The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 107

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Grandmother hugged me and carried me to her bedroom.

 

Then she sat me on the bed and pulled up a chair to sit across from me.

 

I looked at Grandmother with concern for a long while, and only then did she finally open her mouth.

 

“…I find myself so pathetic that I cannot bear it.”

 

Grandmother’s eyes were still red.

 

If the bloodshot hadn’t subsided even after drinking the medicine I gave her, it meant her condition was very poor.

 

“I heard everything. That you often skipped meals while wandering around the palace.”

 

I widened my eyes and then immediately shook my head.

 

“It wasn’t that bad! I was just studying how paternity tests work…”

 

“You were also the one who instructed the Mage Tower Lord to make a magical device.”

 

“Uh, that was because I heard terrifying stories about dark magic, so just in case…”

 

“So that’s how you were able to discover that Senianna had changed her appearance with dark magic.”

 

I just nodded slightly without answering.

 

Grandmother replied in a sunken voice.

 

“…I wasn’t without suspicion either.”

 

I was startled.

 

“I had thought that someone might have sent a fake targeting the position of Abner Princess.”

 

“…”

 

“But the more I looked at that child, no, she wasn’t even a child to begin with. Her appearance was so…”

 

Grandmother’s face contorted with sadness once again.

 

My expression became gloomy as well.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“…Annellia, though it’s shameless of me, I want to ask you a favor.”

 

My eyes widened at Grandmother’s following words.

 

“Please make the Abner Academy into a prestigious and authoritative gathering. You could do it, couldn’t you.”

 

Grandmother’s purple eyes were more serious than ever.

 

“The Mage Tower Lord said so. That dark magic is still shrouded in mystery. That there’s much work to be done to find out how the mastermind behind this incident performed such terrible forbidden arts.”

 

“…”

 

“At first, anger surged within me at why I fell for such an obvious trick. But I soon realized painfully.”

 

“…”

 

“That when it comes to matters related to Isabel, I become infinitely weak. I shouldn’t be like that.”

 

“…”

 

“Now I have you too, but I failed to take care of you as an adult should…”

 

Grandmother’s voice gradually grew smaller.

 

I stopped listening and gently took Grandmother’s hand.

 

“But Grandmother. We already promised that long ago, didn’t we.”

 

Grandmother looked at me with a start.

 

“That Annellia would be of great help to Abner.”

 

“Annellia…”

 

“Back then I thought of it as a contract, but not anymore. We’re family now, and family members naturally ask favors of each other and grant them! So don’t worry!”

 

Grandmother’s purple pupils grew slightly larger.

 

Grandmother was silent for a while, then spoke in a cracked voice.

 

“I’m truly… ashamed before you.”

 

And the next moment, something hot dropped onto the back of my hand with a plop.

 

I was startled and jumped up from the bed.

 

“Huh! G-Grandmother, are you crying?”

 

Grandmother was crying.

 

Tears kept flowing down her coldly cooled cheeks, plop, plop.

 

“I felt like I should kneel and beg your forgiveness, so I went to the bedroom without thinking. I wasn’t looking for you to receive some blood circulation medicine or whatever.”

 

I said restlessly.

 

“Uh, I’m really okay! I just…”

 

Then I stopped and closed my mouth.

 

I thought that Grandmother probably wouldn’t be able to calm her emotions easily.

 

After pondering deeply, I finally opened my mouth.

 

“Grandmother, then please grant Annellia one favor too. Don’t be sad.”

 

Grandmother briefly held her breath and looked at me.

 

“Annellia has a mountain of things to do. Theo said that information about dark magic is all hidden, so it takes a long time just to find it.”

 

“…Is that so.”

 

“Yes! So when I go to the Imperial Capital soon, I’ll research that diligently, and Grandmother, for my sake…”

 

After taking a short deep breath, I said.

 

“Please help me find Annellia’s mom and dad.”

 

Grandmother’s eyes widened.

 

“You mean your birth parents?”

 

“Yes. The mom and dad who gave birth to Annellia.”

 

What I told Theo about needing to find my birth parents wasn’t a joke.

 

‘Grandmother would be better at finding people than I am.’

 

I scratched the back of my head awkwardly.

 

Grandmother was looking at me with an expression where her tears had completely dried up.

 

After confirming that Annellia had fallen fast asleep on the bed, Sharon Abner quietly closed the door and came out.

 

Wendel was waiting for her in the corridor with a serious face.

 

“Did you hear?”

 

“…Yes.”

 

Sharon signaled briefly to the guards to watch over the bedroom.

 

And she moved toward the Lord’s Office while saying.

 

“Investigate Annellia’s birth parents. Investigate everyone who stayed near Evehill Orphanage without missing a single person. Don’t forget to search through the birth records of the medical ward too.”

 

“Are you alright, Your Excellency?”

 

Sharon glanced at Wendel.

 

“If you’re asking whether I’m upset that Annellia wants to find her birth parents, I’m truly not bothered at all.”

 

Annellia was a child more intelligent than her peers.

 

Naturally, she would have had curiosity about her birth parents from before.

 

“Rather, I wonder why I hadn’t thought of it until now. If the situation seems okay, I should arrange for the child to be able to visit comfortably with them.”

 

Wendel nodded.

 

“And.”

 

“…”

 

“Reinvestigate Isabel’s death too.”

 

Wendel stopped in place for a moment out of surprise.

 

However, he quickly caught up with Sharon Abner again.

 

“Your Excellency. What did you just…”

 

“Senianna, no, Larisa had the letters that Isabel and I exchanged, didn’t she.”

 

Wendel’s eyes grew large.

 

“Isabel definitely died at the medical ward, they said. That she died as soon as she arrived, and was cremated because they didn’t know her connections.”

 

“That’s right. The medical ward definitely said so at the time.”

 

“Then do you remember what came after. That Isabel’s belongings were only the clothes she wore and her accessories.”

 

Wendel’s pupils trembled slightly.

 

Sharon opened the door to the Lord’s Office and went inside while adding.

 

“But the person who sent Larisa had the letters that Isabel and I exchanged.”

 

Wendel repeated with a pale face.

 

“Surely…”

 

“That’s right. It would be proof that they met Isabel before she came to the medical ward.”

 

Sharon’s face became serious.

 

“We only know that Isabel died in the medical ward, but we don’t know how she ended up in that state. That means we can’t know about that child’s past actions.”

 

Wendel nodded tensely.

 

“So reinvestigate. And honestly speaking….”

 

“….”

 

“I know it’s a far-fetched thought.”

 

Sharon, who had closed her mouth for a moment, muttered.

 

“It bothers me that I couldn’t see the body myself. Medical wards usually bury the deceased in common graveyards, and cremation is rare.”

 

At the time when she heard news of Isabel’s death, she hadn’t found all of this strange.

 

It was because she wasn’t in her right mind due to grief.

 

“…Also, the reason everyone had no choice but to be enchanted by Senianna.”

 

Isabel, who had left the duke’s castle and disappeared without a trace, didn’t show herself for a while.

 

That period was well over 2 years.

 

At the time, she had simply endured those frustrating years with effort, but thinking about it now, there was something she could guess.

 

“Two years is enough time to meet someone new. Isabel wasn’t a child who disliked people either.”

 

The reason Senianna seemed even more plausible was actually because of this.

 

That child didn’t simply resemble Isabel.

 

Though it was fake, at five years old, she was really the right age to be Isabel’s child.

 

Also, Isabel had always wanted to have a child.

 

Perhaps it would be better to say she wanted to build a family.

 

So when Senianna appeared, everyone accepted her without suspicion.

 

Thinking that Isabel really might have met someone she loved and given birth to a child.

 

Sharon Abner calmly lowered her gaze.

 

‘If that child really had a child….’

 

Somehow, that child seemed like they would definitely resemble Annellia.

 

“Grandmother, then please grant Annellia one favor too. Don’t be sad.”

 

“Mom, don’t cry. Don’t cry and think of me. I have a favor to ask, okay?”

 

Whenever she was breaking down, Isabel had always comforted her just like that.

 

Not just telling her not to cry, but reminding her of what needed to be done, naturally helping her get back up.

 

That was that child’s way.

 

“Perhaps, really maybe, just maybe….”

 

Sharon clenched her fists tightly.

 

‘Annellia is from an orphanage. And she was found in the Evehill region of Abner territory.’

 

Something too ominous to be called hope, yet too desperate to be called ominous, kept rising in her heart.

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