I Became the Childhood Friend of the Northern Duchess chapter 1

1 – Where is this place? Who is he?

When a man named Choi Seon-woo died and opened his eyes, he saw a new world in front of him.

As a newborn baby who could only cry, he was held in the arms of a mother-in-law.

No matter where you looked, the clothes were not the modern costumes of the world he lived in.

Middle Ages? But? Only doubts were added to him, who had no historical knowledge.

“You are the eldest son of our Billhark family.”

The man who identified himself as Lancel Bilhark said proudly.

The Billhark family? The name he had never heard of made him cry again.

Where is this place and who are you? It took a long time for that question to be resolved.

When he was two years old and was walking fairly well on his own, one day he met a girl.

The name of the child who could only babble like himself was known through the people around him.

Ariel Loveheim. The moment he heard that word, made up of at most seven letters, something flashed through Edgar’s mind.

‘Ariel Loveheim?’

When he was still Choi Sun-woo, it was a name he had heard excessively.

I remember being a character in a romance fantasy novel.

It is also an unfortunate character who appears as a supporting character and dies at an early age. Even though he wasn’t the main character, he was quite popular, so he also heard about it.

Unfortunately, however, he did not like romance fantasy novels, so it was only a work that he had never read properly.

Why was he called to this world?

‘It’s obvious he’s covered in hemp.’

Otherwise, this could not have happened.

In the first place, the route of possession of the web novels he mainly read was like this.

The content of the novel that I often read goes to the mountain, and if I write an angry comment there, I enter that world. Most, if not all, did not escape this.

Even so, why did he get out of the frame?

There were countless works that I had seen before I closed my eyes in the previous world. If I were to list them, there would not be enough of them even if I stayed up all night.

Filtering through so many works, entering the world of novels that I couldn’t even see the contents. In other words, it was very lucky.

‘How come in a world like this… … .’

He was on the side of being closer than anyone else to the egos of civilization.

It means that there was no way to rejoice in a world without smartphones, TVs, and computers.

At least, if it was a world in a novel that I often read, I don’t know if I would think of it as a trip, but entering a world I wasn’t interested in at all, it was a real disaster.

‘Thank you for letting me start a new life that had no meaning, but this is not enough.’

It was in the midst of Edgar’s lamentation in the form of a two-year-old boy.

Ariel, who was held in her mother’s arms, suddenly reached out.

I stretched out as much as I could, but how long can a two-year-old baby’s arms be?

However, Edgar’s head tilted slightly when he realized that the hand was pointing at him.

‘what?’

Do you feel a sense of kinship with the same babies?

He couldn’t remember the time when he was a two-year-old baby in the first round of life, and since this life was the second round, he couldn’t know his position or thoughts as a whole baby.

Of course, I couldn’t help but notice the meaning of Ariel’s actions.

“Bah-!”

‘Are you asking me to catch it?’

While held in her mother’s arms, Ariel vigorously wields her tiny hands in the spirit of a family reunion.

It was so cute that I wanted to bite it.

‘It’s old.’

Even though the mind was an adult, the body was still just a two-year-old baby.

Though he stretched out his hand as hard as he could, thinking that he was patronizing himself, he couldn’t reach Ariel’s hand.

He struggled up to his legs and tried to jump out, but his mother, Catria, pulled him into her arms, and it ended in failure.

“Daa-!”

On the other hand, Edgar protests vigorously.

However, even though he thought he had spoken properly, perhaps because of his oral structure, only unidentified babbles came out of his mouth, just like Ariel’s.

“Oh no, then I can’t use it. Aren’t you rude to the princess?”

‘ah.’

I thought he was pulling it because he was worried that he would get out of his arms, but it seems that he was restrained from contacting him recklessly because of his status.

It was only then that Edgar realized how amazing the little girl in front of him, who couldn’t even speak properly, was.

‘They say it’s a grand duke, but it must be great.’

Parents would not be in a hurry to stop babies from playing with each other unless there was a considerable difference in social status.

‘My family is said to be a baron. It’s definitely a huge difference.’

I don’t know the exact difference in level depending on the aristocratic class, but I’ve heard that there is a significant difference between counts and barons.

Among them, the opponent was the daughter of a grand duke who existed in the highest position other than the highest position of a country.

It seemed that he needed to be careful about his actions afterwards.

‘If I accidentally hit you while playing together… ? Oh, I hate to imagine.’

Wouldn’t the three-legged family, including his parents, perish the moment he was even scratched?

Perhaps the old family, including relatives, may disappear from the world in an instant.

As a dizzying thought crossed his mind, Edgar trembled and dug deeper into Catria’s arms.

“Catria, don’t do that, let the children play. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a leisurely drink of tea and talk among mothers?”

Helene, the hostess of the Loveheim family, who took turns looking after Edgar and her daughter, readily suggested it.

As Katria was anxious about the fact that an accident might happen, she couldn’t bear to agree and cautiously parted her lips.

“However… … .”

“It’s because you can tell the ladies-in-waiting to watch over you for a while. All children grow up with children.”

“If you say so… All right.”

The Billhark family is a subordinate vassal of the Loveheim family. What is called a master-servant relationship.

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Knowing that it would be more disrespectful to make her comment here, Katria finally had no choice but to bow her head in agreement and set her son down on the carpet.

‘Mother, why are you enshrining your one and only son in a place like this?’

When Katria, who had put herself down and stared at her with eyes full of emotions, left, Edgar, who was left behind, had to watch her back like an abandoned puppy.

The soft touch of the carpet as my buttocks touched the floor made me feel as if I was sitting on top of a chair.

And soon, like himself, Ariel was put down on the other side.

Our eyes met, and she said, ‘Bah-!’ And again, roaring vigorously, came toward him on all fours without mercy.

‘It’s cute.’

Even if she wasn’t a female lead, she was definitely a girl who played a role in a romance fantasy novel.

Even though she is only two years old, her features stand out. In Edgar’s eyes, it felt more distinct than his own future.

‘Yes, let’s think positively.’

Now that this is the case, it would be enough to play with the daughter of the Grand Duke’s family and earn points.

do you know Helene, who considered her actions admirable, later gave a word to her husband, and thanks to that, the Bilhark family would receive even a small benefit.

If you want to take down the enemy general with ancient swords, you have to shoot the horse first.

“Daa!”

“Baa?”

What will babies be interested in?

There may be countless opinions, but in Edgar’s view, there was one that was the most standard and certain.

‘Sparkling is the best.’

Of course, if you were a daughter of a grand duke’s family, you might have grown up seeing all kinds of gold and silver treasures, but that would have been around a year at most.

Besides, you tend to be more interested in things you see for the first time rather than things you have always seen.

Edgar sighed and took off the small pendant hanging around his neck.

An item he received from his father, Lancel, shortly after he was born.

I heard that it was endowed with a special magic, but I didn’t know anything about it.

Now it’s just a toy to appease the precious princess.

“Daa, daa!”

“Paa!”

When I waved the pendant in the air as if to get it, Ariel snatched it right away.

It seems that his thoughts were correct.

Edgar smiled contentedly and watched her fiddle with the pendant.

The way he worked hard on the pendant with his tiny hands made it look like he was playing with clay.

– Well.

“P-Phm… !”

“Daaa!?”

But the peace is short-lived.

Ariel, who was fiddling with the pendant string, suddenly put it in her mouth.

Edgar hurriedly let out a babbling scream and grabbed the pendant with both hands.

“Taaa!”

And then a fierce scream followed.

Although, from a third person’s point of view, it would be more like an insult than an outcry, but at least Ariel, who heard it face to face, seemed quite shocked.

Her face hardened as if time had stopped for a moment, and soon her chubby cheeks trembled.

‘ah.’

Edgar senses that something is wrong.

In front of his eyes, the scene three seconds later was played back blurryly, and a drop of cold sweat passed by coldly on his back.

After another 3 seconds,

“Bahah-!”

As Edgar predicted, Ariel begins to cry, telling her to leave the world.

Hearing the sad cry, the lady-in-waiting on either side and the two mothers who were away hurriedly ran.

‘This far.’

Feeling that his second life, which had only lasted a year, was over, Edgar let go of his hand holding the pendant.

It would be difficult to live unless the magic dwelling here returns the time to one minute ago.

As Helene’s face got closer and closer, his complexion grew pale.