The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 50

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Summer in the Northern Region was short and intense.

Sharon Abner, who had been sorting documents under the streaming sunlight, suddenly put down her quill pen.

From beyond the window that was left slightly open for ventilation, she could hear a young voice.

“Sister Mica. When are we going to Evehill?”

A voice that had become quite familiar over the past few weeks.

‘It’s the orphanage children.’

If her guess was correct, this was Lulu’s voice, the youngest among them.

Sure enough, another voice followed.

“I don’t know either. Teacher Ann told us to wait.”

“But how long do we have to wait? We’ve already lived here for ten nights, and way more than another ten nights?”

“Dummy! This place is much bigger and nicer, so it’s good to stay here longer!”

“No, I just…!”

“…”

“I’m scared we won’t be able to meet mommy and daddy here…”

Sharon’s eyes narrowed slightly as she listened quietly.

The chirping of insects briefly filled the silence.

“…Now that I think about it, you’re right?”

“Right? This isn’t a place to wait for mommy and daddy. Sister Karien said this is Sister Lia’s hugeri? hugeni? house.”

She quietly approached the window.

The children’s voices became much clearer.

“But hugeri isn’t family! That’s why Sister Lia still doesn’t have mommy and daddy.”

Come to think of it, when she had gone to check on Annellia’s condition before, she had heard the children having a similar conversation.

When the children asked Annellia “Sister, who is your mommy?”, Annellia answered “I don’t have a mommy yet…”

Sharon Abner’s brow furrowed slightly.

Regardless, the conversation continued outside.

“I don’t know either. But Lulu, listening to what you said suddenly reminded me of something.”

“What?”

“I think Bruno said that. That we’re going to wait for mommy and daddy here now.”

“Gasp, really?”

“Yeah. So we can find mommy and daddy here too, right?”

“I see…!”

Sharon glanced toward the desk.

The documents she had been looking at until just now were actually a list of adoption placements for the Evehill Orphanage children.

She had promised to arrange adoptions for all the orphanage children as a condition for asking Ann Clark to become the manor’s wet nurse.

“Wow, then it’s really relieving!”

Having learned the word ‘relieving’ not too long ago, her pronunciation was still off.

“I see, so that’s why we didn’t go back. That’s so good! Then we can keep eating delicious food here and wait for mommy and daddy too?”

“Yeah, yeah. I’m picking stones right now, so you go away now.”

“Sister, let me pick them with you too.”

The sound of insects continued for a moment again.

“But Sister Mica. I have another question.”

“…What now.”

“Then is Sister Lia waiting for mommy and daddy here too? Together with us?”

Sharon’s attention was drawn back to them.

“Hey! Lulu, don’t talk about that in front of Lia.”

“Why?”

Mica spoke in a lower voice than before.

“Lia can’t get adopted anymore.”

“Gasp, why?”

“She already came here. Lia will stay here until she becomes an adult now.”

“Gasp…!”

Lulu let out a small breath as if she couldn’t believe it.

Then she asked carefully.

“Without mommy and daddy, until she becomes an adult?”

“Yeah.”

“You can become an adult even without mommy and daddy?”

“Ugh, seriously!”

Mica, who couldn’t stand it anymore, shouted loudly.

The sound of Lulu jumping up and running away quickly could be heard.

Objectively, it was quite a cute scene, but Sharon couldn’t easily smile and remained standing in place.

Mica’s muttering could be heard from outside.

“Annellia, dummy idiot. If she had been a little less smart, she would have gotten mommy and daddy.”

Mica was grumbling while throwing innocent stones at the wall.

“She’s too smart, so she only gets things like guardians and can’t meet mommy and daddy.”

She didn’t know where they had picked this up, but the slightly older children seemed to have reached that conclusion in their own way.

That Annellia was too smart, so she met a guardian but couldn’t meet adoptive parents.

“Sigh, complete dummy. She’s smart but a dummy. Such a big dummy.”

Sharon didn’t move from her spot until Mica left the area in front of the window.

“Today’s study is over!”

Annellia closed a rather thick book with a thud.

Awin smiled and said.

“Good work today too, Lia.”

“Yeah! I really worked hard!”

Annellia stretched once and immediately jumped down from her chair.

Awin quickly followed behind her.

“How do you read all of that?”

More than half of the books Annellia studied were magic books written in ancient language.

“My brother says that even fairly renowned scholars find those books difficult to read.”

“You just have to do it!”

“Just do it?”

“Yeah. Nineteen hours a day, for about…”

Annellia tilted her head while speaking.

“Maybe 10 years of studying? Not just a day or two, but consistently…”

Then she suddenly closed her mouth and looked at Awin with an awkward expression.

“…But I’m super smart!”

A natural smile spread across Annellia’s lips.

“Not all of it, but I can read just a tiny bit!”

“I see.”

“Yeah!”

Awin nodded his head.

And immediately accepted it.

‘Lia really is a genius.’

Annellia could somehow read ancient language that even decent scholars couldn’t easily read, couldn’t she?

And she was just a child who had recently passed her fifth birthday.

Moreover, that cure.

‘Lubarina and Lubawen were also made by Annellia, they said.’

The moment he heard the news was still vivid for Awin.

Not long ago, Lia was seriously injured.

Lia needed Porentia flowers.

The wound was so large and deep that the herb to prevent infection was absolutely necessary.

But obtaining Forentia flowers wasn’t easy.

‘I was really worried sick back then.’

In the end, it was completely pointless worry.

Because my incredibly smart Annellia made the medicine with her own hands.

‘I told you she was amazing.’

Watching his brother click his tongue in amazement, Awin was deeply shocked.

‘At first, when I heard that Annellia was my benefactor, I didn’t believe it.’

Rather, I was wary.

Because Awin had been sick for so long.

‘My brother became a researcher for a ducal house and received research funding to complete my medicine?’

Wasn’t that practically a fairy tale?

To say I was sick was putting it mildly – Awin was practically dying.

When our parents passed away and my brother left to find medicine for me.

Awin thought that would be his final farewell with his brother.

‘My brother still thinks I’m just a little kid though.’

But I understood how the situation was unfolding too.

Patients usually mature early, after all.

But….

“Awin, what are you doing? Hurry up, let’s go!”

“Oh, y-yeah.”

Awin reflexively followed behind Annellia.

Come to think of it, it was the same when I first came to this estate.

The benefactor mentioned in the letter my brother sent.

‘That benefactor is that kid?’

She’s supposed to be four years old, but her build is so small.

A face with soft, fluffy down and disheveled hair that resembles moonlight.

‘I really can’t believe it. A kid like that?’

How could that kid make my brother into an Abner researcher?

At first, I thought my brother was lying.

But my brother doesn’t lie.

At least not to his younger brother Awin.

‘Could this be some kind of trap?’

What if it turns out Duke Abner made my brother sign something like a slave contract?

And that little kid is just a smokescreen to make my brother and me let our guard down.

Awin deliberately started acting even more friendly.

‘Nice to meet you. I’m Awin.’

‘I heard from my brother. That you’re my benefactor.’

‘I’d like us to get along well from now on, would that be okay? Annellia.’

Awin already knew that he was very pretty.

So he deliberately smiled even more brightly.

Most people liked this smile of Awin’s.

But Annellia….

‘Is Awin’s face a weapon?’

‘…Uh, huh?’

‘You can be honest with Annellia. You thought if you smiled like that, Aunt Marenese would give you more cookies! Right!’

She had already seen through everything!

And that wasn’t even all.

‘I like Awin.’

‘…You like me?’

‘Yeah. You’re capable and excellent at social skills, so I like you! I think you’ll become a wonderful person when you grow up!’

She shows goodwill toward me, she does like me….

‘But why do I feel like I’m gradually withering away?’

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