Translator: Nox

Chapter 36

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Bunny, who had been sleeping with soft snores, suddenly snapped her eyes wide open.

Blink, blink.

Her small eyes blinked repeatedly before curving into happy crescents.

’No throbbing headache, and no hot fever either.’

Rubbing and stroking her forehead repeatedly with her tiny hand, Bunny hopped up into a sitting position.

“Bunny, resurrected.”

Grinning cheekily with her fist clenched tight, Bunny turned her head left and right. That’s when her eyes went wide.

“…….”

It was because she spotted a boy slumped uncomfortably over the bed. It was Allen.

Bunny’s mouth went all soft and wobbly. She reached out her small hand and lightly tapped the top of Allen’s head.

Flinch.

Allen shuddered at her touch and slowly opened his eyes.

“Tiny morning. Allen.”

“You……!”

At the sound of Bunny’s voice, Allen jerked his head up, his eyes going huge.

Then he lunged at her and pulled her into a tight hug. Bunny’s eyes widened at the sudden embrace.

“A-Allen? Can’t… breathe…….”

“You… you. I thought you were dying. Why’d you go off alone like that! I said we’d go together later. No, wait… that’s not what I…….”

Seeing Allen yelling and rambling incoherently in a panic, Bunny smacked his cheek with a sharp smack of her tiny hand.

Allen blinked wide-eyed at the slight stinging sensation and looked at Bunny.

His face crumpled up like he was about to burst into tears in an instant.

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I should’ve gone with you……. If I’d known you’d catch some deadly disease like that…….”

Bunny was totally healthy, though.

At Allen’s words, Bunny tilted her head slightly.

“I had no idea you had holy power that absorbs and purifies demonic qi.”

Bunny didn’t have any holy power.

“And that your innate holy power was so high-grade you couldn’t even accept external holy power……”

That was because Bunny was a demon……

“I never knew my little sister was such a ridiculously powerful but sickly human…….”

Bunny was a demon……

“You treated the crown prince because he looked sick, right? You sacrificed your body… took in the demonic qi and purified it.”

Bunny blinked at Allen’s words as he held her tight. Half of it she understood, half she didn’t—all those difficult words.

‘Bunny took a little nap and woke up a super amazing person somehow.’

Nestled in Allen’s arms, Bunny thought with a serious expression.

Luriel had told her. Bunny was a special baby demon, so she couldn’t be exposed to too much demonic qi.

That was the reason she had to part with Luriel too. She’d get super strong when she grew up, but right now she was just a baby, so no.

“Bunny’s all better now.”

Bunny patted Allen’s back with her short arms as she said it.

Allen’s eyes widened hugely.

“You’re not okay at all, you little dummy……. You wouldn’t wake up for two whole days, and we were so worried.”

“No, really, Bunny’s fi…….”

Because Bunny was a baby demon, but still a demon, so after some time, she’d naturally digest the demonic qi on her own.

It just made her super throbby and hot and feverish until then, leaving her totally drained.

‘But this time, the throbbing went away fast.’

Before, it used to throb for over a week, which made her so sad.

‘Bunny might’ve grown a little.’

She didn’t turn to dust even when hit with that pure white light, so she must’ve grown a ton. That’s why she woke up after just two days instead of a week.

“Ah, uh, Father was really worried about you too.”

“…Huh? Father?”

“……Yeah.”

Bunny’s eyes went wide at his fumbling words, his face somehow flushed bright red.

“Allen got a daddy too?! Whoaaa… You’re the king of awesome. Congrats!”

Allen’s eyes bulged at Bunny’s beaming congratulations, and he hurriedly opened his mouth.

“What? He’s your father too. Th-that Young Master…….”

“Young Master……? Bunny’s protector.”

“He said not to call him Young Master. Said it feels too distant…….”

Allen said, his cheeks turning pink.

Thud.

A large hand suddenly landed on Allen’s head, and both Bunny’s and Allen’s eyes went wide.

“Ah! Young Master! Hellooo!”

“Hello. You should stop calling me Young Master too, while you’re at it. I’ve got enough cheeky subordinates and people around me calling me that.”

A languid, drawling voice reached them, sounding endlessly gentle.

Kiriel always had an expressionless face, but his voice was endlessly soft.

Bunny loved that unique, lazy, laid-back tone of his.

“I don’t want to hear it from my kids too.”

Bunny blinked her eyes a couple times at Kiriel’s words, then tilted her head with a thud.

“If Bunny calls Young Master ‘Daddy’, is that okay?”

Kiriel paused at Bunny’s straight-ball question, then slowly nodded.

“Yeah.”

Bunny’s face lit up bright.

“Bunny’s super strong daddy?”

“I’m pretty strong, yeah.”

“Bunny’s Young Master lady?”

“That’s right.”

“Like, ‘give everything from here to there to Bunny’?”

Kiriel let out a low chuckle and perched on the edge of the bed at the sight of Bunny earnestly reciting the wishlist she’d always dreamed of from the fairy tale books Luriel had told her—like having a super strong daddy of her own.

He casually scooped up Allen and plopped him on one knee, then sat Bunny on the other and stroked her head.

Allen’s face flushed bright red with embarrassment, while Bunny’s cheeks pinked up happily.

“That’s what you wanted? If my daughter wants it, then I’ll make it happen.”

Bunny’s eyes went wide at Kiriel’s words.

Bunny’s aegyo-aegyo operation: success?!

Heh.

‘As expected, Bunny’s a total genius.’

Unstoppable, invincible great demon king.

Nothing was impossible. Perfect score.

“Daddy!”

Having reached her conclusion, Bunny lunged at Kiriel and hugged him tight.

She bounced up, wrapping her arms around his neck and clinging, her face beaming wide. Kiriel’s eyes widened just a fraction.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

He could hear his heart pounding fast.

“…….”

A fullness welled up from deep inside his chest, like something was swelling to fill him completely. Kiriel silently gazed at the child nestled in his arms.

The unfiltered warmth from both children enveloping him wrapped Kiriel in a strange sensation.

“What about me?!”

Allen suddenly shouted.

When Bunny looked at him, the boy added hurriedly.

“I-I could be your big brother or something…….”

Bunny saw a lightbulb flash above her head as she watched Allen duck his head, face beet red.

Big brother? Oppa?

An oppa who adored the protagonist no matter what mischief she got into?

‘Bunny didn’t even pull the aegyo-aegyo on Allen, but she conquered him anyway?’

Bunny was such a genius it was getting a little troublesome.

‘What if Bunny conquers the human world while she’s still a baby demon?’

Bunny pondered with a serious face.

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One corner of the House of Trials.

As Bunny waddled in pitter-patter with her arms full of stuff and Allen at her side, the eyes of the children pacing around the lobby of the House of Trials all swiveled toward her.

Bunny let out a big whoosh of a sigh and pretended to wipe sweat from her brow, then found a good spot and promptly spread out a small mat.

Allen helped beside her, setting things down and piling them up like a mountain, then rolled up a thick bundle of papers and handed it to Bunny.

Finally, Bunny looked up and tapped the bundle of papers on the floor tap-tap.

“This ain’t your everyday regular snack!!! It’s a treat for total dimwits who can’t tell the difference even after munching two. Today only—ten pieces!!!”

“Peep! Peep!”

The little red bird flapped its wings flap-flap on Bunny’s shoulder too.

And no sooner had she finished than the kids who’d been milling aimlessly near the entrance came running and lined up.

“Me! I want some! Two!”

“Me too! Three for me! One each for the maid and the knight too!”

“Hey, you lot, line up properly. No shoving. You trying to hurt ‘my little sister’ or what?”

Allen stood beside her, glaring at the chaotic line with a stern voice, and the kids froze, grumbling annoyed looks but obediently straightening out under his guidance.