The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 287

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Chapter 287

The people in the Grand Cathedral looked as if they had seen a ghost.

The hall stirred greatly.

How dare she.

A fake like that.

Ignoring the murmuring sounds, I looked straight at Mina on the platform.

“Liar.”

“…!”

Mina’s gaze wavered faintly. As she gripped her collar tightly with trembling hands, Reginald, who had rushed over in haste, supported Mina.

“Lady Mina!”

“Leblaine… that child…”

Reginald examined the pale-faced Mina, then turned to look at me with sharp eyes. Then he shouted toward the Paladins guarding the Grand Cathedral.

“Drag her out!”

Just as the Paladins were about to approach me, I twisted my lips.

“On what grounds.”

At my words, Reginald’s expression contorted. I smoothed out my crumpled hood with my fingertips and spoke in a leisurely tone.

“Is there any reason why I, the Child of Fate, cannot attend a prayer meeting that’s open even to civilians?”

Then Reginald shouted as if having a fit.

“Do not falsely claim to be the Daughter of God!”

“How ridiculous, Lord Reginald.”

“What?”

As Reginald frowned, the expressions of the Priests surrounding the platform also turned menacing.

“You, you insolent…!”

“Instead of being ashamed of trying to push the true Daughter of God out of our sight all this time, are you now trying to ruin even this sacred occasion!”

I shrugged my shoulders and said.

“Wasn’t it the Neriad Temple that made me the Daughter of God? When the Shrine marked me, a young child who knew nothing, as the Child of Fate and made me who I am today, how can you say I’m falsely claiming to be the Daughter of God?”

“What?!”

One Priest shouted with a flushed expression.

“That’s why we requested verification several times to correct the mistake of announcing you as the Daughter of God!”

“Indeed! What has been the reason we couldn’t conduct proper verification until now! Didn’t Dubbled and you conspire to strongly refuse education and verification at the Shrine since childhood!”

“We couldn’t confirm the evil aura that recently flowed out from Dubbled Territory.”

“Unless you knew from the beginning that you weren’t the Child of Fate, you wouldn’t have refused contact with the Shrine so persistently for over ten years!”

The chapel stirred once again. Several people agreed with the Priests’ words, and before long, people began pointing fingers at me.

“Liar!”

“A disgusting girl who coveted the position of the Daughter of God!”

A sneer appeared on Reginald’s lips. Mina, supported by him, looked at me.

Without avoiding their gazes, I spoke.

“What reason does the Shrine have to be certain that I am not the Child of Fate?”

Reginald answered.

“Because God has sent us the true Child of Fate.”

“Then what is my sin? What exactly did I do wrong to deserve being pointed at like this?”

“The moment you doubted your own divinity, you should have confessed to the Shrine. The moment you pretended to be fake to seize power, you became a criminal.”

I chuckled and approached the platform.

Mina flinched, and the priests and paladins blocked my way. A servant appeared from the back of Reginald’s hand.

“Do not come closer. If you intend to harm the Daughter of God, I will not stand by and watch.”

I stopped in place and stared directly at Mina.

“Mina.”

“….”

“These people say I’m fake because you exist, but do you think so too?”

“….”

“They say I’m a criminal because I doubted my divinity and kept my mouth shut, but have you never doubted your own divinity?”

“….”

“Do you think you are the true Child of Fate?”

“….”

“Answer me, Mina!”

My voice echoed through the quiet Grand Cathedral.

Mina, who had been clutching her collar with a pale face, looked at me. The trembling in her eyes had already stopped.

Mina swallowed dryly, then slowly opened her mouth.

“Yes.”

That girl straightened her hunched back and glared at me below the platform.

“There is only one Child of Fate.”

“….”

“Only I can save this world!”

I had been waiting for these words.

I took out my Etoile that I had been hiding all this time and shouted.

“Aslan!”

BOOM─!!

The chapel shook with a tremendous roar. With the rumbling sound of the walls, panicked people looked around.

“Protect the Imperial Consort and the Prince!”

“Your Majesty!”

The Imperial Guards hurriedly surrounded Empress Yvonne, Prince Andre, and the Empress Dowager in the VIP section.

Duke Marche, Marquis Schuheil and his son, Duke Grimoire, and other great nobles looked at me with stern expressions.

At that moment, a brilliant pillar of light rose up.

Someone’s shadow swayed within the light.

Thick, flowing red hair.

An empire-line dress that rippled like waves breaking on a shoreline.

She, with her eyes covered by white cloth, slowly began walking toward me.

With each barefoot step on the ground, thick branches sprouted from beneath the earth. Green immediately began to grow from the branches. They were Elsa trees.

The moment she approached right next to me, the white cloth covering her eyes fell with a thud toward the floor.

As her eyelids lifted, beautiful golden eyes that seemed to have gathered the sun were revealed.

Though she was completely different from the valiant figure in Aslan’s legends, no one present doubted that she was Aslan.

Except for not wearing armor, she was identical to the demon Ami that Mina had summoned.

Reginald’s expression crumbled, and Mina covered her mouth with trembling hands.

I spoke.

“Between you and me, who do you think summoned the real Aslan?”

Mine and Mina’s gazes collided in mid-air.

* * *

After Leblaine left, the hall was chaotic as if it would burst.

While the priests were flustered by people demanding the truth, Reginald fled the Grand Cathedral with Mina as if escaping.

Reginald, who had returned to the Papal Court, brought Mina to a room. Mina was trembling like an aspen leaf.

“How… how on earth did Leblaine…”

“Calm down and listen.”

Mina hastily grabbed Reginald who was about to leave.

“What happened? How does Leblaine have Gremory’s Gateway?”

“Lady Mina.”

“I’m anxious. I’m so anxious…!”

“Shut up and listen to what I’m saying—!!”

Reginald shouted sharply. As Mina flinched and shrank her shoulders, he grabbed her shoulders with a viciously contorted face.

“Stupid girl, do you think I have time to comfort you right now?”

“Lord Reginald…”

“Answer what I ask.”

“…”

“Have you ever seen that girl carrying a golden Etoile?”

“N-no.”

“What about in previous lives? You said you could see previous lives.”

“I’ve never seen it.”

“Then how the hell did this happen—!!”

Reginald tore at his hair while shouting loudly.

“Damn it, damn it…!”

Reginald glared at Mina, who was looking at him with a frightened expression, as if he would tear her apart, muttering in an extremely agitated voice.

“I shouldn’t have chosen such a worthless girl from the beginning. I should have grabbed onto the First One’s line.”

“You said I was real. To take the hand of a fake. In a space closest to God, such words…”

“Real?”

Reginald burst into scornful laughter and glared at Mina with bloodshot red eyes.

As he approached with an expression as if possessed by an evil spirit, Mina hesitantly stepped backward.

He pressed his fingertip against Mina’s forehead with a poke and growled fiercely.

“Among those who know your true identity, only that damn Pope believes in the Child of Fate.”

“…What?”

“A soul guided by God? A true Child of Fate? Don’t spout such nonsense.”

“…”

“Do you still believe that God guided only you to this world?”

“…What did you say?”

“There have been thirteen souls guided from that world, including you. Those who died the moment our worlds connected, or those who had no lingering attachments to that world, crossed over to this place.”

“…”

Mina’s eyes wavered greatly.

“Since the Empire was established on this land and the Neriad Religion was founded, twelve children have crossed dimensions until now, but none of them possessed ‘power.’ That’s why we created you.”

“…”

“We put you into a body that received the oracle of becoming the womb of beginning and end!”

“That’s a lie…”

Tears welled up in Mina’s eyes. Without blinking once, Mina stared at Reginald and bit her lips tightly.

“No! I was chosen for this world… I was selected…!”

Mina let out a scream-like shout and collapsed. She covered her ears and continuously muttered, “I’m real. Leblaine is the fake one.”

Reginald roughly grabbed Mina’s forearm and pulled her.

“Listen carefully. If things continue like this, both you and I are finished.”

“…”

“When you’re eventually revealed to be fake, do you think the Pope will protect you? No, what he desperately desires is a being loved by God.”

“A being loved by God?”

“The true being of the oracle. The one who should have been born to Lisette, who received the oracle of the Holy Mother. The being entrusted with the mission of the world’s beginning and end.”

“…”

“You must push Leblaine aside and become the real one.”

“…How can I become real?”

Reginald whispered.

“Kill Leblaine Dubbled. It’s the only way we can survive.”

“But that girl is my sister. In our previous life, we were sisters…”

“What you saw doesn’t exist in the present. How long will you keep looking at illusions?”

“…”

With trembling hands, Mina dry-washed her face and said breathlessly.

“What should I do…?”

“Go find Duke Grimoire.”

“What?”

“Tell him you’re Lisette’s daughter.”

“What does that…”

“The Previous Duke Grimoire is Lisette’s biological father.”

Mina’s eyes trembled finely.

“What did you say?”

“You’re saying that Duke Grimoire and Lisette are half-siblings!”

It wouldn’t be difficult to prove.

Grimoire resents that House Dubbled led Lisette to her death, so he won’t believe their words, and Mina’s body originally belonged to Lisette.

‘We can deceive him.’

Unless Lisette’s daughter returns alive.

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