# Chapter 26
Chapter 26
"I need to assign a maid and a knight just for my daughter."
“…Huh?
Like a young lady of a duke?”
“……?”
Sparkle!
Kiriel nodded awkwardly with a puzzled expression at Bunny's shining words.
“Well... yes.”
“Wow...
Bunny is a young lady of a duke...?”
That's right; she will be since he decided to adopt her.
There are still many procedures left, though.
Thinking this, Kiriel slowly closed and opened his eyes.
“For now... should I sleep a bit more?
I have a meeting in the afternoon.”
“Meeting?”
“It’s when we gather to do annoying things.
They say something weird was found in the dungeon or something...
Hah.”
After drying Bunny’s hair, Kiriel Judias laid her down on the bed and lay down next to her.
Bunny's eyes widened.
“But Bunny is sleeping on the floor...”
“Please don’t make me look like trash.”
“Trash...?”
Bunny tilted her head.
Why would it be trash for her to move aside like an adult and sleep on the floor?
As he stretched out his arm to give her a pillow, Bunny's eyes grew even rounder.
“Pat pat...?”
“Ah... right.”
Kiriel paused for a moment and awkwardly reached out to pat Bunny's back.
Bunny's eyes widened in joy, trembling with happiness.
“Good night, little one.
Sweet dreams.”
“Ruridu!!”
“Eek!
With our little one here, she will definitely have a very happy dream!”
“If Bunny sleeps, will Ruri be sad?”
“Yes!
Our little one is a universal cheat code, so even if Kiriel is having a tough time, as long as she holds the little one while sleeping, she won’t have nightmares and will only dream happy dreams!”
“A universal cheat code?”
Remembering something after a long time, Bunny squeezed her eyes shut and crept into Kiriel ’s arms, smiling slyly.
“Bunny is definitely a universal chicken.”
“......?”
Kiriel looked down at Bunny with a puzzled expression, wondering at her nonsensical words.
He thought that taking care of a child was really not an easy task and slowly closed his eyes.
Unlike when he couldn’t fall asleep again after waking up due to insomnia.
Kiriel felt his eyelids growing heavier because of the presence of the child snuggling closer.
‘...Was it a delusion to feel the aura of the demon race?’
Now, that feeling was gone.
Originally, demons were characterized by their cold, chilling skin, so there was definitely a difference between them and a child who was a little warm but cozy.
As he continued to think, his breathing became calm.
“…Why did you bring the child to the meeting?”
“I like being with her, so what can I do about it?”
He answered, slowly rolling his eyes.
‘It was oddly like reading a book.’
Those were actual words spoken by Bunny.
“Bunny, the young master is so nice that she goes everywhere the young master goes.
Because she doesn’t want to be apart.
Bunny gets really sad without the young master.”
“......”
Because Kiriel said in her notebook that to train a guardian well, she should say every day that she likes them and follow them everywhere to help.
“Hey, do you think my eyes are holes?
How dare you speak so carelessly?
Do you want to get fired?
When did you start taking care of children...?”
Bunny's mouth dropped open in shock at Ludbride’s fierce words.
Ludbride, who locked eyes with the astonished Bunny, suddenly realized and closed his mouth.
But Bunny didn’t miss it.
“…Uncle, what do you mean?”
“No, that’s not what I meant…”
“Right.
It’s not worth dealing with such an old man who says mean things, my daughter.”
“Kiriel !”
Bunny’s body trembled.
With wide eyes and tense, Bunny clutched Kiriel ’s hem tightly and shrank back.
‘Is he angry?’
Humans yell when they are angry.
They might say they don’t want to see you or tell you to leave immediately.
Kiriel and Bunny had experienced a lot of that.
‘Is Bunny getting chased out again...?’
She had to apologize quickly...
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
With the sound of her racing heart, Bunny's face slightly hardened.
“Um...!”
Just as Bunny was about to open her mouth to apologize.
Without caring about the noise, Kirielstepped boldly into the meeting room and sat down in his designated seat, casually placing Bunny on his lap.
“You're going to deafen me.”
At Kiriel 's frown, Ludbride saw Bunny’s expression frozen in fear and quickly relaxed his face.
“Hmm.
What I said wasn’t directed at you, Bunny.
Anyway... since you’re here, you have to be quiet, okay?”
“Yes...”
Rolling her eyes, Bunny nodded at Ludbride’s gentle voice.
“Cough, what are you doing...?
That doesn’t suit you.”
A muscular man with dark skin and shiny silver armor entered, glancing at Ludbride with a disgusted expression.
He then looked at Kirieland Bunny and quickly approached Bunny.
“Oh, it’s the little chick who was flapping around and greeting me before.”
“I’m not a chick; I’m a dragon egg.”
“A dragon egg?
What’s that?
Anyway, if the little one has decided to adopt you, then I’ll be your uncle.”
“Uncle?”
“Yes, call me uncle from now on.”
The man with silver hair and blue eyes laughed heartily as he ruffled Bunny’s hair.
His big hand roughly tousled Bunny’s hair before moving away.
“By the way, Dad, please stop fighting with the little one.
Let’s quickly see and conclude this and part ways.
There’s probably no one else besides Dad who calls the commander of the holy knight order and the saint-like this out of boredom.”
The direct descendant of the Udia duke family.
He was the current eldest son of the Udia family, Klein Udia, who had an aggressive personality that was hard to believe came from a family of clergy, was easygoing, straightforward, and had a cruel nature...
He was the commander of the first holy knight order and made hunting monsters his hobby.
He sat down to the right of Ludbride, crossing his arms and letting out a deep sigh.
“Dad must have been really frustrated to call us.
I think my brother is really obsessed with fighting.”
A beautiful woman with long silver hair and blue eyes, dressed in pure white, walked in with a click of her heels and sat down at the large round table.
She was next to Ludbride on the left.
Salame Udia.
She was known as the only saint of the empire, possessing the purest and most pristine divine power, and was a woman who loved money and fame dearly.
After they filled their seats, people rushed in from outside and filled the long table.
‘...All in white clothes!’
Bunny... if discovered, she’d be in trouble.
Nervously glancing left and right, Bunny pressed herself closer to Kiriel .
Kirielglanced at the child and smiled lightly.
She had only decided to keep her close because the aura of the demons was concerning... but the child was surprisingly sociable.
“So, you’re saying that something weird was found in the dungeon where the monster hunt was conducted?”
“Yes.
But I can’t understand what it means at all, and since it might be a curse, we decided to take it for now.”
“So what is it?
What’s this object making the strange noise?”
At Salame Udia's words, one of the attendants stood up and brought something to the center of the table, unfolding it from a piece of fabric covered in golden writing.
The object looked like a fist-sized crystal, and a very faint sound was coming from it.
“έτυμοςδήμοςάνατομήπάθοςμίσοςκύριοςάμαρτία”
It was truly an incomprehensible word.
Just as they frowned at the sound that seemed to crawl up from the abyss.
Bunny's ears perked up.