The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 308
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Chapter 308
People looked back and forth between Mina and me, and the nine observers also had stern faces.
Then,
“Lies─!”
A scream-like shout burst out from the audience.
Everyone’s gaze turned at once to Mina, who had suddenly stood up from her seat.
With a pale face, covering her mouth, she shouted.
“It’s a lie. That can’t be true…”
Mina staggered out of her seat and stood at the edge of the interrogation room. She glared at me with bloodshot eyes.
“You’re even using the Duchess’s death as a means of war? How shameless, Leblaine.”
“…”
“If you thought even a little about Johan’s feelings, about Henri and Isaac’s feelings, how could you tell such lies!”
The interrogation room became deafeningly noisy.
Amidst the confusion, several people sided with Mina.
“For what reason on earth would the shrine kill the Duchess Dubbled and the fourth child?”
“We’ve never heard anything about there being a fourth child either.”
“Didn’t the Duchess die because she got caught up in the power struggle between the Previous Duke Dubbled and the current Duke!”
The suspicious gazes grew increasingly intense.
The interrogation room was chaotic with voices of criticism and suspicious looks.
Adrian spoke to Prince Andre.
“Are you just going to watch this?”
“…What?”
“We can’t continue the interrogation like this. Remove those who are disrupting the proceedings.”
Andre glared at Adrian with displeasure. Crossing his arms, he clicked his tongue and gestured to the guards.
The guards seized Mina. She roughly shook off the guards and shouted.
“Please listen to me, Your Majesty. I know. I can prove that child’s words are lies!”
Prince Andre, who had been frowning, hesitated. As the guards tried to seize Mina again, Prince Andre raised his hand.
“Wait.”
He narrowed his eyes and said.
“Is it true that you can prove it’s false?”
Mina quickly nodded her head.
“If you just look a little, you’ll find records of Dubbled issuing an emergency decree in January 17 years ago when they were ambushed by the Previous Duke’s soldiers.”
Andre looked at the mage.
When the mage sliced through the air with his hand, a massive book was summoned, and he soon found the records of Dubbled’s emergency decree.
When the mage said “That’s correct,” Andre nodded, and Mina continued speaking.
“But at that time, the Duke’s castle was devastated by the Previous Duke’s attack, and the Duchess Dubbled died on the very day the emergency decree was issued. Leblaine was born on February 29th. How can a dead person give birth to a child?”
Andre and several of the interrogation observers nodded their heads.
I spoke calmly.
“I was not born on February 29th.”
The observers and audience froze once again.
And rightfully so, because this was tantamount to me denying that I was the Child of Fate myself.
‘It’s the same as exposing that the Temple created a fake.’
Andre looked with a hardened face at the cardinals in the observer seats, the Temple people standing behind Mina, and his maternal grandfather Duke Marche.
Marche, Andre’s maternal family, had deep ties with the Temple.
If the Temple fell, Marche would also take a hit. That meant he himself could also be in danger.
Prince Andre shouted.
“Since the interrogation room is being disrupted by matters unrelated to this case, today’s interrogation shall end—”
He spoke quickly, perhaps intending to have time to consult with the Temple. Just then.
“Can you swear that those words are not false.”
Adrian interrupted Andre’s words.
He was undoubtedly trying to help ensure the interrogation I had worked so hard to prepare wouldn’t end. I looked at him with a faint smile.
“Yes. I swear before God and Dubbled’s crest.”
Andre shouted.
“The interrogation ends here—!”
“The Young Lady’s birth is deeply connected to this case. Continue the interrogation.”
“Adrian—!”
“Lady Dubbled, continue your statement!”
Andre and Adrian confronted each other sharply.
As the two glared at each other, Andre twisted his lips.
“The Temple, which is the Empire’s foundation, will be shaken to its core.”
“If it’s a foundation that will shake, we should uproot it and lay a new foundation.”
“Can you take responsibility?”
Prince Andre twisted his lips.
“That woman has denounced the state religion before everyone. If her words are false, the Imperial Family’s dignity will plummet to the floor. Can you take responsibility for all of this?”
“…Yes.”
Adrian looked at me.
“I will take all responsibility.”
“How.”
“As the last Luerge.”
Staking the Imperial Family’s surname ‘Luerge’ was no different from saying he would give up his position as prince.
It was a proposal with nothing bad for Andre.
Even if the Temple collapsed and he took a hit, if he could push out Adrian, the throne would be his.
Andre smirked and crossed his arms.
Adrian said.
“Young Lady, continue your testimony.”
I rubbed my heated eyes with my palm.
I couldn’t waste the opportunity Adrian had created by risking everything.
“Everyone here must know that I’m from an orphanage. An orphan’s birthday and birth time aren’t accurate. The day the paperwork is filed becomes the birthday. If you look into it even a little, you’ll know what I’m saying is true.”
Prince Andre furrowed his brow.
“That alone makes you Dubbled’s Fourth Child?”
“Of course, that’s not the only evidence. Cattleya Winston, a branch member of Dubbled, is my witness.”
“Branch member?”
“She’s someone born with the rare Divine Power in Dubbled. If my power mixes with hers, it can prove that I’m of Dubbled bloodline.”
Cattleya Winston, who had been brought in advance from Dubbled Territory, entered the interrogation room.
As Cattleya leisurely walked into the interrogation room, Mina took a deep breath.
The Priest glared at Cattleya, who was wearing priest robes.
“You know who took you in when the Winston branch family was driven out and wandering after being expelled from the main family.”
Cattleya glanced at him and let out a small laugh.
“We may be enemies within the family, but is that really the case outside?”
“What?”
Andre called for the Court Wizards, and I mixed Divine Power with Cattleya in front of three Court Wizards.
Guuuuuung─
Holy water rippled in the large bowl, and my power mixed with Cattleya’s flowed in.
All three Court Wizards nodded their heads.
“…!”
“That’s impossible!”
A different kind of commotion erupted in the interrogation room.
I looked at Cattleya, who had withdrawn her hand from the bowl.
“Thank you for coming.”
“They looked ready to kidnap me if I didn’t.”
As she was finishing up, she paused and turned to look at me.
“Eight years ago.”
“…What?”
“Thanks to the purified land you gave us, I was able to treat my mother’s illness.”
“….”
“That’s all.”
She said as she passed by Mina.
“Pride as a Dubbled. All the territory’s people have it. Unfortunately, I’m also a citizen of that land.”
The Priests gritted their teeth.
Cardinal Ridalante in the observer seats shouted.
“Cattleya Winston is a citizen of Dubbled! That’s environment enough to pull tricks! We cannot trust Lady Dubbled’s words based on this alone!”
I also spoke without backing down.
“That’s not the only evidence.”
“Wh-what?!”
I grabbed the magic device hanging around my neck.
“If you permit it, I’ll reveal it.”
Adrian nodded, and I infused power into the magic device.
The sound of gears meshing and turning in mid-air could be heard, and an image appeared.
Mina trapped in prison.
With a haggard face, she glared at me and shouted.
[Bad girl. This wicked… terrible girl! I hate you!]
[I feel the same. I hate you, you hypocrite.]
[Yes! I’m a hypocrite! I wanted you to die. So I did everything the shrine told me to! But this is all because of you! To get rid of a bad girl like you…!]
Mina’s face hardened stiffly.
The Cardinals and Priests were the same.
‘Did you think I would discard this trump card footage?’
I said.
“I am someone born on February 29th who manifested God’s Crest. I am a person who meets all the conditions of the Child of Fate.”
Amidst the noisy audience seats, I continued speaking calmly.
“But why did the shrine try to kill me? Why did Mina try to kill me?”
Mina screamed as if having a seizure.
“Because you stole everything!”
“I did? What?”
“You deceived people… deceived them and my precious people…”
“What did I deceive! That I’m not the real Child of Fate?”
“That’s…”
“When I became the Child of Fate, I was only four years old. The shrine brought me here against my will and made me the Child of Fate! What’s my crime in this?”
“…”
“I had no crime but should have been killed. That way they could cover up making a fake into the Child of Fate!”
People’s gazes turned toward the Cardinals, Priests, and Mina.
I took out my watch from my pocket and checked it.
‘5 minutes left.’
The final finale remained.
Not knowing what to do, Mina twisted her skirt hem in her grip and looked at her brothers in the audience seats.
She looked at Johan, Henri, and Isaac with a desperate expression.
“You were deceived by that child. That’s why you pushed me away so coldly.”
Mina approached them while sobbing and said.
“I know. I know everything. The truth is that all three of you are kind people. When you thought Fourth Child had returned, you wanted to grant her every wish.”
“…”
“…”
“…”
Thick tears flowed down Mina’s cheeks.
‘3 minutes.’
“But no. Johan, Henri, Isaac… Look at me. I’m Mina. I’m the Mina you cherished like your own life…”
‘2 minutes.’
“You said I was like a real younger sister. We didn’t need anything else when we had each other. I healed your sick hearts.”
‘1 minute.’
“You said you loved me….”
The broken Mina covered her face with both hands.
Isaac said.
“How long do we have to listen to that crazy talk?”
Henri let out a bitter laugh.
“If you’re going to go crazy, at least do it gracefully.”
Johan stared intently at Mina.
That’s when it happened.
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