The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 101

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Days passed by quickly.

 

When my sense of time had grown dull from not knowing how much had passed, I opened my eyes to a gentle hand shaking me awake.

 

“…Teacher Ann?”

 

“Lia, are you alright?”

 

As I rubbed my sleepy eyes, I saw Teacher Ann’s face filled with worry.

 

“When did you arrive? Did Soya come too?”

 

“Yes. We just arrived a moment ago.”

 

Teacher Ann skillfully helped me sit up on the bed and examined my face.

 

Then she looked around the room and muttered.

 

“Soya is on the first floor right now, but I was worried about you so I came up quickly. But why is your room….”

 

The teacher’s words slowly trailed off.

 

I gently tugged at the teacher’s sleeve and spoke with hollow eyes.

 

“It’s fine. More importantly, actually….”

 

“Annellia! Look at this!”

 

At that moment the door burst open and Senianna rushed in with a bright face.

 

She was dragging Miel and Soya along with both hands.

 

“Tell Soya here! Soya is Sena’s maid now!”

 

I stared at Senianna with a dumbfounded expression.

 

Soya’s face, caught by that child, was filled with bewilderment.

 

“Ah, Young Miss. R-right now this is… I came to the manor and suddenly everyone….”

 

Quite startled, Soya’s stuttering symptoms, which had barely improved, had worsened again.

 

Though my chest felt stuffy as if something heavy was weighing on it, I managed my expression and spoke.

 

“You came, Soya? That child is Grandmother’s biological granddaughter. Her name is Senianna.”

 

Soya’s eyebrows drooped.

 

“That’s right! Wh-what I mean is, what on earth is this, suddenly, what are you talking about…!”

 

“Lady Isabel’s biological daughter has returned to the family.”

 

Soya seemed at a loss for words as she looked down at Senianna.

 

Senianna chattered brightly.

 

“You heard, right? Sena was right, wasn’t she? Soya is Sena’s now, Annellia will live with other maids.”

 

“B-but, th-this is so sudden….”

 

“What, does Soya dislike Sena?”

 

At that moment, Senianna’s eyes became slightly sad.

 

The child let go of Soya and put on a dejected expression.

 

“The vassal grandfathers said so. Sena is a very, very precious young lady.”

 

“….”

 

“Sena knows too… that Annellia was here at this house first. But Annellia is just someone who was picked up, no, brought here, they said.”

 

Miel’s expression hardened.

 

Soya also reflexively glanced at me and closed her mouth.

 

“But why does everyone only care about Annellia?”

 

Senianna clenched her fists as if upset.

 

“Wherever I go, they only talk about Annellia… They only bake bread that Annellia likes. Even Awin only plays with Sena half-heartedly.”

 

“….”

 

“Miel and Soya are maids of the Abner Family… Then you should like me more since I’m of Abner blood, so why Annellia?”

 

Senianna, who had been crying out resentfully, glanced toward me.

 

But the child who seemed about to burst into tears soon saw Teacher Ann and tilted her head.

 

“But who are you?”

 

I felt Teacher Ann’s hand on my shoulder tighten with strength.

 

Finally, I opened my dry lips to answer.

 

“Teacher is my wet nurse.”

 

Senianna’s eyes immediately widened.

 

“Wet Nurse?”

 

Then her eyes sparkled with interest as she spoke.

 

“Wet Nurse, Wet Nurse! Senianna too.”

 

“….”

 

“Senianna wants a wet nurse too!”

 

Then, as if she had never been crying, she came running toward my bed.

 

The child firmly grasped Teacher Ann’s other hand and looked at me.

 

“Annellia, Senianna wants a wet nurse. I like this wet nurse.”

 

“No, Senianna.”

 

When I spoke in a low voice, Senianna froze.

 

The child’s eyes gradually grew larger, and soon an expression of disbelief appeared on her face.

 

“What did you just say?”

 

“I can’t give her to you anymore. Not my things, not my people.”

 

Senianna slowly opened her mouth.

 

Soon tears welled up in the child’s eyes.

 

But I stared at Senianna without blinking an eye.

 

Suddenly, I felt the hard leather cover under the blanket.

 

‘The Origins and History of Black Magic.’

 

It was the book I had looked through dozens of times since Theo’s visit, almost memorizing it by now.

 

I finally opened my mouth.

 

“Miel… Soya. And Teacher Ann.”

 

“….”

 

“Please step out for a moment. I have something to discuss with Senianna.”

 

Now everything was truly certain.

 

Because I had deduced the entire situation of how things had unfolded.

 

My mouth was parched as I began to speak.

 

“Leave this place.”

 

My eyes were hollow from not sleeping properly all this time.

 

Meanwhile, Senianna was staring at me with a surprised expression on her perfectly fine face.

 

“Don’t make people sad and just leave.”

 

“Annellia. What are you talking about since earlier…?”

 

Senianna’s reaction was as expected.

 

With an innocent face, she widened her eyes and asked back as if she didn’t understand.

 

“Why should Sena leave? Why are you being scary? Don’t tell me….”

 

Then she drooped her eyebrows.

 

“Don’t tell me you’re bullying Sena because Annellia is fake and Sena is real, because of that? Annellia, you really….”

 

“Black magic leaves traces.”

 

Senianna’s mouth snapped shut.

 

I continued slowly.

 

“Corrupted magic power has the ability to destroy souls. Just like scars remain when the body is wounded, traces remain on the soul too.”

 

“What? What are you suddenly….”

 

“Even if the paternity test matches, nothing changes. I know that your body is fake.”

 

Sena’s eyes began to waver.

 

I spoke again.

 

“So leave.”

 

Don’t stay here and hurt Grandmother, just leave.

 

Starting from the day Senianna collapsed, Grandmother came out of the Lord’s Office.

 

And she gradually began to return to everyday life.

 

Even when Senianna approached and acted spoiled, she didn’t ignore her like before.

 

‘She didn’t particularly dote on Senianna, but she didn’t push her away either.’

 

But sometimes Grandmother would stare blankly at Senianna playing from a distance.

 

“Lady Senia really looks exactly like Lady Isabel when she was young.”

 

“That’s right. His Grace cherished Lady Isabel so much, and now her daughter has come to find us.”

 

The old servants whispered sympathetically as they watched this scene.

 

It was because it was so obvious.

 

How much Grandmother missed her daughter Isabel, how tenderly she thought of Senianna.

 

“If you leave quietly, I won’t ask anything. I’ll pretend not to know. Only I will know…”

 

“What on earth are you talking about, Annellia?”

 

Senianna cut me off with a coldly hardened expression.

 

“Why should I leave? If anyone’s leaving, it should be you.”

 

My heart sank with a thud.

 

“You’re really awful. I thought you were a good Ann all this time.”

 

Senianna looked at me with eyes full of hostility.

 

“I’m an Abner. Grandmother’s real granddaughter. Unlike you, Grandmother and I are family connected by blood!”

 

Then she fixed her gaze on me as if disgusted and added.

 

“There’s no such thing as black magic in this world! Even if there were, how could you prove it?”

 

Senianna smiled a twisted smile.

 

“Aren’t you being too delusional? I get that you’re anxious because the real me came to the manor, but still, trying to drive me away…”

 

Then she left the room with loud thudding sounds.

 

I bit my lip as I stared at the door that slammed shut.

 

Senianna’s words kept circling in my head.

 

“Even if there were, how could you prove it?”

 

My heart felt heavy.

 

I vaguely understood why Senianna had such an attitude.

 

That evening, I heard that Senianna had dinner alone with Grandmother.

 

Miel told me what happened during the meal.

 

Senianna had cried her eyes out, saying that I was bullying her.

 

Grandmother couldn’t say anything with a complicated expression, then sat the crying Senianna on her lap and comforted her.

 

After that, she took a look at Senianna’s new room once, then worked on official duties until late.

 

I went out into the dim corridor in the dead of night.

 

Since there was no maid taking care of me, it wasn’t very difficult to slip out of my room.

 

I quietly headed to the cramped storage room in a corner of the first floor where I had set up a temporary research room.

 

Someone was already waiting for me in the storage room.

 

“Mr. Theo…”

 

I ended up shedding tears as I looked at Theo.

 

“What do we do now?”

 

Theo reached out his hand to me restlessly.

 

“Should we use that thing? Is that really the only way left now…”

 

I really wanted to avoid this above all else.

 

After the incident broke out, there was a magical device that Theo had created in just one day at my request.

 

It was a new detector that could detect contaminated magic power from a person’s body.

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