I Was Born as the King’s Daughter – Chapter 6

Ch 6

Welcome. Is this your first time seeing a doting father?

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Name Kim Seo-hui. Age 12. She’s 5 years older than me and 2 years older than Kim Hwan-seong, my half-sister. I don’t even know how many half-sisters I have. This kid is also a complete stranger to me. Still, she inherited the Gaecha-ban’s genes, so her looks were pretty decent, but her eyes were slanted, giving her a slightly fierce impression.

“Who are you? Why are you butting in?”

“I happened to hear the conversation. I felt that child was being too rude to the Third Prince nim…”

Kim Hwan-seong frowned even more. He was openly radiating hostility.

“What?”

“I thought that child’s remarks were not in line with proper etiquette…”

Kim Seo-hui, who had confidently entered at first, gradually lowered her voice, as if she was intimidated by Kim Hwan-seong’s cold attitude.

“So you’re saying you’re going to scold my dog bastard for being rude?”

Hey. Kim Hwan-seong. Do you want to die? Dog bastard. I told you not to say that. The dog is already sad enough, why do you have to call him a dog bastard? I don’t want to hear the words dog bastard in front of my half-sister whom I’m meeting for the first time today. Sob sob.

But I can’t even argue with him,

“Aish. This is so unlucky. Hey. I’m not even scolding him and staying still, so who are you to step in? Do you really want to get hit?”

Said the youngest knight of the kingdom. The third brat’s momentum was too scary. He had never shown such a side of himself in front of me before. According to rumors, he was able to become the youngest knight because he was full of venom, but I hadn’t felt it until now. It’s scary even for me, so the pressure that girl is feeling must be even more intense.

“Get lost. If you show up in front of me again, I’ll kill you then. Got it?”

“I’m sorry… I understand.”

Kim Seo-hui bowed deeply. Just like a king and his subject. The hierarchy was clear. I felt it once again. This is not Earth. This situation is not that strange. Right. The world I fell into is this kind of world.

Kim Seo-hui was about to leave.

“Ah, wait a moment.”

“…Yes?”

“If you bother my dog when I’m not around, I won’t let it slide. My dog is mine. Only I can bother him.”

“…I will keep that in mind.”

No. Don’t keep that in mind, and don’t give me orders either. Why am I a dog? I’m not a dog. I have a pretty name called Kim Sang-hui. You jerk. Kim Seo-hui went outside. And I could hear a slight sobbing sound from outside, but the insensitive Kim Hwan-seong didn’t seem to care about it.

‘She’s just a 12-year-old kid… why does he make her like that?’

I thought that inside, but I couldn’t argue. I’ve gotten very close to Kim Hwan-seong, but there’s still a line I have to keep. The moment I cross that line, I might end up being treated like that too.

“Older Brother. How long are you going to call me a dog?”

Kim Hwan-seong spun around and then smiled brightly. Looking at that smile that showed even his gums, I wondered if what had just happened was perhaps a dream. Is he a split personality?

“For! Ever!”

“…Really forever…? Even when we’re grandfathers and grandmothers?”

“Of coooourse! I like dogs.”

At this rate, he’s going to make me say, “Mureo-wat!” I have a bad feeling about this.

“Mureo-wat!”

That feeling was valid. Kim Hwan-seong took out a cloth doll from his pocket and threw it.

“Older Brother. Should I fetch that, or should I give you a chocolate bar?”

In that instant, the third brat fell into serious contemplation. Judging by his pondering face, it seemed like he was having a grand debate on the scale of how to conquer the universe. The brat made a decision.

“Both!”

…D*mn it. I’m doomed.

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Actually, my third older brother, Kim Hwan-seong, is just a brat. But my second older brother, Kim Hwan-seok, is a brat and a bad guy. Kim Hwan-seong at least has a cute side, but Kim Hwan-seok doesn’t have much of a cute side. He’s the one who, with a serious and solemn face, said that even calling me a puppy was a waste and that I should be called a dog. Thanks to him, I also got the nickname “dog bastard.” Grrr.

‘At least these days he calls me a dog and not a dog bastard.’

Anyway, that arrogant guy who always acts chic and carries a book under his arm,

‘Why the h*ll is he reading a book in my room?’

He never even glances at me, but he always reads a book in my room.

“Older Brother. I brought you some green tea.”

“…….”

Still, I’m trying to look good to this guy. I’m still only 7 years old. There’s nothing I can do. I haven’t even been outside yet. But I have a rough plan in my head. If I can figure out how to get close to the people around me, especially the men, I’ll find a way somehow.

Hey. I personally brewed you green tea with these little hands, so you should at least say thank you… but I guess not. Right. This is a place where such things don’t exist.

“…Next time, put more water in it.”

“Doesn’t it suit your taste?”

Green tea is all the same. You bad guy.

“Yeah. It tastes bad. Just have a maid do it.”

“But Older Brother. This girl’s sincerity…”

“I don’t need it.”

You’re really… ruthless.

“What are you looking at so intently?”

“…….”

Looking closely, it’s a math book. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a math book here. The books I’ve seen the most are children’s fairy tales, followed by history books, and then some strange romance novels. More precisely, those things where men come out and act lovey-dovey. Those were pretty much all the books I could see here. But here… math is incredibly easy.

I wasn’t bad at studying. I wasn’t a top student who was always first in the class, but I was still pretty good. At least in math, I was always in the top 5 in my class. Come to think of it, I remember what my teacher said a long time ago. He said that if someone with current knowledge went back to the past, they could become a genius of the century.

‘And the culture here… is formed based on magic power.’

In other words, while magic power has developed, the level of completion of other fields of study is significantly behind. It seems that since they have magic that can do anything with a “poof,” there was no great need to develop fields of study like mathematics.

‘Ah. I want to show off.’

I want to show off, but if I do, I might get on his bad side. I think I’ve gotten pretty close to Kim Hwan-seok, but it’s still difficult to act rashly. I’m a girl, and that guy is a man.

“Older Brother, you seem really smart.”

Kim Hwan-seok tried to keep a straight face. But his lips were twitching, as if he was forcibly holding back a smile from blooming. When he’s like this, he’s sometimes cute. I emphasize, only sometimes.

“How can this girl learn Older Brother’s smartness?”

“It’s impossible.”

“I know, but this girl wants to learn knowledge from Older Brother.”

“With your brain?”

With your measly brain? You can’t even use magic and your brain works so slowly? Looking at his eyes, which seemed to be full of genuine disdain, I felt like I was going to snort. But a few days later. I was able to talk to Kim Hwan-seok about ‘0’. There’s no concept of ‘0’ here. The number 0. Actually, we use it every day and are used to it, but I know that the concept of this 0 was only created 1500 years ago.

That was the beginning. I brought up Pythagoras’s triangle, which I don’t even remember well ━ proving it was on a performance evaluation ━ and by devising the concept of ‘root,’ which doesn’t exist here, that is, ‘√’, I made Kim Hwan-seok look at me differently.

“…You weren’t such a stupid dog bastard after all.”

Hey. This is incredibly innovative. Ah. If I had known this would happen, I would have studied more. If I had studied hard, I could have taught him more and gained more favor.

“I want to become smart like Older Brother.”

“Give up.”

Then one day. I got a chance.

“What are you doing?”

It’s Gaecha-ban. I never thought I’d be so happy to hear Gaecha-ban’s voice after so long. And I actually acted very happy.

“Abamama. This girl is so happy to see Abamama that she feels like she could fly!”

I diligently smiled the eye-smile I had practiced in front of the mirror, and I ran to Gaecha-ban with a bright smile. With my small height that didn’t even reach his waist, I clung to Gaecha-ban’s legs and rubbed my face against them like a real dog, acting cute.

Now. How is it? Earth-style cuteness. The daughters here can’t act cute. Because they’re scared of you. How is it? Show me a reaction.

He showed a reaction.

“…Annoying.”

He lightly kicked me and threw me away. From his perspective, it was a light kick, but I was thrown about 1 or 2 meters backward. I landed on my butt. You bad bastard. Sob sob. I threw away my pride and everything, but you actually threw me away. You jerk. Are you even a dad?

“Hehe. This girl really likes Father.”

That Gaecha-ban didn’t pay any attention to me and only paid attention to Kim Hwan-seok.

“Alright. What were you doing?”

Still, I can say with certainty that this incident was a turning point in my life. Kim Hwan-seok is a bad guy, but he wasn’t a liar. He told Gaecha-ban about everything that had happened so far. Gaecha-ban started to get a little interested.

“I see.”

Gaecha-ban stared at me intently. I smiled brightly again. At that time, Kim Hwan-seong happened to enter my room.

“The dog is wagging its tail!”

…I want to kill him.

“So the rumors that you guys are going in and out of this child’s room were true.”

“Yes. It’s fun to play with the dog.”

“Indeed…”

Gaecha-ban continued to look at me with interest. I’m a little different from the women here. I don’t cower and approach them first. In the first place, the women here are so suppressed that they don’t know how to do this. Instead, I have to be careful not to cross the line. Anyway, it’s certain that I’m a new kind of species in their eyes.

Gaecha-ban said.

“Interesting.”

And a few days later. A scholar who was said to be the best mathematician in the kingdom came to see me.

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For the best mathematician in the kingdom, he was excessively bad at math. This was a country where math really hadn’t developed.

“Huh… Is that really true…? If what you say is true, then you have discovered something truly amazing. I will try to prove it. This can’t be… huh… this can’t be…”

What I told him wasn’t a big deal. It was the quadratic formula that everyone memorizes in middle school. But it seems that it was a concept that didn’t exist in this world.

Okay. Geometric series. Arithmetic series sum formulas and sigma and the method of exhaustion, and just say the basics of calculus as I remember them…!

‘Alright!’

Good. They don’t have the ‘concept’ itself, but their brain rotation is much faster than mine. It seemed that magic power itself activated the brain. So, if I just give them the concept, they can do the proof or verification on their own. It was like a supercomputer that executes commands well as long as you give them the command.

I was able to have a seat with Gaecha-ban. It was the first time. It was the first time in my 7 years of life that he asked me to have dinner with him. Ah. I’m moved… no, I’m not. Aish. Get a grip. It’s too sad to be moved by something like this. At the dinner table with Gaecha-ban, that mathematician ahjusshi praised me immensely. He said that the greatest genius in the kingdom had appeared.

“The idea that the Princess nim devised is an idea that no one has ever been able to come up with. It may be presumptuous of me to say this… but if you had been born a man, you would surely have become a hero.”

Gaecha-ban nodded slightly. His comment was short.

“I see.”

Alright. This is my chance. I wiped my mouth with a napkin. That guy also seems to be in a very good mood. Life is all about timing. I have a line that I’ve been preparing for 7 years. I just haven’t had the chance to use it.

“If I become a hero! Can I marry Dad?”

Ptooey━!

That mathematician ahjusshi spit out the water he was drinking. He was coughing as if he had choked. It doesn’t really matter what that mathematician ahjusshi does. What’s important is how Gaecha-ban reacts.

“What a brazen girl.”

Fortunately, he doesn’t seem angry. Okay. Operation successful. I’ve been watching him so carefully to use the word ‘Dad’.

“I like Dad so, so, so, so much!”

And I definitely saw it. I really did. I really saw it. That Gaecha-ban. Just now. He smirked. He smirked! Gaecha-ban said.

“You’re a million years too early to marry me, you little girl.”

…Is that something you should say to your daughter?

“Then. If I become a million years old, can I marry Dad?”

He smirked just now, and this time he smiled widely. Then he started laughing heartily, “Kyahahaha!” That laughter continued for a long time.

I quietly ate my meat soup. Have you ever heard of it? A doting father.

Welcome. Is this your first time seeing a doting father?