The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 69

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“Your Highness!”

The one who revealed himself was Tian, dressed in luxurious white training clothes.

“Are you coming out after dinner?”

Tian looked at my full belly and asked.

I hurriedly covered my stomach and looked up at Tian.

“Oh, yes. But why are you here, Your Highness…?”

Then I realized.

‘Once a week from now on. We’ve agreed to conduct sword lessons at the training grounds of Abner Manor.’

“Gasp! Today is the sword lesson!”

“That’s right. Today is the first lesson.”

Tian glanced at Logrio.

“But what were you doing?”

“I was taking a walk because I was too full! But if Your Highness has to have a lesson, please go quickly! Annellia can go to her room by herself.”

Somehow Logrio and Tian’s gazes met.

“The lesson…”

Tian, who had been silent for a moment, spoke.

“I was going to do it, but I don’t think I can today.”

“Huh? Why? You said today was the first lesson…”

“Actually, I…”

Tian rolled his eyes for some reason.

“My back seems to hurt a little. It feels like it would get worse if I trained.”

“What?”

Tian looked at Logrio and raised his eyebrows.

“On days like today, it’s better to walk lightly than train. Right, Logrio?”

Logrio immediately bowed.

“That’s correct. On days like today, you should take a walk. Not intense training.”

Tian naturally approached and stood beside me.

“That’s what he says. It worked out well. Taking a walk with you would be perfect.”

“But you came all the way here from the Imperial Palace…”

I was so flustered that I trailed off.

Sharon Abner too, and Tian as well.

I couldn’t understand why everyone was acting so strangely today.

Tian shrugged his shoulders.

“Since I started helping with government affairs, my personal wealth has grown significantly. I use teleportation circles every time I travel to and from Abner Duchy, so don’t worry.”

That expensive teleportation circle every time?

When I looked at him with bewildered eyes, Tian asked innocently.

“What, Annellia. Do you want me, the Crown Prince, to collapse from back pain?”

No, what kind of blatant treasonous talk is this?

I was startled and frantically waved my hands.

“No!”

“Then let’s just take a walk. I happen to have something to tell you.”

At the words ‘something to tell you,’ I naturally looked at Tian.

Tian was already smiling slightly.

“About your medicine, Lubaven and Lubarinna.”

My steps came to a halt.

“It passed. It’s been officially registered as a medicine at the Imperial Palace Pharmaceutical Academy.”

“R-really?!”

“Yes. The developer’s name is Annellia, right?”

In my joy, I unconsciously stood on my tiptoes, then my eyes widened.

“What? The developer’s name is Annellia?”

“Yes. Isn’t it?”

I looked at him with a puzzled face.

“B-but it shouldn’t just be Annellia? I wrote on the application that my teacher and I were co-developers…”

“Denis Viscount was listed as an assistant, not a co-developer.”

My mouth gradually fell open.

Owen must have switched the documents when he delivered the application to Tian.

‘This disobedient teacher, really!!’

But I didn’t have time to be flustered.

“Anyway, that’s not the problem. The stock we received from you has already been completely sold out.”

“What?”

“It seems the high-ranking nobles have already bought everything. Everyone’s making a fuss asking when the next batch will be manufactured.”

Tian smiled sweetly.

“Everyone is curious about you. The academy director said so too, that he wants to meet you once.”

“If I’m misunderstood as a dark mage! And die because of it! Will you come to your senses then?!”

I pounded Owen’s legs while making all sorts of faces.

Owen looked at me as if tired.

“That’s why I put my name on it too. In the assistant position.”

“You should have put me as the assistant instead! Does it make sense for a five-year-old to make that medicine while the teacher is the assistant?!”

“Why doesn’t it make sense.”

Owen suddenly picked me up and sat me on the desk.

“Hiana and 37 others. In your previous life, you barely managed to get your name listed like that.”

“…”

“When in reality, you made everything.”

I had nothing to say and closed my mouth.

Owen stared at me intently.

“To be honest. What did I actually do in making medicine from Lubarin grass?”

“Why didn’t you do anything?! When improving the Lubarin grass…!”

“You told me the mixing ratio for the improvement agent.”

“B-but after that, extracting the components and mixing with other medicinal materials was also done by you, teacher…!”

“The mixing ratios, mixing materials. Even the reagent manufacturing. I did everything as you told me to.”

I clenched my mouth in frustration.

“My student. What exactly are you so afraid of?”

That was when Owen asked calmly.

He was staring at me as if truly curious.

“So what if you seem like an unusual child? What’s wrong with appearing extraordinarily outstanding to a bizarre degree that you’re so scared?”

“Teacher, you don’t understand!”

With a surge of emotion, I glared fiercely.

“I can’t let my guard down! The moment I become careless, I die!”

My heart pounded loudly and noisily in my chest.

“Why can’t I appear outstanding? Why can’t I seem like an unusual child? Because then I stand out!”

“…”

“If I get caught wrong, what else is there besides being used and dying!”

For some reason, the area below my throat throbbed painfully.

I continued speaking with a voice that began to tremble.

“I can’t trust anyone. Considering how I died in my previous life…”

Why can I only live like this?

Why can I only be this much?

I found the answer at the very moment when I finally drank the poison and my heart stopped.

“It was because I had no power. Because I didn’t have the strength to protect my abilities, they were taken from me…”

Come to think of it, setting foot in Abner Manor was purely for that reason too.

Since I had no power at the moment, I tried to buy as much time as possible in a safe place.

‘I don’t want to lose anything. I don’t want to lose anything ever again.’

But to do that, I had to hide and conceal myself for now.

I needed to be moderately outstanding, but not excessively so.

It was a ridiculous dilemma.

I opened my eyes wide and glared at Owen.

“But how can you say it so easily, Master?”

Of course, I understood it logically.

Owen just wanted to secure what was rightfully mine.

So I really shouldn’t have lashed out at him like this.

But my lips moved on their own.

“What do you know, Master? You’ve never lived as me! Being betrayed, having everything taken away and being murdered! You don’t know anything.”

“…”

“What if someone sees that medicine and suspects I’m a dark mage? What if they poison me? What if I die again like that, lonely and in pain…?”

A terrible silence descended upon the Research Room.

My throat hurt from shouting so much.

Ragged breaths escaped through my mouth.

That’s when it happened.

“Well, I’ll testify for you first.”

I looked at Owen, half-frozen.

“I’ll testify that you’re not a dark mage. There are many others who’ll testify for you too. You’re not alone in a cell right now.”

“…What?”

“But if someone keeps suspecting you and goes crazy enough to try poisoning you.”

Owen picked up documents that were scattered on the desk and placed them in my hands.

“Then your official guardian will step in. Whether by assigning even more guards than now, or by finding those bastards first and cutting off their breath.”

Those documents were a report summarizing our research.

At the end, the name ‘Annellia Abner’ was clearly written.

“You said you shouldn’t trust anyone?”

Owen’s voice was very low and slow.

“Yeah, well. That might have been true in your previous life.”

I moved my lips blankly.

“But not now. How is now the same as that terrible previous life of yours?”

It felt like my heart was sinking.

My pupils trembled finely.

“And. Sharon Abner came to threaten me.”

Owen added.

“To put you down as the sole developer.”

My eyes widened.

Sharon Abner had come to see Owen?

And to make me the sole developer?

Owen made a serious expression as if recalling that moment.

“She said she wouldn’t stand still if you were wronged in any way.”

“…”

“The work you accomplished during the research process. She said the moment I omit even a single detail, my head would also be omitted from my body. Do you know how terrified I was?”

Owen shook his head back and forth.

“How could I put your name as a co-developer after hearing that? When all I really did was assistant work.”

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