The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 38

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Chapter 38

He answered cheerfully.

“Gems!”

I tilted my head.

I thought demons would have plenty of gems.

Bune cupped his chin with his hand and let out a big sigh.

“We each have different powers. Some can make love come true, some can kill enemies. Unfortunately, I don’t have the power to create gems.”

“You could ask a demon who can make gems. (You could ask a demon who can make gems.)”

Bune lightly tapped my nose and said.

“Except for a few, we can’t meet each other without a medium like Little One.”

“Ah.”

I nodded and looked at Bune.

His eyes sparkled with tears, showing how desperately he wanted gems.

After watching the pure-looking handsome man tear up for a while, I nodded and asked the most important thing.

“Then what will Bune do for me? (Then what will Bune do for me?)”

With a grin, lifting the corners of my mouth.

* * *

The next day, greenhouse.

I stuffed lamb sauté into my mouth from the morning.

The table was filled with various foods, but my fork went to meat next, and meat after that, and meat after that too.

[Little One, you need to eat a balanced diet to be healthy.]

Bune’s voice came into my head.

I was worried he might stay in human form continuously, but fortunately he could make his physical body disappear.

‘You’re noisy.’

When I answered curtly, I heard Bune’s dejected breathing.

But I was just as gloomy.

Summoning demons requires so much Divine Power that it’s hard to maintain Adult Thinking.

I needed about three to four times more food and sleep than usual.

Through yesterday’s conversation with Bune, I learned a lot about Demon Summoning.

1. Demons can only be summoned if there’s a special mineral (or gem) to serve as a conduit. You can’t choose which demon to summon.

2. When a demon is summoned, the mineral (or gem) that served as the conduit loses its function.

3. Only one demon can be summoned at a time, and they disappear after granting a wish.

4. During the summoning period, I can use the demon’s power through my divine power as a medium. However, since summoning and maintaining it also requires divine power, I need to make it disappear as quickly as possible.

If all my divine power disappears, I’ll go insane.

Actually, I had some expectations.

I thought maybe if Bune helped me, I could immediately flee into exile.

But Bune’s ability was ‘Summoning Souls of the Dead’.

‘It would have been nice if it was something like giving me unknown information or teleportation.’

Hearing my thoughts, Bune let out another pitiful sigh.

But really, truly, the pitiful one was me!

When he asked for gems, I was happy thinking it would be really easy, but the gem Bune wanted turned out to be incredibly difficult to obtain.

‘How am I supposed to get the 【Goddess’s Tears】 for you?’

That’s a sapphire of which only one exists in the world.

And unfortunately, it was owned by a temple.

‘The temple that owns it is nearby though, should I steal it?’

In my previous life, I lived as a beggar, so stealing was my specialty.

Just as I was pondering, someone entered the greenhouse.

“Young Lady, hello?”

My eyes widened.

It was Cattleya.

“Why are you here?”

“I collapsed while leaving the castle last night. I was urgently moved to the infirmary inside the castle for treatment, and I just came out. I wanted to greet you, Young Lady.”

“I see.”

I nodded and put the last remaining lamb meat in my mouth.

Lea asked, “Shall I bring you more?” I nodded, and she left the dining room.

And only Cattleya and I remained in the greenhouse.

She clasped her hands together and said, “Oh right.”

“There’s good news.”

“News?”

“Yes. The temple learned that you displayed tremendous divine power and they’re very pleased.”

“…What?”

“A letter arrived for His Excellency asking him to bring you to a nearby temple to confirm your divine power.”

Then she came close to me and smiled brightly.

“With that level of divine power, you might be summoned to the Central Temple immediately. Congratulations.”

“…”

“While you’re at the Central Temple, Young Lady, I’ll take good care of His Excellency and the Young Masters.”

Cattleya then stroked my hair.

“Do you understand, you little fool?”

It seemed yesterday’s events had thoroughly twisted her mood.

Seeing how she had thrown away even the mask she’d been clumsily wearing.

‘Either Cattleya or the Baron couple told the temple about this.’

Having failed yesterday, she’s trying to use the shrine to drive me out.

Cattleya tapped my cheek lightly as she spoke.

“How dare a mere commoner orphan aim so high. Do you think having divine power can erase your entire background?”

“….”

“Please know your place.”

I had been quite lenient with Cattleya.

She was a child, and I hadn’t really suffered any harm from what she had done.

But I wasn’t a particularly patient person.

The kind Leblaine who would endure everything just because someone was a child was no longer here.

It was when Cattleya tapped my cheek once more.

“Kyaak─!”

I tumbled under the chair and screamed, causing a commotion outside before the door burst open!

“Young Lady?!”

Nearby servants and administrative officers came rushing in.

Among them was Henri, holding books.

“What happened!”

I pointed at Cattleya.

“She hit me.”

The child turned pale and waved her hands frantically.

“Wh-what…! No, I didn’t!”

Henri strode over and grabbed Cattleya’s wrist.

There was grease on her palm. It was grease from the lamb sauté that had been on my face.

“N-no, I, that’s not what happened…!”

Having fully displayed the intimidation skills I’d used during my Beggar Gang days against people who bullied me for being a beggar, I smirked inwardly.

‘I’m the drama queen of this district, buddy.’

* * *

The Winston couple was immediately summoned.

The couple was greatly flustered seeing Cattleya kneeling in the greenhouse with Isaac and Henri wearing murderous expressions.

“Mother!”

Cattleya burst into tears as soon as she saw the Baroness, and the couple embraced their daughter and asked.

“What on earth happened?”

“She hit Leblaine.”

At Henri’s cold words, the Baroness’s eyes hardened, and Cattleya screamed as if in agony.

“No! I’m being wronged! I was just, just trying to wipe something off the Young Lady’s face…!”

The Baron, who had been momentarily flustered, glared at me with an ‘I knew it’ expression.

“Young Lady, enough! Yesterday you knocked her down, today you’re framing her! What grudge do you have against Cattleya to do this─”

Smack!

Isaac struck his cheek.

The Baron, struck by the aura-infused palm, collapsed onto the greenhouse grass.

He clutched his cheek in disbelief.

“Wh-what… what is this…?”

“Look, this is hitting.”

Isaac grabbed the grass stuck to his face with his index finger and thumb, flicked it off, and continued speaking.

“This is removing.”

“Pardon?”

“If your daughter wanted to remove crumbs from the little one’s face, what part would need to touch?”

“Obviously her fingers…”

Isaac grabbed the wrist of the trembling Cattleya and held it out to the Baron.

“Where’s the oil on your daughter’s hand? Hm?”

Seeing the glistening palm, the Baron swallowed dryly.

When he couldn’t answer, Isaac muttered, “Looks like I’ll have to demonstrate again.”

Baroness Winston looked at her daughter with an incredulous expression.

“Is this true?”

“…”

“Cattleya!”

Realizing she had no excuse, Cattleya bit her lips tightly.

“I only patted her cheek gently!”

“Why did you do such a thing!”

Touching someone without permission was already rude, but patting their cheek was even worse.

Moreover, I was the Young Lady of House Dubbled Main Family. This should never have happened.

Cattleya glared at me while tears streamed down her face.

“That child is bad! She stole what’s mine!”

“You…”

“That child is just a commoner orphan! She’s far beneath me, and I should have been the one to become the Dubbled Young Lady! Mother, Father, and even Duke Roman said so too. You promised you’d make it so the Duke would have no choice but to accept me…!”

The Baron couple’s faces turned pale.

Cattleya’s words were like a bomb.

If interpreted maliciously, those words meant ‘they tried to make a branch family member the Family Head to devour the ducal house.’ In other words, this was a challenge to the Duke’s authority.

Isaac and Henri looked at the sobbing Cattleya and the bewildered Baron couple with vicious expressions.

“Elder Brother. How many people do you think we can implicate in this?”

“Leave it to me. I’ll implicate every single one of those bastards who cornered Leblaine yesterday.”

After lightly bumping fists, Isaac rushed out of the greenhouse.

“Duke!”

Go tell Father.

It goes without saying that the Imperial Palace became a complete mess.

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