The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 105

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Sharon had experienced this feeling before.

 

“Kyaa! What is this, let go! Let go of me!”

 

“Mage Tower Lord, please calm down first….”

 

“Now, now. The ones who need to calm down are not Lord Theo, but you all. There are other things to doubt, but are you questioning the Magic Tower’s technological capabilities right now?”

 

Senianna’s voice, the vassals’ voices.

 

The voice of that aide who always followed closely behind the Mage Tower Lord echoed one after another.

 

“Your Grace, are you alright….”

 

Afterwards, tinnitus completely consumed her eardrums.

 

So Wendel’s voice couldn’t be heard to the end.

 

Thump, thump, thump.

 

As her vision swayed following her heartbeat, she could see Annellia in the distance.

 

Annellia stood in place with her shoulders hunched up completely.

 

“…Ah! …bloodline test… magical device…!”

 

“Th-this is impossible… there’s no way… it could!”

 

Amidst the noise, the Mage Tower Lord gripped Senianna’s arm forcefully while moving his lips saying something.

 

The vassals’ expressions turned pale.

 

Senianna twisted her body with a face she had never shown even once before.

 

Her wide-open mouth and the red blood vessels cracking across the whites of her eyes looked unfamiliar.

 

She turned her head to look at Annellia again.

 

The child’s expression was completely terrified.

 

Sharon Abner took a deep breath.

 

“Stop.”

 

And like someone who had held their breath underwater for a long time, she barely managed to utter one word.

 

“Please, stop… Annellia is getting scared.”

 

Everyone looked at Sharon.

 

“Mage Tower Lord.”

 

Her cracked voice echoed through the first floor where silence had fallen.

 

“Explain in detail… explain in detail.”

 

Theo immediately walked toward Sharon Abner.

 

“I already told you. The test results between that child and Your Grace are impossible numbers that cannot occur academically.”

 

“….”

 

“Also. The fact that contaminated magical power was detected in large quantities from that child’s body is proof that sorcery was used with the body as a medium.”

 

Sharon Abner stared blankly at the bracelet-shaped magical device that Theo held out.

 

Something pitch black was writhing in the transparent gem embedded in the bracelet.

 

It looked like black ink dropped into water.

 

“Whether it’s that child’s room or belongings. If you search through them, you’ll find Lady Isabel’s hair.”

 

“Such a thing….”

 

“Senianna.”

 

Suddenly a gloomy voice rang out.

 

When she turned her head, someone with a shocked expression was approaching Senianna.

 

“What, what is this supposed to mean.”

 

It was Jayden, whose hands were trembling as if nervous.

 

“Black magic, you say. You couldn’t possibly, really…!”

 

“I did wrong!”

 

That was when Senianna burst into tears.

 

Her face that resembled Isabel became completely distorted.

 

“I did it because I was greedy!”

 

Several vassals covered their mouths.

 

“They said if I just had Lady Isabel’s hair, I could become rich too, so….”

 

What followed was shocking.

 

Senianna said that she was originally a merchant who occasionally came to Abner Castle to sell groceries.

 

However, six months ago, someone of unknown identity approached her.

 

And they said if she brought Isabel’s hair, they would give her tremendous wealth.

 

Senianna had secretly snuck into Isabel’s room and stolen a hair ornament.

 

Afterwards, she changed her appearance using the hair attached to the ornament.

 

“I, I really didn’t know it was black magic!”

 

With that scream-like sound as the last word, the guards surrounded her.

 

Wendel stepped forward with a pale face.

 

“Your Grace. We must investigate the mastermind immediately. Even if we have to use torture…!”

 

Sharon Abner couldn’t give any answer and just stared at Senianna.

 

Senianna was sobbing with her head hung low.

 

Jayden muttered as if he couldn’t believe it.

 

“Then what I encountered coming out of Otium was.”

 

“That man told me I had to wait for you there….”

 

“What about my sister’s letter that you said was mother’s keepsake!”

 

Senianna sobbed.

 

“Th-that man gave it to me! Everything, I just did everything that man told me to do, I really don’t know anything… *sob*.”

 

The vassals’ expressions were colored with despair.

 

Jayden looked at Sharon Abner.

 

And spoke in a voice that seemed to suppress anger.

 

“Please order her to be imprisoned.”

 

“….”

 

“First we must confine that thing, and find out the mastermind who ordered all of this. Mother.”

 

Sharon Abner remained silent and rigid, then exhaled deeply and closed her eyes.

 

And just like that, she lost consciousness.

 

Drip, drip, drip-

 

Inside the prison cell where not a single ray of light entered.

 

Water drops were falling from the ceiling at regular intervals.

 

“When, when is he coming….”

 

Senianna paced anxiously inside the iron bars.

 

Though the promised time had passed, Jayden showed no sign of appearing at the prison.

 

“He definitely said he would change my appearance again with black magic and help me escape….”

 

The chaotic situation from earlier in the day came to mind.

 

The duke had fainted, and the vassals were each chattering with shocked expressions.

 

Remembering the contemptuous gazes that had been directed at her, cold sweat formed on her palms again.

 

However, Senianna shook her head vigorously and shook off her anxiety.

 

“No. I did it right. I did it perfectly as instructed.”

 

When she passed by Jayden, she definitely saw his lips form the words ‘well done.’

 

There were many eyes watching so he couldn’t show it openly, but her acting must have pleased him.

 

“But how did the Mage Tower Lord do it?”

 

She had heard that contaminated magical power used in black magic looked no different from ordinary magic stone power at first glance.

 

So they said highly advanced technology was needed to detect the difference between the two powers….

 

“How did he complete that technology so quickly when it was supposed to take at least 10 more years.”

 

While she was pondering.

 

Finally, heavy vibrations could be felt traveling through the cold stone floor.

 

The iron door seemed to open and bright light poured in over the distant corridor.

 

Soon Jayden appeared along with footsteps.

 

“Prince!”

 

Senianna couldn’t hide her smile as she ran forward and grabbed the iron bars.

 

Jayden, who had approached close to the prison cell, answered calmly.

 

“Yes, Senianna.”

 

And he continued speaking with a smiling face.

 

“As expected, I wasn’t wrong to trust you. Thanks to you handling things properly, the situation worked out well.”

 

“Of course! This means everything is wrapped up nicely, right?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Pride welled up from deep within her chest.

 

Senianna smiled brightly and gripped the iron bars with both hands.

 

“Then please change my appearance quickly. The way to get out of the prison cell is as you told me before…”

 

“But Senianna.”

 

Senianna stopped speaking.

 

Jayden looked down at her peacefully with a slight smile.

 

“Do you think there’s such a thing as a proper ending to work like this?”

 

“…What?”

 

“In fact, the most perfect ending would be for you to disappear completely, wouldn’t you agree.”

 

Jayden’s purple eyes curved beautifully.

 

Senianna, who had been staring at them blankly, suddenly staggered in place.

 

It was because she suddenly felt a thudding beat from within her heart.

 

“My, my lord… urgh.”

 

The next moment she covered her mouth.

 

A dark liquid gushed out between her fingers.

 

“Wh-what is this…”

 

The liquid that started from the root of her tongue soon filled her throat completely.

 

Senianna collapsed to the floor and continuously vomited up the black liquid that kept rising.

 

From across, Jayden spoke in a bored voice.

 

“Do you know why black magic is considered forbidden sorcery?”

 

“Urgh, uurgh…!”

 

“Because very few people have lived to pay the price for it.”

 

Senianna’s entire body trembled like an aspen tree.

 

In her shaking vision, she could see her own body turning black and flowing away.

 

“Ah, ahhhhh!!”

 

Soon terrible pain overwhelmed her.

 

As ear-splitting screams continued, Abner’s knights came rushing in.

 

But when they arrived, the prison cell was already completely empty.

 

Only pure white hair and the clothes Senianna had been wearing remained, stuck to the sticky liquid on the floor.

 

Jayden said to them, frozen in shock.

 

“I came to identify this thing and question it briefly… but it seems to be a side effect of forbidden sorcery.”

 

His voice trembled finely with anger.

 

“Find a way to discover the mastermind behind this. I cannot let whoever toyed with Mother and my sister go unpunished.”

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