The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 121
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Chapter 121
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The investigation had begun.
It wasn’t difficult to identify a being that possessed eagle wings and dog fangs, and could create barriers that even the Court Mages and priests stationed at the Imperial Palace couldn’t break.
The Imperial Palace declared the attacker an ‘impure being’ and was combing through the entire Empire like hunting for lice.
Seria, who handed me milk, said.
“The Imperial Palace seems certain it wasn’t an attack from a Foreign Country.”
“It’s farming season. There’s nothing the Empire has particularly threatened them with, so they wouldn’t attack during farming season. Not unless they want to starve all their own people to death.”
“Yes, what’s important is that the Shrine, which must know the attacker was a ‘Demon’, declared Young Lady’s Demon merely an ‘impure being’.”
At the aide’s words, I shrugged my shoulders.
“The Shrine will absolutely never declare it a Demon.”
The primary reason the Shrine and Papal Court received support from the Imperial Palace and noble families, and collected donations from the people, was based on the justification of ‘protecting the Continent from demons’.
Though there were various other justifications, the original purpose of establishing the Shrine was to ward off demons.
But a Demon descending to earth would be tantamount to the Shrine’s dereliction of duty.
“Unless I bring a horde of demons to attack, the Shrine will absolutely never use the word ‘Demon’.”
“Couldn’t they seek greater prosperity under the pretext of preparing for war against demons?”
At Seria’s words, I looked at the Spire of the Shrine visible Outside the Window.
“The current Pope values honor like his life, even more than Duke Valois does.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. The reason Christian pushed out Gunter, the First Priest, to become Pope was because he was a saint who sacrificed himself to seal demons. There’s no way he would say with his own mouth that demons have returned.”
“His own honor takes priority over the lives of hundreds of millions of people on the Continent. How foolish.”
Seria twisted her lips as she picked up her teacup.
“In any case, the investigation is proceeding smoothly. They’re even rounding up alchemists who were in hiding, so soon the Imperial Palace’s investigation team will storm into the great noble families as well.”
“Even the Valois Mansion!”
That Mister is obviously desperately trying to get back into the Valois Mansion I took from him, looking for a way out.
‘But it’s useless.’
Who do you think is currently guarding the Valois Mansion!
I covered my mouth with both fists and giggled.
Then, Seria gently set down her teacup on the tea coaster.
With both hands folded on her knees, she gazed at me with clear eyes.
“Then will you tell me now? Young Lady’s true identity.”
I nodded lightly and said to the aide.
“Bring Zachary and Trigon. They need to hear this story too.”
“Trigon as well? If you need a Mage, wouldn’t it be better to call Veronica, who is definitely on Young Lady’s side…”
“It has to be Trigon.”
“May I ask the reason?”
“Veronica doesn’t have any desire I need to fulfill.”
“…Desire?”
“The Captain has the desire to meet his son Louis, and Seria has the desire to find the children from House of Hope. Similarly, Zachary has the desire to protect his orphanage friends and become the strongest knight. And Trigon, no, Whale has…”
“The desire to protect his father.”
“That’s right.”
I realized through countless regressions. That I should trust situations rather than people.
I know a way to save Trigon’s father. It’s a method that only I will know for the next 10 years.
So he would never be able to betray me.
Conversely, even if I died due to unavoidable circumstances, he wasn’t someone who would sacrifice his own life for a goal.
The Captain picked up the communication stone.
Seria opened the door for Zachary who had been waiting outside the office.
Soon Zachary and Trigon entered the office, and I began to speak.
“Listen without being surprised.”
“Could there be anything more surprising than a nine-year-old Young Lady ordering my kidnapping…!”
Trigon shouted, but I opened my mouth nonchalantly.
“I have died three times and am living my fourth life. And in this life, I summoned a demon.”
“Wh-what, what did you say?!”
“Whaaaat─?!”
Looking at the two men whose jaws had dropped open, I nodded my head.
See, I told you you’d be surprised.
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“Kugh…!”
The Man who had been watching through a magic mirror as the mercenaries fell with death throes bit his lips.
This was already the second time.
The middle-aged woman with ebony black hair tied up lightly wiped her blood-stained greatsword and sheathed it.
The Mercenary Captain who had been watching the magic mirror with The Man to assess their strength stepped back with a pale face.
The Man glared at the captain.
“Deploy the rear guard immediately. There’s no time.”
“I-I can’t!”
“Have you forgotten how much I paid you bastards? You accepted my commission. Go and honor your oath!”
“That was when we didn’t know the guardian was Lea Chabanole!”
The captain, pale as a sheet, shook his head.
Who was Lea Chabanole?
A former Vice Captain of Iri, she was the most cruel-natured knight even among the notoriously ruthless Iri.
‘Knight? No, that woman is an assassin!’
The Wolves of Dubbled were powerful Magic Knights who could immediately advance their tier just by defeating a single one.
Among such Wolves, there had been what seemed like an easy girl target, so what a mouth-watering prey she must have appeared to be.
Countless mercenaries and knights had challenged her to duels, but not a single one had survived.
In the past, he had witnessed her battles. Even though he had practically grown up on the battlefield, he felt chills as if all the blood in his body was draining away.
Despite being a knight who had received proper appointment, she showed not a trace of chivalry.
She humiliated the defeated and killed them with devastating cruelty.
As if she enjoyed murder.
Unlike male knights, she was naturally weak in stamina and strength, yet she became the Vice Captain of the Wolves because of that cruel nature.
Since there had been no news of her for over ten years, he thought she was somewhere having children and living peacefully, but she was still wielding a sword.
“We’ll return the payment. You there! Pack up. We’re leaving!”
“Hey!”
The man shouted, but the mercenaries hastily fled.
‘Damn it, damn it…!’
The man threw down his magic mirror and grumbled.
This afternoon, the Imperial Palace investigation team had finally crossed the threshold of a great noble family’s estate.
Soon it would be his turn.
‘Before that, I must deal with the underground formation…’
The hand of the man holding his forehead—no, Duke Valois—was trembling finely.
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“Good heavens…”
Zachary, who had heard my entire story, let out a hollow laugh.
Seria had been keeping her eyes tightly shut since around the part where ‘in her second life, she was beaten to death by Duke Valois.’
“The apostle trial alone isn’t enough. Duke Valois needs to pay a greater price for his sins.”
“The apostle trial is practically the same as being burned at the stake anyway.”
“He’s a bastard who beat a child not even fifteen years old to death!”
Seria gritted her teeth.
“How, how could such a thing… How could Young Lady endure such experiences and still…”
“I’m fine.”
“…”
“I’m fine, Seria.”
Since I had never told the Duke the details of my time as Duke Valois’s daughter, he was quietly furious.
“In this life, I’ve paid him back just as much.”
“You mean you don’t dwell on your past life…”
Seria looked at me with pitying eyes, so I scrunched up my face.
“What? I dwell on it tremendously!”
It may never have happened to other people, but it certainly happened to me.
If they had miraculously become saints in this life, being kind, affectionate, and truly living without a single fault, then maybe. But they were just as terrible villains.
If the same situation arose, they would have abused me again. Definitely.
Even in this life, they’ve tried to harm me several times.
Moreover.
“You have to pay back what you receive twofold. If someone kicks me, I’ll break that bastard’s leg clean off. I’m petty and mean!”
“You speak wisely.”
Seria nodded with satisfaction, so I smiled too.
“Since he died from being beaten, I’ll make that bastard die from being beaten too. More painfully than I did.”
“Exactly!”
“I just meant there’s no need to be impatient right now. In this life, I’m continuously making him pay the price.”
“Yes.”
While Seria, the chairman, and I were looking at each other with vile and wicked expressions, Zachary swallowed nervously with a pale face for some reason.
“Really, such terrifying people…”
Just as he was muttering that.
“Did Father really starve to death?”
It was Whale.
When I looked at him, he covered his mouth with trembling hands.
“Did no one help him? Why? The concern about relatives taking away his property was something Trigon and I thought about too. But… but…”
Whale, who couldn’t continue speaking for a long time, finally opened his mouth.
“He’s called an eccentric old man, but he’s kind-hearted inside. How many people has he helped! Are you saying not a single person repaid his kindness?”
“Someone was pulling strings.”
“Pulling strings?”
“I don’t know why. They framed Lord Aragon as a heretic. He wasn’t brought to a Heretic Trial, but the rumors were so bad that no one could dare help him. My guess is that your death probably wasn’t just because you were discovered to not be Trigon.”
“That’s…”
The chairman narrowed his eyes after hearing my story.
“Strange. Incomprehensible things keep happening. Very secretly at that.”
“Right. As if an invisible hand is manipulating the Empire.”
House Valois buying the children from House of Hope.
Trying to sacrifice the House of Hope children to summon demons and create Baby Bird.
The rumor that Aragon was a heretic.
And two ‘Children of Fate’.
After thinking deeply, I looked at the chairman and spoke.
“And there’s another strange thing, something different from my memories before regression…”
That’s when it happened.
Seria’s subordinate came running into the office.
“Guild Master!”
“What’s wrong?”
When I asked, he said.
“The Imperial Palace has begun searching the Valois Mansion.”
It has begun.
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