I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 174

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I managed to defeat Lazarus, but I can’t beat these boys who are running around like crazy.

After playing with my three nephews, I was so exhausted that even though the ground was sandy, I just wanted to lie down first.

“Aunt. You only played for 40 minutes. Are you really going to be like this?”

“Filippo. Your aunt is dead.”

“Hyung. Aunt is too weak to play with us. It’s time to accept it.”

“Yosiyas. Do you want to get in trouble?”

“Aunt Mandy. Get up!”

When Edgar joined in too, I had no choice but to take drastic measures. Namely.

“No way! Lilliana is going to rest! I’m going to rest!”

Rolling around on the ground and throwing a tantrum.

Thanks to that, Filippo covered Edgar’s eyes and moved far away.

“Yosiyas. Let’s go. It seems like youngest aunt has gone crazy.”

“What did you say? What do you mean I’ve gone crazy!”

By the time I jumped up, everyone had already run away.

I wonder if they’ll remember how hard I played with them when they grow up.

They should grow up with their aunt’s generous heart engraved in their chests.

“Did you see? He looks exactly like His Majesty.”

“He’s the son born by the former Empress. No matter how you look at it…”

Suddenly I heard the palace courtiers whispering about us from afar.

Come to think of it, I wonder how big sister and Uncle Marius are doing.

Both of them are so busy they don’t even have time to sleep, so I doubt there’s been any progress.

‘But you never know with Edgar around.’

When I flopped back down on the ground, a shadow fell over me. Edgar was looking down at me.

“You said you’d take me along to do errands by your side.”

“I went to look for you but you weren’t in your room.”

“Because of the problem with Leo hyung’s ducal residence.”

Edgar sat down next to me, hip to hip.

Since I couldn’t lie on the sand forever, I slowly got up and dusted off my clothes.

“They said it would take at least a year to repair the manor, so we decided to lend him the manor where our parents used to live.”

“Right. He can’t stay at the Imperial Palace forever.”

It’s already been almost two weeks since the incident happened.

The adults were incredibly busy solving various problems from the collapsed manor to the victims’ funerals, backlogged paperwork, and joint training.

We started going back to school from this week.

But during every break, students from other classes and grades would flock over to look at me and Antonio before leaving.

“Those are the kids. The ones who eliminated Lazarus!”

“Neither of them looks that strong.”

“They must have used abilities. They’re from Trowance.”

The life of a superstar was harder than I thought.

Wherever I went, gazes followed and I heard whispering.

Edgar found the attention following him burdensome and skipped school altogether.

Understandably so, since the newspapers were still covering the Lazarus elimination incident.

Not just me, Antonio, and Edgar, but also big sister’s activities as the former Empress, Leopold’s swordsmanship as Knight Captain, youngest sister’s efforts as the Holy Maiden, and even Chris’s heroic aspects.

It was so embarrassing I wanted to hide in a mouse hole.

So we were all just waiting for the weekend to come.

“Oh right. Did you hear? Youngest sister and Uncle Francois told Chris to ask for anything he wanted as a token of gratitude. So he asked if he could work at the Magic Tower after graduation.”

“He’s my friend but I don’t understand him. Using such a great opportunity like that, is he an idiot?”

“But when uncle looked into it, he had already passed as a research assistant or something. So youngest sister decided to write him a recommendation letter for the Ability Research Institute next time.”

“Amazing, Chris Ruman.”

Edgar shook his head as if exhausted.

By my standards, Edgar was just as crazy about studying, so his reaction of being fed up with Chris’s news was funny.

“Let’s go. Antonio said it’s no fun playing card games with just two people, so he told me to bring you.”

Edgar, who had gotten up, extended his hand. When I took his hand, strong force pulled me to my feet.

“I ran too much and I’m tired, I can’t walk. Can’t you carry me on your back?”

“Fine. How many times do I have left?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t count.”

“Are you telling me to be your servant for life?”

When Edgar opened his mouth wide in betrayal, my chest felt stuffy.

Looking at Edgar, I realize that not all boys in the world are like Antonio.

Of course Edgar is also clever and quick-witted, but Antonio, who I’m comparing him to, was too exceptional.

“Did you come looking for me now not because you like me but because you’re my servant?”

“That can’t be right.”

“Right? That can’t be right? Then is it natural to make someone you like your servant? Or is it strange?”

“Ah.”

Edgar started blushing.

As if he still couldn’t believe we had started dating, he turned red whenever he got the chance.

Then like this, like now, he would shyly lift the corners of his mouth and look at me affectionately.

“You’re right. You’re correct.”

Is this how little sister felt when she met her hopeless brother-in-law Leopold?

Edgar wasn’t as purely gentle as Leopold, but sometimes he acted like a puppy wagging its tail non-stop.

“Let’s go. If we’re late, Antonio will get angry.”

“You don’t need me to carry you?”

“Thinking about it, I guess I don’t need it.”

I took the lead and started off quickly, but Edgar caught up to me in just a few steps.

With his gaze fixed on me as I walked looking straight ahead, he asked in a cheerful voice.

“Are you sulking?”

“No way.”

“Should I give you chocolate?”

“Am I a child? Tell me honestly. This is why you said you’d teach me, isn’t it?”

“Otherwise why would I do such troublesome work.”

“Troublesome?”

“…You’re both such a mess with the basics, it is a bit difficult.”

“That’s only for math!”

“Sorry, sorry.”

When Edgar apologized with a big grin, the irritation that had flared up for a moment subsided.

Antonio was in the middle of a card game by himself.

That is, he had sat a doll on a chair and was doing role-play.

“Ha! You bastard. This round is over.”

“What? Don’t tell me you have the joker?”

“I have an even more perfect plan than that.”

He’s my friend but he’s really amazing. I guess you have to know how to play like that to enter art school as valedictorian.

“As expected, you can’t do without me playing with you.”

“Why are you guys only coming now. I was so bored waiting I thought I’d die.”

“You didn’t look bored at all. Where did you get that doll?”

“I snatched it from Edgar’s room.”

“You went into my room again? I told you not to enter rooms without the owner!”

“Then you should have come early!”

While the two were arguing loudly, I pulled out the chair and retrieved the doll.

It was a doll so tattered it looked like what Antonio once described as a corpse crawling up from a grave.

The color had faded and its shape was a mess, but… it looked familiar. This was definitely…

“…Cookie?”

“What? Ah.”

Edgar immediately approached and snatched the doll away, hiding it behind his back.

Embarrassed, his face turned bright red for the second time today.

“Give it to me. I want to look at it closely.”

“No.”

“I said I want to see it.”

“You can’t. This really can’t happen.”

“Why? I’m the one who gave it to you.”

“It’s mine, so I’ll do whatever I want with it.”

Edgar stealthily moved toward the door to avoid me.

Then he sneakily shoved Cookie into his room and returned to sit down as if nothing had happened.

“Let’s just play the game quickly.”

“Ha.”

So this kid knew how to act so shamelessly?

Just as I was about to open my mouth to scold him, Antonio’s irritated voice telling us to finally play the game made me quietly shuffle the cards.

* * *

The moment the Waldrafen Estate was half-destroyed and Andrea fled to the Imperial Palace with Eddy, Eddy’s existence was as good as announced to the world.

“I was going to stay at a hotel, but the Imperial Palace seemed safest, so I had no choice.”

Edith also agreed with Andrea’s difficult decision.

When they later went to check the Waldrafen Estate directly, the traces of battle were vivid.

The mages from the Magic Tower clicked their tongues as they examined the minions’ corpses.

“It’s a miracle that no one died.”

Though luck had been on their side in many ways, I felt troubled because Eddy’s existence had been revealed.

I loved Marius and was thinking of giving him another chance. However, their lives were destined to run on parallel tracks.

Edith had no intention of quitting as an inspector, and Marius couldn’t escape from the throne.

“Uncle. Give me another piggyback ride. You said you’d give me one if I ate my peas well. I ate five whole peas at dinner earlier!”

“Really? You ate so much! Eddy is amazing.”

“Yeah. I am pretty amazing. So hurry up.”

Marius lifted Eddy up and placed him on his shoulders.

Having gotten used to piggyback rides, Eddy naturally held Marius’s hands tightly.

“Where shall we go?”

“Let’s go see Mommy!”

“Mommy? Mommy will be home from work in a little bit.”

Edith, who had been watching the two fondly from afar, deliberately made noise as she approached.

Then Marius approached her with an even more excited expression than Eddy’s.

“Did training go well?”

“So-so. Eddy, Uncle’s shoulders hurt. Come down quickly.”

“Uncle hurts?”

“It doesn’t hurt at all.”

“He says it doesn’t hurt.”

The two who looked exactly alike were looking at her with identical expressions.

For a moment, her heart swelled with emotion. She wondered if this was how her parents felt when they had and raised her.

“Before leaving the training grounds, I heard from my brother-in-law. He said strange voices are coming from the Council?”

With the forced revelation of their child’s existence to the world, the Empire’s Council had become noisy.

Claims were bubbling up that Eduard Berchio was a legitimate heir to the Empire since he was born before the divorce.

“Those bastards acting fearlessly isn’t just a day or two thing. The ones spouting nonsense will be getting tax audits starting tomorrow.”

Marius put Eddy down on the ground and looked at her with sweet eyes.

“Aren’t you tired?”

“I’m a little tired from pulling all-nighters for three days straight. Eddy. Play with Uncle for a bit. Mommy will wash up and come back.”

“Okay! Bye-bye.”

Unable to hug the child before washing up, Edith smiled bitterly and quickly headed to the bathroom.

As soon as Mommy disappeared, Eddy asked as if he had been waiting.

“Uncle. Are you Eddy’s daddy?”

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