The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 266

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I looked back and forth between Garou and Aminares, unable to do anything either way.

“There’s a limit to how much I can cover for you, Garou.”

Aminares spoke first in a cold voice.

She continued speaking while looking directly at Garou with a calm gaze.

“I trusted you and investigated, but there were no signs of an attack anywhere. Michaeliann Gorge is as safe as it has always been.”

Garou clenched his fist as if frustrated.

“You don’t understand anything, do you? Tonight, everyone in the bloodline including you will die. Our Sharon too…”

“That’s enough.”

Aminares lightly struck the table with a sharp expression.

And only after checking on Sharon sleeping on the sofa did she speak.

“The barriers I personally summoned around the gorge are all functioning without exception. Even if there is an attack, we’ll be safe.”

“What if even those barriers are useless?”

“It doesn’t matter because you and the others will protect us.”

Garou closed his mouth.

Aminares rubbed her forehead as if tired.

“I don’t want to argue with you anymore. So if you’re only going to talk nonsense, go back. The bloodline is safe.”

And then she immediately left outside without hesitation.

“Damn it…!”

Garou quietly ground his teeth.

I watched that scene quietly and then spoke.

“An attack? What are you talking about?”

Garou looked at me with troubled eyes.

His eyes clearly showed signs of despair.

He remained silent for a while before muttering briefly.

“…It’s something you don’t need to know.”

But there was no way I would give up.

“Was it also because of the attack that you told me to quickly leave the forest earlier?”

Garou’s expression darkened even more.

“Tell me. What do you mean when you say all of the Michaeliann bloodline will die?”

Silence fell between us.

Only Sharon’s regular breathing filled the stillness as she slept.

After a long while, Garou opened his mouth.

“Fine. Believe it or not… there’s nothing to fear anymore anyway.”

And then he looked at me as if letting things be.

“No matter how hard I try. No matter how desperately I struggle, this damn day won’t end.”

“…”

“I’ve already lived today dozens and dozens of times.”

“…”

“Can you believe that?”

“I don’t know exactly. I counted up to a hundred and stopped counting after that. It’s been about four months.”

After leaving the hut, I frowned at Garou’s words.

His face clearly showed signs of exhaustion.

“That day was also like any other when I went out on patrol. Fifteen people took turns going on patrol every four days, so it had been two months since I went out.”

His eyes became distant as if tracing old memories.

“It was an ordinary day. The weather was nice, and I happened to catch a bird during patrol, so I brought it to Aminares.”

The situation unfolded before my eyes.

Garou patrolling around the village, and Aminares rejoicing at seeing the bird he had caught.

“After eating dinner to our fill, I went to bed with Aminares and Sharon for the first time in a while…”

Garou’s voice grew smaller.

Soon he muttered like a groan.

“That’s when the attack began.”

My expression hardened.

Actually, from the moment the word “attack” came from Garou’s mouth, I had been suspecting something.

“When I was your age. My clan, the Michaeliann, was massacred.”

It was a story Grandmother had told me in my childhood.

“Unknown assailants came charging in and started killing people indiscriminately. All the huts burned down, and Aminares and Sharon too…”

Garou’s eyes reddened.

Grandmother’s voice was still echoing in my head.

“The clan was attacked while sleeping.”

I could feel my heart beating violently.

The story I had heard then and Garou’s words were all matching.

“I tried to save them, but everyone…”

Tendons rose on Garou’s fists.

“When those bastards left, I was barely clinging to life. So I thought everything was over. But then.”

Garou’s dark brown eyes turned toward me.

“That’s when the world stopped.”

“…What do you mean by that?”

“Exactly what I said. After that night, the day everyone was massacred, time stopped.”

Garou suddenly rolled up one of his sleeves.

Then dozens of tally marks carved on the inside of his elbow were revealed.

“I was also seriously injured and briefly lost consciousness. Around dawn, I heard Abner’s knights discovering us. But when I fully came to my senses, I was back to that morning before everything started. At first, I couldn’t understand what situation this was, but…”

“…”

“When the same attack happened again, I instinctively knew. Something was going wrong.”

Garou thrust his arm right in front of my nose as if telling me to look closely.

“I started making marks like this after that day. Marks I left on places other than my body weren’t preserved.”

Garou’s arm had countless dense tally marks carved into it.

At a glance, it looked like fifty, no, more than a hundred.

“I don’t know why this is happening. But I tried in my own way. To save Aminares and Sharon.”

I looked at him, unable to continue speaking.

“There were times when I succeeded in persuading Aminares and evacuating the bloodline. But somehow they knew and chased everyone to the end, killing them all. That time… Sharon breathed her last in my arms.”

Garou’s voice trembled finely.

“That’s not all. I also dug traps and attacked them first. But that was also useless. The enemy numbers were endless.”

“…”

“I was so exhausted that there were times I just spent the day doing nothing. When the screaming started late at night, I regretted it to the bone.”

Only then could I understand why Garou had pointed his spear at me.

“…At first, I thought you were part of the same group as those who kill my family every night.”

Garou’s muttering eyes were directed toward the floor.

“But you seemed too weak and ordinary to be an assassin, so I hesitated to kill you. Even more so after hearing you were from Abner.”

Garou raised his head to look at me.

“Abner’s knights witness the tragic situation of our village every time around dawn. Lloyd Abner, that young duke, always bursts into tears when he sees the corpses.”

“…”

“When you experience the same scene dozens of times, you naturally realize it. The Abner family is on the side trying to help us.”

This was the reason he had relaxed after hearing I was from Abner.

In the settled silence.

I slowly lowered my head.

‘So, to summarize, today is….’

It seemed to be the day when the Michaeliann Clan would be massacred by Crookiatus.

And Garou was trapped in today, continuously repeating the same time over and over.

Instinctively, one thought flashed through my mind.

The reason why the interdimensional space took this form, and why Garou was a rift.

“…I think I might know.”

Garou looked at me.

I exhaled briefly and added.

“A way to make the stopped time flow again.”

Meanwhile, in Abner Territory.

“What’s going on? Still no response?”

Rico answered Theo’s question with concern.

“No response at all. The communication function keeps going dead….”

“What about the rift coordinates?”

“It’s still right in front of Lady Lili. It seems to be continuously moving with her?”

Theo frowned as if he had a headache.

“What kind of nonsense is that.”

A rift is a rift.

It’s not like a person or an object.

But according to the coordinates, the rift was continuously moving together with Annellia.

As if Annellia was carrying the rift around with her.

“Contact her again. Ask where she is, and if she’s thinking of entering the rift, tell her to stop immediately!”

“Even if I try, the young lady won’t answer anyway. It probably won’t even be delivered properly? When you’re right next to a rift, the waves get too much interference.”

“Do it anyway. If Annellia goes in there….”

Theo knew.

What kind of place the rift was, that endlessly extending void.

“That absolutely cannot happen.”

His eyes became calm.

“So hurry up….”

It was when he was urging Rico again.

On the table.

The white dot on the magical device that was displaying Annellia’s coordinates flickered faintly.

Theo doubted his eyes and stood up from his seat.

The moment he approached the magical device, the light that had been showing Annellia’s location disappeared completely.

Theo’s eyes trembled slightly.

“Annellia.”

He whispered quietly.

“…No.”

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