The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 177

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“Ugh…”

I grabbed my dizzy head and struggled to lift my body.

As soon as I managed to open my eyes, blinding light pierced through my eyelids.

At first I thought I couldn’t see because of the light, but as time passed it became clear.

“…What is this?”

The place I was in was a space completely covered in white.

As I staggered to my feet, a strange sensation immediately enveloped my entire body.

My feet were clearly touching something, but there was nothing on the floor.

No matter where I looked, the scenery was identical, making me feel trapped.

I gulped nervously when something suddenly flashed before my eyes.

[Human.]

A giant almond-shaped eye with thick eyebrows growing densely around it.

A large pupil sparkling in the center.

The pupil, like melted ruby and gold mixed together, blinked slowly.

[Small human. Musty smell. Cute.]

I reflexively stepped back when another pair of eyes appeared on the right side.

[Oh my. Don’t speak like that, Hegatan. It’s rude to openly say someone has a musty smell.]

The second eye that appeared had green and blue mixed together.

That eye spoke in a low voice toward the red and golden eye that had appeared first.

[Talk about smells or being small should only be thought privately.]

[But human. First rude. Hegatan also rude.]

[Humans do have rude aspects. But not all humans are like that. And isn’t this human still a child?]

[…Ricaruss right. Small human. Not rude. Cute. Smell.]

[I told you to stop talking about the smell.]

I looked at the two giant pairs of eyes having a strange conversation with frightened eyes.

At that moment.

[Can’t you both stop? The child is scared!]

Another eye with white swirls carved on a bright yellow background appeared on the left.

The eye called Hegatan turned toward it.

[Ulgen! Rude. Hegatan likes, small human!]

“…Ulgen?”

I muttered quietly at the somehow familiar name.

Ulgen was the name of the lightning god worshipped by the Barkin Tribe.

Soon the eye called Ulgen curved into a half-moon shape.

[You noticed, Annellia? That’s right, I’m Ulgen!]

[Small human! First friend! Hegatan!]

[Hegatan is noisy and ignorant too. Please forgive him.]

I looked into Ulgen’s eyes and hesitantly parted my lips.

“Wh-where… is this place?”

Ulgen burst into clear laughter.

[The Heavenly Realm! Is this your first time in the Heavenly Realm?]

I nodded in confusion.

[You’re scared, don’t worry. Someone who will explain everything is right here.]

Ulgen’s eye pointed to one place.

Then the second eye that had appeared curved slightly toward me.

[Ahem! Where should I start explaining this.]

That eye gazed at me intently, then began speaking with an extremely benevolent look.

[First, we are called Ricaruss, Hegatan, and Ulgen among the twelve absolutes who rule the Heavenly Realm.]

Ricaruss and Hegatan were names written in the book Rico had given me long ago.

[First, Ulgen loves humans very much. He loves humans so much that he has liked interfering in the human realm for a long time.]

“Are you talking about appointing the chief of the Barkin Tribe?”

[Correct. However, Hegatan and I don’t have particularly great affection for the human realm.]

Ricaruss kindly looked me over.

[Still, we could say we care for humans more than the other nine absolutes who want to completely cut off interest in the Underworld.]

I slowly understood the meaning.

Ricaruss continued speaking.

[To be precise, we at least pity humans.]

[Crookiatus. Banished one! Torments humans. Hegatan. Angry!]

When Hegatan fumed, Ricaruss nodded.

[Hegatan has a soft heart, so he feels very sorry for the humans being tormented by Crookiatus.]

Hegatan dejectedly lowered his gaze.

[And I too feel deeply responsible for everything happening in the human realm. Long ago, I was the one who proposed banishing Crookiatus to the Underworld.]

[That’s right, Ricaruss! Even though I opposed it so much, you pushed it through to the end! That monster should have been locked in the dead world with nothing! What did the poor humans do wrong?]

Ulgen interjected with a sharp voice, so I carefully observed the atmosphere among the three absolutes.

[Didn’t I say I’m reflecting on it too, Ulgen.]

Ricaruss, who sighed deeply, added.

[That’s why we took that human into the Heavenly Realm too.]

[I told you not to call him ‘that human’? He’s a child I cherish very much. Besides, that child is now a proper member of the Heavenly Realm.]

‘That human? That child?’

I unconsciously furrowed my brow.

From the absolutes’ conversation, it seemed someone who had been human was now in the Heavenly Realm.

[The Heavenly Realm has certainly become more interesting since that human came. Who would have known that stories told by humans could satisfy us?]

[Humans are more absolute than absolutes! Sometimes when I watch humans live, I get so moved that tears come to my eyes.]

[Ulgen no. Tears! Ulgen lies!]

[I’m saying I was moved to the point of tears! You don’t know human lyric poetry. You have no idea how beautiful pastoral things are!]

I busily organized information while looking at Ricaruss.

“So, Ricaruss? Please continue explaining.”

Ricaruss’s eyes sparkled.

[Oh, I momentarily forgot that I should continue the story.]

Ricaruss seemed to really enjoy explaining things.

[Anyway, we felt very sorry that Crookiatus was destroying the Underworld. So we hoped more than anyone for a second human to appear who could stop Crookiatus.]

My eyes narrowed.

‘A second human to stop Crookiatus.’

The first human was probably Lasandra.

The book Rico gave me said she had sealed Crookiatus in ancient times.

[When that second human appeared, we intended to lend our own power. But it wasn’t easy. To bring a human to the Heavenly Realm, that human must be at the boundary between life and death.]

I gasped and closed my mouth.

“Then what about me? Am I also in mortal danger right now?”

Ulgen burst into laughter.

[No, Annellia. You are at the boundary between life and death, but you won’t die. Thanks to that ring on your hand.]

Only then did I remember.

Just before losing consciousness, Lasandra’s Ring on my left middle finger had emitted light.

I gulped.

‘…It never reacted once in the past 5 years?’

[That’s because you were safe from black magic.]

Then I heard another voice that wasn’t Ulgen, Ricaruss, or Hegatan.

When I turned my head, something was approaching from afar, giggling.

This time it wasn’t just eyes floating in the air, but a person.

“Wh-who are you?”

The person who came right up to me smiled and roughly patted my head.

[How adorable, is it because you’re my descendant? You have such a pretty face too!]

Descendant?

I frowned at the single word that caught my ear.

[Lasandra, you’re late. I thought you would appear a bit sooner.]

Then I froze blankly at Ricaruss’s words that followed.

[So that’s why you took that human into the Heavenly Realm too.]

[Don’t call her ‘that human’! Besides, that child is now a proper member of the Heavenly Realm.]

The conversation Ricaruss and Ulgen had just shared.

The human they said they took into the Heavenly Realm.

‘That was Lasandra?’

But what was even stranger were the words Ricaruss said while looking at me.

I stared intently at Lasandra and asked.

“Why am I Lady Lasandra’s descendant?”

Then Lasandra began to giggle.

“Strange, isn’t it? You already know that my descendant is Michaeliann.”

My expression slowly hardened.

As Lasandra said, Lasandra’s descendant is Michaeliann.

And Michaeliann is a bloodline inherited through the maternal line.

Just as our Grandmother is Michaeliann, and her daughter Lady Isabel is Michaeliann.

‘But for me to also be Lasandra’s descendant means…’

“That’s right, child, you’re Michaeliann too!”

Before I could properly understand the words that followed.

Lasandra pulled me into a tight embrace.

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