Chapter 1 - Chapter 1

Translator: Nox

Chapter 1Chapter 1

“Are you the young lady born on January 7th, Miss Bunny?”

On a day when the sun was shining brightly and the cookies served as a snack were delicious, a man who had come to the orphanage asked.

“……Y-Yes.”

Along with her water-colored hair cascading down, she had deep pink eyes.

With her chubby cheeks and snow-white skin, and most decisively her squat little body, Bunny tilted her head and answered cautiously with a face taut with tension.

At that, the man knelt down on one knee.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you. I am the knight assigned to serve you from today, Roden Hainer.”

At the man’s words, a lightbulb flashed in Bunny’s mind.

“Baby, remember this. If you stay here, someday a knight will come to turn you into a noble young lady.”

Along with the flash of the lightbulb, the memory that surfaced made Bunny’s eyes sparkle. This had to be the moment she’d been longing for.

Young lady?

Knight?!

‘Bunny, finally a life reversal?!’

Bunny’s eyes sparkled at the man’s words, but then she hurriedly shook her head side to side.

’No, no. Can’t let my guard down yet.’

Luriel had said that more than half the world was scammers, so you had to tap even stone bridges (?), proceeding with caution upon caution.

She’d also said it was necessary to always hide your shady intentions first, no matter what, and probe wickedly.

“Bunny not young lady…….”

Wiping tears with your sleeve was essential, she’d said.

According to Luriel, a woman’s tears were……something that wickedly knocked men flat anyway!

“No, that’s not true. From what we’ve confirmed, Miss Bunny, you are indeed of the Yudia Ducal Family bloodline.”

“Gasp!”

Ducal family!

‘Amazingly amazing!’

At the man’s words, Bunny’s eyes sparkled as she gulped.

“Bunny now du, ducal family lady……?”

At Bunny’s words, the man paused with a somehow strange expression, then slowly nodded.

“Yes.”

Gasp—!

Bunny covered her mouth with her small hand and widened her eyes round.

What was a ducal family?

It was the incredibly huge household that always appeared in the fairy tale book Luriel had selected, ‘Top 28 Romance Fantasies for Child Demons.’

The incredibly huge background for the meeting between the king-sized super-strong demon dad and the cute baby protagonist with a backstory!

‘Yeah yeah, anyway super super strong rank!’

Bunny clenched her fist determinedly, her eyes sparkling.

Finally!

‘Bunny go to ducal family too!!!’

No.

Bunny shook her head side to side, then clenched her small fist even tighter.

‘Ducal family lady!!!’

Oh, not quite a lady yet?

Anyway……

‘Bunny gonna suck dry the humans’ money pouches like this, grow up splendidly, and become a great demon king!’

Bunny covered her mouth with her hand as small as a fallen ginkgo leaf and giggled.

At Bunny’s wicked smile—or so Bunny thought—the man’s stiff expression on his kneeling knee softened for a moment, and the faintest curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Of course, when Bunny widened her round eyes even further and looked up, he was back to his original stern face as if nothing had happened.

“I’m glad you’re pleased. Then, will you come with me?”

“Yeees—!!”

Bunny’s eyes sparkled as she swiftly grabbed the hand the man politely extended. At her soft, tiny hand, the corner of the man’s mouth twitched once more.

“Then, before we depart, shall we go pack your things to take to the ducal family? Miss.”

“Yess!”

Bunny scampered doot-doot-doot out the door, and the other orphanage children clustered at the entrance flapped in place like startled chicks.

“Bunny! Bunny leaving?”

“Yeah. Bunny going to ducal family. Bunny actually ducal family lady.”

Huh? But ducal family lady?

Thinking about it, something’s off.

Ducal family lady means from the ducal family……

“Hmm?”

“From what we’ve confirmed, Miss Bunny, you are indeed of the Yudia Ducal Family bloodline.”

Yeah, weird?

Bunny had separate mom and dad, so why ducal family lady?

Right now, she was just secretly carrying out her mission to become a cool and wicked great demon king in the future and grow into a splendid adult.

‘Gasp. No way, Bunny…….’

Bunny’s eyes went wide as she thought.

Just like in the countless fairy tale books Luriel had read aloud, there had to be some misunderstanding leading to adoption.

In the fairy tale book <I Thought I Was the Real Real Real One……>, the baby protagonist as young as Bunny was adopted after being mistaken for the super-strong dad’s real child, and in <The Fake Baby Dreams Only of the Day She’ll Run Away>, the happily growing baby protagonist realized she wasn’t the super-strong dad’s daughter and prepared to leave home.

‘Bunny adopted due to misunderstanding too?!’

Bunny, who had alone realized this tremendous secret no one else knew, pressed her pounding heart hard between her two palms.

‘Sshould Bunny go confess honestly?’

Bunny pondered with a serious face.

’No, Bunny use super-strong dad.’

Luriel had said you need adults until you become one. So when Bunny became an adult, she’d prepare to run away!

‘Bunny not like other babies wanting love.’

Heh.

Bunny, just using them like a splendid adult.

Lost in deep thought, Bunny’s lips were pursed into a triangular pout sticking out, making her look just like a duck.

One of the clustered children stared at it and poked Bunny’s lip with a finger.

“Ducal family? Where’s that?”

“Yeah. Where super super strong dad devil lives!!”

“Dad devil? What’s that.”

“No such thing.”

Puhahaha!

The children burst into raucous laughter at Bunny’s words. Bunny’s cheeks puffed up. She hadn’t even lied, but it felt like she had for no reason.

“Bunny going now. Bunny ducal family lady now.”

With a dissatisfied snort, Bunny spun around.

Bunny nimbly grabbed the railing and climbed the stairs one by one to her room. She pulled out the Black Rabbit Bag she’d gotten as a birthday present before and carefully packed her things inside.

She shoved deep into the very bottom of the Black Rabbit Bag her precious rabbit doll Toto that chased away bad dreams, her blunt children’s kitchen knife with the yellow handle for business tools, and even the Elephant Piggy Bank full of her carefully saved money.

‘Good!’

Now prepared to become a splendid great demon king!

Luriel had said that if she stayed here, a knight would come take her to the place full of suckers (?), and it seemed today was the day.

Bunny also packed the baby demon king bear doll that made her brave when carried around, the cute cutting board for children, and Luriel’s diary, then firmly shouldered the now bulging Rabbit Backpack.

After carefully packing everything and grabbing the railing to descend the stairs again, the children were waiting for her with teary faces.

“Bunny, really leaving?”

“Abandoning us……?”

“How we gonna live without you…….”

Amid the sniffling sobs and even a little one clinging to her leg, Roden Hainer, who had come out with the director, widened his eyes slightly in surprise.

‘She must have good relationships with her peers.’

So thinking, Roden Hainer nodded.

“I’ll wait outside, so say your goodbyes and come out. Miss.”

Bunny turned back from the knight bowing his head as he left, and let out a sigh, huu.

“The potato leaf porridge you made for us…, the sweet potato honey pickles you made…, the warehouses you bravely raided first…….”

“That touch of yours that turned those insanely hard rock-like breads soft and crispy, we can’t forget…….”

“The vita drink that blew away our exhaustion, we won’t forget…….”

Bunny shook her head side to side, then straightened one index finger and pointed straight down the hallway somewhere.

“Wanna see my secret base?”

Bunny smirked and wagged her Vienna-sausage-short index finger side to side.

“Awesome. All my stuff there later.”

Heh. No sooner had Bunny finished her smirking words than the children with wide eyes bolted straight for the warehouse.

“Bye! Bunny!”

“Be happy!!”

The children shouted goodbyes as they ran off without looking back.

‘Silly little ones! Totally fell for Bunny’s trap.’

Now the orphanage children were all hers, practically.

“Hehe.”

Over the past year.

Bunny, who had splendidly conquered the orphanage, turned around.

As she went to leave, the director grabbed Bunny’s shoulder, gently turned her around, knelt to meet her eyes, and spoke with a serious expression.

“Bunny.”

“Yees?”

This… farewell?

Teacher head over heels for Bunny too.

“At the ducal family… don’t raid the warehouses?”

“…….”

Not a farewell.

Director nagging.

“…Gasp. But…….”

“Buts nothing, no raiding. The guards will catch you, say this kid’s the culprit, and make you a slave. Got it?”

“Yeees…….”

Hing, Bunny hung her head. The director pulled the drooping Bunny into her arms and patted her back.

“Be happy, Bunny.”

“Yees, Director too! When Bunny great demon king, make Director super rich.”

At Bunny’s words, standing tall with shoulders back and chest puffed out proudly, the director let out a small laugh and nodded.

’Not a hero, but a great demon king— so very Bunny.’

Thinking it a truly cute and bold statement, the director waved her hand.

Bunny marched out briskly, and the knight waiting with the carriage bowed his head.

“All prepared, Miss?”

“Yeees!”

To show she was fully prepared, Bunny spun around to display the Rabbit Backpack on her back and shook her body side to side a couple times.

At her wiggling bottom and water-colored hair, Roden Hainer unconsciously reached out a hand toward her tiny head, then paused.

“I’ll help you into the carriage.”

Changing direction just before touching her head, Roden Hainer personally scooped Bunny into his arms, placed her in the carriage, and got in with her.

‘Carriage!’

Bunny pressed her pounding heart and sat on the carriage seat, riding a carriage for the first time in her life.

‘Bunny now ducal family lady like fairy tale book protagonist!’

Yudia Ducal Family.

That place was the heroic house that had produced devout priests and holy knights to the bone, high priests, saintesses, etc., leading the war against the demon tribe to victory—a family that was the natural enemy of demons.

And Bunny (age 4) was……

The one and only cherished daughter of the former Demon King, whose future dream was to become a splendid great demon king.

‘Bunny now great big demon king too!’

Of course, Bunny learning all this would come three hours later, after arriving at the Yudia Ducal Family.