Who Made Me a Princess Chapter 123

[Chapter 123]

Translator: angedansnuit Editor: thursdays

“Is that enough?”

Unexpectedly, Lucas accepted my request without saying much else. As the beautiful voice, which was more youthful than it had been a mont ago, entered my ears, I slowly lowered my hands and opened my eyes.

“Lucas!”

“Ow, my ears.”

Lucas was standing in front of ! A pretty boy, who looked about my age, frowned at my crying and stared at as if asking if I was satisfied.

I felt a fresh bout of happiness and expressed my great joy to him.

“Why are you so late!”

“You must have missed a lot, huh?”

It really was Real Lucas, seeing how he responded annoyingly. I was hugging him tightly before I knew it.

“Uh, wait…!”

“I’ve been waiting, you idiot!”

Lucas, for so reason, froze like a rock, but I didn’t care and continued to express my feelings as they were.

I’d been worried about him because I hadn’t heard from him for several months after he left to eat the world tree fruit!

But he ca back just in ti for my birthday. What a wonderful guy!

In addition, so many things had happened during Lucas’ absence, so I felt even more grateful that he was back.

Without realizing it, I started to miss him a lot. Well, it was natural. Lucas has been by my side ever since I was a kid, and he was also the first friend Claude gave .

“Hey, you… This is too much…”

Lucas was flustered and stuttering at my sudden embrace.

I hugged Lucas more tightly and patted him on the back.

“Congratulations on achieving your wish! It’s great that your mana’s restored now!”

“Yeah, it is…”

“But it took much longer than you said it would. I was worried! You should have contacted !”

Lucas stamred for a long ti as I held him, holding himself stiffly. Finally, he ca to his senses and pushed away.

“Hey, aren’t you hugging too much?”

Huh? Since when did you act so old-fashioned? [1]

I didn’t pay much mind to Lucas’ embarrassed cry. Then Lucas gave a side-eye like he was aware of my indifference.

He seed dissatisfied with , but in the end, he made a skeptical expression for a mont, as if saying ‘what am I doing?’, and then said, “Oh, never mind. Now, tell .”

“About what?”

“You know what. Tell about what happened while I was away.”

I hesitated. He narrowed his eyes at , telling to spill everything.

“I know that Blackie is gone. What’s all this dirty stuff on you? It’s annoying. List everyone you’ve t since then.”

His red eyes, which seed a bit haggard, swept over . I didn’t understand exactly what he was talking about, but it seed that the state of my mana was abnormal.

I felt guilty for so reason and mumbled an excuse to him.

“Because I didn’t listen to you and played with Blackie every day… I think that’s why he was absorbed by .”

“And?”

I told him one thing after another, everything that happened while Lucas was away. While I was talking, Lucas didn’t interrupt or bla . He just stayed there with his characteristic aloofness.

That attitude helped let out all the words that had piled up inside.

“Look at this. You can’t live without , can you? Ah, geez.”

And when I finally finished talking, Lucas, who for so reason was looking at with a satisfied face, imdiately reached out to .

“So co here.”

No, but… Wasn’t this attitude sohow strange? Maybe it was because of my mood, but it felt like he was saying, ‘You dumb creature, I will allow you to embrace this beautiful body!’ It was a little shady…

“What, where are you going?”

“It’s your birthday today. I got you a present.”

Eh? A birthday present, all of a sudden? I thought he would say so bullshit like ‘Your birthday gift is !’ since he ca back in ti for my birthday.

While I was in a daze, Lucas didn’t wait any longer and took my hand first. The mont my hands were engulfed in warmth, my surroundings changed.

Oh, I’m dizzy! Couldn’t he give a warning before he teleported?

However, my complaining soon stopped as I gasped at the sight in my eyes.

What the hell? This was Claude’s bedroom! And Claude was still awake!

I didn’t think he noticed us yet, but when I saw Claude’s back standing by the window, I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t help but gape.

I looked at Lucas beside as if he were crazy. But he went a step further and strode towards Claude.

Oh, no! Stop, you bastard!

As the distance between the two decreased, Claude suddenly turned his head and narrowed his eyes as if his animal instincts had been triggered. And at that mont—

Swish! Stab!

“Ugh!”

Lucas’ hand seed to disappear in새 the air for a mont, but soon after, he pulled sothing out and began to swing it violently at Claude. The speed was like lightning!

I scread in horror as I saw sothing sharp in Lucas’ hand sticking out of Claude’s head.

“Ah, Daddyyy!”

However, Claude had already collapsed. Shocked, I ran towards him.

“Huh, how did he turn around when I didn’t even show my presence? I almost stabbed himi in the face.”

“D-Daddy! Daddy!”

No matter how much I shook him, Claude didn’t move.

It looked like Lucas had stabbed his head with a tree branch. I couldn’t decide if I should pull it out or just leave it for now, I was so flustered I couldn’t do this or that.

C-could it be that he was dead? Probably not, right?

“I wouldn’t give this to just anyone since this is very valuable, but I’ll give it to you since it’s your birthday. Be very grateful..”

When I heard Lucas’ shaless voice above my head, my blood boiled.

“Hey, you crazy bastard! What are you doing all of a sudden? Who told you to kill my dad?”

Aaargh! This is why they say you shouldn’t keep black-haired beasts! I was so glad to have him back and gave him a big welco, never suspecting that he’d pay back like this!

Ignoring my fuming, Lucas said flatly, “That’s a branch from the world tree, so he’s not going to die. Don’t you know it’s best to apply treatnt directly to the damaged area?”

Claude was lying face down on the floor like a dead man, and I was bawling out my eyes by his side. Lucas alone was at peace.

Then, when Lucas whispered to with a grim smile, I stopped crying and hiccuped.

He said, “I don’t think this is the ti to for you to worry about soone else. I have to stick this in you, too.”

W-what? Whatever do you an?

Are you going to kill after Claude? Is that how you’ll feel satisfied?

I looked at Lucas nervously as my pupils shook.

My rough thoughts~ Anxious eyes~ And you, watching over it all~

However, Lucas didn’t get his nickna ‘Dark Mage’ in his early days for no reason. He smiled at and said, ruthlessly, “All you need is to stabilize your mana, so I’ll give you a particularly tiny piece.”

Swish! Stab!

Before I could even react, Lucas, who was rummaging in the air again, stuck a slender, sprouting branch in my head.

Hey, that’s a deadly weapon! You’re so reckless! Seriously, you ignorant bastard…!

I felt a brief pain and gradually lost consciousness.

Th-the killer is Lucas… And then I died.

Imdiately, everything went dark.

* * *

“Ahh!”

How much ti had passed? I stood up, shuddering as if I just finished a boxing match.

Ugh. Wh-what was this? Why was I doing this? Where am I? Who am I?

I was confused about my identity for a mont and looked around, and soon rembered what happened last night.

Ahhh! Damn Dark Mage! What the hell did you do to Claude and ? You killed a father and daughter as soon as you returned! Oh, you scary bastard!

I reflexively touched my head and felt that the branch had sohow disappeared. Like Lucas said, I didn’t die… rather, I felt strangely refreshed, but… He still shouldn’t have done it like this! Argh!

What about Claude?

A mont later I saw Claude right next to , lying like he was dead. I shook him furiously.

“D-Daddy! Daddy!”

Lucas must have moved us because we weren’t on the cold floor where we had fainted but a soft bed.

It seed to be dawn now. Outside the window, the dazzling sunlight was slowly beaming down, and the surroundings were very still.

I shook Claude to wake him up, then stopped in surprise.

Oh my God, was he dead?! Was he breathing? I couldn’t see the branch that was sticking out of his head last night! It didn’t seem like any bloodshed happened! But why wasn’t he moving?

I was terrified as I put my ear against his chest. Only after hearing the sound of his beating heart I was able to breathe.

Where the hell did Lucas go after doing this to us? Did he run away because he knew I wouldn’t leave him alone once I opened my eyes? Or sothing like that?

“Um.”

Just then, I heard a smothered moan below . I looked down in surprise.

“Daddy! Are you awake?”

Even though he wasn’t fully conscious yet, he was frowning as if he felt a slight pain in his forehead, right where he struck the floor when he collapsed yesterday.

I checked Claude’s condition as soon as he opened his eyes.

“Daddy, what hurts? Your head, head, or head?”

Yesterday, I was most worried about Lucas sticking tree branches into heads without a second thought. Fortunately, I was fine, but Claude had a branch much bigger than mine in his head, so I wasn’t sure about him.

His eyes, slowly beginning to focus, were nailed to . Imdiately after, the expression on Claude’s face changed.

“Daddy?”

Ugh, now what? Are there any side effects? Lucas was acting like he was going to do a favor!

While I was restless, Claude’s expression changed as he laid back down.

His face, which had been staring at for a while, soon hardened and frowned as if he was gut punched. His jewel-like eyes alternated between reflections of calm and torrential currents.

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t/n

[1] Korean saying ‘To be inside [to be outside]’. [Example] During the Joseon Dynasty, n and won strictly kept their distance from each other.