I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 57

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Right after Edgar left.

Marius asked Edith to look into Cookie’s whereabouts, then went to find Lilliana.

It was to sound out Lilliana on Edgar’s behalf.

“A child is a child, after all.”

“That’s right. I didn’t know Edgar would be so shocked over a doll.”

“Max. Do you think so too?”

“Yes! Lately Edgar has been—”

“He’s exactly seven years old.”

“That’s exactly what I was going to say!”

Until now, he thought Edgar was born naturally mature.

But after meeting Lilliana, watching them play and argue like children, he realized.

What an inadequate guardian he had been.

Because of his incompetent guardianship, Edgar could only now become a real child.

“I hope Lilliana isn’t too angry.”

Knock knock.

He knocked on the door, but no answer came from inside.

It wasn’t that there was no presence though. Rustling sounds came from the room.

“What’s our youngest sister-in-law doing? Can Pupu come in?”

“…”

“Are you still sulking because I teased you about being a pig squirrel this morning?”

Marius carefully opened the door.

In one corner of the large room, he could see a blanket bunched up in a round shape.

She’s sulking and won’t talk.

Thanks to their daily bickering and playing, he knew about 100 ways to cheer Lilliana up.

“Lilliana. Shall we explore the palace?”

“…”

“Or how about coloring?”

“…”

“Should we go see the puppies they keep in the stables?”

“…”

The blanket should have wiggled when puppies were mentioned, but there was no reaction.

This meant the situation was serious. Marius lifted the blanket.

Then Lilliana appeared, dangling from the blanket.

A messy face from crying out tears and snot. Eyes red like a rabbit’s.

Lilliana was crying.

“Pupuuu. Please help me. Edgar’s going to hate me. Waahhhhh.”

In crying Lilliana’s hands were only the stuffing that had fallen out and Cookie’s empty shell.

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Big sister is a wonderful hero.

She’s so wonderful that as the price for having great strength, she lost her crafting skills.

Little sister can make anything skillfully, but she seemed very busy lately.

Because she had to attend various social gatherings in place of big sister.

Youngest sister was as hard to see as when she was aiming for her youngest doctorate degree.

So I came to one conclusion.

‘I’ll fix Cookie myself!’

Since I just need to attach the ears, I can do that much.

‘If I just sew a few stitches on the ears, there won’t even be any trace of tearing!’

I clenched my fists and jumped up, heading to little sister’s room.

I brought a sewing box from little sister’s drawer and started ‘fixing Cookie.’

“Hmm… this is a bit difficult.”

Threading the needle was hard.

My hands were trembling so much that the thread wouldn’t go through the hole.

And since ears are small parts, just a few stitches would surely fix the torn parts without any trace.

After struggling for a while with puffed cheeks, I succeeded in getting the thread through the needle hole.

Phew… that was hard.

“If I do this like this, it should work, right?”

I stabbed the needle through Cookie’s torn head with a poke!

I connected the thread that went through to the ear too and attached it this way and that way, but…

“Huh?”

Cookie’s head got pulled toward the ear. Like it was forcibly stretched with a rubber band.

Okay. Let’s try again!

“Huh?”

This time the ear stuck to the forehead. This is bad. It became a monster!

“Ugh…”

The tattered fabric tore slightly.

When I tried to rub and force it to stick, stuffing poked out from inside.

After struggling like that, Cookie eventually became…

“Wahhhhh. Pupu. What should I do? Our Cookie became a dried lemon. Waaahhh.”

I clung to Marius’s arm and shed tears.

It wasn’t plump and had no ears either.

This was my younger sibling that I lovingly and carefully raised!

“So this is where it was.”

Marius muttered quietly and wiped my face roughly with his sleeve.

His touch was clumsy and rough, but I didn’t mind that.

“It’s okay. Lilliana, stop crying.”

“S-stop.”

“Brother-in-law will fix Cookie, so don’t worry.”

“Are you good at sewing, brother-in-law?”

“I’m not.”

“Waaahhh! Cookie! Sister is sorry!”

“Instead, I can find someone who’s good at it. They’ll fix it back to normal.”

“Sniff… R-really?”

“Of course.”

“Can I trust you?”

“You can’t trust your brother-in-law?”

Maybe Uncle Leo, but I’m not sure about trusting Marius…

When I hesitated to answer, Marius wiped my dry eyes.

“You don’t trust me. Since Lilliana doesn’t trust her brother-in-law, I can’t just help carelessly.”

“Th-th-that’s…”

Sigh.

How can a grown adult be so petty?

As the mature one, I should tell a white lie for Cookie’s sake.

“I-I-I trust you!”

“Really?”

“Yeah… r-right… I can trust… I think? I’ll sniff try.”

“Yes, yes. Blow your nose.”

Sniff!

I thought it was fortunate that I didn’t notice Marius changing the subject while blowing my nose.

Watching me, Marius wrinkled his nose.

What? That expression is the face he makes when he finds something fun to tease me about. That’s when it happened.

“Ahem. Hmm. Lady Lilliana.”

Max, who was beside us, cleared his throat and directed my attention.

“Just wait an hour.”

“Huh?”

“Actually, if I have the materials, it won’t even take an hour. This much is nothing.”

Marius raised his eyebrows.

Max took the cotton and fabric that used to be Cookie from my hands.

Then he checked for extra cotton and fabric in the sewing box and began treating Cookie.

“If I add ribbon over the torn fabric, it’ll be even cuter and cover the worn material.”

Max was clearly an expert, even to my untrained eyes.

Poke poke. He casually stuffed in cotton and cut and attached fabric pieces.

His sewing was as skillful as a machine. Cookie was fixed swish swoosh in no time.

In the blink of an eye, more perfectly than anyone else could have done.

Marius, amazed, praised him with a slightly dazed expression.

“Max. I didn’t know you had such talent.”

“I have quite a bit of expertise in this area. Here you go, Lady Lilliana.”

I touched Cookie, who had become even cuter than before.

The cotton was well-stuffed, making her plumper than before, and she no longer looked hurt.

When I rubbed my face against Cookie’s pink head, I felt her soft texture.

“Our Cookie, you suffered so much because you met the wrong sister…”

Suddenly, light sparkled brilliantly behind Max.

Max might be a saint who heals heroes.

“Max is the best! You’re the coolest person in the world!”

“Hey. Lilliana. Your brother-in-law who employs Max is the coolest.”

“Mister! Next time I get chocolate without my sisters knowing, I’ll give it all to you! You’re my friend forever!”

Whoosh.

I rushed to Max and hugged him tightly. I hoped my overwhelming feelings would reach him.

“Haha. Next time you have something to fix, don’t cry alone and come find me. I’m pretty good at sewing!”

Just as Max was proudly wiping under his nose.

“Your Majesty!”

The door burst open and another secretary appeared.

For some reason, his face was pale.

“Does being my sister-in-law’s room mean you can open the door without permission?”

When Marius warned in a heavy voice, the secretary hurriedly apologized.

“I’m sorry. I’ll correct this. Lady Lilliana, I apologize! But Your Majesty, you need to come quickly.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Well…”

When the secretary glanced at me to check, all the adults went out to the corridor.

After a moment, Marius came to me and said.

“Your brother-in-law has work to do and needs to go. Edgar will be back soon, so go to Edgar’s room and play together.”

“Okay. I understand. If you’re busy, it can’t be helped. Go ahead.”

After waving goodbye to Marius, I ran hurriedly.

I planned to put Cookie back and play innocent before Edgar returned.

‘He didn’t seem to notice that Cookie was missing yet.’

I ran until I was breathless and shoved Cookie into Edgar’s wardrobe.

“Huh?”

There were crumpled letters inside the wardrobe.

Given Edgar’s personality, he would stack things like this neatly in drawers, wouldn’t he?

I shouldn’t have, but curiosity made me sneak a peek at just the top letter.

I’m worried that your brother seems completely infatuated with a foreign woman and can’t come to his senses.

No matter how well His Majesty takes care of Edgar, he’s still your brother.

I plan to come up soon, so pack your bags.

“Ba-bags?”

The sender was someone called Duchess Ecroyd.

I don’t know who she is, but she seems like Edgar’s relative or elder…

‘Could it be that Edgar and I are going to be separated?’

Then I heard footsteps outside. Light and quick – it was definitely Edgar.

I quickly threw the letter back to its original place and threw myself onto the bed.

At the same time, Edgar swung the door open.

“Huh? When did you get here?”

Edgar looked at me with a surprised face.

Roll roll. Both Edgar’s and my eyes rolled at the same time.

‘He must be watching my reaction because he’s hiding the fact that he’s leaving the palace with his family elder.’

Thinking that I wouldn’t be able to eat meals with Edgar or run around the palace together anymore made me a little sad.

“Why, why are you like that? Don’t tell me you’re not going?”

“What?”

“I, I did that…”

Edgar’s face suddenly turned pale.

I’m the one staying at the palace, so why is he acting like that?

The guy tried to hide by opening the wardrobe door and squeezing himself inside.

“What are you doing? Stupid asparagus.”

“Huh, huh? Huh! Huh huh!”

Gasp. What? Did he notice I touched the letter?

My conscience pricked me for no reason and my heart pounded.

Edgar took out Cookie with a flushed face.

“This is here…”

“Huh, huh huh?”

I didn’t do anything!

I forced the corners of my mouth up to look as harmless as possible. But cold sweat trickled down my back.

Why does his expression look so serious?

He didn’t notice that I tore Cookie’s ear off, did he?

I tensely watched Edgar’s reaction.

Edgar also glanced at me and let out a small sigh.

“…Thank goodness. She doesn’t seem to know…”

“What? I didn’t hear you.”

“The, the puppy at the stables. We decided to name it, remember?”

“We did.”

“How about Willy?”

“Gasp. That sounds good?”

“Then let’s go give Willy some treats!”

“Okay!”

Not knowing what had happened because of my accident of tearing off Cookie’s ear, I played with Edgar to my heart’s content until we were both covered in puppy fur.

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