The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 231

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Chapter 231

Mina, who had been staring at me intently, soon groaned “Hmm…” and shook her head.

“That won’t work. It’s not mine, so I can’t bet it as I please.”

“Are you avoiding it? Because you’re scared?”

When I threw her earlier words right back at her, Mina’s eyes widened. However, she soon let out a small laugh and waved her hand dismissively.

“Ah, sorry. I did say to accept the duel even if it made you feel bad, but hearing those words myself made me realize it feels worse than I thought.”

“And?”

“You’re right. It was underhanded, yes.”

When Mina nodded, protests erupted from within the maze.

“What are you saying!”

“If you say things like that─!”

Mina said “Now, now,” as she calmed down her teammates.

“Leblaine’s words aren’t wrong. This is a dirty trick. Let’s work hard in our own way. It’s not right to steal the results of another team’s efforts in an instant.”

“Mina!”

Allen shouted, but Mina firmly shook her head and looked at me.

“I’m sorry. I was being despicable.”

“…”

“And thank you for teaching me when I was about to do something wrong.”

“…”

“This is trouble. I keep liking you more and more. Ah, this is problematic. At this rate, I’ll become like a piece of gum stuck to you.”

“That really would be troublesome.”

It was Emeline who spoke.

Emeline climbed up onto the maze and glared at Mina.

“Emeline, let’s be friends. I like you too, you know. I was really moved when you spoke so decisively earlier. I realized I can’t carelessly judge matters from a world different from mine.”

Emeline flinched and looked at that girl, while Mina laughed “Ehehe” and scratched her head.

“I’m someone with many shortcomings, so if it’s okay with you, I’d like you to continue teaching me many things from now on.”

Mina smiled brightly, then hearing the protests from below the maze, went “Oops” and jumped down into the maze.

Then she waved at me and Emeline from below.

“Let’s both do our best!”

─she said.

First place wasn’t overturned.

We managed to handle one more yellow barrier at the last moment, maintaining first place with 8 points.

And second place was…

“Amazing. You handled two red barriers.”

“The new Child of Fate… As expected, her abilities are on a different level from ordinary people.”

Mina’s team, which had handled two red barriers in the maze during the 30 minutes, took second place with 6 points.

* * *

About an hour had passed since the evaluation ended.

The male professor in charge of class placement evaluation and several other professors entered the training ground carrying bundles of parchment.

The professor in charge of class placement evaluation held up the parchment and called out students’ names.

“Rositra, Migels, Hatan. Class D.”

The children called to Class D had pale expressions and didn’t know what to do.

“Mikhail, Jody, Class D. And Sandra, Chris, Class A.”

The students called to Class A breathed sighs of relief.

“Palpati, Allen are Class B.”

“What?!”

Allen shrieked. People’s gazes focused on Allen, whose face had turned red with excitement.

‘Allen is in Class B?’

Even Emeline and I looked at the professor with puzzled expressions.

The professor looked at Allen with an expressionless face.

“Do you have complaints about the placement?”

“Y-Yes! I was in the same group as Sandra and Chris, who were just assigned to Class A. So why am I in Class B!”

“What did you do in the evaluation?”

“Excuse me?”

“Sandra found the red barrier with search magic, and Chris decoded the barrier’s cipher and disabled the yellow barrier twice. What did you do?”

“I, I…”

“Not only did you not contribute to your team earning points, but you constantly opposed what your teammates discussed and decided. Using the cheat sheet as an excuse.”

“I-I wasn’t the only one who got the cheat sheet!”

“I’m not blaming the cheat sheet. Nothing is more precious than information in war. Excellent tactics emerge only when considering everything: maps of foreign countries, the condition of commanders, and so on. The problem is that you blindly trusted the information.”

“Excuse me…?”

“How could you be certain that this test wouldn’t differ by even a single detail from the information you had? Because the barrier colors were different? Because rescuing hostages by breaking barriers was the test content?”

“Th-That’s…”

“You didn’t gain an advantage in information warfare; you were irresponsible.”

“Professor!”

“In fact, your cheat sheet was wrong. In the previous test, purple barriers could be broken with your level of skill, but now it’s different. Purple barriers have attack magic embedded in them. If you had attacked recklessly, not only the hostages inside but even the attacking students would have been severely injured.”

“…”

“From a personal perspective, most of these new students are failing grades!”

The professor roared like thunder. Allen became speechless, and even the other students were flustered.

The professor looked around at the students with sharp eyes.

“Commanders who panicked at unexpected events and made their subordinate officers anxious.”

The team leaders who had just screamed helplessly when I covered the maze with a roof flinched.

“Those who entered the battlefield recklessly following others without a plan.”

The students who had hurriedly entered the maze following Emeline and me looked dejected.

“Those who focused on scores rather than understanding the test content and tried to steal points from the opposing side.”

This evaluation was training for combat situations where hostages were captured in foreign countries.

The students who had been fighting over the hostages also looked bewildered.

“Among this year’s new students, only one person was worth anything.”

The professor’s gaze fixed on me. Naturally, the students also focused their attention on me.

The professor who had been staring intently at me spoke.

“As soon as the test was announced, you came up with a strategy, performed the task excellently by understanding the content rather than focusing on points, gave precise instructions to your team member to make efficient use of the limited time, and subdued the opponent to support your moving team member.”

“Pardon?”

“Excellent, Leblaine.”

Agreeing voices came from among the upperclassmen who had been watching the training ground.

“She’s clever. She reversed the numerical disadvantage by changing the terrain.”

“Monopolizing the high ground to limit the opposing team’s vision was also amazing.”

“She didn’t look like a new student. She’d be useful even if thrown into battle right away.”

Feeling a bit dazed, I fidgeted with my fingertips when Emeline poked my side.

“What are you doing? They said you did well.”

“Huh…?”

“I think you… did pretty well today too.”

Emeline was quite stingy with praise. To hear words of approval from her mouth.

I looked at the professor and grinned broadly, and the professor let out a small chuckle.

“Leblaine and Emeline, Class A.”

Emeline and I took deep breaths and looked at each other.

Emeline tried to regain her composure, but judging by how she bit her lips tightly and covered her reddened eyes with the back of her hand, she seemed very moved as well.

‘Actually, I was incredibly anxious since there were only two of us.’

If I was this happy, how much more so must Emeline be.

The professor nodded and continued speaking.

“Lastly, Mina, Class A.”

“Thank you!”

With this, the class assignment evaluation was over.

Emeline and I entered Class A, received recognition as the most excellent team, and even obtained the mentor selection priority.

* * *

“But what is mentor selection priority?”

During dinner, Emeline heard my muttering and set down her spoon with a thud, looking exasperated.

“You fool! How can you not know about Odis Academy’s mentor system! It’s been all the buzz since we arrived at school!”

“Living as a noble young lady… everyone around me gathered information for me, so I never thought I’d need to look into such things myself. What exactly is it?”

“Didn’t your brothers tell you?”

“My brothers don’t talk about school at home. Rather than telling me things, they prefer to ask questions.”

“What did you do today?”

“What did you eat?”

“Did anyone bully you?!”

Emeline shook her head as if fed up, thinking of my brothers who had earned the nickname “Leblaine’s devoted fools” over the past 8 years.

“Right, if it’s your brothers… The mentor system is simply put, ‘school-designated sworn siblings.'”

“School-designated sworn siblings?”

“You form sworn sibling bonds and seniors guide their juniors. You can get penalty points for each other’s mistakes, and sometimes you’re paired up for combat. So for you, whose goal is golden connections, it’s an invaluable system.”

“Mentor preemption means…!”

“Starting with tonight’s freshman welcome party, new students can request mentors from seniors, but we can designate seniors before anyone else, and unless the senior formally objects to the school, we can make them our mentor. Of course, you can also request mentorship from Elysiano Class students.”

“That’s amazing!”

I shouted excitedly.

‘Who should I choose? Who should I pick?’

The princess sounds appealing, and the candidate for chief of the Crocus tribe seems good too.

‘The chief candidate holds the trade routes to other continents, so maybe that direction? No wait, rather than creating a merchant nation, I should first build up military strength… Then maybe the twin princes would be good.’

As I got excited and laughed sinisterly while holding my fork, Emeline chuckled.

“Emeline, have you decided on a senior to make your mentor?”

“I’ve been looking at just one person from the beginning.”

“Who?”

“The witch of Elysiano Class, Lady Juliet!”

Emeline cupped her cheeks with an ecstatic expression.

“If the Empire has Javelin, then the Mohas Kingdom has Juliet. You’ve heard of her, right?”

“The witch, Juliet… Yes, she’s famous. The infamous one who completely erased an entire region in the Battle of Robes…”

“Isn’t she so cool? Becoming Lady Juliet’s mentee and joining the White Horse Unit where Lady Javelin was… Ah! Plus, Lady Juliet is the first illegitimate child to enter Elysiano Class.”

“There’s Adrian though?”

“Prince Adrian is second. Ah, don’t talk about that! It makes me angry just thinking about being rejected.”

“You mean when you tried to seduce Adrian?”

“A shameful moment of my youth.”

Emeline shook her head in disgust, making me burst into laughter.

‘So that’s why my brothers said to meet tonight – because there’s a freshman welcome party.’

The mentor system is important, but I realized one thing.

‘I need someone to gather information for me.’

In the Empire, I had plenty of information through Dubbled’s dark birds, Hope Trading Company which had established itself as the Empire’s top trading company, and the chairman who had strong ties with seasoned nobles, but now it’s different.

‘Here, I’m the most vulnerable when it comes to information. I don’t know much since I never came here before my regression.’

In contrast, Mina, who came from another world, already had all sorts of information.

I glanced slyly at Mina’s table where crowds of people had gathered.

Mina had Sandra, who had good relationships with people, and Allen, whose brothers all attended Odis Academy, by her side, so she was being introduced to all kinds of people.

“Are you just going to leave her be?”

At Emeline’s question, I turned my head with a “Huh?”

“That girl is getting people in her grasp like that.”

“Are people objects to be grasped?”

“You know you’ve been saying things that aren’t like you lately, right?”

“That was kind of righteous, wasn’t it? Ah, it doesn’t suit me. Seeing Mina reminds me of when I was the Young Lady of Amitie.”

I grinned with the fork in my mouth.

“Lady Dubbled should be wicked. Right?”

“What are you planning to do…?”

I grinned while looking at Allen who was flirting next to Mina.

“Something like me.”

Just as Allen picked up his plate and stood up, I also rose from my seat.

Emeline grabbed me and asked.

“What are you going to do?”

“I should get myself an informant too.”

With those words, I cleared my plate and followed Allen.

Allen, who was sitting alone on the school bench, took something out and started chattering.

“Oh, well, Mother told me to trust only me. She said the second Child of Fate has fallen head over heels for me. You should consider bringing the second Child of Fate as a daughter-in-law. The first one? Oh, that girl is too arrogant for my taste. She acts so high and mighty just because she’s Lady Dubbled—”

‘That’s a communication stone.’

Is he crazy?

Using an unauthorized communication stone freely at school?

‘So that was his purpose for acting friendly toward Mina.’

By antagonizing me, he wanted to win Mina’s heart and take the second Child of Fate as his wife.

“Oh, B-Class. Professor, because of that crazy bastard, I—”

“Hello?”

Allen, who had been chattering away with the communication stone, whipped his head around.

“You, you…!”

“Why don’t you end the communication?”

Allen cleared his throat and ended the communication. After putting the communication stone in his pouch, he said.

“This is something my elder brother temporarily entrusted to me. He said it’s the school’s communication stone.”

“I didn’t ask.”

“Then why did you follow me? Why are you bothering me… Don’t tell me you like me? You want to be with me?”

What kind of nonsense is this?

“That will never happen.”

Those weren’t my words. A blonde man who appeared from the darkness stared intently at Allen.

“Adrian…”

The wind blew. Through his flowing beautiful blonde hair, predatory eyes could be glimpsed.

And then.

“Rian!”

I heard Mina’s voice from behind. That girl who had run over frantically was gasping for breath while holding her knees.

“This is really too much. Do you know how much I’ve been looking for you? How can the person who dragged me here just abandon me like this— Leblaine?”

Mina’s eyes widened when she saw me.

“Why are you here… Oh, wait. Let’s talk later. I have something to discuss with Rian—”

Just then.

Adrian approached me. Carefully placing his hand on my cheek, he said.

“Why are you hurt here?”

“Huh?”

“You’re hurt.”

“Oh, Mina over there says she has something to tell us─”

“Is that more important than you being injured?”

I looked around at Mina, who was rolling her eyes and staring wide-eyed, Allen who was watching such Mina, and Adrian who was only focused on me.

‘What exactly is this atmosphere?’

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