Sister-in-law of the Heroine in a Childcare Novel

"Ah."

Peachy cheeks that are about to burst. Small lips that mumbled.

Braided brown hair in pigtails, a headdress made of petals decorated with jewels.

A lovely design dress with frills and ribbons showing off her presence.

Vivi Lutein Castrine, the main character of <The Baby Miss is a Little Treasure of the Villain Duke>.

The only forbidden card of Duke Castrine, who has no blood or tears. A lovely young lady who never changes even if the magical crystal mine was brought before her.

She was a girl known for her age. She was bubbly, amiable, and clever.

She was not, in fact, the duke's own daughter, but she still has the blood of the duke's family, and all kinds of secrets were hidden.

"Well, I mean…"

The very girl was blushing in front of me, looking for something to say. I looked at the table in front of me because I had no idea.

Crocan bouche, tarts, eclair, macarons... All kinds of desserts and tea showed off their brilliant appearance.

With her favorite dessert in front of her, she spread her fingers restlessly, and clenched her lips as she looked at my attitude.

I opened my mouth carefully.

"Well, Vivi, perhaps..."

"Please don't break up with my brother!"

"...What?"

The tea flowed down a little because my finger holding the tea cup slipped. It was a sunny spring day, and my opponent insisted and set up a tea table in a scenic garden.

"Oh, my big brother, of course. I know he’s got a great deal of bluntness…"

“…”

I froze as if someone had poured a spell of ice. A cute and lovely girl who looks like a living and breathing doll said something to me. She then continued.

"And I won't like Tia if she's not my sister-in-law!"

“…”

I was a little stunned, and only looked at the little girl shouting at me, her blue eyes burning.

...You don't want me to break up my engagement now? I was done with the paperwork and only the announcement was left.

It was essential for both the Duke of Castrine and my future.

Just in case, the girl turned to the escort and the maid, who never left her side wherever she went.

The two were recognizable. In particular, the escort was from the royal family of the country that the girl had saved from the slave market, and the maid had a history of the girl saving her youngest sister's life.

Was the escort a male lead candidate and the maid a former killer?

In any case, if those two are so loyal, they will point out the error of what Vivi just said without hesitation in front of me.

I saw them with that faith...

‘Why don't you stop her? You’re just nodding?’

A black-haired boy who seems indifferent at first glance but never misses every move of Vivi and a kind-looking maid next to her. The two betrayed my expectations. Far from stopping her, as always, they seemed to agree with Vivi.

"Well...”

"Big brother is handsome."

"Oh, that's true…"

Without time to think, I agreed. As soon as she heard me, Vivi's eyes twinkled.

"And the duke has a lot of money!"

"Well, yes...”

I affirmed in a low voice.

In <The Baby Miss is a Little Treasure of the Villain Duke>, the royal family is just a chess piece. The duke was responsible for protecting the Northern Territories that protect the empire and the frontline.

It was also the duke who holds a tremendous history and real power to the extent that the imperial family should go away. He was also in charge of distributing the core of the beasts and the magic crystals.

The imperial family was just the background to highlight the position of the duke, who was the ‘actual No. 1 of the empire that even the imperial family could not treat carelessly’.

Believing only in the status of the imperial family, it was a position to present hardships to the duke with some villains who were in a sense of inferiority.

And one of the villains was me.

The current imperial family has three children.

The eldest son of the first empress, a former marquess. The second son of the current empress. And me, the daughter of the second empress.

As a means of somehow connecting and checking with the Duke of Castrine, the Emperor engaged me in the family as soon as I was born.

Naturally, the Duke was grinding his teeth to seize the opportunity and break this one-sided marriage at any time.

The only imperial daughter of the present royal family. Though it seems to be a very good position... It was more or less the opposite.

My mother was the second daughter of Count Bradley. Elaine Austin von Bradley had been famous for her beauty since her maidenhood. Even the emperor, who was famous for being lustful, was interested.

So Count Bradley threatened my beloved mother, who had a lover at the time, and offered her to the emperor. My mother came into the imperial family for the safety of her lover and had me after listening obediently to the emperor.

However, her family had already secretly disposed of my mother's lover. Later, when she found out the truth, she was so shocked that she prematurely gave birth to me.

Thanks to this, I was so weak that I was told that it would not be strange for me to die at any time in my childhood.

I managed to get well after I turned 10, but my mother was not interested in me at all. The emperor also turned his attention away from my mother, who had lived in seclusion, and focused only on the first empress.

In the meantime, I mean, I almost died. Before I realized my past life, I...

I shook my head, trying hard to swallow a sigh that was about to leak out of me.

‘...Poor, immature, and selfish.'

It's a time when I can't help but sigh.

Translator note: this part where she refers to herself as “I” is the past her/og princess, before she realized her past life.

A young princess who grew up neglected without the attention of her parents. At least, my advantages were my bright, long, beautiful platinum blonde hair resembling my mom, and my bright green eyes.

If I had kept my mouth shut, I would be the appearance of a princess in an illusion raised in the imperial family.

A child who lacked love and education from her parents fell in love at first sight with a man from a great family who was handsome, capable, and cannot be ignored by the royal family.

The proud princess, me, who grew up in the imperial family and couldn't grasp the reality properly, has done all sorts of things since then.

I followed him recklessly, threatened him not to speak to the love of other aristocrats, and was mean.

And then, because I could not attract his attention, I insulted the Duke every time I spoke.

Let's see. In the original...

When Vivi began to stand out in many ways, the emperor looked at her.

In addition, the first empress, whose eyes are red with the desire to put the first prince on the throne, played various tricks to have Vivi as a partner for her son.

One of them was an attempt to break up the marriage between Princess Titania and the duke.

Nevertheless, I was a princess who had no proper power. Even the second empress, who was my biological mother at that time, died of anguish.

If I were on good terms with my fiance, Rayman, things may have been different. Our relationship was also the worst due to my bad behavior.

It was enough to spread rumors that the royal family would destroy our marriage and push for a marriage between Vivi and the prince.

‘...So I tried to poison Vivi really foolishly.'

I invited her to tea-time without any trickery, and poisoned her tea.

Of course I failed.

The emperor threw me to let the furious duke decide whether to kill me or not.

-It's because I love you!

And there, I seized Rayman and begged him uglily.

-I, I, I love you. I really love you…!

I threw away my pride and hung on, but of course...

-Why have you been like a bastard all this time?

Only the bitter contempt returned.

-I'm just glad that you're finally aware of it.

Looking at his cold eyes, I sincerely despaired.

As I went through my thoughts, I knew such a shaky future...

I looked at the heroine, who was trying to persuade me, with her cute fingers.

"And my eldest brother, except for my father, is next in the world!"

Cute and lovely heroine. First of all, this is the Imperial Palace...

Please don't be too confident in saying that Duke Castrine is the best in the world in the place where the emperor lives, who is full of inferiority.

I agree with the fact that the Duke of Castrine is actually stronger than the Emperor.

"So I can save Tia no matter what!"

I'd be lucky if you didn't take the lead in throwing me away…

A bitter smile came out of my mouth.

Still, it seems that I am doing well now.

"Vivi."

"Yes, Tia!"

"First of all, thank you very much for looking after me.”

"Hehe."

"But no."

"Why, why, why...?"

In an instant, the blue and large eyes were filled with tears. Ugh, I almost grabbed my chest without realizing it. But on the surface, I had to pretend to be calm.

I looked at Vivi, and spoke kindly.

"The Duke of Castrine is precious to Vivi, right?”

"Yes, of course."

"...It's no good to mix the current royal family and the Duke of Castrine.”

"Well, but...”

"Dear Vivi."

It wasn't a fake laugh, but a sincere laugh. I quietly reached out and stroked her brown hair.

“Are you worried about my treatment after the divorce?”

“..."

Vivi was silent.