The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 221

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Chapter 221

And time passed.

I floated through mid-air as if I had become a soul separated from my body.

‘I’, that is, the girl, had only slept as if dead ever since being swept away by the river. The boy endlessly watched over his younger sister’s side.

[Wake up, Leblaine. The violets you love have bloomed all over the field. Let’s bake bread, bring fresh milk, and go on an outing. I won’t break my promise this time…]

My heart ached at the pitiful voice. As if I had become one with the girl.

But no matter how much time passed, ‘I’ did not open my eyes. As spring went and summer came.

That day was a day when rain fell without cease. A day when dark clouds covered the sun and day and night became ambiguous.

The boy ran out of the house.

[Please save Leblaine.]

The rain-soaked boy cried out before God, his pale blue lips trembling.

[Lord Serga can save my younger sister…!]

[Predetermined fate cannot be twisted.]

God reached out his hand toward the boy’s pale cheek.

Smack!

The boy who struck the hand away glared sharply at God. The Oracle who was beside God shouted [Neriad!], but the boy only gritted his teeth.

[Then what is the reason for God’s existence?]

[To guide.]

[Sophistry! Sophistry!! Always only sophistry…!!]

The boy screamed in rage. His eyes, distorted with anger, blazed bright red like those of a demon.

[Humans call you Father. How ridiculous. What father in the world would abandon a child groaning in pain?]

[Neriad─!!]

The Oracle shouted angrily, but Neriad twisted his lips.

[A guide? Don’t make me laugh. The place we arrived at by walking according to your will was ultimately hell. Wars never cease, and the children swept up in them live more miserably than beasts! You are an incompetent being who cannot even save a single child!!]

[…]

[Leblaine walked according to your will from beginning to end, and there’s no child as foolishly pure as her! That child lost her parents as soon as she was born, and at only five years old had to cross the desert to survive. For her pathetic older brother who couldn’t even feed her a single grass root, she starved for three whole days and still went begging to get food. She’s a child who would give everything she obtained to me and smile stupidly!]

[…]

[She believed in me who lied every time saying it would be just a few days, waited for me… waiting, and waiting again…!]

The one who had been screaming collapsed to the floor. He crawled across the ground and bowed his head beneath God’s feet.

[Please save me…]

[…]

[Please save me, I beg you…]

The boy clung to God’s legs and wailed like a child. Please save me, please save my younger sister. Repeating only those words.

The boy looked up at God with tear-soaked eyes. God slowly opened his mouth.

[Countless precious souls have faded away thus. Though I cherish you siblings, I cannot love only you two specially. If your sister’s life still remains, she will live, and if not, she will find peace in my embrace.]

[Why did you make humans finite…]

[Because finite things are beautiful.]

The boy stared blankly into God’s eyes and spoke.

[I curse you.]

In that moment, thunder shook heaven and earth. The angry Oracle’s voice echoed through the shrine, and God closed his eyes.

The boy was dragged away to prison by others.

In the dark prison where only a palm’s worth of light entered, he stared endlessly into mid-air.

One day, two days, three days, four days… Time passed endlessly.

On an autumn day when the boy was released from prison by God’s mercy.

The boy staggered out of the shrine with his emaciated body. And what he encountered was.

[Older Brother…!]

‘I’ running toward him with a bright smile.

The boy’s pupils shook greatly. ‘I’ ran without pause and leaped into his arms.

[Older Brother is an idiot. Do you know how worried I was?]

[You, Leblaine… how…]

[I woke up just a little while ago. But Older Brother wasn’t there!]

As I pouted and complained, the sound of chuckling came from beside us. It was Bune.

[Little One appealed to Lord Serga for you. With her unwell body, she tried so hard that all the Prophets were moved by the child and petitioned. Never again speak such impious words.]

[…]

The boy gasped heavily. ‘I’ hugged his waist and smiled brightly. Without realizing that his eyes were different from before.

That day, the boy’s special ability manifested.

The boy assisted Serga as before. With his outstanding abilities, after becoming an adult, instead of taking on the role of overseeing a territory like other Prophets, he traveled throughout the Human Realm bestowing God’s grace.

‘I’ waited endlessly for the boy who would be away from home for months at the shortest, or even years at the longest.

During this time, ‘I’ grew steadily. The hair that had fluttered behind my back grew down to my waist, my round face became slender, and I took on the complete bearing of an adult.

One day, God asked.

[Do you not resent me?]

[No.]

[How so? I am a weak parent who does not save humans groaning in pain, but merely gives them hope.]

[That is like a parent teaching a child to walk. When they fall, you do not lift them up, but instead teach them how to stand on their own.]

[I made human life finite, creating eternal farewells.]

[Beings without end cannot know the value of life. But because it is finite, a single flower blooming in the field and the warmth of clasped hands become precious. That is why humans are beautiful.]

God kissed the crown of ‘my’ head.

Time flowed like running water. From a certain point onward, large and small incidents began erupting in the Human Realm.

The cracks began in countries far from God.

Those who named themselves kings divided human status. Nobles and commoners, and slaves.

Those who lost in war became objects to be bought and sold.

It was different from the wars they had waged in alliance for grain.

When the Human Realm split into more than ten countries, the Seers realized. Among those to whom God had given wisdom, there was one consumed by desire.

He was ‘my’ older brother, Neriad.

I grabbed Neriad and shouted.

[Why? Why did you do it, why!]

[Since we cannot save everyone, what’s wrong with creating distinctions?]

[God gave you wisdom to save those who were starving!]

[Even God cannot properly save them. But when kings and nobles emerge, it’s different. If they serve under them, they at least receive wages. They won’t starve to death.]

[Older brother!]

[God!]

Neriad shouted at ‘me’.

[Don’t think of God as a savior! All the sorrows of this land originated from God’s hands. Because time is finite, because wealth is finite, they steal and fight.]

[…What are you trying to say?]

[Leblaine, haven’t you ever thought this? That to save humans, we need a more powerful god. If we use stronger power to make all humans born in positions suited to them and make them obedient, desire will disappear from this land. War too.]

[That’s stealing opportunity from humans. The opportunity to become happy on their own. If God decides all fate, they’d be no different from livestock.]

[Look. Livestock and humans. Even among species there are distinctions. Yet isn’t it strange to say there shouldn’t be distinctions among humans?]

‘I’ stepped away from Neriad and looked at him with an expression of disbelief.

[…You’re insane.]

[Everything is for the sake of pitiful humans.]

He kissed my forehead as he murmured.

[Leblaine, I want to give you a world without desire.]

[….]

[A world where you no longer cry. A world where you don’t have to shudder in fear of losing you.]

[If older brother doesn’t abandon his intentions, I will abandon older brother.]

[Someday you too will understand me.]

Only then did ‘I’ finally realize. The gears had gone awry, and the wheels had already left their path.

The number of humans following Neriad increased. On the land, sanctuaries honoring Neriad became more numerous than Serga’s temples.

This land was transforming into a mountain hell where desires constantly sprouted.

As time passed, oracles who sympathized with Neriad’s will began to emerge. The 【Wisdom】 bestowed by God was as prone to casting shadows as it was to shining brightly.

‘I’ asked God.

[Why do you not stop older brother?]

[Because that too is fate.]

[Do gods also have fate?]

[How could one who is mixed with humans be different from humans.]

[Is that so.]

[Why do you not resent God? Why do you not consider the lack of salvation as divine whim, but simply accept it?]

[Because I know that God still loves us.]

[….]

[Because I know that you shed hidden tears even when nameless small lives fade away. Thus I know that every day is sorrow and pain for God. Because I know that by not intervening, you are giving us opportunities.]

Serga stroked my cheek.

[How can there be such a precious soul.]

[….]

[You make me not give up on my creations.]

God was as gentle as always, but the world grew darker and darker.

After being lost in thought for days and nights in my home, I picked up my robe.

[Where are you going? If Lord Neriad finds out… Lady Leblaine!]

[I have to clean up the mess older brother made.]

[What kind of vulgar words are those…!]

‘I’ set out on a journey. Like immersing oneself in work to forget worries, I focused on gathering those who suffered.

Most of the work involved healing the sick. After months of tending to the sick using the divine herbs I had learned about at God’s side.

People called ‘me’ the goddess of healing.

[Indeed, that’s what they’re saying.]

[Then at least tell me your name. Mister Edelhof said he’s going to erect a statue of the goddess in the village, but he’s upset that he doesn’t even know her name.]

[What statue.]

[The goddess looked after all of Mister Edelhof’s children. Right? Please at least tell me your name. You’re not going to suddenly leave like you did from the last village, are you?]

The contemplating ‘me’ groaned and said.

This village was an abandoned place that Neriad’s Followers had swept through. If ‘I’ revealed that I was Leblaine, Neriad’s younger sister, everyone would be confused between resentment and gratitude.

When I glanced around, I could see a sign with faded letters in the distance. Mary Andreyas. The other letters were blurred, but the visible name was…

[Maria. I’m Maria.]

Hearing the words that came from ‘this time’s me’, I was startled.

What?

Maria was ‘me’?

Then, from behind, an angry voice burst out!

[Who dares to falsely claim to be a god!]

[You are…]

[I am Ras Sto, the Oracle who is training to replace Lord Huggart who has entered eternal sleep!]

‘Good grief.’

The Maria that idiot loved was ‘me’?

‘I betrayed him? That’s ridiculous!’

Because I had absolutely no interest in that guy whatsoever!

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