The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 51

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What was so good about being capable?

Awin was quite confused for a while.

‘Is it because she’s also extremely capable, so outstanding that she could read through most magical texts at such a young age? Is that why?’

Don’t people all live with their own set of values?

‘I see. Annellia evaluated me highly based on her own standards.’

Something strange happened.

Upon reaching that conclusion, his mood improved greatly.

‘Annellia, let’s have breakfast together.’

It was definitely acting at first, but then…

‘Shall we take a walk after studying?’

‘Annellia, can’t I sing you a lullaby?’

‘Annellia, let me watch you study from beside you.’

When Annellia was studying with books she couldn’t even read.

‘Brother Awin. Are you sure you’re not in pain these days?’

‘Of course. It’s medicine made by your brother, no less.’

‘Still, it’s too early to be relieved. Special medicines like the ones Master made can have different effects on different people.’

‘…Really?’

‘Yes. So make sure to check carefully whether there are any side effects or not. Got it?’

When she smiled with that characteristic confident expression.

‘Why am I acting like this?’

His heart pounded.

‘This wasn’t part of my plan.’

As he pondered, he heard Annellia’s voice from a distance.

“Brother Awin, if you don’t come quickly, I’m going alone?!”

Awin snapped back to his senses.

Annellia was struggling while holding onto the Research Room door.

“Yes, I’m coming now.”

Awin smiled warmly as always and quickened his pace.

After all, Annellia was waiting for him.

Several days had passed since sending Crown Prince Tian away.

‘I wonder if Logrio has received my medicine by now?’

Is he drinking the Rubawen to prevent infection and consistently applying Rubarina to the affected area?

So he must be showing signs of improvement, right?

Even though I already knew well that the medicine was effective, I felt anxious somehow.

That’s because I wanted to receive Crown Prince Tian’s letter of recommendation as soon as possible.

“What are you planning to do now?”

Awin asked with a bright smile from beside me.

I made a hmm sound before answering.

“I’m going to the Library.”

“The Library? It seems like you’ve been studying too much today, aren’t you overexerting yourself?”

Awin couldn’t read ancient languages.

So he thought what I’d been doing in the Research Room all this time was studying.

‘It’s actually research though.’

The Abner Family finally had an academy.

Its name was the Abner Academy!

For the academy to grow rapidly, at least five official research papers registered under the academy’s name needed to be accumulated.

I wanted to expand the scale of this academy as quickly as possible.

So I somehow forced myself to accumulate five research papers in the shortest time possible…

‘…Owen seemed to be getting no sleep at all.’

Whatever my plan was, the Abner Academy still only had two members.

So it was natural that Owen was having a hard time, when you think about it.

I became solemn for a moment, then shook my head.

‘No. Let’s not feel sorry. I did everything I could for him.’

Setting aside personal feelings and considering only the facts, that was really true.

I saved Awin’s life and even got him a job.

‘Right, right.’

Besides, wasn’t House of Dennis somewhat poor?

Considering those circumstances, it was fair to say that I had paved Owen’s life path for now.

‘It’s not like I just worked him mercilessly either.’

I respected Owen in my own way.

As a master and business partner!

Starting with revealing my identity to him.

‘I opened my heart first to approach him as person to person.’

…I wanted to package it that way, but actually there were other reasons why I had to do so.

Owen was the person who spent the most time with me at this point.

‘So Owen needed to know my identity for me to breathe easier.’

Life after regressing as a child was truly inconvenient.

I could already think like an adult, yet I had to pretend otherwise on the outside.

That was too difficult for me.

‘I have to pretend not to know what I know, and pretend to know even less about what I don’t know…’

The fact that there wasn’t much I didn’t know was an even bigger problem.

And that’s not all?

What about the child’s thinking that came suddenly?

This body’s childish thinking became stronger when hungry, sleepy, in pain, or exposed to great stress.

I deduced that thoughts became more childish when instinctive needs weren’t met.

At those times, my tongue would get more twisted and tears would come easily.

But everything was fine in front of Owen.

I didn’t need to pretend to be a child or hide my knowledge.

Coordinating our stories after finishing each stage of research had now become our habit.

‘Let’s record this as something Master did.’

‘Right. It would be dangerous if we said you did this.’

‘And I think it would be okay to say I did this one. We learned Calik theory in the last lesson, right? We can say I applied that.’

‘No, my student. Isn’t that too unbelievable?’

‘Why can’t you believe it? In my previous life, I really did that?’

There was a separate reason for coordinating our stories even though Sharon Abner wasn’t particularly curious about our research process.

‘All research papers are bound to have records of their processes, and many other scholars will be recruited to the Abner Academy in the future.’

At that time, other scholars would surely review the research processes, and it would be a disaster if incomprehensible content was written there.

‘I really want to grow up quickly…’

Even just 3 years from now, I’d be able to move much more freely than now.

Originally, I planned to take my time slowly until then.

Because it’s better than ruining everything by rushing.

‘I originally wanted to create the academy about a year later, slowly and quietly, like a snake slithering over a wall.’

However, my grand plan was shattered to pieces when I nearly died this time.

Since Longton sent assassins, I had no choice but to change my plans.

‘Longton’s threats aren’t something you can avoid just by trying to avoid them.’

Brooke failed to kill me this time.

So when he sees another opportunity next time, he’ll try the same thing again, right?

Suddenly, I felt wronged.

‘…What did I do so wrong?’

And another thing.

‘What makes me so precious?’

Though it’s a bit funny to say he wants to kill me because I’m precious, I knew who Lambert Longton was.

The reason he wanted to kill me was because he judged my value to be high.

He didn’t want to let Abner take away something of high value.

So he’d rather kill me instead.

‘Really crazy person. Such a wicked, terrible villain!’

If I was so precious to him, if he wanted to keep me under him so badly.

‘He should have treated me well when I was there in my previous life.’

Recalling my past life spent at Longton Estate automatically made my mouth feel bitter.

He treated me well until Hiana came…

‘No, that’s not right. Thinking about it again, he was just pretending to treat me well.’

That was a fact I realized very slowly while living through hardships.

Even in those moments when I believed I was happy, Lambert Longton was wearing a thorough mask.

‘Pretending to be kind, pretending to cherish me, just to manipulate a child.’

That’s how he used me and my abilities.

Of course, the three young masters of Longton were similar.

After Hiana returned, they neglected me as I festered alone within the estate.

‘But those same people were truly sincere when it came to Hiana.’

They cherished Hiana.

Then, as I was thinking that far, I suddenly stopped in place.

And I looked at Awin and asked.

“Brother Awin. What’s today’s date?”

“Hm? It should be the last day of July.”

I closed my mouth without being able to continue my response.

I had been so busy the past few days that I had completely forgotten.

Come to think of it, it was today.

The day in my previous life when Hiana came to the estate and was driven away.

My steps quickened.

I asked Awin to bring me a water container.

It wasn’t because I really needed water, but because I needed time to think alone.

‘Hiana must have returned.’

And this time, she wouldn’t have been driven away.

Unlike my previous life, I was here, and Duke Longton wouldn’t have left the estate either.

I turned my gaze straight ahead.

The garden extending from the Research Room exit was very beautiful.

Since it was summer, the vegetation was lush and flowers were blooming…

‘…I feel dizzy.’

I clenched and unclenched my fist with my cold, sweaty hand.

Ever since I realized that Hiana had returned, I had been in this state the whole time.

My thoughts kept flowing in extreme and strange directions.

‘I thought I was fine, but I guess not.’

The unpleasant feeling that came whenever I recalled life at Longton Estate.

The painful and difficult feeling.

‘Is it something like trauma?’

My heart was pounding and my ears felt stuffy, so it seemed like panic…

I immediately shook my head.

‘I can easily make medicine for panic symptoms.’

So I shouldn’t be caught up in these thoughts right now.

I continued walking and started thinking again, returning to square one.

‘Duke Longton wants to kill me. That’s why he sent Brooke too.’

But I survived.

‘Thanks to that strange light and the hemostatic agent Sharon Abner saved me with.’

The problem was that Lambert Longton wouldn’t give up on me like this.

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