The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 271

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The Celestial Realm.

[Rikentia, and Lasandra.]

Twelve chairs were placed upon the vast expanse of crystal space.

The one seated at the head slowly opened his eyes.

[I could understand you arbitrarily annihilating one who was once an absolute being.]

Primus, one of the twelve divine dragons and the very first god, spoke.

[The broken causality could simply be filled with rifts. But isn’t this different from our promise?]

Soon, pitch-black void spread beneath their feet.

[Annellia Abner destroyed the rift and causality has become tangled again. Causality is the rule itself. How will you resolve this?]

[Don’t make crude excuses, Primus!]

At that moment, Ulgen stepped forward.

[Since when have we followed rules? For tens of thousands of years, we haven’t even cared what each other was doing!]

Primus let out a small snort.

[Ulgen. Have you forgotten why rules are rules?]

[Where does this bastard get off preaching…!]

[Calm yourself, Ulgen.]

Ricaruss stepped forward in Ulgen’s place.

He looked at Primus with quiet eyes.

[Primus. I thought you had no interest in human affairs.]

[That was when humans were insignificant beings.]

Primus looked at Lasandra, seated at the very end, with sharp eyes.

[The humans of this generation are excessively irritating. Starting with that one, they’ve crossed far too many lines.]

Lasandra let out a brief sneer and shook her head.

However, Primus lightly ignored her and continued speaking.

[Never before has magical development reached this level, nor have humans prospered this much. Though he was banished, they even fought and defeated Crookiatus, who was once an absolute being.]

[That’s because we intervened…]

[The fact that they made you intervene is also their ability—why don’t you understand that?]

Ricaruss closed his mouth.

Primus looked around at the others.

[As you all know, the Underworld annihilated Crookiatus and gained much. And gain always comes with loss.]

The meeting hall fell into silence.

[We cannot simply let them have everything. Something must be taken back. We especially cannot let the rifts disappear as well.]

Hegatan, who had been listening, frowned.

[Already destroyed! The rift! Suddenly taking from humans again! Unfair!]

[Hegatan, didn’t you know? All worlds are originally unfair. The reason I’m trying to stop the Underworld now is because they keep trying to become like us.]

[Everything is my responsibility. If you’re going to take something back, you should take it from me.]

Rikentia, who had been quietly listening, stepped forward with a complicated expression.

[I’m the one who made Crookiatus a god, gave power again to that banished creature, and proposed annihilating that being. If you’re going to assign blame, blame me.]

But Primus only let out a small snort.

[You’ve already received punishment. The punishment of not being able to interfere with any world for the next thousand years.]

[Even so…!]

[Then I’ll take it, whatever.]

At the voice that rang out then, one of Primus’s eyebrows rose slightly.

His gaze moved to one place.

Toward Lasandra, who sat in a slouched posture.

[You talk so grandly, but isn’t that what you really mean? That I, that my descendants are too sharp and it’s making you anxious right now.]

[What did you say?]

Lasandra shook her head as if fed up.

[Honestly, I have plenty of grievances too. All I did was catch and seal an evil dragon that suddenly invaded. And try to lighten the burden for my suffering descendants.]

She looked around at Ricaruss, Ulgen, and Hegatan nearby.

[Even Lord Ulgen. I didn’t come here because I wanted to. When did I ever beg to be made a god?]

Ulgen nodded.

[That’s right. I was the one who suggested bringing you to the Celestial Realm after seeing you seal Crookiatus.]

Lasandra made eye contact with each divine dragon as if to prove her point.

[I remember. Back then, you all agreed to promote me to godhood. Of course, you probably cast your votes thinking it would be interesting entertainment during a boring time…]

Lasandra’s eyes stopped on Primus.

[You called me here yourselves. Doesn’t it look pathetic to be cowering now?]

Primus kept his mouth tightly shut.

However, the anger in his eyes was clearly visible.

Lasandra tilted her head slightly.

[Anyway. It’s too tiresome to say more, so I’ll just leave myself.]

Ulgen’s eyes widened.

[Lasandra? What do you mean…?]

Lasandra gestured to Ulgen as if to wait.

And continued the rest of her words toward Primus.

[Everything in the world is governed by causality. Rifts forming where regression is initiated is for that reason too. But what meaning does that actually have for you? You’re such great beings who can do whatever you want.]

Primus’s eyes narrowed.

Lasandra smiled.

[For that reason, the way you’re openly showing displeasure because Annellia destroyed the rift—honestly, to my eyes, it just looks like making excuses.]

And breathing slowly, deliberately, she spoke clearly.

[I’ll just generously try to understand even that. Since you all seem to be terribly frightened right now.]

She stood up from her seat and spread both arms wide.

[Leave Annellia and everyone around her alone, and take me instead.]

A hollow laugh burst from Primus’s mouth.

But Lasandra only smiled leisurely.

[I’ll be annihilated along with the rift. Along with whatever tangled causality or whatever.]

Having said that, she soon frowned as if bored.

[The Celestial Realm never suited me anyway.]

“The coordinates? Are the coordinates still not ready?”

Theo’s desperate cry echoed inside the temporarily erected tent.

Owen wiped his sweat-soaked hands on his clothes and operated the magical device again.

Both hands were trembling slightly.

“B-Brother. What should we do? There’s no signal at all…”

Rico also rubbed his forehead with a tearful expression.

At the tent entrance, a little distance from them, Sharon and Isabel stood anxiously.

Theo repeated in a tense voice.

“It doesn’t make sense for there to be no signal at all. Unless the magical device is completely destroyed or drained.”

“How could it be destroyed? Maybe drained though. If Lady Lili took out the mana stored inside and used it…”

Rico hesitated.

His expression gradually hardened. An ominous feeling spread throughout the entire research room.

It was a moment when everyone was holding their breath.

“Sharon-!”

Someone burst open the tent door.

Everyone’s eyes widened upon confirming who had appeared.

“Your Majesty the Dowager Empress?”

“Sharon, what, what is the meaning of this?”

The Dowager Empress’s appearance as she staggered in was a mess.

She wasn’t even properly dressed, wearing only a light negligee.

“I went to the Duke’s Castle but they said no one was there, that everyone, everyone had gone to Michaeliann Gorge…!”

Behind her rambling figure were two guard knights wearing thick robes.

“Edward and I both had strange dreams while sleeping. No, no, it wasn’t a dream…”

A single tear rolled down the Dowager Empress’s desperate face.

“How could I, how could I forget that child.”

She collapsed to the floor.

Sharon and Isabel supported her, but heart-wrenching sobs escaped from the Dowager Empress’s mouth.

“Tian, that child…”

Sharon’s expression became blank.

Isabel opened her mouth, and the researchers who had been examining the magical devices also paused.

Slowly.

Very slowly, something became clear in their minds.

“Tian has disappeared! That child is gone!”

The Dowager Empress’s scream-like crying continuously echoed through the tent.

“…Right.”

Theo muttered blankly.

What Annellia had gone to retrieve.

What she had wanted to obtain even at the risk of entering the interdimensional space and rift.

What that was was finally becoming clear.

The puzzle pieces in his mind began to fit together.

The moving rift, and the bracelet’s signal suddenly cutting out.

Theo’s expression hardened.

‘If she was desperate enough to draw on the bracelet’s magic power, it must mean she destroyed the rift after all.’

He didn’t know what would happen if the rift and interdimensional space were destroyed.

Except that there was a high probability Annellia and Tian might be trapped within the shattered timeline.

Theo’s complexion gradually paled.

He staggered out of the tent.

Outside, the portal formation that Annellia had used to enter the interdimensional space was drawn.

Having lost its light.

“…Annellia.”

It was the moment he muttered to himself in a daze.

Rumble-!

Suddenly the ground shook and dazzling light began to seep through the portal.

People who noticed the vibration came running out of the tent one by one.

Among them were Sharon, the Dowager Empress, and Isabel.

A massive pillar of light shot up into the sky.

And the next moment,

“…Annellia.”

“Ah, ahhh, Tian-!”

Sharon and the Dowager Empress cried out simultaneously.

Above the magic formation where the light had disappeared again.

The silhouettes of two people could be seen crouched together in a tight embrace.

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