The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 309

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Chapter 309

Kruk, kruruk.

An unpleasant sound began echoing from mid-air.

“What is that sound?”

As soon as the murmuring people looked up at the sky, screams burst forth.

Kyaaaah─!

“A, a monster?!”

A monster appeared in the sky above.

Black feathers covering its entire body, bumpy and disgusting feet, and terrible sharp claws with visible veins.

It looked like an ordinary flying monster, but its face was human. People who recognized the monster’s face were horrified.

“Cardinal Benedict!”

As soon as someone shouted, Henri, Isaac, and Johan from the audience seats deployed their servants.

Chains of light connected to the servants stretched toward the sky and tightly wrapped around the monster’s body.

Thud─!

The monster that crashed to the ground with a thunderous sound writhed like a worm.

I grabbed Benedict’s hair and lifted his head up.

The face burned by Mother 17 years ago was revealed to the world.

People who saw the hideously disfigured skin screamed in terror.

“Cardinal Paul and Benedict, who was the Holy Knight Commander, are the masterminds behind the Dubbled Territory attack incident 17 years ago.”

“…!”

The Cardinals observing the interrogation turned pale, and the Priests beside Mina panicked, not knowing what to do.

Ridalante, one of the nine observers, shouted out.

“Lies… lies!”

“Then answer this. Where is Cardinal Paul? Why is he dead!”

“Ca, Cardinal Paul died protecting His Holiness the Pope from the apostles….”

“Where is his corpse!”

“Th, that is….”

“How did Cardinal Benedict become the Shrine’s holy water?”

“Cardinal Benedict was the first test subject in the holy water transformation experiment, a no, noble….”

While the Shrine side was fumbling for words, I checked my watch.

The hour hand pointed to the exact hour.

‘Now.’

When I hurriedly looked toward the entrance, I saw Emeline being led in by Cecilia and Tree’s hands.

Cardinal Stefano’s gaze, Emeline’s biological father, wavered slightly.

I recalled meeting Stefano before coming to the Imperial Palace myself.

“What brings you to see me again? Young Lady, I believe I have provided sufficient help to you as that girl’s friend.”

“I have died three times and am living my fourth life.”

“What did you say?”

“I have regressed three times, and I retain all my memories. The ‘previous life’ that Mina remembers is the story of my first life.”

“…Why are you telling me this story? You can’t be so foolish as to not know how dangerous it is to reveal such things to me, a cardinal, in the current situation.”

“I have decided to stake my final chance on you.”

“…”

“On you, Emeline’s biological father.”

His eyes were wavering just like they were now. I told him everything.

That in my first life I lived as Duke Amitie’s young lady, in my second life I lived as Duke Valois’s young lady, and in my last life when I became part of the Beggar Gang, I met his daughter.

“Emeline and I were close friends, so I know. What kind of meaning her father held for that girl.”

“…”

“Please return Emeline’s father that you stole from her in this life, return that girl’s admiration.”

“…”

“With this opportunity.”

All the evidence I possess is, in fact, not the kind that can earn people’s trust.

The evidence found in Dubbled Territory is easy to fabricate.

Some would think that Dubbled tried to disguise me as their child to win in the power struggle with the shrine, and manipulated the situation in that process.

That’s why I needed ‘testimony from the shrine.’

So at the very last moment, at this irreversible moment, I decided to take a gamble.

‘It’s not like my cunning self, but still…’

Based on the affection I received from my mother and father, I decided to trust Stefano as a ‘father.’

“Cardinal Benedict’s sanctification is connected to the incident from 17 years ago.”

It was Cardinal Stefano.

‘I did it.’

I took a deep breath, and Emeline’s eyes widened.

He rose from his seat, looked at Emeline with a bitter smile, then looked around his surroundings.

“17 years ago, Benedict was caught in ‘a certain explosion,’ returned with severe injuries, and Cardinal Paul died.”

The people from the shrine side screamed out.

“Lord Stefano─!”

“No more!”

Stefano clenched his fists and shouted loudly.

The surroundings fell silent at once.

Stefano exhaled roughly and looked at the shrine people with a distorted face.

“Stop deceiving people any longer.”

“Th, this…! That person has gone mad!”

Cardinal Ridalante criticized, but Stefano did not stop speaking.

“What the two were caught in was an explosion of divine power. Cardinal Benedict searched for doctors for a long time to recover, and received medical examination from Lord Taylor of Dubbled, but wounds inflicted by divine power could not be healed.”

People began to murmur, and I nodded to my family members in the audience seats.

Isaac quickly rushed out and handed Taylor’s medical journal to the observers’ seats.

Prince Andre’s expression hardened after checking the journal.

Stefano began speaking again.

“Not only the wounds, but his energy core that controls mana was also being affected, so Cardinal Benedict had no choice but to sanctify himself and reconstruct his body. As evidence of this, Cardinal Benedict is the only cardinal who participated in the experiment that the shrine calls a ‘noble sacrifice.'”

Emeline bit her lips tightly.

Tears welled up in her bloodshot eyes.

She knew well what this accusation meant to Stefano.

He had thrown away the honor that was so precious he would abandon his child for it, casting it into the gutter with his own hands.

Tree supported Emeline as she collapsed, covering her face with one hand.

“He is exactly as you described him to me, Emeline.”

“My father is incredibly wonderful. He’s the most righteous person in the world!”

Tree remembered Emeline’s words when she was happy about finding her father. Tree smiled, and Emeline cried with her whole face contorted like a child from long ago.

I shouted.

“Why hasn’t someone capable of creating such a powerful explosion been revealed to the world!”

“Stop! Do not disturb the sacred interrogation chamber any further!”

Cardinal Ridalante shouted as if having a fit, but I continued shouting endlessly.

“Because the shrine hid and raised her! They bought a young girl from the Shayman Tribe who received the oracle ‘she will become the vessel of beginning and end,’ conducted all kinds of terrible experiments, and made her grow up in the shrine’s underground where not a ray of light entered!”

“Your Majesty, what are you doing! Stop the interrogation!”

“But in the end, my mother escaped, met my father, and gave birth to me. Since I wasn’t born on February 29th, I’m not the Child of Fate, and that’s why I can summon demons!”

The interrogation chamber buzzed as if it would explode.

“Demons? Did she say demons?”

I cried out as if spitting blood.

“There are no angels in this world. There is no righteous god!”

“Leblaine Dubbled!”

“What Mina summoned was also the demon Ami. Using Ami’s ability of transformation, she disguised him as Aslan, no, as the demon Gremory! We were all being deceived by the shrine and Mina!”

“Stop…!!”

Mina let out a scream.

Mina’s Etoile, synchronized with its master’s agitation, glowed sharply and vibrated.

The whites of Mina’s eyes turned pitch black. Just like Neriad in the god’s space.

“Stop, stop… Stop!”

Mina held her head with both hands and kept screaming.

‘She can’t control her Etoile.’

It was evidence that the faith of people watching the situation through the magic mirror was rapidly being depleted.

Neriad’s power protecting Mina was weakening. Mina’s familiars ran wild regardless of their master’s will.

Bang─!

Kwaaaaang─!!

Six pillars of light surrounded the massive interrogation chamber, and six demons descended to the human world, standing before the pillars of light.

The six demons landed on the ground, and first, a man with red hair walked toward me in the center of the interrogation chamber.

Amidst the screaming chaos, strangely enough, the sound of the man’s footsteps pierced into my ears.

[Misguided Child of God.]

I took a step back while gripping Etoile. But there was nowhere left to retreat. From the opposite side, a muscular old man wearing beast hide was also walking toward me.

Then.

Crack.

With a dull sound, Mina’s neck snapped backward as she rose into the air.

The pillars of light surrounding the interrogation room simultaneously overlapped as if piercing through Mina’s body.

Kee, keekee, keekkee…

From within the light enveloping Mina’s body, a demon beast with sharp tail and red eyes crawled out on all fours.

It looked both human-like and like a beast that had failed to become human.

One, two, the demon beasts that began emerging beyond the light soon became an uncountably vast army.

The first demon beast to cross the light charged toward me.

It leaped while opening its maw wide, revealing disgustingly numerous and sharp teeth.

[Little One, those are Purson’s army!]

For a moment, I seemed to hear the voices of the familiars in my head. Without realizing it, I squeezed my eyes shut…

Clang!

A sharp sound rang out. When I opened my eyes, what I saw was Adrian.

Adrian, who had pulled me into his arms and hidden me in his embrace, spoke.

“Third Battalion!”

Adrian’s Imperial Guards Third Battalion rushed toward the interrogation room.

Johan, Isaac, and Henri who were in the audience seats also surrounded my vicinity.

Cecilia also joined the fight while deploying her activation seal, and Emeline spread a barrier.

Fake Trigon commanding the court mages, Whale also entered the battle.

Father, with his back to me, shouted.

“Don’t let even a single one near Leblaine.”

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