The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 228

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[This, this human body small! Greed big…!]

Hegatan shouted with wary eyes.

I cleared my throat and replied.

“Please say I have a big capacity, not big greed.”

And I quickly stared at Ricaruss.

“Crookiatus is a monster that devoured an entire island without batting an eye. Father says it might have gotten even stronger than it was 7 years ago.”

[So?]

“If I make contracts with everyone here, our combat power will be strengthened by that much, right? Then the work will definitely go much more smoothly.”

Ricaruss smiled broadly.

[That’s right. The probability of you becoming a corpse when the battle ends will also be very high.]

“What?”

Lasandra said with a stern face.

[Just as you heard.]

And without giving me a chance to stop her, she grabbed the hem of my shirt near my side and lifted it up.

I was startled and stared at Lasandra.

“What are you doing?”

[You didn’t know about this?]

Lasandra looked angry.

On my exposed side, there was a black spot about the size of a palm.

[You might have hidden it from your family, but you can’t fool my eyes.]

I stepped back and pulled my shirt down again.

Lasandra looked at me and continued speaking.

[This spot, you weren’t sure when it appeared until now, right? I’ll tell you. It appeared two months ago. When you used your magic power to enter Jayden’s hallucination.]

My mouth gradually closed.

Seeing me like that, Lasandra crossed her arms.

[You used power you couldn’t even control with that fragile human body, so of course you’d end up like this. What’s so surprising?]

I slowly blinked my eyes.

Two months ago, I only found out after escaping from Jayden’s hallucination.

The fact that my spell had drawn in everyone within the radius of Abner Castle.

‘I’m worried. Even great spells like regression magic only draw in one or two people at most, but Annellia drew in all the castle residents and even the Imperial Entourage that was nearby.’

‘Calm down, Bell. I’m looking into it, so we’ll know the reason soon.’

Mother and Father were anxious, but I was surprisingly calm.

Because there were no symptoms in my body to suggest something was wrong.

After escaping from the hallucination, I was actually more energetic than usual for a while.

I lifted my shirt again to check my side.

I could see dark red marks spread across my side, about the size of a palm.

‘This has really been here since two months ago?’

I first discovered this mark not two months ago, but three weeks ago.

When I suddenly felt pain and checked, my skin that should have been soft was a dull black color.

Since I had bumped my side against the desk corner the day before, I initially thought it was a bruise.

I thought it would naturally disappear and didn’t pay attention, so I didn’t know it had spread this much.

“I thought it was just a big bruise from bumping into the desk.”

Lasandra snorted.

[What kind of bruise doesn’t fade for two whole months? That’s purely from your inability to control your power.]

“….”

[And what? Make contracts with everyone here? You’re planning to spread the mutation throughout your whole body and die?]

I stared at Lasandra with a flustered expression.

[Annellia, being special ultimately means being different from others. It means being abnormal, being strange. Shall I use your friend Euriko, whom Lord Ulgen cherishes, as an example?]

When Lasandra stretched out her hand, Euriko’s form appeared in the air.

[She’s an ordinary human. The moment she contracts with Lord Ulgen, her body will automatically set limits. When power she can’t accept tries to enter, she’ll reject it without even being conscious of it.]

In Euriko’s form, yellow light began flowing from her heart area.

The light spread through her chest, stomach, and neck to her whole body, then stopped.

[When approaching the limit, the body sends signals first. The heart beats, breathing becomes labored. There will be pain. Then your friend will naturally stop using the power. But what about you?]

This time, my form appeared in the air.

[You were born with an enormous amount of magic power in your body. Your body is already accustomed to containing that power that rages without resting for even a second. In other words, you can’t feel the limits.]

My form was already filled with bright light throughout the entire body.

Every time the light fluctuated, the form repeatedly brightened and darkened.

[But. Imagine another power with completely different properties filling that already saturated body.]

Light of a completely different color began rippling from my form’s heart area.

The light mixed with the existing light, filling the body completely and continuing to flash without rest.

And then….

[Your body is a magical engine with a broken control device. The problem is that it happens to have good performance too.]

Soon the form scattered and disappeared with a pop.

[Even when your body is strained, even when it overheats and the core melts down, it will endlessly pump out power, right? Just like last time when you couldn’t control your power and drew everyone into the hallucination. What do you think will happen then?]

Lasandra glanced at my side.

[Later, your whole body might harden. Eventually, even your heart.]

Silence followed.

I only opened my lips after organizing my thoughts for a while.

“Then I can’t make contracts. Especially not with powerful gods.”

Lasandra frowned.

[I told you that you might die, and that’s all your reaction?]

“I won’t die, so it’s fine. And I need to stay calm at times like this.”

I took advantage of Lasandra’s stunned silence to add.

“But giving up abilities that could cause disasters seems like too much of a loss in the long run.”

[Then what are you going to do? You can’t make contracts with Lord Ricaruss, Lord Hegatan, or Lord Ulgen anyway.]

“‘I’ can’t do it.”

[What?]

“Other people can do it, can’t they?”

“Waaaaah-! You’re awake!”

Tian turned his head with a start.

Near Annellia’s bed, Rico was making a racket.

Tian slowly got up from his seat and approached Annellia’s bedside.

Seeing him, Theo moved aside slightly.

“Lady Lili, I was so worried!”

Rico shouted with drooping eyes.

“You were unconscious for a whole 20 minutes! 20 minutes!”

“Rico, you’re loud. And move back a bit.”

At Theo’s words, Rico cleared his throat and stepped back.

Soon Annellia’s face came into view, staring at the ceiling with bright, clear eyes.

Her large eyes blinked a few times, then her brilliant pupils rolled around.

Her eyes wandered around the bed area as if looking for someone, then stopped at one spot.

“Tian.”

Tian flinched at hearing his name from Annellia’s lips.

However, he soon nodded.

“Yeah.”

“Do you remember 7 years ago? When I promised I’d let you go cleanly when it came time to break off the engagement.”

Tian’s brow furrowed.

Talking about breaking off the engagement the moment I wake up.

Of course, I had no intention of obediently breaking off the engagement, but I nodded for now.

One of the things the Dowager Empress had said until her mouth was dry was ‘when Annellia is speaking, never interrupt and listen to the end.’

“Sorry, but I’ve changed my mind a bit.”

However, at the words that followed, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes.

Changing her mind meant she wouldn’t break off the engagement?

Did she mean to maintain their engagement and even get married?

Tian asked, feeling his heart begin to pound.

“You’ve changed your mind. What do you….”

“I don’t think I can break off the engagement nicely after all. I want alimony.”

Immediately, everyone’s attention was focused on her.

Annellia demanding alimony the moment she woke up.

The sight of Tian standing demurely beside her, listening to her words to the end, was definitely strange somehow.

“…Alimony?”

“Yeah. Of course, it’s true that we had a formal engagement. But all this time, whenever there were events at the Imperial Palace, I accompanied you as your fiancée, didn’t I?”

“Mm, you did.”

“But what’s important here is that I’m not just an ordinary fiancée. I’m a duchess of the Abner Family and president of the Academic Society, director of the continent’s largest research institute, and recently I’m even among the Four Great Capitalists of the Empire. Honestly, I’m incredibly beautiful too.”

“Right. You’re truly amazing and beautiful.”

“So honestly, I think I’m a bit more high-spec than you. I’m too good for you. What do you think?”

Theo coughed, as if something went down the wrong way.

Isabel began watching Tian’s reaction while forcing a smile.

“W-why is our daughter suddenly acting like this toward Crown Prince…?”

“No, but it’s true. There have been benefits gained from having someone as outstanding and perfect as me as your fiancée all this time, so we should receive something too.”

Isabel, left speechless, closed her mouth.

That was because it was the Abner Family who had first proposed the contract marriage.

But before she could respond, Annellia continued with her final words.

“I won’t ask for anything big. For my sake, just risk your life cleanly, just once.”

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