The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 290

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Chapter 290

After finishing my conversation with my family, I sneakily glanced at the clock.

‘I want to go to Adrian soon.’

I was worried about Adrian in the bedroom and wanted to check on his condition.

I watched my family members’ reactions and quietly lifted myself from the sofa.

“Well then, I’ll be going now…”

“Where are you going?”

“Huh?!”

Oh no.

Without realizing it, I answered hastily like someone who had been caught doing something wrong.

Isaac looked at me with a strange expression.

“What? That was suspicious just now.”

I quickly acted nonchalant and tilted my head.

“What was?”

‘I need to stay calm. If I get caught, someone will die.’

Not me, but Adrian.

As I tried hard to act casual, Isaac crossed his arms and leaned back deeply into the sofa.

“Was that a question worth being so surprised about? Unless you’re planning to take another stroll to the Papal Court, or you have some pesky fly clinging to you hidden in your room.”

My heart skipped a beat.

A pesky fly clinging to me in my room. What beastly intuition he had.

I wasn’t even this nervous when I was investigated for the shopping district meteor incident.

Just as I was about to open my mouth to make an excuse.

“But that would never happen!”

Isaac said with a cheerful expression, supporting the back of his head with both hands.

[Good instincts, but simple-minded.]

That was Cheolsu’s comment.

‘Isaac may be simple, but the other family members…’

Henri and Johan were still looking at me with suspicious expressions. I quickly made an excuse.

“I’m planning to release Duke Amitie soon.”

“Duke Amitie?”

“Yeah.”

“Couldn’t you keep him captive a bit longer? People in the world don’t even dream that he’s been kidnapped.”

When I kidnapped him, I forged his handwriting and left a letter at Duke Amitie’s mansion.

[I have matters to investigate and will be away from the Imperial Capital for some time. This must be conducted in utmost secrecy, so please act in a way that those around don’t notice my absence.

I entrust the Imperial Capital mansion to you all. For territorial affairs, seek assistance from Viscount Sislek.

P.S., On the 17th, I would like you, Cortege, to deliver red lilies to my nanny’s grave on my behalf.]

The note deliberately used the pet name Duke Amitie called his butler in childhood, and even included the anniversary of Duke Amitie’s nanny’s death that only he would know.

So that the employees of the Amitie estate would firmly believe the Duke had left the letter.

For this reason, no one knew that we were restraining Duke Amitie’s person.

“That may be true for now, but if he doesn’t keep showing himself, people will start to get suspicious.”

Isaac hmmed thoughtfully and looked at me.

“Is there really a need to keep Duke Amitie alive?”

“…Isaac, you really seem like a villain at times like this.”

I let out a deep sigh and said.

“If we kill him now, we might face unnecessary backlash. Besides, I still have use for him.”

“But do you know what he’ll go around saying once he’s released?”

“That’s…”

“Little one, as much as I hate to admit it, we have to acknowledge that he has tremendous influence over the common people.”

“…”

“Do you think the saying ‘Duke Amitie is the people’s heart’ exists for nothing? He’s the people’s hero and the noble they love most.”

If such a person said ‘I was kidnapped by Dubbled,’ the power balance between the temple and Dubbled would probably flip completely.

<Dubbled is the villain who harmed the hero.

You can’t trust what villains say.

There must have been a reason why the temple attacked Dubbled after all.>

The story could escalate to this extent. If that happened, the board we worked so hard to set up could be overturned in an instant.

Isaac looked at me with a worried expression, and I smiled brightly.

“What if we think about it the opposite way?”

“The opposite?”

“For example, what if Amitie took my side?”

“Well, the common people who trust Amitie completely would turn their backs on the temple entirely… Don’t tell me you’re…”

“There would be uses for Duke Amitie, wouldn’t there?”

Having said that, I quickly turned the door handle.

“Well then, I have to go meet Duke Amitie, so I’ll be off!”

I quickly stepped out into the corridor.

Though I had brought up Duke Amitie as an excuse to go see Adrian, thinking about it, he really was someone who could be put to good use.

‘I need to win over Duke Amitie, meet the Grimoire Elder to find out what he was trying to do with Mina, and send Adrian back too.’

Busy, so busy!

I arrived in front of my room door and quickly looked around.

‘Good, no one’s here.’

I had asked the maids to make sure no one came near my room, but I was still anxious about it.

I opened the door and went in.

Adrian was still asleep. I crouched down by the bedside and stared intently at his face.

“Fool.”

What are you supposed to do when you give away divine power until you faint just because I asked for some?

I gently touched his eyelashes.

“How can your eyelashes be this long?”

“….”

“Your nose is so sharp too. I might cut myself, really. And your lips too….”

It was when my hand slowly moved down to his lips.

“Ah!”

He bit my finger.

Since he bit my lips, it didn’t hurt at all, but I was startled because of what I had been doing.

When I hurriedly pulled my hand away, he let out a soft chuckle.

“What, what, what! If you were awake, why did you pretend to be sleeping?”

“Sorry.”

He sat up and leaned against the bed headboard. His expression looked languid, as if he was still very tired.

“Did you finish the work you said you had to do?”

“Huh? Oh yes, thanks to you.”

“That’s good.”

“Are you feeling okay?”

“Yeah.”

He gently reached out his hand. He smoothed my disheveled bangs and looked at me with tired eyes.

“That’s a relief.”

A slightly hoarse voice.

A languid expression.

Half-closed eyes.

“I wish you wouldn’t look at me like that.”

“What did you say, Leblaine?”

“I mean looking at me as if you’re trying to seduce me.”

“…Did it look like that?”

“Totally!”

He looked at me with slightly widened eyes, then soon burst into soft laughter.

“I got caught.”

─His response seemed like he was trying not to make me embarrassed, making my heart flutter.

“Adrian, I’ve been thinking about something.”

“Yeah.”

“I think we should do it in this order.”

“Order?”

I nodded with a serious face.

“Until 100 days, we hold hands, at 200 days we kiss on the back of the hand, and at the one-year mark we kiss on the lips.”

“….”

“It’s not because I’m doing this for the first time, but when I investigated the documents, this seems to be what people do on average.”

“…Is that really the average?”

“It seems a bit, no, very slow, but originally this kind of thing should be done carefully….”

“But we already kissed.”

“That’s exactly why I’m saying this.”

I nodded with a serious expression and continued speaking.

“I did some research and found out that if you progress too fast, there’s a high chance of falling into lust.”

“Where on earth did you research that?”

“Pamparji.”

“…Are you talking about Pamparji, the erotic magazine?”

“That’s right.”

Adrian looked at me with a rare expression of bewilderment.

“That’s… isn’t that an analytical error that came from reading a magazine filled with only those kinds of stories?”

“There was a relationship like ours in the stories published in the erotic magazine too.”

“…”

“They were children of powerful families with different family ideals, but they fell in love with each other. The lovers, who were affectionate because they couldn’t meet often due to opposition from the woman’s family, focused only on physical relationships to make good use of their short time together, and the two couldn’t properly share their hearts. Then the man had an affair with a woman he met at the seaside, and the angry woman felt disillusioned and debuted as an opera singer─”

“Are you talking about 【Young Lady Apricot’s Splendid Fire Play】?”

“That’s right! That was the title! How do you know?”

“Jin likes it. That’s a novel restricted from minors.”

“Our Laura says the previous work was also very popular.”

“【The Demon Noble Lady】.”

“That’s right! How do you know?”

“Jin likes it.”

I thought ‘Ah, Jin must really like erotic stuff’ and nodded, while Adrian burst into laughter.

“Are you being cautious, or are you scared?”

“What?”

“About your relationship with me.”

When I flinched, he whispered while lightly touching his forehead to mine.

“Averages and such don’t matter. We can go at our own pace.”

“…Am I not too troublesome to have as a lover? Aren’t you angry?”

“I’m not angry. It’s natural to fear a relationship with many obstacles.”

I looked at him with a dejected expression and mumbled.

“Actually, I…”

“You were worried that your relationship with me might hurt your family members?”

“…”

“It doesn’t matter, Leblaine. I’m fine being second. Because you’re my one and only.”

“You dated many other people before meeting me, didn’t you?”

Adrian looked at me as if asking what I was talking about, so I narrowed my eyes and said.

“I’m a beginner but you seem like an experienced person. It’s unfair.”

He pulled me into his arms as if he had lost and burst into laughter.

That’s when it happened.

Bang, bang─!

“Little One! I’m coming in!”

Gasp.

My hair stood on end from shock as I buried Adrian under the blanket.

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