The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 195

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Chapter 195
The Emperor regarded Bunny with an expression that seemed to say, “Where does this girl come from?” before letting out a hollow laugh. Even he, who had grown up surrounded by countless rare treasures his entire life, found her behavior to be on an extraordinary level.
“I even cast protective magic in case she threw tea water at me….”
“Where on earth did you read about this?”
At the Emperor’s question, which dripped with exasperation, Bunny retrieved something else from her Subspace and unfurled it before him.
“Novels, Your Majesty.”
Third-rate romance novels that commoners read.
Rosalind silently took the book and skimmed through it. After turning the pages quietly for a long while, she finally spoke.
“May I borrow this, dear?”
“…Rosalind?”
“Ah, yes! I borrowed it from my Sister, but that shouldn’t matter, right?”
This time, Bunny pulled out a stack of novels from her Subspace and piled them to one side. The Emperor looked at her with a slightly bewildered expression, but Rosalind said nothing.
“I shall speak with the Marquis separately soon regarding the marriage of you two.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Bunny rose from her seat and gazed at the two of them for a moment.
Their feelings toward each other had once been complex and sharp-edged, but now the two of them had become considerably softer.
“I want to have the same kind of love that Roel and his parents share.”
At Bunny’s words, both their gazes turned toward her.
When Roel looked at Bunny with a puzzled expression, she grasped his hand firmly and smiled.
“Of course, I don’t want the kind of sharp, painful emotions like before. But now… it’s become so gentle and soft that I love it.”
“…You’re noisy. Now go.”
Rosalind looked at Bunny and quickly issued her dismissal.
At that cool voice, the Emperor suddenly turned to look at Rosalind and froze. The nape of her neck and the tips of her ears had flushed a very faint red.
“….”
The Emperor silently turned away.
For a long time, they had lived in cold distance and pretense toward each other. Rosalind, when she was Empress, had been sensitive, and the Emperor had been too busy to accommodate that sensitivity.
Then when the Empress fell gravely ill once, he nursed her by her side and they gradually grew closer… and before he knew it, they were living in the same Castle.
He had certainly intended to divorce once his role as Emperor was fulfilled.
“Yes, go on inside.”
The Emperor gently squeezed Rosalind’s hand as he spoke. Rosalind’s body trembled slightly. Yet she did not pull her hand away or avoid him.
‘Goodness, at this age, I might even have a daughter.’
With that thought, he saw the two young people off.
Once outside, Bunny came to an abrupt halt beneath the bright Moonlight and retrieved something else from her Subspace. It was a small, square box.
“Roel.”
At the same moment, Roel’s eyes widened dramatically.
“Wait! I have something to say, Bunny.”
“I have something too…?”
“Let me go first. Please.”
If he lost this moment as well, there would be nothing left of his pride as a lover.
Roel hastily searched his inner pocket and pulled out a small box.
In the heart of the Imperial Palace.
The moonlight was brilliant, and there was no one around.
He dropped to one knee at once and opened the box, extending it toward her.
Inside lay an exquisite ring adorned with diamonds.
“Bunny, will you marry me? I promise to stay by your side until my last breath. No matter what happens, I won’t leave your side… I promise to look only at you for the rest of my life…”
Roel’s face began to flush a deep crimson.
“…So, spend your whole life with me. Even if I might be weaker than you in some ways… I’ll make sure not to fall short in other aspects…!”
“…Roel?”
“Actually, I originally planned to… set the mood properly first… but it seemed like you were about to propose yourself.”
Bunny’s eyes widened slightly as she watched Roel, his face like a tomato about to burst, tumbling out his words.
She hadn’t expected this.
Bunny tossed the box containing the ring she’d taken out back into the Subspace.
The corners of Bunny’s eyes curved upward in a smile. She liked how Roel knelt on one knee before her, his face flushed crimson, yet didn’t avert his gaze—meeting hers directly.
He was always kind and gentle.
Bunny didn’t know the precise definition of love. Not the love of a father, nor the love of older brothers—but the love of the opposite sex.
It was possible she hadn’t yet experienced such a thing.
“I’ll make every day thrilling for you. So you’ll never tire of me… You don’t have to love me right now. Not until someday, when you can truly love me with all your heart…”
Roel’s eyes grew intense.
At the sight of Roel speaking with a clear voice despite his face looking ready to burst, Bunny’s own cheeks warmed slightly.
“I’ll be by your side. Always. I’ll make you fall for me more with each passing day…”
Thump. Thump.
Her heart began to race.
Bunny hesitantly placed her hand over her chest. It was something that happened occasionally when she was with Roel—her heart beating this rapidly.
“So let’s live together.”
She could see her fingertips trembling slightly. Looking closer, even her fingertips were flushed.
Bunny didn’t truly understand love. It had all started with simply liking Roel and wanting to be together with him going forward. Roel probably understood that too.
Yet despite that, the boy had kept a promise made six years ago.
If this—hearing her heart race so loudly—was what love was, then perhaps Bunny’s love could only be for Roel.
So Bunny smiled more brightly than anyone else and took the box containing the ring he offered into her hands.
“Yes. Let’s live together, Roel.”
At Bunny’s words, Roel’s face brightened instantly.
“I want to marry you too, Roel.”
Roel nodded with a beaming smile.
With trembling hands, he carefully slipped the ring onto Bunny’s finger.
“Yes, let’s. I love you.”
“Yes.”
Roel pulled Bunny into a tight embrace.
It had been a long anxiety.
What if she didn’t return? How much longer would he have to wait? Yet despite it all, Roel had waited for Bunny, clinging only to her promise to return.
And in the end, Bunny kept that promise.
“I love Roel too.”
If I had to spend my entire life with someone who wasn’t family or a friend, I wanted it to be Roel.
It had been decided long ago.
“Roel is mine!”
Perhaps from that day when I saved him, from the moment Roel said he was mine.
“Yes, that’s right.”
Bunny pulled Roel into an embrace, burying her face against his chest. She didn’t dislike the rapid, thundering rhythm of his heartbeat. His heart echoed the same frantic pulse.
I wished that we were the only ones capable of creating this sound in each other’s hearts.
“I’m yours, Bunny.”
At his whispered certainty, Bunny’s eyes widened in wonder.
In the pitch darkness of night.
Beneath the luminous moonlight.
Their lips met slowly, lingering for quite some time.

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