The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 259

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Inside the room, dark and dim with curtains drawn.

I slowly opened my eyes.

Light streaming through gaps in the curtains created thin lines on the ceiling.

Faint moisture gathered around my swollen eyelids.

‘…It’s reality again.’

Despite the warm weather, the air felt somehow desolate.

My heavy body and heart beating rapidly without rest.

The moment I woke up, the situation after the war flooded into my mind like a tide.

Right after Rikentia’s regression magic was activated.

Crookiatus’s existence was completely erased from people’s minds.

People remembered this war as a sudden massive attack by monsters.

The problem was that Tian was also completely erased from the world along with Crookiatus.

I bit my lips tightly.

I couldn’t bear it.

‘How can it make sense that no one except me remembers Tian…?’

Even the Dowager Empress and the Emperor were the same.

The Dowager Empress acted as if she had no idea who Tian was.

The Emperor was even selecting new empress candidates, worrying that he still had no heir.

At first, I tried to forcibly explain to everyone who Tian was.

Because everyone should know what had happened.

But whenever I tried to mention Tian’s name, my lips stuck together as if they wouldn’t part.

Everything related to Tian was like that.

The weapons business that young Tian had helped the Emperor handle.

My engagement and the obsidian necklace.

Even the matter of Logrio, the guard knight Tian had assigned to me.

Whenever I tried to speak about Tian, my mouth would freeze.

As if a prohibition existed, words wouldn’t come out of my throat.

The world was already precisely woven together with him erased.

I walked to the window and drew back the curtains.

Beyond the pouring light, I could see three people chatting in the garden.

“Teacher. I saw Sir Wendel again on the wedding day. He looked like a completely different person with his hair up, didn’t he?”

“Of course, he’s someone’s husband. My dear has always had a beautiful forehead.”

“What? Isn’t that too much to say in front of us who don’t even have boyfriends, let alone husbands?!”

“Oh my? Miss Miel and Miss Soya will have them soon too! Men who would just leave such pretty ladies alone are fools.”

I turned around in a daze.

Ann woke up right after Rikentia’s regression was activated.

Her heart, which had stopped, began beating again as if it had never stopped.

Of course, the child in her womb was safe too.

That wasn’t all.

Owen and Awin, Euriko.

Even Armin, who had died from serious injuries to his neck.

Everyone who had lost their breath regained their lives.

Places where fatal wounds had been were filled with new flesh without anyone knowing.

Just like how Grandmother had regained her lost left arm.

When I left the room, a quiet corridor stretched out.

I walked unsteadily, looking at the window on the left.

Cool wind was blowing through the window that servants had left open.

In the distance, I could see the lush Northern Mountains and the clear blue sky covering them.

The Duke’s Castle, which had regained its former appearance, was so peaceful in every way.

So I tried to accept it.

Because what’s past cannot be undone.

Because perhaps quickly acknowledging and adapting might be the better path.

But.

“No matter how hard I try…”

The tears I had been holding back fell drop by drop.

“It’ll be okay.”

Tian was a liar.

I wasn’t okay at all.

“I love you.”

I couldn’t move forward leaving such a voice behind in the first place.

I unconsciously clenched my fists.

“It’s a life that wouldn’t have existed without you. So I’ll use it for you.”

“…If you put it that way, so am I.”

My heart beat more fiercely than ever in my chest.

I began walking again.

‘Though there’s no magic power left in my body after destroying Crookiatus.’

There were many other things I could do besides that from the beginning.

My steps straightened and gradually quickened.

Suddenly, Tian’s voice from a few months ago echoed in my ears.

“We promise to respect each other in any situation and actively reflect each other’s opinions in decision-making.”

The marriage vows that I wrote and Tian read himself.

“…After making that promise.”

And then choosing to sacrifice himself alone so arbitrarily.

I soon began running.

I wiped under my stinging nose and wiped away the tears flowing down my cheeks.

And I muttered.

“Wait, Tian.”

Because I’ll find you somehow.

“This is fucking crazy…!”

Harsh words burst from Armin’s mouth.

He was staring intently at the cards laid on the floor with disbelieving eyes.

“Isn’t this cheating? How can you give Awin exactly the card he needs? You two are in cahoots, right?”

At those words, Owen waved his hand and closed his eyes tightly.

“What nonsense. My younger brother is just lucky.”

“For that to be true, Master has been continuously passing cards Awin needs since earlier.”

Owen made a troubled expression.

“I told you not to call me Master. Annellia keeps calling me Master, so now everyone calls me Master.”

Then he waved his cards and added.

“And speaking of which, if you put it that way, you’re also playing the game in cahoots with your brother right now.”

At those words, Dimas visibly flinched.

His pupils fixed on the cards were shaking like reeds in the wind.

Dimas stammered.

“What do you mean we conspired…?”

“You’ve been giving good cards to this prince over here since earlier. It’s supposed to be individual play, but you kept playing like it was team play, so Awin and I just went along with the mood.”

“Ah, so you’re saying I should lose ten games in a row?!”

Armin stood up from his seat and shouted.

Awin, who was sitting across from him, smiled calmly and put down his cards.

“My brother and I have been playing since we were very young, so it’ll be hard for you to win. We even won an amateur tournament at the local pub… Those were good times.”

Dimas’s eyes widened.

“What? So you professionals ganged up on us poor ordinary people.”

“No, why would you say such a thing…?”

Competitive spirit blazed fiercely around the four men.

It was the moment when fierce glares were exchanged across the table.

“Master!”

The door burst open and someone rushed into Owen’s laboratory.

Everyone’s eyes widened when they saw who it was.

“My student…?”

“What’s this? I made this place for you to study hard and contribute to the academic society.”

Annellia’s sharp gaze swept over the devastated laboratory.

Experimental tools carelessly pushed to one side of the table.

A card game occupying the empty space in the center.

The sofa with cookie crumbs scattered on it and research robes strewn across the floor.

“You’re not doing research but playing games? Gambling games at that? With a foreign prince and young siblings?”

“Ah, no, I just… the war is over and everyone has worked so hard…”

The next moment, the cards that had been laid out floated up into the air.

Annellia grabbed and pulled out the tablecloth, then took it to the window and shook it out.

“Master, I have a lot of work to do with you. So…”

When Annellia turned around, the four men gulped.

“Starting now, cleaning time.”

And they immediately began moving around frantically.

“It looks much better now that it’s clean.”

I nodded as I looked down at the sparkling table.

When I crossed my arms, I could see the four people sitting in a row on the sofa across from me.

“Armin, Dimas? Go out and call Father and Rico for me.”

“Oh, okay!”

“Awin, please contact the imperial capital and ask when Mother and Grandmother will return.”

“Got it.”

When the three people bustled out, only Owen and I remained in the laboratory.

I spoke to Owen, who was pouting.

“I want to enter the interdimensional space that forms when regression magic is activated.”

At those words, Owen’s eyes became as wide as lanterns.

Owen moved his lips for a while before asking.

“What, where do you want to enter?”

“All advanced magic creates interdimensional space the moment it’s activated. Regression magic is the same. I’m going to enter that space.”

“But why…?”

“Because there’s something I need to find in there.”

Of course, it was nearly impossible.

The interdimensional space created when activating advanced magic was like the universe.

There was no way to guess how many there were or how big they were.

‘Even if I’m lucky enough to find the right interdimensional space, that’s still a problem.’

The sizes of interdimensional spaces varied.

They could be very small, or so large that you couldn’t explore them all in a lifetime.

I had to find the exact crack where Tian was trapped within that space.

Sure enough, Owen began laughing like a crazy person, going “Ha, haha.”

Then he smiled somewhat wistfully and said.

“My student. You might as well say you’ll find my great-great-grandmother’s engagement ring that she lost on Pontus Sand Beach.”

I simply ignored Owen’s words.

Instead, I spread out the complex equations I had brought onto the now-clean table.

“Sorry, but this is harder than that.”

Then I said cheerfully.

“Well then, let’s start now!”

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