mind and listened.

“So to summarize, instead of breaking the seal, you’re going to collide multiple magic formulas that contrast with the seal and cause cracks in the weakest part of the seal’s magic formula?”

“Right! But it’ll take a long time. Since I’m still young and clumsy, I can’t quickly layer advanced magic.”

“That doesn’t matter. Just hurry up and start.”

As I sat on the sofa clutching a cushion, Chris gulped down a mana enhancement potion.

“Chris, even though you say you don’t want to, you’re really trying your best at this, aren’t you?”

Drinking that awful-tasting potion for my sake. I was truly moved.

I decided to let Chris win at least three times the next time we all gathered to play games.

“I-I’ll start now.”

“Okay!”

Unlike Francois, who skipped parts of incantations and cast magic with just light gestures, Chris recited every spell from beginning to end.

Chris’s voice was quite calm despite being a child’s.

Like his meticulous personality, his pronunciation was also clear.

I didn’t know what the ancient language Chris was chanting meant, but I could feel a determined energy dwelling in the slowly rising characters.

The letters intertwined like a dense forest, gradually gaining strength bit by bit.

As Chris’s magic grew longer, the magic formula in the shape of golden chains inside me rumbled and revealed itself.

The magic formula Chris created sometimes mixed with the seal formula and separated like oil and water, and other times they tangled together before snapping apart with a pop.

Then at some point, the magic formula and seal formula collided and resonated.

Shiver.

A strange feeling made my shoulders tremble slightly. But that was all.

“Haa.”

Chris broke out in cold sweat and slumped to the floor.

Four whole hours had already passed.

To concentrate for four hours at only ten years old was remarkable, even for a born genius.

“I can’t do any more. I’m sorry I couldn’t break the seal.”

“No. Chris, you did your best. I’m the one who should thank you for trying so hard.”

I handed sweet chocolate to the exhausted Chris.

Chris hurriedly melted and ate the chocolate while I crouched down beside him.

“Chris. You’re really a wonderful and amazing apprentice. You materialized Uncle Francois’s seal formula.”

“R-really…?”

“In ten years, you’ll be able to completely shatter seal formulas. Thank you so much for trying today.”

After thanking Chris several times, we played card games together and had a hearty lunch.

Then it was time to go back.

‘I don’t want to return to the palace.’

I didn’t want to see Marius yet. Same with Francois.

Actually, I didn’t have the confidence to face either of them nonchalantly.

After pondering briefly in the carriage, I asked the coachman.

“Please take us to my older sister’s house.”

Does Leopold also know the original story?

If even Leopold knew the original and approached me, I think I’d resent this world quite a lot.

‘But it’s not certain yet.’

I can go test the waters today.

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I opened the manor door and shouted loudly.

“Baby! Auntie’s here!”

Soon I heard footsteps from the corridor where the playroom was.

They couldn’t run around pitter-patter like me yet, but they were quite energetic footsteps.

“Lili! Lili came!”

“Aunt Lili!”

Filippo and Yosiyas ran toward me with bright smiles.

Being fraternal twins, their faces weren’t as similar as other twins.

The older brother Filippo was the spitting image of Liliana, while Yosiyas looked like a copy-paste of Leopold. Perhaps because their appearances were different, their personalities were also quite different.

“Filippo. Yosiyas. Didn’t you miss Auntie?”

“Mm-hmm. Didn’t miss you!”

Filippo grinned mischievously with sparkling eyes.

Meanwhile, Yosiyas clung to my back as I crouched down and wheedled.

“Love Auntie. Auntie play with me.”

“Mm-hmm. Okay. Oh, Auntie brought candy for the babies!”

I took out the tongue candy I had left over after sharing with Chris and Helene last time.

“But since Filippo said he doesn’t like Auntie, I don’t want to give it to him.”

If it were me, I’d panic and say ‘Huh! No, can’t I have some too?’ but Filippo was an extraordinary baby.

Smooch.

He kissed my cheek and hugged my neck tightly. Then he rubbed his face against my nape and said.

“Love little Auntie. Love you!”

At times like this, Liliana becomes a little scary to me.

How did she give birth to a son so exactly like her?

Even when I try to show my aunt’s dignity with a hmph, my heart melts away.

“Fine! You two have to share it later! Got it?”

“Mm-hmm!”

“Yes!”

“And from now on, Auntie is a carrot monster that eats Filippo and Yosiyas! You better run away! Graaawr!”

As I raised my fingers and roared, Filippo and Yosiyas screamed “Kyaaaa!” and ran down the corridor.

I pretended to chase them slowly while making loud stomping sounds.

Soon I saw Liliana coming out of the distant playroom with a tired face.

“Hello, big sister!”

After waving to Liliana, who looked too tired to even greet me, I chased after the twins down the corridor.

The two had gotten quite far ahead while I was momentarily distracted.

“Graawr! The carrot monster will make Yosiyas eat spinach! And steal Filippo’s toys!”

Filippo, who had been running down the corridor, suddenly stopped and turned around. Then Yosiyas also stopped his pitter-patter escape.

“Yosiyas. Let’s defeat the carrot monster!”

“Good, Filippo!”

Filippo ran toward me.

He resembles Liliana, making him cute and lovable with a slender build, but I know.

That Filippo possesses monstrous strength just like his father.

“The carrot monster won’t back down!”

I spread my arms wide and hugged the charging Filippo tightly.

Filippo squirmed in my arms and pinched my arm hard.

He’s only 24 months old, yet I don’t know how he can be this strong.

On top of that, while Filippo was distracting me, Yosiyas rammed into my side.

“Ahhhhh.”

My body toppled over sideways. I held Filippo tight, worried he might get hurt too.

“Hup!”

My arm and back that hit the floor hurt so much. Tears welled up, but I held them back. Because.

‘I won’t cry over something like this! I’m an aunt!’

There’s only an 8-year age gap, so they seem to think of me as more like a big sister, but I can’t lose my dignity by crying like this.

‘I need to show them an aunt’s dignity!’

So I widened my eyes and pretended nothing happened while tickling the twins.

Then the two giggled and escaped from me, exchanging glances with each other.

Despite being so tiny, when I see them like this, it seems like they have their own little world.

“Yosiyas! Let’s go!”

“Let’s go!”

The two charged at me once again. This battle was the carrot monster’s defeat.

After playing with the twins and lying sprawled in the corridor, Leopold, who had just returned from work, found me.

“Lilliana. You’ll catch a cold lying on the floor.”

Leopold helped me up and dusted off my skirt.

“Where’s Regina?”

“Liliana is bathing the babies.”

“She could have the maids do it, but she’s doing it herself again.”

“Filippo didn’t want to take a bath.”

“Lilliana. Aren’t you upset about being left alone like this?”

“No. I’m all grown up. I’m not a baby anymore. I’m a dignified aunt!”

To show what a wonderful aunt I am, I straightened my shoulders and puffed out my chest.

Leopold tidied my hair and then picked me up, carrying me to the living room.

After setting me down on the sofa, he went inside and brought back some medicine.

“Hm?”

“You have a bruise on your arm. Filippo did this again, didn’t he?”

Ah. It must be an injury from when I fell earlier.

Leopold gently applied medicine to my arm where a blue bruise was forming.

Seeing Leopold being so caring despite his stoic nature made me feel like I might cry for some reason.

“You love our sister, don’t you?”

“Of course. I love her more than the babies.”

“Really?”

“Yes. I could even swear to it.”

“Didn’t you like anyone before you liked our Liliana?”

“Has puberty already started? Well, girls do hit it early.”

When Leopold scratched his cheek with an embarrassed expression, I tapped his muscular arm and urged him on.

“I asked if there wasn’t anyone.”

“There wasn’t.”

“Really?”

“Lilliana. Do you remember the first day you met me?”

“Mm-hmm. We met at the playground!”

“That day I fell in love with Regina at first sight. Before meeting Regina and after, there’s no one I love as much as her.”

In his eyes that curved sweetly, drunk on love, I couldn’t find a trace of lies.

That full and confident appearance couldn’t be an act.

‘He doesn’t remember.’

What a relief.

That I don’t need to hate Leopold too.

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