Everyone Was Obsessed With Me After I Became the Youngest Princess Favorite

“The little crab eats too much.”

Diana, who had never heard of a bruise for food before, was very sad. It was Lia who was startled as Diana pursed her lips and tears welling up.

‘Jack! She is the lady to whom you will swear an oath! You should be kinder!’

Unaware of Lia’s anguish, Jack, who had thrown away his twig, went over to the clothes she had set aside, took half of the bread, and handed it to Lia.

“Uh? Why is this…”

He wasn’t noisy today. Lia muttered in a crawling voice, which somehow made Jack more nervous.

“Just eat.”

“But Jack, you saved it too. I gave it to you yesterday, but if you give it to me today…”

“If you don’t want to keep getting hungry, take my share!”

Lia’s body twitched at her sudden scream.

“Then you also share your share with me…”

Leah muttered softly so that he could not hear her, and looked at the bread in her hand in silence without eating. As Diana stared at it, she said Jack harshly.

“Don’t even think about passing it on!”

“I won’t do it!”

“Lie.”

A pouty Diana puffed out her cheeks. Jack also glared at Diana without losing. Lia was a little taken aback when she saw Jack arguing with her little one, which made her laugh. In her memories, Jack was always a taciturn and blunt boy, but looking back, he had a childish side to him.

“Why are you laughing?”

Jack looked at Lia, who suddenly smiled, and narrowed his eyes.

Lia’s mouth moved on its own.

“I thought you were handsome when I saw it again.”

While living in the guild, she had become a habit of hanging out with older executives, so it was a compliment that jumped out without realizing it, but it wasn’t a lie. Despite his young age, Jack was a handsome boy with distinct features.

‘So he will have his own female followers later.’

There was no way he could be that popular simply because he was a sword master or one of the top 3 knights. Lia nodded her head to herself, but Jack, who was suddenly speechless, turned her head away. It seemed that the nape of his neck was a little red.

‘Is it because of training?’

She tilted her head, but Diana, sensing a strange atmosphere next to her, suddenly squealed at her.

“No!”

“Huh?”

“You’re not handsome! My brother is better!”

The sight of Diana speaking confidently with her hands on her hips made Lia burst into laughter once more.

Jack asked, narrowing his eyes.

“Do you have a brother?”

“Yes! Two more!”

“There must be two, you fool.”

“Dana is not an idiot! Bro, my brother is more handsome!” cried Diana, shaking Lia’s sleeve.

At that moment, Lis remembered the face of Diana’s older brother, Lucio, whom she had seen just before her death.

‘Yeah, he’s really handsome.’

He was a handsome man with a handsome face resembling the Duke of Elad, and a nonchalant face worthy of his nickname, the Ice Prince. But Lia thought he wasn’t as cold as people say.

‘… What do you mean, I don’t even know.’

For a moment she thought she was crazy, so Lia shook her head hastily. Misunderstanding the figure, Diana cried her eyes out.

“Really, my brother is handsome…”

“Uh? That’s right. If Dana looked like you, he would be very handsome!”

“That’s right!”

Diana smiled brightly at her urgent comforting words. Jack, who saw this, twisted his mouth and tried to say something, so Lia quickly changed the topic for the relationship between the two future masters and servants.

“More than that, Jack! Are you training alone here?”

“What is training? I’m just doing it because I’m bored.”

“I see. You’re still working hard… It was great.”

Jack’s throat reddened again as she thoughtlessly gave a compliment again. Diana also pursed her lips.

‘Why is the atmosphere like this?’

The relationship between the two shouldn’t be this bad. Of course, she didn’t want to be destined to go wrong, but Lia took her word for her uneasy mood.

“As expected, Jack wants to be a knight, right?”

“What? Knight?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Jack frowned.

“You think commoners like us can become knights so easily? I will be a mercenary. They may not have the fame, but they make a lot of money.”

“Ah…”

Lia, who opened her mouth in a daze while watching Jack reveal her aspirations without hesitation, laughed for some reason. The childhood dream of a knight who would later make a name for himself in the empire was to become a mercenary.

“I think Jack, you will be a knight.”

“Yes, what do you think you know! How difficult is that!”

No matter how ignorant she was of the world, it’s not like she was making fun of people! Jack, who was inadvertently angry, was speechless at Lia’s face, which showed no signs of teasing. Looking at her twinkling eyes without a single lie, for some reason he didn’t want to give an answer that would disappoint Lia.

“I know it’s difficult, but you can do it. You want to be too.”

So, when the words were passed calmly, Jack answered unconsciously.

“…If I can be, I want to be.”

“Of course. So just work hard like you do now.”

Because he was kinder and more sincere than anyone else, he would be blessed in the end. Lia laughed brightly, swallowing her words behind her back.

* * *

After Jack’s training, he returns to the nursery school. She was pleased to see Jack, who was in the lead, glancing back from time to time to make sure we were following.

‘Pretend it wasn’t and take care of it. Even if he grumbles, Diana seems to care.’

Well, if it wasn’t for that, there’s no way he would have stepped out to protect Diana at that moment in the past when no one stepped forward.

‘Well, there is chivalry, but protecting the weak is chivalry.’

“Oops.”

At that moment, an involuntary sound came out of her mouth. It was because she walked at a faster pace than she had come so as not to miss Jack who was ahead of her. His calves were so sore.

“Guy, give me strength. Take it up, Joe.”

Diana waved her sleeve and called me to stand.

“Yes, get up.”

It was the moment she was about to squat, thinking that it would be better to go back as quickly as possible.

“Is there something to kill him? Where are you going to get up!”

Jack, who had been walking in the lead, came back before she knew it and grabbed her arm. And as if to ask her to get on his back, she leaned down in front of Diana.

“Sirheung! G…”

“Ha.”

Jack let out a deep sigh, stared at Diana for a moment, then twisted at her. She had no shame about this, but her eyes widened as she was about to ask for at least the washed clothes and water bucket. The posture of her back with her arms spread behind her meant that no matter who saw her, she had to get up. But why was Jack doing that in front of her?

“What are you doing, don’t get carried away.”

“Huh?”

“You can carry her on your back and I can carry you on my back.”

“…Eh?”

What nonsense was that? She thought it was a joke and laughed, even though she knew that it couldn’t be because of Jack’s serious personality. But there was no mischief in Jack’s dark eyes.

“Hurry.”

She awkwardly scratched her cheek as she watched Jack go to work once again.

“Come on, carry Joe.”

Plus Diana wagging her sleeves. Was there a resemblance because it was a relationship that would become master and servant in the future? Seeing how both of them were so stubborn, she couldn’t help but nod her head as she watched the children tense up without making any concessions. It was a bit strange and embarrassing, but it’s Jack who’s suffering, not her. Thinking that she didn’t know why Jack bothered to do this, she put Diana on her back.

“Now you’re on your back too.”

She hesitated as she saw Jack bent down in front of her, then hesitantly lowered his body. As she hugged his neck tightly from behind and carefully lifted him up, her vision went up lightly.

“Kyaa, that’s high!”

Diana, on her back, purred and laughed as if she were excited.

* * *

The price of enduring shame was sweet like honey. Fortunately, this bizarre appearance was not noticed by anyone during the trip, and she arrived in front of the nursery school without straining her body at all.

“Thank you, Jack.”

When she wiggled her fingers and said, “Thank you for bringing me comfortably, but I’m sorry,” Jack turned his head away without saying a word.

‘It makes people feel embarrassed.’

But Jack was a really good kid, not only because he carried them on his back, but also because he had a blunt personality when he saw him take care of the bread.

‘Okay, let me look at you like an adult.’

Even though she was several years younger now, she had lived to be eighteen. Ignoring Jack’s reaction, she smiled brightly, and in an instant, Jack’s pupils widened and he felt his breath stop.

‘Is my smile so strange?’

It was time to stroke Diana’s head out of embarrassment.

“You! Where are you going?”

As if he was about to go out, the director was standing at the entrance holding an overcoat.

“Huh! Scary uncle! Black! No!”

Diana sighed and hid into her arms. In the past, she had been frightened just by looking at the director, so she hurriedly hid Diana and spoke to the director, who was twitching his eyebrows.

“I went to do laundry.”

As she quickly lifted Diana up the hem of her dress, the director, who was glaring at her with cold eyes for a moment, asked Jack out of the blue.

“How old are you now?”

“…10 years old.”

“Um, good. Good.”

When Jack answered the question without knowing its meaning, the director nodded his head with a very satisfied face and walked past us and left the nursery school. Following yesterday, it seemed like he was going for a drink today.

“Hmm…”

She wondered where the alternate ledger got the money from.

“Now, you go in too.”

At that time, Jack woke her up from looking at the director’s back. Not wanting to bother him anymore, she took Diana’s hand without a murmur and headed for the room. When they returned to the bedroom, the other children were already ready to go to bed. As soon as she lay down on her bed, Diana, tired of her brief outing, immediately began to doze off. She looked at her cutely and looked out the window. The sky was getting dark as the sun had already set. And after a while, she confirmed that everyone in the shared bedroom was perfectly asleep, and she quietly got up from her seat. In the past, Duke Elad found Diana and Jack locked in the attic after losing consciousness, and then killed the director with a single knife. And now she was thinking of keeping Diana and at the same time making the ending of the ledger the same.

‘In addition, he saved the children from the orphanage who will be driven to the street for pretending not to know Diana.’

It was a must-do for her, who vividly remembers the miserable days of beggars more than ever.

‘So I have to report the director first and get mercy from Duke Elad.’

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