This Three-Year-Old Is A Villainess - Chapter 95
Balzac’s expression darkened immediately.
“What?”
“I saw you on my way to the library. Hello, Erylotte.”
Joshua greeted Erylotte softly, his eyes curving up into kind arcs, which was unusual without Daymond around.
“I heard Erylotte likes picture books?”
“…Ywes.”
“I heard new books arrived at the library. Want to go together?”
Balzac raised his voice.
“She’s playing with me.”
Joshua’s eyes narrowed at Balzac.
“Who she goes with should be up to Erylotte.”
The brothers’ gazes clashed in mid-air.
“I’ll play tag with you, and I’ll even take you horseback riding later.”
“Don’t you want to go to the library? I’ll ask for some snacks to read with.”
Erylotte looked back and forth between the twin brothers speaking to her.
Then,
With a rustle, Daymond walked from afar.
In his hand was a fur bundle.
“Here’s a small dog.”
“Puppy─!”
Erylotte’s face brightened instantly, and she dashed towards him.
“You can play with it inside the castle. Want to go?”
“Ywes!”
Then she took her father’s pinky finger and followed him.
Daymond glanced back at the brothers, his lips curling slightly.
Balzac and Joshua ground their teeth.
‘So sly.’
‘So despicable.’
The two burned silently with rivalry.
***
I gently stroked the black, fluffy puppy.
“So soooff.” (So soooft.)
As I held my cheeks and blushed, the maids and soldiers watching me sighed in bliss.
Betty shivered,
“Cute plus cute equals super cute…”
Heidi smiled and said,
“It’s good that Lord Enzo brought the puppy.”
“Ensho’s puppy?”
As I looked at Enzo, he said,
“Yes. Both brothers are often away, so to keep mother company, we brought one.”
“I see.”
The puppy licked my hand.
‘So cute!’
As Yoo Hyemin, I always wanted to raise a puppy.
During my childhood, my younger sibling Se-eun hated dogs, so it wasn’t possible.
After becoming an adult, most of my salary went to supporting my stepfather’s failing business, so I couldn’t afford it.
I watched the puppy intently, so engrossed that time flew by.
The small and cute puppy yawned widely and rubbed its head against the cloth it sat on.
“Sweepy?” (Sleepy?)
“Yes.”
“Thwen, ishit twime for puppy to go?” (Then, is it time for the puppy to go?)
I asked with a voice dripping with disappointment, and Enzo looked troubled.
The other maids and soldiers also seemed perplexed, humming in dilemma.
My father, watching me pat the puppy with downturned lips, asked,
“Shall we raise a dog in our jurisdiction? If you promise to take good care of it, I’ll bring one in.”
“Weally?!”
My face lit up, then fell.
“Nwo.” (No.)
“Why?”
“Ewywotte gonna go to Gwanfathew. Puppy gonna be wonewy without Ewy.” (Erylotte’s going to Grandfather. The puppy’s going to be lonely without me.)
Even though there were many people in the castle, if it considers me its owner, it will be very lonely without me.
Heidi tried to persuade me.
“Still, you’ll come during the break, won’t you, Young Miss? We can take good care of it until then.”
“Bwut I gotta go to Gwanfathew and do my bwest. If puppy hewe, I gonna wanna awways come back to casow.” (But I gotta go to Grandfather and do my best. If there’s a puppy here, I’ll always want to come back to the castle.)
‘Isn’t it about ten days before I go back to Grandfather’s residence?’
Thinking about it, my peaceful time was almost over.
Although there were various incidents in the castle, none were life-threatening.
But entering the main ducal residence would be the start of a real war among the third generation kids.
Betty looked puzzled.
“Do you really have to work that hard so you don’t miss the castle? You are wise and wonderful as you are.”
“Becows Ewy diwty bwood.” (Because I have dirty blood.)
In the first place, I was a child of mixed commoner blood.
If I don’t work hard, I know the kind of comments I’ll face.
‘That’s why a child with commoner’s blood is no good.’
That’s probably what they’ll say.
‘But my status has changed now.’
No one can say I’m an orphan who grew up in the Twelfth Tower anymore.
I’ve earned various merits, and my father has returned.
Now, only growth is left for my father’s territory.
‘I need to establish my position firmly in the hierarchy.’
That way, my life will be on a successful path.
The life of a villainess who dies after being tormented was terrible, but the life of a ducal household’s young miss was sweet.
Thinking this, I giggled to myself, but something felt off.
It had become very quiet around me.
‘Ah, I shouldn’t have mentioned the tainted blood!’
Distracted by the puppy, I spoke without thinking.
That darn supporting character penalty.
I looked at my father sheepishly.
His face was set in a hard expression.
