The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 219

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“I’m not stupid! At least I’m much smarter than a stupid boy like you who only thinks negative and pessimistic thoughts!”

In his blurry, wavering vision, he saw a familiar illusion.

“His heart rate is too low! His body is cold too…”

“…the stimulant that was on the tray… He took it! Those are medicines that should never be mixed…”

“Move Lord Roten! Stop the bleeding first!”

The surroundings were bustling with the shouts of Abner’s maids and knights.

But even that bustle sounded muffled, as if he were underwater.

“If you weren’t born as the Crown Prince, you could never even dream of becoming Emperor? Then why are there rebellions in Eastern Continent history, and how did the 7th Emperor, who was a Grand Duke, ascend to the throne?”

But even in the midst of all this, Karin’s illusion continued to speak to Jayden.

Young Karin.

Karin who was probably ten or eleven years old.

“Beasts might live that way. Born as they are, the same way until they die. But humans, people are different.”

It was spring when flowers were in full bloom, and it was an unremarkable party.

“A negative kid like you would only be able to say that there’s something wrong with your brain! But people each have dreams, hopes, goals and such. Everyone has at least one place they want to climb to.”

To put it nicely, Karin was a spirited child, and to put it badly, she was a cheeky kid.

But that’s why the only interesting thing there was also Karin.

Karin’s clear face, her bright and clear voice.

The memories of that day were completely covered with Karin.

“I’m going to climb to a high place to show someone like you. Without settling, working hard to go higher, all the way to the top.”

Yes, that’s why I wanted you to climb.

I wanted you to become someone who climbs to a higher place, an incredibly high place, and looks down on everyone.

As you said, if everyone really has something they desperately want.

If having dreams, hopes, and goals is natural.

Even if I couldn’t achieve it, I dreamed that at least you would achieve what you wished for.

“Why…”

The moment he muttered, the illusion before his eyes scattered like mist.

In his blurry vision, a different illusion appeared this time.

“Is it you? My son that those damn humans stole!”

“They didn’t steal him. Your former wife abandoned him and Sharon Abner picked him up!”

“You’re not his kid, so shut up!”

Was this when he was around four years old?

Or perhaps when he was a little older than that.

What was certain was that it was shortly after Isabel was born.

“Come on, with me, your real father!”

The man he first saw in the forest behind the castle lifted Jayden up with his rough hands.

His strength was so great that no matter how much he struggled, he couldn’t escape from the man’s grasp.

Only then did he remember.

Roger’s words telling him never to go to the forest alone.

Father and Mother’s request to always bring guard knights because it was dangerous.

But around that time, no one paid attention to Jayden.

Whether Jayden left the main manor to play in the garden or went to the forest behind.

Everyone was busy watching newborn Isabel drinking milk.

When the baby even babbled, they were so happy and found her so cute they didn’t know what to do.

So he came to the forest alone, believing that if he disappeared for a day, everyone would search for him and worry about him.

“Hey, eat.”

“How can a child eat something like this! Really, you too.”

What the man offered to Jayden was raw meat and vegetables that weren’t even cooked.

A remote place blocked on all sides by dense forest.

Rats running between worn wooden boards and pillars.

The rats weren’t even afraid of people and came close to Jayden’s hands and feet.

“These damn rats keep coming out without dying!”

When the man threw the dagger from his waist and killed one of them, he was so scared he couldn’t even breathe.

A nightmare, that day was exactly like a nightmare.

“How much can we get from the Duke using this kid as leverage?”

“You’re really bold. But this child is technically a prince too. The kind of child people like us can’t even get close to.”

“What prince! He’s my child! I saw that woman take my child!”

“That’s why I tried to piece together the picture.”

“Picture?”

“Around that time, Sharon Abner was supposed to give birth, but there were rumors that she suddenly went into seclusion. She probably had a miscarriage.”

“The baby died in her womb?”

“That’s right. And right at that moment, she saw this child that your former wife abandoned in the forest…”

The two pairs of eyes that looked Jayden up and down were still vivid before his eyes.

If there were monsters lurking in the darkness, they would probably have eyes like those.

“…Certainly, looking at him now, he resembles his mother and has a pretty face. His hair and eye color also luckily seem to resemble those idiots from the Duke’s house.”

“Exactly. Silver hair and purple eyes, colors that don’t exist in your family, right?”

They were all incomprehensible words.

Jayden’s father was not that burly man.

His father was Duke Abner, who was physically weak but always kind and gentle.

Lloyd Abner, the father who would smile brightly and always hang on the wall the crooked writing of his name.

But why did that man keep saying he was Jayden’s father?

“Hey, no matter how hard you try. In the end, you can never become a real child even if you die.”

But the man said that.

As the sun had already set in the darkness, the face flickering under candlelight was covered with sweat and filth.

“Moreover, there’s Isabel Abner who was recently born.”

“Oh my. You even know the Princess’s name?”

“Of course I know that much! Anyway. Isabel Abner and you are different from the starting line.”

Jayden couldn’t give any answer.

He could only stare at the man with trembling eyes.

“So what I’m saying is, remember! Who the father that gave birth to you is!”

“That’s right, baby! This person is your daddy. So what should you do? You should give him money, take care of his food, and treat him well from now on, right?”

“I told you I have no intention of getting anything from this kid! I’ll negotiate cleanly with Duke Abner, and if that doesn’t work, forget it.”

“What do you mean forget it? What are you talking about?”

“Just get rid of this thing without anyone knowing and it’s over.”

“In front of the child!”

“Then you want to raise him?! It hurts my pride to send him back… Fine, the method I mentioned is the cleanest.”

That day, Jayden inflicted a large wound on one of the man’s eyes and escaped from the cottage.

At first, that wasn’t his intention.

But on the man’s body, dressed in thick clothes, gloves, and shoes as he slept, the only visible skin was his face and neck.

“Damn it, you ungrateful bastard!”

But the sharp-sensed man turned his body at the crucial moment and avoided Jayden’s sword.

And even with one side of his face deeply cut, he chased Jayden to a place far from the cottage.

“How dare you attack your father without knowing the grace of being born! Living in a good house eating only rich food, do you think you’re really a nobleman?!”

Jayden tripped over a stone, fell, and hid behind a tree, holding his breath.

The man’s voice continuously echoed through the forest shrouded in pitch-black darkness.

“Someone like you shouldn’t live comfortably! I’m suffering like this outside, and you want to live well alone?”

Jayden curled up his body while gripping the dagger, curling up more and more.

He was afraid of the sharp blade, of the blood on its tip.

But for some reason, he couldn’t let go of the sword.

No matter what he did, the sword wouldn’t fall from his hand.

The man who had been raging for a long time eventually left one final word before turning away.

“You’re nothing more than a commoner like me, and a murderer’s child at that.”

Around dawn, Roger found Jayden.

Mother, no, Sharon Abner wailed as she looked at his swollen feet and cheeks.

The maids each shed tears, and Duke Abner silently hugged Jayden tightly.

The sky he looked up at was clear and bright.

It didn’t seem like the same sky that had pressed down on him in the forest the night before.

In the end, everything remained the same.

The Abner Castle, the people too.

Jayden had disappeared for a day, but nothing had changed.

Perhaps it was natural.

He had never been anyone of significance in this place from the beginning.

This harmonious and warm place.

There was no place for him in this place where everything was perfectly arranged.

A few months later, Jayden killed the dog the Duke had been raising with the sword he brought from the cottage.

Sharon Abner couldn’t say anything, and the Duke seemed shocked.

His chest pounded and he felt disgusted.

But a few days later, this time he caught and killed a bird.

Mice, rabbits, cats.

Every time he killed small, powerless animals, it felt like his non-existent place was being created.

But then one day, this time Lloyd Abner died.

In reality, an intruder who had broken into the castle at midnight strangled Lloyd Abner to death after a struggle.

But Sharon Abner announced that Lloyd Abner had died of illness after a long battle with disease.

It was because the intruder who killed him was Jayden’s other father.

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