The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 244

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Chapter 244

Bune smiled faintly and gently cupped my cheek.

“You’ve grown so much. How do humans grow so quickly…”

His expression was deeply wistful. It was a reunion after a full 13 years, so it was understandable, but I quickly grabbed his wrist and pulled.

“Let’s talk later. First, become my familiar.”

“We haven’t even had time to catch up on our reunion yet. Little One is still as impatient as ever, haha.”

“Just answer me first.”

“Didn’t Little One miss me…”

Bune made a dejected expression, but I was too busy checking behind me to pay attention.

The chief would be chasing me. Since I had stolen even the tribe’s precious gems and fled, if I got caught this time, he would try to snap my neck.

I quickly urged Bune.

“Hurry.”

“Little One…”

“Ah, I said there’s no time!”

When I shouted angrily, Bune flinched.

“Evil God, no, demons under God Serga can become my familiars if I want them to, right? Bune must be on God Serga’s side. Right? You can become my familiar, can’t you?”

“…”

“Ah, speak quickly!”

“Little One’s thinking is correct…”

“Good. Now, come into Etoile.”

When I took out Etoile, Bune closed his eyes with a sullen expression.

A crack-like light rose from his body, then his physical form disappeared, and a new gem appeared at one corner of Etoile.

It was the moment I obtained my fourth familiar.

‘Good, now I need to escape… Oh wait, Emeline.’

I looked toward the prison with a hardened expression.

“But why is the village so quiet? It’s making me anxious…”

[What’s there to be anxious about?]

Bune’s voice could be heard. I started running and answered.

‘I’m worried the children might fight with the tribespeople.’

This was Kuhelm’s home ground. Fighting in the middle of enemy territory while wearing golden restraints was no different from a death wish.

Even though Mina had removed the golden restraints, since they weren’t used to controlling divine power yet, they wouldn’t be able to defeat the Kuhelm Tribe charging at them in groups.

‘Plus, their condition is very poor from forcibly destroying the golden restraints.’

[What the child knows, they wouldn’t be ignorant of either.]

‘Right, there’s no way that would happen.’

Having organized my thoughts like that, I bit my lips hard.

This is not the time to hesitate.

My physical condition was getting worse. It was because I had used Pur’s power and even summoned Bune to make him my familiar.

‘First, I need to disable the barrier at the village entrance.’

Since it’s come to this, I have to escape by any means necessary.

* * *

Kwaaaaang─!!

As soon as the explosive sound erupted, screams filled the air.

“Kyaaak!”

“Kraak─!”

The students from Odis struggled while wearing gold restraints, but they were quickly surrounded by Kuhelm’s shamans and turned pale, unable to do anything.

“Wh-what do we do now, Allen…”

When a weak student asked while sobbing, Allen swallowed dry saliva with a hardened face.

‘Damn it, damn it!’

He hadn’t known that the power of those he had looked down on as barbarians would be this strong.

He had thought that being kidnapped by Kuhelm in the first place was purely due to bad luck.

They happened to be betrayed by a traitor who had conspired with Kuhelm, happened to be caught from behind, and it happened to be when the mages couldn’t exert their power.

He had thought that if they fought properly, they could easily subdue such barbaric minorities.

With them was Mina, the Child of Fate, who had forcibly destroyed Kuhelm’s gold restraints, which were ancient relics, and they had succeeded in escaping the prison with Mina leading the way and finding weapons.

‘But how can mere barbarians be this strong!’

Allen wiped his sweaty hands on his pants and gripped his sword again.

“Kuhelm! If you withdraw even now, we’ll let this matter slide!”

At Allen’s words, the Kuhelm chief let out a hollow laugh.

“Even in this situation, only your mouth is alive.”

“What?! You despicable barbarian chief! Think rationally. If we die, Odis will make your tribe pay the appropriate price.”

“If I had feared that, I wouldn’t have kidnapped you in the first place.”

The Kuhelm chief, twisting his lips, strode forward and grabbed the wrist of a student who was right in front.

“Uugh…”

“Sandra!”

As soon as Mina let out a scream-like shout, the chief chuckled and muttered.

“You’re the ones who should pay the price for rampaging without knowing heaven from earth.”

The chief’s sword came right in front of Sandra’s neck. Sandra, who had turned pale, squeezed her eyes shut. Her body trembled like an aspen tree.

The chief looked around at the terrified students and shouted.

“Where is the First One? If you don’t bring her before me right now, this girl’s life will end today.”

“You despicable…! Let Sandra go!”

“Answer me. You must know the whereabouts of the First One. Where is she, that girl!”

“We don’t know. Really…!”

“Is that so?”

The chief, with a twisted smile, spoke to the trembling Sandra.

“Direct your resentment toward your friends who won’t reveal the whereabouts of the First One.”

Sandra felt a sharp pain in her neck, and blood began to seep into the sword.

Sandra squeezed her eyes shut.

‘Mother, Father…’

That’s when it happened.

Thwack─!!

A stone flew from somewhere and struck the chief’s head.

With a crack, the stone slid down from his head. The chief glared at the stone rolling on the ground, then turned his head toward the direction it had come from.

“Were you looking for me?”

It was Leblaine.

Leblaine spoke while repeatedly tossing and catching a new stone with one hand.

“I’m here now, so let Sandra go.”

“That girl I’m going to tear apart…!”

“If you don’t release Sandra, I’ll destroy ‘this’?”

When Leblaine held something up high, the eyes of the chief and tribesmen widened.

It was the pendant that had belonged to the chief—the gem that was ‘Bune’s Passage.’

“It’s God’s Legacy, Chief!”

“How did she get that…!”

The tribesmen stamped their feet in confusion, and the pale-faced chief shouted.

“You, you…! Stop that right now!”

“So if you want me to stop, release Sandra. And send the children over here.”

“Grr…!”

“Can’t do it? Fine, then I’ll throw away the legacy your god left behind…!”

As soon as Leblaine actually began to apply force, the chief turned pale and shouted.

“Wait! Calm down!”

“Calm down nothing. I’ll throw it right away…!”

“I’ll send them! I’ll send them, so don’t do anything rash to God’s Legacy!”

The chief pushed Sandra away and raised both hands.

Leblaine nodded to the students.

“Come here.”

The students, who had been watching the chief and tribesmen nervously, began to move cautiously.

Those who had been stepping carefully soon ran frantically toward Leblaine’s back.

The chief, who had been watching the students’ movements, said.

“I let them go, didn’t I! Now return the pendant!”

Leblaine stepped back and handed several cards to Mina, Sandra, and Allen. Then she muttered something to the students, and upon hearing her words, the students’ eyes widened before they huddled together.

Leblaine lightly tossed and caught the pendant before speaking to the chief.

“Return it?”

“Y-yes. Don’t break it, return it to me intact.”

“Really? Then… try catching it!”

She threw the pendant right into the middle of the tribesmen with a whoosh!

The startled tribesmen scrambled frantically to catch the pendant, and in that moment, the Kuhelm formation collapsed.

Taking advantage of that opening, Leblaine shouted.

“Move.”

The students and Leblaine simultaneously tore their cards.

In an instant, light burst forth from all around and the surroundings began to distort.

And when the light faded, the Odis students had vanished without a trace.

* * *

I caught my breath, gasping heavily.

‘Thank goodness I hid the long-distance teleportation circle…’

If it hadn’t been for the teleportation circle, we would have been helplessly captured by the Kuhelm Tribe.

I looked at the students who were glancing around with bewildered expressions.

“I-Is this a long-distance teleportation circle?”

“There really was no burden from the transportation…”

“I can’t believe I got to use a long-distance teleportation circle.”

“More importantly, we finally escaped!”

The students, overcome with joy, let out cheers of “Waaah!!”

I was so dumbfounded I didn’t even feel like speaking. As I shook my head in disbelief, a sudden thought made me examine the students.

‘Where is Emeline?’

Emeline was nowhere to be seen.

Suddenly, an ominous feeling crept up from my ankles.

‘Right, it was strange. There’s no way Emeline would have done nothing while Mina and Allen’s group was plotting an escape.’

She would have tried to get word to me somehow.

The fact that Emeline couldn’t send me any message and was still nowhere to be seen even after all this made me anxious.

“Where is Emeline?”

When I asked, the students went “Huh?” and looked at each other.

Allen cleared his throat and said.

“That girl kept trying to interfere with Mina out of some grudge, so we put her away for a while. We were going to go get her once things were finished, but things got complicated…”

“Complicated?”

“…We couldn’t bring her.”

“What did you say?”

Allen shrugged his shoulders and said.

“Now that we’ve escaped, we can send soldiers to bring her back. More importantly, where are we? We need to contact the school quickly… Gack!”

I grabbed Allen by the collar and glared at him.

I hadn’t been this angry since I was ten years old. My hands were trembling, and it felt like my head was going blank.

“Where is Emeline? Where did you hide her!”

Mina grabbed my wrist and intervened.

“Calm down, Leblaine. I’ll rescue Emeline somehow. Even if I have to go to the chief myself, I’ll save her, so don’t worry.”

“How can you possibly save Emeline.”

“Our original plan was to resolve this through dialogue with the chief. The chief wants me, my power. So as long as I’m here, he can’t carelessly harm the students.”

“You’re insane.”

“…What?”

I pushed away Mina’s hand and turned my back.

“Leblaine. You and the chief are too worked up to see the situation properly. We can resolve this through dialogue. Even though the situation has gone awry─”

Slap!

Mina’s face turned, and my palm burned as if on fire.

The surroundings fell coldly silent. The flustered students didn’t know what to do and looked back and forth between Mina and me.

Mina, covering her cheek, looked at me with an expression of disbelief.

“Leblaine, you…”

“Shut up. If Emeline dies, I’ll send everyone here as her companions on the journey.”

“Leblaine, you’re too worked up. Calm down and─”

“Who are you to say that. Who are you to gamble Emeline’s life on your recklessness!”

“What…?”

“What can you even do here! Has anything you’ve done so far ever worked out properly? You’re not righteous or rational. You’re just a fool who overestimates yourself despite knowing nothing!”

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