The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 249

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Chapter 249

The Cardinals couldn’t hide their bewilderment at my words. While they were looking around with confused expressions, Blasio stepped forward with a bright smile.

“It’s been a while since we’ve met.”

“Ah, a familiar face. It’s been a while, Lord Blasio.”

When I lightly bowed my head, the other Cardinals’ faces soured.

Why. What.

The Cardinals except for Blasio laughed awkwardly, “Ha, haha.”

“You’ve become quite the jokester since we last met.”

“Should it be a joke?”

“Ah, Young Lady.”

“Whenever you rarely visit Odis like beans sprouting in a drought, you always only see Mina and leave, so I thought we agreed to pretend not to know each other.”

When I muttered in a nonchalant tone, the Cardinals broke out in cold sweat. Those bastards really did always come to Odis, see only Mina, and return.

They deliberately discriminated between Mina and me to focus public attention on Mina. To corner me and train me into an obedient dog.

“It seems the regional supervisor occasionally came to check on the Young Ladies. But did he do such despicable things?”

“No. You Cardinals too.”

“No. We…”

“You only communicated with Mina though. By connecting communication to the Principal’s Office.”

“Th-that…!”

“Hmm, so it was true. I was just joking.”

At my words, they became speechless and restless, while only Blasio twisted his lips.

One of the Cardinals cleared his throat and said, “Ahem!”

“Young Lady. We watched this incident through the magic mirror. We have things to ask, so let’s talk for a moment.”

“I’ll contact you when I feel like it.”

“What?!”

“Let’s talk next time. When I feel like it.”

“Ah, Young Lady!”

“Well then.”

I smiled brightly and passed by the Cardinals. Mina was looking at me with surprised eyes, but I didn’t speak to her and entered the school.

* * *

Besides the Cardinals, there were many people who wanted to talk with me. People in Power from various countries who watched the monster subjugation through magic mirrors, and even students who saved their lives thanks to me all flocked to request conversations.

I used the excuse that my body wasn’t well from exhausting my divine power to shake them off and headed to the dormitory.

A welcome person was waiting in front of my room.

“Captain! Johan!”

When I ran over with a bright smile, Johan patted my head.

“How did you come? I heard that since the emergency was lifted, no one except students could enter the school grounds.”

“Thanks to you, House Dubbled became Odis’s benefactor. I received the benefactor’s privilege.”

“That’s great! What about Father?”

“In the Principal’s Office.”

“I see. Ah, please come in.”

When I opened the door for them, the two entered the room. We sat around on the sofa and bed to talk.

The chairman asked.

“How did you know the location of the mountain where the monsters were?”

“Thanks to the amethyst.”

“By amethyst, do you mean the Devil’s Passage that was stored in the first Family Head’s portrait?”

“Yeah. When I touched the amethyst before heading out, I saw a strange scene.”

“…you, you are… Lord Neriad…”

“Go, Little One, hurry!”

“Isaac!! No!!”

In that scene, the armor that Isaac and I wore was from Odis. So I wondered if this might be the future shown by the demon of the amethyst.

When I said that, the chairman made a strange expression.

“You saw the future? But such a thing is…”

“Right. It didn’t happen. So I thought about it carefully, and I think it might be this.”

“What is it?”

“The future changed.”

The chairman and Johan flinched and looked at each other. I leaned back deeply against the sofa and said.

“If I hadn’t seen that scene, I wouldn’t have acted so urgently in the Village of Kuhelm.”

“Yes. We had already requested rescue through Hannibal.”

“Right. If we waited, the rescue team would come. The sacred relic that was the Academy’s assignment could be found afterward. But because of that scene, I became impatient and searched every corner of the village.”

With Surir, the strongest sword, by my side, it was to escape the village even a little faster.

“And I found Bune.”

“Is that where the future changed?”

“Yeah. So the original future might have been like this: Dubbled’s rescue team came, and afterward, we found the location where the monster horde was, but without Bune’s phantom army, we were no match for them.”

“That’s a plausible theory. Just who is the demon of the amethyst… Can’t we find out by looking at Storas’s records?”

“There’s a demon I suspect. What I want to know is who that man was who called Neriad in the scene the amethyst demon showed me.”

“It’s likely a demon.”

“Yeah. And I think both this amethyst demon and the demon who called Neriad have memories from ancient times.”

The chairman flinched.

Having memories from ancient times meant they knew I was the Child of the Evil God.

“The amethyst demon seems to have been an oracle on the Evil God’s side, judging by how it showed me that scene. Plus, the amethyst that is its Devil’s Passage is in my hands. So that’s fine, but the demon who called Neriad…”

“If it falls into the Shrine’s hands, the fact that Little One is the Child of the Evil God will be revealed to the entire world.”

“Right. So we need to find it first.”

Whether I get that demon under my control or destroy the passage.

“It absolutely cannot fall into the Shrine’s hands.”

“We’ll search around the mountain where the monster horde appeared.”

“Hurry.”

“Yes.”

After finishing my conversation with the ceremonial officer, I looked at Johan.

“I have something to tell Elder Brother.”

The time had come to reveal that I was the ancient Leblaine, that is, Neriad’s younger sister.

* * *

Johan, who had been quietly listening to my story, let out a sigh.

I looked at him with a slightly nervous expression. Dubbled had been swept into a storm because of me. It wasn’t just any opponent, but the Empire’s patron deity we had to face. I was worried that my family might find me and my fate burdensome.

Johan gently placed his hand on my head.

“You must have had many worries on your own.”

“…I’m sorry.”

“It’s not something you should be sorry for.”

“…”

“When will this habit of worrying alone and fretting that we might be troubled because of you disappear?”

“I’m sorry…”

“If you’re sorry to us, then never be afraid.”

“…Yes?”

“You must remember, always and everywhere, that your family is behind you.”

I wiggled my fingers and laughed, “Hehe.”

Even though I now knew there was no one who would abandon me for being burdensome or annoying, I always became a coward at times like this. And my family always held my hand without finding my cowardice bothersome.

‘This time I absolutely won’t lose them.’

There was a time when I thought regression was God’s curse, but looking back now, this was a blessing.

To fall, to break, to be completely ruined, yet still get another chance to start over.

Next time will be different, something that keeps you from losing hope.

A precious blessing that allows you to become a slightly better version of yourself than yesterday.

I looked at the statue of God Neriad visible outside the window.

‘This life was different from before. I finally grasped happiness, and that’s because I changed.’

Then couldn’t Mina change too?

More moderately, without war, without having to worry constantly about losing my people due to that war?

‘Let me try talking with Mina.’

If that girl could change, if we could truly join hands, then perhaps there would be no trials.

It would be in the not-so-distant future that I would learn that day was the turning point of fate for me and that girl.

* * *

Mina was sitting blankly on a bench.

A dark shadow fell over that girl who was staring vacantly at the sky.

When she turned her head, what she saw was Cardinal Reginald.

“Why do you look so troubled?”

Mina groaned “Ah…” and scratched her forehead.

“How should I put it… I feel a bit foolish.”

“Pardon?”

“Actually, I often dreamed of this world. A wonderful boy who said I was like a younger sister to him, my first love, and precious new family…”

Reginald furrowed his brow with an expression of incomprehension. Mina smiled awkwardly.

“So I must have been conceited. I thought I had returned to my original world, so maybe I really was the Child of Fate sent by God of this world. …How foolish. The truth is, I’m not helpful at all.”

“No.”

“What?”

“You can do it.”

He pulled out a pendant from his chest.

A silver six-pointed star.

When Mina blinked at the sight of it, Reginald said,

“It’s Etoile.”

“Etoile…”

“I believe you are the hero arranged by our God, Lady Mina. Please save the world with this.”

Mina carefully reached out her hand toward Etoile.

At that moment.

“…Hey. Mina! What are you thinking about so deeply?”

“Isaac, Henri! When did you get here?”

“While you were staring blankly at the sky. What’s wrong? Why do you look like that? Did someone bother you? Who was it?!”

“It’s not like that…”

“It’s because of that damn sister again, isn’t it? What kind of trouble did that idiot cause this time to make things difficult for you?”

Strange memories flood into her mind.

“Hello, Mina.”

“…I missed you.”

Even the memory of the silver-haired boy and the blonde boy reaching out their hands to her.

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