“Ah-… Aah! I-I’m sorry. Your Highness the Prince.”

Instead of explaining about myself, Kion first asked about the identity of the man.

The man, who was sitting awkwardly in shock, jumped up and seemed to realize his rudeness only then.

The 8th Prince Kion was not interested in anything in the world, and if it was alive, it belonged to the axis he hated except for the Guardian. To be precise,he didn’t like people. not exactly liking people, and for Kion, a strange man who suddenly came could have been considered unpleasant.

Knowing it well, the man hurriedly shook his head and greeted with courtesy.

“I’m Beldum Oway, who was in charge of the Imperial Palace’s financial management department. I came here after receiving your letter.”

“…It was not necessarily something you had to find me for.”

“Obviously, but… I felt like I had to apologize for everything that happened.”

“There’s nothing to apologize for. If it wasn’t them, someone would have done it.”

At Kion’s words, Baldum’s expression changed to a complicated one. I glanced at Kion who stood up and held his pants tightly.

Perhaps Kion wrote a letter and Beldum seemed to have come to solve it. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like an enemy.

My gut feeling is not wrong.

I breathed secretly in relief, but the fact that he was a person from the imperial palace didn’t change.

Even at the words of Kion, Beldum once again bowed deeply and offered an apology, he looked like he was choking.

“Al- also… I heard that you were looking for a butler for the mansion.”

“…”

Beldum crept up and came closer, sticking out a sheet of a tattered piece of paper.

There was a message saying that Kion would hire someone to work in the mansion. He explained the real ‘reason’ why he came with his back upright as if he was lying on the floor and apologized.

“I want to be the butler of this mansion where your Highness resides.”

He was the first applicant to come and live together in the ruined mansion where Kion and I live.

Well, I didn’t even know he posted a notice to hire people.

“Hm.”

Kion looked at Beldum and slowly stopped looking at me.

I let go of my hand awkwardly because I remembered that I was still holding his pants.

It was really embarrassing to pretend to be a child in front of an adult-like opponent. On top of that, didn’t I cry because I were really scared a while ago?

And even more if it’s in front of her husband.

‘Ah, I’m ashamed.’

Apart from my heart, Kion reached out to me with an insincere look.

I hardened my body at the touch that came through my armpits. It was a touch that I got used to over the past month, but it was very awkward to see Beldum that opened his mouth again.

Kion lifted me up and said, a little awkwardly with one arm. He put his hands under my armpit every time and lifted it up, but he never put my butt on one arm like this and hugged me.

It felt like I was being held in his arms when I was going to pass out because of the pain, but I don’t remember that.

When I grabbed his arm awkwardly because of my awkward posture, Kion slowly opened his mouth.

“If you want to become a butler, you should know.”

“Pardon?”

A hard expressionless expression and a low-pitched voice with no pitch.

“Let me introduce you, my daughter.”

He’s still indifferent and lazy. For some reason, is it an illusion that I felt joy in his eyes looking at me?

Beldum didn’t say anything for a while, opening his mouth as if he was engulfed in saliva.

No, rather than a ‘that can’t be’ expression, I think it’s more accurate to say that it’s an ‘impossible’ expression.

It’s been 10 years since the sick prince left the imperial palace.

Unlike Heter, who treats you as an adult from the age of 20, Kion was a single man for 10 years until this year, when he turned 27, in the Bald Empire, where he became an adult from the age of 17.

But suddenly, he introduced the child as his daughter. It was only natural that Baldum was at a loss for words in an astonishing manner.

Beldum was gibberish and confused. I felt so bad for him to be mesmerized till sweat.

“I- I’m hearing this for the first time… No, how…”

You’re going to want to throw out hundreds of questions right now.  Just like when I woke up in this world with Alicia’s body.

However, Keon did not seem to have any intention of solving questions.

“Beldum.”

“Yes, Yes?!”

“Hiring a maid. I’ll leave it up to you.”

“…Yes?”

“Didn’t you come here to become a butler?”

“Th- that’s indeed so.”

“Do it.”

He only hired him to do so because he wanted to do it silently.

About Beldum’s abilities, His age. He didn’t even ask about his origin. When Beldum said he’d be a butler, he said do it.

‘What? There’s such a thing?’

In addition, he handed over the maid who had to be hired additionally.  It was annoying, but it was the attitude of saying it went well.

After Kion had finished speaking, as if he had nothing more to say, he left Baldum standing blankly behind him and at the same time, my perspective changed. His solid arm unexpectedly stably supported me, so I moved my hips slightly and changed to a more comfortable position.

It was because there was a little tension.

Kion looked at me and relaxed a little bit of his arm, so I became more comfortable.

‘Right. This is better. Rather than holding an object posture last time.’

I felt the gaze of Beldum, who quickly became a butler, and raised my head and smiled.

It must be frustrating, but I can’t explain anything either.

He only heard the name of the person he had never seen before. Where else is there a person who would appoint him as a butler?

Kion is probably the only one who does this to hire employees.

‘Well… We’ll see what kind of person he is, because there’s nowhere to go home here.”

And instinct was speaking.

Beldum, who was in charge of the Imperial Financial Management Department, smells like money.

This mansion needed a smart and competent butler.

A normal person rather than Kion that feeds white porridge day and night and just grills meat every once in a while.

∘ ─────── ⊰❈⊱ ─────── ∘

The only place I’ve been to in the mansion was a bedroom and a wide corridor.

Even if I wanted to enter another room, I couldn’t open the door, so my room and the corridor were everything.

So, the study brought to Kion was a different space that I saw for the first time since I came to this world.

“Whoa…”

With my mouth slightly open, my eyes became blank. Meanwhile, Kion put me down on the desk.

There was no sofa in the study.

It was full of bookshelves on all sides, and all there was was a desk and a chair in the center.

“Um… abouth thhath… im shorry” (Um… about that… I’m sorry)

I didn’t know what to say, so I apologized to him first.

I was in a situation where I had nowhere to go, and I didn’t know when this wretched body would have another seizure.

I needed protection now and this is his house.

There’s nothing good for me if he’s offended by me acting on my own.

You have to bow your head when you break up. I don’t know anything else, but I feel bad because I made him the father of a normal person.

“…becaushe i shaid ith shewfishhwy…” (…because I said it selfishly…)

When I shrank my shoulders and my shoulders, my pronunciation was crushed and I said something more difficult to understand than usual.

TL/N : Yes ma’am I’m even doubting my translating

I glanced at his eyes, but I couldn’t get a sense of what he was thinking because he didn’t even have a basic expression that a person should have.

“I don’t care.”

Kion looks down at me quietly, then pulls out a chair and sits down.

Similar eye levels were formed and the distance became closer.

The way he looked at me with his elbow resting on the armrest of his chair with his chin slightly clenched and looking at me was a bit embarrassing.

When I looked at it gently in the first posture, I clearly felt that the first emotion I felt was ‘Heungmi’ as if it were not an illusion.

TL/N : Heungmi literal translation is interest, more about it on notes (1)

I asked back as I looked at the innocent desk with drooping eyes.

“…Pardon?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“Bu-but…”

I turned a healthy bachelor into a father of a child, so why does it not matter?

“That would be better than calling me your husband.”

That’s indeed true. That’s why I said so.

“You surprisingly know how to use your brain.”

What is he implying?

It was a blatant statement that, if heard wrongly, would be considered disregard.

However, as if he was really proud, he reached out his hand without holding his chin and swept my head still.

Perhaps this is patting?

‘…I’m embarrassed. Truly.’

My chubby fingers curled up. As I grabbed and tore off the hem of my clothes, the hand on my head fell off.

I was so embarrassed that I was happy.

“But… we have to tell him the truth.”

Apart from proudly introducing him as a daughter in front of Beldum, he expressed a different opinion.

“Why?”

“That way you’ll be taken care properly.”

“Umm.”

“It might be able to help.”

It was like saying that he sympathized with me to save my face in front of Beldum, but it was more convenient to tell him the truth for the future.

By the way, what are you taking care of and helping out for?

“You.”

“…”

“It’s you.”

Keon raised his chin slightly and said.

Only then did I know that I was the subject of the conversation he talked about. When I opened my eyes wide and raised my short index finger to point at myself and blinked slowly.

I left my mouth. What am I using it for.

TL/N : I think it’s a metaphor for speechless (like she’s speechless and doesn’t know how to reply so she’s confused on what to use her mouth for when it’s for speaking)

NOTES :

  1. 흥미(興味) is an emotion or emotion that is attracted to an object, event, process, etc , It refers to becoming interested in something. If you have something you are interested in as a job or hobby , your life satisfaction will increase. In the modern case of psychological interest] , it is used as an umbrella concept to encompass other more psychological terms such as curiosity , and to a much lesser extent surprise. A picture that express the word :