My Male Lead Is The Northern Black-Haired Grand Duke - Chapter 3
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Chapter 3 – Born As The Grand Duke Of The North’s Friend (2)
Covered with his soft, neat and thick black hair, his forehead was bulging like a hill. His pale white cheeks were plump, and his mysterious eyes, mixing colors of blue and gray, were shining like glass beads.
‘Wow, daebak. Is he an angel? Is he even human?’
Oppa, don’t look down. I think it will snow if you do.
‘How do you have such big eyes?’
He was a remarkably lovely baby to me, who didn’t know him very well. If he had been born in Korea, every channel would want him – for all the commercials!
‘So you’re saying, a lovely little baby like this will grow up like that brusque Mister earlier?’
I couldn’t imagine that. I blankly stared at the baby in my mother’s arms without noticing the drool dripping from my mouth.
‘He’s really pretty.’
I wanted to pinch those glutinous white cheeks. I wanted to squish them with my hands.
‘I won’t get tired of looking if babies are like him.’
In that moment as I was blankly staring at the baby, perhaps he felt my gaze, the baby stared at me. It was at that moment.
“Krrr.”
The angel looked at me and smiled brightly. I could see two tiny teeth that had just sprung out between his open lips.
‘Can you hear my heart beating?’
I grabbed my pounding heart.
‘Is it possible for a person to be this cute?’
That’s what that person would look like if a person was made to be this lovely.
I couldn’t control the overwhelming emotions and took a deep breath. Seeing the baby like that, my mother widened her eyes in surprise.
“Goodness, Young Master.”
“Krr! Krr!”
The baby waved at me and smiled brightly. My mother blinked and carefully placed the baby she was holding in front of me.
“Bubu!”
The baby crawled straight up and came over to me. He then clasped my hand tightly.
‘Even this cute baby was very active!’
From the moment he grabbed my finger with his tiny hand, he had completely taken my heart away. I muttered and swore to myself, ‘From now on, I will withdraw my support to this baby, and leave the support relationship, regarding us as one body….’
I could even say a wrecked wordplay in the midst of this. My mother smiled brightly and told me, unaware of the speed at which I was thinking, “Minelli, Young Master Setz must like you.”
Ahem, the happiness came over me like a wave, evidence that I wasn’t only seeing things. I did my best to recite the name of the Grand Duke of the North with my short tongue.
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The lovely and cute Princess Canaria flees to avoid becoming the Emperor’s twelfth concubine, and she eventually arrives at the cold and dark North. She then falls in love with the weak bodied and timid Grand Duke of the North, Setz.
‘In the end, Setz was powerless and sent away the female lead.’
And that vain love is symbolized by Canaria’s cage being eventually empty.
‘To say that Setz Alkaman is this baby.’
Such a cute and adorable baby was the main character of that sad love.
‘My heart ached even as I read the novel, but my heart seemed to break apart when I saw your face.’
Setz Alkaman was an unusual male lead in many ways. He wasn’t properly cared for in the cold North of the country since he was young, that was why his body was weak and he was unable to learn anything, so he couldn’t protect Canaria in the end. His only strong point was his friendly personality.
‘He wasn’t even that popular because he was far from the typical Black-Haired Grand Duke of the North.’
I sighed as I recalled the terrible comment section. I clenched my fists.
‘Yeah, I’ve made up my mind!’
I will raise Setz Alkaman into the typical Black-Haired Grand Duke of the North!
‘That way, he can live happily with the female lead for a long, long time!’
It had been seven years since I made that decision. Adapting to this world wasn’t that difficult and in fact, I was even proud of myself.
‘No one else could have been as perfect as me.’
I was actually frustrated at first when I woke up inside a baby’s body at the start. No cellphone, no computer!
‘Ugh, it would have been awesome if I had a cellphone and SNS.’
Then I would be a hot star on social media right now. This is the home of Grand Duke Setz Alkaman!
‘I can’t leave behind Setz’s beautiful face.’
Surprisingly enough, there were no cameras in this world with flush toilets and magic lights. It was no wonder why my small immobile fingers were trying to draw Setz’s face.
[“What is this? A bear?”
“…”]
I completely quit painting after I saw my mother’s reaction. Anyway, I have a little bit of frustration, but I was soon able to adapt to the world without modern culture. I used the time I formerly spent with my cellphone observing Setz. Should I say it was a relief? Setz also liked me very much.
“Minelli!”
As I was walking down the hallway to sneak an apple from the kitchen to eat, a clear and light voice called out my name. It was my favorite voice in the world.
“Setz!”
When I turned around, there was a child standing there with his fluttering black hair and lovely cheeks. It was the seven-year-old Grand Prince Setz Alkaman.
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For the past seven years since I transmigrated into this world, I had settled into the Grand Duke’s castle in the North with my crazy adaptability. What did I become?
“What Minelli? You should call me noona.”
“Ouch!”
I hit Setz’s head. Setz pouted.
“You’re only eight months older than me though….”
“Oho, there were changes in the cold water and the moon changed eight times, so what does that mean? Of course, I am the older sister.”
“Psh.”
Setz glanced at me as his lips made a moue at my words. But he couldn’t be any cuter.
‘Oh, my heart! That’s too much for my heart!’
I felt like my heart was breaking when I looked at Setz’s round eyes. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes for a moment. Setz looked at me with that serious expression.
“Oh? Wh, what’s wrong? Are you sick?”
“Ah, no, my heart escaped….”
“What? Your heart? What can I do to help? Should I make you better?”
“Can you turn around?”
The thing that hurts my heart now is your face, Setz! I couldn’t tell him that so I just let out a heavy sigh. Setz tilted his head at me then turned back as I told him to.
‘Cute!’
It was only natural that his act was the secondary assault on my heart. At this point, do you know what kind of existence I had now inside the Grand Duke of the North’s castle? I had just become Setz’s playmate!
‘Because Setz has liked only me since he was a baby.’
Setz wasn’t an easy baby to care for. He ate less, slept lightly, and cried incessantly. But whenever he saw me, the picky baby would smile!!
‘He followed me to a strange degree.’
It was amazing how he stopped crying when he saw my face. Setz’s reaction was so obvious that the Grand Duke himself ordered this:
[“You can bring your child and take care of them together.”]
So I grew up with Setz since he was a young baby.
‘In other words, even before I started walking, I took care of Setz like an older sister.’
Though it was hard to keep his body healthy, it was never easy to take care of a child who wasn’t that different from me. One, there were just as many perks coming with that.
‘I could eat what Setz ate, and could wear high-quality clothes.’
How can I wear rough and shabby clothes worn by commoners when I have to stick with Setz all day long? I naturally could wear clean and soft baby clothes. I was then able to roll in a warm room, watching snow every winter, eating the good food that Setz eats.
‘If it wasn’t for Setz, I’d be sleeping inside a cold room and catching flu, or I’d be a skeleton from malnutrition.’
So I was purely grateful because I was able to grow up to be eight years old.
‘Of course, I was just playing ah. Setz has also become so healthy.’
Setz had plump cheeks now that couldn’t look any prettier, unlike in the original novel. I hugged Setz and kissed him on his white cheek.
“Ah, our Young Master! My lump of luck!”
Setz received my kiss with a ticklish frown. He then tilted his head at me and asked.
“What is a lump of luck?”
“It means all my luck.”
“Luck? Am I Minelli’s luck?”
“Of course. I am very happy to have the Young Master.”
I was really happy these days. Since my job was to take care of Setz, no one asked me to do other chores, and I also didn’t need to study since I was still young.
‘All I need to do is to stare at this pretty Setz all day. What a happy life!’
I looked at Setz with a pale face. Setz tilted his head again and immediately hugged me.
“Then Minelli is my lump of luck. I am happy to have Minnelli.”
“Oh my goodness.”
I succeeded in this life. I could tell without looking back – that I have already been successful.
“Hehehe.”
I rubbed my cheek against Setz’s head. He sneezed violently as my hair tickled the tip of his nose.
“Achoo!”
“Oh, I’m sorry, Young Master.”
My hair was curly and wavy like candy, so when I rubbed my face like this, it would create static electricity.
‘Aigoo, it would be better if I had this cut off.’
But my mom loved my hair so much that I couldn’t cut it.
[“This hair looks just like your dad’s.”]
‘A man with pink hair? I can’t even imagine.’
There were times when I was surprised by my face in the mirror, but I could only think of how awkward it would be for a male to have this hair color.
[“He was a very handsome man.”]
In any case, my mother said it was just from her memories.
‘But mother’s face didn’t look very happy when she talked about my father, like someone who didn’t like him very much.’
I can never know what happened in the past.
When I was twisting my hair with my index finger with a frown, Setz also looked at my hair and said with a big smile.
“How can Minelli’s hair be so pink like a rabbit? It’s like sugar.”
“Where can you find pink sugar?”
Sugar is white. Thinking so, I chuckled. But what is this? Setz shook his head.
“Loki showed me. I heard that you got a special one for this Easter’s rabbit.”
“Ah, really?”
Loki was the chef of the Alkaman Grand Duchy. He had a terrifyingly big body and a face covered with a scar, perfect for the North, who looked better with his jack knife or cookie knife than a kitchen knife. But he actually was sweeter than me.
‘Easter rabbit! So we’re making those this year as well.’
Sugar comes from sugarcanes, but the North’s climate wasn’t suitable for sugarcane. That is why sugar is so precious that it was calculated by the weight of gold.
‘I’ve been looking for something like that.’
I had eaten meat as much as I wanted since I was reincarnated here, but this news had my ears perked as I was lacking in sugar. I jumped from my seat at once.
“I’m curious! I want to go see it soon!”
“Oh? Lo– Loki said it was a secret.”
“I can come and see it in secret!”
I took out the apple I was about to eat before.
‘Sugar and vitamins are important for growing children.’
With that in mind, I took a step forward excitedly. Setz, who was following me, froze like ice.
“Ah….”
I raised my head. A black shadow fell over my head as if a rock had blocked the way ahead. A person this tall, I know a man who was just that.
“I greet Your Grace the Grand Duke.”
It was Setz’s father, Grand Duke Alkaman.
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Chadano
I keep reading it as Ankermem and there are A LOT of guys that are hot and sexy with pink hair lol