The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 20

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“I can’t believe it. I really don’t know what I just witnessed.”

Inside the room after sending Annellia away.

Wendel spoke with a slightly excited voice.

Sharon Abner stared at the paper the child had left behind with a somewhat dazed expression.

Magic studies was originally a burdensome field of learning where just memorizing the symbols and formulas used was overwhelming.

Moreover, since the symbols changed according to the format in which the formulas were developed, it couldn’t be easily learned or taught.

A hollow laugh escaped.

As Wendel said, this didn’t make sense.

“Right. Even Isabel wasn’t this good.”

His daughter Isabel had been very interested in magic studies.

She had learned the symbols used in magical formulas early and showed interest from a young age.

When asked how a child who had never learned could accomplish everything, Isabel would answer like this:

‘I just see it. It’s easy?’

Sharon Abner looked at the closed door and thought.

‘Does that little one also just see it?’

Just as Isabel had been born with her unique cleverness and intelligence.

Sharon Abner couldn’t take his eyes off the door for a long time.

Then he headed to the office where Camilla would be waiting.

This was what had happened during the 30 minutes before she met Camilla.

‘What’s going on here?’

Camilla blinked incessantly with a pale face.

Sharon Abner’s gaze was that sharp.

“The heir of the Abner family. Coming from House of Coel.”

She had been caught red-handed badmouthing Sharon Abner in the reception room of Abner Manor.

Her plan to push her daughter Ruby as Abner’s heir had also been completely exposed.

At this point, she had no choice but to admit that she had been reckless.

“Br-brother. That’s not what I meant…”

“On my way here, I heard some absurd things. Your daughter apparently hit the child I’m caring for and her maid.”

“That’s not true!”

Ruby also stepped forward with an aggrieved expression.

“It’s true, Your Grace, that commoner was rude to me first! I was so upset!”

However, Sharon Abner looked down at her with an expressionless face.

Camilla quickly stepped between them.

“Brother, would our Ruby do such a thing? It was all out of a desire to correct the wrongs of a misbehaving servant…”

“Who exactly is correcting whose wrongs now.”

At his ice-cold voice, Camilla shut her mouth.

“I’ve let you do whatever you wanted until now. Because I considered you a benefactor. But now you’re trying to climb right over my head.”

“Brother, I really didn’t mean that…!”

“Shut up.”

Camilla immediately closed her mouth.

Sharon Abner glared at her and said.

“I never gave you permission to call me brother.”

“…”

“Nor did I give you permission to open your mouth.”

Camilla’s complexion had now turned completely white.

“An old man with no blood relatives to pass things on to?”

Camilla answered desperately with tears in her eyes.

“Br-brother. No, Your Grace. That’s not it. It was a childish slip of the tongue. I was just worried about the Abner family’s succession…”

“Be grateful your tongue is still attached. Get out of my house immediately.”

Sharon Abner, having made his point clear, turned away from her without hesitation.

Then he added.

“Our contract is also void. If you want to hold me accountable, I’ll hold you accountable too.”

“…!”

“For your crime of trying to insult a ducal house.”

Walking frantically through Abner Garden, Camilla anxiously bit her nails.

“M-mother. Can’t you walk a little slower? My legs hurt…”

Ruby whined, but there was no time to pay attention to the child right now.

She quickly climbed into the carriage and asked.

“My husband. Where is my husband?”

The servant looked at her as if wondering what was wrong.

“If you mean the Marquis, he’s in the study at the residence.”

“Go straight there.”

Camilla stared out the window with trembling hands.

Sharon Abner’s parting words were particularly weighing down on her entire body.

Camilla had chased after Sharon Abner as he turned away, grabbing onto his trouser leg and clinging to him.

“Please just tell me the reason why you’re suddenly canceling the contract! Please?”

The reason for canceling the contract.

She absolutely had to know that much.

“Because I plan to suspend mining for a while.”

“What?!”

But the answer she heard was absurd.

Although it was said that mine profits had decreased due to contamination, she was still buying a lot of Abner’s magic stones.

And that money was no small amount.

Even stopping mining for just one month would certainly cause damage.

But suspending mining?

Camilla doubted her ears, but was even more shocked by what followed.

“After that, I’ll reinvestigate the contaminated mines.”

“C-contamination reinvestigation?”

This was something that hadn’t happened in nearly 10 years, and shouldn’t happen.

“Why so suddenly…”

“I just thought I should try it.”

“But the ducal house doesn’t have the ability to reinvestigate contamination…”

Don’t you lack the technology.

That’s why a few years ago, she and House of Coel’s inspectors had undertaken the mine investigation.

And thus, finally.

With the lie that perfectly fine magic stones were contaminated, she had been able to keep Sharon Abner’s financial lifeline tied to herself!

“When I’m canceling contracts between houses, do I really need to report such trivial matters to you.”

“….”

“I won’t say it twice. Get out of my house, right now.”

And so she was driven out.

Without even being able to fully grasp how things were unfolding.

‘Who was the Abner retainer in charge of overseeing the refinery?’

From what she remembered, it was some greedy old man.

That’s why bribing him had been easier.

‘Should I bribe him again this time? But how?’

If everything came to light.

If it was revealed that the mine contamination report was a complete fabrication she had concocted.

Camilla bit her lips tightly and held her breath.

For whatever reason, Abner must have gained something to rely on.

So she too had to prepare somehow, immediately.

A week had passed since the day Camilla came.

“…I’m screwed.”

I set down the notebook I had been clutching onto the floor with a thud.

The paper was messily tangled with refinement formulas for magic stones and various equations.

‘I made such bold claims!’

Saying the refinement formula was easy, that I could complete it quickly.

I had spoken as if I could produce a new refinement formula immediately.

But making those words meaningless, I bit my nails while staring at the equation that had abruptly cut off in the middle.

‘If I make this, the picture would turn out way too strange…?’

It’s true that refinement formulas are easy.

It’s also true that modifying equations starts from very trivial ideas.

‘But that wasn’t the problem.’

In my previous life, I had accomplished everything alone, so I didn’t particularly need to worry about others’ opinions.

But now the situation was different.

Once a refinement formula was created, a special solution would be produced based on it.

Processing raw stones with this special solution was what the refinery did.

“Right. I can handle the formula development myself.”

However, completing the solution based on that.

In other words, creating the actual reagents based on the formula.

“I can’t do this part.”

In the large full-length mirror leaning against one side of the wall was a little kid wearing loose pajamas with disheveled hair.

‘If I do that with this body, I’ll definitely be suspected of being a dark mage! Absolutely!’

It was the moment I was lost in thought.

For some reason, bustling sounds came from outside the window.

I tilted my head and hopped up onto the bed.

Squinting my eyes, I could see someone arguing with the guards right in front of the main manor.

“Just for a moment! I said just for a very brief moment!!”

“Oh for crying out loud, why is a respectable person like you acting this way! I told you that you need to make an appointment in advance to see His Grace the Duke!”

“There’s no time for all that! Ha, don’t you guys know who I am?!”

“No, even if you’re a viscount, it’s difficult! Good grief!”

I slightly frowned while watching the man blocked by the guards and causing a commotion.

Brown curly hair fluttering about.

A handsome face giving off a cool impression, and glasses perched on his nose.

“If my younger sibling dies because of this! Will you guys take responsibility? Huh?!”

A thick bundle of parchment fell with a thud from the hands of the man who had been struggling while held back by the guards.

Seeing that, I immediately widened my eyes.

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