This BL Novel Is Ruined Now - Chapter 156

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Chapter 156

Translator: Yonnee

RP: Haebaragi_syk

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“Reina, if you hold onto me so loosely, you’re going to fall off.”

This prompted Reina to tighten her arms around Ethan even more. Ethan burst into a small chuckle as he thought that she was so cute.

“How could you laugh at a time like this?”

With the rough winds howling all around them, she couldn’t help but shout back.

“This situation pleases me. It feels like we’re going on a honeymoon.”

“Honeymoon…”

What the heck is wrong with this guy?

If she had the option to let go at all, she would have already let go and stayed far away from him.

“No, you… Just what in the world—”

She was about to say something, but as if deciding against it, she just shook her head. What would even change when the milk had already been spilt.

“Haa… But what would running away from everything even do?”

Fortunately, Ethan didn’t kill the elder council. He didn’t even launch a single attack on them.

Instead, he took Reina into his arms and ran away with her. Through the ceiling of the council hall… The roof of the Chantra castle’s western tower now had a hole in it…

‘Just the thought of catching up with you is already making me feel like I’m out of breath.’

As he heard a series of sighs leaving through Reina’s lips, Ethan eventually slowed down for a moment. They were flying through the sky, Reina in his arms.

“Reina, there’s nothing for you to worry about.”

“…How can I not worry? The castle is in a mess and we ran away.”

“I’ll take responsibility.”

“How can you even take responsibility… After what just happened, the elders will surely react negatively even at just the mention of your name, Ethan.”

If Reina were to be quite honest now, she didn’t even know how she’d be able to face her grandmother and father after an incident like this had occurred.

But with a gentle smile tugging upon his lips, Ethan placed a kiss on her forehead. It seemed as if he could understand everything that she was worried about.

“There’s someone I know who can solve everything. So, don’t worry, Reina.”

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In a place that was too fancy to call a cave, yet with stalactites on the ceiling, still too unpleasant to call a palace, Ethan stood stoically.

The floor of the audience chamber was so shiny to the point that it was burdensome, and there was a luxurious long, white carpet in the middle.

And at the end of the carpet, which went straight up the steps of the dais, was a throne on which someone sat with his head tilted to the side.

“So, now…”

The magnificent and colorful crystal throne created a cold yet bright impression in subtle harmony with this entire space. But, unfortunately, the person sitting on the throne did not seem to be welcoming them brightly.

“You’re telling me to clean up the sh*t that you shat.”

“What crude words you speak, Your Highness.”

“If you were me, wouldn’t you speak oh so crudely, too? You’re demanding that I protect you after you so brazenly broke into my territory.”

Thanks to the disappearing plague, Grand Duke Benedict, a.k.a. dragonfolk #2, was having a good time with his family for the first time in two years.

However, an uninvited guest suddenly barged in. How could he not be annoyed?

“I don’t want her to enter the Utta Temple. And I know that you’re planning to involve her in your attempt at reformation anyway.”

“You’re threatening me now, huh. Amazing.”

As the grand duke muttered under his breath, ‘How can anyone be so brazen,’ he shook his head as he leaned back against the throne.

“You’re the only human being in this world who has enough gall to blackmail the dragonfolk.”

“Blackmail? I am only presenting a very reasonable, very rational proposition.”

“Reasonable and rational, my a*s. One look at you is enough to know that your emotions are getting the best of you.”

Though Grand Duke Benedict was scowling to the fullest as he said this, he couldn’t deny that this little sh*t was right.

The moment they found out about the incident at the Launcer village, the emperor and the grand duke had decided to fully incorporate that girl who became a saintess into their plans.

Well, it didn’t matter whether she’d stay single for the rest of her life or if she’d be hitched to a man who’d take her family’s surname, but it was a huge ‘part-time job’ to enter the Utta Temple.

“Alright. Tell Reina Chantra to come in.”

The door of the audience chamber opened, and the grand duke waved his hand weakly to beckon the guest in. He looked like a kid who was very reluctant to do his homework.

Soon after, the main character of this whole situation appeared.

“Greetings to Your Highness Benedict of the Pluntria Imperial Lineage, morning of the world and ruler of the sunset.”

After receiving the formal greeting, Benedict dismissed all of the elves who were standing by.

Except for one. Even as everyone else retreated, the little boy sitting next to Benedict on the dais remained in his spot.

‘So cute.’

Looking up at the stone-faced Benedict was a child with white hair that turned blueish towards the end.

With dark pink eyes and plump cheeks that had yet to lose his baby fat… One look at him would mesmerize absolutely anyone.

‘It doesn’t look like his hair was dyed, but for that kind of hair color to come out naturally…’

Staring at the child as though she had gotten hypnotized, Reina made eye contact with the child.

And, it was at that moment.

Words that she never thought she’d hear in this room rang through the audience chamber.

“Daddy.”

Daddy?

Unknowingly murmuring, ‘Who?’, Reina followed the child’s gaze.

“Yes, my son.”

The… grand duke? Didn’t he have a scowl on his face until just now? Yet he’s answering the child with a gaze that was practically smoldering with affection? Wasn’t he the very example that textbooks would use when defining a ‘father who’s a fool for his son’?

He even reached towards the little boy and sat him on his lap. The unexpected sight made Reina’s mouth gape wide open.

‘What… the heck? The Grand Duke has a son?”

But wasn’t he so famously known to be forever single? Yet just what was this, a whole entire son?

However, the shock to be sent straight through Reina’s system did not stop there.

Perched upon the grand duke’s lap, the child jutted out one chubby finger and pointed to Reina.

With a pure, sunny smile upon his lips, the boy shouted proudly.

“Daddy, Mommy’s here!”

“…Cough.”

Pardon? M-Mommy…?