Chapter 159 – Freya Becomes a Cousin
After breaking up with Aria, I entered the office where Borden held Emperor Caltus, and Borden and Arkan reacted differently when they saw me appearing early.
“Oh! It’s nice to see you after a long time. Take care.”
“How long has it been since I saw you yesterday?”
Carlthus didn’t even look at me when I entered the office and went to see Princess Arya, and Borden criticized Carlthus, saying that he was originally like that.
In the carriage back to the Grand Duke, Borden relieved her stress from Caltus by hearing about my actions that had touched Arya’s pride.
“Ah… I feel so relieved…”
Borden, who had been laughing loudly for a long time, lost his strength just by laughing, but asked him to tell him what he wanted to see if his mood was relieved.
“Please listen to one thing I want later.”
“If it’s a wish ticket. It was a lucrative business for my son.”
Borden readily promised to grant one wish, and the road back to the grand duchy felt long, probably because I obtained a wish ticket to use in relation to Freya.
From the way back, all the attention was on Freya, so I went into the secret room with the buns while eating dinner.
“Lune, where was Freya?”
[The assassin training facility you mentioned. Freya is being trained, go quickly!]
Rune, who was watching over Freya at my request, returned just in time for me to be alone and informed me of Freya’s location.
As expected, Rune found Freya’s whereabouts at the assassin training facility and moved to the door of the assassin training facility using a teleport.
“Who are you?”
“Can you get one useful kid?”
After changing his appearance with magic, he informed the educator guarding the counter at the assassin training facility about the purpose of his visit.
“Little boy? Who are you to find something like that here… Let me guide you.”
The convenience of money and power was great. The educator, who had been treating me bluntly, changed his attitude when he saw the pouch containing the Grand Duke’s seal and gold coins.
“We are protecting children who have lost their parents and teaching them techniques to protect themselves.”
“It’s a decent facility.”
I don’t know if living as an assassin is a good thing for those kids, but they’re kids who would have died on the street if left alone.
I was not interested in whether the children lived the life of an assassin or a mercenary with the skills they learned here, and I looked for a girl with pink hair.
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[Name: Freya]
– Age : 7
– Role: Reserve Assassin
– Height: 109cm Weight: 16kg
– Likeability: 0 Excitement: 0
– Preferred play:
– Special settings:
– My heart: It’s hard… I don’t want to do it…
– Target development figures
Doesn’t exist
– Subject’s special erogenous zone
Doesn’t exist
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“Can you take that girl?”
“That child is… A little…”
The position of an educator was too low to be in charge of Freya, who showed better skills than the existing children in the training facility just two days after entering the training facility.
“Please wait a moment!”
The educator who hurriedly disappeared using the typical assassin’s gait brought the general manager of the assassin training facility.
When I said hello to the person in charge and asked him to tell me how to take Freya, the general manager’s tongue grew longer.
“Why do you need that child? If you need a slave, I recommend that you visit the slave market instead of here.”
When the general manager asked why he wanted to take Freya, he mentioned slaves, implicitly expressing that he couldn’t take Freya with him.
Freya’s talent to become the continent’s best assassin when she becomes an adult was well aware of the assassin training facility and had an attitude that she could not easily let go.
“I need someone to grow up with the Archduke and protect me, so don’t make the story too long.”
“Keuheum…! I’ll check in a moment.”
The general manager opened the leather pouch full of gold coins, and opened the way in the direction of Freya.
The amount of gold coins I handed over was too much for the general manager to stick to the attitude that he couldn’t let Freya go.
“Freya, you can follow this person from now on. You know the Grand Duchess of Demicher, right? They say he came from there.”
“All right.”
The basic education of an assassin was to hide emotions, and Freya reacted indifferently to leaving the training facility and going to the grand duchy.
Before his return, Freya, who was a nimble assassin with a small body, was surprisingly caring, friendly, and had a finite personality that was good at mischief.
A small body was one of Freya’s characteristics since she was a child, and her arrogant cat-like face as an adult remained intact.
“Hello.”
“Nice to meet you. Let’s get along.”
“Ughhh…! Thank you…”
The desire to stroke the head of Freya, who was a proud cat with long pink wavy hair, arose. Freya gave her hair as calmly as a charming cat to the touch of his hair.
“Let’s go to the grand duke’s house.”
“Yes…”
With Freya in my arms, I used a teleport to reach the secret space of the Grand Duke’s family, and I released the magic that changed my appearance.
“Uh…?”
“Hello sister.”
It was surprising that the location changed when I blinked, but when the person in her arms changed from a middle-aged man to a four-year-old boy, Freya did not recognize the situation.
“Uh…? Huh…? The same… Person…?”
“It changed its appearance with magical power.”
Living in the Grand Duke’s family, I showed her how to use magic to Freya, who had to stay by my side. It was a series of situations that were difficult to understand, but Freya accepted her situation as much as possible and asked what she had to do at the Grand Duke’s house.
“You can be my older sister.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about…”
Before returning, I intended to make Freya, who used to manage mentally as a friendly older sister in a dungeon-destroying party, into my own older sister.
It was better to use the wish ticket he had obtained in return for winning against the princess Aria and relieving Borden’s stress as quickly as he could think of it.
“How can a commoner become the daughter of a grand duke…?”
There were no plans to bring Freya into the grand duke’s family and make her an older sister, but that changed when Aner conceived her child.
In the name of protecting her newly born younger brother, there is a possibility that Freya, who has talent as an assassin, will be accepted into the grand duchy.
“Wait here and come with me when I call.”
“Yes…”
Leaving her Freya in the secret room, I informed Borden of her Freya’s existence, who was working overtime at her office.
“Son… Did you need a sister…?”
“I need a sister-cum-assassin.”
“Haa… Why do you need an assassin again…?”
Borden took every word I said seriously and reflected her opinion, but she couldn’t accept Freya’s existence.
That was also because the four-year-old son wanted to take the girl and make her his sister without permission, but no parents would listen.
“You have a younger brother.”
“Couldn’t it be… Did you have that thought because of your sister…?”
Although the newly born younger brother was important, the desire to have Freya as an older sister came first. But I couldn’t say it honestly, so I nodded my head.
Borden was moved that I was thinking of my unborn brother, and she wanted to see Freya in person.
“Ha ha… Ha ha… I think my son just needed a pretty sister…”
However, Borden, who was impressed, saw the appearance of Freya I had brought and realized my primary purpose.
The beautiful Freya did not get along with the assassin, and Borden couldn’t believe that Freya came from an assassin training facility.
“Um… Freya? Could you come closer?”
“Yes, Dad…”
“Ah…! Dad…?”
When I brought Freya to her office, I took my own steps and finished preparing Borden with the pretty Freya.
Borden, who sometimes seemed to want her daughter, disarmed her face when the objectively pretty Freya called her daddy.
“Heh heh… Did you say that Freya… Grew up in an assassin training facility?”
Borden, who smiled at the word daddy that came out of Freya’s mouth, glanced at me when Freya couldn’t hear footsteps as she approached him.
At Borden, who recognized that Freya had learned the art of assassination just by her gait, I shrugged and Borden shook his head from side to side.
“No. I entered the training facility two days ago.”
“Two days ago…?”
Borden shook her head again that Freya, who would have been an ordinary commoner girl until she entered the training facility, learned the art of erasing footsteps in just two days.
After holding Freya back for a moment, Borden came over to me and she whispered to me in a low voice that Freya couldn’t hear.
“Son, how did you find Freya…?”
Borden was afraid of Freya for her monstrous talent when it came to her candid assassination, and wanted to drag her into the Grand Duchess.
“I was looking around by teleport and I happened to see Freya, and I recognized her right away.”
“Yeah… If it’s my son, that’s it…”
Having shown her skills without hiding it to Borden for several years saw the light, and Borden, who directly confirmed Freya’s talent, granted her the right to my wish.
However, it was impossible for Freya, who was a commoner, to come in as a child of the grand duke’s family, so after discussing with Borden, Freya’s status was decided as a collateral of the grand duke’s family.
Freya was manipulated as the only survivor of an accident that happened to a collateral of the grand duke’s family, and became my relative and older sister.
“Son…!”
“Why mom?”
“Why do you monopolize Freya with only your son…!”
Her mother, Aner, told her father, Borden, about the reason for making Freya the Grand Duchess, and Aner understood. Aner, who had vowed to greet Freya naturally even when she saw her, became her obligation, not her pledge, as soon as she saw her.
“Freya, let’s look at the dress with Auntie today.”
“A dress…?”
Approaching her full term, Aner wanted Freya to be friendly with her new baby and cared for her like her own mother.
Before returning, Freya, who was far from wearing dresses, accessories, and dolls, gradually got used to dresses, accessories, and dolls with the help of Aner.
“Your sister looks more difficult here than at the training facility.”
“It’s awkward…But not hard.”
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[Name: Freya]
– Age : 7
– Role: Reserve Assassin
– Height: 109cm Weight: 16kg
– Likeability: 50 Excitement: 0
– Preferred play:
– Special settings:
– In my heart: I’m happy to live thanks to Mr. Winter…
– Target development figures
Doesn’t exist
– Subject’s special erogenous zone
Doesn’t exist
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Freya, who was really grateful for the delicious food, the warm bed, and the kind people, rose to 50 in just three days after entering the Grand Duke’s family.
I was like a savior for Freya, who had struggled on her streets and had flowed into her assassin training facility, bringing her as her grand duke.
[Freya gains a special value, ‘Loyalty’.]
[Freya’s loyalty has reached 100. No matter what happens, I will not betray you.]
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[Name: Freya]
– Age : 7
– Role: Reserve Assassin
– Height: 109cm Weight: 16kg
– Likeability: 50 Excitement: 0
– Loyalty: 100 (MAX)
– Preferred play:
– Special settings:
– Inner mind: Thanks to Mr. Winter… I am happy to live…
– Target development figures
Doesn’t exist
– Subject’s special erogenous zone
Doesn’t exist
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“Then I hope that Freya-noona will speak comfortably so that it is not difficult for me.”
“Yeah… Okay… Winter…”
On the day her cousin, Freya, spoke to me, Borden openly revealed Freya’s identity, circumstances, and that he would take responsibility for Freya in the grand duchy’s future.
Borden, who made an open declaration, moved around busily, proving Freya’s identity to the imperial family, major aristocratic families, and grand duke’s subordinate families.
Thanks to Borden’s efforts, Freya, who was freed from suspicion, officially became a member of the grand duke’s family, and this snowballed his influence in many places.
The first person who was influenced by Freya’s official becoming a member of the Grand Duchess was her childhood friend and pupil Mary.
“Sister Mary!”
“Winter, I missed you…”
After having a heartfelt meeting with Mary, whom he had not seen for a week due to the circumstances of the Count and Grand Duchess, he entered the secret space where Freya was.
Thanks to Borden’s public announcement of Freya’s entry into the Grand Duchess, Mary knew Freya too.
“Hello…”
“Hello…”
Before returning, Mary and Freya, who depended on each other and had a special relationship, first met at the young age of 6 and 7, respectively.