The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 218

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Karin blankly reflected on the story that Etian’s adjutant had told her.

“Your Highness, it seems… His Excellency Etian has completely turned his back on Your Highness.”

Come to think of it, it had always been like this.

Was it because she had coveted what she shouldn’t have, as Jayden Abner had said?

Threats had always struck Karin from places she never expected.

She had always wondered if there could be such misfortune, such unhappiness.

“You, cough… How dare you, hic…”

Karin looked down at Etian.

Etian’s eyes, which had always been full of vigor, were now bloodshot with fierce red veins.

“I once thought about it briefly, Uncle.”

Etian wheezed and breathed unsteadily.

Blood seeping through his fingers soaked the front of his clothes thoroughly.

“Back then. What would have happened if I hadn’t reported Mother and Father?”

“Huk, doc… please…”

“If that had happened, would it have been you instead of my parents whose head was cut off in the first floor courtyard?”

“Doc, cough, doctor…”

“If that had happened, would Father really have become a duke, and I a duchess? Would I have become empress as Mother said?”

Etian’s body swayed greatly.

As if he had no strength left to continue speaking, he collapsed while clutching his neck.

Only his two eyes from his sideways-lying face stared piercingly at Karin.

Karin crouched down on the floor.

And she met Etian’s eyes through the iron bars.

“Back then, Father’s eyes and Mother’s face looked exactly like this.”

“Groan…”

“That’s when I knew for certain. That human life is truly fragile.”

Karin reached her hand through the iron bars and swept Etian’s hair to one side.

“Uncle. This is how people are. Plans we thought were perfect always have gaps, and people we trusted always betray us.”

“…Hic. Cough.”

“Maybe it’s because humans are as cruel as they are fragile. Just like you, Uncle.”

Etian’s eyelashes trembled.

Karin firmly grasped Etian’s hand.

“Why did you abandon me?”

“…”

“Did you think you’d survive by abandoning me, by throwing only me into the gutter?”

She brought Etian’s hand, which had been clutching his neck, toward herself.

More blood began to flow from the wound that had been weakly stanched.

“If it had been the vassals. If even the adjutant who informed me of your betrayal had made such a decision, I would have understood. I really wouldn’t have gone this far…”

A weak smile appeared on Karin’s lips.

“But because it was you, Uncle. Because it was you who knew how desperately I had lived until now, I had no choice but to do this.”

Karin pulled out the scale embedded in Etian’s neck in one swift motion.

Etian’s body flinched and trembled.

Karin looked down at the blood-stained scale and muttered.

“The scale never worked.”

Etian’s eyelids blinked slowly.

His fierce breathing was gradually stopping.

As Karin stood up, the scale that fell from her hand rolled into the pool of blood.

A calm voice echoed over Etian, whose breathing had completely stopped.

“Farewell, Uncle.”

“What? Duke Hunt is dead?”

A long vertical wrinkle formed between Alexandra’s brows.

The Imperial Palace knight commander bowed his head with a troubled expression.

“When we went to the prison cell early this morning, he was collapsed in front of the iron bars.”

“The cause of death.”

“It appears Karin Hunt attacked him.”

A short hollow laugh escaped from Alexandra’s mouth.

She immediately asked sternly.

“What is Karin doing now?”

“She hasn’t touched the food or water. She keeps asking to meet Prince Abner…”

Prince Abner, Jayden Abner.

Adrian’s biological father and a great traitor who conspired rebellion with Karin.

“Your Majesty. What will you do?”

Alexandra fell into thought for a moment.

She had long intuited that Adrian’s biological father was Jayden Abner.

Right after the baby was born, Sharon had confessed the entire truth to Alexandra.

That day, Sharon knelt before Alexandra for the first time.

“Until the day Karin’s crimes are exposed, please allow me to control Jayden Abner with my own hands.”

Jayden Abner at that time was also a headache for Alexandra.

So Alexandra entrusted Sharon with handling Jayden Abner.

Sharon cleverly fabricated Jayden Abner’s false whereabouts.

She publicly announced within the Empire that Jayden Abner had been sent as the chief supervisor of weapon management being delivered to the Eastern Continent.

Karin, who was being watched from the Imperial Palace, seemed to firmly believe that fact.

According to the confidants planted in the Empress Palace, Karin had been steadily exchanging letters with Jayden Abner.

‘Though those probably weren’t letters actually written by Jayden Abner.’

The Dowager Empress finally raised her head.

“I’m taking Karin to Abner Territory.”

The knight’s eyes widened.

“Do you intend not to transport her to the Imperial Capital?”

“No. I will transport her to the Imperial Capital, expose all her crimes, and make her pay for her sins before the Empire’s citizens.”

“Then…”

“Before that, I have business to settle with Sharon.”

The knight bowed deeply at the waist.

However, just as he was about to leave the room, Alexandra added.

“Oh, and summon Adrian to Abner Territory as well.”

The Empire’s Second Prince, born between Jayden Abner and Karin.

The knots Alexandra needed to tie up included that child as well.

At the same time, in the West Wing of Abner Manor.

“He-help! Someone help!”

The terrified maid’s voice echoed through the West Wing.

Soon, the knights who had been on standby rushed toward where the screaming had come from.

However, before they could approach, Jayden’s Room burst open as if it would break.

“He-he-help me! Please!”

The knights who were about to enter retreated backward.

“Get back-!!”

Jayden Abner, shouting at the top of his lungs, was holding sharp scissors to a maid’s neck.

At the end of the day that pressed close against their skin, the maid’s screams grew louder.

Behind the knights, the head maid who had been watching the situation turned the corner with a hardened face.

After pressing the button on the communication magical device she carried, she asked the maid beside her.

“What on earth happened?”

“The, the sleeping potion didn’t seem to work.”

“The sleeping potion didn’t work!”

“We, we went in feeling reassured since it wasn’t time for him to wake up yet, but all the ropes that bound his body to the bed were cut…”

“What about the knight who was guarding inside?”

“One, one of them was stabbed in the stomach…”

The moment the head maid’s complexion darkened.

“What’s going on?”

Someone came running up hurriedly from downstairs.

It was Theo and Annellia, who had been inspecting magical devices on the first floor.

As soon as Annellia encountered the head maid, she asked with a hardened face.

“What happened? What’s going on?”

The head maid explained quickly in a calm voice.

“The Prince has stolen medical scissors and is causing a disturbance. Lord Roten was stabbed in the abdomen, and one of the recently arrived young children is being held captive.”

As soon as Annellia heard those words, she turned the corner.

Naturally, Theo followed behind her.

Soon, Jayden’s angry voice echoed throughout the entire corridor.

“I told you all to get lost, so why are more of you crowding in-!!”

He stared at Annellia with wavering eyes and pressed the blade hard against the maid’s neck.

Seeing red blood beading on the tender skin, Annellia spoke in a low voice.

“…Put that down.”

Jayden’s pupils dilated slightly.

He soon burst into mockery and straightened his posture.

“Put it down? Put it, down?”

“Moving around like that when the drug hasn’t completely worn off is suicidal. It puts strain on your heart.”

Jayden flinched and stared at his own hand.

Just as Annellia said, his hand was trembling noticeably.

“Let the maid go and put down the scissors. Then I’ll treat you.”

Annellia’s face was cold.

Eventually, angry sarcasm flowed from Jayden’s mouth.

“Do you know that another guy is dying in my room, our brilliant niece?”

He glared at Annellia while waving the scissors.

“I didn’t play with that guy using this kind of toy. I played with him using the real sword he was carrying. I tore open his stomach completely, so he’s probably almost dead by now.”

“…”

“Still want to treat me? Huh?”

But Annellia maintained her silence before quietly answering.

“Stop it since I know you’re lying.”

“…What?”

“It doesn’t make sense that you’d throw away a real sword you obtained and switch weapons to scissors. Most importantly, stop destroying yourself.”

Jayden’s eyes widened.

Soon, his hand gripping the scissors began to tremble violently.

“What do you, what do you know…!”

“Empress Karin is coming.”

However, his trembling stopped abruptly at those words.

“And your young son is also coming here right now.”

“…”

“So stop it.”

The scissors fell from Jayden’s hand with a clanging sound.

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