I Became the illegitimate son of a duke - I Became the illegitimate son of a duke chapter 127

127 – Princess (1)

“What is this?”

“What’s wrong… Throw it away!!”

She was out of sight for only 10 seconds, but before she knew it, Liliane grabbed a bug that had come through her window in her hand and held it out to Ines, asking her name.

Of course, Ines freaks out and grabs Liliane’s arm and shakes it around to get the insect off.

“Towel… Towel… Here it is. Now, wipe your hands with this.”

“Yes…”

Lilliane meekly accepts Ines’ touch with her droopy expression.

She didn’t hear her answer to the questions she was curious about, but her mood was so disturbing that she couldn’t get her words out of her head.

“Whoa… Liliane, it’s good to be curious. But you shouldn’t touch dirty things like that.”

“Sorry…”

Reading the expression on her daughter’s face, Ines sighs deeply and benevolently apologizes for what has just happened, and Liliane is mortified when she realizes that she has caused her mother her concern.

“As she is the eldest daughter, as she is the first descendant of the royal family of Lotharing, Lillianne must always live with dignity, okay?”

“Yes…”

Although she is only 3 years old, Ines has excessive expectations for Liliane beyond simply being big.

Because Ines did too.

Ines, who was born and raised in the Duchy of Laurel, received the expectations of her family from the age of 3 and received all sorts of etiquette training.

“What should I do in a situation like this?”

“Sorry…”

“Good job.”

Ines recalls how she was treated when she was a child, and she treats Lily Anne the same way.

She takes care of her Lily Anne, using her quintessential aristocratic parenting methods, such as not using her honorifics and not treating her own children.

But it’s not exactly the same.

“Wow…”

Ines held Lillianne in her arms and lifted her up, and Lillianne left her body to her mother as if she was used to her, relaxing her body.

Ines’ parents kept a distance from their children because they didn’t live well, and there were many cases where they took full responsibility for the child-rearing instead of entrusting it to her nanny, but Ines doesn’t do that at all.

Following Akwoo’s advice, Ines, who decided to spend more time with his family, is seeing the effect very well, and the effect has brought great psychological stability to both Lili Anne and Ines.

Ines, who used to be very unstable psychologically if she did not [Hobby], No longer does that, and Liliane, whose personality had the potential to bloom as she inherited Ines’ blood, changed her personality due to her affection. The possibility of this distortion is significantly reduced.

Ines carries Liliane in her arms to her bed and lays her down. Liliane falls into a nap in an instant due to her soft bed and pleasant smell. After Ines confirms that her Liliane is in her sleep, she cautiously exits the room and goes to the room where her eldest son, Lotter, is.

…………

“Lilianne!!”

“Ugh…”

However, Liliane’s sleep is soon disrupted by a visit from her sister, who is also her friend.

No matter how much she naps, since she has already fallen asleep once, if her sleep is interrupted, she will wake up in a very tired state. Liliane wakes up rubbing her eyes with her tired expression.

“What’s up, Claudia…?”

“Let’s play!”

In terms of common sense, Claudia’s behavior is unacceptable. No matter how close they are to each other, it is because the two are the daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law.

If the two were born in different places, Claudia wouldn’t be able to talk to Liliane at all.

However, the place where Liliane and Claudia were born is the royal palace of Rotaling.

Thanks to Claude’s willingness to want their children to be close to each other, and the positive reactions of Chloe and Ines, there is no superiority in status between Liliane and Claudia.

Of course, the attendants and servants reacted with disdain, but the king and queen said that they did not care, so what could they do?

“Okay…”

“Give me your hand.”

“Ugh…”

Claudia forces Lilliane, who staggers from her sleep, to stand up. Liliane is still awake and unable to stand upright, and she is staggering, but she cannot refuse a favor from her precious friend and sister Claudia, so she is doing her best to brace her legs. .

Tata that

“Hmm…? What are you doing right now– oops…”

And as soon as Claudia makes sure that Lily Anne is fully up from her seat, she runs straight to her door and braces her just opened door with her own body so that it does not close automatically.

Liliane tilts her head when she sees Claudia suddenly behaving strangely, and she is greatly surprised when she realizes the meaning of her behavior.

“No! I told you not to go outside.”

“That’s right, let’s go around the palace.”

“Huh?”

“Isn’t it okay if I don’t go out of the palace?”

Liliane is dumbfounded by Claudia’s confident declaration.

It’s dangerous when the two of you play together, so play only inside and get a new request from mom and dad, but after hearing Claudia’s words, she seems to be able to see inside the palace.

Inside means indoors, and outside means outdoors.

“Come out quickly. Once this is closed, it’s hard to open it again.”

“Al, okay…”

At Claudia’s urging, Liliane waddles out of her room.

Of course, the [Inside] That Claude, Chloe, and Ines were talking about meant [Inside the room], But for the two of them now, that possibility was unthinkable.

A 3-year-old child is at the height of his curiosity, and that curiosity is strong enough to narrow his thinking.

…………

“Whoa…”

It is also difficult to balance study and work. Even if she goes to the house where she sleeps, that is to say, she goes to the quarters prepared in the palace, she cannot completely rest because she is a maid.

In addition, because of her beautiful appearance, she receives numerous jobs and invitations to social events, which only adds to her work. She refused and refused for two years, and even though rumors spread throughout the school, such tasks and invitations simply cannot go away.

‘Please stop…’

In particular, the son of the Berman family, who is in charge of the university social circle, approaches Jeanne every single day. She is not approaching it with a sinister thought, she thinks that Jeanne has been through some hardship to Claude, and she is trying to help Jeanne in her own way, but she feels that Jeanne’s favor is very creepy.

For Jeanne, who has become unable to understand the intentions of others due to her power being greatly weakened, the demeaning attitude of the heir to Vermans, far from weakening her vigilance, arouses extreme repulsion. It just came

“…Let’s endure for two more years, after that, grace to the Holy Son—”

Tada da dot-

“—- Huh?”

Looking only at her graduation two years later, dreaming of the day when she will be happy, Jeanne, who was trying to endure this ordeal, tilts her head when she hears a strange sound suddenly heard from her.

It seems like someone is running in the hallway, but for running, the sound doesn’t have much weight.

No, attendants and servants never run in the corridors in the first place. Of course, if there is something very urgent, you can run, but… This very light footstep completely excludes the possibility of a serious incident.

“What the hell happened…”

“Kyahahahaha!”

“Go with me!!”

“…What?”

The first voice she hears in the palace tickles Jeanne’s ears. She is more than just a child, she is the voice of a child who is not even 5 years old at all.

Does she have a child in the palace? It could be… It could be. There is only one.

“I run, I run, but it never ends—”

Awesome!!

“ㅡHuh?!”

Feeling her footsteps and voice getting closer, Jeanne stands in the corner. As soon as Claudia appears, she immediately reaches out and grabs her.

Claudia, who is suddenly caught in her body while running without rest, loses her balance and her feet slip, but thanks to Jeanne’s strong hold, she does not fall. It just dangles from her Jeanne’s hand.

Liliane, who was running behind, panicked at the sudden sight, but when she saw Jeanne wearing her maid’s uniform, she immediately grasped her situation.

“Uh, uh… Can you keep it a secret?”

“…A secret?”

“That… It’s not just me getting scolded, Claudia gets scolded too… That’s…”

No matter how low-status she is, Lillianne, who is uncomfortable using her short language to her older sister, hesitantly asks Jeanne for her favor. In the end, they are convinced that they are the saint’s children.

‘The saint’s children have already grown this far and are running around excitedly.

No. Don’t think like this.

Yeah, you just have to endure it for two more years. Don’t be swayed by strange thoughts.

Looking at her two princesses with her confused mind, Jeanne feels a part of her heart burn and closes her eyes tightly. She constantly reminds herself that she can have such a happy future if she endures for two years, and she struggles to get rid of her sense of deprivation.

“I-I…”

Of course, Jeanne’s attitude only made her two princesses feel uneasy.

She gently closes her eyes in front of them, because she does exactly the same thing Chloe and Ines, mothers of Claudia and Liliane, used to scold the two princesses.

“Ah, ahahahaha… Yes, princess. It’s impossible to keep it a secret. It’s dangerous to run without an escort in the hallway like this— uh, an escort?”

Realizing that Lili Anne’s uneasy voice sounded slightly threatening in her attitude, Jeanne smiled shyly and hurriedly tried to continue her words, only to realize that the two princesses did not have the escort they should have.

No escort, what the hell is this-

Flinch

“…”

At that moment, Jeanne’s right hand holding Claudia trembles fearfully, and only then can Jeanne vaguely grasp the truth of her case.

I don’t know what he did, but this bold girl did it.

She could have turned a blind eye to her running down the aisle, but it makes no sense that there is no escort. It would be scolded simply for running in the hallway, but I couldn’t just ignore it when the escorts were circumvented.

Claudia looks at Jeanne with a pitiful expression, perhaps realizing the future she will face, but Jeanne, who sees that expression, is rather determined to report directly to the saint for the sake of their safety, which has the opposite effect on her. Was called only