NOVEL NEXT Baby Princess’ Survival Diary
Chapter 23
It was a clumsy hand than my father, but it was a friendly hand. The smiling Eldest Young Master wasn’t scary.
I asked carefully. “Can I caww you Oraboni?” (Can I call you Oraboni?) “Yeah.” As if in a good mood, my older brother kept stroking my hair. “Thanw you.” (Thank you.) “For what?” “You shaid thhath i can caww you Oraboni.” (You said that I can call you Oraboni.) “That’s natural.’ My brother smiled faintly and patted my back. Suddenly, I found a sword that my brother had put aside on one side. As I was still looking at the sword, then brother said, “Do you like swords?” “Yesh…” (Yes…) “But Jerion doesn’t like it.” The older brother, who raised his body for a while with a smiling voice, grabbed the sword and sat down again. The shining sword was beautiful. I listened to my father’s warning that I shouldn’t touch the sword recklessly, so I couldn’t bear to touch it, just staring at it. Then my brother continued. “I guess Lione must learn the sword.” “Yesh?” (Yes?) “Because I used to look at my mother’s sword like that when I was like you.” Mother’s sword. Come to think of it, I heard that the Duchess was a great knight. I heard that she went to the northern land shortly after giving birth to Jerion and disappeared. The wife, who was a knight before the Duchess, had disappeared while going to the northern estate of Biherville by order of the state. I’ve never heard of the exact reason or how she went missing. “Buth…” (But…) The Duchess is a great person, but I was barely called a Lady. And I heard from the Duke of Enotis that the majority of Ladies should be calm. “But?” “Lady shhouwdn’th do thhath…” (Lady shouldn’t do that…) My brother frowned. “Who said that?” “Uh… ith’sh jushth…” (Uh… It’s just…) “There are women who learn swords. They are inferior to men in terms of physical strength, but they are so delicate that it is not easy to deal with them.” “Reawwy?” (Really?) “Yeah.” I felt better and stomped my feet. “I… have a shword, thoo!” (I… have a sword, too!) I wanted to pronounce the word “sword” correctly, but it didn’t go as well as I wanted. “Is that so? Did father buy it for you?” “Yesh!” (Yes!) My brother put me on the floor when I moved my hips. As soon as both legs were closed on the soft grass, I ran towards the room. As I climbed the stairs and entered the room, Driane was taking out a sword. It seemed to have seen and heard everything above. According to my father’s orders, the scabbard that evening was blue. “Thanw you!” (Thank you!) Watching Driane wagging its tail, I ran back to the first floor. It was the first time I showed a sword except for my father and Jerion. Strangely, my heart fluttered. “Because it’s a blue scabbard. My father must have paid a lot of attention.” “Yesh?” (Yes?) “Blue is a symbol of holiness. It is not a color that anyone can use casually.” “Reawwy?” (Really?) “Yeah. Especially, it’s not a color that’s used recklessly for things like swords. Just by looking at this, people will know that you are a child blessed with divine power.” “Whoa…” I just thought it was pretty, but I didn’t know it had such a hidden meaning. When I heard that my father took care of me, I felt strangely twisted. When I laughed because I was in a good mood, my brother stroked my head and asked. “Can I take it out?” “Yesh!” (Yes!) The sword, which felt like a long sword when I held it, looked like a very short sword when my brother lifted it. My brother looked around at the sword and continued to talk. “So it’s a holy sword.” “Yesh!” (Yes!) Driane informed me that a sword with a faint light on the sword is called a holy sword. Until it met me, it couldn’t eat the divine power, so it was no different from a regular sword, but now it’s shining like this, and Driane said thank you to me. The light circulating on the sword is pride as a holy sword. I don’t know what it means, but I thought that was enough because Driane was happy. When I looked at Nadia’s bracelet later, there was a faint light. It was said that holy relics with divine power shine like that. As I was thinking about it, my brother held out the sword to me. I decided to do it with Driane later, and I got the sword from my brother. The sword was put back in its sheath. “Now that you have received the sword, you need to practice swordsmanship.” “Buth how?” (But how?) “Uh… for now…” “Yesh!” (Yes!) I couldn’t imagine practicing swordsmanship, so I looked at him with desperate eyes. “…Let’s eat first.” “Yesh?” (Yes?) “Stamina is a must for swordsmanship.” My older brother looked down at me quietly and then held me and got up. He put his hand in my armpit and lifted me up, and my feet floated in the air. I was a little scared doing that, so I stretched out my arm toward my brother. “….” My brother, whose eyes grew a little surprised, soon hugged me. As expected, this posture was the most comfortable. It was unfamiliar at first, but now I can move around and find a comfortable posture. This time again, I wiggled, got into the right position, and leaned on my brother. My older brother, who had been looking at it for a while, immediately walked forward. Today’s meal was with my brother. “Nunya, are you noth shcared anymore withh Hyung?” (Nunya, are you not scared anymore with Hyung?) “Ung!” (Yes!) “Hee.” Jerion was happy that brother and I got to know each other and spread laughter throughout the meal. It was so pretty when Jerion’s blonde shook gently. When I was eating for a while, my father came. “Father!” (Father!) “Father!” (Father!) Me and Jerion went down from the chair and ran to father. As usual, my father hugged us and looked at us. “You seem to have gotten close.” “Yesh!” (Yes!) Looking at me answering loudly, my brother nodded. My father went to his seat and put Jerion and me on one knee each. Our food was brought to the father by Jessie and Nancy. Almost every day, our father fed us, so they set rules. One day I ate it, and the other day, Jerion ate it first. My father said it was okay for me to eat first because I was old, but I was bothered. Today was Jerion’s turn. As Jerion ate first and I was repeating eating, my brother spoke up. “Aren’t you uncomfortable?” “It’s fine.” “I’ll feed one of them.” “It’s fine.” “—If you feed them one by one, they will wait a long time, right? “It’s okay to take turns waiting. It’s fun, right?” “Yesh!” (Yes!) “Yesh!” (Yes!) When I answered with an eye contact with Jerion, my brother’s expression was strangely wrinkled. And for some reason, my father was looking at my brother with a childlike expression that was a little bit mischievous. ****** I came back to my room after finishing my meal and eating dessert. I also bring dessert for Nadia separately. I saw Nadia eating with a happy look on its face and headed to Driane. Driane was still sleeping on the balcony. I was going to ask something, but Driane was sleeping so I felt sorry to wake Driane up. ‘I should ask next time.’ I crept back to bed again. It was time to do the homework Shane gave me. “Lady, you have to sleep.” After doing homework for a long time and playing with Nadia, it was already time to sleep. When I followed Jessie to the bathroom, warm water welcomed me. Originally, I only went into the bathtub once a day, but as I liked to go into the bathtub, it was changed to morning and evening. I felt like I was going to fly when I dipped my feet in a fragrant bathtub. “Hyaa—” “Lady, really.” Jessie smiles at my admiration and crosses the duck doll. The duck doll was a toy made of materials floating on the water. It was not particularly fun, but it was a toy that I liked because I felt comfortable when I saw it floating on the water. I washed for a while and came back to my place and lay down. Jessie covered me with a blanket and left the room. Before I knew it, Nadia approached me and lay down. Driane was already sleeping on the balcony. “Good night…” [Ung…] ***** Strangely, my dream was noisy. I don’t remember what I dreamed, but I definitely remembered that my dream was very noisy. I woke up in the middle of the night. I was staring out of the window blankly, and suddenly there was a shadow outside the window. “It’s not good if you haven’t slept till now.” It was the voice of a stranger. My body stiffened. It couldn’t have been a knight. I had no male knights. Even with a knight, there was no way he could enter the room at will. The face she saw through the curtain was familiar. She was a servant she often saw. It was strange. “Le—!” I was going to call Lena right away, but my tongue hardened. “You shouldn’t scream. It’s going to get in the way.” The man slowly came inside. Nadia was sleeping without knowing the world. And I couldn’t see where Driane was. My body couldn’t move either. I tried so hard that I could feel the sweat flowing, but I couldn’t move at all. “I was just going to hold you, but I’m sorry. I used magic unintentionally.” I’ve heard of magic. It said that if the divine power is the power that it embodies, then magic is the power that controls. I heard that it is a power that is rarely used by people now. In the past, there were many people who did research, but now there are only a handful of people who have inherited that ability and who have done research. ‘Why would such a person—?’ “Okay, let’s go.” The man roughly lifted me up. It was so scary that my body didn’t listen. My body trembled. “Don’t be nervous. We’ll be right back.” “….?” That was weird. What’s the point of doing this? I made eye contact with the man. “You just have to help me for a second.” The man covered my eyes with a thick cloth. Then it moved somewhere. “W, whhere are we?” (W, where are we?) I asked unintentionally, but my voice came out and I was surprised. The man didn’t care. The man put me on the ground. I felt the touch of grass and soil. There was no sound, but a voice and body movement. Embarrassed, I stood still and was about to untie the cloth that was tied to my eyes, but someone rushed to me and tied my hands. At first glance, I felt like I saw a red jewel.
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