The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 302

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Chapter 302

What the hell is this.

How did the demon of prophecy write something like this as if speaking directly to me.

My family members, frozen stiff, looked at me.

“Is that the end? Huh?”

“…No.”

I pointed to the next sentence with trembling hands.

[The person you’re looking for is…]

I let out a hollow laugh.

* * *

A few days later, Dubbled Underground Prison.

A guard glanced at Mina collapsed inside the iron bars and yawned lazily.

“This is boring. Hey, Anderson. That woman doesn’t look like she’ll wake up today either, so let’s call it quits and go have a drink.”

“Nonsense. She may look like that, but isn’t she the Child of Fate? What if she finds an opportunity to escape? If she escapes, it won’t end with just you and me losing our heads.”

The guard who had been glancing at Mina snorted dismissively.

“What could a walking corpse do when she’d die immediately if Dubbled didn’t replenish her mana every day?”

As his partner kept pestering him, the guard who had been stubbornly refusing gave in and said.

“Fine, I’ll go, but I’m not playing betting chess today.”

“Didn’t you lose quite a bit of money the other day? You need to make it back this time!”

“Make it back my ass. If I lose my stake again this time, my wife will kick me out.”

The guard left with a hearty laugh.

As soon as the sound of footsteps disappeared, Mina’s eyelashes fluttered and her eyelids slowly opened.

Her physical condition was better than usual.

Wondering what was going on, she felt around her body and saw something hanging around her neck.

‘Etoile…!’

A silver Etoile.

When she summoned Ami last time, she learned that the Etoile she had was fake.

After using it for the Ami summoning ritual that was just for show at the temple, Reginald had taken the fake Etoile saying he would investigate it, so how did this happen?

‘Could this be a real Etoile?’

Come to think of it, she seemed to have heard a strange conversation last time.

“The Etoile, really… will it be alright?”

“The young lady’s order… we have no choice. If the hostage dies, we’ll have no way to pressure the shrine… we have to keep her alive.”

I thought it was a dream, but now I see it might have been something I actually heard while my consciousness was hazy.

‘Seeing how much my physical condition has improved, this must be real.’

Mina quickly looked around her surroundings.

She wasn’t in any condition to fight guards, but she could at least open the iron bars.

‘Now while no one’s here is my chance.’

Mina quickly destroyed the lock on the iron bars with magic.

Clang─!!

Her heart pounded at the sharp noise.

As soon as the door opened, Mina rushed out. Fortunately, no one seemed to have heard the sound of destroying the lock, as there were no pursuers.

Dubbled Territory was familiar to her. It was a place she had often visited following the Three Brothers in her previous life.

“Here it is. The secret passage.”

“Secret passage?”

“It’s a place only I know. Even my brothers probably don’t know about it. It seems to be an escape route for the Family Heads. They lived doing nothing but dirty deeds after all.”

“Is it okay to tell me about something like that?”

“Stop worrying about the Shrine now and come whenever we need you. And don’t cry alone anymore.”

‘Thank you, Isaac.’

Recalling memories from her previous life, she ran through the underground.

‘It’s definitely around here.’

As she felt along the wall where three strangely-shaped torches stood in a row, something caught at her fingertips.

When she pressed it, with a quiet rumbling sound, the wall opened and a hole just big enough for one adult to squeeze through appeared.

Mina hurriedly crawled through the hole. Her clothes were completely soaked with cold sweat on her back.

After crawling through the hole, she could see a familiar stream.

It was the stream connected to Mount Redgus behind Dubbled Territory.

Just as she was about to stand up, she heard the sound of someone approaching.

Step, step.

Low footsteps.

Her heart pounded so violently it felt like it would burst out of her mouth.

She tried desperately to activate an activation seal to use magic somehow, but it seemed she had used up all her available mana just destroying the prison lock, as nothing would manifest at all.

‘Please. Please…!’

She couldn’t be caught like this.

It was so unfair, so terribly unfair.

She had finally come to this dream world she had so desperately wished for while in ‘that place.’

Father had recognized her.

She couldn’t convey her true feelings to those precious people who had been like blood relatives. She couldn’t tell them how close she and the Three Brothers had been. She couldn’t tell them that she alone knew of those times when they cherished each other like their own flesh.

And him… She couldn’t save him, who must be enduring piercing loneliness in the Imperial Palace.

Someone’s hand grabbed Mina’s shoulder. When Mina turned her head with a stiff expression, what she saw was…

“Young Lady.”

“…Cardinal?”

Though wearing a black robe, that face belonged to a cardinal I had seen before.

As Mina staggered to her feet, the paladins who seemed to be the cardinal’s guards quickly supported her.

“Are you alright?”

“Yes. But…”

She looked around and asked the cardinal.

“How did you come here? And with so many paladins…”

“We were looking for an opportunity to strike Dubbled.”

“Strike Dubbled?”

“There was a task the Pope commanded, but it ended in failure. With nowhere left to retreat, we’re planning an all-out war. We came to scout the enemy’s forces, but heard from a scout that a strange door had opened here.”

“Ah…”

“What a relief. Let’s go.”

“Yes.”

As Mina walked with support, she clutched Etoile tightly in her hand.

* * *

The Shrine.

“Young Lady!”

The cardinals who heard news of Mina’s return came rushing to find her.

Seeing her emaciated state, the cardinals all burst with indignation.

“Those bastards deserve to be torn apart! Young Lady, how much suffering you must have endured.”

“I’m fine. You all must have worried so much, right? Reginald must have suffered because of me too…”

When Reginald was mentioned, the cardinals became solemn.

“Why do you all look like that… Did something happen to Reginald?”

“…”

“Please tell me!”

“He was executed.”

“…What did you say?”

“It happened this morning. His involvement in commissioning alchemy to Johan Dubbled at the Seven Families Mock Battle, the first kidnapping attempt, and secretly creating an alchemist guild – everything was exposed…”

Mina covered her mouth.

The cardinals swallowed their sighs.

“Though his crimes were great, never before has a cardinal been executed so swiftly. Dubbled’s influence must have played a strong role. Having caused the death of a Servant of God, Dubbled will not escape divine punishment.”

Mina bit her lips tightly.

‘Leblaine…!’

How much more sin does that girl intend to pile upon the Three Brothers?

With a pale face and labored breathing, Mina spoke.

“The others are right. We have nowhere left to retreat now.”

“Then…”

“Let’s proceed as planned. We strike that girl today, right now.”

“But Young Lady, the First One’s power is beyond imagination. With just one demon possessing necromancy abilities, she has power rivaling an entire army.”

The Cardinals continued with troubled expressions.

“We cannot move easily without knowing what other demons the First One has.”

“No, there’s no need to fear anymore.”

Mina pulled out Etoile that she had hidden inside her collar.

“Because I can now summon demons too.”

“…!”

“…!”

The Cardinals let out silent screams.

‘She retrieved Etoile?’

Did The Second, whom they had only ridiculed, have such drive? To find and retrieve Etoile by breaking through Dubbled’s powerful barriers while on the verge of death.

One of the Cardinals grabbed her hand firmly.

“Make the passage demon that His Holiness the Pope is keeping into your familiar.”

“…His Holiness the Pope is keeping a Devil’s Passage?”

“The shrine has waited for the Child of Fate for a thousand years. Would the passages we’ve collected be inferior to that Dubbled?”

“What?”

“Gusion, Badin, Purson and Morax, Naberius and… Agares.”

“Agares?”

The Cardinal grinned wickedly.

“Yes. The only demon that can annihilate other demons. Among the 72 pillars, the strongest spear with the most powerful attack force.”

Just then, the Cardinal who had brought Mina spoke.

“The people’s hearts have left the shrine. War without the Imperial Palace’s permission is tantamount to treason. There’s only one way to quickly and safely eliminate the First One who has been registered in Dubbled.”

“How do you mean?”

“The Evil God Sealing Ritual.”

“….”

“If the Evil God is sealed in the ritual, it will be revealed that the First One’s role was not as the Child of Fate but as a sacrifice. Who would object to using a sacrifice as a sacrifice?”

“…But today isn’t a solar eclipse.”

“Only we know that the Evil God can be sealed on the day of a solar eclipse. The point is this. Making it appear as an ‘Evil God Sealing Ritual’ in the eyes of the Imperial Palace and the people.”

“But without that girl, we can’t seal the Evil God.”

“We capture the First One, show the Evil God Sealing Ritual using her as a sacrifice, and pretend to kill her. Meanwhile, we switch her out and turn her into a doll without emotion or reason, then conduct the real ritual later?”

The Cardinals burst into exclamations.

“Indeed…!”

“You must handle this quickly. Before Dubbled can prepare their defenses!”

Mina, who had been twisting the fabric of her lower garment in her grip, nodded.

The signal flare for counterattack had been fired.

‘Now it’s your turn, Leblaine.’

I must take back everything you stole from me.

* * *

Dubbled Territory.

Just as I was having a conversation with someone, Isaac burst through the door.

“Little One!”

“Wait a moment, I have something to handle. If you have business, we’ll talk later.”

“What on earth could be so… Gypsies?”

Isaac saw the Gypsies holding money bags and frowned.

“You’re trying to borrow the power of the Wandering People to find Neriad’s bloodline? This isn’t the time for that!”

“What’s got you so worked up.”

“Mina has escaped.”

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