The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 205

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“Ha, really, this kind and pretty disciple of mine, Annellia. Complete the ritual altar? This is going to cause trouble again, definitely going to cause trouble.”

Owen muttered to himself as he quickened his pace.

A group of students walking from the opposite direction spotted him and bowed their heads respectfully.

“Professor, good morning!”

“Oh. Yes, yes.”

Owen casually waved his hand.

The students’ eyes sparkled with curiosity as they stopped in front of Owen.

“Where are you going so early in the morning? Is there anything we can help with…?”

“I’m going to the Academic Society President’s research room right now.”

At those words, the students’ faces turned pale.

“Oh, uh, no, we’re fine!”

The students immediately turned around and hurried away as if fleeing.

Owen watched their retreating figures with his arms crossed.

“How much must she work those kids in the research room for them to react like that. Poor things. I should tell her to go easier on them from now on.”

He began crossing the corridor quickly again.

The full scent of spring wafted through the windows along the left wall.

Owen found himself humming as he looked around.

The spacious corridor, the floor decorated with marble.

Even the gorgeous and expensive decorations hanging on the walls.

“When you have too much money, there’s nowhere to spend it. Now all that’s left is to gild the ceiling.”

“Oh? Brother Owen!”

Just then, someone who came around the corner from the opposite direction saw Owen and widened their eyes.

Owen made an “oh” sound and waved his hand.

“Rico. I’m going to Annellia’s research room. What are you doing? Didn’t you sleep?”

Rico drooped his shoulders as if to say don’t even ask.

Then he spoke in a voice worn down by fatigue.

“I was grading exam papers all night.”

“Oh my, this is…”

“What do you mean ‘this is’?! I just finished grading all the exam papers from the students you supervise too!”

Owen shrugged his shoulders.

“Hey, Rico. I’m a senior professor and vice president of the Academic Society. You’re just a professor. So what should we do?”

“Ugh…”

“In a clear hierarchical relationship like ours, the one below does what they’re told to do, man. Go get some sleep.”

“I’m going to report you!”

Owen patted Rico’s back.

“Sure~ Go ahead and report me~”

“Really, I’m really going to do it!!”

As Owen passed by, Rico’s desperate cry could be heard from behind.

“I will! I really will! You tyrant!”

However, Owen was unfazed by the resentful curse and turned the corner.

Below the stairs, a large, tightly closed door finally came into view.

Owen hummed as he skipped down the stairs two steps at a time.

When he opened the research room door, he saw a profile deeply focused on something.

“I’m here~”

“Master! Hurry and come sit here.”

Annellia waved her hand frantically at Owen as if telling him to come quickly.

Owen approached with a big smile and sat next to Annellia.

On top of the massive wooden experiment table.

Indeed, there was a flat stone with dozens of complex magic formulas carved into it.

“The design is finished with this. If we take it to the celestial coordinates, there should be a 99.9% chance of reaching the divine realm.”

“Then we should take it first and check if it works.”

“Still, just in case, I’m doing a final review. You remember that circuit that got blocked for no reason last time, right?”

“I remember. It was so tangled that both of us were frustrated for half a day.”

“Exactly! But yesterday I had a feeling, so I stayed up all night, and at dawn it just clicked! All because of one tiny spell difference!”

Annellia, who was extremely excited, proudly stroked the stone plate.

Her eyes, which had changed to a distinct purple color as she grew, sparkled brightly.

Owen ruffled Annellia’s hair roughly.

“But my disciple. Did this master tell you to make sure to sleep on time, or not?”

Annellia closed her mouth.

Then she narrowed her eyes and grumbled sullenly.

“If a scholar sleeps all they should, when would they study and when would they research?”

“During the day, right? If you keep not sleeping, you’ll die suddenly, man. Haven’t you read your mother’s papers?”

“I quit the pharmaceutical side. I’m too busy just studying magic, so stop saying weird things.”

Owen shook his head and leaned back in his chair.

“Disciple, you’re really making me want to report everything to everyone so you’ll come to your senses.”

Annellia froze for a moment.

Owen continued speaking.

“Your grandmother, the Duke and Duchess, the Magic Studies department head – there are quite a lot of people to tell. You know that, right?”

“Just try telling Grandmother and Mom and Dad! You mean master!”

“The mean one is you, my disciple.”

Annellia frowned.

“What’s mean about me?”

“I met some students on the way here. When I said I was going to your research room, their faces turned blue and they ran away.”

Annellia made an “ah” sound.

“That’s because I gave them a good scolding a few days ago.”

“What happened?”

“Several of them were practically copying high-scoring students’ reports! How does it make sense to use such sneaky methods when they came to the research institute to study?”

Owen listened quietly and nodded.

“So?”

“I told them if they keep violating research ethics like this, I’ll expel them immediately. And I really will.”

Owen, who had been thinking, casually asked.

“I guess your grading standards were so impossible that they thought it was better to just copy the top student’s work.”

“Huh? What’s impossible about my grading standards?”

“You don’t know? Ever since our Academic Society started accepting students, you’ve become quite notorious.”

“…Me?”

“Yes, man. You’ve been like this since you were young. You can’t think everyone will be like you, you know? There are things that ordinary people can’t understand or memorize no matter what.”

Annellia frowned with an unconvinced expression.

“…Did I really do that?”

“You did, man! What they did was a big mistake violating research ethics, but you should understand their feelings too. From their perspective, whether they get expelled for bad grades or for copying, it’s the same thing.”

Annellia, who had been keeping her mouth tightly shut, stood up from her seat.

“I don’t know. Master, leave now.”

Owen’s eyes widened.

“You’re telling me to leave already?”

Annellia pointed to the stone plate.

“You’ve seen everything. Our business is finished, isn’t it?”

“What, I came after a long time, let’s chat a bit more…”

“Annellia.”

At that moment, the research room door opened.

Seeing the person who entered, Owen stood up from his seat.

He glanced at Annellia with a bewildered expression, then bowed his waist respectfully.

“…I greet Your Highness the Crown Prince.”

Instead of responding, Tian smiled and walked past Owen to approach Annellia.

“Did you get some sleep?”

Annellia pouted and shook her head.

“No, I couldn’t sleep. Did you get some sleep, Tian?”

Tian also smiled softly and shook his head.

“I couldn’t sleep either.”

Owen watched the two who had begun chatting quietly, then shuddered.

He rubbed his arms and left the research room.

“…What a heartless student.”

Strictly speaking, Annellia was no longer his student.

But Owen continued to call her that.

“She wasn’t like this until she was about ten, but can a person change so much in seven years!”

Grumbling as he left the building, he saw the garden bustling with activity from early morning.

Researchers and students who had left the dormitory early in the morning were crossing under the trees.

“Wow, what beautiful weather.”

Many things had happened in Abner over the past seven years.

Owen had resigned from his position as co-president of the academic society right after Annellia got engaged.

After all, everything from the society’s inception to its operation had been planned and executed by Annellia.

Nevertheless, Annellia seemed concerned and appointed Owen as vice president.

And four years ago, she even had him serve as the chief professor of the newly established Institute of Institutional Studies.

There were several other professors besides him, all of them distinguished scholars.

Mage scholars from the Magic Tower, Rico, and even Theo.

Through the efforts of various talents, the research institute had achieved remarkable growth in just four years.

Recently, rumors had spread that it was an academic institution several times more impressive than the Imperial Palace Pharmaceutical Academy.

“I don’t know~ I should go tease Rico.”

Owen, who had been walking slowly, suddenly stopped.

Something had suddenly occurred to him.

“Wait. The fact that the ritual altar is almost complete means…”

Owen’s expression became quite serious.

He stroked his chin and muttered.

“It’s about time to send Empress Karin away too.”

Soon after, Owen quickly walked off somewhere.

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