# Chapter 10
Chapter 10
“Mommy!
I missed you!”
The children who had run over clung to their parents, making their once-composed faces scrunch up as they started to act spoiled.
“Oh, son.
What if you fall and get hurt running like that?”
“Hehe.”
Burni blinked at the scene before her.
“Dad...
I didn’t summon anything amazing...”
“Oh, my daughter.
Why are you crying?
From my perspective, what you summoned is the best.
It’s a beautiful bracelet that suits our princess perfectly.
We’ll find out more about its abilities later with Mom and Dad.”
“Hng...
Really?”
“How about we go buy a dress tomorrow?
Since you did so well with the summoning ritual.”
“Really?
Then!
The blue fairy Ella dress from Rodeli Boutique!”
Burni glanced around as voices erupted from everywhere.
The children were busy chattering away to their parents, who looked endlessly proud and pleased.
Only Burni and Alan, the boy with golden eyes who had summoned a snake, remained still.
“Mom!!
Did you see it?
I summoned something amazing!!”
“Yes, I saw.
I even recorded it with the highest-quality video camera that captures sound.
Dad couldn’t come because he was busy, but I’ll definitely show it to him.”
“Okay!”
“Anyway, I’m proud of you, my son.
You didn’t cry or whine and completed the summoning ritual wonderfully.
I’m sure the head of the house noticed you.”
Burni held Magomi a little tighter and then stopped as she felt a gaze from above.
‘Zing!’
—A feeling of gaze!
When she looked up, she locked eyes with the man who had remained in the main seat.
He was the candidate Burni had marked.
‘Burni’s dad... no, guardian candidate!’
Burni smiled brightly and bowed her head.
She was about to bow down to the floor again.
The man, momentarily taken aback, slowly stood up from his seat after seeing Burni flapping her arms to lift her head.
Regardless, Burni, having completed her grand greeting, quickly turned and ran off somewhere.
The man chosen by Burni.
The miracle of Udia.
A prodigious genius.
The apostle of a wrongly born god.
A monster cursed by demons.
From birth to the present, Kiriel Udia was a person with various titles.
He gave a polite bow and watched the small, rabbit-like child quickly disappear.
With rare water-colored hair and sparkling pink eyes, this child had stood out since entering the room, carrying a teddy bear on his back.
To be honest, the child showed no manners as a noble, but his 180-degree bow had been impressive enough to attract attention.
‘To drive away even my father.’
While others might think it was because he was very angry, Kiriel Udia knew his father had fled because he couldn’t hide his trembling lips at the child’s burst of sorrow and the terrible phrase “total failure” he had never heard before.
In fact, children who entered the test mansion had received at least minimal etiquette training as nobles from their families.
This meant they were somewhat aware of money, power, and honor, and had a desire to succeed.
So, there were no cute children.
But what about Burni?
She sat down on the floor and managed to walk with her small body.
It was rare to see such a pure child.
It was natural that Kiriel’s father couldn’t bear to hide his twitching lips.
It was also natural for the duke’s children not to be cute when they were young... so running away was natural too.
‘Surprisingly, he likes cute things.’
Of course, almost no one knew that fact except for him.
Anyway, Burni was one of the two hot potatoes of the Udia family.
‘He was the child found by my father’s mythical beast.’
Since a mythical beast found him, it was clear he carried the Udia blood, but he was an unfamiliar illegitimate child whose parentage was unknown.
Kiriel narrowed his eyes as he thought about it.
‘There’s a strange aura.’
Kiriel Udia had a sensitive sense when it came to demons.
And he felt a very subtle aura from the child.
An aura that irritated him, who hated demons.
The child ran to another hot potato, Alan.
Standing with a stern expression, Alan was stopped by the child who tugged at his sleeve.
They seemed to be having a conversation, but it wasn’t clear what was being said from there.
Alan, despite his frown, slightly bent his waist to match the child’s eye level.
Even though his expression showed he was displeased, he was quite obedient.
Half-human, half-beast, Alan was a child born from a beast man and a distant female member of the Udia family.
Considered a disgrace by the beast-men and not entirely human, he had golden eyes typical of beast-men.
Alan had been abandoned on a cold winter day with a letter in front of the Udia mansion, so he had grown up in the test mansion since he was a newborn, unable to speak.
The boy’s parents had abandoned him and vanished, leaving their whereabouts and fate unknown.
‘Not particularly interesting...’
However, the snake Alan had summoned seemed to be a high-ranking mythical beast.
His father would probably explain and teach him how to handle it during the interview.
“...”
As Kiriel Udia was about to turn away, he widened his eyes slightly at the scene unfolding before him.
A young girl was patting the head of the boy who was bending down to match her gaze.
“Good job!
You worked hard summoning the great king snake.
I’m proud of you!
Well done!”
“...”
Burni, with her small hands awkwardly patting or rubbing the boy’s head, caused Alan’s eyes to widen in shock.
“...W-What are you doing?!”
Alan, startled as if burned, raised his voice and jumped up from his seat.
His face twisted in frustration.
‘Why is this child approaching so casually?’
Everyone shunned him as a monster.
Overwhelmed by embarrassment, Alan even pushed away the approaching hand unknowingly in annoyance.
Burni blinked as her hand was pushed away.
“Good job, pat-pat!
Burni and the king snake don’t have a mom or dad.
So, let’s...”
At Burni’s words, Alan’s eyes widened.
The thought of being pitied by such a young child made his face turn bright red.
“Huh?!
I don’t need that!
I’m much older than you, so get lost!
You little fool!”
Alan growled, spun around, and strode out of the blessing room.
Rumble.
Crash!
Flash!
Today, too, dark clouds gathered around Burni, with thunder and lightning.
Burni pouted.
“Burni isn’t cute...”
Luriel had said Burni was cute every day.
“It’s Burni’s turn...”
She had wanted to exchange pats now and then.
Sigh.
Burni let out a deep sigh of frustration.
“Being in a dangerous situation is hard.”
Burni, when will you become an adult?
You need to go through many trials and dangerous situations to become an adult, and only then can you become the great demon king.
Burni glanced around at the now quieter surroundings.
Some people were still hugging their children and patting their heads.
Burni looked at them for a while, then hugged Magomi close, lifted one arm, and patted her own head a few times.
‘Burni’s egg is also special.’
Maybe a baby dragon would be born from this small egg!
Burni imagined a baby dragon hatching from the tiny quail egg and smiled.
“I’ll raise you.
Black flame dragon.”
Satisfied after patting her head with her short arms, Burni lowered her hand and turned her body.
“...”
And there was a gaze that had been watching her for a while.
As Burni left the blessing room, the owner of the gaze also soon exited the building.