Even if she got scolded by Elysia for getting her clothes dirty every time, this was the Cassis Duke’s residence!

Surely they wouldn’t spank her in front of the Duchess.

So, without a second thought, she exclaimed.

“Renlian, let’s splash around!!”

“Splash around……?”

As Renlian slightly tilted her head, her thick violet hair flowed down.

Her clear iriscolored eyes twinkled with curiosity.

“Yep! Like this!!”

When Evelia jumped into the puddle, water splashed all around.

Her watercolored dress absorbed the muddy water, darkening the hem.

The edge of Renlian’s dress also got drenched.

Every time Evelia splashed around, more muddy water sprayed.

Soon, her small face was smeared with mud, making her cheeks chubby.

“I want to try too!!”

A bright smile spread across Renlian’s face. The bad influence of her friend slowly began to rub off on her.

The birth of an emerging troublemaker was facilitated by the official one.

Splash splash.

Evelia shook her head watching Renlian timidly splashing around.

“No, no, you should do it like this!”

Splash!

Renlian’s dress was also dyed with muddy water.

Mud, beneficial for skin health, was splashed here and there on her skin that seemed to have never seen sunlight properly.

“Kyaa Renlian, your face is all covered in mud!!”

Startled momentarily by the mud splashed on her face, Renlian met Evelia’s radiant smile and responded in kind.

The sun, the splashing water droplets, everything sparkled like the princess.

The wind, which always felt chilly, seemed to warmly wrap her.

It felt as if the cold world was extending a new greeting. Saying, let’s get along well again.

Renlian beamed a bright smile.

It resembled Evelia’s.

“Wow! What’s that fruit?”

Evelia, who now looked a far cry from the innocent girl just 30 minutes ago, pointed at a large tree.

Sweetsmelling, plump orange fruits were hanging plentifully. The sweet smell wafted down as they came closer.

They happened to be hungry.

The two troublemakers unknowingly licked their lips.

“That’s a ‘Razlee’ tree. Father brought back a sapling from his visit to the Eastern Continent and planted it. It’s a fruit precious enough to be served only to the Emperor there.”

“Really?”

Her eyes lit up with greed.

A fruit served only to His Majesty, the Emperor! If I just pass by, my tongue will cry!

“Yes, it’s very delicious! Father probably won’t notice if we pluck a few.”

With the owner’s permission in place,

“The tree is tall, so let’s find a stick and shake it!”

“Over there! That long stick!”

Who said Renlian was a wellbehaved lady who only reads books indoors?

What was the Duchess worried about?

The smile on Renlian’s face, who met Evelia, grew wider and her lips turned mischievous like a prankster. Her bouncing around was like a puppy meeting eyes with its playmate.

“Good! Hang it like this on the tree!”

As Evelia and Renlian hung the stick on the tree, the leaves started falling.

The leaves stuck to the muddy clothes.

“Shake it!!”

When the two kids shook the long tree stick, the branches swung heavily.

And then, by mistake, when the stick slipped out, the bent branch sprang up, and the fruits, unable to resist the recoil, rained down.

Right beneath the tree stood Evelia and Rellian.

“Ahh!”

“Kyaa!”

Ripe Razzlis popped and burst as they collided with the two children’s heads.

“…”

“…”

“We are in trouble…!”

Razzlis had been dropped a lot, and their clothes had gotten very dirty.

Such precious fruit, fit only for the emperor to eat.

Feeling a major disaster, the children rolled their eyes in shock.

“Let’s say that it was because of the strong wind that the Razzlis fell while passing the Razuli tree.”

When Evelia, who had caused an accident or two, suggested a trick,

“Yes, it’s a time when the wind blows often. The fragile fruit might find it a bit hard to withstand.”

Rellian, who had followed her friend’s path to disaster, nodded seriously.

Meanwhile, Evelia picked up and ate the most ripe fruit among those that had fallen on the ground.

If it weren’t for the occasional glint of oceanblue in her eyes, she would have passed for a ragamuffin picked up from under a bridge.

“No! Rellian!”

Ikrian, who had returned from sword training with Arkhan and Cedric, let out a nearscream at the sight of his little sister.

“Eve! Did you roll Young Lady on the ground?!”

Cedric was no different.

“No, no. On the way with Rellian, there was a splash of water.”

“Yes. And mud splashed.”

“Yes. Mud splashed, and then under the tree”

“The fruit went ‘plop'”

“Yes. Due to strong wind. Plop. It fell.”

…What on earth are they talking about?

The three elder brothers looked bewildered.

The situation of their little sisters, who looked like little devils straight out of hell, was not just about some water splashing and fruit falling.

“I’m sorry. It must be Eve’s fault.”

Arkhan, who rarely apologised to Ikrian first, slapped his shoulder and offered an apology.

“No, I should thank you.”