The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 255

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Chapter 255

I looked back at Adrian with bewildered eyes. That child was so considerate that he seemed to have refrained from asking until I spoke up myself.

‘Oh no, the other students…!’

Worried that they might have heard Adrian call me ‘Leblaine’, I quickly glanced at them. The male student and female student seemed to have heard nothing, absorbed in their cards.

“How embarrassing… You want to cheat just to beat a little kid?”

“She’s not just any little kid! She knows poker rules. And she’s even skilled!”

“Still! It’s embarrassing, really.”

How did they not hear Adrian’s words when they were talking right in front of us? While I was thinking about this, Amande gently bumped against my nose. The clear, tinkling sound of water seemed like Amande’s laughter.

‘Did you use a barrier to prevent them from hearing Adrian’s voice?’

As I thought this and giggled, Amande spun around in front of my nose as if answering yes.

Then, Hayton spoke up.

“Now that you’ve crushed the assistants’ dignity like that, shouldn’t you get up?”

At his words, the male student’s face turned bright red. The female student shouted “Yeah, that’s right!” but Hayton glanced at her and continued.

“You too.”

“Me, me too?”

“Move aside.”

“…Okay.”

The female student quietly stood up and bowed to Adrian, and the male student followed suit. As the male student passed by Hayton, he clicked his tongue.

“What’s with that high-handed attitude.”

“He’s the Duke’s Young Master…”

“What Duke’s Young Master from ages ago? His family fell long ago, and his father was tried by the apostolic court and executed. He still thinks he’s the best. I’m sick of it, really sick of it.”

“Stop it…”

After the students left, I glanced at Hayton. He stared at me intently with a strange attitude.

“So?”

“Huh?”

“I’m asking what happened to your body… Leblaine.”

I looked at Adrian in surprise, and Adrian answered in a flat voice.

“Hayton Valois can check the quality of mana without contact. He didn’t become a mentor at Red Sea just because he offered jewels.”

‘Hayton has that level of ability?’

In my second life, he wasn’t that outstanding.

“Because I’ve lived desperately.”

He said this with an indifferent expression. I could imagine how much effort he put in after the Duke Valois Family fell.

“During monster subjugation, there was a problem—”

“If you’re going to lie, at least put some sincerity into it. If you had problems, other students would have had them too.”

“…”

“I would have believed you if you said it happened because you summoned a demon, not monsters.”

“It wasn’t a demon, it was an angel.”

“I’m someone who witnessed the demon my father summoned. Do you think you can fool me? That pillar of light I saw that day—it was the same pillar I witnessed during the demon summoning ritual.”

I clicked my tongue and crossed my arms.

“That’s how it is. Go ahead and report it! I’m telling you as a reference, but threatening me with this situation won’t work.”

“Just how do you see me?”

“…You won’t do it?”

“I told you. I like you.”

Hayton, who said this, was looking at Adrian. The two men’s gazes clashed fiercely in mid-air.

“I told you to give up those feelings.”

I was startled by Adrian’s words. He said that? When?

“If hearts moved as thoughts dictated, Your Majesty wouldn’t be looking at her either. Isn’t that right? Your Majesty has no right to be by her side.”

“It sounds like you’re saying you do.”

“At least I won’t put this kid in danger.”

Hayton stared intently at Adrian as he continued speaking.

“Do you think Dubbled would consider status and power as conditions for this kid’s partner? No, what His Excellency wants is one thing. That this kid won’t be in danger. Moreover, it would be perfect if he could bring in a son-in-law to keep her close for life. Your Majesty, do you meet those conditions?”

“If you’re going to win the Duke’s heart to marry, why does it need to be Leblaine? Why don’t you marry the Duke instead?”

“I’ll take that to mean you lack confidence.”

“I don’t care about the arguments of a dog that lost a fight.”

“What are you two doing…?”

I looked back and forth between the two with cold eyes. When I scolded them, the words stopped, but their gazes looked ready to tear each other apart. Hayton stood up from the sofa and reached out his hand to me.

“Come with me.”

Adrian grabbed my hand.

“Stay here.”

“I said come, Leblaine.”

“Leblaine.”

They pulled me from both sides. As I swayed back and forth, I burst out shouting!

“Stop it!!”

When I put my hands on my hips and huffed angrily, both men flinched.

“I’ll choose my own marriage! If you two keep doing this…!”

That’s when it happened. The outside became noisy, and then someone kicked open the door and entered.

“Youngest, you—”

I unconsciously pointed at the person who entered and shouted.

“I’ll marry this person— Huh?”

I turned to look at who had entered and my eyes widened.

‘Johan?’

Johan dropped the book he was holding with a thud, and Henri and Isaac, who had rushed in after him, frowned as they heard my words and looked back and forth between me and Johan.

Johan covered his mouth with one hand, and Isaac asked in a bewildered voice.

“Eldest Brother, what are you doing?”

“…Who makes the best tuxedos these days?”

Seeing Johan talking nonsense, the lodging was enveloped in silence.

* * *

After sending Hayton away, only those who knew I could summon demons remained in the lodging. Adrian and my three Older Brothers.

“Little One.”

“….”

“Really small.”

“….”

“Were you always this small?”

“…Can’t we talk without holding hands?”

Johan’s face was expressionless, but his hands kept firmly grasping my maple leaf-like hands.

“…Cute.”

“What?”

“No. Did you talk like this when you were little too?”

“….”

Today’s Johan didn’t seem to be in his right mind.

“Move aside. I’m going to trim her fingernails now.”

“I’m first.”

When Isaac and Henri started making a noisy fuss, Johan grabbed both sides of my waist and lifted me up.

“Don’t bother the Youngest.”

‘Hmm, now he’s back to his right mind.’

Just as I was thinking that, Johan looked at Adrian with cold eyes and said.

“Do you have nail clippers?”

…He still wasn’t completely in his right mind, it seemed.

I wriggled out of Johan’s hands with a tired expression and sat on the sofa.

“So why did you come?”

“Because you became young. We came to get you.”

“Older Brothers are busy. Father is busy too.”

“Older Brothers….”

“Yes?”

“Never mind.”

The conversation kept going off track, so I grabbed Johan’s cheeks with both hands and frowned.

“Go back. Father is busy, so what if Older Brothers get in trouble too?”

“It’s fine.”

“I have things to do in Odis. Safety and things I need to find.”

“Things to find?”

I let out a deep sigh and slumped into the chair, crossing my arms.

“I need to return to my original age. To do that, I have to stay here.”

“Can you return?”

“If I find what made me into a child, wouldn’t it be possible?”

“I heard from Henri. That it happened after your amethyst and the Second Passage overlapped. Are both passages in the hands of the second one?”

“No. It’s not that….”

I continued with a dejected expression.

“It disappeared….”

Then Isaac shouted loudly.

“What?!”

“Well… I can’t explain it clearly either, you know? But it vanished. Judging by how I can still feel the passage’s vibrations within my body, it’s here somewhere….”

I might not know about Mina’s passage, but I absolutely had to retrieve the amethyst. It was like my hidden trump card.

‘It’s a passage with power on a completely different level from Bune or Pur. I have to find it no matter what.’

At my words, my brothers and Adrian exchanged glances.

Henri said to Adrian.

“Please search the school grounds. It would be better if Your Majesty, who is acting as hall representative, took the lead rather than us.”

Adrian nodded, and I looked at Johan with relief.

“Elder Brother will stay, right?”

“I got permission from the Academy Principal to stay at the academy until vacation.”

“How?”

“Because I’m also a graduate of Odis.”

A way for graduates to remain at school…. When I thought of the method, I looked at him with an incredulous expression.

* * *

“This meeting with our senior. It’s that person, right?”

“Yes, Count Dubbled!”

“Ah, Lord Johan!”

As I walked along clutching a bundle of documents, I shook my head at the female students’ cheers.

‘He’s incredibly busy yet still makes time for student counseling.’

Despite my protests, Johan stubbornly remained at school. When I sighed, the bundle I was carrying slipped. I cried “Oh my!” and quickly gathered the items back into my arms.

This was an errand for the Administrative Department. Though I was Juliet’s assistant, as someone employed by the school, I had to run various errands.

“Hello, Little One.”

“Hello!”

“You’re energetic today too.”

Three days since I started working as a page at this school.

The students found me quite endearing as the smallest and most sociable page in the school.

It was when I entered the Second Dormitory where Mina was staying on an errand from the Administrative Director. The Dormitory Manager was communicating with someone in a serious voice.

“Yes, Miss Mina still shows no signs of waking up. Ah, but there’s something concerning… Yes, something appeared in Miss Mina’s hand last night that wasn’t there before. It looks like some kind of gem─”

‘A gem? Could it be a passage?’

I needed to check before others took it away.

‘But I can’t enter Mina’s room, so what should I do….’

After pondering, I quickly grabbed a student in the dormitory and asked.

“Where is Count Dubbled?”

“What?”

“Baekjanmi, Baekjanmi!”

It’s Johan!

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