The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 84

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Chapter 84

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After sending the ceremonial guard away, I walked with heavy steps.

‘Oh my, my whole body aches.’

Having suffered for several days and not even having a comfortable place to sleep, all my energy was drained.

My throat felt a bit scratchy and my whole body seemed to ache slightly. As I touched my neck, I felt my skin was a bit hotter than usual, so I nodded with a “hmm.”

‘Here it comes, body aches.’

I should eat plenty and sleep all day!

During seasonal changes, I usually get body aches or catch a cold, so I know well how to recover my health quickly.

‘I should ask for cinnamon honey tea.’

With that resolution, I went to my room, but the lights were on. Wondering who was there, I tilted my head and opened the door.

My room was full of people. Lea and the three maids, Henri, and even Isaac.

“Young Lady…”

The maids called me very carefully. Wondering what was wrong, I waited quietly for them to continue, but they couldn’t speak easily and bit their lips several times.

Looking at the maid’s gloomy face and Lea’s stiff expression, I shrugged my shoulders.

‘Everyone must be feeling complicated about Mireille.’

Everyone had been truly happy thinking the baby bird had returned, so how heartbroken they must be.

“Everyone, please go…”

I meant for them to collect themselves and return later, but the maids and even my brothers all had pained expressions.

Henri came to me and gently brushed around my eyes.

“Alright, call us when you feel better.”

‘As expected, everyone’s hearts are heavy because of Mireille.’

I nodded slightly.

After everyone left the room, I changed clothes and sat on the bed.

I was about to get under the blanket when I noticed the room was warmer than usual.

‘As expected, it’s nice when Lea takes care of things.’

She knew everything about when I suffered, what I disliked and what I liked.

‘Tomorrow I should tell Lea and the maids that I’m always grateful.’

I pulled the bell cord to ask a servant to bring cinnamon honey tea, and after properly taking cold medicine from the medicine box in the drawer along with the honey tea, I fell asleep.

How much time had passed?

“…dy!”

“Young Lady!!”

I thought I heard noisy sounds around me, then felt my body was hot like a fire ball. Not only that, but I couldn’t breathe well.

‘It’s painful…’

The more I tried to force myself to breathe, the more my lungs seemed to tighten.

When I barely managed to open my eyes, I saw family members and maids around the bed.

As Lea urgently helped me sit up halfway, the doctor poured a thin liquid into my mouth. Bitter taste. It was medicine.

I could easily guess the situation.

‘The honey in the cinnamon honey tea must have been Haro Flower honey.’

Around this time, Haro Flower honey was being released for the first time.

The problem was that I had an allergy to Haro Flowers.

Just smelling the fragrance of Haro Flowers made my whole body itch and break out in rashes.

If Elsa Tree flowers were good for people with divine power, then Haro Flowers were good for people with mana.

Among people with divine power, there were very rare cases where eating things made from Haro Flowers caused allergic reactions. This happened to people with high divine power purity.

Having high purity of divine power also meant having excellent purification ability.

They showed allergic symptoms during the process of purifying impurities (mana) that entered the body.

Mina said about this─

“It’s similar to getting a fever when you catch a cold. The body raises its temperature to fight off viruses.”

─she had said.

‘I didn’t know it was Haro Flower honey because of the cinnamon smell.’

I really felt like I was going to stop breathing, so I gasped roughly several times, wheezing and panting.

“Young Lady, stay conscious. You can’t fall asleep. You need to keep breathing consciously!”

The maids spoke as if wailing.

This was the first time I had been this sick since coming to the Imperial Palace, so everyone seemed terribly shocked.

“Do something about it!”

Isaac grabbed the collar of the restless doctor and shouted.

“B-but I can’t figure out the reason at all…!”

“Why doesn’t the doctor know that!”

“It’s not because of a cold. And it doesn’t seem to be a food allergy either… Honey and cinnamon are things the Young Lady enjoyed eating.”

It’s Haro Flowers!

Everyone, it’s Haro Flowers!

Please save me!

I struggled to speak, but my throat was so swollen that my voice wouldn’t come out properly.

My vision was getting hazy and I really thought something terrible was going to happen.

Father, who had been looking at me with a stern face, spoke to the knight who was standing by.

“…Bring Taylor from the underground prison.”

“Taylor, you say…!”

The knight shouted in surprise, but Father’s gaze remained fixed on me and wouldn’t move away.

“Bring him. Tell him that if he can just heal my daughter, I’ll restore his status.”

“Your Grace─”

“Right now!!”

When Father shouted sharply, the knight and employees bowed their heads deeply.

I saw that scene as the last thing before slowly closing my eyes.

“Young Lady!”

“Young Lady, please!”

People called out to me as if screaming, but I couldn’t hold onto my fading consciousness at all.

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When I regained consciousness, I kept my eyes closed in a daze. I was too scared to open them. Because the pain had completely disappeared as if washed away.

‘What if I regressed…’

What if I woke up again above the cradle in the Empress Dowager’s room, what if my arms were short and stubby like linked sausages again.

But then.

I heard an unfamiliar chuckling sound.

“If you’ve come to your senses, why don’t you open your eyes?”

At the unfamiliar voice, I slowly lifted my eyelids.

A young man with raven-black hair and transparent blue eyes was suddenly leaning his face close to mine.

“Eek!”

When I pushed him away in surprise, he grabbed his chin and frowned.

“That’s too much, after I went through the trouble of saving you. I’m hurt.”

He said this while grinning mischievously.

“Who are you?”

He rested his elbow on the chair’s armrest and lazily propped his chin.

“Who am I?”

What’s with this strange man.

Looking around, this was my room in Dubbled Castle. It was fortunate that I hadn’t regressed, but how was there an unknown man in my room.

After thinking for a moment, I looked at the man and said “Could it be…”

“…Taylor?”

He grinned. It was a smile very similar to Henri’s.

“I’d like it if you called me uncle.”

Good heavens.

Father really did have this crazy man treat me.

There were plenty of ways to describe this man.

Father and Javelin’s youngest brother.

An illegitimate child born from the Previous Duke’s one-night mistake.

But there was a more famous description.

‘Mad doctor.’

The psycho said to have God’s hands was that very man.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen Haro Flower allergy. You’ll make quite a good priest.”

The discovery of Haro Flower allergy, which rarely occurs even among those with divine power, was something that would happen about 7 years from now.

‘He knew about it from this time?’

No, Taylor Dubbled had been locked away in the underground prison for nearly 10 years by the Previous Duke’s order for trying to poison Father several times, so strictly speaking, he had known about it for more than 17 years.

“So, what are you going to do for me, your life’s savior?”

“…Father said he would restore your status.”

“Not Theodore, but you. You’re the one who owes me your life.”

“Money?”

He chuckled softly.

Well, now that his status was restored, he could probably reclaim the inheritance the Previous Duke had left for him too.

More than anything, this brilliant doctor would have countless people carrying money and begging for his help the moment he stepped outside.

“Then, hmm….”

As I pondered, Taylor lightly grasped my chin.

“Maybe I’ll settle for a kiss from my cute niece.”

What?

Taylor’s face approached mine. Toward my lips. Just as they were about to touch.

“You crazy bastard─!”

A dagger flew like lightning from the doorway. Just as Taylor tried to dodge, Isaac leaped forward and kicked him in the face.

“Argh!”

Taylor rolled from his chair with a scream, looking at the highly agitated Isaac and Henri walking over with a hardened expression behind him.

“Isn’t this too much for an uncle you’re meeting after 10 years?”

“You’re talking nonsense. Get lost before I skin you alive and sell your hide. I’m giving you a chance to live because you saved the Little One.”

Taylor shrugged and stood up. Then, as Isaac grudgingly made way while telling him to get lost, he gave me a quick kiss on the cheek.

“You must have a death wish…!”

Just as Isaac finally drew his sword, Taylor pulled out a medicine packet from his jacket pocket.

“Looks like I’ll need to give you chances to live quite often.”

“What?”

“This little chick will need to keep taking my medicine to fully recover.”

“…!”

As Isaac gripped his sword tighter, Henri held him back.

“Not until Leblaine recovers.”

“Damn it.”

“Once she’s better, I’ll tear you limb from limb.”

Henri looked at Taylor with quietly burning eyes.

Taylor shrugged and came closer to me.

“I’ll leave today’s medicine here. When I come to give you tomorrow’s medicine, you give me a kiss.”

He smiled smugly.

‘You’re going to blackmail me with my own life?’

I glanced at my brothers and whispered.

“A Haro Flower allergy would be cured with just one injection, wouldn’t it?”

The smile disappeared from Taylor’s lips, who had been grinning the whole time.

“How do you know that….”

“Haven’t found any clues about the Meria Grass you’re looking for to make antibiotics?”

“…!”

“I know where it is.”

Taylor flinched and looked at me.

‘This is how you do intimidation, you fool.’

I smiled brightly and said.

“Before I burn up all the Meria Grass that’s scarce in the Empire, quietly get up and leave. Make sure to close the door.”

Taylor, who had moved away from me, stared at me as if he’d lost his mind. After looking at me intently for a while, he chuckled softly.

“Really interesting.”

“….”

“This is trouble. I think I might really like you.”

Muttering that, Taylor raised his eyebrow in greeting and left the room.

Making sure to close the door.

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