This Delusional Voice Keeps Telling Me I’m a Villain

‘…Um, should I go to the mental clinic?? I say, I think I’m hearing things.’

…This was my first encounter with the inexplicable auditory hallucinations.

“…Urschel, he is Theodore. I was asked to take him in from Count Espada. From today onwards, he’ll be my adopted son. Your little brother.”

In the reception room, the boy who was introduced by Father had no expression on his face… But he was so pretty as a boy that I felt it was too dazzling. His hair was glistening raven-black, his blue eyes resembling aquamarine gemstone, and he was supposed to be younger than me, yet his body build was like an adult. If any ladies happened to see him, they would definitely pass out from his beautifulness.

Unintentionally, I hovered my hands over my eyes.

“…Urschel, what are you doing?”

“I can’t help it, he’s too dazzling.”

Father heaved a sigh, but he quickly returned to his usual dignified look.

“…Theodore. This is my only son, Urschel. He’s a bit, no, he’s so weird that it would go beyond your imagination, but he’s my very dear son, the apple of my eye, please get along with him.”

It might sound weird for me to say this, but my father was quite a strange man. And if you ask me, in what way? Just look at him. I wasn’t even sure if he was a normal man, or a doting parent, or a lunatic…

In front of us who were acting like this, Theodore remained expressionless. It felt like he was rejecting everything around him. Was this what they call ‘closing your heart off’?? He was not talking, not even a single greeting, it was like, I was not even in his sight.

Tch, this guy is unusable I guess.

‘Oh! It came out. That voice.’

What a guy, so unsociable and hard to handle. Urgh, this is so irritating! Anyhow, he must’ve come here to clear off the debt, I guess. Just what is in my father’s head, to take in a kid as a replacement for an unpaid debt. But wait, it’ll be good if I make it clear who’s in charge here… He can be the perfect outlet for me for relieving my stress and anger.

‘Hoho, this voice surely is thinking some scary stuff here. Eh, this boy, is he the exchange for an unpaid debt?? No, before that, isn’t that simply slave-trade! Isn’t this bad?? No matter what the reason is, anything involving slave-trade is prohibited in this country, isn’t it?’

Immediately I shot the question at Father.

“Father, there’s no way that Theodore is actually taken in exchange for unpaid debt, right?? You’re not actually doing anything like slave-trade, are you??”

“Ughkkk!!”

That was my first time seeing someone actually audibly saying some sound effects like ‘Ughkkk’. Father… really did it. He indeed took Theodore in as an exchange for an unpaid debt…

“Urschel! I had no choice! That guy insisted that he had no money…!!”

“But, if this is leaked to the royalty, what are we supposed to do! Father! You’ll be sentenced to jail!”

“There, we can settle it with money…”

“Dirty! Adults are dirty! Ducal house is dirty!”

However, to say this was normal, yes, this was indeed normal. This was prone to happen when one had power in hands. Sometimes, it was required to play dirty. Otherwise, they couldn’t keep their status and livelihood.

Commoners always said that the nobles were a bog of filth, but this world was where the law of the jungle prevailed. Basically people would grasp others’ weaknesses and step on them in order to rise in society.

…Therefore…

“But father, if you provide custard puddings as my sweets for today’s teatime, I’ll help you hush up this affair. I’ll also fabricate the facts to be something like ‘I willfully took him away’ to cover up the debt transaction thing. To distract other people, we can also reveal the slave trade happenings among other nobles!”

“As expected of my son, you’re playing it dirty!! Alright, today is custard pudding!!”

‘For the sake of eating custard pudding, I don’t mind playing dirty tricks, that’s me! YAY, today there’ll be custard pudding for sweets!! Fufufu~’ I was full of smiles.

By chance, at this moment I noticed that the expressionless Theodore was staring at me, blinking with astonishment. When I tilted my head, he quickly averted his gaze away.

‘…I wonder what was that? Ha!! Could it be..!’

“Theodore, do you also like custard pudding?”

‘Could it be that he is a comrade? My comrade in loving sweets!?’

Theodore looked astounded as he tried to avoid my gaze. This could only mean… He was restraining himself!

“It’s okay, let’s eat together! Custard pudding!”

I had always wanted to have a friend who could also understand the goodness in that cloying, toothsome, extreme sweetness!! I was so happy that I subconsciously hugged Theodore tight.

“From now on let’s get along with each other! Theodore! I’m your big brother now. You can just call me Urschel casually!”

Standing before me, Theodore seemed to be washed over by perplexity as he simply resigned to my will.

chocolala: YAY, a new series with BL game theme with an even more lovable MC. And most importantly he has a sweet tooth like me!! What’s interesting with this story is that he’s naturally going against the ‘BL game’ plot without him even knowing its existence. Like the info will be disclosed in his dreams, but he’ll simply forget all about it! (it kinda felt like the info is purely for the readers, lol) And also although he looked simple, his personality is amazing, and sometimes I think he’s actually overpowered when it comes to certain scenes. Above all, he’s cute and adorable!! CUTE IS JUSTICE! oh, here we probably get visual description of the MC and of course the illustration on the LN cover which has just been released in April~ He looks like a boyish girl though ?