I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 9

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“Ahh!”

The first thing I did after being discharged from the hospital and coming home was none other than taking a bath.

Since the hospital didn’t have a bathtub and I could only take simple showers, you can’t imagine how uncomfortable I felt.

Filling the bathtub with water, making lots of bubbles, and playing with a wooden duck was pure healing.

“Little one. Are you feeling good?”

“Yes! I feel so fluffy I could fly away!”

Liliana smiled as she gently dried my wet hair.

“Our Lilliana, let’s see how much you’ve grown!”

“I must have grown this much!”

I jumped up and spread my fingers wide.

Since I was much smaller than other kids my age, my dream was always to grow taller.

“Wow. Maybe it’s because you ate the hospital food so well, but you seem to have grown a lot?”

“Kyahaha! That’s right! I grew a lot!”

Excited, I hopped in place and ran to Liliana.

Liliana was sitting at the dining table reading a newspaper, looking very tired.

That was understandable since Liliana and Liliana had taken turns caring for me, and they had fought a lot because of me.

Since I started getting sick after meeting Francois Cassel, Liliana got angry asking if his magic was really helping.

Liliana said to just endure it a little longer, but she must have been very anxious inside.

Every time I woke up, I saw Liliana crying silently.

“Sister. I grew taller.”

“Taller?”

“Look carefully. I grew this much!”

“Hmm.”

Liliana looked down at me with a frown.

Hoping my sister would see that I had grown, I subtly, very subtly stood on my tiptoes.

Then Liliana smiled and said,

“You do seem to have grown a little.”

“Right? I’m going to grow tall like my sisters too.”

I clenched my fists in determination and sat next to Liliana.

The newspaper looked incredibly boring just by looking at it.

I tried to read the newspaper my sister was looking at, stumbling over the words.

“…The Emperor. Visits Troban, bancha. Afro. For two days, peace talks… Ugh, I don’t know!”

“The Emperor visited Trobancha. Peace talks are scheduled to be held for the next two days, with Marius II and Duke Baltrahen expected to attend this conference. Still, you’ve improved a lot. You read difficult words well too.”

“Hmph. I read 【The Adventures of Red Sheep Cocobom】 even better!”

“Yes, yes.”

By the way, The Adventures of Red Sheep Cocobom is my favorite fairy tale book.

Liliana focused on the newspaper again, and I took out paper and colored pencils to start drawing quietly.

Come to think of it, that’s right.

Since Rebecca Marchione, the original story’s heroine, died, the original story won’t begin.

Even though war is a political issue and I don’t know what will happen, at least the devastating situation like in the original story probably won’t occur.

Then one question arises here.

If the original story disappears, who will the male leads meet and marry?

‘Marius started a war to win the heroine’s favor.’

Conversely, if the woman he falls in love with this time desires peace, wouldn’t something like war not happen?

As for Francois… I hope that person meets someone more proper than anyone else.

If he meets the wrong person and his madness gets worse, he might go down the path of world destruction.

And the innocent pure-hearted man, Leopold, is really too good to waste on others.

‘I wish he’d get together with Liliana…’

Leopold was a protagonist who didn’t fit the genre of devastating reverse harem.

Leopold was someone who was blunt but kind, and loved purely like a boy experiencing his first adolescent love.

Being that kind of person, it would be so nice if he got together with one of my sisters.

‘First I need to meet the male leads… hmm.’

How am I supposed to meet the male leads attending the peace talks?

No matter how much things don’t go as planned in life, not being able to meet Leopold again would be really frustrating. So I moved my colored pencils vigorously.

“Waaah!”

Maybe because my touch was too rough, the paper tore with a rip.

I huffed and put the colored pencils back in their place to organize them.

Then I declared to Liliana,

“I’m going to the playground!”

At times like this, I need to go down the slide to my heart’s content to change my mood!

“Wait a minute. Go with your sister.”

“Am I a baby? Making me go to the playground with my sister.”

“You are a baby.”

“Hmph.”

My lips pouted out.

As Liliana prepared to go out, I quickly ran to the front door and shouted,

“I can go by myself!”

And then I ran off toward the playground.

My heart swelled with the thought of quickly going to ride the swings and seesaw…

“Huh?”

Why are Marius and Leopold at the playground again?

Was meeting the male leads such an easy thing?

Maybe they were waiting for me… no, that can’t be it.

“Oh? Little one! Are you okay?”

Marius, who spotted me, approached and asked.

“Little one, you were really sick. You seem to have lost weight.”

“I’m not sick anymore!”

“Really? That’s a relief. Did you eat?”

“Yes! I had corn cheese soup with bread dipped in it. I took my medicine well too? It was strawberry flavored so it was easy to take.”

“Oho. That’s impressive.”

“Right? But are you gentlemen lost?”

“Hmm? No. We’re not lost. We came to play at the playground.”

It’s too obvious a lie for men in their mid-twenties to say they’re playing at a playground when they haven’t even been drinking.

“Mister, why are you here? Adults don’t usually play at playgrounds. Were you waiting for me by any chance?”

“No? I wasn’t waiting for Lilliana. Right, Leo?”

At Marius’s question, Leopold stiffly nodded his rigid neck.

As my eyes narrowed, Marius giggled and roughly tousled my hair.

“Ack! Don’t do that!”

“Actually, we are lost. We’re hungry but have no money.”

Leopold poked Marius’s arm as if asking what he was talking about.

Actually, being an emperor and all, there’s no way he’d have no money.

“Really?”

“Really. This mister is a beggar right now, so I’m hungry and have no strength at all.”

Hmm. It seems like he’s trying to tease me again… but still, if his stomach is growling, I can’t just ignore it.

I put my hands on my hips, lifted my chin proudly, and shouted confidently to Marius,

“Then I’ll give you food! Let’s go to my house!”

It was Marius who burst out laughing, and Leopold whose pupils shook with an earthquake.

I squeezed between the two of them, held each of their hands, and led them both to our house.

It was a perfect opportunity to set up Leopold with Regina.

* * *

Regina, exhausted from nursing Lilliana for several days, lay on the sofa and yawned.

Emilia had missed going to the playground with Lilliana, so she prepared to go out and follow her youngest sister.

Just then, Edith, who had returned from her dawn shift, came out of her room and said.

“Emilia. I’ll go check on her.”

“Sister. Aren’t you going to sleep more? You must be tired.”

“You two took care of Lilliana’s nursing. Rest a bit today.”

“Hmm. Then sister, you go follow Lilliana. I’ll go to the library. There’s a paper I want to look up. I might be late, so eat dinner without me.”

Emilia left the house ahead of her sister.

Edith said to Regina, who was sprawled out from fatigue.

“Don’t lie around here, go inside and sleep.”

“If I sleep now, I won’t be able to sleep at night, so I’m trying to endure it.”

“Are you very tired?”

“No. I’m not tired, just…”

She was bothered by completely forgetting her appointment with Leopold while nursing Lilliana.

When she contacted the lodging belatedly, he had already moved to a different place.

All she knew about Leopold was his name and face, so finding a way to meet him again seemed distant.

‘It was just a mild interest anyway, but still, I keep feeling bad about it.’

It was a vague intuition, but she felt like she would regret not being able to meet Leopold for a long time to come.

Regina unconsciously let out a deep sigh.

“Regina. Is something wrong?”

“No. Nothing’s wrong, it’s just…”

She said that, but anyone could see she had worries from the way she was twirling her hair around her fingertips.

“Sister. I think I liked that man more than I thought.”

“That man?”

“Yeah. Someone I happened to meet…”

Actually, personality-wise, Leopold wasn’t Regina’s type.

She preferred people who kept conversations flowing endlessly rather than taciturn types.

The same went for appearance. Regina’s ideal type was a delicate, handsome man like Francois Cassel, not Leopold’s bold and sturdy style.

It was Emilia who would find Leopold appealing. But she couldn’t forget the moment Leopold was walking on the beach.

The sound of lapping waves and his quiet voice as he carefully struck up conversation.

His face turning bright red, not knowing what to do with her glances and casual words.

By the time their meeting was about to end, Leopold’s tanned face even had a boyish blush like an adolescent.

The man who was so shy despite his large frame had confessed more politely than anyone.

“Would you give me a chance to meet with you again, Miss Regina?”

It was nothing special as a sentence, but she had liked the simple sincerity that was conveyed in that moment.

But since there was no way to contact him again, holding onto this lingering attachment was meaningless.

“Hmm… It’s nothing. If we’re meant to be, another opportunity will come someday.”

Regina, having sorted out her emotions, quickly pushed Edith to go.

“Sister. On your way back, buy some grilled chicken legs from Aunt Olga’s beer house. Got it?”

Regina, who had efficiently requested snacks as well, saw Edith off to the front door.

When the bell on the front door rang with a clang, she saw Lilliana standing on a low wooden chair, trying to turn the door handle.

“Big sister!”

Lilliana, spotting Edith, excitedly ran into her arms.

And Regina froze like ice when she saw the man standing awkwardly behind Lilliana.

“…Mr. Leopold?”

“Miss Regina…”

Even when she blinked and looked again, it was Leopold.

Regina, realizing he wasn’t a dream or hallucination.

“Hup!”

Gasped in surprise and frantically fled to her room.

It was because she was in her pajamas with her bare face unwashed.

Lilliana, who knew nothing, explained to Edith, who was equally flustered upon seeing Marius.

“Uncle Leo and Uncle Marius are my friends, but they said they were hungry and lost and had no money, so I brought them!”

“Well, this is something. I never thought I’d meet Miss Edith again like this. You’re still so pretty, Miss Edith.”

Marius greeted her with a sly smile. Leopold apologized profusely, feeling sorry about the sudden visit.

And Edith sighed first, not knowing what to say.

Everything was a mess – from Lilliana bringing strangers home calling them friends, to the Emperor and Duke of Baltrahen who had followed recklessly, to her own situation of having to work on the weekend.

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