The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 54

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Pulling Sharon Abner down from the head of house position?

“That absolutely cannot happen.”

Muttering to myself, I ran with all my might.

I was in the middle of following the elders’ trail, thoroughly eavesdropping on the meeting contents, and then escaping.

The meeting hall grew smaller and smaller behind me.

‘Spending a fortune to treat me, arbitrarily designating a ward in the first place.’

The disciplinary reasons the elders claimed were endless.

‘They’re even bringing up the trial with Coel?’

But it was precisely because of that trial that we cleared up the mine corruption and earned an enormous amount of money!

I found myself thinking anew that Sharon Abner’s life must be quite arduous.

I ran for a long while before finally stopping in front of the library building.

The area around the library was very quiet.

There weren’t even any servants passing by.

‘I did well to shake off Awin.’

Now it seemed I could execute the plan I had conceived alone without being disturbed by anyone.

‘The Abner council of elders has always been operated according to ‘principles.’ The reason most of us harbor resentment toward the current head of house is essentially because of that.’

The voice of the elder chairman I had heard through the window just moments ago echoed in my head.

“Those mean old men. So they want to talk about principles.”

I crossed my arms and caught my breath.

Then I pushed the library door with all my strength.

The heavy wooden door opened very, very slowly.

“Ugh… wait for me.”

I panted as I slipped through the gap in the door.

Then I looked back.

Beyond the closing door, I could see the roof of the building where the meeting had been held in the distance.

“I’ll show you what real principles are.”

My destination was still clear.

It was the old bookshelf in the deepest part of the library that I had seen in passing.

The slowly setting sun passed over the distant mountain ridge.

“What? Lady Annellia has disappeared?”

When Miel’s eyes widened in surprise, Awin nodded with a worried expression.

“Yes. She vanished while I went to get water for a moment. I thought she was in her room.”

Soya looked at Miel restlessly.

“What should we do? Right now the manor is…”

Currently, all the elders of the council and several branch family members were staying at Abner Manor.

Each had come to protest to Duke Abner and ended up settling in at the manor.

They were always like this.

When one person found fault, everyone would rush to the manor and make unreasonable demands.

There were people who would casually say unpleasant things to Duke Abner.

Sometimes it would cross the line, but Duke Abner was always the same.

No matter how they acted up, he would just leave them be.

At most, recently, when even Annellia came under attack, he would speak up just a little.

Of course, the servants were all frustrated.

The Duke, who never backed down before other nobles or even the imperial family, was weak when it came to people within the family.

But there was no one who could openly ask about the reason.

Also, when Duke Abner endured silently like that, the elders and branch families would always tire themselves out and just leave.

It was somewhat unsatisfying, but it was certainly an effective solution.

However, Annellia encountering them was a separate matter.

“The young miss can’t meet those people, right? They’ll obviously say all sorts of things…”

“Let’s go look for her right now.”

Just as Miel was rolling up her sleeves,

“There’s no need for that. Annellia is in the library.”

Someone entered while smiling.

Miel and Soya looked at the person in surprise.

“Lady Ann?”

It was Ann Clark, the director of Evehill Orphanage.

“I’m just coming back from seeing her. I remembered she said she was going to the library, so I went to check, and sure enough, she was completely absorbed in books and completely oblivious.”

Miel blinked.

“But shouldn’t we not leave her alone?”

“She’s not alone. On my way out, I met Sir Wendel, and he said he would stand guard in front of the library.”

“I see, if it’s Sir Wendel…”

Even if any elders or branch family members tried to enter the library, he would guard it like an iron fortress.

Still, Soya seemed anxious.

“What if she gets thirsty or hungry? She might fall, or cut her hand on paper…”

“Soya. Calm down.”

Ann soothed Soya.

“Once Annellia gets absorbed in a decent book, she won’t budge for three hours. I’ve already given her snacks and something to drink.”

At that point, Soya slowly felt relieved.

Miel smiled and chimed in.

“That’s a relief. Then there’s nothing to worry about. Lady Ann knows the young miss much better than we do.”

Ann only smiled without answering.

In truth, none of this was done because she knew Annellia well.

‘Teacher! Can you make sure no one can come in here?’

She had simply done as Annellia, whom she met by chance, had asked.

‘Miel and Sister Soya will definitely worry and try to come, so when that happens…’

Annellia had even anticipated that Miel and Soya would look for her.

Thanks to that, Ann was able to convince the two with words she had prepared in advance.

‘Of course, Sir Wendel’s guard duty wasn’t something Annellia requested, but…’

She happened to encounter him on her way here, so she politely asked him to guard the front of the library.

She felt a bit uncomfortable wondering if she had interfered with him, but it couldn’t be helped.

‘We can’t have another unfortunate incident like last time.’

She recalled seeing Annellia tumbling down the stairs on her first day here.

Ann quickly shook off her worry.

“Miel, Soya. Rather than that, shall we go to the kitchen together? When Annellia returns, she’ll probably want to eat something more.”

“Oh, that’s a good idea! Any snack after using your brain is delicious.”

“Then shall we prepare some sweet things in advance?”

Ann nodded and this time looked at Awin.

“Would Young Master Awin like to come too? It seems like it’ll be a while before Annellia returns.”

After pondering, Awin soon smiled sweetly, crinkling his eyes.

“Yes, ma’am. I’d be grateful if you’d take me along.”

Ann responded with a smile and headed toward the kitchen.

As she did, she thought.

‘What is Annellia trying to do? She was looking at some kind of ancient text.’

Annellia came to mind, buried nose-deep in a thick book.

How adorable she looked, so absorbed that she didn’t even blink.

Ann chuckled inwardly and thought.

‘More importantly, when should I tell her?’

She still hadn’t confessed that she had decided to quit the orphanage and take care of Annellia.

‘I hope she’ll be happy about it…’

Along with the fact that most of the orphanage children were about to be adopted.

“I knew this would happen.”

My eyes lit up.

Finally, after rummaging through several books as thick as my palm, I found it.

What I had been searching for so desperately.

The book I was holding now was like an encyclopedia containing the history and achievements of House of Abner.

‘I thought there would be one here since the Longton Family had one too.’

My prediction was right again this time.

Even the fact that some old tales and events were passed down in ancient language was exactly the same.

‘Currently, only an extremely, extremely, extremely small number of people in the Empire can speak ancient language.’

There probably haven’t been many people who properly interpreted this book so far.

I thought that was precisely why this book had been neglected here for so long.

Calming my racing heart, I turned my attention elsewhere this time.

Today there was another unexpected harvest.

It was a bundle of parchments I had found among the old books.

I discovered this bundle of parchments in the deepest part of the bottom shelf of the bookcase.

I was only able to find it purely thanks to my low eye level.

Sharon, I… you…

The elegant handwriting in Imperial language immediately caught my eye.

After reading all the contents, I shouted ‘Yahoo!’ at least ten times in my mind.

After confirming the handwritten signature of the letter’s author, a smile naturally spread across my lips.

“This makes it easier.”

Of course, there was still one thing that bothered me.

‘That person called Kainton, was it?’

In his case, I wanted to dig a little deeper into his background.

‘Because his expression was so terrifying.’

As if he was plotting something sinister behind the scenes.

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