The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 116

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Chapter 116
“Wait! Just a moment, Bunny.”
Roel’s expression seemed oddly urgent.
“Roel?”
“What are you talking about? Bunny is supposed to be mine alone, isn’t she? Why do we need him?!”
Bunny, whose hand was clasped with Roel’s, blinked her eyes.
“Roel, Bunny is yours, right?”
“But why him?”
Roel pointed at Simon Lotis with an uncertain gaze as he spoke.
Simon Lotis stood there with his mouth agape, looking utterly bewildered.
He was frantically waving both arms at Shalone, shaking his head insistently as if to deny everything, stammering excuses in complete disarray.
“I was planning to have him be Bunny’s too, starting today.”
“Wait, so you’re saying I’d be marrying both you and him? The Empire officially practices monogamy, you know?”
At Roel’s sudden question, Bunny tilted her head in confusion.
After all, the person Si-Mung was to marry had already been decided as Ho-Mung, and Bunny’s future husband had already been determined as well.
‘What is monogamy anyway?’
Roel always says such strange things.
Even as she thought this, Bunny opened her mouth to reassure the anxious-looking Roel.
“Bunny is marrying Roel, though?”
“So, so you’re saying you’ll marry me but cheat with him…?”
Roel’s eyes glistened with a tremor in his voice, his eye sockets flushing slightly red.
“Cheat?”
“So you marry me, but outside you play with him? You both eat delicious things together, hold hands, kiss, watch plays together, take naps together…?”
Roel, who had been muttering softly, suddenly gripped tightly.
The hand clasped with his squeezed firmly.
“Roel?”
Of course, Bunny felt no pain whatsoever. After all, Bunny was far stronger than Roel.
“Huh?”
The moment Bunny looked up with wide eyes, a dark shadow fell over Roel’s head.
Tap!
At the faint, stinging sensation touching his crown, Roel flinched and looked up.
Roel’s eyes, flushed red at the corners, widened in surprise.
“Mother….”
“What on earth are you doing here without even noticing your mother entering, Roel?”
Only then did Roel look around his surroundings.
The hall had grown quite silent, and he could feel numerous gazes from all directions.
Coming to his senses, Roel rubbed his reddened eyes with his sleeve and shook his head left and right.
“I was just having a brief conversation with Bunny.”
Roel carefully released Bunny’s hand as he spoke.
For now, they had to proceed to the Upper Seat that had been prepared, so they couldn’t linger here any longer.
That made sense—the Banquet Hall couldn’t begin until all members of the Royal Family had arrived and taken their seats.
“See you later, Bunny.”
Roel rubbed his eye sockets and turned away with an air of composure, but Bunny caught his wrist with a sharp tap.
“Roel.”
Startled by the sudden grip, Roel’s eyes widened and he turned to look at Bunny.
“Huh? What?”
Bunny gazed at Roel for a moment, then opened her mouth.
“You know? Bunny does marriage, playing, eating yummy things, theater, napping, and hand-holding with Roel. Not with Si-Mung.”
Roel froze at Bunny’s words.
His eyes widened slightly, and soon his face brightened considerably.
Kiriel Yudia, who had drawn near, watched the Empress let out a soft laugh and quietly pressed his forehead with his hand at the sight before him.
‘A love triangle….’
Well, one couldn’t exactly call it a love triangle with an eight-year-old, but if these children were older, this situation would certainly have drawn considerable attention.
He shifted his gaze to Simon Lotis, who stood bewildered before Shalone, then turned again to look at Roel, whose crimson eyes were now gleaming with emotion.
‘…I hadn’t wanted to become deeply entangled with the Royal Family.’
At this rate, the only Young Girl in the Family would end up connected to the Royal Family entirely.
“Of course, since Bunny is incredibly charming, Si-Mung will become Bunny’s too, but Bunny’s number one is Roel.”
Bunny wiped her nose and shrugged her shoulders as she answered.
Overflowing confidence was a good thing, and thinking about it, there wasn’t really anything wrong with what she said….
Even as a Father, I had to admit there was something slightly irritating about it.
“I’ll try even harder! So I can be your one and only number one!”
But the Crown Prince didn’t seem to mind.
“Mm. But… Bunny, you’re so incredibly charming that you’re super popular, right?”
“Then I’ll just become a charming Crown Prince too!”
Yes, perhaps the biggest problem here was my own daughter.
Kiriel swallowed a sigh as the conversation drifted in an increasingly strange direction.
“Aren’t they adorable?”
At the Empress’s words beside him, Kiriel glanced at her and spoke with an expressionless face.
“My daughter is rather adorable, yes.”
“My son is adorable too. Look, the way his cheeks are flushed red.”
“My daughter is more adorable. …In her own peculiar way.”
Kiriel answered the Empress and strode toward Bunny. The Emperor’s gaze from behind felt quite intense.
“A charming Crown Prince?”
“Yeah. I’ll become a charming Crown Prince and make Bunny my one and only number one, so how about you make me your one and only number one when I become a charming Crown Prince?”
“When Bunny becomes a big grown-up king, Bunny will be an incredibly charming woman… Ow!”
A sharp sensation struck her head, and Bunny grabbed her crown with both hands, lifting her head.
“Bunny, stop filling the Crown Prince with strange ideas and come here. The Banquet Hall can’t start like this.”
“Bunny didn’t fill him with strange ideas. Bunny just said that when Bunny becomes a big grown-up king, Bunny will be a charming woman….”
“Stop saying strange things.”
“Eep!”
Kiriel lifted Bunny effortlessly into his arms and placed a piece of chocolate into her mouth.
“Pop pop, chocolate!”
Cradled in Kiriel’s embrace, Bunny’s eyes sparkled as her feet kicked with delight.
“You understand? Stay calm and quiet.”
“Okay!”
Kiriel gently adjusted Bunny’s position, turned his body, and cast a sidelong glance at Simon Lotis—who was still offering excuses for the tenth time—before extending his hand toward Shalone.
“Come here, Shalone.”
Shalone’s eyes widened slightly as she saw Kiriel’s outstretched hand.
“…Yes.”
With a small nod, Shalone turned to look at Simon Lotis and bowed her head slightly.
“Well then, I should be going.”
“Ah…! Yes, I did keep you here too long, didn’t I? I’m so sorry. I was rambling terribly. I was flustered and… I’ll come find you properly later and apologize again.”
Simon Lotis rubbed his face roughly and let his bangs fall forward as he spoke, causing Shalone’s expression to darken slightly.
She had already grown weary of his apologies over the past ten minutes.
“No, I’ve received enough apologies. I’m fine now.”
“Then…”
“Next time, I’d like it if you invited me simply as a friend.”
At Shalone’s words, Simon Lotis’s eyes widened, and soon his cheeks flushed crimson.
The boy, whose face had turned so red it seemed ready to burst, nodded repeatedly.
“Yes, yes. I’ll make sure to do that.”
Watching this scene from Kiriel’s arms, Bunny smiled contentedly.
‘Bunny, the wonderful cupid of love.’
It was absolutely not because she was curious about what Shimung would be like after eating chocolate.
Bunny wore a pleased smile as the chocolate melted on her tongue and began to pop delightfully, then she froze.
“…”
Standing before the door leading to the terrace, the White-Haired Woman was gazing at Bunny with a meaningful expression.
‘The woman who was with Ho-Moong earlier.’
There was something tingling and strange about her—a presence similar to Luriel’s.
She studied Bunny with that meaningful gaze for a long while, then slowly turned and left the Banquet Hall.
“What exactly are you? Could you be… a possessor?”
Bunny, clinging to Kiriel’s neck with her cheek resting against his shoulder, recalled the question that woman had asked earlier and blinked slowly.
‘A possessor…’
It was an unfamiliar yet strangely familiar word—one she felt she had heard somewhere before.
‘A spinning chair…?’
…That couldn’t be it.
Bunny was a grown-up now, so she wouldn’t fall for such wordplay.
Bunny tilted her head and slowly closed her drowsy eyes.
“You know, Young Master? At first, I didn’t understand why I had to possess such a pathetic extra character with no name and suffer like this… But after meeting you, I think I’m beginning to understand.”
“Hmm?”
“It’s fine. I’ll make sure to make you happy no matter what, Young Master. So please… be my salvation.”
“Oh!”
A memory from her earliest childhood—so distant she could barely recall it—suddenly surfaced, and Bunny’s eyes sparkled with recognition.
‘Possession!’
Luriel had mentioned doing something called ‘possession’ as well.
Bunny tilted her head in confusion.
‘What is possession?’
Bunny decided she would ask Luriel about it when she returned home today, and slowly nestled deeper into Kiriel’s embrace.
‘So warm.’
His arms were always so comforting, no matter when she sought refuge in them.

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