The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 109

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Chapter 109

 

Hayton, driven to desperation, shouted.

 

“It’s just a bluff! Lady Dubbled can’t harm me! Hurry and attack—”

 

His face froze stiff as he was shouting. The area under his chin must have stung. I had just cut him.

 

“The throat, and from inside the neck up to 5 centimeters, if cut deeply it’s fatal. If you’re going to intimidate, it’s safe to cut within 4 centimeters from the tip of the chin.”

 

Recalling Isaac’s words, I chuckled inwardly.

 

‘Well done, me! Exactly 3 centimeters from the tip of his chin.’

 

Hayton looked at me with an expression of disbelief.

 

“You, you…!”

 

“No need to answer. When cornered, silence is scarier than the opponent’s words.”

 

Following Henri’s advice, I smiled silently, and Hayton turned pale and swallowed dryly.

 

Valois’s soldiers couldn’t approach. I glanced at the recording stone floating in the air, then turned my gaze back to Valois’s soldiers and shouted childishly.

 

“You’re it. Count to a hundred and then chase me!”

 

When I spoke in an innocent voice, I could almost hear the sound of Valois soldiers’ composure snapping.

 

The participating noble children were in chaos. They hadn’t expected a melee to break out from the start.

 

A Dubbled boy soldier pointed his sword at Hayton’s throat in my place, while another soldier scooped me up and quickly fled from the platform.

 

The area where the mock battle was taking place had already been cleared of people, making movement easy.

 

We moved to a building I had marked in advance and locked the door.

 

I hopped down from the soldier’s arms and patted my shoulders.

 

“Ugh…”

 

The armor is too heavy.

 

In mock battles, the use of unauthorized magic tools was strictly limited, so even children couldn’t wear light and safe magic armor.

 

‘Should I take it off?’

 

It’s so heavy I can barely walk. I might get caught by the enemy while trying to block a single arrow.

 

When I started fiddling with the armor straps, our soldiers lined up jumped in alarm.

 

“You’ll get hurt.”

 

“It’s dangerous.”

 

“Your fingernail hangnails…!”

 

They earnestly tied the straps again.

 

“…Why do you keep talking about hangnails?”

 

The soldiers looked at each other and swallowed nervously. Some tearfully gestured to show how terrifyingly Father and my brothers had threatened them before the mock battle.

 

“Going to a real war would probably be better.”

 

I said with a reluctant expression.

 

“You’ll be wearing armor, so don’t cry….”

 

“Yes….”

 

During our brief exchange of light conversation, Hayton shouted loudly.

 

“Does Dubbled teach children how to be underhanded or something!”

 

I looked at him with wide eyes.

 

“How did you know?”

 

When I replied shamelessly, Hayton’s expression crumpled. I smiled brightly.

 

“But if I’m being underhanded, aren’t you the same? You also hid soldiers.”

 

“I…!”

 

“When we were trying to move to the camp, you were going to kidnap me.”

 

Hayton’s face hardened.

 

‘I knew it, you bastard.’

 

I chuckled inwardly and tightened the rope the soldiers had used to tie up Hayton even more.

 

“Stay here for─ever. Got it?”

 

Then the noak will be mine!

 

* * *

 

Valois’s soldiers thoroughly searched the mock battle area.

 

Leblaine and Dubbled’s soldiers who had run off with Hayton were nowhere to be seen.

 

“They’re not in the shopping district.”

 

“All that’s left is Deshon Street and Assis Mountain. Should we search there?”

 

Carox, the captain of Valois’s army, clicked his tongue.

 

“Assis Mountain is where our camp is located. We’ve had barracks set up there since before the mock battle started, so it can’t be there.”

 

“Then it must be Deshon Street after all.”

 

“Right, we won’t be able to use explosives.”

 

“Since it’s a densely packed area with buildings, if we’re not careful, buildings could collapse and cause casualties.”

 

‘Could they have anticipated even that.’

 

But who?

 

Could there be someone among Dubbled’s soldiers who knows how to use their head.

 

It couldn’t be a thought that came from the mind of a young girl not even ten years old.

 

Carox, who had checked the map, narrowed his eyes.

 

“Even so, if it’s the Imperial Capital, it’s in the palm of our hands.”

 

Most of Dubbled’s Imperial Capital forces are Magic Knights and adults. If this weren’t a mock battle, they would certainly be the finest knights, but they cannot participate in mock battles.

 

‘There were no Imperial Capital natives on the list of Dubbled’s soldiers that the Cardinal secretly obtained.’

 

The Valois soldiers currently participating in the mock battle were those raised by the Temple, who had trained for years specifically for mock battles and were natives of the Imperial Capital.

 

Carox, who had been fingering the edge of the map, let out a small laugh.

 

“There aren’t many good hiding places on Deshon Street.”

 

Valois’s soldiers quickly moved to the buildings Carox had pointed out.

 

“As expected, we can sense people underground.”

 

Carox said with gleaming eyes.

 

“We’re going in.”

 

‘This was a game that was never winnable from the start.’

 

Right now they were flustered by an unexpected mishap, but as soon as they found Hayton, the tables would turn.

 

Valois’s soldiers simultaneously opened the basement door.

 

And.

 

[Did you think I’d be here? Idiots~!]

 

“…What the hell is this!”

 

A straw doll tied to a pillar had a single piece of paper dangling from it. It was written in a child’s crooked handwriting.

 

“Damn it!!”

 

Carox, who was extremely agitated, let out a shriek.

 

At that moment, at the Imperial Palace.

 

Exclamations could be heard from all around.

 

“My goodness. Not Deshon Street, but Assis Mountain!”

 

“It’s darkest under the lamp, as they say.”

 

“A nine-year-old child came up with such reverse thinking…”

 

Moreover, Leblaine was currently accurately gauging the movement time of Valois’s army and descending from the entrance of Assis Mountain.

 

Hayton was unable to do anything and was being dragged around while bound.

 

People glanced at Duke Valois. His face, which had been arrogant before the simulation battle began, was now flushed red and blue with humiliation and anger.

 

‘That despicable girl…!’

 

He slammed the table with a bang! and shouted at Duke Dubbled.

 

“How can such an absurd thing happen! Attacking immediately after the sacred flame ceremony!”

 

“We moved after receiving the start signal.”

 

“Even so, this is…!”

 

Duke Dubbled glanced at Duke Valois with a leisurely expression.

 

“It’s the difference between those who prepared for an attack and those who didn’t. My daughter simply came up with the best defensive strategy in preparation for an attack. Where is it stated in the rules that one cannot attack after the sacred flame ceremony?”

 

Henri and Isaac grinned and replied, “That’s right, Father.”

 

Just then.

 

“This can’t be─!!”

 

The surroundings began to get noisy. Isaac’s expression hardened.

 

Soldiers from 9 of the participating families surrounded Dubbled’s army and Leblaine at the mountain entrance.

 

[Hand over Young Master Valois.]

 

The second son of Marquis Hademos said while pointing his sword.

 

Hayton Valois was captured by Leblaine as soon as it started. He had no time to converse with other participants.

 

But when Valois’s army failed to rescue Hayton, other families simultaneously surrounded the forest and pressured Dubbled’s soldiers, which meant they had made a secret pact beforehand.

 

Moreover, they immediately found Hayton, whom even Valois’s soldiers couldn’t locate.

 

This meant that the nobles who made the secret pact and Hayton could exchange signals.

 

“Does Young Master Valois possess a communication stone?”

 

Johan looked at Duke Valois with an expressionless face. The Duke cleared his throat with a cough and pretended not to know while looking away.

 

“That can’t be. My son wouldn’t use unauthorized magic tools.”

 

Henri, who was watching the magic mirror, let out a hollow laugh.

 

Cornered, he had resorted to his last resort.

 

“The truly despicable person was someone else.”

 

“Watch your words!”

 

Isaac clicked his tongue in annoyance.

 

‘This has become troublesome.’

 

The despicable and cowardly Hayton Valois had colluded with the young masters of nine families.

 

A number just slightly short of a majority of participants.

 

If they formally objected to Hayton’s cheating, the colluding young masters would also face punishment.

 

In that case, the war simulation would end inconclusively. Even the Emperor’s plan to create the Prince’s direct guard and demonstrate power through this simulation would be ruined.

 

‘Since that’s obviously what would happen, would they properly listen to a formal objection?’

 

They’d probably let it slide.

 

Isaac looked at Henri with a cold expression as he rolled dice in his hand.

 

“What should we do? Should we overturn everything?”

 

“I’m thinking about it.”

 

But then it happened.

 

Leblaine in the magic mirror covered her mouth with both fists and giggled softly.

 

It wasn’t the expression of a child backed into a corner.

 

And then.

 

Tweeet─!!!

 

When Leblaine blew her whistle, ropes descended to where Dubbled’s soldiers were.

 

Exactly eleven ropes—for Leblaine and the ten Dubbled soldiers.

 

As they grabbed the ropes, someone from the mountaintop pulled them up.

 

“It’s the remaining Dubbled soldiers!”

 

The remaining ten, excluding the ten soldiers who had moved with Hayton.

 

Isaac’s eyes widened as he spoke.

 

“Weren’t the other half searching for tokens?”

 

Henri and Johan also looked at the magic mirror with stern faces.

 

Then, a flood-like torrent of water rushed down from the bottom of the mountain.

 

“They destroyed the dam!”

 

When someone shouted, Duke Valois shot up from his seat.

 

“What the…!”

 

A boy with dark blue hair wearing a robe appeared on the mountaintop. An armband indicating his rank as captain was wrapped around his arm.

 

Leblaine shouted.

 

[Zachary!]

 

One of the four knights.

 

A tactical genius.

 

An unparalleled spear knight.

 

This was the moment when the name of Zachary, the strongest guard who would later be called Leblaine Lisette Dubbled’s final line of defense, first rang out.

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