The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 183

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Chapter 183

The Red-spotted Man staggered toward us.

“You’ve been running away like a rat all this time. Filthy girl, you dared to roll your body that received revelation in the mud, so even That Person won’t be able to save you.”

“Shut your mouth, Benedict.”

Lady Lisette, no, Mother seemed to know him well. When she retorted in a cold tone, the man’s face contorted.

“Even in this situation, only your mouth…”

“Your stupidity of not understanding after being told once remains the same. I’ll kindly tell you again. Shut that mouth of yours. Don’t stink up the place in front of my child.”

“What did you say?!”

I gasped and looked at Mother.

“I must have warned you several times ten years ago too. That if you called me a damn girl one more time, I’d burst your balls.”

“You, you damn girl…!”

“Even my three-year-old son would know more words than you. How is it possible to consistently repeat the same words for 20 years? If you have a head attached, please study and live.”

‘Wow…’

I had noticed Mother’s extraordinariness since reading the note my aunt had kept, but seeing it in person, she was braver than I thought.

The man’s face turned red and blue with rage.

“Even if your neck gets twisted by my hands, let’s see if only your mouth survives. I’ll let you and that gutsy girl tour the afterlife together!”

The thoroughly excited man rushed at Mother.

Just as his pot-lid-sized fist was about to reach Mother, she quickly tripped his ankle, knocked him down, and struck between his legs.

“Guhheuk…!”

A crushing groan burst out.

Mother swept back her long hair and caught her rough breath.

“If you put my child in your dirty mouth one more time, you’ll see the mad dog of Quanteum again.”

“Crazy… this crazy girl…!”

Then.

BOOM─!!

With a thunderous sound, the area behind us began to catch fire.

Mother, who had paused, turned around.

Looking down at us from above the valley was the mage I had seen with Benedict.

With his robe removed, the Neriad Church Emblem was glowing on his cheek.

Adrian, seeing him, muttered.

“…Cardinal Paul.”

Hearing his name, I flinched and turned my head.

“Paul?”

A man that even I, who grew up as the Child of Fate, had never seen before.

Cardinal Paul was a member of Pope Christian’s guard who worked underwater for the temple.

And─

‘The one who possesses the most powerful strength among the cardinals.’

A monster of a man who received the title of Saint for single-handedly defeating the ancient weapons from the plateau during the Holy Demon War.

‘Even if Adrian and I recover our divine power as usual, we could never defeat that bastard.’

Mother hid me behind her back and shouted at Paul.

“How tiresome that you keep chasing us, Paul!”

“If the Saint had been as discreet as others, I wouldn’t have had to search so desperately like this.”

“It’s only natural to run away from a place full of lunatics who arbitrarily issue revelations and arbitrarily call me a saint. Put out the fire immediately! Do you know how many civilian houses are below here!”

“It’s an unavoidable sacrifice for the greater cause.”

Mother’s expression became anxious.

The fire was rapidly spreading to the trees. If it wasn’t extinguished quickly, the casualties would be severe.

‘Of all times, it’s winter so each house would have stored oil.’

Moreover, during this season, heat stones are distributed for the territory residents suffering from the cold.

‘If fire catches them, they’ll explode without time to escape.’

Normally, real-time fire detection is done through barriers to prevent winter forest fires from reaching the heat stones, but with the chaos from enemy assault, the detection tower couldn’t be operating properly.

“Hand over the child, Saint.”

When Paul spoke arrogantly, Mother hugged the past me who was rustling inside the blanket.

“What mother would hand her cub over to a beast.”

“How could only the Saint have maternal love. What do you think the parents below the mountain will think watching their children burn to death.”

“….”

“Since you are wise, think carefully. We will take utmost care of the child. The Saint need only temporarily separate the child from her embrace to save countless territory residents.”

“Paul!”

A wailing-like shout echoed through the mountainside.

Reina whispered “Madam….” in a helpless voice.

Mother’s hands were trembling. She was paralyzed between the lives of countless territory residents and her child.

Even while Mother agonized, the forest fire was growing larger and larger.

I gently took Mother’s hand and whispered.

“It’s okay.”

“….”

“I’m a strong child who finds joy even while going through all kinds of hardships!”

When I said this with a bright smile, Mother’s face twisted painfully.

Just then, Benedict, who had been groaning, raised his body. His lips were twisted meanly. Having known Mother for so long, he seemed certain she would never abandon the territory residents.

Mother, who had hung her head low for a moment, slowly raised her face to look at Paul.

“I am….”

Resignation settled on her expression. Seeing her shoulders droop, Paul raised the corner of his mouth.

“Yes, Saint. The right choice─”

“I suppose I’m not destined to be a wise person. No matter how much I think about it, I can’t hand my child over to you bastards.”

“What did you say?”

Mother placed the past me in my arms.

“Go.”

“Mother?”

“I’ll stop the wildfire, so hurry!”

Reina, realizing the meaning behind Mother’s actions, rushed at Benedict to buy them time.

“N-no, I don’t want to.”

Mother looked at Adrian. Then she whispered something to him and pressed something into his hand. After confirming what it was, Adrian nodded.

“No matter what happens.”

As soon as she smiled brightly, Adrian swept me up into his arms.

“N-no! Put me down!”

“We have to go.”

“No! I said put me down!”

Mother!

Mother─!!

I reached out toward Mother as Adrian carried me away.

“I don’t want to! I won’t go! Mother─!”

The baby in my arms burst into tears. As if she knew we would never see Mother again.

* * *

Kwaaaaang─!!

As soon as the Activation Seal appeared on the back of Lisette’s hand, thunder roared across the sky.

Soon dark clouds covered the full moon and rain began to fall, drop by drop.

[You stupid fool…!]

Someone’s voice echoed through Lisette’s mind.

[Wicked girl, swindler, mad dog. …You liar!]

“I’m sorry, Pur.”

[You said you’d be our friend, that you’d never abandon us, yet here you are throwing your own life into the mud, you fool!]

[Stop it, you pathetic one. The one who suffers most is Lisette.]

[….]

At The Man’s voice, Lisette hung her head.

‘Ah, my friends.’

Lisette Shayman was a special being who had received a revelation even before birth.

[Child of black feathers. Born under the eternal moon, she shall become the womb that creates beginning and end.]

The elders of the Temple were excited, saying this revelation pointed to the holy mother who would bear the child of God they had long awaited.

If she bore offspring, she would bring eternal prosperity to the Religious Order.

But when she was actually born, an Impure Mark was carved on her shoulder.

Though she had received a sacred revelation, the priests found her repulsive as an impure being, and because of this, she had to live her entire life consumed by loneliness.

The only beings who had loved such a person were these ones.

A pitiful being bound to the shrine’s Etoile.

My angels who spoke to me when no one else would, became my friends, and showed me the world.

I escaped from the shrine wanting to save those bound by God Neriad’s chains and cursed with servitude.

One of my friends trapped in Etoile said:

It was a foolish act. That I would eventually be caught by the shrine and live a more terrible life than before.

‘You were wrong.’

Her life only began after leaving the shrine.

She met a family who loved each other dearly despite not sharing blood, met a man to whom she could willingly give her heart, and bore three beloved sons.

And…

‘Leblaine, I met you.’

The child who always appeared in my dreams when loneliness became pain and I lived each day just enduring.

“What’s life anyway? Even if you can’t eat, you gotta live!”

“What’s left from living virtuously? In that case, I’ll become a very bad child!”

When she learned only this morning that the child from her dreams was her daughter, she felt joy before the sadness of their impending separation.

I knew you from the beginning.

You were my dream and hope. I wanted to live like you. I’ve always loved you.

Because you’re so bright.

Because you’re so lovable.

Because you’re a child who can’t help but be loved by everyone.

‘Because there are many people who will love you even without me.’

“Damn bitch!”

Benedict, who had finally thrust his sword into Reina’s chest, approached her.

Paul, who had jumped down from the cliff, was also closing the distance.

‘To be able to give birth to you, what a blessed existence I am.’

Benedict’s sword rang out sharply. The dark tendrils extending from Paul’s hand approached her neck.

“Madam!”

In the distance, she could see Lea and Cecilia running toward them.

“Cough…!”

“The criminal who dared steal the Religious Order’s First Sacred Relic shall go to God’s embrace.”

“To God’s embrace.”

As Benedict and Paul wore vile smiles, Lisette grinned wickedly.

“Did you forget? I’m Quanteum’s mad dog.”

“What?”

When Paul frowned, Lisette shouted.

“When I bite, I take one down with me.”

“This crazy…!”

“Let’s go together, garbage!”

BOOM─!!

A dull explosion echoed through the air.

“Madam!”

“No!!”

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