I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 41

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“You’re really going to do this…?”

Max, Marius’s chief aide, muttered with a soulless expression.

Somehow, every time I see Max, the dark circles under his eyes seem to have dropped lower.

Last time I saw him, they at least stopped at his cheekbones, but now they’ve descended to the bridge of his nose.

Next time we meet, will they have reached his chin?

“You know the rules of territory conquest, right?”

Marius, dressed in comfortable clothes, approached me.

“Hmm, not really.”

“Oh my. You’ve never played it? What have you been doing without trying this fun game?”

“I’m a child! I might not have tried it yet.”

“That’s right, you’re still a little squirt, so you might not know. Right?”

Stomp. I stepped on Marius’s foot with force.

I hoped he would quickly take back his little squirt comment, but Marius didn’t seem hurt at all and shrugged his shoulders with an annoying expression.

“Weak punch and weak feet. It doesn’t hurt at all.”

“It, it doesn’t hurt? Really?”

“What should I do? I need to feed our youngest sister-in-law more. With weak punches and weak feet, when will you become a warrior?”

“That can’t be… How about this?”

I tensed my body to put more strength into my foot.

My head was getting hot, but Marius just giggled.

Disappointed, I plopped down on the ground.

This can’t be. At this rate, won’t Edgar steal my leader position?

I pouted my lips and spoke sharply to Marius.

“Hmph. Just hurry up and play the game.”

“Upsy-daisy.”

Marius lifted me up in one swift motion and pointed to the open field in front of us with his other hand.

I struggled, telling him not to hold me because I was upset about how he treated Edgar badly.

Marius didn’t care and tightened his grip on me.

“This whole area is the game field.”

Marius is probably the only emperor who would use a corner of the Imperial Palace as a territory conquest game field.

Marius drew two round circles on the ground, put me down in one circle, and entered the other one himself.

“That’s the little one’s house, and this is my house. When you win rock-paper-scissors, you can draw a circle outside to expand your territory.”

“It sounds boring. You’re just expanding land.”

“Hey. You can draw circles to steal the opponent’s land too. If you steal all of uncle’s land, I’ll grant you one wish.”

“If uncle steals my land, I have to grant your wish too, right?”

“That’s right! If I win, the little one has to admit that her future brother-in-law is handsome and repeat ‘Future brother-in-law is handsome!’ three times.”

“What’s that!”

I got angry, but Marius pretended not to know and shouted.

“If you don’t play, you lose! Rock-paper-scissors!”

“Paper!”

Phew. I almost lost by not playing anything.

I shouted paper, but actually threw rock, beating Marius who threw scissors.

I stretched my arm as far as possible from my house and drew a line on the ground with a tree branch.

Wondering if this was right, I glanced back, and Marius was grinning.

The servant men had pale faces as if they’d witnessed something terrible.

‘Huh?’

One servant kept wiping his eyes as if he couldn’t believe the situation, then looked at me and Marius again.

What on earth has this man been doing with his life to react like that?

“You really said you’d grant my wish? Even if you regret it, I don’t care.”

“Oh my. I’m an emperor, so I’m not scared of a little one’s wish at all.”

How annoying. Anyway, he won’t win even once.

“If you don’t grant my wish, I’ll bite you! Rock-paper-scissors!”

I won this time too.

I moved to the territory I conquered earlier and drew another line on the ground.

“Rock! Paper! Scissors! I won again.”

I threw scissors and shook my winning hand in a V-shape, making Marius puff out his cheeks.

It’s no use pretending to be upset. Only Antonio can use that method.

Marius continued to lose five more times in a row after that.

He still couldn’t escape from the small circle, while I now had to run all the way back to the starting point for rock-paper-scissors.

“Why are you so good at this? I didn’t hear from Edith that you were good at rock-paper-scissors.”

“Because all I do is eat and practice rock-paper-scissors!”

How could an emperor who escaped childhood long ago compete with an active player who plays rock-paper-scissors with Edgar ten times a day?

Hehehe. I laughed wickedly and shouted.

“Rock-paper-scissors! Oh, I lost!”

“Woohoo! Great!”

Marius was so happy about winning for the first time that he swung his fist in the air and yelled.

Max turned around in horror as if he’d witnessed a scene of blood relatives kissing.

The servant men gasped and held their breath.

Marius, holding the tree branch, said confidently.

“Phew. Little one, prepare yourself.”

“Huh? Prepare? …What is this!”

With his much longer arms than mine, Marius drew a line and claimed in one go the territory that would take three rock-paper-scissors wins to secure.

And he took the land around my house!

“Hehe. Do I look impressive now?”

“You look despicable…”

“Pfft!”

It was Max who burst into laughter.

When Marius turned his head, Max quickly composed his expression and pretended he hadn’t laughed.

For Max, who was struggling to manage his expression, I quickly shouted.

“Rock-paper-scissors!”

“Yes! I won again!”

Marius cheered.

* * *

I, Lilliana Berchio.

At 6 years old, I discovered a universal truth.

The world is unfair!

What’s the point of winning overwhelmingly?

The territory I desperately won, Marius takes it all at once with his long limbs.

Nothing was eternal. My land could be stolen by Marius at any time.

“Grrrr.”

I’ve won twenty-four times and lost six times so far, but all my territory has been devoured by Marius.

I was planning to get revenge for Edgar by winning.

Looking at my territory that had been completely exposed, I wanted to cry bitterly but held it in.

“Leo…”

Just then, Leopold, who came looking for Marius with documents in his arms, understood the situation from my desperate call and frowned.

“Leo. Relax your face. You do that every time you see me lately.”

“Do you want to beat a child that badly?”

“The world of competition must be cold and ruthless.”

“No… I’m just a child. Do you want to be cold and ruthless to a child?”

Facing the thirty-first round of rock-paper-scissors, I fell into doubt about whether I should continue this game.

At this rate, I’d either achieve a hollow victory with nothing but wounds, or lose and have to shout three times that Marius is handsome.

“My arms are short!”

“How despicable.”

“Right! I was despicable!”

“And ugly.”

“Ugly!”

I quickly added force to Leopold’s criticism.

I ran over to Leopold and clung tightly to his legs.

Leopold was the only person I could trust.

Leopold startled when I clung to him, then very carefully patted my head.

“We’re best friends! Right?”

“Yes. We’re best friends.”

“See? So now I want to make Leo my proxy. From now on, Leo will draw lines instead of me.”

“That sounds good. Lilliana. I’ll take away all of Marius’s territory for you. My arms are longer than that guy’s.”

“Great!”

Marius’s consent wasn’t necessary.

If he didn’t allow my proxy, he’d become utterly shameless.

“Where did our long friendship go? You bad guy.”

“If you weren’t His Majesty the Emperor, I would have thrown a punch right now.”

Leopold’s eyes flashed as he gritted his teeth.

So Leopold and I became a team and the game resumed.

“Wow! It reaches that far in one go!”

Leopold’s arms really were long.

Seeing the line drawn so refreshingly far made my chest feel like it would burst open.

“Waaa! As expected of Leo!”

Following Leopold’s opinion, we took the strategy of eating Marius’s territory. In an instant, we reclaimed the land.

“Kyaa! I like Leo the best in the whole world!”

How could we steal away all of Marius’s territory and end the game in just ten rounds?

Plus, we gained quite a lot of new territory too.

I jumped up and down and hugged Leopold tightly, and he awkwardly hugged me back.

Marius watched me and pouted his lips as if feeling left out.

“I’m the one who played with you, but how can you like Leo more?”

“Are you a child? Why are you getting jealous?”

Tsk tsk tsk. When I clicked my tongue, I heard a familiar sound from above – “Kheup!”

It was the sound Marius always made when he covered his mouth to hold back his explosive laughter.

Still, being the Emperor, he doesn’t seem to act like this when working, but he acts childishly like this whenever he sees me.

Really, he’s an incomprehensible person.

“You admit I won, right?”

“Puhheup. Of course. Keup! I admit it.”

“Good. Then I’ll tell you my wish right away.”

“What is it? Is there something you want? A dollhouse would be fine, or if you want to raise a puppy—”

A dollhouse…! A puppy…!

Just imagining it made me laugh. Those are such good ideas…?

I quickly covered my mouth. Otherwise, I might unknowingly beg him to get me a dollhouse.

“Building a secret hideout in a tree would be fine too.”

“Heooo… That sounds so good…”

“Really? Then let’s go with that—”

“No! Still, not that!”

Get it together, get it together!

I slapped my cheeks with both hands to regain my senses.

Leopold gently caught my hands to stop me from slapping my cheeks.

“You seem to have something you really want.”

“Uh, yeah… there is. You know, you’ll really grant anything, right?”

“Hmm? What is it? I’m the Emperor. I can do anything.”

If I use this as my wish, won’t Marius get angry?

I’d never made this kind of request before, so my heart was pounding.

Tap. Tap. I tapped the floor with my shoe.

Marius silently waited for my request.

With the same feeling as when I spilled paint on the floor and waited for my sisters to come, I whispered my wish to him.

“Then please don’t restrict our Edith’s abilities.”

When I squeezed my eyes shut, my heartbeat felt even clearer.

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