The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 49

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Chapter 49

Roman looked at the young child sprawled on the circular platform while stroking his swallow-tail mustache.

“Well done.”

At Roman’s words, the black robe behind him bowed deeply at the waist.

Baron Roman’s adjutant looked back and forth between the child, his master, and the mage with a terrified expression.

“Is, is this really okay? Kidnapping the Child of Fate…!”

“We’re returning her to where she originally belonged. It’s not kidnapping.”

“But if His Excellency finds out…”

“That’s why now, when he’s distracted by Spinel, is the perfect opportunity.”

Chuckling, he kicked Leblaine, who was lying face down, with his boot to turn her over.

“Hmph, what’s so special about this little thing that made me…”

It was just as he was grumbling.

Creak─

The sound of rusty hinges crying out was heard as someone entered.

“Chairman!”

Roman ran to him with a delighted face.

“What business made you call me all the way here…”

The chairman couldn’t finish his words as he stared at Leblaine collapsed on the platform. His face hardened stiffly.

“What is the meaning of this!”

“It’s proof of my loyalty to the chairman.”

Where else could there be such proof?

He had dared to kidnap the Child of Fate from within Duke Dubbled’s very walls.

“Now we just need to hand the girl over to the slave traders and it’ll be finished. Ah, you can rest assured. I foresaw that such a day might come and won over the mages at the Imperial Palace. The barrier will absolutely never catch us…”

“You crazy bastard.”

Roman, who had been rambling on with a proud face, froze.

When he turned his head, Leblaine had somehow gotten up and was sitting casually on the round table.

“Aren’t you stupid? You think Duke would only rely on barriers?”

“What did you say?”

Roman’s face turned bright red.

“How dare you say such things…!”

He stomped his feet with loud thumps as he approached Leblaine and raised his hand. But he couldn’t strike her cheek as his wrist was caught.

It was the chairman.

“What are you doing to our lord!!”

“…What?”

Lord?

It was when Roman asked back with a stupid expression.

From outside the door, bang! Bang! The sound of something exploding and the sound of knights’ military boots began to be heard.

Roman’s panicked adjutant shouted “Barrier!” to the mage. The mage hurriedly tried to create a barrier, but before he could even form the activation seal, he groaned “Ugh…!”

It was the aftereffect of casting magic on Leblaine.

After Leblaine was almost attacked, the Duke had personally cast several layers of magic on her.

Protection magic, tracking magic, and a curse.

Anyone who casts magic on Leblaine would have their dantian, the outlet for mana within their body, destroyed.

Roman realized that the situation was taking a strange turn.

“Wh-what… what’s happening…”

Leblaine came down from the platform, looked at Roman, and spoke to the ceremonial officer.

“Lock the door.”

“Pardon?”

“I’ll kill him before daddy comes.”

An activation seal appeared beneath Leblaine’s feet.

* * *

I dusted off my hands with a pat, pat, and looked down at Baron Roman, his adjutant, and the mage who had collapsed on the floor.

The ceremonial officer stared blankly around at them, who were as messed up as half-burned firewood.

“Are you truly a fake Child of Fate?”

“Yeah.”

When I answered nonchalantly and smoothed out my wrinkled skirt with my hands, the ceremonial officer swallowed dryly.

“I can’t believe it. In any case, with the body of a four-year-old to have such power…”

“I don’t think it’s that impressive.”

I muttered as I clenched and unclenched my hand.

‘It’s still insufficient.’

Before my regression, I had often seen how powerful the Pope and Mina’s strength were.

And how powerful were the two princes’ abilities that I had seen in this life.

‘Most of all, the power that Bune used with my body wasn’t at this level.’

That was truly tremendous power. To use power to that extent would probably require a very long time.

‘The Duke who deflected Bune’s power is truly a monster.’

Recalling the Duke who had repeatedly broken through Bune’s barriers and approached during the chaos in the audience chamber when my divine power first rampaged wildly, I got goosebumps.

Just then, with a bang!! sound, the door flew away.

The one who blew away the door and entered was that monster… no, the Duke. Following behind him, Henri, Isaac, mages, and soldiers poured in.

“Which bastard dared to touch the little one—”

Isaac, who had been shouting, opened his eyes wide.

“—is already down?”

As if they had already predicted the culprit when they came, people’s expressions were bewildered.

Henri frowned and looked around the interior.

“What happened here?”

His gaze fell on the ceremonial officer.

The chairman glanced at me, and soon the gazes of the Dubbled men and soldiers poured onto me.

“So, so…”

I rolled my eyes around and then suddenly pointed at the chairman.

“Grandpa saved me!”

“He saved you?”

Henri’s eyes were full of suspicion. Isaac, the Duke, and the soldiers felt the same way.

The fallen Duke Roman was an elder. Their faces showed confusion about why he, the chairman of the Council of Elders, had struck down his own retainer and saved me.

Since the relationship between the chairman and the Duke was terribly bad, it would have been even more puzzling.

“Bad uncles were scaring Lebu, but grandpa scolded them! Thank you, grandpa.”

I deliberately spoke like a child and patted the chairman’s shoes.

The chairman glanced at me and opened his mouth.

“Your gratitude is more than I deserve. I failed to detect my subordinate’s scheme beforehand, putting the Young Lady in danger even briefly, so I have committed a mortal sin. My only consolation is that I arrived early enough to prevent the worst situation.”

With the chairman’s support, I ran quickly to the Duke. Then I clung to his legs and made a crying expression.

“I was scared.”

Then Henri and Isaac quickly ran to me.

“You were scared, Leblaine. I’m sorry. For not coming sooner.”

“I’ll kill all those bastards for you!”

They were already dying, but I nodded my head vigorously with a “Yeah.”

But the Duke wasn’t as easy-going as the Young Masters. He did hold me, but he looked at the chairman with a suspicious expression.

‘This calls for the ultimate move.’

I hung onto his neck.

“Father… I want to go home.”

Only then did the Duke turn his gaze to me. I made the most pitiful expression I could.

“Yes. Let’s go back.”

The Duke gathered me up in his arms and patted my back.

I buried my face in his neck.

‘Somehow I feel genuinely relieved.’

I must have been slightly startled after all.

The Duke turned around without saying much. I secretly mouthed to the chairman, “Handle it. Keep them silent. Make sure.”

The chairman nodded.

That night, he demonstrated his abilities.

The Young Masters, who had gone to the underground prison to take Baron Roman’s head without my knowledge, returned empty-handed and dejected.

The three who had witnessed my power had departed from this world together.

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A few days later, I met the chairman in the greenhouse.

‘What a scary person.’

I narrowed my eyes and looked at the chairman.

“I didn’t tell you to kill them.”

“You must know what kind of person Baron Roman is without me saying, and Roman’s adjutant filled his belly with all sorts of garbage deeds under him. The mage was a bastard who kidnapped the elderly and weak to conduct human experimentation.”

“…They all deserved to die then.”

I hummed, sipped orange juice through a straw, and asked.

“What about the spinel?”

When I asked, the chairman placed a small box on the table.

“As you said, once divine power touched it, we were able to mine spinel within three days.”

“How many days until we can meet the quantity needed for the Kruger War?”

“Two weeks will be sufficient.”

I made a few more requests to the chairman.

It was about Seria’s new identity and clever workers suitable for the trading company she would establish.

“And immediately move the spinel mined this time to the place I mentioned. You have mages with you, right? It needs to be moved within today.”

“You’re certainly making thorough use of me. Then what will Young Lady do for me?”

“I’ll give you 20% of the spinel that comes from the transformation zone.”

He let out a thin, faint laugh.

“I am the Senate Chairman of Dubbled, which has the greatest financial power in the Empire. I’m not in a situation where I lack wealth.”

“Hmm…”

“Young Lady should know better what I want.”

“…”

I pouted my lips.

“Do you know how many nobles want me? Even the Previous Duke was desperate to receive my oath of loyalty. The shrine and great noble houses also reach out their hands.”

“But?”

“Who would have known that in my old age, I would end up doing errands under such a small child…”

Saying that, the chairman made a dejected expression.

I patted his shoulder.

“I know. Now the chairman is mine. Okay?”

When I said that, the chairman became even more dejected.

“I hate that such words move me.”

Others are really scared of him, and I was a little scared at first too, but now I see he’s really a cute grandfather.

I looked at the spinel the Duke was rolling around in his hand and shouted, “It’s a rock!”

Despite the serious atmosphere, North smiled gently and explained.

“It’s called spinel. It’s a precious mineral.”

“No, it’s not?”

“Pardon?”

“It’s not precious at all. There’s sooo much of it.”

At that, all the retainers turned their attention to me at once.

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