The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 115

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Chapter 115

 

Duke Valois’s face turned red and blue as he snatched the documents and examined them thoroughly. Trembling with rage, he soon threw the documents down and roughly shook my shoulders.

 

“Is this Duke Dubbled’s doing?! Is that bastard planning to ruin my family once and for all?!”

 

I felt a sharp gaze from the bushes. Zachary, gripping his scabbard, was ready to spring into action.

 

‘Not now. I told you to only step in when my life is in danger.’

 

When I signaled with my eyes, he gritted his teeth.

 

“Those damn bastards, how dare they look at me like…!”

 

Duke Valois suddenly pushed me away. I pretended to lose my balance and stagger, bumping my back against the fountain.

 

At that moment.

 

“Young Lady!”

 

Dubbled’s knights who had rushed over quickly pointed their swords at Duke Valois.

 

‘They came faster than I expected.’

 

I thought they would look for me as soon as I disappeared from the hall, but I didn’t expect them to be this quick.

 

‘It’s a bit early, but…’

 

Alright, let’s do this!

 

I burst into tears with a “Waaah…!”

 

Loud enough for everyone in the hall to hear.

 

People alarmed by the commotion came running out. The first to arrive was my family.

 

I put on a great performance, pretending to be a terrified little child.

 

“Leblaine!”

 

Father rarely raised his voice. He knelt down and examined me as I cried loudly.

 

“What happened?”

 

“It hurts!”

 

Father’s face hardened. Isaac pushed past the knights and approached me.

 

“Did that bastard hit you? Huh?!”

 

I quickly nodded and showed him my shoulder that had turned red from being grabbed by Duke Valois, and also pointed to my back where I had just bumped into the fountain.

 

“Here and here. And here too!”

 

I used to be the king of exaggeration back in the day.

 

I laughed wickedly inside, but outwardly maintained a terrified expression. If my old companions from my beggar days saw this, they would proudly say, ‘Now you’ve become the perfect con artist!’

 

“Good heavens…”

 

“Duke Valois was drinking excessively at the party…”

 

“You’re saying he physically abused a child because he was drunk?”

 

The guests murmured in shock, and my family’s faces turned cold.

 

I subtly twisted my body to block the space between Isaac and Duke Valois. So I could immediately grab Isaac if he charged forward.

 

But then.

 

“You bastard!”

 

“Aunt!”

 

My aunt, whom I hadn’t expected, suddenly rushed forward and grabbed Duke Valois by the collar.

 

“You hit a child? How dare you touch my niece?”

 

‘Oh no.’

 

Though my aunt wasn’t a saint as a member of Dubbled, she was someone who never crossed the line of common sense. For such an aunt, physically abusing a child was absolutely unthinkable.

 

Even when she heard about Teramore’s assault on Henri, she had raged furiously, and I heard that while in the Imperial Capital, she thoroughly checked our siblings’ tutors.

 

But at a party my aunt had prepared, and behind her back no less, her niece had been assaulted – it was enough to make her see red.

 

The other people also had faces that deeply empathized with my aunt’s anger.

 

‘But this won’t do!’

 

Duke Valois is extremely frail.

 

All he’s done his whole life is study or dirty covert operations. To my aunt, who had crossed the line between life and death as captain of the White Horse Brigade, he wouldn’t even be worth one punch.

 

‘If he gets knocked unconscious from being hit, my plan will…!’

 

There were already people frowning.

 

These were the types who were more appalled by a noble trying to resolve things with fists than by a child being assaulted.

 

‘From now on, this will become a battle of public opinion. Before my family causes trouble, I need to firmly turn the public’s hearts to my side.’

 

I quickly clung to my aunt’s waist.

 

“You can’t hit him!”

 

“Let go, Leblaine! He’s the one who assaulted you, a child!”

 

“If Aunt hits Duke Valois, people might say Dubbled are villains again!”

 

When I shouted, the surroundings became quiet.

 

“We haven’t done anything wrong, but people think we’re villains. So we have to be careful even when breathing, and careful when walking too. No matter how hard we try like that, if Aunt hits the Duke now, we’ll be called villains again… I hate that. I don’t want our family to become bad people.”

 

“…”

 

“So I won’t cry even if I get hit anymore. Aunt, please don’t be angry!”

 

Then the soft-hearted noble ladies rushed to me.

 

“My goodness, you’ve been thinking such thoughts.”

 

The Grand Duchess knelt down and met my eyes.

 

“No, little one. Don’t let yourself be killed by the chatter of ignorant gossips.”

 

I sniffled and cried, but inside I was grinning.

 

Parents with children looked at Duke Valois with indignant expressions.

 

Duke Valois was unusually flustered by the fact that his assault had been discovered by the child’s guardian and the reproachful gazes people were sending him.

 

“Do you know what the Child of Fate said to me, Duke Dubbled?! Even a saint would not have been able to contain their anger!”

 

The Grand Duchess hid me behind her back and glared at Duke Valois.

 

“What did she say.”

 

“She cursed and insulted me! She said since she bought up Valois’s debts, I should hand over the mansion immediately! She called me garbage, how dare she!”

 

When people looked at me, I quickly gripped the Grand Duchess’s skirt hem tightly and hunched my shoulders.

 

“Little one, is this true?”

 

“I don’t know what the Duke is talking about…”

 

I gave back the exact same words Duke Valois had said when caught abusing me at the shrine.

 

“What on earth are you talking about. I have no idea what you mean. The bruises on the child’s body are from learning horseback riding. When my wife and I saw the injuries and were alarmed, we forbade horseback riding, so she secretly stole her brothers’ horses and rode them. While it’s our fault as a couple for not watching the child carefully, abuse! You must speak sensibly.”

 

At that time, he blamed me for all the whip marks left on my body, the bruises, and even the hospital records from when I fainted after being beaten.

 

‘Thanks to that, I learned well, you bastard.’

 

I looked around at the people with a dejected expression and said.

 

“I’ve been learning about fortress investments from the Chairman of Dubbled Council of Elders. And then I ended up purchasing what Duke Valois called a loan… but when I asked the chairman, he said if I can’t pay the interest, my house would be taken away…”

 

“So?”

 

“It’s sad to not have a house. I know because I lived in an orphanage since I didn’t have a home either. So before Duke Valois takes away the house…”

 

“You told him in advance because you were worried the Duke might get in trouble.”

 

“Yes…”

 

People glared at Duke Valois.

 

He was outraged, going “Th-this…!!” but I was a thoughtful child who cared about the family, while he was trash who physically abused a child while drunk.

 

Moreover, as long as Father was here, he could never crush me with authority or power.

 

When I called out “Father…” in a small voice, Father quickly picked me up.

 

And he was kicked out.

 

Dragged away by the knights.

 

* * *

 

The party ended in chaos. The guests retreated while watching the Dubbled family members’ expressions, and they returned to the mansion.

 

The eyes of the Dubbled men looking at Leblaine, who had fallen asleep lying on Javelin’s lap, were cold.

 

“What do you plan to do with that beast who’s worse than an animal?”

 

Isaac asked in a grinding voice.

 

The two dice rolling in Duke Dubbled’s hand came to an abrupt stop.

 

Henri covered Leblaine with a blanket and spoke.

 

“Just tearing his limbs apart won’t be enough. We should gouge out his eyes and make him kneel before our youngest in a state that can’t even be called human, begging desperately.”

 

Though Henri had a cruel nature, he had never revealed his anger so vividly before.

 

Henri, who had been the victim in the Terramore physical abuse incident, knew well.

 

Physical abuse wasn’t just getting beaten as the word literally meant. It was both humiliation and shackles that could never be shaken off for life.

 

Johan said.

 

“He dared to touch our reverse scale within Dubbled’s walls.”

 

The boy’s eyes sank deep and deeper.

 

“We should exterminate his three generations so he can never even think of targeting our youngest again, and tear apart his precious honor right before his eyes.”

 

They had touched the reverse scale of a crouching dragon.

 

In the darkness, Duke Dubbled’s eyes glowed bright blue.

 

* * *

 

When I woke up the next day, the world had been turned upside down.

 

I scratched my disheveled hair while still in my pajamas.

 

“Duke Valois had his house taken away…?”

 

“At dawn, Dubbled’s accounting office chief Shugun and the administrators stormed into Valois Estate.”

 

‘If it’s Shugun, he’s part of Henri’s advisory staff. It must be Henri.’

 

As expected of Henri. He works fast.

 

I grinned and bounced off the bed.

 

“There’s chaos because of yesterday’s assault incident~!”

 

“Is that something to be happy about? Things might become too difficult to handle from now on.”

 

“What does it matter? Even if we sit back and do nothing, our family will take care of everything.”

 

This is one of the sweet perks of being a powerful person’s child!

 

Then all I need to do is find evidence that Duke Valois created Mireille and summoned a demon.

 

“Alright, let’s go meet Rain now.”

 

“Yes.”

 

We quickly finished preparing and headed to Rain’s estate.

 

After visiting Rain’s estate before, I realized we needed a passage to enter and exit without being seen.

 

So under the pretense of renovating the interior, we secretly created a passage that led directly to Rain’s study. Though we had no choice but to use teleportation magic to reach the passage.

 

At the end of the passage, loud voices could be heard from the door connected to Rain’s study.

 

“How could you do this to me?!”

 

It was Duchess Valois’s voice.

 

“A debt? That’s ridiculous! Those were gifts you gave me!”

 

“Of course some were gifts. But I never gifted you gambling money.”

 

“Lies! You planned to deceive me from the start. Fraud! You’re in cahoots with the Dubbled family, aren’t you? That’s it! What did I ever do wrong to you to deserve this!”

 

A scream-like shout burst out.

 

“What did I do wrong to have to raise something like you!”

 

‘How can the people in that family be so consistently the same.’

 

I channeled a bit of divine power into part of Rain’s core that I had prepared and put in my pocket. Soon an invisible line connected, and I could see Duchess Valois’s face, pale as a sheet and crying.

 

“My only crime is living earnestly!”

 

You hit me.

 

When you were angry, you forced rotten food into my mouth, and if I didn’t swallow it and threw up, you whipped me.

 

You made me hide in the wardrobe.

 

You prevented me from eating even a single piece of moldy bread.

 

You made breathing, walking, sleeping, even being alive feel sinful!

 

It felt like everything before my eyes turned bright red.

 

The adjutant grabbed my hand.

 

“Young Lady.”

 

The warmth touching my fingertips barely brought me back to reality.

 

I spoke in a calm voice.

 

“The fact that you think you did nothing wrong is your greatest sin.”

 

When Rain, who had become one with me through the core, spoke with a cold expression, Duchess Valois flinched.

 

“Your, Your Excellency… Please have pity on me. I might be cast out from the family. My husband, my sons will… will…!”

 

“You should never have trusted others’ kindness from the beginning.”

 

“What, what did you say?”

 

“Poor little mouse. You should be suspicious of others’ kindness. You’re at fault for not questioning why someone would show such favor to you when you’re not even blood-related.”

 

“You should be suspicious of others’ kindness. You’re at fault for not questioning why he would show such favor to a woman who isn’t even blood-related.”

 

“…!”

 

The Duchess’s mouth gaped open and closed before she collapsed. She turned pale and buried her face in both hands, sobbing.

 

I let go of the core.

 

Public opinion was on my side, I had my family as reliable support behind me, and I had both power and money in my hands.

 

Breathing heavily, I spoke to the ceremonial officer.

 

“Let’s go find Elder Horn.”

 

To show these demon-like people what a real demon looks like.

 

Now it’s time to place the demons of Valois beneath the guillotine.

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