The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 124
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Chapter 124
It seemed like Hayton wouldn’t let me go at this rate, so I jumped down from Adrian’s arms.
When I looked at him, Hayton rubbed the corner of his mouth slightly. Having lived with that child in my second life, I know. That’s a habit Hayton shows when he’s happy.
‘What’s he so happy about? Is he crazy?’
What did he eat wrong?
“If you’re tired, you can rest in the adjacent room for a bit—”
“First, don’t talk nonsense.”
“What?”
“Second, I’m Lady Dubbled. Speak with proper manners.”
“What are you keep saying…”
“Third.”
I kicked Hayton in the shin.
“Touch me without permission and you’ll get beaten up!”
Hayton, who screamed “Agh!”, grabbed his leg with a flustered expression.
“You, you…!”
“If you want to receive proper living expenses until you turn 18, remember this. You’re asking for death, seriously.”
“We already finished talking about providing money!”
“We didn’t decide on the amount.”
Hayton shouted “How underhanded!”, but I just shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly.
That’s why you need to examine contracts carefully.
Leaving behind the fuming Hayton, I looked at Adrian.
“Let’s go.”
“Yeah.”
His smile somehow looked happy, so I chuckled inwardly.
Adrian walked me home. He said he would watch until I got better before leaving, but I had an ominous feeling that if this cute puppy came into the house, he’d get torn apart by wild beasts.
“I’m fine, so go back.”
“…”
“Go back and rest well, okay?”
“…Alright.”
Adrian kept watching me from outside the gate until I entered the mansion.
When I returned to the mansion, my family was waiting for me. Seeing my family lined up in front of the central courtyard with frowning faces, I flinched and obediently clasped my hands together.
“I’m sorry.”
When I quickly apologized, Aunt looked at me with narrowed eyes and said.
“It’s not your fault. This is the fault of the adults who let a young child like you follow the Imperial Guards without an escort.”
“I insisted that I wanted to go…”
“Adults who give in to everything just because a child insists aren’t qualified to raise children.”
The Chief Chamberlain bowed his head.
“I apologize.”
“We’ll discuss this separately. Leblaine…”
My aunt stared at me intently, then bent one knee to meet my gaze.
“Look at how many people you’ve worried.”
Looking around, I saw my three maids and employees looked haggard, while Father and my brothers were sighing.
“…I’m sorry.”
“It’s not that making decisions alone is bad. But for this matter, you should have consulted with your family. Who knows what that criminal, driven by evil, might have done to you.”
“Yes…”
“If you get hurt, we would all be terribly heartbroken.”
“You too, Aunt?”
“Of course.”
My aunt tucked my slightly disheveled hair behind my ear as she continued.
“I would have rather gotten hurt in your place.”
When I fidgeted with my hands with a dejected expression, my aunt spread her arms open. As if telling me to come into her embrace.
‘She’s going to forgive me!’
My face brightened as I rushed into her arms.
“Thank you for coming back unharmed.”
“Yes!”
‘Aunt smells nice.’
I smiled and rubbed my face against her cheek, and she gently stroked my back affectionately.
The one who got thoroughly scolded in my place was the Chief Chamberlain. He looked aggrieved, while I secretly apologized from my aunt’s embrace, thinking ‘Chief Chamberlain, you’re amazing! The best! Brilliant!’
The aftermath of the Duke Valois incident was Father’s responsibility.
Since our Father is ruthless in everything except matters concerning me, he pinned even non-existent crimes on Duke Valois to make him deserving of death.
It was a perfect conclusion.
And so, within a few days, Duke Valois’s heretic trial was confirmed.
* * *
Having firmly locked my room door, I sat at the table and grasped Etoile. With a faint light, the demon appeared sitting in the chair across from me.
[You finally summoned me properly.]
Perhaps because I had been using him thoroughly as an errand boy until now, the demon’s expression was very displeased.
“Tell me what you want.”
[Now you’re finally thinking of granting my wish.]
“Don’t you think there’s no time for sarcasm?”
Two weeks had passed since I blocked the demon’s attack, but my divine power was still hovering at rock bottom.
After unleashing such powerful force, he immediately summoned a demon, so if it hadn’t been Adrian, he might have gone mad with not even a handful of divine power remaining.
The demon clicked his tongue and spoke.
[My wish is ‘resentment.’]
“Resentment?”
[Bottomless powerful desire, the grudge of those who perished without fulfilling their wishes. I desire resentment so intense it’s intoxicating.]
Unlike Bune and Paimon, this was truly a demonic wish that was almost fascinating.
‘So that’s why he readily appeared for a summoning using sacrifices.’
I heard that Duke Valois used over several hundred people as ‘sacrifices’ for demon summoning, yet it’s still not enough – quite impressive.
‘If it’s resentment, are you asking for humans as sacrifices?’
I don’t want to harm people to fulfill a demon’s wish. I pondered while holding my chin and asked.
“Then what’s your special ability?”
[Assassination.]
“Don’t need it.”
[I can also pursue academics more deeply than anyone. Astronomy, magic studies, science – in every field.]
“No way!”
He seems completely removed from academics, what the!
When I exclaimed in shock, the demon’s face contorted.
[How much are you looking down on me?]
“No, well…”
[The scholar’s family whose wish I granted became the most honorable family for nearly a thousand years.]
A scholar from a thousand years ago?
Suddenly, I felt a strange sense of déjà vu.
“Don’t tell me that’s… the Valois ancestor?”
[Your head isn’t completely useless after all.]
I let out a hollow laugh.
‘So that’s how Duke Valois knew this demon’s summoning circle. Because it was the demon his ancestor had summoned!’
Since they achieved family prosperity by summoning a demon, they had been obsessed with honor for generations.
In truth, their honor was nothing but an empty shell.
“This is unbelievable…”
[Will you make the same wish as the man from a thousand years ago?]
“No, I don’t need something like honor. What else?”
[Invisibility. You can pass through anything without being caught by any barrier.]
My eyes lit up.
‘With that, I could fulfill both the demon’s wish and my special ability at the same time.’
“Good. I’ll take that. However, I want to receive this special ability in advance.”
[That’s impossible. Special abilities can only be manifested after the wish is granted…!]
“That would be true for other demons. Bune and Paimon only gained the power to manifest special abilities in the Human Realm after I granted their wishes, but you’re different.”
[What?]
“Through the sacrifices of over several hundred people, you’re already filled with power on a completely different level from Bune and Paimon.”
That’s why maintaining this demon was easier compared to when I dealt with Bune and Paimon.
As I smiled mischievously, the demon shouted in frustration.
[You’re a more cunning and evil creature than any demon!]
“Thanks for the compliment.”
[Grr…!]
“Well then, shall we go fulfill your wish?”
As I got up, I turned my head with an “Ah.”
“By the way, what’s your name?”
[Damn it!]
The demon was indignant that I had been using him like an errand boy without even knowing his name all this time.
But he obediently told me his name.
His name, which I properly heard only when it was time to send him back, was ‘Glashalabolas’. He was the King of Butchers.
* * *
Three hours before the Heretic Trial, Duke Valois was sprawled in his prison cell, groaning.
“Call him… call him for me… I’m not someone who should die like this…!!”
There was no one to hear his blood-curdling screams.
The prison was silent, and not even the sound of human breathing could be heard.
The terror that he might truly die gripped his entire body.
‘Damn it, damn it!’
This was all because of that bitch.
Leblaine Dubbled.
That vulgar bitch who resembled Lisette!
If given another chance, this time he would absolutely tear her to death. He would gouge out her eyes, rip her mouth until she was in tatters, and throw that bitch before Theodore Dubbled.
Duke Valois, gripping the iron bars with hands that had lost all their fingernails, shouted.
“Let me see ‘Him’!”
“Who is this ‘Him’?”
At the clear voice that suddenly rang out, Duke Valois flinched and looked around.
But nothing could be seen.
‘Am I hearing things?’
“I asked who this person is.”
“…!”
The startled Duke’s body stiffened completely.
‘This voice is definitely….’
Just as he was thinking that, the area outside the iron bars glowed and soon someone revealed themselves.
“How are you…!”
It was the Child of Fate. That damn bitch was grinning as she approached the iron bars.
“How did you come to this place? This is…!”
“You can’t come because there’s a 14-layer barrier?”
As the child smiled, a familiar man soon appeared beside her.
The man with eagle wings and dog fangs. That thing with its strange intimidating presence and chilling aura was definitely the angel he had summoned.
“Angel!”
The Duke’s face instantly brightened as he crawled and reached his hand outside the iron bars.
“You’ve descended again for my sake!”
“….”
“Please kill her. Kill that bitch miserably… Ahhh!”
As the angel’s eyes narrowed, the Duke’s arm was instantly twisted.
As the screaming Duke retreated while clutching his twisted arm, the angel slowly pressed his temple.
“Answer quickly what this child asks. I don’t want to stay in the human realm even one more hour.”
“What, what?”
“Answer.”
“Ahhhhh─!!”
His shoulder seemed dislocated as it hung completely limp.
Leblaine nodded with satisfaction and asked.
“Let’s end this easily. If you’re going to die anyway, it’s better to go quietly. Don’t you think?”
“You, you…!”
“Now, first question. The people from the House of Hope that you bought, did you kill them all?”
The Duke gaped his mouth as if he couldn’t believe it.
‘How does that bitch know about that…!’
When he didn’t answer, Leblaine looked at the demon.
“Kraak─!”
This time his fingers were all twisted.
“I, I don’t know. It’s true that I bought the child and old man from the House of Hope, but since I bought quite a lot of humans from other places too, I don’t know if they’re all dead…!”
“Where are the remaining people.”
“….”
“Where are they!”
“…I ‘stored’ them at Geranium’s Hut.”
Leblaine hurriedly communicated with Seria to inform her of the location where the people were.
While concentrating on the communication stone, that child opened her mouth again.
“What was your reason for making Baby Bird?”
“….”
“Father’s daughter. The reason you created the unborn fourth child and left bruises on our family’s hearts.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Leblaine raised an eyebrow and looked at the duke.
“Do you want your neck twisted too?”
“…I’m saying your premise is wrong.”
“Wrong?”
Duke Valois broke out in cold sweat and twisted his lips.
“Shall I tell you something that would terrify you if you knew? Something that would make you not know what to do because you’re afraid of losing everything. Something you’d wish you’d never heard.”
“…What are you talking about.”
The duke grinned, raising the corners of his mouth.
“Theodore’s daughter was born. She’s been growing up well until now.”
“What?”
“That child is now….”
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