The Fluffy Baby Fox Only Bites the Crazy Villain - Chapter 72
“I-I’m sorry.”
I whispered softly to Karden. With silver fur fluttering, I instantly reverted back to a cotton ball fox.
Plop. From within the pile of dress, I peeked my head out.
Karden was staring at me with a bewildered expression.
“Shushu, why?”
I tried to escape from the dress and flee quickly out of the tent.
Just then, the tent flap rustled, and the smell of alcohol stung my nose.
Someone’s shoes came running in, and hands reached out to embrace me.
“Kyaang?”
The person who grabbed me was none other than Yudis.
“Yudis? Why are you here?”
Karden asked her in a cold tone, but Yudis paid no attention and stared intently only at me.
Her cheeks were flushed red, suggesting she had drunk a lot.
She made a pained expression with many wrinkles around her eyes, then pressed her forehead against my small nose and murmured softly.
Yudis looked at me and contorted her expression even more. She looked so troubled. Then she closed her eyes tightly once.
“Haah… I can’t stand it anymore. I’ve reached my limit.”
She whispered with apparent inability to hold back, then hugged me tightly.
Forcibly embraced by Yudis, I was held captive without being able to move.
Yudis rubbed her cheek against my face and whispered rapidly.
“So cute. Shushu. To think such an adorable creature exists…”
What, what did she just say?
For a moment, my mind seemed to freeze.
Cute? Did Yudis really say that to me?
“Yudis, put Shushu down.”
Karden approached to take me away, but Yudis paid no attention and stepped backward.
She held me in her arms and carefully stroked my head, ears, chest, belly, and tail over and over again.
“Oh my. You’re so cute and fluffy and soft and warm. I want to touch you until I die.”
Yudis’s expression while stroking me was pure ecstasy. With moist eyes and flushed cheeks, Yudis breathed heavily.
Excuse me, it’s troubling when you feel that way while petting me…
Yudis gently lifted one of my legs and pressed my soft pink paw pad repeatedly with her finger.
“Ah, this feeling… it’s so good.”
Well, my soft paw pads are definitely fatally cute. But it’s embarrassing when you openly enjoy it like that.
To think that cold, beautiful Yudis, whom I thought disliked me until now, actually found me adorable.
Emotionally, it became too complicated.
It was so shocking that I momentarily forgot my self-loathing and guilt about seeing Karden as prey just moments ago.
Yudis stared at me with a dazed face.
“Shushu, you’re too cute. Why are you so lovable? It’s been so hard holding back all this time.”
“Kyaang, r-really?”
I tilted my head and questioned, and Yudis let out a small scream.
“Haah, I’m so happy it’s painfully maddening.”
Excuse me, please calm down.
Yudis hugged me tightly again and rubbed her cheek against me, then eventually puckered her lips and tried to kiss me.
“Ah, s-stop it.”
I quickly blocked her lips with my front paw.
“Are you giving me your paw pad? Kyaah, thank you.”
“No, that’s not it!”
Yudis was beside herself with joy and showered my paw pad with kisses.
My paw pads will wear out at this rate.
Just when I was beginning to fear Yudis’s excessive drunken behavior, Karden grabbed her shoulder and swiftly pulled me away.
“Yudis, stop it. Your drunken behavior is excessive.”
“Urgh, Brother, what are you doing right now!”
Yudis staggered and glared at Karden murderously.
She flailed her hands, trying to grab me again.
“Shushu, give me back my cute cotton ball. Shushu is mine! My treasure!”
Treasure? I’m definitely not a ring.
Seeing her eyes full of obsession and madness gave me goosebumps.
I trembled violently while tightly held in Karden’s arms.
Yudis, why have you changed like this? You shouldn’t drink alcohol anymore.
Karden swept his bangs with a tired expression.
“This is why I told you not to get close to Yudis.”
“What? Your Grace, you knew she would be like this?”
“Yes. This one has loved cute things since childhood. But after becoming the captain of the knights, she had to maintain discipline among the soldiers and follow regulations, so she thoroughly hid her preferences. Though it seems not so much after becoming a merchant guild master.”
“You’re saying Yudis found me cute from the beginning but held back?”
“Didn’t you notice? As soon as she saw you, that one’s eyes were half-crazed.”
“That’s a lie. No way.”
So her frowning, contemptuous, or expressionless face whenever she saw me was actually her holding back from thinking I was adorably cute?
“Let’s deal with her first.”
Karden pulled back the tent flap and shouted loudly outside.
“Maildra, Burke, are you out there!”
The knights’ banquet hall was noisy with singing and laughter, like another world.
I wondered if they could hear Karden’s voice, but surprisingly, Maildra and Burke jumped up from among the soldiers and rushed to the tent.
“Grand Duke, you called.”
“What is the matter?”
“Yudis is causing a disturbance right now.”
Karden gestured toward Yudis. She was sitting on the floor, mumbling as if chanting an ominous spell while looking at me.
“Shushu is mine. Don’t anyone touch her…”
Terror flashed across Maildra and Burke’s faces upon discovering the drunk Yudis. Maildra even closed his eyes with a grief-stricken expression and sought divine help.
“God, Lady Yudis is drunk again.”
“We must declare a state of emergency.”
Yudis’s drunkenness seems to be quite a major problem. Judging by Maildra and Burke’s serious reactions.
It’s like the tension when a demon beast appears.
“Bring Ron to put Yudis to sleep with sleep magic. Then let her rest in her room.”
“Understood. And should we stop the knights’ banquet?”
Maildra asked carefully, gauging Karden’s mood. Karden shook his head.
“No need. Everyone is enjoying themselves. Let them continue without causing a disturbance.”
“Thank you!”
While Maildra and Karden were talking, Burke tried to support Yudis, and she erupted in anger, mercilessly pulling Burke’s hair.
“Urgh, Lady Yudis. Please let go of my hair. It’s going to fall out at this rate.”
“Shushu, give her back! Did you steal her?”
“It wasn’t me. Please come to your senses. Urgh!”
Maildra watched the scene for a moment, then smiled gently with complete nonchalance.
“Then I’ll go get Ron. Please leave the cleanup to our reliable captain, and Grand Duke and Shushu, please go ahead and leave.”
“That seems best. Burke, I leave the rest to you.”
Karden answered immediately without a moment’s hesitation.
I was the one surprised. Wait, is it okay to abandon the loyal knight captain so easily?
Burke, with his neck caught in Yudis’s arm and barely able to breathe, trembled as he managed to answer.
“Urgh! Y-yes…”
Frightened, I tapped Karden’s arm.
“Shouldn’t we help Captain Burke?”
“He won’t die from something like this. Letting Yudis expend her energy will help her fall asleep more easily. It’s just her drunken behavior, so it’s fine.”
“But the captain looks in danger right now?”
“It must look like a terrible scene to you. Are you tired, Shushu? Let’s go back.”
No, excuse me, someone is dying here.
“Shushu, where are you going? Don’t leave me behind!”
When Yudis screamed like a stalker and tried to rush at Karden, Burke sacrificed his body to grab her legs.
“Urgh, you can’t, Lady Yudis. Please calm down!”
Despite being restrained by Burke’s massive body, Yudis dragged him across the ground as she approached, flailing her hands trying to grab me.
To be honest, it’s terrifying. More than a demon beast.
As I burrowed into Karden’s arms, my eyes met Burke’s.
Burke lying miserably on the ground, firmly gripping the feet of the rampaging Yudis.
His hair was disheveled as if he’d caught a mouse, and his ears were red from being pulled. His face was swollen, having been punched several times already.
Seeing the pitiful state of the brave knight captain of the Northern Castle, my heart ached and tears came to my eyes. Burke’s eyes were also red.
‘Shushu, don’t worry about me and go. May you at least be happy.’
‘I’m sorry, Captain. I will never forget this sacrifice.’
Burke and I shared hot tears and bid farewell with our eyes.
I left the tent cradled in Karden’s arms.
Beyond the slowly closing tent flap, Burke’s desperate screams and Yudis’s shouts looking for me mingled.
“Shushu, where are youuu! Did you hide her?!”
“Urgh, please calm down, Lady Yudis!”
