Became a Munchkin Skill Thief

Episode 5 Fiancé’s Misunderstanding

The youngest daughter of the Hadenhartz family, rulers of the north.

Bianca Hardenhartz.

With the coldest face in the North, she was famous for being an expressionless woman, nicknamed the Snow Woman.

She is still as good as her looks, but rumors spread that she would become a great beauty later on.

So why is she her own fiancé?

The reason was simple indeed.

‘Because it’s perfect for an arranged marriage.’

Hardenhartz is good because she has a lot of kites with Valheim, and her Valheim is good because there are times when she spends useless half-punches.

She was one way or another, both she and herself were consumed by her arranged marriage.

‘Well, it’s literally just an arranged marriage anyway.’

In the first place, Bianca hated herself.

It won’t be that different this time either.

Rather than that, her real problem lay elsewhere.

Because those who appeared in the world erosion she.

Because she is the one who tried to destroy the world by joining hands with the world eroder.

White Ghost

It was the nickname she got after killing one of the ten strongest people in the past world.

“Tell me to come in.”

She’s come a long way from the North to see her fiancé, and she just can’t let go.

More than anything else, Krashu needed her at the right time.

“Yes, I understand.”

Aliod immediately left after hearing Krashu’s order.

Krashu saw himself reflected in the mirror provided in the study.

Pretty lousy.

Anyway, I need to change my clothes.

Thinking so, Krashu moved on to greet her guest.

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Bianca Hardenhartz.

The youngest daughter of the Hardenhartz family, the ruler of the north, and nicknamed the Snow Woman, she had very white bobbed hair.

True to her nickname of her snow woman, even her skin was close to white jade, she looked at her fingertips with her blue moonlight eyes.

The tips of her fingernails were strangely engraved with the pattern of her snow crystals.

It was none other than a symbol of a curse.

Before she was born, her mother was caught up in world erosion.

She was cursed in the process, and eventually her curse continued on to her in the stomach.

It was the curse of being a snow doll that couldn’t feel any emotions.

Maybe it’s because it’s a curse she’s been carrying since she was born, and even her soul is tied up.

This curse could not be lifted even by Haejusa.

Until the year she turned 12, she lived without crying, let alone laughing.

Her face, which looked even colder because of her skin color and hair, was a face with a promising future, except for that expressionless expression.

However, such an appearance did not mean much.

Because the gods do not come to contract a body contaminated with the curse of world erosion.

That’s why she always lived a life of neglect in Hardenhartz.

Because of her lack of emotion, she couldn’t get along with her people, and her siblings didn’t like her, her cursed child born after killing her mother.

Aren’t you a kid who can’t even make a contract with a god?

There was no value in the family either.

So she was easily sent to an arranged marriage.

Today, the reason she visited Cheongsong Hall was to meet Krasch Walheim, who was appointed as her fiancé.

Balheim is the most famous for inaction in Staron Kingdom.

It is a family that pours out enough monsters that even the empire cannot touch the kingdom of Staron with just the existence of the family.

The fact that she was engaged to the youngest member of such a family was a great opportunity for Hardenhartz as well.

Even though he is the ruler of the north, the reality is that he is eventually pushed out of the center.

Today is the second meeting with my fiancé.

Even so, she didn’t feel any interest.

Because in her memory, Krashu was nothing more than a loser who gave up everything.

「Go away. Hardenhards and what, after all, don’t pretend to be your fiancé, a b*tch who only cares about the power of Valheim.”

If I had to say it, Krashu belonged to the axis she hated.

Because he had a rough way of speaking and looked at everything pessimistically.

She was a Bianca who liked and disliked even if she had no emotions.

So Bianca wasn’t very happy with this place either.

It was because it was clear that Krasch would blame himself again.

At that moment, footsteps were heard outside.

Realizing that the footsteps belonged to Krashu, Bianca adjusted her dressing.

Perhaps because she has no emotions, even though she is 12 years old, she grows up too quickly, but she is quick to accept reality.

After all, it was because she was in a position to be humbled here.

Kik-

With the sound of the door opening, Bianca’s head turned to the side.

Then I saw Krashu who opened the door.

Her blue-and-black hair and blue eyes similar to her own.

With a youthful face like a 13-year-old, he was rather good-looking, except for his rather ferocious eyes.

“Bianca.”

“You’re welcome.”

When Bianca immediately responded with her honorific words, Krashu looked at Bianca for a moment and then sat down in front of her.

Then he looked at the teacup he hadn’t taken a sip of and said.

“My maid has no sense. Hot tea to her cat, her tongue.”

Seeing Krache smiling bitterly, Bianca hesitated.

Where did she get the fact that she couldn’t eat hot food well?

But other than that, Bianca felt different from Krasch.

How can I say it, it felt like the person itself was tidied up.

“I’ll tell the maid about this.”

After saying that, Krashu opened the box of cookies.

Then, as if it were only natural, she placed a macadamia cookie on Bianca’s plate.

Macadamia cookies were Bianca’s favorite flavor.

The moment I was a bit blankly watching Krashu’s natural behavior like flowing water.

Krashu put a chocolate-studded cookie in front of him and opened his mouth.

“Thank you for coming a long way.”

“Because I am a fiancé. Her face needs to be cooked beforehand.”

“Really? Isn’t that the way you talk about your boss, not your fiancé?”

Krashu smiled lightly.

Thanks to that, his ferocious eyes softened a little.

Bianca in that form tilted her head slightly.

“Krashu-nim, would it be okay if I ask you one question?”

Seeing Bianca using a tone that was completely unsuitable for her 12-year-old, Krashu nodded her head.

“Did something happen?”

Just 5 months ago.

Krashu, who acted as if she didn’t want to look at her own face, was so different from back then.

He was not such a kind and caring person.

Did there be a change of heart during those five months?

In a way, it was a question that could make Krashu angry.

Krashu raised the teacup.

“Are you very different from me before?”

At that moment, Bianca, who heard Krashu’s words, felt sorry for her.

At most he was kind, but it was because he questioned it.

“…… Sorry. It was a mistake.”

Seeing her correcting her right away, Krashu took a sip of her tea into her mouth.

To be honest, Krashu didn’t remember how he treated Bianca before.

My memories of being in my mid to late teens are vague, let alone in my early teens.

I couldn’t remember this time of year unless it was a special event like Aliode.

And that was also the case with my first meeting with Bianca.

What he vaguely knows is that he talked wildly here and there when he was young.

Because it was the time when the despair and frustration of the world became the most extreme.

In a way, it was also a time when I couldn’t give up yet.

If you give up, there will be no despair or frustration.

“…… You really haven’t changed.”

One thing is certain: Bianca was always the same.

Even on the day she passed away in front of the burning North Sea Ice Pavilion, she had the same expression as today.

And that scene was still left in Krashu’s memory.

“Yes?”

When Bianca, who heard Krache’s self-talk, asked, Krache waved his hands as if it was nothing.

Then he set the cup down and placed it on his leg with the cups in his hands.

“Bianca, I would like to propose something to you today.”

“A suggestion?”

Bianca’s big blue eyes blinked.

I wondered if Krashu, who was born in Balheim, the first place in the kingdom, would like to propose something to himself.

“Is the engagement broken?”

The first thing Bianca thought of was breaking up the engagement.

But Krashu put on a puzzled expression.

“Do you think it will be possible for us to break off the marriage between the families?”

That was it.

There was no way it would be possible for the youngest two to do something that had been decided by the family.

“Maybe later.”

But looking at the words that followed, Krashu seemed to be looking into the distant future.

“Well, it would be better for you to break off your engagement as soon as possible than to be tied down by a guy like me.”

Krashu uttered masochistic words.

Bianca stared blankly at Krache.

Bianca is well aware of his circumstances.

She’s her fiancé, she doesn’t want to disobey him.

So she knew very well that he was called the shame of Valheim.

‘But it’s still Valheim.’

He had low self-esteem even though he was born in a position that others would envy him for the rest of his life.

“I am Krashu-sama’s fiancé.”

And he was her fiancé.

There will be no change from now on.

“That will never change.”

As long as the family name does not disappear, it will not change.

That’s why when she said that, Krashu let out a blank laugh.

Because she valued her family, her last words did not contain any of her personal feelings.

Because to her, her feelings were something that could not be created.

But she still liked her at least more than lip service.

“Anyway, it’s not a breakup, and I want to propose something else to you.”

After saying that, Krashu smiled lightly.

“I recently signed a contract with a god.”

Bianca was taken aback for a moment.

Usually, the average age at which a contract is signed with God is 15 years old.

But he is Valheim.

Most direct descendants of Valheim, whom the gods have been eyeing since they were born, conclude their contracts with the gods before they are 10 years old.

In fact, Krashu was very late.

But what to celebrate is something to celebrate.

“Congratulations.”

As Bianca congratulated him, Krashu nodded her head uninspired.

“And I want to receive your curse with the ability awakened through the gods.”

“Yes?”

But what came out of his mouth was completely unexpected.

Bianca’s eyes blinked once as she inadvertently asked the question.

Ask for a curse.

That sounded so absurd.

“I have something to write about.”

“A curse?”

“Yes, if you give me that curse, I will grant you anything you want. Of course, you can break off the engagement if you want.”

Bianca was silent for a moment.

Because she didn’t understand at first.

‘Curse me.’

The curse of self is the curse of losing one’s emotions.

Why do you want to have such a curse?

“Are you trying to carve the curse directly into your body?”

In Bianca’s situation, being emotionless was something she was accustomed to.

If someone who already knows how to feel does that, there will definitely be a lot of confusion.

So when Bianca asked back, Krashu only nodded.

‘It was a curse that not even the world’s best healers could break.’

Looking at Krashu’s reaction, it was as if he could take the curse for granted.

‘Did Krashu-nim sign a contract with such a god?’

Let’s say you can take the curse.

What is Krache trying to do by stealing the curse and getting rid of his emotions?

Bianca thoughtfully reviewed Krache’s information.

He is a half-penny in Valheim and is being treated as a tool for an arranged marriage.

She obviously had a very bad relationship with the rest of her immediate family, and she gave herself up.

That’s why he tries to erase his emotions.

‘I’m tired.’

As soon as she listed all her information, Bianca had a realization.

Krashu is exhausted.

He had to pour out so much emotion that he didn’t want to pour it out anymore, to the point where he ended up clinging to the curse.

And Bianca knew the end of a person who had been so emotionally driven.

‘I said it was depression.’

I remembered what my uncle, a northern spirit mage who was studying spirit, told me.

He often told Bianca various stories related to the spirit, and now Krache felt exactly that.

‘People suddenly change, and when you become kind to the people around you, it’s said that it’s the process of putting an end to those around you.’

Bianca raised her head and looked at Krache.

I didn’t know because I didn’t look closely, but I could see scars and sore skin here and there on his body.

‘Self-harm.’

Looking at that, Bianca realized that Krache was hurting herself.

Krashu was driven to such an extent that even she, who had no feelings for her, felt a little pity.

In reality, it’s just a scar caused by diligent training in secret writing.

‘Because I’m a fiancée.’

Bianca, completely misunderstanding Krache, placed her hand on top of his.

“It’s okay, Mr. Krashu. I can get over it.”

“Uh, huh?”

This time, Krashu had a question.