Chapter 9: CH 9

“Miss Billishia. It’s time to say hello to the sunㅡWill you wake up?”

“Kyaak.”

“Hiiik!!”

I briefly suppressed Lisa with my sleep talk and closed my eyes again.

Something that can happen as I wish.

It was the only good thing about being the villain’s daughter, and you can’t ruin it.

I’ve been dreaming of Cassis returning to the duke’s castle.

I didn’t feel bad in my own way, so I was thinking of continuing my dream.

“…Sniff, sniff.”

That was then.

As I descended again under the deep drowsiness, something sweet stimulated my sense of smell.

“…Sniff.”

This is no ordinary matter.

I think it’s Higgs’ strawberry cake.

“Sniff… Sniff, sniff.”

“I got you!”

Unknowingly, I unconsciously raised my upper body and sniffed it, but Lisa, who suddenly lifted my armpits, succeeded in fishing.

“W-What is this!”

The me, who was now startled, opened my eyes.

As expected, Higgs’ strawberry cake was glimmering in front of me.

And Lisa, who smiled triumphantly behind the cake, snorted, “Hm!” and hugged me while walking away.

Did she just deceive me? Turns out Lisa has grown so much.

“Liissaaa…”

With triangle eyes, I gave Lisa a frightening look, yet she took me to the dressing room and put me on a dress without a hitch.

“I’m sorry for forcibly waking you up, but today is a special day, so you have to wake up on time.”

“Special?”

“Your Grace said he would come just in time for lunch.”

“…Dad is coming?”

Then it makes sense for her to force me to wake up.

I nodded and raised my chubby arms as a sign of permission.

Still, I didn’t forget to drop a keen eye on the cake.

“After seeing the doctor that day, a blood test was done to the Princess while you were sleeping.”

“Huh?”

I didn’t know that, though?

“The blood test was quite painful, so they did it while you were sleeping. Even if you’re anesthetized, it’s a blood extraction operation. Princess is of direct blood from Vallois!”

Ta-da!

Seeing Lisa clapping and smiling brightly, she seemed to have already expected me to be a direct descendant.

“Anyway, I think he’s coming back to check the test results.”

As soon as I raised my arms, Lisa tucked the sleeves of the dress into my body.

“I’m a direct descendant. That’s what I said from the beginning.”

“Obviously. Looking at the Princess, whoever can see you are the mini-me version of Sir Cassis, right?”

“Mini-me?”

Do I look like a villain?

“If you grow up like this, will you become a doppelganger of Sir Cassis?”

…So I look like a villain, right?

It was strange whether it was a compliment or a curse, and I felt weird, but the expression on Lisa’s expression, tying my ribbon, looked somewhat vague.

“Of course, it would have been better if His Grace had acknowledged it. Will it be soon?”

I don’t know.

Because that gentleman is no ordinary gentleman.

I had no choice but to remain silent at the continued talk of Cassis.

If it was Billishia’s first life, I could have had even a hope. But I, who knew my past life, knew him better than anyone.

After wearing that dress and having breakfast with strawberry cake that was used for baiting.

Finally it was lunch time.

Plumpㅡ

Chubby sausage-like legs, rattled under the child’s chair.

The clean and calm matte marble dining table was stretched out for 12 people to sit.

Sitting alone at that huge table, I shrugged in boredom.

“Miss Baby, you missed His Grace so much that you’re sitting there for 30 minutes before meal time. I’m touched.”

I have nothing to do, of course I need to wait for the owner.

“You’re waiting for him just like me.”

At that, the aide, Agasa, nodded his head vigorously.

It wasn’t just Agasa and I.

Dad arrived at the castle now, changed his clothes, and decided to come to the dining room.

For this reason, all servants in important positions were waiting in the dining room.

“But Uncle is Agasa, right?”

Come to think of it, this is my first time talking to this gentleman.

It’s my second life, so I passed it because I knew everyone, yet I’m confused as I’ve never greeted Agasa.

“Yes. I’m the aide, Agasa, it’s an honor that you know my name.”

Agasa the Aide.

A man with a sharp jawline and outstanding blue hair.

His first impression on me was that he was cold and handsome, but when he smiled, he was soft as ice melted and left an impression.

And he took care of Vallois’ financial affairs.

I’ve got a lot to ask.

“Agasa. Then, now that I’m a direct descendant, can I receive gold?”

Considering that I’m now 5 years old, I deliberately changed the word ‘direct maintenance cost’ to ‘gold’.

“Yes. Miss Baby is a Vallois, so you can have anything you want, not just gold.”

“…Really?”

“Now that you’re officially a direct descendant, your money will start coming out next month. Of course, the basic maintenance items necessary as a princess will be provided, so that your money will be automatically saved for the time being.”

I hid my expression of joy and raised the corners of my sly lips.

“That’s what I’m talking aboouut!”

Vallois was one of the four largest families of the Rolls Empire.

In my previous life, my direct maintenance cost was 10 million gold a month, and in this way, I was able to buy a house just by waiting for three months.

‘If I jump out into a free country, I can live happily ever after.’

“…Fufufufu.”

“When you smile, you smile like His Grace.”

Agasa, who had been quiet, pointed out brightly the moment the sound of laughter came out without me knowing.

“Because I’m his daughter.”

“That’s right, Miss Baby.”

“And it’s not ‘Baby’, but Billishia.”

“I’m sorry, Miss Baby.”

“My name is Billishia.”

“From now on, I will call you Miss Billysia, Miss Baby.”

Oh my gosh, his mouth is giddy.

Naturally confessing his mistake, he patted his mouth with his hand without showing any regret.

I don’t like it.

I, who had already frowned a lot, growled in a warning tone.

“I’m going to call you Aga too. Because it is Agasa.”

“Aga and Miss Baby. Then we will be friends.”

(t/n: it’s a pun. the sentence literally means ‘Aga and Agi-nim’, in which both words (a-ga and a-gi) mean ‘baby’.)

He’s weird too.

Billishia’s second life.

After Lisa, I faced my second difficulty, and suddenly I wanted to see Mother.

That was then.

“Sir Agasa. Currently, the scorpion…”

A knight walked quietly towards Agasa while holding out a piece of paper and whispering.

I could feel Agasa, who was listening to the conversation, looking at me with a puzzled expression.

“…It seems that you should have lunch with me.”

“Huh?”

“His Grace has canceled the lunch schedule. He seems to be a little busy.”

Come to think of it, an hour had passed.

The atmosphere in the restaurant darkened sharply at Agasa’s news delivery.

“Reallwy? I can’t help it!”

I wasn’t going to wait for him, anyway.

“I want to eat now.”

That person is the gentleman that he used to be.

I’m used to eating alone, so it doesn’t matter.

“…”

It really didn’t matter. When I ate in the uncomfortable gaze of servants. I suddenly felt it through my skin.

I’m still the villain’s daughter.

And that fact doesn’t change when I return.

***

“…Mmm? Lisa?”

I overslept as much as I wanted to, but the intense sunlight opened my eyelids.

It was rarely quiet.

After waking up alone after a long time, I opened the bedroom door with an awkward feeling.

Soaring ceilings and beautiful stained glass.

The hallway, finished in neat marble, was empty as if it had been cleaned.

“Lisa?”

As soon as I wake up, I need to hear Lisa’s strange hum.

Feeling something strange, I walked down the hallway and went down to the first floor.

Somehow, the servants who lived in the entire castle gathered at the entrance.

“Princess?”

Lisa, who was caught among the servants, found me and put on a puzzled expression on her face.

“What’s going on?”

“…His Grace is back.”

“Dad? I want to see him too!”

Finally?

I didn’t like the bad dad, but I had to listen to the letter the guide gave.

I need to meet Cassis first.

Whooshㅡ

I raised my bun-like hands and twinkled my eyes.

I thought that Lisa, who was moved by my appearance, would escort me with a flabby expression.

“Later. Shall we go to the bedroom first?”

Lisa looked somewhat bewildered from earlier.

Then Lisa, holding my palms with both hands, secretly pushed my back.

‘Is Lisa rejecting me? What’s going on?’

“Hngg, I want to go see Dadㅡ”

“The Princess is still young. Now is the time to go to bed.”

“It’s not a request, it’s an order…”

Oopsies.

I lightly slapped the stained lips of the villainess and smiled brightly.

“Take me to Daddy!”

“…Um, you say you’re tired now. How about looking at him once it’s sorted out?”

But Lisa was stubborn.

Even the eyes looking down at me had some kind of worry.

Even though Cassis was coming, they didn’t wake me up?

I smell something.

“What’s wrong with Dad?”

“No. His Grace is always in good health.”

That was then.

“Sir, according to the blood test, Miss Billishia is a direct descendant of Vallois.”

Around the time when Lisa, who was struggling with me, and I were in a vague confrontation.

The persuasion of aide Agasa resounded from the place where the servants were gathered.

“Dad?”

“Princess!”

That’s when Lisa was flustered.

I pushed her hand and ran away.

As I sprinted to avoid the waiting servants, several startled ones screamed.

‘Lisa, I’m sorry.’

The reason Lisa couldn’t let me see Dad must have been because it wasn’t good for me.

But after reading the letter from the guide, I felt obligated to know whether something about Cassis was good or bad.

“Your Grace. It’s been a while since you’ve been here, but how about having a meal?”

“I’m just here for treatment. I’ll cover it again anyway…”

As I sprinted with my five-year-old body, my body wouldn’t listen when I tried to stop.

I was about to get a little scared, but.

Bughㅡ

My body barely braked as I bumped into something hard and soft.

“…Miss Baby.”

Then Agasa screamed out.

While I was fiddling with my forehead, which was slightly painful, the expressions on the faces of the servants who seemed to have gathered around me were filled with bewilderment.

The servants were shivering as if the temperature had dropped below freezing.

[W-What should I do? I’m screwed!]

[T-The Princess is still young… If she gets hurt…]

[Sst. Watch your words. Merida.]

The voices of servants, who tried to keep their mouths shut, and the maids who were gossiping, roared like a calm wave.

Lisa, who was caught in the meantime, had her face turned pale as if she had committed a sin of death.

‘Why is the atmosphere so heavy?’

I opened my eyes to understand the situation.

Something slimy from the light trousers that collided with me got on my hand.

“?”

Realizing that it was a bloodstain, I raised my head with a bewildered look, and my eyes met with insensitive purple eyes.

Should I say that it’s an exemplary example of an appearance of a villain?