I Didn’t Lull You to Sleep Only for You to Be Obsessed With Me - Chapter 15

RP: Haebaragi_syk

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Chapter 8.2

The next moment, Claude moved towards Asher with a knife this time. April, who guessed what happened next, squealed.

“What are you doing?!”

Claude asked back as if asking what the problem was.

“Didn’t you say you would do the test?”

“But, the fingers of a child who’s only five years old…”

She swallowed the afterword, ‘You’re going to cut it with a knife!’ into her throat since Asher was listening. You have to use only good and pretty words in front of a child.

‘They said there’s no way to persuade them if words don’t work.’

Even though they had only met for less than ten minutes, she seemed to know Claude’s personality well. That human, who was introduced as a ‘blood-crazed man’ in the original story, was an opponent with whom normal words couldn’t be communicated.

April asked the wizard standing behind him instead of Claude.

“How much blood do you need?”

The wizard replied with a slightly puzzled look.

“One drop is all it takes.”

Cutting his arms with a knife for a drop… truly inefficient.

“Hold on a second.”

Bringing out a needle as she said that, she then asked the wizard to disinfect it before kneeling down in front of Asher.

“Asher, sister will poke your finger just a little bit. Is that okay?”

The child made a terrified face, probably because of Claude’s actions earlier, but soon nodded his head resolutely.

“Yes.”

April poked Asher’s fingertip by taking advantage of her experience of picking her friend’s finger, who had an upset stomach before. Then, when she pressed his finger hard, red blood formed at the tip of his finger.

As the blood dripped into the now reddish liquid, the liquid started to react. It started swirling little by little, and then it glowed faintly.

Claude, who was watching the scene, spoke dryly.

“As expected.”

April also roughly guessed.

‘I guess Asher is Claude’s nephew.’

As if to prove that thought, he turned his gaze towards Asher.

“You’re my nephew.”

Neither his voice nor his expression contained any affection or joy for his nephew, whom he had met for the first time in five years.

“Nephew?”

“Yes. You’re the lost son of my brother, Leonard.”

She had also heard of it. The love story of the late Duke of Winterville was so famous that it was still talked about.

‘I heard that he loved a commoner, but it couldn’t come true because of the difference in status.’

In the end, it was said that the woman couldn’t stand the pressure and disappeared, but she probably ran away because she was pregnant with Asher.

Asher’s eyes were filled with hope.

“Then, can I meet my father, too?”

Emotion came to Claude’s face for the first time after he heard the question. It was only for a moment, although it was regretful that it showed on his face.

“Leonard died a year ago.”

“Ah…”

“Still, you’ll enjoy everything from now on as the heir to the Winterville family.”

It was an unconventional proposal. Not just a member of the family, but an heir! Considering that Claude was still single, this was a great deal. At the same time, his aide, Lloyd, shouted urgently as if it was a story he hadn’t heard about before.

“Master, you didn’t say something like that before?”

“I’ve already made up my mind.”

Glancing back at him, Claude smiled. It was a chilling smile.

“Do you have any objection to what I said?”

Lloyd immediately lowered his tail.

“No, there isn’t. If Your Excellency wants to do so, you could. But…”

“But?”

“If you make the young master your successor, the case of your marriage later…”

Claude smirked at his words. Despite the fact that he just smiled, his expression showed arrogance. It was a reasonable arrogance.

“Are you worried about my marriage right now? Of this Claude Winterville?”

“There’s no need to worry. Of course.”

It was true. There was no way anyone would give up the position as Duchess of Winterville just because he had a successor.

‘Rather, it will be dangerous for Asher…’

Even though she didn’t know who the Duchess would be, she might consider Asher a thorn in her eyes and would try to get rid of him.

‘…Is it really a good thing for Asher to go to the Duchy?’

While she’d only been with him for a little over a week now, April did care for the child.

All of a sudden, Claude muttered as if he had read her concerns.

“Of course, I have no intention of getting married.”

“Yes?”

As Lloyd shouted, he waved his hand in annoyance as though telling him that he was being noisy.

“I don’t want to see a fight between the successors in my mansion. More than that, kid.”

“It’s Asher…”

Asher’s timid but firm protest made his purple eyes briefly open. Claude laughed out loud this time.

“Yes. Judging by how confident he is, he’s of Winterville’s blood. Still, the test I just gave you is just a temporary test. We’ll go to the imperial palace and pass a proper test with the artifact before officially declaring you as my successor.”

“I…!”

Asher, who had raised his voice, hid behind April while still glancing at Claude.

“I don’t want to go.”

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