I Became the Abandoned Daughter of an Underworld Boss

“Meow~”

“Huh, Lulu… did you find something?”

“Meow! Meow meow!”

Yuriana woke up to the sound of Lulu purring.

She was hungry. Although her new body required less food than before, she couldn’t function properly without eating at all.

She needed to search for the trash can they brought in from outside quickly before it was too late. She had to find something before she got too tired.

Pulling the sheet off her stomach and climbing down from the bed, she muttered to herself.

“Let’s go…”

“Where do you think you’re going?”

‘E… eek?!’

A cold voice with a faint hint of anger.

A strange man’s voice. And it was the voice of an adult male!

Yuriana’s pupils dilated with tension.

In Alice’s world, everyone was kind to her, but there was no way they’d be kind to a complete stranger like Yuriana.

Besides, this was Dark Town, wasn’t it?

“…”

“Yuriana Lithus?”

The moment he called her name, she instantly realized who it was.

The short silver hair that resembled hers, and those intense purple eyes.

Asil!

“Uh, uh, uh…”

“Do you talk to cats but stutter in front of people?”

A severely mocking tone.

But Yuriana knew well that this was not the time to point that out.

The only person who could act recklessly in front of Asil was Alice.

What was going on?

Yuriana looked at where Lulu was and took a deep breath.

Lounging comfortably on a soft cushion, she was different from usual.

Yawning widely enough to show her throat, breathing with her belly moving up and down. As if this place was her own living room…

Huh? Wait a second?

“… Lulu?”

“You have the brains to name a cat but not the strength to escape from the slave hunters chasing you?”

Asil’s mocking tone wasn’t too angry, though. So, maybe it was okay to ask him something.

Yuriana gathered her courage and opened her mouth.

“U-um… did you send Lulu, the cat, to me?”

Yes! She had thought something was strange.

Although falling into the last game she played before almost dying was even more absurd.

Right?

A cat suddenly appeared and started following her around, and even though it was weak, it kept telling her to gather food every day.

What cat in the world was that smart?

Asil’s lips curled slightly.

“Yes.”

Understanding the truth, Yuriana’s mouth fell open.

What on earth?

Asil Lithus didn’t even appear at the end of the game, abandoned by the heroine.

She thought he’d be living a life of a defeated man, drowned in alcohol…

Yet, he helped out his unfamiliar daughter?!

Could it be that this world’s Asil was a genius? Maybe his personality was a bit different from the original?

“…”

“Have nothing to say?”

“Why… why are you being so kind to me…?”

Yuriana stammered, and Asil scoffed.

“Remember what you shouted that echoed throughout Dark Town.”

“What?”

“It was ridiculous. Knowing your origin and yet acting so miserable for days? You could have found me right away. Whatever, just eat and take care of yourself.”

With those words, Asil walked toward the door.

Bang!

Even though the door closed loudly, Yuriana couldn’t shake off her bewilderment.

What was really going on?

From her memory, there were only two routes in which Asil recognized the existence of his daughter.

The first was the happy ending where Asil and Alice fell in love.

The other was the bad ending where Asil ignored Yuriana’s death and separated from Alice.

In the past, Asil promised marriage to his first love, whom he met and grew close to in an alley, but she was soon kidnapped by some force.

Later, his first love barely escaped back to Dark Town but died of exhaustion.

Her weakened body wasn’t easily found.

The necklace locket she dropped on her way back ended up in Dark Town and eventually caught Asil’s eye.

Asil eventually found her remains and might have cried. Who knew?

He didn’t even know why his first love disappeared overnight.

After burying her somewhere, Asil never opened his heart to anyone until he met Alice, and he never spoke about his first love again.

But after meeting Alice…

He felt that he couldn’t move forward without resolving his past.

In the process, he discovered that the force that kidnapped his first love was Dark Elves and that she had a child.

That child was Yuriana.

Asil’s heart opened up after he grew close to Alice and felt the emotion of love again.

So, in the true happy ending where Asil got abandoned, he never learnt about Yuriana’s existence!

Of course, the same applied to routes where Alice didn’t target Asil.

‘Yuriana’s mother is already dead, and her father doesn’t know about her. That’s why I thought she was a bit pitiful. But wow, how did this happen? Did Asil investigate after failing to be with Alice?’

Thinking this way, it wasn’t strange.

Could it be the original story’s restraint?

Since that world had ended, Asil might have started taking care of his own life.

Asil was still the boss of Dark Town.

After comforting himself from the pain of being rejected by Alice, he had to live on his own strength.

So, he might have dug into matters and information that he previously didn’t care about and found out the truth later on.

‘… is it too much to ask him again? I should stay still.’

Although he looked at Yuriana with some disdain, he didn’t seem to want to kill her. He even sent Lulu to save her.

“Oh! Right, Lulu. Anyway, thank you.”

“Meow?”

Lulu was already lying down leisurely, chewing on some jerky she had taken from her hiding spot.

Yuriana’s sky-blue eyes became moist.

This cat, who lived comfortably here, went through all that trouble for ten days to take care of her.

When she got up and petted between Lulu’s ears, Lulu purred because she had mistakenly touched something else.

No! This wasn’t a purr; it was a warning growl.

She misunderstood! Trying to pet her head, she touched the jerky instead?

“Meowwwww~”

“No, no. Even if I’m starving, I wouldn’t take your snack! What do you think I am… no, no. You finish it.”

“Meow!”

Lulu laid her ears flat and showed her sharp teeth!

Yuriana earnestly explained.

“It’s true. I don’t really like dried meat. You finish it. I won’t touch cat snacks unless I’m starving.”

“…”

Finally understanding, the cat blinked her golden eyes and laid back down. Was she intending to leisurely chew on the jerky?

Phew.

Yuriana sighed deeply and looked around.

The room was spacious but terribly plain.

The wallpaper was a dull gray, the bed was a low wooden one, and there were only adult-sized tables and chairs, plus one wardrobe.

There was nothing to play with.

With Yuriana’s height, she couldn’t reach the handle that was quite high up.

Struggling, she inserted her fingers into the wardrobe crack and opened it, but it was empty.

“Nothing…”

Well, he probably didn’t intend to take her in and raise her, so he wouldn’t have prepared clothes that fit her.

What should she do now?

‘Let’s recall the original story once more. Asil didn’t seem like he was going to kill or throw me out immediately, so maybe I can live here if I play my cards right!’

Despite having the small body of a six-year-old, Yuriana, with her strong will, began to think of ways to navigate her future.

The setting of was Nea Kingdom.

The Crown Prince was Aidan, the king had been in a coma for a long time, and the queen was his stepmother, Amira.

The origin of the queen’s name, Amira, was Lamia spelled backward.

In other words, she was foreshadowed as the villain from the beginning.

After the death of the previous queen, Amira entered the royal family and aimed to depose Aidan and place her own puppet on the throne.

Sensing his new wife’s ambition, the king avoided her bed to counter her. It was difficult to annul a royal marriage once established.

Thus, Amira devised a horrifying scheme.

As a result, the fates of the three male leads and Alice diverged.

First, Amira contacted the Dark Elves group, coaxed a pregnant commoner with money, and planned to take the baby if it resembled the king.

How to solve the issue if the child didn’t resemble the king? Amira intended to use magic. She had enough magical power for that.

Then, she poisoned the king, putting him into a coma.

Afterwards, she ran, crying, to Aidan.

-Oh, no! Prince Aidan, you must hurry and ascend to the position of Crown Prince. I brought the queen’s seal. And protect your soon-to-be-born sibling.

-… what?

Amira’s scheme was brilliant.

After silencing the king, who knew the truth about their non-existent intimate relationship, she announced her pregnancy.

Then, she deliberately made the current prince, Aidan, the Crown Prince.

To avoid suspicion from others!

She intended to buy time until the child grew enough for her to act as regent.

Before Aidan even understood what his stepmother meant, he became the Crown Prince and started to rule the country.

During that time, Amira continued to plot.

Nea Kingdom was allied with the Elven country of Elodia.

She handed over a destructive spell book to the Dark Elves to destroy Elodia.

This led to the formation of the Yshell Allied Forces, formed by Elodia’s remnants.

The leader of the Yshell Allied Forces, Heidel, investigated who was behind the destruction of Elodia.

This was the main plot of Alice and Heidel’s route.

‘Hmmm, and then…’

“Meow!”

At that moment, Lulu, having finished her jerky, cried out as if asking to play.

“Lulu, if you’re done eating, go to sleep. I need to think.”

… and then, even though they expected a boy, when they were about to bathe the newborn, they found out it was a girl.

Yuriana.

That was Yuriana, who was kidnapped by the Dark Elves.

Greedy for money, the Dark Elves intended to use Asil’s first love as a slave because she was pretty, but after finding out she was pregnant, they imprisoned her.

Just then, Amira sought an untraceable child.

The Dark Elves sent Yuriana, knowing Amira would not leave them alone if they didn’t.

Because of money.

Anyway, the maids who saw the queen’s baby girl in the bathhouse were all killed by Amira, who then devised another scheme.

She claimed that an unknown group broke into the queen’s chamber and kidnapped the prince.