This Three-Year-Old Is A Villainess - Chapter 124
The hunter froze.
A look of indecision flashed across his face.
The Imperial Consort’s command is very important. However, that doesn’t mean he can touch me within the Astra estate.
As long as I protect him, there’s absolutely no way for Alexis to be reached.
While the hunter hesitated, I gave Han Ji-hyuk a quick glance and gestured with my eyes.
After a few exchanges of looks, Han Ji-hyuk put the whistle he was wearing around his neck to his mouth.
Whiiiik─!!
A sharp noise echoed through the streets.
The hunter looked at Han Ji-hyuk with a startled face.
Han Ji-hyuk, raising an eyebrow, said,
“The knights will arrive soon. You will fully face the consequences of defying an Astra descendant.”
The hunter’s shoulders twitched.
‘As expected.’
What would happen if the hunter got caught by our knights?
Since he touched a direct descendant, his identity would definitely be investigated.
‘The Imperial Consort’s people will be exposed.’
Then, Grandfather would try to uncover why the Imperial Consort sent the hunter.
And the Imperial Consort would rather deal with the hunter than let her secrets be revealed.
Clicking his tongue, the hunter quickly vanished from sight.
I let out a deep sigh. I was quite tense, worrying that something might go wrong.
Han Ji-hyuk, looking drained, said to me,
“Shall we go now?”
I nodded.
Alexis was staring at me intently.
“The knights are coming, aren’t they?”
“Not weally.”
“…What?”
“Tha wuz jus-a wisow.” (That was just a whistle.)
How could the soldiers we left at Cranklin Bakery hear the sound of a whistle from so far away?
It was a ruse because the hunter seemed like he wouldn’t back down.
Before blowing the whistle, Han Ji-hyuk and I communicated with lightning-fast eye gestures.
The sequence went like this:
One, I glanced at the whistle hanging on his chest,
‘That thing!’
Two, Han Ji-hyuk looked down at the whistle,
‘This?’
And three, I nodded very slightly,
‘Yes!’
That’s how Han Ji-hyuk ended up blowing the whistle.
Han Ji-hyuk, with a background as a scammer, had a knack for making things sound plausible.
And as a transmigrator-reincarnator duo, it’s been about 8 months.
We were in sync enough for this to be possible.
Our eyes nearly popped out from glancing so quickly during the short moment the hunter was distracted.
I pressed my palms to my eyes as if they were about to fall out.
Alexis looked at me with a curious gaze.
“Did you lie?”
“Yeah! Ima wiah!” (Yes! I’m a liar!)
“…….”
“Wes go now, owkay?” (Let’s go now, okay?)
As I pulled Alexis’s hand, he followed me obediently this time.
Perhaps thinking my boastful declaration of being a liar was insignificant, he seemed less wary than before.
As I walked with Alexis, I spoke to Han Ji-hyuk,
“Take Awesis tha pwace.”
“That place? You mean that place?!”
“If he’s thewe, no one can foine ‘im.” (If he’s there, no one can find him.)
“Well, that’s true but…”
Han Ji-hyuk furrowed his brow.
* * *
Alexis was staring intently at Erylotte, the pink-haired man then back at Erylotte repeatedly,
“But for real, are you talking about that place?”
“Uh-huh. There.”
─discussing ‘that place’.
Where in the world were they trying to send him?
Just as his wariness was about to increase again, Erylotte approached Alexis quickly.
“Wes buy cwose foise.” (Let’s buy clothes first.)
“Clothes?”
“Uh-huh. You cannuh go awun wewing tha.” (Uh-huh. You can’t go around wearing that.)
Erylotte took Alexis’s hand and walked for a while.
Although they passed many clothiers and dress shops, they didn’t glance at any other places and hurried forward, looking only ahead.
The pink-haired one said,
“It seems we’ve moved quite far from that alley. Can’t we just enter any dress shop and buy something?”
“Nwo.”
“Why not?”
“If I wew thwe Impewiuh Consuh, the foise thing I gonna do is check thwe pwaces awun hewe. And if the gowl is weally a young wady of Astwa.” (If I were the Imperial Consort, the first thing I’d do is check the places around here. And if the girl is really a young lady of Astra.)
“If they dig into your actions and find out you bought boys’ clothing, it would serve as evidence. That the child you were with was actually a boy.”
“Yup.”
“But would the Imperial Consort drop her suspicions just because you don’t do that?”
“Evun if she’s shushpishus, if thewe’s no evidun, she cannuh do anyfing to me.” (Even if she’s suspicious, if there’s no evidence, she can’t do anything to me.)
Erylotte continued in a soft voice.
“Tha’s whu powuh is.” (That’s what power is.)
