“Did that thing just laugh at me?”
“Young Master Gerd. You mustn’t call the Young Lady ‘that thing.’”
“You have ears, don’t you? Then you should have heard it! That thing is laughing at me right now!”
Ah, this is driving me crazy.
Honestly, the way he spoke, putting on airs and imitating an adult, was just too funny. Besides, from my vantage point on top of John’s enormous head, my opponent looked like nothing more than a little kid.
“Get down here right now! An albino like you, who would have been nothing more than a mere dancer if you were in Lichtenbium, dares to laugh at me?”
Gerd huffed angrily as he reached toward me. In his fury, he hadn’t even noticed that Kiraxus’s magic had just forced him to call me “Lady.”
“No, Young Master.”
John, who had been assigned as my escort, effortlessly dodged Gerd’s reaching hands.
“Please stop.”
“AAARGH! It keeps laughing! How dare you! How dare you laugh at me!!! At me, the second son of Lichtenbium!”
I tried to hold it in while gently swishing my tail, but eventually I burst out laughing.
Grabbing onto John’s hair, I snickered until I nearly rolled right off his head.
Only after quite some time did I finally stop laughing. By then, I could tell that the boy pursing his lips was trying to think of something hurtful to say to me.
Well, was he about to call me lowborn?
“Y-You… you have a family! And you come from a noble lineage!”
“……Pfft. Puhahaha!”
Because he had hit my expectations so perfectly, the laughter I had barely managed to suppress burst out again.
No matter what insult he tried to throw at me, he couldn’t get past Kiraxus’s filtering magic.
‘Oh my gosh, is this really supposed to be one of the male leads?!’
After finally wiping the tears from the corners of my eyes, I patted Pompom’s head twice.
“Pudding culprit?”
—Are you the one who threw the pudding served as today’s snack into the trash can right in front of the cooks?
At that moment, Gerd fell into confusion.
‘W-What? How does that thing know about that?’
He desperately tried not to show it, but he couldn’t stop his face from turning bright red.
In fact, the reason he had come all the way down to the floor where the servants stayed was because of a report from the corridor-cleaning servant he had bribed beforehand.
He had intended to intimidate the lowly albino known as the “Young Lady” and make it clear that he would become the head of the family.
Until last year, the only albinos Gerd had ever encountered while living in Lichtenbium were lowborn dancers. But the albino called the “Young Lady” he had actually met was completely different from what he had expected.
‘If she were in Lichtenbium, she wouldn’t even dare look up at my face!’
And yet, right now, she was looking down at him from atop Sir John Grizzly, her escort knight’s head.
It was absolutely intolerable.
‘I already hate everything about this place, from the food to the room!’
Fuming with anger, he once again searched for words that could hurt the lowly thing.
“Once we get married, I’ll divorce you and lock you away in a spire like you. You’ll spend your entire life begging for my love!”
Gerd’s father, the King of Lichtenbium, had countless concubines. After a certain period of time, those concubines were taken away to the spires. They could never leave for the rest of their lives and had to beg for the king’s mercy.
‘How about that? You’re scared now, aren’t you!’
Feeling triumphant, he raised his chin.
But the response he received was completely different from what he had expected.
“P-Puhahaha! H-He’s going to lock me up!”
“Young Master, that was out of line. I will report this separately to the family head, so be aware of that.”
Why?
The lowly thing was laughing, while Sir John Grizzly, whom Gerd had actually wanted to impress, had gone completely stern and cold.
Gerd simply couldn’t understand it.
‘That child’s thoughts are obvious.’
I could see straight through Gerd’s thoughts.
How spoiled must he have been, being pampered and indulged as the king’s son? It was a great blessing for the kingdom that this child wasn’t the eldest son.
After getting all my laughter out, I quickly put on a cold expression.
Funny was funny, but he still needed to be scolded.
“Hey.”
“!”
“Who said I’d marry you?”
“W-What?”
“There are plenty of candidates besides you, idiot.”
I probably shouldn’t insult the precious prince, but the insults I’d heard from him had been much worse.
‘Besides, John will report this situation fairly to the family head.’
All I had done was laugh. He was the one who got worked up over it and said things he shouldn’t have.
“Pudding, don’t throw it away.”
—Do you know how much effort from so many people goes into making that one pudding that ends up in your mouth? Don’t treat food carelessly.
Pompom translated exactly what I wanted to say wonderfully.
The boy alternated his gaze between me and Pompom, gritting his teeth with a face boiling red with anger.
‘Oh? He’s actually holding it in?’
If he could restrain himself here, then perhaps he had some potential after all.
‘Or maybe he wants to lash out but is keeping quiet because of John.’
Most people were weak toward the strong and strong toward the weak.
But the head of the Driblyane family could not afford to be like that.
Who would buy weapons from someone so lacking in authority?
“Let’s go, John.”
“Yes, Young Lady.”
I turned my head away haughtily.
‘Ugh, I’ve seen enough.’
Still, I suppose even a rotten little brat like that would eventually become an Alpha.
‘It seems the kingdom really did forcefully help him awaken as an Alpha somehow…….’
Yeah, I’ve decided.
Let Rahin save Gerd.
I really didn’t want to steal Gerd’s salvation arc from Rahin. I’d just leave that one to Rahin……
“Kyik!”
At that very moment, I felt my body suddenly lifted into the air and let out a scream.
“Young Lady!”
John, who had lost hold of me in an instant, spun around with a bewildered expression, but I was already caught in Gerd’s grasp.
And he was holding me by my tail, no less!
“How dare you humiliate me?”
Oh my gosh, he’s lost it.
I had wondered how Gerd had managed to grab me faster than John could react, but then I saw a huge bird poking its head out from beside Gerd.
The bird was wrapped in a faint glow, and it was clearly no ordinary creature.
“That is a wind spirit, isn’t it?! How dare you use spirit magic against the Young Lady!”
John immediately approached, his face turning pale, but Gerd took a step back and used the spirit as a shield.
“I have to teach this thing a lesson, so stay back.”
“Stop this. You will be severely punished!”
“Oh, really?”
A twisted grin crept across Gerd’s face.
At the same time, an enormous pain shot through my tail.
‘It hurts!’
No matter what, Gerd was only thirteen.
And I was nothing more than a small, fragile baby.
Yet when Gerd deliberately squeezed me, the pain was so intense that it felt as though my tail was about to be ripped off.
“I am the one who cannot possibly marry an albino like you, so go to the family head right now and tell him! Tell him that choosing you as my future wife was a mistake and that I’m calling it off!”
“Kyikkk!”
As I swung through the air like a hunted little animal, it felt as though my tiny brain and all my organs were being tossed around inside me.
Perhaps deciding that enough was enough, I saw John draw his sword.
Even if it was a spirit, the one Gerd had summoned was only an intermediate wind spirit.
There wasn’t even a jewel on its forehead, the mark of a contract.
It wasn’t his personal spirit either. It was probably a spirit contained within a protective artifact given to him by the royal family.
“I have been ordered by the family head to prioritize the Young Lady’s safety above all else. Therefore, I will forcibly send the spirit back.”
“Tch. Fine, fine!”
At John’s stern warning, Gerd clicked his tongue and dismissed the spirit first.
Then he casually tossed me onto John’s hand.
“Young Lady, are you all right?!”
I was not all right.
‘I’m going to get revenge!’
He dared to hurt me this badly?
I immediately stood up and glared fiercely at Gerd.
How miserable it was not to be able to transform into a human!
‘No, wait. Since I’m in animal form, there are ways I can get revenge.’
I clenched my tiny chestnut-sized paws and focused all my strength into my hind legs before launching myself forward.
“Young Lady!”
Before John could stop me, I reached my enemy’s shoulder.
I opened my mouth wide and sank my teeth into his plump ear.
“Aaaagh! You beast!!! Let go!!!”
Hmph! As if I’d let go.
You didn’t let go of my tail either!
“Let go, I said! Aaaagh!!!”
The taste of blood filled my mouth.
It was disgusting, but even as I was being swung wildly back and forth, I didn’t release my bite.
Serves you right!
John knew he should stop me, but perhaps he couldn’t bring himself to pull me away, because he fidgeted helplessly.
Gerd shrieked at the top of his lungs, and his screams soon drew all sorts of people over.
“What in the world is going on here?”
And finally, the person capable of bringing this entire mess under control appeared.
It was Laphiren.
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