The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 207

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Chapter 207

Isaac’s first defeat.

Next, another challenger stepped into the ring. Henri approached Leblaine, who had started reading a book, and smiled brightly.

“Leblaine.”

“Hm?”

“Suheil is probably preoccupied with his father’s situation. Calling him while you’re helping with his father’s treatment would feel more like coercion than friendship. Being as kind as you are, you wouldn’t want Edgar Suheil to be forced to come, would you?”

His tone was incredibly gentle. Leblaine rolled her eyes as if organizing her thoughts, then answered.

“It’s fine!”

“…What?”

“Even if it’s coercion, I’m fine with it.”

Since I can’t care for everyone, I’ll prioritize caring for my people first.

Linda was someone who took the blame for my sake and still smiled, saying “How easy and exciting it is to just wait for Young Lady to save me.”

For such a precious person, it was fine to become a somewhat inconsiderate and somewhat rotten child.

When Leblaine smiled brightly, Henri quietly retreated.

It was his second defeat.

The next challenger was Duke Dubbled. The supreme authority, an unparalleled figure of power, declared in a stern voice.

“Currently, there are many matters being conducted secretly in the mansion. So─”

“Oh my!”

Clap, Leblaine clapped her hands and wrapped her arms around her father’s neck.

“I forgot to greet you today. Did you sleep well?”

“…Yes.”

“But you said there are many matters being conducted secretly?”

Theodore’s lips loosened into a foolish grin as he looked at his daughter hanging around his neck with wide eyes.

“…Never mind.”

“Yes!”

Another defeat as expected.

Henri and Isaac, who had been glaring at the Duke with displeasure, poked Johan’s side.

‘Are you just going to watch this?’

‘Do something.’

Under his two younger brothers’ fervent gazes, the voice of reason of Dubbled stepped forward.

“Youngest.”

When Leblaine turned her head, Johan looked at his youngest sister with dry eyes.

The employees watching the situation from a distance waited with tense faces for the final challenger’s attack.

Johan slowly opened his mouth.

“A little Fire Play is fine.”

“…Huh?”

At those pitiful words, Henri and Isaac’s faces twisted into menacing expressions.

‘Crazy…’

‘Has Eldest Brother lost his mind? Why is he spouting nonsense again!’

At that moment, Leblaine spoke with an aggrieved expression.

“I didn’t play with fire!”

─she said.

The Head Butler pressed his forehead. Then, sensing the signal of an approaching storm, he whispered to the employees who had turned pale.

“Bring That Person here.”

The one who always provided the right answers during Dubbled’s emergencies. Chairman Nuanok was summoned.

* * *

I sat obediently in the study chair with my hands folded, stealing glances at the Chairman.

“Well, I never knew Johan would spout such nonsense with such a serious face…”

“Why did you summon Prince Suheil?”

Since I couldn’t easily speak about Linda’s personal matters, I kept my mouth tightly shut, and the Chairman’s gaze became sharp.

“Miss. From ship modifications to shrine surveillance, trading company management, and finishing the selection process – even ten bodies wouldn’t be enough for me. Yet every time something happens, I have to drop what I’m doing and rush to the mansion, don’t I?”

“…”

“Even the Previous Duke didn’t work people this hard!”

Looking at the Chairman thrusting his haggard face forward, I laughed awkwardly, “Hehe.”

“Just wait a little longer. I’ll get you more staff.”

“You’ve been saying that for over a year now.”

“Ah, but I did bring back Trigon.”

“Would the Chief Court Mage, who has to be at the Imperial Palace all the time, really help with my work?”

“…No.”

Since I was guilty as charged, I had no choice but to hesitantly open my mouth.

“Only the Chairman needs to know?”

“When have I ever leaked Miss’s words to others?”

“Linda has a son. And that son is Edgar Suheil.”

“…!”

The pen dropped from the Chairman’s hand with a thud.

“…His Excellency and the Young Masters don’t know?”

“If they knew, wouldn’t Father have tried to use Edgar, given his personality?”

“That’s true… They must not know.”

“Linda has done so much for me. She’s such a precious person to me that I want to help her meet her son. Since it’s Linda’s personal matter, I don’t want to tell the family.”

“…We do owe Linda in many ways.”

The Chairman nodded and continued speaking.

“I understand. I’ll meet with the Young Masters and handle this situation. But how do you plan to send Storas back?”

“Huh?”

“If Maria Pool becomes the main ingredient for an effective medicine, demand will skyrocket. It will become impossible to erase traces of Maria from the Human Realm. You gave the Maria Pool to Taylor knowing this, didn’t you? We understood this to mean you had no intention of granting Storas’s wish.”

“Leave that to me. Oh, and speaking of which, could you move Dark Bird for me? I’ll ask Henri to help.”

When I grinned mischievously, the butler frowned.

“I wonder what cunning thoughts you’re having now… Though it’s amusing that you become reliable when you make that expression.”

The butler raised his eyebrow slightly and said “Understood” before withdrawing.

“I’ll be going then. Ah, have you been sleeping properly lately?”

“Huh?”

“Please sleep properly. And set your worries aside.”

After saying that, the butler left the room.

I pouted and rubbed my face.

‘How did he know I’ve been losing sleep lately?’

The butler has good instincts in strange ways. He’s remarkably perceptive.

‘If I had a grandfather, he’d probably be like the butler.’

Thinking that, I unconsciously looked at the portrait of the Previous Duke among the portraits of past Family Heads hanging on the study wall, whose face was burned, and frowned.

‘Not a bad grandfather. A good grandfather, I mean.’

I stuck my tongue out at the portrait and hopped down from the chair.

‘Alright, let’s get to work. I can’t send the butler to an early grave from overwork!’

That afternoon. Whatever the butler had said, my brothers’ expressions remained bright throughout.

At the dinner table, Isaac placed a large piece of cut meat on my plate.

Then he cleared his throat and said.

“…So what exactly are you so proud of about me?”

I was focused on eating lamb when I looked up with a “Huh?”

Isaac cleared his throat again and said.

“I mean, why do you want to brag about us so much? Isn’t it obvious that we’re superior to Edgar?”

Then Henri nudged Isaac and said.

“Stop it. You’re embarrassing Leblaine.”

I wasn’t embarrassed though?

Johan cut the meat Isaac had given me into smaller pieces and said.

“If you wanted to hear about Academy life, you could just ask us. You don’t need to call that guy over.”

Now I understood what words the butler had used to soothe my brothers.

It seemed he had said something like ‘The young lady is calling Prince Suheil to brag about you Young Masters’ or ‘She must be curious about school life too. Since you’re her precious elder brothers.’

I smiled awkwardly and said.

“Yeah. I’m proud of my brothers… I’m curious about how you’re doing at the Academy. I’ll be going to the Academy soon too.”

“Honestly. Little One likes us too much. Ah, will I even be able to have a proper school life with this burden?”

Then why do you keep grinning like that?

When I rolled my eyes from the burden, Father stabbed the meat Johan had cut with a fork and held it out to me.

“My graduation photograph is in the study.”

“…”

“…Why.”

“No reason.”

I never realized it when others said our family was abnormal, but looking at it now, those words might not have been entirely wrong.

For some reason, I had an ominous feeling.

And that ominous feeling became reality a few days later.

* * *

I held my forehead as I listened to the noisy voices coming from the reception room.

‘I asked them to invite only Edgar Suheil, not to hold a classmate gathering!’

All the students from Isaac and Henri’s class had been invited.

They were all young masters and ladies from tremendous families, so it wasn’t just a simple class exchange meeting.

“Ah, Henri is wise and so-sociable, the center of our class. There are many people who admire him…”

“I-Isaac, you’re in good spirits to-today too! He-hello, Young Lady. I-I usually receive help from Isaac. Isaac is a considerate friend who always has bread brought for me since I’m passive and don’t do much…!”

I looked with clouded eyes at the Academy students who were spouting praise for Henri and Isaac as if they had memorized it somewhere.

Isaac triumphantly put his arm around the shoulder of the student who had praised him.

“I really do help a lot. Right?”

“Ri-right!”

“I saved you when you got caught by the wild boar during training last time!”

“Ri-right! …It would have been better if you hadn’t thrown me into the wild boar pen… N-no, Isaac is my lifesaver!”

“Right. Smile, smile.”

I let out a deep sigh and gestured to Isaac.

“Isaac.”

“Yeah?”

“You can’t make your friends buy you bread. And throwing them into the wild boar pen is absolutely not allowed.”

“Huh?”

“Not allowed.”

“Okay…”

When I glared at him fiercely, Isaac hung his head dejectedly.

I spoke to Isaac’s classmate who was pitifully speaking mechanically.

“If he bullies you again, contact me. My communication stone code is…”

Then the classmate’s expression brightened considerably.

“Yes! Young Lady! Code, code… memo paper!”

“Me too!”

“Yes, I’d like to contact you too!”

The classmates all started looking for memo paper at once, and the employees began frantically running around with memo papers.

Linda was among them, and while handing memo paper to the dejected boy with dark purple hair, she accidentally dropped a bundle of memo papers.

“Oh, I’m sorry…”

“It’s fine.”

Edgar, who was next to the dark purple-haired boy, picked up the memo papers and handed them to her.

Linda looked up and her gaze met Edgar’s in the air.

“…”

“What are you doing. Take it.”

When Edgar, holding the memo paper, spoke to her, Linda bit her lips tightly.

That was when it happened.

KWAAGWANG─!!

The mansion began to shake with a tremendous roar.

‘What?!’

When I turned my head, killing intent rose from Storas’s entire body as he floated in mid-air.

[Even if I cannot kill you, I can make you suffer enough to wish for death. Foolish Daughter of God.]

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