The Youngest Member Filming a Parenting Show is Adorable - Chapter 187

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【Interlude Chapter 19】
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The performance was, unfortunately, a resounding success.
No, even that fails to capture it.
Patronage poured in exceeding what a major Theater Troupe could earn in an entire year.
It was because the stage apparatus Kaiser had personally designed shattered every convention that had come before.
Horses and carriages thundered across the Audience Seating, scattering particles of light. Flowers bloomed at the feet of the spectators, their fragrance lingering in the air.
An actor who had been standing upon the Stage suddenly rose from among the audience, reciting their lines—and the crowd erupted in ecstasy.
“Can you believe it? The shock! A new form of theater! Every magazine and newspaper speaks of nothing but Kaiser.”
“Absolutely. Congratulations!”
After the first performance concluded without incident, Kaiser found himself surrounded by admirers in his Salon.
Congratulations and champagne flowed without end.
It was a moment of joy, as if drowning in dark chocolate.
Thereafter, Kaiser devoted himself entirely to designing the theatrical Stage.
The Elders Council wept with joy at even this, for since he had become absorbed in theater, he had at least abandoned gambling.
Though he still neglected his duties just the same.
But once the second performance concluded triumphantly and preparations for the third began, the Elder Council itself grew uneasy.
Was he truly not going to marry?
“Ahem, Household Master. You still do not sense your Companion’s presence?”
“No, I don’t sense it.”
“Truly?”
The question came with suspicious eyes, but the answer was dismissive.
Wholly unconvincing, yet what could be done? He claimed to sense nothing.
‘A Companion? I have no desire to be bound by such things.’
After the Elder meeting concluded, Kaiser stretched languidly and wandered into the Garden.
His unwavering denial in that meeting was, of course, a lie.
He had been sensing his Companion’s presence for a very long time.
From a very, very distant place, a faint voice calling to him.
‘So what of it?’
A Companion of Bijou.
If that bond were to form, he would have to abandon everything his life had been.
No—he would be forced to abandon it.
He did not wish for that.
Things were perfect as they were. Why change?
He was neither lonely nor solitary. He had no desire to cling to anyone, nor to give everything to a single person.
He loved the life of a butterfly, flitting from flower to flower.
Naturally, he harbored no wish for children.
His parents had long since passed, and in Laximon he had no siblings—he was completely free.
He could go anywhere, or choose not to go anywhere.
He could do anything, yet equally, he need do nothing at all.
‘Fate, destiny—screw it all. Who do you think you are, trying to chain me up?’
The ability to sense my Companion’s presence was, paradoxically, also the ability to evade her.
Standing before the snow-white Rose Bush Garden, I breathed in the fragrance deeply, intoxicated by its sweetness.
It was a truly perfect life.
It had to be.
“Die!! Die, die, die, die!!”
Ah, so this was it.
“Drop dead, you wretched bastard, you monster! Aaahhh!!!”
This was it.
I laughed with pure elation as I watched the woman hurl herself at me like a madwoman.
There was no other way it could have been.
The afternoon this incident occurred happened to have the most beautiful weather.
A clear day, perfect for meeting my Companion for the first time.
Even now, with darkness fallen, starlight gazed down upon the world.
My vision had been blurred from the heavy drinking, but now everything was crystalline clear.
“I’ve been longing to see you. For such a long time.”
And so Kaiser spoke the truth that seeped up from the depths of his heart.
This too was inevitable.
The moment our eyes first met.
In that very instant when our gazes first connected, my Bijou responded.
‘Yes, I’ve lived my entire life just to meet you.’
Crack, flash!
The air trembled in response to my exultation, and lightning split the clear sky.
Beneath the blinding light, the bewildered Actress collapsed to her knees.
Her name was Iona.
She was the woman who had come to kill me.
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The day Kaiser and Iona first met was the day his third performance’s final act concluded in triumph.
Naturally, Kaiser headed to the Salon and drank himself into oblivion.
Since he was already growing tired of theater, life had become hollow again, and he drank excessively trying to overcome it somehow.
The people chattering beside him gradually left for home, and when the Salon was half-empty.
A woman entered.
Kaiser’s Salon welcomed anyone of the female gender.
They didn’t need to be beautiful, nor did they need high status.
They had to adapt on their own, but that was the rule of this Salon regardless.
The woman in a shabby coat that seemed a decade out of fashion looked around awkwardly, but she didn’t hesitate.
She approached him with quick steps before even removing her coat.
For someone of low status to come here was usually to catch a glimpse of Kaiser at least once.
So there was nothing strange about it, and no one stopped her.
Not until the clumsy woman suddenly drew a blade from her coat pocket.
The Unnamed Woman glared at him with cold, lifeless eyes as she gripped the dagger in both hands and brought it down with all her might.
Crash!
However, there was one thing she didn’t know.
Kaiser, being a Wizard, always maintained an invisible barrier around himself.
Such trivial physical attacks were designed to rebound directly onto the attacker instead.
The force bounced back with perfect proportionality to the original strike, which was the only reason the Actress sustained less injury.
“Ugh… What?”
“Give me back my sister! You bastard! You monster, may you freeze to death!!!”
“Sister? What are you suddenly talking about… sigh.”
The woman, who had bounced back and fallen on her rear, charged at him again, only to be repelled once more.
Only then did Kaiser lift his heavy eyelids and gaze upon her.
And that was the moment.
In that very instant… he was struck by a shock that turned his world upside down.
How could I even describe this sensation?
A brilliant light erupted from the vicinity of his heart.
Bijou had suddenly awakened within him.
Remarkably, the exact same phenomenon occurred within the Actress, causing those watching nearby to hold their breath.
“Die!! You die too! Why are you like this! Why… aaaahhh!!”
The frenzied woman and her Companion.
It was an utterly mismatched pairing. Yet simultaneously, it was a fascinatingly intriguing development.
Kaiser found himself rising from his seat and approaching the Actress whose name he didn’t even know.
“Get away! Away!! Don’t you dare lay a single finger on my body!”
“It’s dangerous, darling. This kind of thing.”
“Darling? Me? Who? You damned bastard!”
Smack!
Kaiser’s head snapped completely to the side.
Those around him gasped in shock.
No one had ever dared even think of striking Kaiser Laximan across the face.
Honestly, some might have entertained the thought, but none had ever acted upon it.
Yet Kaiser showed no anger whatsoever. Instead, his eyes gleaming with a wild fervor, he smiled tenderly and calmly.
“It’s fine. Our darling simply doesn’t understand yet. I was also foolish and only just realized it. It can happen.”
“Let go! I said let go! Release me!”
This time, the woman bit his shoulder.
Kaiser calmly disarmed her, gently taking the blade and tossing it far away.
How could she have possibly slapped him, scratched him, and grabbed his hair in the first place?
It was because he had lowered his barrier.
If I permitted it, what could be the problem?
Moreover, if my Companion wishes to do so, what objection could there be?
“I don’t understand why you’re acting this way, but I must have done something wrong. Ah, you’re angry because I didn’t come to fetch you sooner, aren’t you?”
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
“You know it too. This fragrance, this light. Don’t you see it? It’s proof that we are Bijou’s Companions.”
“….”
When a Bijou Companion bond forms, undeniable evidence manifests before the eyes—visible to all.
The woman stared at it with an expression of utter disbelief, then flailed her hand desperately, trying to sever the connection.
When that failed, she shoved him away; when shoving proved useless, she bit him; and when even that didn’t work, she stomped on his feet.
Throughout it all, Kaiser held her steadily in his embrace, accepting every blow without resistance.
Or rather—he simply refused to let go?
In any case.
After taking several more slaps across the face, Kaiser smiled crookedly, blood trickling from his split lip.
“Ah, so this is what it feels like. I never knew. Being a Companion… it’s extraordinary.”
This was the first meeting between Kaiser Laximan and Iona Lenton—and the genesis of their hatred.
And the prelude to a far greater tale.

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