I Became the Abandoned Daughter of an Underworld Boss

After capturing all the Dark Elves who had tried to betray and flee, Amira harshly reprimanded them.

She threatened to kill them all if they didn’t successfully rescue her son, the baby.

Terrified by Amira’s threats and blinded by money, the Dark Elves accepted the mission, narrowly saving Yuriana’s life.

When Amira ordered them to quickly discard the baby and find a new one, a young Dark Elf, who had a trace of conscience, ended up taking care of Yuriana.

Hmm, wasn’t that the place where Asil first found Yuriana?

A new hideout of the Dark Elves, hidden from others’ eyes.

Despite the reproach from his kind, the Dark Elf barely managed to raise Yuriana, and Asil didn’t kill him.

Alice even embraced the Dark Elf, saying thank you.

What must Asil have felt when he learned about his horrifying past?

Those who kidnapped and nearly killed his first love had also endangered the newborn Yuriana but managed to raise her.

It was such a complicated situation for adults.

This was the storyline of Asil and Alice.

The Crown Prince Aidan had a direct confrontation with the Queen, and the evil Queen Amira died in most of the routes, especially in Alice’s happy ending.

In the true happy ending, naturally, only Asil was left out.

Hence, Yuriana’s birth secret was presumed to remain undisclosed.

‘Hmm….’

Now that she thought she had survived, her interest in unknown areas had grown.

What really happened here?

Knock, knock.

At the sound of someone knocking on the door, Yuriana quickly turned her head.

The person who entered was a young woman wearing a dress with puffed sleeves.

It wasn’t Alice, but she remembered that other extras appearing in the palace wore such fashionable clothes.

To modern Yuri’s eyes, they looked rather childish.

“Who are you?”

“Hello, I’m Leticia. On the boss’s order, I will be taking care of Miss Yuriana from now on. Nice to meet you!”

Leticia, with her long red hair, winked at her.

Gorgeous.

Maybe not the best thing to do in front of a six-year-old, but Yuriana, being dependent, found it hard to criticize.

Leticia placed the food she brought on the table.

Cream stew with floating pieces of meat, shredded bread, salad with peaches, tomatoes, and cheese.

The fruit was fresh without any sour smell or bruises.

It had been a long time since Yuriana had decent food.

She climbed onto the cushion Leticia had laid out and enjoyed her meal.

Leticia was picking at her cuticles and then spoke as she heard the clatter of the empty plate.

“Once your food is digested, I’ll bathe you and then measure your clothes size. Ah! I should have measured you first. I always get the order wrong, don’t I?”

It seemed she didn’t care if the boss’s daughter’s food got cold.

Yuriana, mature for her age, took the opportunity to ask.

“Where are we?”

“This is the rear annex of the Dark House, the center of Dark Town, where the boss resides. Outside, there are thorny vines and tall trees that turn into tree spirits at night. Good children should stay quietly in their rooms, okay?”

Yuriana put down her fork and chattered boldly.

“By the way.”

“Yes?”

“When did you know I was the boss’s daughter? Did Leticia know from the beginning?”

Well, well.

Leticia looked away from her now polished nails and stared at the daring little girl.

She looked just like the boss, Asil Lithus, with her short silver hair and sky-blue eyes, though her innocent sparkle was in contrast to his cold gaze.

Leticia replied with a question instead of a suitable answer.

“How did you know?”

“Just! I thought about my dad’s name, Asil Lithus, and mine, Yuriana. When I woke up, it was in a dark alley, and Lulu came and said we should go somewhere without people.”

Lulu?

Leticia smirked as she followed Yuriana’s gaze.

Treating the boss’s treasured beastman, Lupedos, like a cat, this little girl was indeed the boss’s daughter.

But she didn’t want to make this bold little girl feel proud by saying it out loud.

“Hmmm, I see. Just hold on a bit longer. There are no clothes suitable for you here, so I’ll have to get some from outside.”

Outside must mean the kingdom, Yuriana thought, falling silent.

She had no intention or ability to leave now.

Returning to the dark alleys of Dark Town was out of the question, especially after narrowly escaping slave hunters.

Unless she could return to her original world without being mortally wounded again, she would have to live independently someday.

She didn’t trust Asil to take care of her forever.

‘I need to plan my own life. Asil is not a man who will kindly take care of me. He might be lenient now because I’m young, but… if only he had ended up with Alice, I could have leaned on her.’

In Asil’s happy ending route, when Alice learnt about Asil’s past and Yuriana’s existence, she said something touching.

She wanted to embrace all of Asil’s past and live together.

How could one not love such a brave and warm-hearted heroine?

Asil, moved by Alice’s sincerity, vowed to protect them both forever.

And… Yuriana, smiling, ended up falling asleep from exhaustion at their wedding.

A child was a child.

Alice’s smile in her wedding dress was the brightest and happiest among all routes.

It was a pity. I could have played the role of an adopted daughter, receiving lots of love from the beautiful heroine.

Yuriana clicked her tongue.

‘This is the true happy ending route, so it’s better than the bad ending. Alice and the other characters are safe, and I’m alive too.’

Queen Amira was dead, and the dangerous battles had been resolved by the protagonists.

There was no time to assess whether this was beneficial to her or not.

Yuriana, dozing off under Leticia’s care, eventually fell asleep.

That night, after drying Yuriana’s hair and putting her to bed, Leticia bowed to Asil.

“You’re back.”

“How was Yuriana?”

“She kept repeating that she didn’t remember anything about herself. She also said she didn’t remember why she was wandering in that alley.”

“… I see.”

Asil didn’t find Yuriana’s words strange, as he was in a similar situation himself.

‘Damn it. If I let my guard down, I keep thinking about her. It’s a disease…’

Whenever he was lost in thought, someone’s image inevitably came to mind.

Alice.

Her beautiful and noble image was something he habitually tried to erase.

It was really persistent. It felt like Alice was still part of him.

He lightly shook his head, frowning.

Meeting Alice in Dark Town had been a singular light for him, a blessing in his exhausting life as the top figure in the world of survival of the fittest.

Alice, who had no idea where she was, holding cards in a gambling den.

Like today’s Yuriana.

He wondered when he first thought he liked Alice, maybe when he saved her from the slave hunters the second time.

‘I…’

She eventually got married to another man.

She left, pushing away Asil’s desperate plea for her to stay by his side.

It was heartbreaking at first, but now he had resigned himself to it.

A heartbreak could happen to anyone, and you had to endure it.

It was not the first time, after all.

One question lingered, though.

‘Why did I love Alice?’

It was indeed strange. A novice, an outsider from the kingdom, entering a gambling den was destined for doom.

It would have been better to let her lose big and left so she would never think of coming back.

Winning at first in gambling often ruined people’s lives, turning them into ghosts of the gambling den until they eventually became real ghosts.

‘… Alice.’

Meeting and befriending her led her to wish to uncover Queen Amira’s conspiracy.

She asked Asil for help, seeking the Mirror of Prayer as proof to defeat the doppelgänger.

He hesitated to give it to her, initially concerned for her safety, then planning to trap her in a luxurious prison under the guise of giving her the mirror to keep others away from her.

‘Why did I do that?’

He couldn’t understand his past self.

His previous actions were not only embarrassing but things the boss of Dark Town shouldn’t have done.

Asil Lithus didn’t wish for the kingdom’s chaos for Dark Town’s benefit.

Even without Alice’s request, it was necessary to deal with the dangerous doppelgänger.

Imagine if it escaped and copied Asil’s appearance!

Dark Town would be doomed overnight.

Even if Alice had willingly stayed in his prison, what would have come next?

The Crown Prince and the elf would surely invade Dark Town to find her.

“…”

After everything ended, Alice married the Crown Prince.

What happened afterward was even more incomprehensible.

The elf, Heidel, who once desperately tried to win Alice’s love, suddenly changed his mind, offering a simple congratulations before leaving to rebuild his nation.

He could understand Heidel’s shift to focus on reclaiming Elodia, but… why had he, Asil, done the things he did?