I’m the Main Character’s Child

“Papa.”

“Why?”

“Papa, why aren’t you sleeping yet?”

She asked Cardin as they walked through the hallway. But there was no answer. Using his long legs, Cardin quickly reached the doorstep. He came into the room and laid her on the bed and covered her with a blanket all the way to her neck.

“I think you’ve done all the exercise while walking around, so go to sleep now.”

After talking, Cardin was still standing next to her. It seemed like he was going to watch her fall asleep. But still her mind was clear. She looked up at Cardin with her eyes wide open.

When he laid her down to sleep, Cardin’s forehead, which was looking down at her with her eyes wide open, wrinkled.

“Go to sleep.”

A big hand covered her eyes. Her eyes were closed for a while and then she opened it again, but what she saw was darkness. Cardin’s hand was still on her eyes.

“Papa.”

He called Cardin quietly. Every time she blinked, she felt tickled by the friction with Cardin’s palm.

“You didn’t sleep because you were scared of the explosion today, right?”

A small squeaking sound echoed clearly in the room.

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“Phew, I can’t help it. Do you want me to stay with you until Papa falls asleep? What do you think?” 

She said while patting the space on her side. She said jokingly because he wasn’t taking off his hands covering her eyes.

“I’m scared….”

Cardin, who had not spoken for a long time, uttered a word. At the same time, the hand on her eyes was lifted. Having regained her sight, she turned her head and looked at Cardin. The expressionless face was especially hard to read today.

“What?”

He put her in a blanket like a caterpillar and laid down next to her.

“As you said, I think I’ve been so scared that’s why I haven’t been able to sleep. I’m relieved to have a reliable daughter next to me.”

Cardin’s hand was placed on top of her, who had become a quilt cocoon.

“Then, go to sleep. Everything’s fine now.”

A big hand stroked her head. Those words swept her whole body making her feel drowsy. She soon fell asleep.

***

It was the sweet voice of her nanny that woke her up in the morning. She felt heavy as if she had slept for a long time, the sun was already in the middle of the sky. She asked the nanny about the where’s Cardin, and she answered that he was in the office. After hearing the answer, she prepared briefly and ran to the office.

“Liel!”

“Princess, are you feeling well?”

Fay and Elvin welcomed her as she entered Cardin’s office. She answered with a bright smile on her face after seeing their worried eyes from yesterday’s incident.

“Hi. I’m really okay.”

It was literally. I’m really fine now.

When Ad saved her, all the emotions that she had been holding down burst out at the moment she saw Cardin. Still, as time went by, the resentment that she couldn’t defeat the men with her own strength was growing more and more than yesterday’s scared feelings.

“What were you all doing here?”

She always sees Elvin there, but she tilted her head as she looked at Fay, quietly sitting on the corner of the sofa in the office.

“Oh, I was just reporting on what happened yesterday.”

“I want to hear it, too.”

Elvin glanced at her and carefully opened his mouth.

“The first explosion occurred in the plaza fountain, and within minutes, there were simultaneous explosions elsewhere. The current investigation suggests that it was caused by people who were dissatisfied with the current emperor.”

Elvin took a bunch of paper out of his arms and put it down on the table. The papers that were scattered all over the square yesterday. The incident, which took place at a time when most tourists from other countries came, was nothing more than an international disgrace.

“Well, it’s almost like a curse.”

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Roughly scrawled handwriting rippled over the paper.

“Yes, I heard that even the scary men I met yesterday were also an anti-emperor.”

When she was hiding behind a wooden board, she remembered the conversation that the men had.

“Come to think of it, what happened to the men?”

Yesterday, when she cried in Cardin’s arms, she talked about the men. Given the circumstances in which they tried to sell her, they would definitely be able to catch the illegally operated slave market by stalking those men.

Burn~

The paper in Cardin’s hand burned in an instant and disappeared without a trace.

“Oh, haha… The men have been well taken over by the investigation department of the Duke of Bardion.”

“So, they’re in the duchy now?”

“Yes, they are……. No! They’re in another place. From now on, the duke will be interrogating, or even investigating them.”

Elvin said, waving his hands hastily, saying, “Don’t worry.” It looked very suspicious somehow.

“You don’t need to think about them anymore.”

Cardin lightly shook his hands with an indifferent look on his face to see. The person who burned the paper with ferocious energy is gone.

“Yes, I see.”

It was a pity that she couldn’t hit their nose more. She was even thinking of showing her face to them for a while after the investigation.

“Liel. What are you thinking?”

Fay sat down next to her and talked. She couldn’t bring herself to say that she was thinking about the noses of the men who broke their fist last night.

“Yeah. I wonder what lunch will be for today.”

“If you’re curious about that Liel, I’m curious, too.”

Fay smiled and acted cute.

“Hmm, but Fay. Are you here to play again?”

Fay was sitting in the office where only Cardin and Elvin usually are, she felt unfamiliar with it. 

“Yes. I got permission from the duke to come and play every day.”

“Papa?”

She looked at Cardin, wondering if he liked Fay enough to give him such permission.

“Well…….”

No matter how good you look at it, his expression was not someone who allowed that because he wanted to. 

“Emiliette, if you want…… You can meet him anytime.”

As soon as Cardin’s words ended, the sound of grinding teeth rang out savagely.

‘What are you talking about?’

Cardin crumpled his brows and Fay who was sitting next to him had a pleasant smile on his face.

Elvin’s awkward laughter filled the office.

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***

“I’ll come visit often. Liel.”

Fay took her hand, shook it side by side and said joyfully.

“I’d love to come visit often. But what did you talk about?”

She was curious why Cardin who had a rotten look on his face, allowed Fay to come visit her everyday 

“Take that hand off.”

Then Cardin looked at Fay fiercely and spoke. 

Fay, who seemed to have been blown by Cardin’s eyes, let go of her hand. He slightly pouted and returned to his place.

They didn’t seem to have gotten along much better.

“We got a lot of help from your friend yesterday.”

Elvin seems to have decided to explain instead of Cardin, who looks uncomfortable.

“I was very surprised when he unraveled all the magic formulas hanging throughout the square. I heard that he is an unofficial wizard…….”

“A magic formula?”

Elvin explained in detail when she looked like she didn’t understand the story. Originally, the harvest festival held in the Empire was a big festival, so large and small accidents occurred once every few years. Most of the cases involved one person at a time who could use high-level magic and holy power, so safety measures were created to prevent this.

The tower and the temple and the entire square will be inscribed with formulas to prevent the use of magic and holy power throughout the harvest festival. The formulas engraved directly in the two places were the highest-level formulas that neutralized the power of high-ranking mana holders or holy power holders.

As a result, it was successful. The excessive use of force or disturbance in the harvest festival has been noticeably reduced.

“So, even if you need the power of a wizard or a priest like yesterday’s incident, it will never work. The combination of the tower and the temple is a very powerful formula that no one can turn back once triggered.”

Elvin says that after she was swept away by people in an instant, Cardin attempted to use a tracking magic, but he couldn’t find her right away because of the powerful formula carved from the tower.

After that, Cardin and Elvin searched for her like crazy, but it was a star in the sky to find her in the chaotic square. 

“But your friend solved the magic formula yesterday. So, we were able to locate the princess.”

“You solved it?”

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Didn’t you just say it’s a top-level formula carved from the tower and the temple?

She was dumbfounded that Fay, sitting mildly next to her, solved a highest-grade formula.

She thought he had an excellent magic skill for his age…

“It’s not that big of a deal. Rather, it took some time to solve it, so I was very sad that I found Liel late.”

Fay lowered his eyes and added with a sullen face, saying, “He could have found it faster without the temple formula mixed in.”

“No, it’s amazing”

My friend is not just a wizard, but a genius wizard of the century!

“Oh, wait! But I used mana yesterday……?”

She remembered using magic to get rid of men.

“Well, I don’t know… I’ve actually never done this before, so I don’t know much, but I think you could use your mana because my interference loosened the impact of the formula.”

That means that if Fay hadn’t touched the formula, she would have been dragged by the men.

‘There’s another benefactor of my life here.’ 

“That’s why he got permission to come visit anytime as a friend of yours. as a full-time escort…… It’s much better than a knight who couldn’t stand by you.”

Elvin tried to raise the corners of his mouth and talked lightly. He seemed to be blaming himself for yesterday’s occurrence. She got up from her seat and approached Elvin. Elvin leaned over to her height.

“I’ll forgive you.”

For Elvin, the knight, she thought it would be better to say this rather than saying, “It was a situation that you couldn’t help it, it’s really okay now.”

“But I like it best when Elvin is my escort.”

She could see Elvin straining his face, holding back his emotions.

“……I will stand by your side until the moment I die.”

Elvin bowed his head and took the oath of a knight. She felt sorry for him as if he carried all the responsibility for not being able to protect her. It was such an inevitable accident.

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