The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 235

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Chapter 235

Hayton and I walked down the corridor together. Wherever people could be seen, gazes poured onto us like flies swarming to fruit.

When I glanced at the people whispering while looking at us, Hayton quickened his pace and said.

“They’re wondering if I’m the person you’ll choose as your sworn brother.”

“I thought they’d naturally assume I’d choose Eliciano?”

“West has fallen head over heels for the second Child of Fate. They think if the second one establishes their position with Eliciano first, there won’t be room for you. Your wonderful brothers can’t step forward since they’re actually siblings with you.”

“So as a consolation prize, you chose me from Class A, Ryu Honghae’s sworn sibling?”

“It’s a reasonably plausible theory, isn’t it?”

While talking, we reached our destination.

When Hayton faced his activation seal, the barrier melted away like slime.

I grabbed the door handle of the room visible before me and said.

“No possibility.”

“….”

“Thanks for today.”

And as I tried to enter through the door, Hayton slammed it shut again with a bang! As I frowned and turned around, trapped in his embrace, Hayton said.

“Then you shouldn’t have come looking for me. So I wouldn’t get my hopes up.”

“….”

“You don’t know what kind of feelings I’ve had while dedicating myself to my studies all these years─”

“You’re being pathetic.”

At my words, Hayton flinched and asked “What?”

“Want to act like a tragic male lead? Then go do it somewhere else, you fool.”

“You may not know, but I─!”

“I know.”

“What?”

Hayton blinked with a bewildered expression.

I turned my body to face him with my arms crossed.

“How could I not know when you look at me so longingly?”

“Then why until now….”

“When you haven’t said anything, what could I say? Should I suddenly tell you to stop liking me? Would that have cut it off cleanly like slicing radish?”

“….”

“No. The more I did that, the more you would have obsessed over me. I know you well. Better than you think.”

At first, he was a sixteen-year-old boy who had lost his place to lean on. He looked at me as if searching for a new nest, and as time passed, the depth of his gaze changed.

He wanted to know not his patron, but ‘me’, wanted to make himself known, became jealous of others by my side, and eventually found the name for his own emotions.

But in my second life, I had lived as siblings with that guy for over ten years.

Even aside from what he and the Former Duke Valois did to me, Hayton, who had lived as my sibling, could never be a romantic interest to me.

“Still, I’ll say it. Give up. I will never take your hand. This isn’t because of you or your situation, but because there’s not even a trace of you in my heart.”

“You won’t even give me a chance?”

Hayton asked through gritted teeth, so I answered firmly.

“Yes.”

“….”

The hand that had been gripping the door slowly fell away. I looked steadily at Hayton, who had moved a little further back, and said.

“But I’ll gratefully remember your feelings.”

Hayton lifted his lowered head slightly to look at me. His pupils were trembling faintly.

“Become a good man, Hayton.”

“….”

“So you can meet someone a hundred times better than me.”

With those words, I opened the door. Behind me, I heard Hayton’s small murmur.

“I can’t give up….”

“….”

“I can’t….”

I pretended not to hear and closed the door. Because I had no heart to give back to him.

I was letting out a deep sigh when.

“Does Hayton like you?”

Gasp!

Startled out of my wits, I clutched my chest.

“Don’t be surprised. I’m just a prince.”

It was East.

With shackles on both arms and legs, he looked at me with sparkling eyes.

“Ah, yes…. Your Highness….”

He was indeed a prince, but hearing it directly from him was bewildering.

“Why did you come? Is West looking for me? Does he hate me? Right?”

“Why did you do something to be hated for?”

“West was bad.”

“Why?”

“I was just born a little earlier than West, but I have to yield everything to West. Because I’m the older brother.”

“….”

“West can stay up late and run around, but I can’t. Because I’m the older brother.”

“….”

“Yesterday Her Majesty scolded me. She said West got hurt because I didn’t take care of him. Because I’m the older brother….”

“….”

“West did Beast Transformation more, but I get caught and scolded for transforming just once. Because I’m the older brother. I hate being the older brother!”

“That’s why I came.”

“Huh?”

“Because looking at East reminds me of someone.”

“Who?”

“Our Big Brother. That day, when you hesitated while trying to attack West, your expression reminded me of our Big Brother.”

I crouched down in front of East, resting my elbows on my knees and propping my chin on my hands.

“I’m originally a very selfish person, so I don’t care about other people’s business. But I keep, I keep thinking about Big Brother.”

“….”

“I don’t look at household documents or anything like that. Because Big Brother does it all for me. Younger Sister, Henri, Isaac and I go to sleep at midnight, but Big Brother only gets 4-5 hours of sleep a day. Because he’s the Eldest Brother. He thinks if he sleeps even one more hour, his siblings will have to take on the time he wasted.”

“….”

“Henri and Isaac cause all sorts of trouble at the Academy, you know? Isaac is someone whose fists are faster than his words, and Henri may not look like it, but he’s someone who returns malice tenfold.”

“Henri does seem like that.”

“Anyway. But Big Brother attended the Academy very quietly.”

“Because he was capable?”

“Because he’s the eldest. As the representative of the siblings, he can’t do anything that would shame us. But Big Brother got angry exactly once, you know? When I first saw him after being adopted.”

“Why did he get angry?”

“Because I found out he was sick. He didn’t want to be caught because the Eldest Son has to be strong. But….”

I smiled brightly and stared directly at East.

“He couldn’t even get angry properly. Just like East at the Party Hall, he’d get angry but then make an expression like he was more hurt than anyone else.”

“…That’s how he lived.”

“Right. Because the eldest has always been told to consider and yield to younger siblings. Getting angry is also something he’s not supposed to do.”

East pressed his lips together tightly. His jaw was distorted and his eyes were teary.

“But getting angry… it’s not because I really hate my younger brother.”

“Yes.”

“I wasn’t trying to hurt him…. I was angry at West, but I know I shouldn’t hurt him, but this time too someone was only protecting West, and I looked like a bad older brother, so, so… I was wrong.”

I stroked East’s head.

“I know.”

“Ugh….”

East soon burst into tears.

How could he not be sad? The guilt of trying to attack his younger brother, of hurting someone, the fear of being confined. He must have been enduring everything.

After carefully ruffling his hair for a while, once he had calmed down somewhat, I spoke up.

“You know what? East might get expelled.”

At my words, he made a frightened expression.

“N-no. The Retainers will say the Black Wolf Prince should be dethroned. To make the White Wolf Prince the crown prince. Then Her Majesty will cry….”

“So won’t you make a deal with me?”

“Huh?”

“I told you. I’m a selfish person. A hyena who doesn’t miss opportunities.”

East blinked, and I raised the corner of my mouth wickedly.

“I’ll help East so that the Queen of Waynes won’t cry. Then will East help me too?”

East, who had been staring at me intently, smiled brightly.

“Good. You smell mischievous, but you don’t smell like a bad person!”

“Deal made.”

We faced each other and laughed wickedly, hehe.

* * *

I flinched when I saw the people standing in front of the door as I left the room where East was confined.

“Brothers?”

Seeing my expression asking why they were here, Isaac crossed his arms and spoke.

“Did you forget why East is locked up? Young beastman individuals are sensitive to emotions and can’t control their beast transformation. That’s why we confined him, worried the students might be in danger— Mmph!”

I quickly covered Isaac’s mouth.

“The walls here are thin. East can hear everything.”

“Mmph! Mmph!”

“Let’s talk while walking, while walking.”

I started walking, and Henri and Isaac sighed before following me.

After leaving the building and reaching a deserted place, I looked at my brothers.

“East is controlling his emotions well, and he wasn’t dangerous.”

“Even so…!”

“It reminded me of Big Brother, so I couldn’t not go. East’s eyes when he looked at West in the hall were too similar to Johan who can’t even properly get angry at us.”

“…”

Isaac closed his mouth with a snap.

“…How can you use such a cowardly excuse! It makes my heart soft!”

“Anyway. So that’s why I need you brothers to help me a bit.”

“What, how?”

When I giggled, Henri let out a small laugh.

“That’s the expression of someone thinking bad thoughts, isn’t it?”

“Henri is so perceptive.”

“So, what do we need to help you with and how?”

“Well, you see…”

When I whispered my plan to them, Henri and Isaac’s eyes widened.

After hearing the whole story, the two looked at each other and said.

“Little One has really gotten cunning. Truly Elder Brother’s younger sister.”

“Acting before thinking is just like your younger sister.”

Saying that, both of them simultaneously ruffled my hair.

“Alright, we’ll help you.”

“Yeah.”

I covered my mouth with both fists and laughed “Ehehe.”

And from that afternoon, I began executing my operation.

As I wandered around the school grounds, I let out a groan.

‘Where on earth is West?’

When I heard he was seen at the First Dormitory and went near the dormitory, they said he went to the Eliciano Conference Room, and when I went to the conference room, they said he went to the lecture hall.

‘He must be with Mina. As expected, Mina moves around too much—’

[She’s quite the social butterfly. A total insider.]

I flinched when I heard Cheolsu’s voice by my ear.

‘Could you not startle me? I can’t lose concentration. Especially not now!’

Henri had taught me a way to secretly use divine power within the school.

It was a method to interpret the barrier laid throughout the school. If I could interpret this barrier, I’d be able to use my power.

[It’s like how middle and high school students secretly use the school WiFi. If you secretly find out the password, you can use the WiFi.]

‘What’s WiFi? No, cancel that question. You’re going to ramble on endlessly again, aren’t you?’

But Cheolsu, who had already seized the opportunity, poured out explanations as if he had a trumpet attached to his mouth as usual.

[WiFi is, you see, a wireless communication technology that uses devices like smartphones, PCs, and—]

I gave up and trudged along. Just then, Emeline came running toward me.

“Leblaine!”

“Yeah?”

“I’ve been looking for you everywhere. Why are you here? Everyone went out to the mountain village.”

“We can go out to the mountain village?”

“Yeah, starting today they’re giving outing passes to new students too. The outing range is limited to the Second Gate though.”

“…Did Mina go too by any chance?”

“She left a while ago.”

“Where can I get an outing pass? It’ll take a long time, right?”

Emeline grinned and held out two outing passes in front of me. One had Emeline’s name on it, and the other had my name written on it.

“I got them for us.”

“Emeline, you’re amazing! The best! Dazzling!”

I quickly snatched my outing pass and rubbed the paper against my cheek.

“Let’s go. I heard Lady Juliet is in the mountain village, so I need to hurry and follow her. Oh, they said we can use teleportation formations at the school gate, but if we have to walk it’ll be annoying—”

This time I pulled out a teleportation formation from my pouch. Of course, it was a long-distance teleportation circle.

“It’s an honor being friends with Lady Dubbled.”

“Let’s make good use of each other.”

“Let’s go!”

Emeline and I quickly left through the school gate. And after tearing the teleportation formation and opening our eyes…

“What is this place? Emeline, you gave me the right coordinates, didn’t you?”

“I did…”

An alley filled with shabby houses that were all falling apart. It was a place reminiscent of the slums.

‘Don’t tell me we teleported beyond the Second Gate?’

This is bad.

If this happened, East’s expulsion wouldn’t be the problem. I might get expelled!

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