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

I deliberately stomped my foot and crushed the broken, rolling teacup on the floor.

Oh, I got a cut. It hurts!

But I am Titania, who changes heels that don't fit her every day.

I’m angry, but my anger can’t just calm down with just a cut...

"I’m as shabby as this, this, this, this will not fit the palace!"

Crash!

‘Rose, I'm sorry!’

Squeezing a handful of roses wallpaper, I tore it apart and scattered them in anger.

I ran wild again, creating a fragrant mess.

"You laughed at me! You laughed at me! This is all because of you!"

"Oh, did the Little Duke really do that?”

Mary's eyes changed subtly. Sarah exchanged glances with Mary and approached secretly.

There was also a sneer of scorn and ridicule that was now familiar. At this point, I deliberately shut up as if I was offended.

"Come on, Princess Titania. If you get too angry, it's bad for your health. Why don't you move over and have a sweet cup of cocoa to talk about your upsetting stories?"

Mary enticed in a sweet voice. You don't usually give me a lot of sweets even though I have to take care of my appearance, but you do give me a lot at times like this.

There was no one who could tell me: don't relieve your anger at your subordinates because you have the dignity of the royal family. Improve your character, and don't vent your anger on things.

Well, there's a possibility that a maid might get in trouble with the princess for telling her that.

They've been instructed to raise Titania's temper on purpose.

A stubborn child, nevertheless, was angry for a long time, wanted to eat sweets.

It was just then.

“The First Queen, Her Majesty Cleo den Atri Hamastion, has arrived.”

(translator note: I changed Empress to Queen because based on the context below, Cleo isn’t THE empress, but one of the Queens.)

Natalie, who was not here, appeared with an uninvited guest.

I was impressed.

Wow, I expected it, but you sure move fast.

Even if it's not the final boss, I didn't expect the person between the middle boss and the final boss to come.

"Imperial Princess."

A smiling woman walked toward me. On the surface, she was a very young and beautiful woman.

A dress made of several layers of thin white silk shone clearly on her skin. On top of the cool blue hair, an orange diamond headdress nicknamed the "Ocean of Stars" given by the emperor shone.

Even though that “Ocean of Stars” was a jewel handed down to the Empress from generation to generation, considering that the Emperor gave it to a Queen and caused a stir.

She wore showy clothes in many ways.

"I heard your body hurt a lot. What happened...”

Blinking her eyes as if she felt sorry, the gaze that gauged me was sharp.

The empire is inherently monogamous. No legal status is guaranteed for women from noble families.

However, only the emperor can have concubines.

Of course the number is limited. Three queens and two concubines.

Well, the emperors haven't had concubines for generations. The spot for the three queens was hardly filled.

However, the reason this horny emperor is living with only the two empresses is because of this woman's resourcefulness.

"I'm at peace thanks to your kindness."

As I said so, I turned my head and pouted.

"Oh, my. How did our princess get so angry?”

Queen Cleo smiled and swept my cheeks as if she were watching a cat whining. The charming scent that brushed the tip of my nose and the soft touch of her fingers were so sweet that you would never think it was fake.

She originally intended to kill me as soon as she had a daughter in her own belly, but after giving birth to First Prince Brian, she almost had a miscarriage which led her to be infertile.

So she left me alone and used me. Even though she could be a little harsh, she wouldn’t dare speak nonsense.

No matter how much I am the child of the emperor, she dared not speak informally to the child of the emperor unless it is the empress. We still used honorifics to each other.

"Sigh, my Queen. What if Rayman thinks I'm ugly?"

So I looked up at her in the way when I wanted to cry as if I were complaining freely in front of an adult who was friendly to me.

Blinking her cat-like eyes, I could see her beckoning backwards and quietly beckoning the maids.

First Queen Cleo treated Titania almost as if she were petting her.

Without paying any attention practically, she overstated sweet words and meaningless gifts.

A child who hasn't even received attention from the adults around her can only rely on her.

The original princess was thirsty for Cleo’s fake interest, which was sweet and not nutritious, so she didn’t know her teeth would rot and my hands and feet would crumble.

"I'm the only one who loves you, whom your mother doesn’t even love."

While gaslighting.

But I got goosebumps every time the Queen's hand brushed against my arm pretending to hug me affectionately.

She must have directly contributed to the destruction of Titania.

She pretended to have a cute mother-daughter relationship and made Titania follow her, but as soon as Vivi, who was loved by everyone, appeared, she abandoned Titania. It was to sound out the possibility of a new marriage.

There is nothing new about it. It was Queen Cleo who was trying to clean up the women who were constantly touched by the lustful emperor.

In other words, it could be disadvantageous if the prince, born of a woman touched by the emperor, stoods out.

So, at all, she arranged women with poor status but decent appearance to the emperor, and when interest withered, they’re killed without realizing it.

The emperor just pretended not to know. It was much easier to overlook the Queen who cleaned up perfectly because it was annoying to increase the number of concubines.

"Why do you think so?"

"It's..."

Her focus was on exploring and peeping through me to see the status of the Duke of Castrine, no, the little Duke Rayman.

So it would have been none of her business whether Titania had a seizure or not, whether she tore down the house or not, whether she died or lived.

But why did she come here?

"…If he really loves me, it doesn't matter what I look like. You know, there's always blood on the battlefield, and only dirty, weak people roll around... So I thought Rayman would say, ‘you're pretty even if you're sick’."

I deliberately avoided eye contact by speaking in a messed up voice.

Cleo's eyes changed subtly.

Titania originally knew how to call a priest to heal and go in perfect clothes.

It may be because she did something "strange" to meet the small Duke with a sick and injured body.

Cleo is quick on the wits. To be exact, she is good at getting a sense of something only for the person she points out to use.

However, she felt that the eyes of the young princess, me, who was angry and discouraged, stuck on the floor with red cheeks, and changed her feeling.

That was funny. Cleo didn't come when I had barely regained consciousness after wandering around.

You're coming here to dig up the details of my conversation alone with Rayman? It's a shame Titania was such a clueless child, from what I see, it’s so obvious.

"Princess."

Queen Cleo's voice changed more subtly. Pretending to be friendly, she reached out her hand to tuck my hair behind my ears and spoke in a worried tone.

"Well, I can't help it. The Imperial Princess has been more beautiful than anyone else. But you treated him in a way that you shouldn’t be touched."

So far, Queen Cleo has taken Rayman's loathing reaction towards me in a way that ‘even if he dares to flirt with a woman of a noble family first, he doesn't like her face’...

So, what in the world?