Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

Eight-year-old Egbert did not receive reinforcements from Pompeii, nor did he get to catch up with his father as quickly as possible after defeating the monsters.

He only received the betrayal of the Hudson family.

The village that was besieged by monsters and heretics in the red moon disappeared, along with the villagers, 200 dragon-winged knights, and Ilias, the eldest son of the Hayseton Empire.

In Egbert's memory, at the location of the village, only a huge pit remained, filled with red and black miasma, making it impossible for any living thing to approach.

The leader of the heretics, the man whose face was only partially visible, had dark green eyes.

Egbert was very familiar with those green eyes, because Finn's mother came from the Hudson family, and all of his siblings had the Hudson family's dark green eyes.

Before the age of eight, the greatest injury Egbert suffered was being hit on the back of his hand with his father's wooden sword while practicing swordsmanship, and the greatest hardship he endured was when his father accidentally burned the meat.

Since he could remember, he had always had the best of everything, and everything he wanted was delivered to him. His reasonable requests were always met, so he had almost no desires.

A pure soul devoid of desire cannot be sacrificed to ancient evil spirits.

The heretic's dark green eyes gleamed with a chilling fanaticism as he stood by the stone platform, admiring the near-perfect divine creation on it, pondering how to transform it into a gift for the Demon King.

The boy on the altar stared at the various figures with his lake-blue eyes, his limbs, struggling wildly in extreme pain, firmly nailed to the stone platform.

A finger-thick iron nail pierced the boy's palm and wrist bones. The potion and the heretic's healing spell prevented him from bleeding to death and from falling into a coma.

Countless hands etched dense incantations onto his body, the malevolent curses tearing apart his flawless, soft skin and clean, fresh flesh...

Someone tried to remove the dragon scale birthmark on the boy's body, which represented the bloodline of the golden dragon. However, the boy's back had already been covered with incantations. The dragon scale birthmark on his back became incomplete and gray under the corrosive influence of the evil curse, losing its value as a collectible. So the heretic's sharp carving knife was moved to the boy's fingertips.

As members of the noble royal family, the evil spirit offerings on the stone platform were all perfect. Every part of the offerings that the evil curse had not corrupted would make people want to cut them off and collect them.

For six whole hours, the pampered prince did not shed a single tear or utter a sound of pain, only calling out for his father and mother a few times when his consciousness was fading...

……

Egbert reached out and grabbed his cousin by the neck, pinning him against the damp, dirty wall. His once smooth, platinum blonde hair had been cut haphazardly and was now tangled up, and his entire body reeked of decay.

Finn leaned against the wall without moving, and after Egbert was exhausted, he gently put the Dragonwing Knights' authority ring, which he had stolen from his uncle, and Egbert's spatial ring back onto Egbert's fingers. Egbert's once fair and beautiful hands were now covered with no intact skin, and even his nails were gone.

Finn changed Egbert into a clean and comfortable set of clothes in the light of the illuminating crystal, and the servants who had come with him used cleansing magic to wash away the filth on Egbert's body.

After everything was in order, Finn took out the pendant that he had been carefully protecting from his clothes and put it back on Egbert's neck.

“I know you will never forgive me, Brother Egbert. This is your talisman, and now it is returned to its rightful owner.”

……

Egbert no longer trusts anyone. Finn rescues him from the Hutson family's bunker and wants to send him east to seek protection from the Ortiz family. Eight-year-old Finn believes that his aunt's family will protect Egbert at all costs.

But the lovely Gerbert was well aware that the East was not safe at the moment, and could even be described as fraught with danger.

Finn had very limited manpower available, but he did spend a lot of money to hire a team of mercenaries to escort him to the east.

On a red moonlit night, Egbert left the mercenary group alone. Following his childhood experience of traveling with his parents, he disguised himself as an ugly little man, bought a pass at a high price on the black market, and then traveled between several cities with large teleportation arrays, spending a month to return to the imperial capital.

Back in the capital, Egbert hid among the crowd attending the funeral procession. He saw his own coffin and his father's coffin, and he also saw his "mother".

After learning that his mother had not attended the funeral, Egbert avoided the crowd and walked into a street where various races lived together. He pretended to be a newcomer to the imperial capital and looked around for a place to stay. In the evening, like most stingy little people, he carried his bundle and checked into a cheap inn.

The shop owner, also a dwarf, saw Egbert's tattered clothes and his somewhat ugly face after being altered by a potion. He clicked his tongue softly and was about to ask for a copper coin to stay in a dormitory when the ugly fellow revealed a special medal from his sleeve.

Upon seeing the pattern on the medal, the shopkeeper's eyes instantly turned respectful, but he still grumbled, "No money? You can't stay in a hotel without money. What? Work? What kind of work can you do? Fine, fine, you can stay in the storage room at the back. I'm a good person, so you can only stay for one day. Remember to pay me back when you find your family!"

"Our guild leader said that we should try our best to help anyone who wears this medal, no matter what the problem is, but if it's a matter of life and death, we should give them some money as a token of our appreciation." The innkeeper sat on the sofa and smoked three cigarettes. He then pushed the bag of gold coins to the boy on the opposite sofa.

But the boy was silent for a moment, then said, "Sorry to bother you," and prepared to leave.

The innkeeper, who had a cute face but looked like a middle-aged man, was scratching his head and sighing. When the boy reached for the doorknob, he gritted his teeth and said, "You lead the way, I'll open the door. If anyone finds out, I will betray you without hesitation."

"Thank you, this is the payment." As if he had expected it, the boy turned around and threw something onto the table as the person behind him spoke.

The boy threw a level-five magical beast core onto the table like a stone.