Thought It Was 'The End', Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 240

“When yew sad, you juss hug me, owkay?”

“……”

“Jenny say that. If yew hug, yew gonna be happy.”

Genevieve often spent time silently hugging Lisa.

“Thank you, Lisa.”

“Fow-what?”

“When you’re here, the world looks beautiful.”

“Why?”

“Because I love you.”

It was something Lisa didn’t quite understand, but Genevieve didn’t bother to explain further.

“I’ll do my best for you, Lisa.”

“Wisa lub Jenny.”

“……”

“Wisa weally weally lub Jenny!”

At that, Genevieve would tear up and press a kiss to Lisa’s forehead. Lisa, enjoying the embrace, would sit quietly in her arms for hours to give her strength. She liked being held, after all.

“Should I pat-pat yew?”

“…Yes…”

Knox shut his eyes tight and clung to the three-year-old child.

Lloyd and Lucian silently witnessed the moment a child fell in love.

It would later become the seed of misfortune.

*

“Lisa, who do you like the most?”

“Wisa wike Mommy the most…”

Lisa, exhausted from playing all day, rubbed her sleepy eyes and slurred her words.

Shane lifted his daughter in his arms on behalf of Adeline.

“What about Daddy? Hmm, Lisa?”

“Wisa wike Daddy too.”

Lisa wrinkled her nose into a smile and rubbed her forehead against Shane’s cheek. Shane kissed the warm skin that smelled of sunlight.

“Then how about living with Mommy and Daddy forever?”

“Ebby-wun stay toogeduh fowevuh?”

“If Lisa doesn’t mind.”

“Mommy, Daddy, Woyd, Jenny, Eddy, Wushan… all gonna wib toogeduh?”

Shane frowned slightly without realizing it.

“Isn’t that too many people, Lisa? It’s fine with just Mommy and Daddy. Maybe Lloyd too, but the others…”

“Nwo! Ebby-wun stay!”

“…Alright, if they all agree.”

“Gonna agwee!”

Lisa’s innocent blue eyes sparkled with absolute confidence.

Shane could only smile helplessly.

“Alright, if that’s what you want, we’ll make it happen.”

“Yep-yep, all gonna wive toogeduh!”

No, Lisa, that’s not how it works…

‘All living together’ is practically a harem ending…

Adeline swallowed the words she couldn’t bring herself to say.

While wanting to live with family sounded innocent, the problem lay in how those around Lisa responded to her wishes.

The uncles, aunts, and her father, all of whom supported Lisa unconditionally, were people who could truly make anything happen.

Adeline had personally experienced what it was like to grow up as the cherished youngest member of a powerful family where she could have anything she wanted.

If Lisa grew up truly getting everything she desired, it would lead to ruin.

Of course, Adeline would work hard to teach her moral values and ethics, but the environment, the circumstances, and Lisa’s sociable nature made her uneasy.

She’d seen this kind of setup before. This was the kind of setup that led to bad endings.

‘If she ends up on the villainess route, we’re all doomed.’

If a female lead were to emerge, it would lead to destruction. If one didn’t, Lisa would go down in history as the most infamous villainess of all time.

‘I thought my life ended with a happy ending, but my daughter’s heading straight for a villainess route?’

She scolded herself for constantly thinking like this was a novel, but she couldn’t shake the foreboding feeling.

And as always, Adeline’s premonition was spot-on.

*

20 years later—

“I’ll do anything to be worthy of you, Lisa. For you, I’ll become an emperor.”
– Knox, Crown Prince of Remvi and a war-crazed founder of a new empire.

“Don’t treat me like your older brother. I’m a man who loves you. Look at me properly, please.”
– Lucas, adopted by the Green Windsor Emperor and named Crown Prince.

“Protecting you is the divine mission entrusted to me, Lisa.”
– Samuel, grandson of the former Pope and a promising paladin.

“You like me, don’t you? You’re not going to abandon me, right?”
– Noah, heir to one of the Green Windsor Empire’s most prestigious noble families, rivaling Blanchard.

Lisa chose none of them.

She declared that she liked them all but couldn’t bear to abandon any of them, and instead decided to live alone.

“Then the only solution is for us all to live together!”

“Huh? Really…?”

“That way, we won’t fight each other. You don’t have to choose anyone, Lisa.”

“O-Okay.”

And thus, a peculiar harem was formed.

Notable titles throughout history:

<A War of the Love-Struck>

<The Ruler of the Continent, the Loser in Love: She Loved No One>

<Power-Hungry Fools Marching Into Their Graves>

<The Peculiar Harem: A Woman Who Loved Plants>

<Women Behind the Wars: The Lisa Chronicles>

And so, Lisa Kylie Blanchard became forever known as the most infamous heartbreaker in the history of the continent.

—The End

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