The Obsessive Male Leads Want to Eat Me Alive

r the bear.

It was then that Julius entered the classroom.

“What’s going on? Why is it so loud?”

He was the aristocratic etiquette class teacher and the man responsible for the socialization of Trees.

After listening to me, Julius said, his deep blue eyes coolly glimmering beneath his blond hair.

“It’s a case of theft.”

“…It might just be lost! Hehe.”

‘Teacher, if you say it like that, the kids will be scared.
Please watch it.’

“Annette, what is ‘theft’?”

Julien asked with twinkling light blue eyes.

‘Oh my, it’s a baby, he can’t understand because he’s a baby, so he can’t even be scared.’

It’s a relief.

I lowered my eyes and smiled, stroking Julien’s frizzy hair before answering.

“I’ll tell you what it means next year.”

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“Yeah!”

It was then.

“Ah! I found it!”

A little boy raised a teddy bear with sapphire eyes up and shouted brightly.

“There was a teddy bear brooch in Sislin’s locker!”

“……!”

For a moment, everyone’s eyes turned to Sislin.
Not just Reina, whose eyes were drenched in tears, but also Heinrich and Julius.

I bit my lip.

‘It finally started.’

***

“This is absolutely unacceptable.”

Madam Mimosa immediately came to the classroom and grasped the situation.

“My thoughts are the same as Madam Mimosa.
A kleptic in a proud noble family who will lead Axelferion in the future…? It’s terrible.”
(TL/N: Just a reminder that when I first started translating this novel, I followed the naming of the promo manhwa.
So although the novel raws gave ‘El Dorado’ for the royal family/country, I’m going with ‘Axelferion’.)
[PR/N: Road to El Dorado lol]

Julius’s contemptuous gaze penetrated Sislin.
Sislin lowered his eyes like a criminal.

“……”

It seemed that he was used to the situation of being unfairly criticized like this, and so my heart ached for a moment.

‘My baby, don’t get discouraged!’

I stretched out my arms, blocking Sislin, and said,

“Sislin would never do that.
Someone must have done it on purpose to make fun of him!”

“What do you think, Reina?”

At Madam Mimosa’s question, the children’s eyes turned to Reina.

“……”

Reina cried, and looked at Sislin with red eyes and nose.

Sislin couldn’t make eye contact and lowered his gaze.

The boy would think he was hated.

However, the words that came out of Reina’s mouth were very unexpected.

“I don’t think Sisl took it.
Maybe a house fairy was playing a joke…?”

Reina was an innocent child who believed more in the pranks of the legendary fairies rather than suspecting that Sislin stole her belongings.

At that moment, Julien popped out and clenched his fists and shouted;

“Come on! Sislin is nice!”

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“Sisl is not a bad kid, sir!”

Sasha, too, trembled and shouted like it was her job.
Pink pigtails, like cotton candy, rose upwards.

Then the other kids nodded their chestnut-like heads and said,

“Right, Sislin can’t have done that, right?”

“It must have been the house fairy.”

“You idiots! You don’t know that there’s no such thing as a house fairy? …Obviously the bald apple tree was angry and summoned the spirit!”

Another kid who played in the water with Sislin also waved his bracken-like hands around and said;

“Sislin is our friend, he wouldn’t take it! Teacher.”

‘You are nicer, little ones.’

With a tightened chest, I looked at the children scrambling to wrap around Sislin.

“……”

Sislin was looking at the children with shaking eyes that seemed a little strange, but was filled with emotion.

When someone believed in him… This was probably the first time he experienced it.

“It’s no wonder, everyone hates me anyway.”

For the boy who thought so, it would be a weird and unfamiliarly warm experience.

The boy’s red eyes slowly closed like a midsummer sunset.
Then, his long eyelashes trembled, he seemed to have made a decision.

Sislin slowly opened her mouth with clear eyes.

“I…”

Everyone’s eyes were focused on the boy.

Although it was muffled, Sislin spoke with a confident voice.

“I never stole, Madam Mimosa.”

“……!”

I was startled and covered my mouth with both hands.

It was the first time.
A boy who hid in the cave because it was difficult to even face other people, a boy who only shook and trembled.
He now had such courage.

‘Our Sisl, you’ve improved a lot…”

Suddenly, I remembered what Viscount Puterio had said.

“You are the lives abandoned by your parents.”

Maybe that statement was true.
That said, I didn’t want to keep my mouth shut every time I was treated unfairly and crouch like a bug for the rest of my life.

No matter how you were born, your life is precious.
The boy was showing it.

‘You did a great job, Sisl…’

I was a little bit overwhelmed by the feeling I couldn’t describe.