Matchmaking Baby Sister
Chapter 3 - Let's Go Together

Chapter 3 – Let’s go together

TL: Zimmings

I was going to call him uncle, but due to a slip of the tongue, I called him papa instead. Lucinda and Tessa’s eyes widened due to my unexpected blabber.

“No, did you just say papa……?”

“What?”

The one who was most surprised was me, not anyone else.

‘Oh my god, this short tongue!’

I glanced at Tessa’s face that visibly hardened.

‘He should’ve been happy right! He even ran to me!’

But look at Tessa now! My confidence was gone minute by minute every time I looked at him.

‘What do I do now?’

I can’t be like this. Let’s never regret anything and move forward! After a moment of contemplation, I closed my eyes tightly.

‘Ah, whatever.’

I’m only a one year old baby who looks cute just by breathing.

‘So let’s be brave!’

Thinking about it that way made me feel more at ease. I smiled brightly like a sunflower. Soon, I shouted more confidently,

“Papa!”

I opened my chubby arms at Tessa.

What do you think? This is the legendary lethal move that only a year old can use!

‘Hug me!’

I can’t believe I’m swinging my arms around a single man, calling him a father. I felt this was the most embarrassing moment in my life. I faced Tessa without blinking.

Thump, thump, thump

My heart was pounding. I closed my lips because I thought my heart would pop out if I opened my mouth.

But what is this? Of course, Tessa, who I thought would come running and hug me, unexpectedly did not budge.

‘Did I take it too far?’

But I’m only a one year old baby with a height less than 100cm. I only had two teeth and only recently started eating baby food. I can’t even walk, so what else could I do besides stretching my arm in the baby chair?

But because of Tessa, who was staring at me without any expression, impatience rose in my heart.

‘Hmm.I guess I had to appeal to him more aggressively and cutely!’

I said to Lucinda, flapping my arms.

“Abu! Abuu! (Let me down!)”

But as if it was a curse, my words became incomprehensible again other than the word ‘papa’.

When Pupu saw me like that, it smiled and wagged its tail.

[You can’t escape by yourself, Ariel?]

‘Lucinda will put me down.’

[Lucinda can’t hear you! Meow.]

Pupu smiled mischievously. As always being a baby is hard, but there was an unexpected variable this time. It was my uncle, Tessa, who understood Pupu. Tessa’s lips parted slowly.

“……She wants to get off the chair.”

“Huh?”

“I can hear her familiar’s voice. Her name is Ariel right?”

“Th, that.”

Lucinda looked back at me with a perplexed look on her face at Tessa’s words. Then she looked at Tessa with suspicious eyes and put her hands in my armpits. The moment my feet touched the floor, a second chance came to me.

‘A chance to appeal to Tessa!’

I crawled towards Tessa. When I came near him, I called him brightly and hugged him.

“Papa!”

Chomp!

Tessa’s huge body stiffened due to the sudden impact.

* * *

No matter how tightly I hugged Tessa, it was only his leg that I could hang on to.

‘Oh my god, It’s like I’m holding a log.’

As I hugged his legs, I had a thought that didn’t suit a one-year-old at all. His legs were so strong and muscular.

“…….”

With his niece hugging him like this, he would have to do something, like hug me or take me off, but Tessa didn’t move at all. The longer the silence, the more panicked I became.

‘Even if his personality didn’t seem that bad now, it might be different later.’

People change easily, and that doesn’t mean their nature changes easily. For him, the death of his brother and the disappearance of his family would have been a very big event, but just because everyone went through such an event doesn’t mean they are disillusioned with the world and hate everyone.

‘There is a high probability that he was naturally a good person but the circumstances made him a tyrant.’

In the end, I fearlessly clinged to the so-called tyrant.

‘……I’m not going to be kicked away, am I?’

I started to break into a cold sweat because I was afraid of the unexpected outcome.

‘No, no. Let’s think positively!’

I slowly lifted my head and looked into Tessa’s eyes. But he was so tall that no matter how much I lifted my head, I couldn’t see his face. Surprised by my sudden action, Lucinda put her hands on my sides and carried me away.

“What are you talking about, Ariel?”

Lucinda said as I pointed to Tessa with my index finger. In fact, my weak heart was pounding again when I pointed at him… At this moment, I was ready for death.

‘Let’s just go a little extra mile.’

He might decide to keep me alive because I’m cute. But this time again, my tongue was the problem.

“Papa. Papapa. Papa”

“What?”

Lucinda looked at me dumbfounded. Of course. A one-year-old baby is pointing fingers at a man she saw for the first time today and calling him a father. It was a  ridiculous situation. Lucinda kept her mouth shut and didn’t know what to say. Tessa took a step closer and made eye contact with me.

“Ariel?”

Oh my god. His voice was very low. I was not used to it because I could only hear Lucinda’s voice everyday.

‘Look at that face. I think he’s going to kill me.’

To make matters worse, Tessa’s eyes were menacing, and his mouth was devoid of a smile.

‘I, I shouldn’t have called him.’

My heart trembled. But I could not give up my life like this. I smiled brightly. To be honest, the corners of my lips didn’t go up as well as I expected, but it would be cute anyway.

“Abu!”

“Is that cat your familiar?”

“Abuu!”

I shouted in agreement. Pupu, which was floating in the air, wagged its tail and laughed.

[Yes! I called you out of my master’s request.]

Tessa nodded softly after hearing Pupu’s story.

“It’s useful that you already know how to work.”

Now that I have been praised as “useful” by my future tyrant uncle, I have managed to make the first step. When I looked at Tessa in Lucinda’s arms while sucking my thumb, Tessa shook his head lightly.

“Langrisser.”

[Did you call me, master?]

At Tessa’s call, a white and large fox with nine tails appeared. The huge familiar filled up the whole space in an instant. What’s surprising was that it was visible to everyone.

“W, what’s that?!”

Lucinda unconsciously tightened her hold on my body. Even at this moment, she took a step forward to protect me and turned my body away from it. Tessa gazed at Lucinda and slowly opened his mouth.

“Didn’t you hear the rumours? This is my familiar Langrisser.”

“F, familiar?”

Lucinda looked at the white fox, which was stretching gracefully, with a pale face. To see if Tessa’s familiar was a threat, Pupu floated on my head and lashed out. The dazzling light it emitted fell above my head. Tessa pointed his chin at it and said.

“It’s undeniable proof that I’m related to Ariel.”

“Ariel……?”

Since Lucinda had never seen a familiar before, she stared at the light above my head in bewilderment.

Whatever, I should just smile.

‘I’m only one years old. I just need to smile cutely right?’

Only then did Lucinda nod slightly, convinced by the situation. Then he looked at Tessa with astonished eyes and said,

“Then you…….”

Tessa Illuminas, the emperor of this country.

Lucinda hesitated, unable to say the name. It’s not something she can say recklessly. So I decided to call my uncle instead of her.

“Papa!!”

But this tongue was troublesome. I was definitely going to call him Tessa, but why did I keep saying papa?  Tessa’s face grimace when he heard my call. As he was the most handsome man I have ever seen, even his grimacing face looked so cool. He looked at me and slowly opened his mouth.

“I am not your father. I am your uncle.”

“Papa?”

“I’m not your dad, I’m your father’s brother.”

Tessa kindly explained to me when I tilted my head. But what am I doing? My short tongue kept slipping.

“Papa!”

“……Call me whatever you want.”

My short tongue made that grumpy tyrant give up. Listening to our conversation to the end, Lucinda asked Tessa in a cautious voice.

“Are you really Ariel’s uncle? Then Ariel’s father…….”

It was Lloyd, the former emperor. He was a young man who died in a carriage accident.

Lucinda was a good person, so she never gossiped, she was also busy making a living. She wasn’t even aware of the previous emperor. Lucinda’s voice trembled lightly, recalling the fact that my father was already dead.

“……Did he know about Ariel?”

“He was very sorry that he couldn’t see his child until the end.”

At Tessa’s words, Lucinda, who was holding me, put a lot of strength into her hand. Soon, Lucinda’s voice started to tremble.

“So Ariel has never seen her parents…”

At Lucinda’s murmur, Tessa’s face became painful for the first time. Even after a year had passed, the accident was still deeply embedded in Tessa’s heart.

“My brother…….”

Being reminded of that, Tessa couldn’t speak any more. Sadness emanated from the handsome man who was as big as a bear.

Lucinda was also speechless hearing it.

‘I have to do something about this sudden silence!’

Feeling a strange sense of duty, I babbled, pulling at the hem of Lucinda’s clothes, who was stiff.

“Mama, Abuu! Abuabu!”

You don’t know what I’m talking about, do you? I also don’t know! I just want to break the ice.

“Ariel…….”

To Lucinda, who had no idea how to respond, I blinked like a child and smiled brightly.

“Mama!”

And I shouted, pointing at Tessa.

“Papa!”

In short, I meant to say aunt and uncle.

I was worried that my tongue would move regardless of my intentions and my intentions would not be conveyed, but Lucinda and Tessa understood what I was saying.

“…….”

Lucinda hugged me tightly without answering. She whispered to me in a small voice, rubbing her red cheeks against mine.

“Poor Ariel. Aunt will make you happy for sure. My sister died giving birth to you, but I’ll love you as much as she does.”

Good-hearted Lucinda. I hugged Lucinda tightly.

‘That’s what I have to say, Aunt. I’ll get my aunt out of this terrible poverty.’

Tessa, who had been silent, reached out to my head. His big hand caressed my hair. It was like a father’s kind hand, so I closed my eyes without realizing it.

Tessa explained my situation to me calmly.

“Your father traveled very far. It’s hard to meet until you’re very, very old.”

“Papa?”

“……I’d like to meet him too if I could.”

After thinking of his older brother, he shook his head to let go of the melancholy, and reached out to grab my hand. His two fingers were as large as the palms of my hands.

“You can come with me.”

“Gya!”

That was the word I was hoping for.

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