The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 53

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Chapter 53

“No, I am…”

“Friend!”

I quickly grabbed Isaac’s hand and said.

“Friend?”

Isaac asked with a frown.

“Yeah. He’s at the same orphanage as me. So we’re friends. Right? Uh…”

So your name is…?

When I looked at him with that expression, the boy quickly answered.

“Andy.”

“Yeah, Andy. He says Andy.”

“…”

Isaac let go of Andy’s wrist as if throwing it away and wiped my cheek with his sleeve.

“Did you eat bread?”

“No, just milk.”

“What’s wrong with the bread ghost?”

He smiled playfully as he said that.

“Where’s Eldest Brother?”

“Torturing the guys who followed… I mean, taking a walk! He went for a walk.”

“Hmm.”

“He’ll come when he sees the puppy.”

I nodded and thought.

‘Good. It’ll be easier to move without Henri.’

Henri was too smart, making it hard to move carelessly, but Isaac was relatively simple compared to him.

“Let’s drop off my friend on the way. There’s an orphanage near here.”

Since he looked like he didn’t really want to take him, I deliberately spoke innocently.

“Then should we go see the puppy together?”

“I’ll take him!”

Isaac quickly answered, apparently not wanting to go see the puppy together. Then he wrapped his arm around my shoulder and glared at Andy with a growling expression.

“Follow from a distance.”

The maids looked at me with moved expressions.

“You must be worried that child might do something dangerous again. Really, Young Lady is so kind and compassionate…”

Only Andy was drooping his shoulders with a face that didn’t understand why things had turned out this way.

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When House Dubbled’s carriage entered Andy’s orphanage, a middle-aged woman came running out in a hurry.

“How could you personally come to such a humble place! I am Metel Kimbell. I am the director of this orphanage.”

She looked at Isaac and was excited, not knowing what to do.

Her ulterior motive to not miss the chance with the Young Master of Dubbled and secure sponsorship was clearly visible.

However, Isaac didn’t pay her any attention and looked at the orphanage building with a completely appalled expression.

“It’s even worse than the picture…”

Isaac, who muttered that, turned to look at me.

“Was the place you lived like this too?”

“No?”

At my words, Isaac’s face brightened.

“Right? It wasn’t this bad, right?”

“This place is really nice. Really big.”

When I said this with a bright smile, for some reason the child’s face became even more dejected than before.

But certainly, for a private orphanage, this place was quite good.

Though the building was old and shabby, it had up to three floors and even came with a well.

Metel, the director of Andy’s orphanage, clasped both hands together and bowed slightly as she spoke to Isaac.

“Would you like to look around inside as well?”

Isaac nodded with a stern expression.

“Yeah, the inside must be different. The interior won’t be in this state.”

Isaac, who spoke as if repeating to himself, followed the director. I excitedly followed behind him.

I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m glad Isaac is interested in the orphanage.

‘I might be able to meet Zachary.’

The director proudly introduced the interior.

“The beds are new too, and there are three washrooms. And the dining room has an oven so we can make snacks for the children directly.”

The expressions of Isaac and the maids grew increasingly dark.

To the Young Master of a great noble house and senior employees, this place must have seemed like hell.

This place was the complete opposite of the luxurious territorial castle that was spotlessly clean without a speck of dust.

All the furniture was worn out, and the mold on the wallpaper was roughly covered with pasted paper.

Though the building was large, due to poor maintenance, there were only a few rooms that could actually be used.

“Now I’ll show you the children’s bedroom and study room.”

That’s when I quickly patted my knees.

“My legs hurt.”

The director was delighted.

“Please rest in my office.”

I was slow at walking, and since Isaac and the maids were all paying attention to me, she seemed to think she couldn’t properly show them around the orphanage.

The director told Andy to bring me some juice to drink and took me to the office.

Lea was guarding outside the room, and left alone in the office, I plopped down on the director’s chair.

On the desk, there happened to be a list of the orphanage children.

‘Zachary, Zachary is…’

As I carefully examined the list, I furrowed my brow.

‘What? Why isn’t Zachary here?’

“The Dubbled people must be disappointed. They had a talent like Zachary right nearby but failed to recognize him. This is why personal reputation is so important. If Duke Dubbled had seemed like someone worth following, Zachary would have knocked on Dubbled’s door himself.”

The conversation I had heard at the social party came back to me vividly.

‘What’s going on? Was there a private orphanage nearby that I didn’t know about?’

Just then, Andy came in carrying juice.

He set the juice down on the table and said.

“I’m giving it to you since you asked, but I recommend not drinking it. It’s old.”

“Andy, how many kids are here?”

“Sixteen.”

“Then how many your age?”

“Four. No, three. One guy got adopted last week.”

I was so surprised that my eyes widened.

Getting adopted at Zachary’s age was like plucking stars from the sky. Most ordinary families took very young children.

There was only one case where older kids got adopted. When farmhouses took grown boys to use as workers.

‘Could that child have been Zachary?’

No matter how I thought about it, that was the only possibility.

‘I guess I came too late.’

If it was last week, it was really close timing, which made it even more disappointing.

I pressed my temples firmly.

But I hadn’t heard that Zachary had adoptive parents. So he might have been disowned or run away himself.

‘Let me keep a close eye on the orphanage for a while.’

If he was disowned, he would come back.

Just as I had made that decision and was letting out a sigh.

“Waaaah─!”

The sound of children crying reached us.

I turned around in surprise, and Andy’s face hardened as he quickly opened the window.

Outside the window, six rough-looking men were kicking down the orphanage door and causing a commotion.

Several of them had young children tucked under their arms.

“Those bastards again…!”

Andy jumped over the window frame like lightning.

“Big brother─!”

“Waaaah, brother!!”

As the children cried even louder upon seeing Andy, the men who had invaded the orphanage made threatening hissing sounds at the children.

Andy scowled angrily and shouted.

“Put them down, you bastards!”

The short man at the front spoke to Andy.

“If you want them back, bring the director. If someone gambled at another’s gambling den and even went into debt, they should keep to the repayment schedule.”

“I paid the interest!”

“You blew all that money gambling, saying you’d try to reduce the principal too.”

“Rigging the roulette and then acting so smug…!”

So that’s how it happened.

‘Gambling addicts everywhere, here and there.’

I crawled up the window frame and jumped down.

Worried that the kids might have gotten hurt, I ran over, but when I arrived in front of Andy, a strange scene was unfolding.

“Yaaaah─!”

“You bad guys…!”

What kind of spectacle is this?

Kids wearing upturned pots or thick hats were moving in perfect coordination, wielding frying pans and wooden clubs.

“Fire!”

When Andy shouted, small hands popped out from the windows and hurled eggs at The Men.

While The Men were flustered, Andy quickly ran over and rescued the kids who had been captured.

“Anna, Morris, Rudy.”

The kids who received Andy’s signal scattered flour wildly toward The Men.

“Now!”

The children who had rushed out in front of the building threw some kind of balls at The Men.

Each time the balls hit The Men’s bodies or fell to the ground, they burst and white powder scattered through the air.

When the flour and white powder completely enveloped The Men, Andy grinned like a mischievous child.

Then he lit a match and threw it at The Men with a whoosh!

BOOM─!!

In an instant, fire erupted in the air like a bomb exploding.

“Arghhhh!”

“Ahhh!!”

When fine particles float in the air, if fire reaches them, it quickly spreads to the particles and explodes.

This was one of the methods Zachary used to subdue the Mages during the Empire’s civil war.

‘This…’

But it didn’t completely subdue The Men.

It was winter and a bitter wind was blowing. The particles in the air were carried away by the wind, so the fire wasn’t intense enough.

The Men were burned, but they got back up.

Andy clicked his tongue “Tch.” and shouted.

“Run, you idiots!”

The terrified kids started running away quickly, but one child was caught. Andy gritted his teeth and lunged forward, biting The Man’s arm.

“This little bastard…!!”

The short Man pulled out a dagger from his chest.

Seeing the blade gleaming with a blue light, I quickly created an Activation Seal, but I couldn’t easily exert my power.

‘The target is too small.’

Since my Latent Ability had only recently manifested, I couldn’t control my power delicately. If I made a mistake, both the captured child and Andy could get caught up and die.

‘First, I need to make him let go of Andy and come toward me.’

“Ugly mister!”

“What?”

The Man looked back at me.

“You’re ugly! Shorty! It hurts my eyes to look at you!”

When I shouted to provoke him, the short Man got angry and approached me.

That’s when it happened.

Red Thread Lines stretched out from somewhere and bound the short Man.

“Gaaah─!”

The red things instantly surged forward and subdued the burned men as well.

“What, what is this, what the…!”

When the men screamed, I heard a familiar Voice.

“Shh, you’re frightening My Daughter.”

Isaac, who had just run out of the Building, saw the man who appeared and shouted.

“Duke Dubbled…?”

Duke Dubbled, dressed more casually than usual, looked at the captured men with dry, emotionless eyes.

“Who dares to dirty My Daughter’s sight with such an ugly face.”

“They’re all ugly.”

Henri, who walked up from behind Duke Dubbled, said while looking at the bound men.

Isaac ran to me, held my face with both hands, and said with a serious expression.

“Let’s wash your eyes.”

And then a thorough beating followed.

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