The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 115

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Chapter 115
Shalone clenched her fists silently, tucked Bunny under her arm, and turned her body away with quiet resolve.
Thud!
As Shalone opened the Balcony door to step outside, her body collided head-on with someone trying to enter, causing her to stumble slightly.
“Ah…!”
Shalone let out a small cry, furrowing her brow as she finally looked ahead properly.
Thump.
“Oof!”
At the small groan coming from below, I lowered my gaze to find someone collapsed on the floor.
More precisely, they had landed hard on their backside and were now sitting firmly on the ground.
“Ah, my Lady. I’m so, so sorry.”
“…No, I should be apologizing.”
At the voice of the person sitting on the ground offering hasty apologies, Shalone suppressed her exhaustion and forced a smile as she responded.
‘Who is this?’
Even though Shalone possessed unusual strength due to her special origins, surpassing that of her peers among the Young Ladies, she found it hard to believe that a man with such frail constitution would be knocked down and sent sprawling to the floor merely from colliding with a young girl.
‘Golden hair?’
The moment she slowly blinked at the familiar hair color, the boy lifted his head.
A pallid complexion.
Golden hair.
Golden eyes.
“Ah…”
At the glittering appearance that reminded them far more strongly of the Emperor than even the Crown Prince, both Bunny’s and Shalone’s eyes widened simultaneously.
‘Simon Lotis…?’
‘Sparkle sparkle!’
Simon Lotis’s eyes widened dramatically upon seeing Shalone.
His pupils dilated fully, and soon his cheeks flushed a delicate shade of red.
‘His face turned red!’
Bunny spotted this with the keen eyes of a hawk and her eyes gleamed with delight.
At the same moment, Bunny, who had been squirming under Shalone’s arm, wriggled free and hopped down.
Then she rummaged through her pocket, pulled something out, and took off running.
Shalone’s eyes widened in bewilderment.
“Wait, what are you doing?”
Heh.
Bunny glanced back at Shalone with a snicker and thrust her thumb upward.
“Trust Bunny. Bunny save Shalone with big heart.”
Shalone’s eyes widened slightly.
What was she, that this creature kept insisting on saving her?
Yet she couldn’t understand why she kept being swept along by words that were hardly different from a child’s antics.
“That’s not… what I meant…”
“Shalone, marry this guy!”
“What…?”
The moment Shalone hesitated, Bunny—grinning with triumphant delight—shoved something directly into Simon Lotis’s mouth as he sat sprawled on the ground, then clamped both hands over his lips.
Simon Lotis’s eyes widened as the sweet aroma of chocolate bloomed across his tongue.
“Mmph!!”
Simon Lotis thrashed, desperate to escape Bunny’s grasp.
Yet despite exerting every ounce of his strength, he couldn’t break free—his eyes darting about in bewilderment as he struggled.
‘What kind of strength….’
Or was I simply that weak?
“Mmph, wait! Pah! Hold on, that chocolate….”
Simon Lotis, his expression flustered and his body still writhing, finally surrendered—swallowing the chocolate down his throat with a gulp.
Shalone blinked blankly, watching the scene unfold before her eyes.
What in the world was this ridiculous situation….
It was absurd that Simon Lotis, pinned beneath someone far younger than herself, couldn’t break free—and equally absurd that Bunny gazed at her with such proud, satisfied delight.
“What exactly are you doing…?”
Shalone stared at Bunny in bewilderment, then sighed and approached Simon Lotis.
“Are you alright?”
“What is it?”
Simon Lotis, who had been hanging his head as though dizzy, spoke with casual indifference and lifted his gaze.
He roughly swept back the hair that had fallen across his eyes, obscuring half his face—then paused and let out a soft chuckle.
“You’re beautiful.”
Bunny, who had been bouncing beside Shalone, sparkled with delight as she looked at Simon Lotis.
‘Shimung is completely different from before!’
Bunny pressed down on her racing heart, grinned mischievously, and quietly stepped back.
“…Pardon?”
Shalone, standing beside Bunny as she bounced with inexplicable joy, froze rigid.
Then the Witch’s earlier words came flooding back.
‘She said Simon Lotis was the way to extend my lifeline.’
That he held the method to cure Simon Lotis’s curse.
So the Witch had indeed told her to grow closer to Simon Lotis….
“Marry Shalone!”
Shalone recalled Bunny’s words from before.
The condition for her heart’s return was ‘to receive sincere love’.
But she hadn’t learned from the Witch exactly how much love was needed, or from how many people.
‘Could she possibly know?’
No, wait.
To know about the heart, one would first need to understand that she was an artificial being.
‘Surely… that can’t be it?’
As Shalone looked down at Bunny, her expression tightened with tension, and she swallowed hard.
“Why are you thinking so hard in front of me? I said you’re beautiful. Don’t you want to be mine?”
“…?”
The Boy approached with a chuckle, then suddenly brought his lips to the back of Shalone’s hand as he spoke.
Shalone regarded him with a slightly bemused expression as his face suddenly drew near.
‘Chocolate isn’t even alcohol….’
Shalone furrowed her brow in thought.
Just moments ago, he couldn’t even meet her eyes properly.
So he seemed quite timid, yet despite being of the Royal Family, he carried himself with considerable courtesy….
But now, whether from his disheveled hair or the slightly crooked tilt of his lips, he gave off a distinctly roguish impression.
‘The Witch told me to get along with him….’
He was certainly someone who would prove useful.
‘And since she told me to get along with him too….’
He couldn’t possibly be a bad person.
Shalone cast a slightly suspicious glance at Bunny, who was giggling with an oddly satisfied expression, before breaking into a gentle smile and opening her mouth to speak.
“What you just suggested might be a bit difficult, but I’d be happy to start as friends.”
“…Are you perhaps rejecting me?”
“Do you dislike being friends?”
Sensing their conversation wasn’t aligning at all, Shalone spoke with a forced smile.
Simon Lotis gazed at Shalone silently for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders and brought his lips to the back of her hand once more.
“Not at all. If that is what you wish, then perhaps starting in a different way wouldn’t be so bad.”
….
As Shalone frowned and glanced down at Bunny, the latter stood with an enormously proud expression, her chest thrust forward.
Her waist curved in an S-shape so pronounced it seemed it might snap.
There was no understanding what she found so worthy of pride.
‘Surely she’s not trying to trap me in something again?’
Shalone narrowed her eyes and regarded Bunny with an expression devoid of trust, then noticed Simon Lotis, whose demeanor had shifted a complete 180 degrees, and nodded.
“For now, perhaps we could go to the Reception Room together….”
Simon Lotis, who had been naturally grasping Shalone’s hand and pulling her along, suddenly staggered and came to an abrupt halt where he stood.
He stood motionless with his eyes closed, as though he had fallen asleep on his feet.
“…Excuse me.”
It was the moment Shalone approached the boy in alarm and called his name.
Simon Lotis suddenly snapped his eyes open, and upon seeing Shalone standing right before him, he drew in a sharp breath.
“Are you alright?”
“Yes? Yes? Oh, yes….”
The flustered boy began to wave his hand in response, but his movement froze abruptly. This was because something was grasped in the hand he had raised.
“Ah….”
It was a small, pale, and delicate hand.
Simon Lotis’s eyes widened as he traced his gaze along the pallid hand he was gripping.
“I’m… I’m so sorry!!”
Ahhhhh!</
Releasing her hand while letting out a cry, Simon Lotis's face, arms, and neck all flushed a brilliant crimson as he hastily stumbled backward until his back hit the wall.
"I'm, I'm so sorry, my lady! Did I perhaps commit some breach of propriety?"
"Oh, Shimung's chocolate ran out."
Bunny clicked her tongue sympathetically, muttering softly to herself.
'I only brought one chocolate bar….'
As Bunny glanced around searching for other chocolates, Simon Lotis looked down at her with a flustered expression.
The Boy's lips trembled uselessly for a long moment before he finally managed to open his mouth.
"H-how did Young Lady know that…?"
Simon Lotis stared at Bunny in shock as he spoke.
With a mischievous grin like a child plotting some harmless prank, Bunny's eyes curved into crescents.
"Bunny's a genius, so I know everything about you. I even know you fell for Shalone at first sight!"
"…What? Ahhhhh! N-no! I mean, it's not that it's not… it's just that… uh, uh…. No, it's not that I dislike the Lady or anything, absolutely not. But at first sight that…!"
At Bunny's words, Simon Lotis bounced in place and began stammering incoherently.
He waved his hands frantically in front of Shalone, then stomped his feet, and finally made a miserable face while shaking his head.
Unable to bring himself to lie outright, words tumbled out that were neither a proper confession nor a firm denial.
"So come stay at Bunny's house. Bunny will take care of you. You and Shalone can both be Bunny's."
Bunny suggested triumphantly.
Because to save Ho-Moong, I first needed to get Shimung healthy!
"What?!"
"Who's yours?!"
Just as Bunny, with a satisfied expression, was about to reach out and grab both of the shocked young people, her hand was suddenly seized.
Snap.
A hand extended from another direction firmly grasped Bunny's hand and pulled her toward itself.

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