The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 182

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Chapter 182

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

“….”

Whenever I looked at her, strange emotions kept welling up inside me.

Was it because I would become family with her husband and sons in the future?

Was it because I had met someone so precious to the people I loved?

I couldn’t understand the reason, but what was certain was that my chest felt ticklish and my eyes grew hot.

Just then, the Monster Bird struggled violently.

“Ugh!”

Lea staggered backward, and Adrian’s Divine Power Chains snapped, causing blood to drip from his wrist.

Startled, I reached out toward him.

“Adri—”

“We need to go. Worry comes later.”

Lisette grabbed me and started running.

Adrian, Lea, and Cecilia ran after us.

But once the Monster Bird had set its target, it quickly flew up and pursued us closely.

Lea and Cecilia, who had looked back, stopped in their tracks.

“We’ll lure it away, so please go down the Mountain first.”

I flinched at Lea’s words.

“That won’t do!”

I shouted, but Lea shook her head.

Lisette, who had been gazing intently at Lea’s face, nodded.

“I haven’t given you permission to die. Come back alive to my arms.”

“When has my Unit ever disappointed you, my lady? Trust us.”

When Lea grinned, Cecilia also nodded in agreement.

‘No, how can they face a monster without reinforcements or a Mage!’

Lea and Cecilia charged toward the Monster Bird.

I frantically tried to reach out to grab Lea, but was blocked by Lisette.

“Little One, stop…!”

“Let me go. Please let me go! Lea, Lea!”

Then Adrian strode toward me and swept me up in his arms.

“Excuse me.”

Even though I struggled violently, Adrian didn’t let me go and kept running. Lisette followed behind us.

From the Monster Bird’s roars echoing in the distance, it seemed Lea and Cecilia were successfully holding off the monster.

Only when we reached the Valley did Adrian finally put me down.

I looked anxiously in the direction where the Monster Bird’s roars could be heard.

Then Adrian grabbed my shoulder. He glanced back behind us.

Following his gaze, I saw Lisette breathing heavily.

Blood was dripping along the path she had run.

‘Hemorrhaging…’

Having overexerted herself immediately after giving birth to Baby Bird, her condition couldn’t help but worsen.

As evidence, her face was deathly pale. As if her breath might stop at any moment.

I carefully approached her to ask about her condition.

“Are you alr─”

“Are you alright.”

Anyone could see that she was the one in bad condition, yet Lisette was looking at me with a desperate expression.

“Where are you hurt? What happened with the blood? Hmm?”

“You should be more concerned about yourself than me, Lisette…”

She smiled faintly and stroked my head.

Just then, the clouds covering the moon cleared, and pure white moonlight illuminated her.

Now I could properly see her face.

‘Ah…’

Gentle blonde hair that seemed to be thoroughly soaked with the full moon, strong green eyes like buds emerging from frozen ground.

She was dazzlingly beautiful, just like in the portrait that remained in Dubbled. However, there was a very special atmosphere that even the portrait couldn’t capture.

“Little One.”

Her smiling face was exactly like Johan’s. And her eyes were similar to Henri’s, while her fingernail shape and the mole on her neck were the same as Isaac’s.

I spoke hesitantly.

“But…”

“You don’t need to worry. I have a secret that others don’t know about.”

“A secret?”

“Though I’ve been targeted by the Temple my whole life, I also have a power that’s quite helpful to me.”

Lisette whispered with a mischievous expression.

“I can see the future.”

“What?!”

I opened my eyes wide in surprise.

‘She really has such a power?’

It was a shocking statement, but there were things that made sense.

Even after she married Father and became the Duchess, she never engaged in any external activities.

People said it was because she was a commoner who had bought her status before marriage, so she thoroughly hid her identity, but I think differently.

“Aunt protected Mother the same way!”

Right, protection.

If the Family Members restricted her external activities to protect her from the Temple…

Of course, Father is more outstanding than anyone else.

But at that time, all my brothers were held hostage by the Previous Duke. To protect them, didn’t he become the Previous Duke’s tool and fight dangerous wars countless times?

If Lisette had helped Father with her power of future sight, and thus helped him reclaim my brothers and become the Family Head…

As I was organizing my confused thoughts, she continued speaking.

“I can know tomorrow’s weather, and I also know where special medicinal herbs grow. I know where to go to be loved, and I even know when I will die.”

It was the moment I was staring up at her blankly.

“My lady!”

Reina, clutching a blanket, came running toward us.

Gasping for breath, Reina looked over Lisette and asked urgently.

“Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere? How is your condition? Well?”

“There’s no need to be so frantic.”

“How can I not be frantic! Where is there a new mother who runs off like that right after giving birth! You’re determined to kill me with a heart attack. That must be it!”

Reina cried out tearfully, and Lisette chuckled softly.

Lisette’s smile had something magical about it. A magical power that could make even the furious-looking Reina feel deflated.

Reina, who had been glaring at Lisette reproachfully, let out a sigh. Then she carefully handed the blanket to Lisette.

Reina asked with a bright smile.

“Have you decided on the baby’s name?”

“Yes.”

Lisette said while gently caressing the child’s cheek.

“Leblaine.”

What did she say?

Her gaze turned toward me.

It was as if time had stopped. As if only Lisette and I existed in this world, we gazed at each other endlessly.

Her low voice settled down into the valley below.

“I knew.”

“…”

“I also knew that a precious child would come to find me today.”

She smiled tenderly, and I froze like someone whose breath had stopped.

“What do you mean… what…”

When I asked as if squeezing out the words, Lisette’s eyes reddened.

“Because I’ve been looking forward to the day I would meet you for a very long time.”

“…”

“You’ve grown so much, Leblaine.”

Lisette, holding the child the size of a forearm in her arms, pulled down the blanket with very gentle hands.

The moment the child’s appearance was revealed, the fierce wind became gentle.

As the wind brushed past the child’s red cheeks as if soothing them, the child moved slightly.

Light brown hair.

A mole on the neck.

Even though the child couldn’t open its eyes since it was just born, I could tell.

That the pupils inside those eyelids would be the same color as mine.

“Ah….”

As my legs gave out and I collapsed, Adrian hurriedly supported me.

“Leblaine….”

“…It was me.”

“….”

“It was me.”

Why didn’t I know?

Why didn’t I try to find out?

Why didn’t I realize the miracle that happened to me until now?

If Father were here, I would want to tell him.

Don’t stand there alone and sadly holding that child’s shoes anymore. Don’t feel heartbroken thinking you failed to protect her. Baby Bird was always by Father’s side.

I was Baby Bird.

* * *

Lisette, who had handed the baby—that is, my past self—to Reina, approached me.

“Come here, Little One.”

Not knowing what to do and only twisting my skirt hem tightly, Lisette smiled gently at me.

Adrian gently pushed my shoulder, so I awkwardly approached her.

“You’ve grown so much. The little child who couldn’t even kick in the womb.”

“….”

“Do you know how disappointed your father was that you didn’t let him feel your movements in the womb?”

She chuckled and rubbed her nose against mine.

“I… I…”

“I’m sorry I couldn’t be by your side.”

“….”

“I’m sorry I only learned of the hardships coming to you this morning.”

“…Ma.”

Gripping my hand tightly, she spoke with sorrowful tears flowing.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t be by your side, Little One.”

“…Mother.”

I spoke a word I had never said once since birth.

For me, who had never once cried calling for Mother, it was such a strange emotion.

Adrian and Reina seemed to have grasped the situation through our conversation.

Adrian, who had come directly to the past with me, bowed his head with a somber expression, and Reina gaped in disbelief.

“That’s impossible. Such a thing… That kind of….”

That’s when it happened.

“Found you.”

A chilling voice echoed through the valley.

‘The Heavy Armored Man!’

It seemed that the man who had stained me with blood had not died and had found us.

His shoulder, mangled by the monster bird’s bite, had healed in a grotesque, bumpy way that made him look like a monster himself, sending chills down my spine.

Mother quickly hid me behind her back, and Adrian stepped forward to block the man.

Adrian’s expression hardened as he gripped his weapon tighter.

“Damn it….”

‘He’s running low on Divine Power.’

The Activation Seal won’t appear.

All he has is a single sword.

I grabbed onto Etoile.

‘Pur.’

Pur!

No matter how much I called, there was no answer.

‘What should I do? What can I do…!’

The Heavy Armored Man raised his hand. But there was something carved on the back of his hand that hadn’t been there before.

‘A red mark….’

Only then did I realize.

The true identity of the ‘Man with Red Mark on Hand’ who had been tormenting me and Our Family all this time.

‘He survived using alchemy, and as a side effect, remnants of the alchemy remained on the back of his hand!’

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