The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 153

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Keeing, keeing, keeing-!

Debokio Island Coastal Cliffs.

Somewhere deep and dark underground.

“Kuaaak! Brother! I can’t hold on anymore! I’m serious!”

As Rico screamed, an unidentifiable sharp sound continued.

It sounded exactly like sharp waves cutting through the air.

Keeing- keeing-!

“Just hold on a little longer! We’re almost done!”

“Uaaaah! I’m dying! This isn’t a joke, I’m really, really going to dieeeee!”

Just before Rico’s screaming breath completely gave out.

Kuguuuuuuuuung-

The ground shook violently.

Dust fell down onto Rico’s head with a pattering sound.

“…Done.”

All strength drained from Rico’s body.

As soon as his trembling arms dropped, the magic formula that had been glowing in the air disappeared with a crackling sound.

Then, like a bomb exploding, Rico collapsed to the floor from the recoil that burst forth.

He blinked his eyes while gasping for breath.

In the air, precisely where the magic formula he had been implementing was located.

About the size of the entire Imperial Capital perhaps?

Something of overwhelming size was floating while defying gravity.

Around it were countless glowing thread-like things that were holding it in place.

They were the condensed masses of magical power that Theo had created without rest, the source of the explosive sounds.

“Huk… Wow, I really… thought I was going to die.”

Sweat streamed down Rico’s forehead as he lay sprawled on the floor.

Someone slowly approached him.

It was Theo, covered in dust.

“Good work.”

“Brother, are you really a monster? I mean, how can a person…! No! I know you’re not human! Really…! Ha!”

Theo let out a hollow laugh as he looked at Rico, who closed his mouth as if fed up.

This place where they were.

This place like a giant cave was the Hidden Terrain of Debokio Island Undergrounds.

What was positioned in the middle of the air was a magical stone of tremendous size.

This magical stone that Theo had personally processed was in the shape of a perfect sphere.

On its surface were thousands of very small and delicate magic formulas densely carved.

“The core device is ridiculously huge! How are we two supposed to secure this thing? Even thinking about it again, it’s insane!”

“But we did it. You’re talking too much after getting it done.”

Rico plopped the back of his head onto the floor.

He didn’t even have the strength to keep his head up.

Even at that moment, the floating magical sphere emitted a subtle blue-green light.

The magic formulas carved on its surface pulsed as if there was a heart inside the magical sphere.

“…To think this was really possible in just 3 years…”

Rico took a deep breath, feeling an overwhelming sense of pressure that seemed to squeeze his heart.

The device before his eyes was something Theo had personally developed and designed.

A literally insane device that absorbed magical power from the Heavenly Realm and amplified it.

“Now there’s one last one remaining.”

When Theo muttered seriously, Rico made a groaning sound.

“Please tell me the last one isn’t as big as this one. If the final device is this big too, I’ll die young regardless of any cause! Really!”

“Don’t worry. The last one is only about half of half the size of this core device.”

Rico’s expression brightened for a moment then darkened again.

“Even if it’s half of half. Based on this ridiculously huge magical sphere…”

“…”

“It’s still big!”

Theo avoided Rico’s gaze.

“No way!”

“You’re noisy, Rico. You’re the one talent I managed to salvage from the Magic Tower.”

Rico looked at Theo with bewildered eyes.

“If you didn’t like it, you should have said so from the beginning. You’re the one who said yes and followed along when I suggested we partner up.”

“But that’s!”

“Endure this much. You know deep down that you actually like all this, despite what you say.”

Rico was dumbfounded and closed his mouth.

What did he mean, don’t I actually like it?

What kind of sleazy and disgusting spoiled youngest son of a noble family talk was this?

“Brother, don’t you think you’re being too much? Don’t you know how rotten you look right now?”

“Yeah, I don’t know. I definitely told you from the beginning. That I would implement magic that had never existed once in the world. You’re the one who followed along saying it sounded interesting.”

Rico firmly shut his mouth.

About ten years ago, he really did have that kind of conversation with Theo.

He sighed and lifted his right arm to look at the inside.

There was a faint pattern carved in blue.

It was the trace of the death oath he had readily made after hearing Theo’s words back then.

If he broke the oath, the pattern carved on his forearm would stop his heart.

The price for breaking the oath was death.

Rico twisted his lips.

“So it was a scam.”

“What?”

“You said we’d do interesting research together, but you never said we’d be sealing Evil Dragons I didn’t even know existed in the world.”

Theo shook his head.

“…But. Since I’m the one who made the oath without properly checking the contract terms, I won’t complain.”

“Then stop whining and obediently…”

“Still, hard work is hard work, so I’ll be receiving an incentive.”

“Incentive?”

“From Lady Lili, not from you, Brother.”

Theo’s eyes widened slightly.

Rico smiled blissfully without reading the mood.

“This time I’m definitely going to get cheek kisses from Lady Lili. A clean five times.”

Silence descended underground.

The moment Rico glanced at Theo in that strange silence.

“Rico, you’ve finally lost your mind.”

Theo suddenly lifted the corners of his mouth into a grin.

Rico quickly got up from his spot.

“Why, why? I think I deserve that much?”

“I haven’t even gotten any yet, so how could you?”

“Is it my fault that you haven’t gotten cheek kisses from Lady Lili yet, Brother?”

Theo closed his mouth.

“You’re the one who chose the foolish and ignorant path! Even when I kept saying we should find another way, you stubbornly…”

Rico was shouting with momentum but suddenly closed his mouth with a gasp.

A mixture of red and golden energy was rippling around Theo.

“Br-Brother. I think I was mistaken. Please calm down.”

“Magical sphere or whatever…”

When Theo took a step toward Rico, waves of magical power spread out from him as the center.

“I, I’m not an evil dragon, right? I really won’t die, right? If I die, you can’t fix the devices to the remaining celestial coordinates, right?!”

But Theo only grinned.

“Rico. You know, I’ve been annoyed ever since you started casually picking up Lili, tying her hair and all that.”

“B, Brother?”

“So today, let’s have a serious talk. About who’s going to get a kiss on the cheek when we meet Lili in two weeks.”

“Ugh, uaaaah!”

Rico squeezed his eyes shut at the sight of Theo approaching like a ghost.

“P, please spare me! I’ll only get one kiss on the cheek! Really, really… Brother?”

Then he slightly opened his eyes and froze.

Theo, who had been approaching him, was collapsing to the floor with unfocused eyes.

“Brother!”

Rico immediately shot forward like a bullet.

And supported the fallen Theo.

Theo had his eyes closed with a peaceful expression.

Strange flows of magical power continued to swirl around the surroundings.

Rico, who had been observing the scene for a moment, let out a sigh and grabbed his forehead.

“That’s why I said let’s install the core device next year!”

What was happening in Theo’s body right now was a kind of rampage.

His body, too severely affected by the enormous magical power, was losing its life force.

Rico’s resentful gaze naturally turned toward the magical sphere floating in the air.

Suddenly, Theo’s voice from when he first explained the plan echoed in his head.

“There are four sacred sites on the surface called celestial coordinates, Rico.”

“Celestial coordinates?”

“Right. Think of them as pathways where the Heavenly Realm’s magical power flows into the human world.”

Four sacred sites.

A kind of passage where the Heavenly Realm’s magical power flows into the human world, even if only slightly.

“Even though he’s just a banished evil dragon, Father was once a god. Even I can’t completely annihilate Father.”

“Then what do we do?”

“We’ll have to borrow the power of a god as well.”

Theo had researched devices that absorb and amplify the Heavenly Realm’s magical power for a long time.

Including the time before his regression, it had been a full 15 years.

“We’re going to install these devices at the four coordinates that exist on the surface. The core device will be located on Debokio Island where Father is.”

Theo amplified all the magical power absorbed from the Heavenly Realm through the devices.

The amplified magical power would gather at this core device on Debokio Island, and

“At the final moment, it will pass through me.”

Rico wore a complicated expression as he loosened the robe that was tightly constricting Theo’s neck.

Then immediately, the golden magical formulas engraved on Theo’s body came into view.

The formulas carved from below his neck to his entire chest were identical to those engraved on the magical sphere in the air.

A sigh-mixed voice leaked from Rico’s mouth.

“…Are you really insane? Who in the world thinks of becoming a bomb themselves?”

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