The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 75

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“Entering the Academy of Pharmacy at the youngest age, saying you want to commute.”

“Yes! Since studying won’t be easy… To focus on my studies, I need to save commuting time to read books.”

When I spoke quite seriously, I could see the Emperor’s lips curl up slightly.

He looked at Sharon Abner.

“Is this something agreed upon with the Duke?”

Sharon Abner nodded her head.

“I was thinking we should move our residence to the Imperial Capital soon anyway. I’m getting old, so I’ve been staying in the territory until now…”

Then she looked at me and continued.

“The child has such strong enthusiasm for the Imperial Capital and learning.”

The Emperor nodded as if he understood.

Then he turned his gaze back to me.

“You asked for a small house. Exactly how small of a house did you mean?”

I opened my eyes wide.

Then after thinking for a while, I answered.

“Annellia is a child who does well on her own, but still, not alone – a house where two people can live!”

The Emperor laughed, and I felt Sharon Abner staring intently at me.

“Is there a reason for two people? Who are you planning to bring to live with you?”

“Um…”

When I looked around, Sharon Abner was watching me with passionate eyes.

Wendel beside her was the same.

‘Why is everyone suddenly acting like this?’

I brushed it off casually and answered cheerfully.

“Teacher Ann!”

‘Teacher Ann cooks well, sings lullabies well. She’s kind, pretty, and comfortable to be with!’

She was a person with optimal conditions for living together independently.

Then the Emperor asked Sharon Abner.

“Who is this Teacher Ann you’re referring to?”

Sharon Abner, who had been answering politely all along, was silent this time.

When I looked at her, she was frozen like ice with a serious expression.

“Duke.”

The Emperor called her again, but she couldn’t answer for a long while, as if shocked by something.

Then she opened her mouth with great difficulty.

“Are you serious?”

Not to the Emperor, but to me.

“Are you seriously planning to take Ann Clark with you?”

“…”

“Not me?”

Fortunately, the Emperor didn’t take issue with Sharon Abner’s attitude.

He just looked at me for a while as if finding it interesting, then spoke.

“I’ll give you the South Fortress Ruins built during the Unification War era. There’s no better place for commuting to the Academy of Pharmacy.”

But I couldn’t answer readily.

Because…

“I, I only need one small house though?”

“There’s a small fortress on that site, isn’t there?”

“B-but the South Fortress isn’t small…”

“It’s small compared to the Imperial Capital.”

I was at a loss for words.

The South Fortress Ruins was a place with various geographical advantages among the sites within the Imperial Capital.

With a river flowing in front and the city center right nearby, it was practically the best land in the Imperial Capital.

I fidgeted restlessly, recalling my previous life.

‘And there are ancient documents from the Unification War era buried there!’

It was precisely for this reason that the Imperial Court had not handed over the South Fortress Ruins to civilians.

They had been diligently excavating the South Fortress Ruins, but couldn’t find even a trace of the ancient documents.

So this investigation had been gradually scaled down since the previous generation, and had completely stopped after the current Emperor came to power.

“I was wondering what to bestow upon House of Abner anyway. This works out perfectly.”

When the Emperor muttered, the butler behind him quickly headed somewhere.

From the looks of it, he seemed to be going to fetch the Emperor’s seal.

“Abner is a military family that has served Taranta for generations. There’s no family more qualified to be honored with the fortress that defended the Imperial Capital during the Unification War era, the Southern Fortress.”

“Um, uh…”

“The fact that we could strengthen friendship with the Eastern Continent this time was also largely thanks to Abner’s contribution, so don’t feel burdened.”

I just blinked my eyes.

If it were an ordinary gift, I would smile brightly and accept it readily, but the Southern Fortress wasn’t a gift of that level.

“Since it’s a fortress, there will be many places that need repair, but wouldn’t that be excellent as one of House of Abner’s residences?”

When I continued to be unable to answer, Sharon Abner stepped forward and bowed.

“Thank you.”

Then she added.

“Especially for bestowing a residence where more than two people can live.”

‘Huh?’

I was puzzled for a moment but quickly came to my senses.

Then I hesitantly followed Sharon Abner in greeting the Emperor.

“Th-thank you, Your Majesty…!”

The Emperor smiled.

“As you said, I, the sun of the Empire, should give at least this much. Study hard using the fortress as your residence. Don’t forget to create many more excellent medicines in the future to benefit the Empire.”

“Oh! Yes! I definitely will!”

“Also, there are rumors that ancient documents are buried in those ruins. I hear the Princess has great interest in magic studies too?”

I quickly nodded my head.

“Yes! Annellia studied magic hard too!”

Pharmacy was, strictly speaking, a sub-discipline of magic studies.

The two fields had slightly different characteristics, but that wasn’t a problem for me.

I was originally good at both.

“If something comes out someday, couldn’t you take charge of examining it? Though I wonder if anything will really come out.”

“Yes!”

The Emperor chuckled once more at my spirited answer.

But his expression seemed to say ‘surely there’s nothing really there.’

However, I knew.

‘Yes. There really is something there. Definitely something there.’

Not in the fortress site, but in the fortress itself.

That’s why the Imperial Court couldn’t find it for the past several decades.

Because the ancient documents were sleeping between the building walls, not in the ground.

In my previous life, the ancient documents were found in the north wall of the room at the top of the fortress.

It was a type of magic book written in ancient language, containing information about most old magic.

Though there were parts that had decayed and been lost in the middle, ‘regression magic’ definitely existed there too.

After this discovery, papers about regression magic gradually poured out in academic circles.

Most were worthless, but there was just one.

There was one particularly impressive paper.

‘It was a paper written by the Previous Archmage.’

The Mage Tower master before Owen.

The more I learned about it, the more interesting it became, so at the time I even made plans to definitely meet the Archmage someday.

‘I wanted to meet the Archmage to ask about things I was curious about, and to directly examine the ancient documents that were discovered.’

In the end, I wasn’t able to do that.

The Mage Tower Master disappeared one day.

The Magic Tower, Imperial Palace, and even the Academy of Pharmacy mobilized to find him, but his whereabouts remained a mystery.

Thanks to this, the Mage Tower Master position became vacant, and Owen later succeeded to that position as the youngest ever.

‘Those ancient documents—I’ll be able to access them comfortably in this life!’

Since the Southern Fortress was already ruins anyway, several parts needed to be renovated regardless.

Pretending to discover them by chance at that time would be no trouble at all.

‘Since Sharon Abner delegated magic-related fields to Owen and me, the ancient documents will naturally come to us.’

Thinking about it, things seemed to be going too well, so I secretly wiggled my fingers.

“Your Majesty, I’ve brought the seal and the deed to the southern territory.”

Just then, the butler who had left earlier returned with the necessary documents.

The Emperor stamped his seal on the documents with a firm thud in front of me, Sharon Abner, and everyone else present.

“Here you go. The small house you mentioned.”

Then he smiled mischievously with his handsome face and held out the documents to me.

I rushed over to receive the documents while hiding my excited expression.

And I bowed my head deeply in greeting.

“Thank you, thank you so much, Your Majesty!”

‘Thanks to this, the Abner Academy will be able to grow 10 years faster!’

Attending a party as the daughter of a ducal family turned out to be more interesting than I had expected.

“I heard you received the Southern Fortress Ruins. The rumors are already spreading everywhere.”

The Apothecary Director of the Imperial Palace, who had been very eager to meet me, was an elderly old man.

Having seen him once in my previous life, I greeted him with a subtle sense of internal familiarity.

“Yes! His Majesty the Emperor gave it to me, calling it a small house!”

“A small house, haha!”

The Apothecary Director of the Imperial Palace laughed as if he found me adorable, then subtly inquired.

“More importantly, about Lubarinna and Lubaven.”

“Yes.”

“I heard you made them from Lubarin grass that went extinct long ago…”

“Yes! That’s right!”

The pharmacy director’s eyes sparkled with interest.

“Where on earth did you obtain the seeds? Does the Abner Duchy currently have a separate greenhouse prepared? That’s a foul-smelling weed that can’t be easy to manage…”

I widened my eyes and thought to myself.

‘Oh my, look at this old man?’

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