The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 191

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[So that’s why.]

A chilling voice echoed.

[You don’t know to fear death.]

I asked back calmly.

“Can you actually kill me, mister?”

Crookiatus’s thin lips twitched.

[You ask the obvious. A life like yours can be snuffed out in an instant.]

“That’s a lie.”

I continued speaking.

“You can’t do it. You’re afraid of the Michaeliann. Because you lost to Lady Lasandra before.”

Undisguised rage flashed in his yellow pupils.

[…How insolent. You’d better be careful unless you want your mouth torn apart.]

“You’re the one who should be careful. You have nowhere left to fall, so why do you keep doing reckless things?”

[What…?]

I stared intently at Crookiatus.

“You can’t kill me. You don’t even know who I am.”

At those words, Crookiatus narrowed his brow.

After a long moment, he muttered lowly.

[…Michaeliann.]

Then he repeated it as if he couldn’t believe it.

[You, you’re a Michaeliann.]

I nodded.

“That’s right. I’m ten years old.”

Crookiatus’s breathing instantly became rough.

As if he finally understood why he had lost his power for no reason ten years ago.

I pretended to look at Crookiatus while checking Lady Isabel’s condition.

Lady Isabel was still trapped in the black smoke.

Crookiatus’s hand glinted like a blade right in front of her neck.

[Yes, now I can see it.]

Crookiatus said.

[That detestable hair, those eyes… even the way you constantly spout insolent words.]

The smoke wrapped around Lady Isabel’s body momentarily loosened.

It meant Crookiatus’s attention was gradually focusing on me.

However.

[Teodor, even this damned Michaeliann kept denying it to the end!]

The next moment, the black smoke bound Lady Isabel even more tightly.

“Isabel-!!”

Grandmother screamed from afar.

[Because this woman bore a child, all the power I had painstakingly gathered disappeared! Because of you, how much I-!]

“Then you shouldn’t have lost to Lady Lasandra in the first place!”

As I shouted, Crookiatus stiffened.

He stared at me as if he couldn’t believe it.

[What did you say?]

I glared at him and continued speaking.

“That’s why you get betrayed, you idiot.”

Crookiatus drew in a sharp breath.

Soon his enraged voice shook heaven and earth.

[Shut up!]

Crookiatus’s skin was pulsating grotesquely.

Black veins bulged upward and writhed, and more scales than before sprouted on his hideous face.

I swallowed nervously.

‘…I’m certain.’

Crookiatus was increasingly unable to maintain his human form as time passed.

More precisely, the more emotionally agitated he became, the less he seemed able to control his power.

I continued speaking while watching more smoke begin to rise from his body.

“I met the Divine Dragons. Those Divine Dragons who banished you to the Underworld.”

When Crookiatus hesitated, I smiled triumphantly.

“They were all really magnificent. Strong enough to make me think immediately, ‘So this is what true strength looks like.'”

Crookiatus’s face slowly contorted.

His trembling jaw was clearly visible, but the black smoke wrapped around Lady Isabel remained unchanged.

“Mister. Were you a bit lacking compared to the other gods when you were in the Heavenly Realm?”

[How dare-!]

“Otherwise, why were you kicked out?”

Crookiatus ground his teeth.

[Originally, I was the strongest among them! But when they attacked me all at once while I was off guard….]

“Exactly. Whatever the process, you were still driven out. After that, you even lost to a human.”

[I told you to shut up-!!!]

A ringing sound echoed in my ears.

I squeezed my eyes shut, but even while gasping for breath, I continued speaking.

“It must have been miserable hiding like a bug all this time, right? You were so angry and resentful you couldn’t stand it, right? You were once a god, but now you’re pushed down to the Human Realm, in an underground place where not even a ray of light reaches…”

Crookiatus’s pupils, which had been convulsing, blazed bright as the sun.

His nose, exhaling rough breaths, was gradually changing into a form that wasn’t human.

I smiled wickedly.

“It must have felt good when you painstakingly, barely managed to gather power. You must have been happy when you massacred the Michaeliann Clan for revenge. But what can you do? We’re still alive and well like this.”

Now Crookiatus was no longer in human form.

Grotesque eyes trembling violently, skin dripping with black fluid.

‘Just a little more. Just a little more and it’ll work.’

I took a step forward.

“But do you know what’s even more interesting?”

One step, then another step.

With exactly five steps remaining between Crookiatus and me, I said.

“Lady Lasandra is in the Heavenly Realm.”

The hot breath spraying over my face suddenly stopped.

As if he couldn’t believe it, Crookiatus’s pupils slowly dilated.

“The position you were expelled from. The position you can never return to again.”

I slowly shrugged my shoulders.

“It’s become Lady Lasandra’s position.”

Kyaaaaaaak-!!!

Simultaneously, heat so intense it could melt everything blasted toward me.

Crookiatus was roaring fiercely with his teeth bared.

It was at that moment that Lady Isabel was freed from the black smoke.

The scene that followed flowed very slowly.

“Isabel!”

As her light body began to fall, Theo shot forward like a bullet.

And he caught Lady Isabel just barely in time.

Crookiatus, with his head raised high in the air, rushed toward me.

I could see the sharp, densely packed teeth inside his gaping enormous maw.

“Wendel-!!”

I heard Grandmother’s desperate cry, but I knew.

The fact that there was nothing Wendel could do.

‘Uncle Wendel….’

I had been too scared to look back until now, but Wendel must have lost consciousness long ago.

From the moment I started provoking Crookiatus, this space had been filling with corrupted magic power.

It was at a level that no ordinary human could ever endure.

I clenched my lips and raised my head.

I saw Crookiatus rushing toward my neck again.

An enormous amount of rippling dark magic power struck my body like fierce wind.

The moment I squeezed my eyes shut.

BOOOOOOM-!

A sudden roar shook the ground.

I collapsed from the tremendous impact and urgently raised my head.

I saw the surroundings filled with smoke settling in my hazy vision.

The shattered floor.

The cracked and split walls.

And in the distance, something buried among large debris.

“Hah…!”

I covered my mouth with my hands from the overwhelming emotion.

It was definitely Crookiatus.

With half his body melted away, Crookiatus was letting out painful groans.

At that moment, someone burst out from the smoke on the right side.

“Annellia!”

When I looked up, there was Theo covered in dust all over his body.

Carrying the unconscious Lady Isabel on his back.

“You, you, what on earth did you…!”

Theo frantically touched my cheeks as if checking whether I was okay.

I stared blankly at Theo like that, then opened my trembling lips.

“Explosion… It’s an explosion.”

“What…?”

“I can kill him! I can kill Crookiatus with this!”

At first, it was an uncertain hypothesis.

A plan I had never told anyone about, keeping it only as a small hope.

Everything happened right after I regained consciousness.

More precisely, after I had made a big fuss with Rico.

I suddenly noticed that something was writhing inside my body.

“Honey! I figured it out!”

“There’s a vessel of magic power in the Michaeliann bodies!”

I recalled the words Lady Isabel had said in the scene Lasandra had shown me before long.

The vessel of magic power that continuously springs forth, remaining only in the Michaeliann Bloodline.

For some reason, the vessel I possessed must have opened when I went to the Heavenly Realm.

“Master. Do you have any magic tools right now?”

“Why is this kid being so scary right after regaining consciousness… Of course I have some.”

I immediately got a simple magic tool from Owen.

And,

“…You, what was that just now?”

“M, Master.”

“I’m asking how you just did that. No, how on earth!”

I succeeded in operating the magic tool without a magic stone.

Using the magic power that naturally springs from near my heart.

But the problem didn’t end there.

“This is incredible. No matter how I look at it, this….”

“It’s strange, right? I’m not the only one who thinks so, right?”

“Right. I’ve never seen anything like this. This shouldn’t be able to exist in the first place.”

The pure magic power that originally existed in the Human Realm.

The corrupted dark magic power created by Crookiatus.

According to our research, until now these two had been forces that could never coexist.

But that was no longer the case.

Inside me, these two forces existed simultaneously.

I could feel them fiercely colliding within my body every moment.

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