The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 65

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Chapter 65

‘Oh no.’

Dubbled wasn’t a family house where members loved each other just because they were family.

The Previous Duke saw his children merely as tools for power, and Father slaughtered ten brothers, leaving only two alive.

What I said probably wouldn’t make sense to Lady Javelin.

‘This is terrible. I was trying to get along, but I only made her angrier.’

I desperately made excuses.

“I-I won’t anger Lady Javelin anymore. I’ll really live quietly. Quietly so I won’t catch Lady Javelin’s attention. I’ll walk carefully so I won’t be bothersome, and I’ll eat only a little! So please, won’t you forgive me…”

When I looked up with a desperate face, Lady Javelin’s eyes twisted.

“You…”

“…?”

“…Go inside.”

Lady Javelin started to say something but stopped and walked past me.

After she completely disappeared, I let out a sigh of relief.

Lea muttered with a moved expression, “Young Lady, because of me…”

‘No, it wasn’t entirely because of Lea…’

But I was used to this kind of misunderstanding now. Next she would shout “Thank you!” and hug me.

I spread my arms with an enlightened expression. As expected, Lea hugged me tightly as always.

Thump, thump, thump, thump!

The Administrators came running frantically down the corridor.

“Your Excellency, the Empress Dowager has collapsed!”

Hearing the loud shout, I gripped Lea’s collar tightly in my arms.

‘It’s begun.’

* * *

Adolf hurriedly entered the Imperial Palace to assess the situation. The Imperial Physician was examining her, but said the Empress Dowager showed no signs of waking up.

“What happened.”

When he asked, the Imperial Physician was at a loss.

“I have no idea. Just a week ago, she was healthier than usual. The joint pain she frequently complained about had disappeared, so she took walks often, and her complexion was very good, but why this suddenly happened…”

“Could it be poison.”

“No poison showed up in any of the tests.”

The Imperial Physician asked the Empress Dowager’s Lady-in-waiting.

“Did she perhaps consume something wrong?”

“That’s impossible! Her Majesty’s food is always tasted first. If there was a problem, the taster would have known first.”

The Lady-in-waiting jumped up, worried she might be blamed for improperly serving the Empress Dowager.

The Imperial Physician pondered deeply. The Empress Dowager didn’t have any particular allergies either.

“Was there anything unusual recently, different from normal?”

“Nothing in particular… except that she took the Youth Medicine…”

“Youth Medicine, you say. Don’t tell me it’s that medicine being sold in the market?!”

The Imperial Physician let out a “Hah…” groan as he looked at the collapsed Empress Dowager. Why is this person still so foolish even at her age?

No medication could be brought into the Imperial Palace without unanimous confirmation from the Imperial Physicians.

It was strictly forbidden due to the potential for use as poison.

“But that medicine circulating in the market hasn’t caused such problems for other people.”

At those words, the lady-in-waiting glanced repeatedly at Adolf.

“It wasn’t just the market medicine… The priest separately prepared and brought medicine with similar effects…”

At those words, everyone’s gaze turned to Adolf.

He panicked with a pale face.

‘What the hell happened!’

He had definitely stolen the formula from the Rookie Trading Company and made it exactly the same. So why did only the Empress Dowager collapse?

This way, the Empress Dowager’s collapse would be entirely his fault.

But he couldn’t say that he, as a priest, had stolen the trading company’s formula.

If they found out that he, one of the 21 Priests managing the Central Temple, had bribed people with money to commit theft, he would be expelled immediately.

‘I need to blame it on the Rookie Trading Company’s medicine.’

Adolf immediately contacted a worker from the Hope Trading Company.

* * *

Martin, a worker who had been working at the Hope Trading Company for three years, clicked his tongue.

He had eagerly accepted the priest’s proposal out of greed for money, but he hadn’t known things would become this troublesome.

“Are you certain there’s truly no one who had problems after taking your medicine?”

“Yes, no one has ever come looking for us saying they had problems.”

“Then we need to create a problem.”

Saying that, the priest handed him a medicine bottle. He said to put this powder into the Youth Medicine inventory.

Mixing the powder into the medicine wasn’t particularly difficult.

Martin, who belonged to the security guard, knew the patrol routes and guard shift times better than anyone, and even knew exactly when the workers left work.

He entered the warehouse when no one was around.

In the darkness, he groped along the wall searching for the Youth Medicine inventory.

‘Why is there so much damn cargo?’

Over the past five years, the growing Hope Trading Company had expanded its reach from small items like needles to large military supplies.

The warehouse had too much cargo, and the interior was dark.

As he wiped the sweat flowing down the back of his hand while rummaging through sacks.

“What are you looking for?”

“What else, the Youth… Huk!”

He had been answering absentmindedly to the voice heard from above the sacks when he gasped.

At the sound of the voice, dim light entered the dark warehouse.

Some girl was sitting on a sack, grinning cheerfully.

“Luminus medicine?”

“What, what, what! You damn girl…!”

Thwack!

His head was slammed down onto the sack.

Startled out of his wits, he struggled and flailed his hands.

When he turned his head, he saw the Deputy Leader and her aide Curtis.

“What are you doing here?”

At the Deputy Leader’s question, Martin’s face turned pale. “That, that is…” he stammered before shouting.

“I, I was looking for something on the Guild Master’s orders.”

“The Guild Master? How do you know the Guild Master?”

“He sent someone to the front of the store.”

He needed to escape while the Deputy Leader was trying to understand the situation.

The girl walked over lightly and leaned forward with her hands behind her back.

“Your excuse lacks sincerity.”

“…What?”

“When did I give such an order?”

At the child’s words, Martin let out a hollow laugh.

“What nonsense… How could a young girl be the Guild Master of such a large trading company… Gack!”

His throat was instantly grabbed by Seria, and he turned red as he groaned. Seria looked down at him with dry eyes as he twisted his neck like a bug and said.

“Shh— The Guild Master hasn’t given you permission to speak, has she?”

“…!”

Martin and Curtis’s eyes widened.

Was that kid really the Guild Master?

That couldn’t be!

The Hope Trading Company had grown into one of the top ten massive trading companies in the Empire in just five years.

They monopolized spinel to control commerce, and now there wasn’t a single item they didn’t deal with, even war supplies.

Did it make sense that the owner of such a trading company was a girl not even ten years old?

However, the Deputy Leader, who never backed down even in front of great noble trading companies, was extremely respectful to the child.

“Let him go.”

At those words, the strength left her hand. Martin, coughing and stepping back, looked back and forth between the child and the Deputy Leader.

The child slowly approached him.

“I think I’ve treated the workers quite well, so what could you be dissatisfied with?”

At the girl’s murmur, Martin’s throat went completely dry.

It was strange. He, who commanded the security guards, seemed to be afraid of a young girl.

The child’s small hand touched Martin’s shoulder.

“Hmm? What were you dissatisfied with?”

“That is, I…”

Seeing Martin too frightened to answer properly, the child shrugged her shoulders.

“Well, whatever.”

“…What?”

“I never intended to forgive you just because you told me.”

Suddenly, light seemed to emanate from the child’s hand, and I felt a burning sensation in my throat.

When I turned my head wondering what it was, the child’s hand glowed red and my throat felt like it was burning up as if I had swallowed a ball of fire.

“Ugh, ghhhuuuuk─!”

All the blood vessels in my body bulged. Martin trembled as if electrocuted and screamed his death throes “S-save… save me…!” before collapsing with a thud.

The child nonchalantly wiped her hands on a handkerchief and left the room.

Curtis swallowed dryly as he watched Seria stare intently at the child’s back with furrowed brows.

‘She must be flustered.’

Even though she was the Guild Master, a young child had just done this to someone with such a strange attitude, so she must have been flustered.

Though probably not as much as himself.

Who would have known that the mastermind behind the scenes who had made them shoulder-to-shoulder with renowned major trading companies in just 5 years was a child who didn’t even look ten years old yet.

Since Seria was so desperately reluctant to put the Guild Master forward, he figured there must be circumstances, but he never dreamed it would be such a young child.

Deciding to hear the circumstances later, Curtis said to Seria.

“If it’s the Guild Master, there’s a need to discipline the trading company, so this was unavoidable─”

“…grown.”

“Pardon?”

“You’ve grown up so wonderfully!”

Seria’s shoulders trembled.

Leblaine, whom she met after several years, had become a proper Young Lady of Dubbled.

* * *

Seria’s office. Standing in front of the full-length mirror, I was draped with three hats, two mufflers, gloves, and various accessories.

“Ah yes, this would look good on you too.”

Seria, who had piled so many things on me, came back with another armful of items.

“That’s enough now. I don’t need any more.”

“But everything looks so good on you…”

Seria spoke regretfully, so I shook my head firmly. Then I carefully folded or put into boxes all the things Seria had given me.

All these items were precious inventory that would earn money.

“Did you take care of Martin?”

“Yes.”

“Good, then I should go.”

“Please stay a little longer. This is your first time coming inside the trading company.”

Seria’s eyes sparkled as she said there was much to show me.

However, I shook my head. To sneak out to the trading company, I had put a doll in my blanket as a substitute. If I didn’t return quickly, I might get caught.

“Is it alright that you revealed yourself to Curtis?”

At her words, I nodded.

“He’s someone you trust, Seria. So I trust him too.”

“You bring me joyful news. Here, this is what you requested.”

I received the paper bag that Seria handed me, checked inside, and nodded.

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