The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 240

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Chapter 240

The corners of the chief’s mouth, who had been staring intently at me, twisted.

“What value could the treasures of the human world have to me, a Son of God?”

What is it with that god having so many things? After the Daughter of God, Servant of God, and God’s Creation, now a Son of God has appeared.

I skillfully concealed my displeasure and said.

“They may have had no value before, but not now.”

“What?”

“Why do you think Odis Academy sent out new students who were nothing more than greenhorns to battle against Kuhelm? They looked down on Kuhelm. They thought they could easily win even with a ragtag bunch.”

At the words disparaging the tribe, the expressions of the chief and tribe members turned menacing.

The chief shouted loudly.

“But Odis lost the Children of Fate to me!”

“Yes. Through the power of wealth.”

“….”

“Odis, who couldn’t be matched by Kuhelm’s spears, swords, and shamanism. You destroyed that Odis’s battle formation through the power of wealth. But is wealth really worthless?”

The chief’s eyes narrowed.

‘Good. He’s wavering.’

I didn’t miss the opportunity and pressed the chief further.

“I am the daughter of Duke Dubbled, who is said to possess the most wealth on this continent.”

“Are you telling me to contact your family and extort wealth from them? In exchange for returning you?”

The chief burst into a scornful laugh.

“You trust your silver tongue and look down on me, wench. Just because we reject foreign influence doesn’t mean we’re ignorant of the world. I know well that the moment I contact Dubbled, Dubbled’s war horses will trample our tribe!”

Though he shouted, I smiled as if unperturbed.

“When did I ever tell you to contact Dubbled?”

“…Then?”

“Being the daughter of Duke Dubbled, who possesses the most wealth on the continent, means I know well how to earn wealth.”

“….”

“Use me.”

Silence filled the room.

After staring at me intently for a while, the corners of his mouth slowly rose.

“Clever.”

“That’s right.”

He laughed heartily as if satisfied and spoke to the tribesmen in the room.

“She is an honored guest of Kuhelm. There must be no negligence in serving her.”

“Yes, Khan.”

“Yes.”

The tribesmen bowed their heads.

It meant my proposal had worked on the chief.

* * *

As soon as Mina and I entered the place where the students had gathered, guided by a Kuhelm tribesman, Emeline and Allen shot to their feet.

The Kuhelm tribesman bowed deeply toward me.

“We will prepare a meal for you. If you need anything else, please feel free to ask.”

The Kuhelm tribesman showed me excessive courtesy.

After the tribesman left, Allen looked at me with a strange expression.

“Why are those barbarians being so kind to you?”

“Because I made a deal with the chief.”

“What?!”

He shouted angrily and glared at me.

“A deal with the barbarians who kidnapped us?! Don’t you have any pride? As an Odis student, you should have died rather than disgrace the school’s honor!”

“You’re talking nonsense.”

“What, what?”

“If Kuhelm are barbarians like you say, then we already disgraced the school’s honor the moment we got captured without being able to say a word to barbarians, right? You disgraced the school’s honor, so why are you still alive?”

Allen couldn’t respond properly and stammered before bursting into a shout.

“Still, I didn’t make any deals with those barbarians─!”

That’s when it happened.

The door opened and tables laden with fatty meat, fresh fruit, grilled fish, and more were brought in.

“Let’s eat.”

It seemed the tribal chief had generously provided food for me, Kuhelm’s ‘honored guest.’

I sat down casually and began eating.

‘Oh, this is quite delicious.’

The meat was juicy and tender, and the fish was grilled with such perfect heat control that there wasn’t a hint of fishiness. Most of all, the fruit! The fruit was sweeter than what I’d eaten in the Empire.

Having starved all day, I ate frantically, and the students who had similarly not had a drop of water all day swallowed their saliva as they watched me.

“Why don’t you eat?”

Allen snorted dismissively.

“Do you think I’d beg from barbarians like you? Right, everyone?”

He looked around at the students after saying that. The students wore troubled expressions. They couldn’t talk back to Allen, but they seemed very hungry.

I looked at Allen with an incredulous expression.

“Not you.”

“What?”

“Emeline, come eat. You need to put something in your stomach whether we’re going to run away or attack.”

Emeline quickly answered “Right” and sat across from me.

“Mm, it’s delicious!”

“Right?”

We completely devoured the mere two pieces of meat that came out and washed down the grease remaining in our mouths with tangy orange juice.

‘Ah, I feel like I might live.’

I had been extremely tense before being deployed to the battlefield, then dragged around here and there, and was wearing heavy golden restraints that hadn’t been verified, so I was on the verge of fainting.

As food entered here, my mind finally became clear.

Among the students, groans mixed with rumbling sounds flowed out.

“We’ll starve to death before the barbarians kill us.”

“I haven’t eaten a single meal since yesterday…”

Allen seemed to be in the same situation, as he cleared his throat loudly and said.

“Well… Even though it’s barbarian food, we can’t just die like this. Dying to barbarians would tarnish the school’s honor. We need to fill our stomachs and wait for a chance to attack… so we should eat the food, right?”

Allen spoke in a subtle voice, so I glanced at him sideways.

“Say ‘I’m sorry.'”

“What?”

“You were talking nonsense earlier. Say ‘Please share the food with us.'”

“You won’t share food with your comrades? Are you saying you’ll survive alone!”

“Who said I wouldn’t share? I told you to apologize.”

“I won’t!”

“Really?”

I knocked on the door tap, tap. Then a Kuhelm tribesman entered from outside.

“Is there anything you need?”

“We’re finished eating. Please clear it away.”

Allen’s expression hardened, and the students looked flustered, not knowing what to do.

I spoke to the Kuhelm tribesman with an indifferent expression.

“Do you also serve dessert?”

Seeing me smile brightly, Allen opened his mouth in disbelief.

After the meal, some time later.

The tribal chief came to where we were confined. He smiled broadly as he watched me eating ice cream, the dessert the tribesman had provided.

“It seems my tribesmen haven’t treated you poorly.”

“Yes. They’ve been very kind to us. Truly like ‘honored guests.'”

“Then we can begin a proper conversation.”

“Of course.”

“You said you could earn riches for me. I looked into it and you’re certainly an interesting girl. You invented something very special and made great contributions to Dubbled?”

My hand scooping ice cream suddenly stopped.

‘He’s talking about the long-distance teleportation circle.’

Well, the long-distance teleportation circle is a magic tool that greatly affects military power.

As soon as Dubbled developed the long-distance teleportation circle, wars in the Empire completely ceased.

That makes sense, because according to Isaac—

“Why has the frequency of battles decreased? Little One, war is like chess. You win by capturing the king. But we have long-distance teleportation circles. It means the Empire has a knight that can move anywhere, anytime, any number of squares.”

“They’re too scared to attack because we might capture the enemy nation’s king with our long-distance teleportation circle?”

“Exactly. We have long-distance teleportation circles that can move anywhere as long as we know the coordinates. What foolish king would start a war against us?”

—he said.

Of course, it probably wouldn’t be as easy to capture an enemy nation’s king as Isaac made it sound.

Even long-distance teleportation circles can’t easily penetrate ultra-high level barriers.

But it’s true that they boast tremendous utility in war.

Because ultra-high level barriers like those in the Imperial Palace or Royal Palace can’t be easily deployed during wartime.

That’s why everyone is desperate to create long-distance teleportation circles.

“Create a long-distance teleportation circle for me. I will spare no support.”

“…If I make it, will you safely send us back?”

“Of course.”

“…”

“I’ll assign guards to you. With guards, you can go anywhere in our tribal village, and I’ll provide whatever you need.”

“…”

“I await your good answer.”

The Chief glanced back.

A large shaggy-haired man whose eyes were hidden by his hair, and a slender young man stepped forward.

They seemed to be the guards he would assign to me.

‘Guards my ass. They’re surveillance.’

I clicked my tongue inwardly.

‘It’s good that I bought time, but what now?’

If I create a long-distance teleportation circle, Odis will suffer greatly.

The repercussions would reach Dubbled too, which maintains power by monopolizing long-distance teleportation circles.

But if I don’t make it, I don’t know what will happen to my life.

The reason Odis couldn’t target the Kuhelm tribal village was because they didn’t know where their village was located.

In other words, without coordinates, even Dubbled couldn’t send troops.

“There are ways to earn wealth other than just long-distance teleportation circles.”

“No, I want a long-distance teleportation circle.”

“…”

“You’re a smart child, so I trust you’ll make the right choice.”

Having said that, the Chief commanded the tribesmen.

“Put the Odis greenhorns to hard labor. Until the noble makes the right choice.”

Then he looked at me.

“The noble can watch the greenhorns labor while drinking beverages in cool shade.”

Though it sounded like special treatment for me, I could sense his underlying intention for me to watch the students suffer and make a decision quickly.

With those words, the Chief left through the door, and the students were dragged by the tribesmen toward the quarry.

‘A quarry? Kuhelm Village is bigger than I thought.’

The students had to labor under the tribesmen’s surveillance without time to straighten their backs.

Several with weak stamina staggered with expressions like they were dying.

Mina spoke to the young man the Chief had assigned as surveillance.

“Please let the children rest even a little.”

“The Chief ordered hard labor.”

“They’ll die if this continues.”

“The Chief─”

“I am!”

Mina bit her lips tightly and glared at the young man.

“Am I not a candidate to be the chief’s bride? Since I could become his bride, can you easily refuse my request?”

“….”

“Also, you should give us a moment so that our ‘honored guest’ will be satisfied too. Right, Leblaine?”

When I didn’t answer, the young man clicked his tongue and declared.

“Ten minutes break!”

Only then did the students let out sighs of relief and sit down one by one.

Allen, who sat down first, glared at me and said.

“As expected of Mina. She’s on a completely different level from ‘someone else’.”

I ignored the all-talk colt nonchalantly and stood up.

“Where are you going?”

“To the bathroom. Emeline, come with me.”

“Why must that wench go with you?”

“Because she’s a particularly close friend. I want to give her some water.”

“…I’ll escort you. Hey.”

When the young man gestured to Shaggy Hair, Shaggy Hair followed me with a simple expression.

Emeline glanced at Shaggy Hair following us and whispered to me.

“Should we run away? He looks stupid.”

“Look at that man’s hands.”

Scarred hands covered in calluses. Seeing his hands, Emeline furrowed her brow, and I continued.

“Those are a killer’s hands. Dubbled’s ‘Wolves’ all have hands just like that. From what I can see, the strongest one in this tribe is probably….”

“Well, there must be a reason the chief assigned him to you. So what are you planning to do?”

“Did you forget the assignment?”

“Assignment…?”

I grinned and answered.

“The new students’ assignment is ‘finding the enemy’s sacred relic’, isn’t it?”

Now it was time to go carry out the assignment.

Emeline clicked her tongue and said.

“You really….”

I called out to Shaggy Hair with a strange expression.

“Excuse me. I─”

“Ch, chick… chick….”

What?

The man muttered with a simple face, and I narrowed my eyes.

‘Is he someone with low intelligence?’

“Ch, chick, chick finally, we….”

“Do you know me?”

“Ch, chick….”

“Who are you?”

“Chick hello, chick…”

I felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

‘Now that I look at him, he does seem familiar somehow… Did I meet him in my previous life?’

But it wasn’t a face I remembered.

When I tilted my head in confusion, The Man approached me closer.

“Chick, I know. Me, Surir. Chick, we met… in Heaven.”

What?!

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