The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 165

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The Imperial Capital.

Grandis Indoor Arena.

“What is that?”

One nobleman who had been watching the hunt through a magic mirror installed in mid-air rose from his seat.

“That thing just now wasn’t an ordinary beast, was it?”

However, no one answered the question.

Everyone was staring stiffly at the magic mirror that had gone dark.

“And why is the magic mirror acting up again?”

Today, when the hunt had begun in earnest.

Large magic mirrors had been installed in parks, arenas, and salons throughout the Imperial Capital.

It was to monitor the situation in the northern forest of Abner Territory in real time.

“Ugh, really!”

The nobleman who had been stamping his feet finally rose from his seat.

And he crossed the seating area to go in front of the magic mirror.

Taking hold of the magic mirror’s control device, he manipulated the handle to switch screens.

“Why won’t this thing work properly?”

But the switched screen was equally black.

A frustrated shout burst from the nobleman’s mouth.

“Manager!”

Then a simple-looking man came running hurriedly from the management office in one corner of the arena.

“The screen isn’t showing! The magic mirror is broken and you’re not even repairing it!”

The manager looked back and forth between the control device and magic mirror, fidgeting restlessly as he bowed his head.

“Well, we’re checking on it too, but…”

“But?”

“It seems the magic mirror isn’t broken, but the visual orb transmission has been cut off.”

“The visual orb transmission cut off? What does that mean?”

The manager carefully took over the control device.

“If you look here for a moment…”

As he moved his hands quickly, the screens switched in succession.

And,

“Oh! It’s working!”

Finally, a non-black screen appeared.

But the screen was showing an empty forest landscape.

It was a section with no people or beasts.

“Like this, there are still signals being received. The black screens seem to be not showing because there’s a problem with the visual orbs that were filming those screens…”

The nobleman let out a sigh.

“Then what are we supposed to do? What kind of situation is this! I didn’t pay to enter here to watch trees and grass!”

At those words, other nobles sitting in their seats also hesitantly stepped forward.

“Be-besides, what was that scene from earlier? Duke Abner was clearly retreating…”

“I didn’t see it wrong, did I? Didn’t something strange suddenly appear!”

People nodded their heads one after another.

Earlier, they had been watching Duke Abner finishing his hunt and trying to retreat to the central outpost.

With the setting sun behind them, other nobles accompanying the Duke packed their belongings, and finally when everyone was rising from their positions.

“Didn’t something seem to jump out from the forest…?”

“That’s what I’m saying! But its appearance looked exactly like…”

Just as everyone was exchanging glances silently.

“Give me that control device.”

At the very back of the seating area, a man who had been sitting silently the whole time muttered.

He was a man wearing a black robe pulled down low, completely hiding his face.

The nobleman frowned.

“Who are you to tell me to hand over the control device?”

The man let out a deep sigh.

“I’m from the Magic Tower, so just give it to me.”

At those words, the nobleman closed his mouth.

If he was from the Magic Tower, his understanding of magical devices like magic mirrors and visual orbs would be higher than anyone’s.

“Pl-please pass this to that person.”

Then the control device was passed from hand to hand to the man.

The man who received the control device lightly turned it around and rubbed the back.

Then he touched a mana stone he had somehow produced in his other hand to the device.

Whooom-

Then a blue magic circle he had never seen before began to be drawn on the device.

“Oh, ooh.”

Amid people’s exclamations, the man continued doing something.

After fiddling with various parts of the magic circle for a while, finally.

Guuuuuum-

The magic mirror vibrated and complex formulas appeared on the screen.

The man muttered.

“…A total of 89 visual orbs installed in the hunting ground. Currently 80 of them have stopped.”

The nobles’ eyes widened greatly.

“How can eighty visual orbs break down all at once? Isn’t there some kind of problem?!”

“Of course there’s a problem.”

The man lightly shook the control device to show them.

“Transmission visual orbs are originally weak to mana. Especially when their waves are interfered with by strong mana.”

The nobles tilted their heads.

“What would interfere with mana in the hunting ground? Isn’t bringing magical devices into the hunting ground prohibited?”

As they said, magical devices could not be used in the Blessing Festival sacrifice hunt.

This was because only beasts caught without magical assistance could become sacrifices.

“There are no magical devices to interfere with. No one would have used magic circles either, so why are all the visual orbs dead?”

“It’s probably because of demon beasts.”

Silence fell over the arena.

As the man slowly removed his robe, horizontally long slitted eyes were revealed.

“That thing you all saw earlier. From its appearance, it was clearly a demon beast.”

Clang-

One nobleman dropped the wine glass he was holding.

Breaking through the silence, someone shouted.

“Bl-black magic!”

He immediately ran out of the arena with a terrified face.

“A black mage has summoned demon beasts, demon beasts to the hunting ground with forbidden sorcery!”

At the same time.

Similar commotions were occurring in other places throughout the Imperial Capital for the same reason.

“Du-Duke Abner, Your Grace. What is happening here?”

In the completely dark forest.

Spencer Viscount asked in a terrified voice.

“Ca-can we get out of here? Shouldn’t we return to the central outpost? Please do something…”

“Lower your voice.”

Sharon, unable to bear it any longer, answered sternly.

Spencer Viscount closed his mouth with a dejected expression.

“Pestering me from the side won’t help us return. I’m working on finding a way right now.”

Spencer Viscount inhaled with a “hup” and looked around his surroundings.

In his vision, now adjusted to the darkness, he could see grass and trees swaying.

“Ugh, how did things turn out like this…?”

Recalling what had happened earlier made his knees go weak once again.

There were a total of four people who had joined today’s hunt.

Including him, Spencer Viscount, there were Duke Abner, Lambert Longton, and Julian Count.

‘I shouldn’t have followed along to this place. Political purposes aside, I should have joined a different gathering during the day…!’

He hadn’t wanted to be part of this group from the beginning.

Since it was a group that included both Duke Abner and Lambert Longton together, that said it all.

As expected, today had been walking on thin ice all day long.

“Do you enjoy hunting, Viscount?”

“Pardon? Ah, I…”

“Looking at your expression, you seem uncomfortable. Well, I suppose it’s understandable if you’re spending the whole day hunting smelly beasts.”

“Your Grace Lambert Longton, that’s…”

“Frankly speaking, if it weren’t for the sacrifice hunt, I wouldn’t have participated either. It’s quite remarkable that there are people who take such barbaric acts as a hobby, isn’t it?”

Lambert Longton, who had somehow ended up sitting next to him, spent the entire day badmouthing Duke Abner to him.

Whenever the two happened to encounter each other when changing locations, he had to be careful even with his breathing.

‘After suffering like that all day, I thought we were finally going back…’

The forest became completely dark without a trace of light once the sun set.

Naturally, the hunt could no longer continue.

Finally, they packed their things and were about to return to the Central Outpost.

Right at that moment, disaster struck.

“A demon beast. A real demon beast in this day and age…”

As soon as he stood up, a demon beast he had never seen in his life pounced on him from the air.

Spencer Viscount learned then that tears come naturally when fear becomes too overwhelming.

But fortunately, the demon beast couldn’t tear his throat out.

It was because Duke Abner had precisely hit the demon beast’s eye with a loaded crossbow.

However, the situation didn’t end there.

“Your Grace. My son is waiting at the Central Outpost. I absolutely must return alive. Absolutely, please…”

A few seconds after Duke Abner shot down the first demon beast.

Four more similarly-looking demon beasts emerged from the forest.

Lambert Longton brought down one, but they possessed incredible speed.

Eventually, the four people fleeing from the demon beasts were scattered in pairs.

“Ah, I’m so worried about my son. I really…”

The Viscount muttered as if praying.

He couldn’t even tell if Lambert Longton and Julian Count were safe right now.

“If you’re worried about your son, then pull yourself together.”

At that moment, Duke Abner spoke in a cold voice.

Then he drew the dagger hanging at his waist and placed it in Spencer Viscount’s hand.

“Only if you return safely will you be able to protect the young viscount or not.”

“…”

“We’re short on arrows, so we’ll avoid those creatures as much as possible and head to the Central Outpost.”

Having finished speaking, the Duke took the lead.

Spencer Viscount found himself looking at Sharon Abner with eyes filled with awe.

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