The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79

The butler told me about the hidden events.

Nine years ago, the Previous Duke who had been pushed out by Father couldn’t give up until the end and brought in assassins.

Father was away from the castle temporarily for business, and Lady Lisette had to flee while carrying her full-term belly.

The ones who escorted Lady Lisette were Lea, who was a wolf at the time, and Lea’s older sister Reina, who was Lady Lisette’s personal maid.

The three of them safely left the castle, but when Lady Lisette suddenly went into labor, they hurriedly entered a nearby mountain.

The Duchess safely gave birth to a child. It was Reina who helped with the delivery and received the baby.

Meanwhile, Lea fought against Cain’s soldiers who had followed them, but it was too much for her to defeat so many soldiers alone.

In the end, the Duchess passed away, and Reina entrusted the baby wrapped in a blanket to Lea.

Reina tried to act as bait to shake off the pursuers, but she met her end by the pursuers’ blade.

Lea also desperately protected the child. But she lost the child to the rain of arrows.

“…After that, His Excellency suppressed the rebellion and searched the area, but couldn’t find the Young Lady.”

After hearing the butler’s words, I nodded.

“Since the Previous Duke was the ringleader of the rebellion, you had no choice but to hide Lady Lisette’s matter.”

If it had been revealed that he lost his wife and child in a sword fight with the Previous Duke, Dubbled’s honor would have plummeted to the ground.

Most importantly, Father, who lost his child and wife at the same time, apparently collapsed for a while.

If other enemies had targeted Father during such a turbulent time, the situation would have become uncontrollable.

So it seemed that the Pro-Duke Retainers led by Viscount Dubois joined forces to cover up the incident.

It was thanks to a certain retainer that they realized the child was the Dubbled Young Lady.

The daughter of an inn they were traveling to resembled Father so much that it seemed strange, and they reported this to Viscount Dubois.

When Viscount Dubois, who knew the truth of the matter, sent someone to confirm, it turned out that the innkeeper couple who had no children had found and raised the child in the mountain.

“But why was Baby Bird only discovered in this life? This didn’t happen in my previous life.”

There’s only one case when the future changes. When I intervene.

“Where did the situation change?”

As I muttered, the butler put sugar cubes in my teacup and said.

“It’s because the retainers were able to travel since they got vacation thanks to Young Lady. It was either a coincidence or good fortune.”

“…”

“Or she could be fake.”

“The second possibility is almost impossible. Only a very few people in Dubbled know the fact that Lady Lisette gave birth and died.”

The girl has silver hair and blue eyes, all the symbols of Dubbled.

They even checked with magic to see if her body had been changed for the one-in-a-million chance.

On top of that, she even has Dubbled’s aura.

‘There’s no way Dubbled’s Magic Director made a wrong judgment. He’s an excellent mage and deeply loyal to Dubbled.’

He was a loyal retainer who would later die protecting Father.

Just as I was thinking that.

The greenhouse door burst open and a girl around my age came in.

When our eyes met, I opened my eyes wide in surprise.

‘It’s Baby Bird.’

“Young Lady!”

Lea and the West Wing maids who had followed her in hurriedly came out and bowed their heads to me and the retainer.

“We’re sorry, Young Lady.”

Then they whispered to Baby Bird.

“You can’t just barge in during a conversation.”

“But I wanted to see big sister!”

I blinked at Baby Bird who suddenly called me big sister.

‘Her social skills are on Mina’s level.’

Being someone who’s very shy and doesn’t get along well with people, I felt amazed.

Baby Bird approached me and said with an innocent smile.

“Hello, I’m Mireille… Oh my.”

The child paused for a moment, then spread her skirt wide and bent her knees slightly.

“I am Mireille, the fourth child of the Dubbled Ducal House. Nice to meet you.”

When she looked at Lea and the maids as if asking “How was that?”, Lea smiled helplessly and the maids also giggled quietly.

“Since Mireille introduced herself, now big sister has to introduce herself too!”

With all the attention suddenly focused on me, I felt extremely awkward. I was already shy, and her constantly approaching me was flustering.

“Hello, I’m Leblaine…”

“Wow─!”

Mireille shouted like that and hugged my arm.

The maids’ eyes sparkled as they quietly murmured, “Cuteness plus cuteness equals super cuteness…”

“Let’s go with Mireille. They say we’re having a meal.”

“Ah, but I…”

I still had things to discuss with the retainer.

As I hesitated, Mireille peeked at the retainer and said.

“Grandfather, Mireille wants to play with big sister. Can I play?”

“That’s not something you need my permission for.”

When the retainer answered politely, Mireille pouted her lips briefly then pulled me along.

“Let’s go, big sister. He says I don’t need permission.”

As I was practically dragged out of the greenhouse, I mouthed “Sorry” to the retainer. The retainer nodded lightly.

Mireille was truly a bright child. She chattered excitedly the entire time we walked.

“Mireille and big sister are actually the same age. Mireille’s mother gave birth to Mireille in January, and big sister was born in February. But Mireille likes being the youngest. The youngest gets more love, right? So big sister should be the big sister.”

“That’s not something I can decide on my own…”

“Mireille is a very precious person. So the retainer uncles told me I can do whatever Mireille wants to do. When I said I wanted to make big sister my big sister, Father didn’t say no either. Father thinks Mireille is very precious.”

Since this would naturally be corrected once Mireille’s status was officially documented anyway, I answered “Mm-hmm.”

“You know what. This is Mireille’s first time seeing such a magnificent castle. Everyone treats Mireille well too, right?”

“Everyone’s a good person.”

“But that grandfather seems bad.”

“Huh?”

I was startled and looked at Mireille.

“Mireille asked nicely, but he just got angry.”

“He wasn’t angry. The Captain is just not used to children.”

“Why? That grandfather must have children too, so why isn’t he used to children? Does he not have any?”

“He does. He has them, but the Captain’s son had an accident long ago…”

“The grandfather must have had a nasty personality so his son died. Right?”

I was so shocked that I stopped walking and stared at Mireille. My face naturally frowned.

“You can’t say things like that!”

“…Huh?”

“Those are mean words that make people sad.”

Mireille became dejected and drooped her eyebrows.

“…Okay.”

I sighed and gently grabbed Mireille’s shoulder.

“The Captain really loved his son. If you say things like that, it would hurt his heart so very much. You absolutely can’t say things like that from now on, okay?”

“I understand… Mireille must have done something wrong… Don’t be angry, sister. Okay?”

I nodded my head. Then Mireille became lively again as if she had never been dejected. Even as we entered the dining room, her mouth didn’t rest.

In the dining room were Father and North, along with several retainers.

When I took my seat and greeted North with my eyes, Mireille also sat close to Father’s side and waved her hand at North.

“Hello?”

The retainers who heard Mireille’s voice flinched and looked at the child.

“Her voice is just like Lady Lisette’s…”

“Yes, when she grows up it will be hard to tell them apart.”

Meanwhile, Mireille was completely absorbed in her conversation with North.

“We saw each other yesterday, right?”

“Yes, Miss.”

Mireille covered her mouth with both hands and giggled, saying “He called me Miss” with delight.

“Being called Miss feels awkward to Mireille.”

“You’ll get used to it soon.”

“Yes, I need to get used to it quickly. Being called Miss, and speaking, and everything! Otherwise I’ll keep making mistakes.”

“Mistakes?”

“Mireille made sister angry today. She said I was saying mean things. I guess Mireille isn’t used to noble speech yet.”

Everyone in the dining room turned their gaze toward me. Then they awkwardly changed the subject.

“Come to think of it, where will the young Miss be living now?”

“What are you asking? The West Wing, of course.”

“Are there any rooms left in the West Wing for such a young Miss?”

After the Previous Duke died, Father extensively renovated the West Wing where the Dubbled Bloodline lived.

He removed the Previous Duke’s room and the rooms of the dead brothers, completely redecorating everything.

Because of that renovation, there were few rooms for children, so even after I was registered into Dubbled, I could only have my own room after new room construction was completed.

Father asked North.

“Has construction started?”

“That’s correct. Unlike when we constructed Young Lady’s room, we have Spinel stockpiled, so installing the security devices shouldn’t take much time.”

“The timeframe.”

“We estimate 2 weeks. We’ve temporarily unpacked the young miss’s belongings in the room next to Young Lady’s, but would it be acceptable for her to stay there?”

Just then, Mireille raised her arm high and shouted, “I have a suggestion!”

“Mireille wants to share a room with Father!”

“Young miss, that’s…”

“This place is so big it’ll be scary at night. Right? Right? Father!”

“…”

“That would be fine, wouldn’t it?”

The Retainers looked somewhat troubled, but they seemed to find the child’s wheedling endearing.

“The young miss is probably the first person to act so spoiled toward His Excellency.”

“Yes, Young Lady was dignified even as a small child.”

“Mireille is dignified too. I eat my Beans properly.”

As she picked up and ate the Beans that came as a side dish, the Retainers chuckled and said, “Very dignified indeed.”

During all this, I quietly ate my meal alone. It was actually comfortable to eat without the Retainers constantly trying to make me talk like usual.

That evening, as I was about to return to my room, one of the Retainers approached me. It was a retainer I recognized, someone who was always very fond of me.

“Um, Young Lady…”

“Yes?”

“For the time being, it would be best not to quarrel with Lady Mireille. All eyes are focused on you both.”

He must have thought we had fought because of what Mireille said about making me angry.

“No, we didn’t fight.”

“That’s a relief then. The young miss seemed to be worrying about getting scolded by Young Lady.”

Only then did the retainer smile with relief, so I nodded to reassure him.

If a retainer came to give me advice separately, everyone must be concerned about our relationship.

‘I should tell Mireille that we should get along well.’

I went to the Candy Room that Father always keeps stocked for me and gathered some Snacks.

The Bear-shaped Cookies are something I really treasure – when you eat them with Milk, they melt smoothly in your mouth.

I carefully arranged the Snacks on a Tray and, taking the Milk as well, headed toward Mireille’s Room.

Just as I was about to knock, a bright voice leaked through the crack in the door.

“Inn Father always read Fairy Tale Books to Mireille. It became a habit, so now I can’t sleep without Fairy Tale Books. Won’t Father read to me too? Father has such a wonderful voice, I think I’d fall asleep so easily.”

Following the whining voice, I heard Isaac’s grumbling.

“Just go to sleep. You called everyone here, and I thought something was wrong, but you’re just being bothersome.”

“Why don’t you get into the habit of sleeping without Fairy Tale Books from now on.”

That was Henri’s voice.

“But it’s Mireille’s first day here. I want us all to sleep together. Nooo, big brother don’t go. Right? Father, tell him not to go!”

“Let go of this.”

“Mireille, come lie down here.”

It seemed like the family was spending time together.

Well, she was family they’d found after 9 years, so they would need precious time together.

I, who had been standing there absentmindedly fiddling with the edge of the tray, turned around.

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