Will You Cry for Me If I Die? - Chapter 10

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Chapter 10

Because of this, his sons had become experts who were more familiar with this law of the strong than anyone else.

So much so that they were called monsters when they went outside.

The youngest, Theodor, was only 7 years old but was already a child who could take down medium-sized monsters.

‘He’s also very competitive. It seems our assassin is the same way. …I really should make sure they don’t run into each other.’

He sighed, then sat down at his desk to finish what he was doing.

Until then, he was only thinking about quickly finishing his work and continuing the interrogation of that ridiculous assassin.

But that evening.

“Y-Young Master has fought with that child.”

“…Why.”

He regretted not giving instructions about the children before starting work earlier.

“A light argument escalated into a physical fight…”

“And?”

“Young Master got a bump on his head,”

A bump…?

Millayen’s gray eyes wavered momentarily. The Baby Assassin had put up more of a fight than expected!

“Hmm. So that child has a competitive spirit too.”

“And he got beaten up… quite badly.”

Millayen blinked once.

“Who?”

“Young Master.”

“He got beaten up ‘quite badly’ by a baby who’s not even five years old?”

Is that even possible?

The aide who delivered the news added with an awkward smile.

“He got beaten up ‘very badly’… He’s unconscious right now.”

Millayen was speechless for a moment.

Suddenly, he recalled the Baby Assassin who had charged recklessly with poison needles without even gauging his opponent’s strength.

And the solid grip strength of those small hands that had pounded on the door with enough force to break it.

…That child’s unique magic might be superhuman strength.

“Ah. Did that child try to kill Theo by any chance?”

“Huh? No. It was just a fight.”

“I see. Where is that child now?”

“That child escaped to the ceiling. He’s quite skilled at handling mana, Master. He was ghostly fast…”

The aide muttered as if he had really been possessed by a ghost.

Of course, there was no malice toward the child in his admiring voice.

He felt the same way.

A faint interest crossed Millayen’s face.

It seems Theo was overwhelmingly defeated.

While both of them needed to be addressed about trying to resolve conflicts through violence, sparring was a common occurrence in this family as long as there was no killing intent.

So it seemed better to observe for a while first.

‘How that child will interpret the word “violence” is also an issue.’

“No. 1!”

Recalling how he had announced that terrible nickname with an incredibly proud expression, it was true that he wondered where to even begin.

But wait.

Millayen, who had been slowly tapping the desk with his fingertips, said bluntly.

“Theo will probably get quite excited.”

“That’s why it’s an emergency now, Master. We’re moving all the valuable items to the warehouse in advance…”

The aide replied somewhat gloomily.

Now that he had found a rival, who knows how much fighting they would do.

But no matter how strong the opponent was, he was still a baby.

“I’ll warn him about sparring.”

“Yes, please do.”

Though he wasn’t sure if it would help.

The competitive spirit of a seven-year-old boy sometimes left even the great Winter Family’s Lord and the old aide at a loss.

But until then, they had no idea things would unfold that way.

Two days later.

“Why are you running when you fell down! Stop!”

“Get away from me, you little demon!”

“The person calling someone a demon is the demon! Huff, huff… Hey, then go to your room on the ceiling, and I’ll put medicine on you there.”

“Hey, I don’t need medicine! Really! I don’t need it, but I’m going because it’s my room! My room, hehe! You stupid demon!”

Theodor Ikaros (age 7) began following the Baby Assassin (age 4) around like a puppy.

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The morning before the incident occurred.

Theodor Ikaros was receiving a warning from his brother.

“My little brother. Can you promise me you won’t take interest in that intruder?”

“Why?”

“Because he’s dangerous… no, because he looks too weak.”

Demian, who barely managed to avoid using words that would stimulate a 7-year-old boy’s instincts, naturally picked up the child.

Theodor, who familiarly climbed onto his brother’s shoulders with both legs, asked.

“How can an intruder be weak?”

“You know, Theo. He didn’t get in through skill.”

“But he’s still alive!”

“That’s only because we’re going easy on him.”

“Why?”

“Huh?”

“Why go easy on him? Isn’t it because he’s so strong that you have no choice but to go easy?”

Now that he’s seven, his sentence structure has improved a lot.

Demian smiled gently and fell silent for a moment.

“I saw him flying around.”

“…I see.”

He must mean when he was moving along the ceiling right after entering.

Come to think of it, Demian had briefly left him with the aide and stepped away at that time.

Other than that, he had stayed up all night watching to prevent his little brother from meeting that suspicious baby.

Demian naturally shifted to another topic while thinking.

‘This won’t work.’

After seeing him flying around on the ceiling, there was no way this kid wouldn’t be interested.

Theo often felt lonely because there were no peers of his age to play with in the castle.

Even with similar ages, it seemed difficult to become friends because the strong mana characteristic of the direct bloodline would unconsciously leak out.

‘I had it a bit easier.’

Even though he knew it couldn’t be helped, it was a matter that weighed on his mind, so Demian couldn’t say more.

He just decided to pay more attention to prevent anything from happening.

“Brother?”

“Yeah.”

But while he was away for just a brief moment, the children ended up meeting.

In a completely unexpected place.

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“I’m not going to wash!”

That morning, I declared.

“I have things to do today! I don’t have time to wash!”

I’m going to kill one of these strange humans today.

For that, there were things to prepare and time needed for observation.

“Huh? But if you don’t wash, you’ll easily get sick and it might hurt.”

“I hurt? I won’t hurt. I won’t do it!”

After shouting like that, I wrapped my hands in magic power and whoosh whoosh whoosh escaped to the ceiling.

But they followed me.

“…!”

“Come now, Baby, it’s dangerous so shall we go down together?”

Since humans usually can’t look above their heads, the ceiling was my own path where I could move around most quickly.

It was taken away.

“No! Way!”

So I crawled along the ceiling and ran away just like that.

Of course they followed, but when I was determined to run away, no one could catch me.

Because I can use shadows, traces of magic power, and even sounds.

“My goodness, did you see that? In an instant!”

“Do you think he’s already learned magic?”

“For that to be the case, there wasn’t really a feeling of using magic power. How did he disappear so completely like that?”

“…Hehe.”

At some point, watching them get surprised because they couldn’t find me became fun.

“Baby! Where are you!”

“There’s delicious bread here!”

“Prepare soup. Make it hot so the aroma travels far!”

I instantly forgot about the important thing I was going to do today and explored this place while roaming all over the ceiling.

That’s when I discovered that place.

In front of the door written 【Theo’s Toy Room】, that place was full of colorful rainbows made into stone-like things.

“What is this place!”

I had never seen so many colors in my life.

Some were duck-shaped, some were rabbit-shaped, and some were tiger-shaped.

“No, it’s a leopard!”

I quietly looked down at them from on top of a bookshelf, confirmed that no one was around, and smoothly went down.

Since I happened to be running low on magic power anyway.

And I carefully walked without making a sound and approached those things.

They weren’t even white like snow, but they looked as pretty as snow.

I went around in circles admiring them without touching, then very carefully poked one.

The long-necked animal figure toppled over.

Without realizing it, I opened my mouth wide and stared blankly at it, then sensing someone was about to come in, I quickly hid back on top of the bookshelf.

The door that had been open earlier but I had closed when I entered opened smoothly.

“What? I left it open, so why is it closed?”

The one entering with a somewhat sullen expression was the Young Child.

The fact that there was a small child even among these bad Winter Beings was very fascinating, so I stared intently at that small demon.

Then our eyes met.

“Waaaaaaaah!”

The small demon screamed.

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