The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 146

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Meanwhile, in the underground prison.

Shahma opened his eyes to cold water droplets dripping from the ceiling.

“What, what is this.”

As soon as he regained consciousness, the situation before he fainted suddenly flashed through his mind.

He had been talking with that arrogant Euriko when suddenly Duke Abner’s daughter burst into the room.

That young child suddenly had the knights restrain him.

Duke Abner, who arrived afterward, even slapped his cheek.

He had merely tried to explain the situation!

“Grr…”

Shahma gritted his teeth at the wave of humiliation that washed over him.

And he began to shout.

“Come out! Someone come out and untie this right now!!”

But his voice only returned as an echo.

Only then did Shahma look around with a tense expression.

The prison cell was completely dark except for where he was.

So he couldn’t see anything even if he tried to look.

“Do you know who I, Shakhma Narguta Barkin, am!”

He screamed while tied to a stone chair.

“I am the most beloved grandson of the great chief Brotek! My father is guard captain Shogarta, and my mother is high priestess Chechek!”

“My goodness, is that so.”

At the voice that came then, Shahma gasped and closed his mouth.

The next moment, a torch was lit and the prison cell became much brighter.

From across the way, someone was walking toward him.

It was some woman with a fierce-looking face.

“Who, who are you.”

“Please call me Larien. I’ve been retired for a few years, but I used to work as an interrogator.”

A gasp escaped from Shahma’s mouth.

“What gives you the right to interrogate me! What crime have I committed!”

“Well, we’ll have to find that out slowly from now on, won’t we? Just you and me together, Shamah.”

“It’s not Shamah, it’s Shahma!”

“You’re more sensitive than I thought. Whether it’s Shamah or Shahma, they both stink just the same anyway.”

It was when Shahma’s face turned bright red.

Before he could get angry, Larien asked.

“Why were you in Miss Euriko’s room?”

Shahma, who had been grinding his teeth, reluctantly answered in a voice filled with murderous intent.

“I told you I had business there. We had something to resolve between us! Family matters, don’t you know what family matters are?!”

“Ah, family matters? There’s nothing more in my field of expertise than that. What exactly was this family problem about?”

Ha! A sigh escaped from his mouth.

He wanted to grab the hair of that arrogant woman who was questioning him about this and that right away, but he held back.

‘It might be better to just answer quickly and get it over with.’

Shahma glared at Larien with hostile eyes.

“It’s a marriage matter for the future of the tribe.”

Larien’s eyes immediately widened.

“A marriage matter? So you mean a marriage matter with Miss Euriko?”

“That’s right. We are in a relationship with a promised future.”

Larien made a hmm sound and wrote something on paper.

At that reaction, Shahma recovered his momentum somewhat.

“It’s nothing special. Since ancient times, the Barkin Tribe has often married within the clan.”

In reality, it was just once in very ancient times with no records left, and about two times since then in history.

But what did that matter?

Shahma continued speaking nonchalantly.

“Barkin women can basically marry from age sixteen.”

“Isn’t Miss Euriko fifteen?”

“She’ll be sixteen in two months, so it doesn’t matter.”

Larien nodded and wrote something else on the paper.

Shahma now relaxed his tension somewhat.

It was because no particularly hostile reaction was coming back from Larien.

“Anyway. Since she’s already been chosen as my wife, we should start sharing a bed soon.”

Larien suddenly stopped writing and looked at Shahma.

“Until now, there have been various interferences due to circumstances.”

As Shahma said this, a certain scene flashed through his mind.

“Shahma, you really want to die, don’t you. Do you know where this is!”

“Uncle! This marriage was directly ordered by the chief. Are you saying you’ll rebel against the chief’s command now!”

He remembered Takai, who would rage wildly whenever he tried to share a bed with Euriko.

Takai was the designated next chief, Shahma’s uncle and Euriko’s father.

“I have no intention of marrying my precious daughter to you! Go back.”

“Uncle!”

“If you don’t go back quietly, I’ll kill you!”

Because Takai was so troublesome, Shahma always had to return empty-handed.

But when he returned like that, chief Brotek would be in an uproar in his own way.

“You foolish thing! Didn’t I tell you that you must somehow be united with Euriko!”

“But Uncle Takai’s opposition is too strong! If grandfather would just give me a little more support…”

“How can I give you any more support than this! If I’ve done this much, then you should handle the rest yourself!”

Chief Brotek had not liked Takai for a long time.

Takai was a child born from a woman Brotek had spent one night with for fun.

That such a Takai had pushed aside all other children and received Ulgen’s choice was, in a way, natural.

“We cannot go against Ulgen’s will. That is the very foundation of our tribe!”

“Grandfather!”

“In this situation, the only way I can give the tribe to you is if you take that girl Euriko as your wife!”

“But as I mentioned, Uncle Takai…”

“Why don’t you understand that now is the only time there’s any possibility! Once that bastard Takai becomes chief, even this path will be blocked!”

“…”

“Shahma. My body isn’t what it used to be either. Before I die, I’m trying to give even a little more support to you and your father… Tsk.”

Brotek, who looked at Shahma as if he were pathetic, always added.

“Still, that girl Euriko doesn’t resemble Takai and has a soft side. Even though she smiles and goes around on the surface, it means there’s no solid stone supporting her inside.”

“Is that really true?”

“Yes. And I’ve been telling her from time to time. That Euriko is not material to become a chief. For a girl to just grow tall like a beanpole…”

And the chief’s words were true.

Euriko always seemed to lack confidence in herself and feared Shahma and the chief.

Even if she cried and resisted at first, if pushed to the extreme, she would surely break.

So Shahma absolutely had to make some kind of progress.

Here in Taranta, far away from Takai.

“Anyway, that’s why. That’s why I went to Euriko’s room.”

When Shahma finished speaking and raised his head, Larien was still looking at him.

She then wrote something more on the paper and said.

“I had no idea? That there were such circumstances?”

Shahma’s expression brightened slightly.

“Really? Now that you know the situation, we’re good, right?”

“Yes. The explanation was sufficient.”

“Then hurry up and untie this…”

“You should be able to receive a hanging sentence just fine.”

Shahma shut his mouth.

He looked dazed, then hesitantly asked back.

“What, what am I supposed to receive?”

At that moment, behind Larien.

Someone walked out from a place that had been hidden in the darkness.

“Oh, you, you bitch…!!”

It was the Duke’s daughter of Abner, and Duke Abner.

Seeing the Duke, he remembered getting slapped and instinctively cowered.

Shahma barely managed to glare and said.

“Wh-what is all this about! Me getting hanged! Why should I suffer such a thing!”

The Duke’s daughter of Abner looked at him with a deeply furrowed brow, as if looking at a bug.

“…Why? Because you just confessed to committing crimes worthy of it.”

Shahma’s expression became blank.

After keeping his mouth shut for a moment, he soon cried out urgently.

“Wh-what’s criminal about it! I just explained everything!”

“Yeah, all of that was criminal.”

“Bullshit! In Barkin, this much isn’t even a crime! Women can marry from sixteen, and if marriage is arranged between them, they can sleep together anytime…!”

“There’s something called territorial jurisdiction! You perverted trash!”

As if she couldn’t stand it anymore, the Duke’s daughter of Abner, who had been half-hiding behind the Duke, jumped out.

And with a deeply scowling expression, she said.

“Taranta’s national law operates on the principle of territorial jurisdiction! No matter how much you’re a person from the Barkin Tribe, you perverted trash crazy bastard, if you commit illegal acts within Taranta’s territory, you’ll be punished!”

“Wh-what?!”

“And! According to Taranta’s national law, criminals who try to do terrible things to children get hanged!”

Shahma froze in disbelief.

And the next moment he shouted.

“That can’t be! How dare you try to threaten me with such nonsense!!”

“That’s enough.”

Then Duke Abner stepped forward.

“Lia forgot one thing. The Abner Duchy has something called summary execution rights. The authority to immediately execute criminals on the spot.”

To Shahma, who had closed his mouth, the Duke coldly added.

“So you’d better shut up and stay quiet. If you keep making noise, your head will fly off before people from Barkin even arrive.”

And at the same time, inside Takai’s tent of the Barkin Tribe.

“What? My daughter, what happened to Euriko?”

Taka’i Honbatar Barkin shot up from his seat at the news that came early in the morning.

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