The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 30

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Chapter 30

When I stared intently at her wound, she let out an “Ah…” and smiled awkwardly.

“It’s ugly, isn’t it?”

“…”

Even though I hadn’t cried, Lea fidgeted restlessly and left, saying she would bring medicine.

“Shall we continue the lesson? This tower was built three hundred years ago when the Duke of that era built it to honor his ancestors…”

It was a strangely shaped spire.

It didn’t seem to be built for lodging or any particular purpose, but simply appeared to be a symbolic structure.

Inside, there were only stairs and no separate rooms. There weren’t even magic lamps maintained by mana, just torch holders hanging there.

“Wow!”

“Would you like to go up?”

“Yes!”

Seria chuckled as she watched me hop up the stairs.

“Why?”

“You remind me of my younger siblings.”

“Seria must have been a good older sister.”

“I wasn’t really.”

“No, you must have been.”

I looked back at Seria as I climbed the stairs.

“You even killed a noble for their sake.”

“…!”

Her face hardened.

Checkmate.

* * *

‘I was hoping it wouldn’t be you.’

The evidence was the burn-like scar on her foot.

I had seen it at the slave auction house. All the slaves had the same brand mark on their feet.

‘The man who tried to attack me had it on his foot too.’

And Seria uses the Nokston accent.

The border territory Nokston dialect, where most foreign peoples are captured and brought in.

“The murdered noble was actually a slave trader. Seria, you were a slave sold by that noble.”

The murdered noble didn’t take in the elderly and weak to help them. It was to sell them as slaves.

Since she was a slave raised by that noble, Seria could infiltrate the mansion alone. She would know the layout well.

“How did you… how did you know…”

Seria, who had been looking at me with trembling eyes, soon let out a hollow laugh.

“It seems you heard from Duke Dubbled. I didn’t think I could hide it for long, but I was discovered faster than expected.”

I rolled my eyes around.

‘Thank goodness. She’s misunderstanding on her own.’

Though I had prepared an excuse.

“That’s right. He was a bastard who deserved to die.”

“….”

“No one knew what kind of scum he was. Not even the children who were sold as slaves.”

Seria clenched her fists tightly.

“Those innocent children must have been waiting for that man to save them even after being sold. …Just like me.”

“….”

“Still, I was lucky. I was fairly smart, so I worked in that bastard’s mansion. Because of that, I was sold after my adolescence passed, and I realized earlier than the other children. That damn man’s true nature.”

Seria said she escaped desperately.

She frantically went to the facility to save the children, but many had already been sold off.

“The children who weren’t suitable for selling were brutally….”

Seria trailed off.

So I understood why she killed the nobleman.

‘But why did she specifically come to Dubbled?’

Seria knelt down flat in front of me.

“Young Lady, a trainee administrative officer like me cannot meet His Excellency. Please, please help me meet His Excellency.”

I said in shock.

“If you see the Duke, Seria will die!”

Do you think that heartless person would spare you just because you have a tragic past?

He’d say ‘There was a pest in my castle’ and hand you over to the Security Force.

“That man’s subordinate is here. I need to find my younger sisters who were sold.”

“What?”

“I heard from another subordinate. I don’t know why, but he definitely said he would enter Dubbled.”

Suddenly, the unsettling things came to mind.

The eyes that looked at me.

How he was particularly fond of children.

How he measured the length of hands at a glance.

“Jacob….”

Just as I muttered.

“How did you know.”

A naive voice came from below the stairs.

Just as Seria flinched and raised her head, he leaped up in an instant and grabbed her by the throat.

“Gah…!”

Then without a moment’s hesitation, he threw her down the stairs.

Thud!

Dark red blood pooled around Seria, who had tumbled down the high stairs.

Jacob looked at me.

“Huh? How did you know?”

I bit my lips tightly.

The tower I was currently in was very far from the main castle. It was merely a symbolic structure, so it was an area that knights rarely patrolled.

I had suggested entering the tower because it was a place without people.

I needed a space to talk with Seria, and I was confident that she would never attack me.

Jacob slowly approached.

“Won’t you talk?”

I didn’t answer and hesitantly stepped backward.

Jacob groaned “Hmm.” and tilted his head.

“The client told me to bring you back without damaging you… What a shame. I won’t get the full price.”

I glared at him as he muttered in a very regretful tone.

‘When I regress this time, I’ll kill you first.’

But what would be best if I don’t want to die painfully?

Should I fall from the tower?

Should I bite my tongue?

‘Damn it, I need to die before getting caught.’

Jacob’s ‘client’ who wanted me brought to them was definitely a crazy pervert, so the most dangerous thing would be losing my mind after being captured.

‘Falling to death would be better after all.’

I quickly ran toward the window, but Jacob was faster.

He grabbed my collar firmly and said.

“You’re so lively, it would be fun to play with you.”

That’s when it happened.

“What are you doing?”

I heard a familiar voice.

‘Lea!’

Yuni was behind her.

I urgently shouted.

“Run away!”

Even if there were two women, they wouldn’t be able to beat an adult man.

More importantly, judging from how Jacob had pushed Seria down the stairs earlier, he was a skilled assassin experienced in this kind of work.

It would be even more troublesome if those two died together trying to protect me.

But the two didn’t move.

Just as I was about to shout for them to run away again.

Lea kicked the ground hard with one foot and closed the distance in an instant. She was much faster than Jacob.

Jacob twisted his body toward Lea. However, whoosh! Lea leaped and spun through the air, then stepped on his shoulder and squeezed his neck with her legs!

“Grrk…!”

Jacob’s temples bulged with veins and his face turned completely red, as if he couldn’t breathe.

Then Lea braced herself against the wall and twisted her legs.

Jacob let go of me and collapsed to the floor.

Because of that, I rolled around and thunk, hit my head.

“Young Lady!”

Startled, Lea came running toward me.

“Are you okay? I’m sorry, it’s been so long that I made a mistake…”

I stared at her in bewilderment.

“Oh my, your forehead has turned red.”

My forehead was a bit red, but Jacob was dying.

Yuni, who had run over here, twisted Jacob’s shoulder and asked.

“Where did you come from? Are you one of the Blue House Association’s lackeys? Brown Wolf’s Orca? Or one of Karutano’s Death Brothers’ scum?”

From the mouth of the usually cheerful and lovely Yuni came a string of rough dialect along with the names of drug trafficking organizations, human trafficking organizations, and assassination groups.

Then she grabbed his hair and slammed his head to the floor, and I could swear I heard the sound of a walnut cracking somewhere.

“Ouch, spill it cheap before I pull out your guts and blow them up.”

Oh…

Watching Jacob get beaten like a dog, I suddenly came to my senses.

“…Lea, you’re not just a maid, are you?”

Lea quickly waved her hands.

“I am a maid! I just briefly worked somewhere else in the past.”

“Where?”

“Briefly at a place called Wolves…”

Wolves, you mean that Magic Knight Group where everyone uses Aura, rumored to have ended a battle with over 100,000 people mobilized in just two weeks, the Dubbled Elite Knight Order?

I swallowed my dry saliva and asked.

“Yuni too?”

“No, Yuni briefly lived in an organization before entering the Imperial Palace…”

Then Yuni flinched and made excuses.

“I only did small-scale financial business!”

Financial business, you mean loan sharking by any chance…

Yuni threw away the foaming and unconscious Jacob and approached me, waving both hands while making excuses.

“Still, I have the smallest bounty among the maids serving Young Lady!”

…Then that means Dahlia and Linda are also wanted criminals?

I realized I had been overlooking one thing.

Dubbled accepts people as administrators and employees regardless of their social status or background.

In other words, criminals might already be mixed in.

‘Ah, this is why they call Dubbled villains…’

I nodded my head blankly.

* * *

“I merely followed God’s teachings. There are people in this world who deserve to die… no, people who should be sent to God’s side.”

─said Lady Dahlia, a serial killer who killed about a hundred rapists.

“Our family was poor from when I was young, we never once ate out like others did, and my mother said she hated pasta…”

These were the words of Lady Linda, the master swindler who had run off with an amount equivalent to a typical territory’s annual budget.

“Young Lady, please don’t be disappointed!”

“Everyone has washed their hands of it now!”

“That’s right. They’re all living in repentance!”

I nodded with clouded eyes.

“It’s fine.”

But the maids must have thought I was just being polite, as they burst into tears.

‘I really am okay with it.’

Strictly speaking, before my regression, I too had been an attempted murderer of Mina. Though in my case, it was a false accusation.

‘But that’s not what’s important right now.’

Lea entered the room with a stern expression.

“Master is looking for you.”

I headed to the Great Hall of the main castle.

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