The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 220

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“Bring the Fonvite! Quickly!”

At my words, one of the maids hurriedly rushed out of the room.

Father, who had been watching, also left with a stern expression.

It seemed he was going to look for useful magical devices downstairs.

I gritted my teeth while observing Jayden’s increasingly pale complexion.

‘This is too dangerous.’

Jayden had used an enormous amount of sleeping medication and then taken a near-lethal dose of stimulants.

It seemed like an action he took to shake off the drug effects and escape from this castle.

Of course, the stimulants had done their job properly.

They had enabled Jayden, who was drowning in sleeping medication, to come out of his room.

But the problem was that wasn’t all there was to it.

“At this rate, he’ll die. I can’t use any other medications either… What should I do?”

The Nimferonen seeds that were the raw material for the sleeping medication didn’t have good compatibility with other herbs to begin with.

Among them, what had particularly bad compatibility were Kin mushroom spores, which happened to be the main ingredient of stimulants.

“…Is he dying?”

Grandmother asked beside me in a voice that seemed ready to collapse.

I kept my mouth shut.

Jayden’s body continued to convulse.

His pupil reflexes had weakened long ago, and his breathing was shallow.

When I turned my head, I saw Mother and Grandmother holding hands tightly.

I quickly shook my head.

“I’ll save him. You’ve worked so hard all this time to make him live and pay for his crimes, haven’t you, Grandmother?”

Grandmother’s shoulders trembled.

At that moment, Owen approached and muttered in a serious voice.

“He’s not regaining consciousness. It seems like he’s hallucinating because of the stimulants… If we delay even 5 more minutes, it’s over.”

The convulsions surrounding Jayden’s body had become even more severe.

A maid wiped the foam flowing from his mouth while sending an urgent look.

I took a deep breath and removed the gloves I was wearing.

“My disciple?”

Owen called me in a surprised voice.

But I approached Jayden’s bed and said firmly.

“I’m going to enter Jayden’s hallucination.”

“…What?”

“You said Jayden needs to wake up from his hallucination to survive. Then this is the only way.”

Owen urgently stopped me.

Then he quickly dragged me to a corner of the room and whispered.

“Are you crazy? That’s not a completed spell yet!”

But I was resolute.

“It’s a spell I was planning to test on a real person soon anyway. Now is the right time.”

“Just because it’s something only you can do doesn’t mean you necessarily have to do it!”

Owen frowned and grabbed my shoulders.

“Entering another person’s consciousness is dark magic. Even though you have Crookiatus’s power in your body, we haven’t properly researched what side effects might appear when you use it, so what…!”

“If you put it that way, Father has even more dark magic power in his body than I do, but he’s fine.”

“Don’t blur the point. You know best what your problem is.”

I kept my mouth shut.

“Two conflicting magical powers are balanced in your body. You saw firsthand what happens the moment that balance breaks, 7 years ago.”

Owen was right.

The moment Crookiatus tried to attack me, he was flung far away and his entire body became completely tattered.

“Let’s say external intruders can just be repelled by external force. But what if an imbalance occurs inside your body because you use dark magic?”

Owen’s voice became even lower.

“The possibility is small, but a magical explosion could occur inside your body. You could be destroyed! Because of that worthless scoundrel!”

My heart pounded thump, thump.

For the past 7 years, I had never once used the magical power I could feel intact in my body.

To be precise, I couldn’t use it.

“You troublemaker, look! You’re completely scared right now too!”

When I raised my head, I saw Owen’s worried face.

“You’re making the exact same expression you used to make when you were four, when we first met. Huh?”

“…Of course I’m scared.”

Owen’s eyes widened.

I rubbed my forehead and frowned.

“Wouldn’t you be scared, Master? This power too – I’ve only created a few spells based on theory, but I’ve never actually used this power.”

“A kid who knows that…!”

“But he’s Grandmother’s son.”

Owen closed his mouth.

“I hate Jayden too. He’s someone who tried to kill Mother and me, and he’s committed countless evil acts from childhood until now.”

“…”

“But Grandmother thinks of even such a Jayden as her child, as her son. She wants to fulfill her responsibility as a parent until the end.”

“…”

“I’ve received too much from Grandmother. So for Grandmother’s sake too, I want to make sure Jayden receives proper punishment for his crimes. If Jayden can die even a little more honorably, Grandmother will hurt less.”

Owen’s expression darkened.

I steadied my breathing.

“I promise. If anything seems strange or if side effects appear, I’ll come out immediately.”

Then I turned and approached Jayden’s bed.

Mother approached me as if sensing an ominous premonition.

“Annellia, what are you trying to do? Don’t tell me…”

“It’ll be okay, Mother. I’m your daughter, Grandmother’s granddaughter, and a Michaeliann.”

Mother closed her mouth.

Finally, Mother slowly nodded.

I concentrated all my mind and drew the spell in my head.

At the same time, I gathered the flow of magical power with my right hand and placed it on Jayden’s forehead.

Instantly, my breathing became stifled and my whole body became heavy as if submerged in water.

“Gasp.”

The moment I inhaled, my vision changed.

“Why did you do it! Why! Why-!!”

When I opened my eyes, what I saw was a familiar prison cell.

The massive prison cell located in the basement of Abner Castle.

In the middle of it, I saw two people with iron bars between them.

Inside the iron bars was a man in shabby clothes, his whole body covered in filth.

And outside the iron bars…

“What wrong did His Grace commit! Why did you kill His Grace! Why! Why on earth-!!”

Jayden, who still seemed like a young child, was crouched down bursting into screams of crying.

The man inside the iron bars approached such a Jayden with a crooked smile.

“Lloyd Abner, that damn bastard ignored me first, so that’s why.”

Jayden raised his head.

The man who threateningly shook the iron bars growled loudly.

“He forcibly bankrupted the mercenary business I was running, and took my subordinates somewhere too!”

“…”

“And after all that, what he offered was a measly 100 million Terra? If he was going to detain them, he should have detained me too, but he cunningly released only me with 100 million Terra!”

The man glared at Jayden with murderous eyes, breathing heavily.

“Lloyd Abner played with me, your father, first. Acting all noble by himself, pretending to show me some great mercy! Pretending to spare you from severe punishment for your sake!”

The man stomped his feet and banged his head against the wall repeatedly.

Then he stopped and stared at Jayden with sunken eyes.

“Come to think of it, the Duke died because of you too, didn’t he?”

Jayden’s lips trembled slightly.

“I heard all the maids whispering about it. You damaged my eyes like this a few years ago and ran away. After that, you killed the dog the Duke was raising? Then you killed cats too, and caught and killed birds. Were you going to kill people soon?”

As if he found it amusing to death, the man burst into laughter.

“It’s obvious! Where would bloodline go? Humans, you see, are all destined to live according to how they’re born. You should have died in that forest that day. Living in luxury you don’t deserve in a place where you don’t belong, this disaster was bound to happen eventually.”

Jayden’s fists trembled violently.

The man who had been quietly watching that sight continued speaking.

“It’s really strange. You’re my child, but why can’t I stand to see you happy?”

His voice was as cold as midwinter frost.

“That’s right. The parents who gave birth to you are living hard lives outside. Does it make sense for only you to live happily, huh?”

The man’s eyes gleamed.

“Even so, you’re still my son. The son of a butcher who kills people for money. So that blood can’t go anywhere, already catching and harming beasts…”

It was the moment the man reached out his hand toward Jayden.

“This is completely insane.”

I squeezed between them and grabbed the man’s wrist tightly.

And I glared at the man with angry eyes.

“No matter how much of trash you are, can’t you distinguish between what you should and shouldn’t say in front of a child?”

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