The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 178

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[Surprised? Surprised?]

Lasandra circled around me without rest.

The more she did so, her silver hair, which was beyond curly and looked like it had been hit by a bomb, bounced around frantically.

[Little human. Shock! Shock!]

Though Hegatan tried to stop her, Lasandra only continued laughing.

[When I was alive, I really loved novels, you know? My favorite cliché was the secret of birth!]

Clasping her hands together, Lasandra closed her eyes with a blissful expression.

[I thought I was an orphan with no family, but it turns out I inherited great power from a noble bloodline? My goodness, how thrilling!]

Lasandra hugged me again and ruffled my hair like petting a puppy.

[Your hair resembles mine, and your face resembles mine too!]

[Lasandra. Ugly. Little human. Cute. Different!]

When Hegatan shouted, Lasandra pouted her lips.

[Hegatan? I look like this because I aged rapidly from sealing Crookiatus once. I was quite lovely at this age too, you know. Understand?]

[Pathetic. Excuse.]

I stared blankly at Lasandra bickering with Hegatan.

‘…This is impossible.’

The Lasandra I knew was the great mage who sealed Crookiatus after it devoured the magic power of the mortal realm.

And she did so by sacrificing herself.

But this person before my eyes is really Lasandra?

That wasn’t the only strange thing.

No matter how much I pondered it, I couldn’t understand the story about me being from the Michaeliann bloodline.

Currently, except for Grandmother, there were no Michaeliann bloodline members left in the world.

Because when Grandmother was five years old, Crookiatus massacred the entire bloodline.

‘So there’s only one possibility for me to be a Michaeliann…?’

[That’s right, you’re Sharon Abner’s granddaughter! A real granddaughter connected by blood!]

Just then, Lasandra interrupted with a bright smile.

I closed my mouth in a daze.

Then I hesitantly met her eyes and answered.

“Then, my mother is…”

[That’s right, poor and pitiful Isabel Abner… Even at this very moment, she’s probably having her magic power sucked away by Crookiatus to protect you.]

I unconsciously frowned.

And asked back in a small voice.

“What do you mean by that?”

Lasandra answered.

[Isabel Abner made a very foolish choice for you. She was convinced that if she gave herself to Crookiatus, that creature wouldn’t notice your existence.]

“Wait, I don’t understand this well.”

[Really? What don’t you understand?]

“Well…”

Isabel Abner is dead.

Grandmother, the other Abner family members, and even everyone in the world knows this.

But Isabel Abner is alive and currently captured by Crookiatus?

And above all, if Isabel Abner is my mother, if she’s my mother…

[A child isn’t born from the mother alone.]

Lasandra nodded her head.

At the same time, the three absolutes began exchanging glances with each other.

[Little human. Wants! Truth!]

[Wait. What more are you planning to show a child who’s already shocked?]

At Ulgen’s words, Ricaruss explained in a serious voice.

[But shouldn’t this child know what her existence is? Though it’s a bit reluctant to receive human help in killing Crookiatus, if we miss this opportunity, we might have to wait eons more.]

I felt my body trembling as I swallowed hard.

Then Lasandra’s voice was heard again.

[Lord Ulgen? I agree with Ricaruss. Crookiatus is a tremendous evil dragon. Even when I sealed it, it was so difficult.]

Though Ricaruss’s eyebrows twitched, Lasandra continued speaking.

[My descendant needs to awaken a bit. Of course, Annellia is already sufficiently clever and smart, and especially resembling me, I could say she’s an unparalleled genius in the mortal realm.]

Lasandra raised both arms high.

[The more genius one is, the more driving force is needed. Since I was the most outstanding genius in the history of the universe, I know this.]

Ricaruss, unable to bear it any longer, stepped forward.

[Lasandra, you never learn humility to the end. How dare you call me Ricaruss ‘sir’? And why is Ulgen ‘Lord’?]

[Oh my? Why would I need to be humble? I’m already a human invited to the heavenly realm, so I’m no different from a god!]

At the shameless answer, Ricaruss closed his mouth.

Ulgen just smiled as if he found Lasandra cute.

[Also, the reason Ulgen is ‘Lord’ is because he has far superior insight compared to Ricaruss sir.]

[What has Ulgen ever done!]

[My goodness, are you really asking because you don’t know? Lord Ulgen recognized me, didn’t he?]

Lasandra pointed at herself with both index fingers, poking herself.

[He realized I was too precious to live as a wanderer in the world of the dead, so he brought me to the heavenly realm and made me a god. What tremendous insight!]

[Yes, yes, our cute Lasandra! Your words are always right! The stories you tell are always exciting too!]

Ulgen smiled brightly and added.

[As Lasandra says, it would be better to show Annellia the truth.]

Lasandra turned toward me as if she had been waiting.

[Yes, yes. Lovely Annellia? What I’m about to show you won’t be a dream or fantasy, but fragments of the past recorded through the eyes of the absolutes!]

I nodded with anxious eyes.

[You’ll learn about your existence, and about the secrets of the world. Can you accept it?]

My existence and the secrets of the world.

Though it was burdensome, it seemed better to hear it than not to hear it.

[A wise choice. There’s no knowledge in the world that you don’t need to know. As expected of my descendant!]

Lasandra giggled and looked back at the three pairs of eyes behind her.

And the next moment.

Without time to prepare my heart, the surroundings turned pitch black.

“Lady Isabel? Lady Isabel, please wake up.”

A familiar voice was heard from somewhere.

As my vision brightened, I opened my eyes wide.

‘Aunt Marenese?’

Aunt Marenese, the assistant head chef of Abner Castle, was shaking someone on the bed.

“Mmm, let me sleep a little more. I was up late last night.”

“Really, miss? Well, then it can’t be helped. Even on a special day like today.”

“Special day? Why? What day is today?”

And the person who poked just her head out from under the blanket to ask was,

‘Lady Isabel.’

I swallowed hard.

Lasandra said all of this was ‘fragments of the past.’

But the two people before my eyes were as vivid as if they were real.

However, my body had no form, so I could only observe everything with the given senses.

“Today… ah, what day is today again?”

“That’s why you should get some proper sleep. You have dark circles under your eyes, our miss.”

Aunt Marenese arranged Lady Isabel’s hair with a worried expression.

Then Lady Isabel’s eyes snapped open.

“I remembered! Isn’t today the day someone comes from the Magic Tower?”

Lady Isabel jumped up from her spot and leaped down from the bed.

Then she carelessly crumpled on the fur slippers that were on the floor and rushed out of the room in her negligee.

“Miss! You should put on a coat! Miss!”

Leaving behind Marenese who was calling out desperately, I hurriedly chased after Lady Isabel.

Lady Isabel went down the stairs of the Duke’s Castle that I knew well and arrived at the first floor.

Then she ran through the wooden corridor and finally flung open the door to the reception room.

“Mom! Are you here? You came from the Magic Tower already… Ah!”

However, as she was about to enter, she collided with someone and staggered greatly.

Just before her body tilted backward and she was about to fall on her bottom.

“…Are you alright?”

A long, firm arm wrapped around Lady Isabel’s waist.

The other hand was pulling her by the wrist.

I slowly opened my mouth as I watched the two figures pressed close together.

Blazing red hair.

Vividly shining golden eyes.

‘…Theo.’

The person from the Magic Tower who had come to visit House of Abner was Theo.

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