CH 3

Even if life gives you blah, don’t blah blah…

Yul recalled the words he had heard somewhere. Thanks to that, he wasn’t very comforted, but he decided to take it as it is and tried to cheer up.

Last night was really dangerous. Since he was imprisoned in Mikael’s room, he had been starving, so he tried to pick up a few grapes in hunger and eat them, but he was caught by Mikael just before he ate the grapes.

Yul shuddered at the dizzying memory that came to mind.

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“Huff, urgh, huff, I’m… dying…”

Yul finally arrived on the table, exhaling harshly, and fell face down. Let’s rest a little, yeah, a little…

That was at that moment.

“… Why is this here?”

A cold voice pierced the eardrum sharply. His mind was full of thoughts that he was doomed. There was no telling how to deal with this situation.

“Did I… leave this here… ? I had obviously placed it there.”

Mikael muttered to himself. His voice trembled slightly, perhaps from fear or uncertainty.

He slowly reached out and picked up Yul with a careful hand.

Yul, in his hand, couldn’t even breathe properly. It felt like his heart was about to explode. Even in the dark, the bright red eyes that were facing him shone brightly.

“… Did it move on its own?”

There was a sense of insecurity that could not be hidden in the question mixed with suspicion. Because of Mikael’s eyes looking straight at him, he couldn’t show it openly, but Yul’s heart felt complicated by his reaction.

Mikael, this bastard… Did he find out?

“… T- That can’t be. Haha, I must be quite tired.”

You scared me, you bastard.

In order to hold back the burst of laughter, Yul bit his molars tightly. Even the obsessive maniac had something to fear! He seemed scared about a doll moving by itself!

Mikael, who didn’t know Yul who was giggling inside, threw Yul down on a chair far away from the bed.

‘Ah shit, you bastard! You said you were going to cherish me! Treat me gently!’

Yul, who was thrown, vomited resentment in his heart. Regardless, Mikael hurried back to bed without looking back. Whether it was intentional or a coincidence, Mikael, who was lying with his back against Yul, did not move.

‘I’m hungry…’

Mikhail seemed to have fallen asleep because he didn’t move, but it was dangerous to move again after being caught once.

Yul eventually had to go to sleep, clutching his hungry stomach, even with the fresh fruit in front of his eyes.

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When Mikael left the room in the morning, he was going to try to eat the fruit he hadn’t eaten last night. However, as soon as Mikael left, the maids employed in his mansion took away the fruit baskets as they cleaned the room, so Yul did not get to taste it that day.

“Mikael, this jerk…”

Thinking of the fruit basket that had been escorted out, Yul gritted his teeth.

Unwillingly, he fell into the hands of the madman Archduke Mikael Orlov, and entered his room. Initially, he thought he was going to be kept in his office the whole time, but then he took him to his room as if this madman really wanted to cherish him.

At first, it felt like the sky had fallen, but when Yul thought about it again, it had its own advantages.

After being locked in the room for several days, he observed that Mikael was very busy, so he left the room for a long time. Thanks to this, Yul was able to be alone in a spacious room.

Just like right now.

“I should bounce right now.”

Yul, who raised only one corner of his mouth, chuckled. If anyone saw it, they would immediately sprinkle holy water, salt, and whatever was present and shout, ‘Go away, evil spirits!’. It was only important that he leave before Mikael returned.

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“Mikael, you punk. You live in a nice place.”

According to the setting of the novel, Mikael’s family, the Orlov family, was… They had amassed enormous wealth from generation to generation as the contributor for the founding of the whatever Empire. They were also portrayed as a family boasting not only a lot of money, but also powerful power that could give or take away power from the Imperial Family.

As it was the room of such a great person, the interior of the room was incredibly colourful and elaborate.

A soft carpet with a golden pattern on a red background was spread all over the floor, and the antique furniture was also luxurious. Decorations were placed everywhere, including the picture frame on the wall, shone with a coveted golden colour.

“Ah! Then how should I escape… Huh, could that be…”

Yul, who was sitting on a small chair and jumped up, noticed something and opened his mouth. On the side table, there was a jewelry box, which was quite splendid, and in the half-open jewel box, he could see brightly colored jewels.

“Yeah, there was a diamond ring in Mikhail’s birthday gift list Levi recited.”

The most eye-catching among them was the transparent colored gemstone which boasted a large size. Although Yul was ignorant of the different kinds of jewelry, he could tell that the gem was a diamond that was so transparent and reflected bright light on every cut face.

Yul thought about the humiliation he had suffered.

He was taken to the mansion of the obsessive maniac with his hair clenched in someone’s hands. And Mikael stabbed him in the cheek as much as he could, and he eventually fell into his hands and was imprisoned in this room.

He went through so much hardship, so it was nonsensical to go back without any compensation. To put it bluntly, Mikael was the richest man among the wealthy, with an abundance of jewels and gold at his feet. Missing a diamond ring wouldn’t be a big deal.

Moreover, considering the character of Mikael in the novel, he might not know whether the diamond ring was missing or not.

Because Mikael didn’t care about anything but Levi.

“I’ll take a nice present on the way out, Mikael.”

Yul, who was muttering to himself, stretched and twisted his short limbs. Yul, feeling that his soft, fluffy body had been loosened enough, leaned against the back of his chair as tightly as possible. It was to gain momentum to run far.

“Ahhhhhhh!”

Dadadada, his tiny legs rushed over the chair, and he jumped as hard as he could toward the stool in front of him. Yul’s body rolled and fell onto a stool full of soft cushioning.

“Arghh!”

He almost fell under the stool. Yul, who barely grabbed the edge of the stool and hung on it, whimpered and climbed onto the stool.

This was all because the head was too big. Yul lamented the size of a head the size of Mount Namsan, but praised herself for moving agiley, overcoming his physical limitations.

Yul’s destination, the side table, was close to the stool in terms of distance, but it was much higher. To get to the destination, he had to jump from the stool to the side table bridge, hang from it, and climb up the bridge.

A task that would have taken less than 10 seconds with a normal human body had to suffer for a long time because of the short doll body.

This was the joys and sorrows of being a doll…

Yul sincerely reflected on his own actions of getting drunk and pulling dolls out of a claw machine thoughtlessly, and putting them on a reselling website right away when he woke up.

“God of Dolls… If I go back to being a human again, I will never do that. So please help me. I will live a good life in the future.”

After earnestly praying to the God of Dolls he had never heard of, Yul stared at the sleek and elongated side table leg in front of him.

Yul, who took a deep breath with a determined expression, ran at a fast pace. With a body that had been propelled by running, he jumped up and hung on the side table legs.

“Arhh!”

Although the impact was less since his body was made of cotton, his forehead was tingling and his whole body was numb when he hit the wooden bridge of the bedside table at maximum speed. Still, he did not forget to hug the side table with all his strength with his short limbs. Thanks to this, Yul was able to hang from the bedside leg like a cicada attached to an old tree.

“I did it… Just a little bit, if I give it a little bit more strength…”

Yul encouraged himself by talking to himself without a listener. The whole body was a smooth cloth, so it was easy to slip and fall. If he fell here, all of his efforts so far would be in vain. Yul concentrated and moved his limbs vigorously, moving upward little by little.

“No, why do I have to be a doll! And a tiny one at that!!!!”

Yul, who was climbing the bridge of the bedside table by raising the strength he had been mustering, suddenly screamed in anger.

He could endure being transported into a book. Even if it’s a BL novel, which stands for Beautiful Life, which was not to his taste. Yeah, okay, he will understand.

But why a doll of all things? It would have been much better than now if he became passerby Extra 1. First of all, as a human being, his limbs would be twenty times longer than they were now! A person! Not a head that was bigger than your body! A person! Person!

Using the rising anger as nourishment, Yul, who raised the strength of his whole body, climbed the bedside leg faster than before.

Yul, who finally reached the top, gasped and took a deep breath.

The jewelry box that looked like an oasis was within an arm’s length… No, it seemed like he would have to walk ten more steps with this body… Anyway, it got closer.

Yul’s blue eyes looking at the diamond ring in the jewelry box had already turned to madness, with anger at the reality of possessing a doll, as well as having a hard time challenging physical limitations.

The brightly shining eyes… The doll eyes were embroidered with thread, so there was no sense of pressure, but in any case, they were not typical doll eyes.

Yul swallowed his saliva as he looked at the lusciously shining diamond ring and slowly stretched out his arms toward the ring.

He understood why Gollum went crazy when he saw the ring. It was an item worth going mad over. Since it was such a difficult ring to find, it was natural for even a normal person to flip out.

Yul carefully picked up the diamond ring and put it on his right wrist. It was a ring, but his body was so small that it fit perfectly as his bracelet. He didn’t have fingers, so he had no choice.

“… It’s a waste to give up here, but there’s nothing I can do about it. Okay, shall we escape now?”

A variety of unknown gems caught the eye, but Yul decided not to be greedy. He couldn’t carry any more with this tiny body anyway.

Just looking at the size of a diamond, it was the size of an average human thumb, so this alone was worth the cost of the hard work.

Yul, with his mind made up, jumped to the floor covered with a soft carpet.

“Oww, it hurts.”

Why did it hurt when it was a doll’s body?

Yul’s feet moved in a hurry while grumbling about injustice. The place where Yul was headed was the bedroom door. He thought about escaping through the window, but judging by the height of the place, escaping through the window was no different from suicide.

He didn’t know exactly how many floors this room was on, but Mikael’s hands had brought him up a circular staircase for a long time. The building seemed high enough to die with a normal human body, not to mention the doll’s body, which was ten times smaller than that.

Of course, there was a possibility that people would notice while he opened the door and ran away, but he thought it would be ok if he just hid here and there because of his small body.

“… But how do I open this door?”

It was all good until he got to the front door. In front of the two large sliding doors, Yul let out a deep sigh. The doorknob hung quite high. He tried to climb up, hanging from the ornate embossed pattern on the door, but he couldn’t reach the next one.

“L- Let’s go to the window.”

Yul, who had climbed the door a couple of times, quickly revised his strategy. Escape from the window seemed dangerous, so he wanted to avoid it as much as possible, but in this situation where he couldn’t even open the door, he had no choice.

It was the moment when he was often busily walking towards the door to which the terrace was connected, a sound suddenly came through the door. Surprised, Yul looked around in search of a place to hide, but the surrounding area was open with nothing to hide that small body.

When Yul was trembling and not knowing what to do, the door suddenly opened. Mikael’s red eyes and Yul’s blue eyes collided in the air.

Suddenly, Yul stiffened and blinked in surprise.

“What is this…”

A confused monologue came out of Mikael’s mouth.

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