“Gasp, Aileen’s lover has appeared!”

A surprised Louis pointed at Kashar.

“Master Louis, you shouldn’t point at people like that.”

“Uhm, but it’s fascinating.”

Louis looked up at him curiously.

“Is this big brother coming too?”

“Yes. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you in advance.”

“Uhm, it’s okay. You need a partner for a party! If I were bigger, I could have escorted you!”

Louis clenched his fist as he spoke.

In a moment, thinking it was cute, Kashar chuckled and patted Louis’s head.

“You’re a little one.”

“I’m not a little one! I’m a child!”

Louis pouted his lips.

Then another word.

“I’ll become an adult after being a child!”

“And then?”

“I’ll marry Aileen!”

Kashar’s expression, which seemed amusing, suddenly hardened.

It was the moment when Louis’s future hope, which even I didn’t know, was shockingly revealed.

‘Why has the conversation suddenly shifted there?’

What’s this heavy atmosphere?

“Little one, it seems you don’t know much.”

Kashar lowered himself to make eye contact with Louis.

“Marriage is something between lovers. Not between a caregiver and a child who needs to be taken care of.”

His soft voice was cold.

‘This person is seriously talking to a child!’

Kashar’s gaze at Louis was somewhat ominous.

I stepped between them to separate them.

“Um, Lord Kashar? Let’s enter the banquet hall now…….”

“It’s okay! I’ll marry someone else anyway! Love and marriage are different things!”

The surrounding became silent at his loud voice.

As if only Louis was unaware of this fact, he was full of spirit.

“The other adults said so! They said it’s an imperial rule!”

Imperial rule.

I smacked my forehead at the emerging word.

Since the rumor spread that I was Kashar’s lover, people had begun to hang around the cold palace.

Among them, some were spreading words that Louis seemed to have overheard.

“……A not fully grown male says such insolent things.”

Kashar’s eyes narrowed.

“You’re brave.”

He wrapped Louis’s cheek and pressed it gently.

“That’s fake love.”

“Uhmuhm (fake love)?”

“Yes. True love is about staying together until the end.”

Kashar turned his gaze towards me with those words.

“Right, Aileen?”

Was my imagination that the slow voice sounded like a threat?

I vigorously nodded my head.

“Yes! The trend is real love!”

Get lost, fake love! The trend is true love!

‘Real as fake, fake as real!’

Asserting desperately, Kashar stood up.

At that moment, Evan’s muttering was heard.

“Lies.”

The child had a face full of disbelief.

‘I know everything.’

That this love was fake, that Kashar had become their protector, Evan had noticed.

‘Should I have spilled the beans?’

To defend against the danger ahead, a scheme was needed.

But to convince Evan, I would have to admit that I knew the future.

“Um, Lord Evan.”

I was worried if Evan and Kashar would confront each other.

But Kashar was faster than me.

“You’ll find out soon.”

Kashar and Evan’s gazes mixed.

He broke the gaze and turned to me.

“Shall we go, my lover?”

The outstretched hand looked unusually firm.

Where did the sharp appearance go?

The gentlemanly escort made him look like another man.

I swallowed dryly and placed my hand on Kashar’s arm.

“Yes, your lordship.”

From now on, Kashar and I were perfect lovers.

“Are we going in now?”

“Yes. Louis, Evan, come here.”

“Okay!”

Louis ran over and clung to my left side.

Unlike him, Evan was staring silently at Kashar and me.

“Lord Evan?”

“……I’ll go.”
Once again, I asked, and a small answer came back.

Evan stood beside Louis.

“Then go.”

We arrived in front of the banquet hall door.

“Kashar Vladis, the Duke of Lirhart, and his party are announced.”

At the gatekeeper’s call, the double doors opened.

A splendid hall decorated according to the host’s taste. The nobles’ eyes were all on us.

“……My word. The rumor was true.”

“Imperial twins.”

Whispers were heard from all around.

It was as if they were driving the nail in the news that Kashar was taking care of the twins.

Things were going according to my will, but it wasn’t pleasant to hear.

“Is that woman Kashar’s lover?”

“She was supposed to be the twins’ nanny.”

“Fallen princes…… Probably, the Duke is trying to grab his share, right?”

I wished I could block the children’s ears if I could.

‘At least Evan won’t get hurt.’

I could change the future of the children who had become the laughingstock of the nobles.

I was comforting myself inside.

Kashar was staring down at me intently.

“Why are you like this?”

When I couldn’t bear his gaze and asked, he spoke lightly.

“Shall I kill them?”

“……What?”

Not knowing what he meant, I blinked, and Kashar pointed them out one by one.

“That hippo, the goose behind the pillar, the pig next to it, and the goat with beer.”

……Though expressed as animals,

they were all people who had mentioned me and the children.

“Those beasts who casually mention my lover will have to pay a price.”

His sweet voice was somewhat soothing.

But the content was utterly brutal.

“Ha, haha. You’re joking, right?”

“Why would I? Is there a lie between lovers?”