The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 82

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I opened my mouth for a moment, then couldn’t hold back and poured out my questions.

“Wait a minute, Mage Tower Lord. You’re just giving it to me? Why are you giving me a relic that’s so amazing you’ve kept it hidden without even displaying it?”

Theo reacted calmly as if he had expected this.

“I simply want to.”

“…What?”

“I’m the Mage Tower Lord, and I manage this relic. Don’t I have the right to give the relic to whoever I want?”

I jumped up from my seat.

Then I quickly put the ring I was holding back down on the box.

“I won’t accept it.”

Of course, the relic was interesting.

But Theo’s answer wasn’t even at the level of being convincing or not.

And I had a tendency not to trust things I couldn’t understand.

Theo immediately placed the ring back on my palm.

“You can’t just refuse it outright.”

Then he made a rather serious expression.

“Princess, you must know the reason I chose you.”

I closed my mouth blankly.

Theo stared at me intently and continued speaking.

“You’re not an ordinary person, Princess. Recently, you turned back time…”

“St-stop! Stop it!”

I jumped up onto the table and covered the Mage Tower Lord’s mouth.

Tian was looking at us with wide eyes.

The Mage Tower Lord took me and left Tian’s audience chamber.

He made the excuse that from now on they would talk about research, and that the two of them wanted to have a conversation.

We walked very quietly down the corridor.

But there was a tense atmosphere in the air.

As soon as we arrived at the shabby corridor of the deserted separate palace, I quickly grabbed the Mage Tower Lord’s clothes.

“Tell me your identity!”

I wanted to grab his collar, but I wasn’t tall enough, so around his thigh was the best I could do.

The Mage Tower Lord looked down at me with the same calm and composed eyes as before.

‘Again. Princess, you must know the reason I chose you.’

‘You’re not an ordinary person, Princess. Recently, you turned back time…’

‘He knows about my regression.’

I knew the Magic Tower’s information network was impressive, but I didn’t know it was to this extent.

“If you don’t tell me right now!”

“I will tell you.”

The Mage Tower Lord answered very obediently.

Then, in front of me as I stood there with my mouth agape, he snapped his fingers once.

The surroundings flashed with light, and a hazy barrier rose from the floor.

The barrier, which seemed to reach the ceiling with a strange flow, soon became transparent and disappeared.

“Soundproofing is important when having conversations like this.”

I couldn’t take my eyes off the empty air where the barrier had disappeared.

‘How can he implement such magic without even a magic stone?’

Theo didn’t tear a scroll, nor did he use any magical tools.

He just snapped his fingers, yet a barrier that looked solid at first glance appeared by itself.

“Don’t be surprised. The Magic Tower’s technology is already far ahead of what’s known to the public.”

“Huh.”

“…Rather than the Magic Tower’s technology, I should say it’s my technology.”

Theo frowned and tilted his head slightly, then met my gaze as if it didn’t matter.

Then he suddenly bent one knee and knelt on the floor.

“Princess Abner.”

For some reason, he took a breath in the middle and broke off his words.

It was truly an incomprehensible and strange attitude.

“The twin rings are powerful relics. So I have been conducting aggressive research for a long time to activate these rings.”

“…”

“To the extent that I didn’t hesitate to proceed with experiments using my own body as a medium.”

My eyes widened.

“Ex-experiments using your body as a medium?”

“Yes.”

Theo, who answered, rolled up his sleeve.

From just inside his wrist to deep in his forearm, hideously distorted scars were clearly visible.

They were scars that must have been truly terrible wounds.

“I’m covered with scars like this all over my body.”

“But why go to such lengths…”

“Because I was desperate. I also have something I absolutely want to protect.”

Theo stopped speaking and stared at me intently.

“I am the Mage Tower Lord, after all.”

I looked at Theo with a troubled expression.

I thought he was a materialist who came to haggle over the price of relics, but apparently that wasn’t the case.

‘Is he just someone with tremendous affection for the Magic Tower?’

I steeled my weakening heart and quickly narrowed my eyes into triangles again.

“Th-that has nothing to do with giving me the ring! And how did you know that Annellia turned back time, turned back time…”

“Are you asking how I knew about the regression?”

Gasp, as I closed my mouth, Theo continued speaking.

“February 12th of last year. And June 7th. Common anomalies were observed in the relics.”

My eyes naturally grew wide.

February 12th was the day I regressed.

June 7th was the day I was attacked by Brooke.

It was the day when light leaked from my injured back and a strange incident occurred as if time was flowing backwards.

“When relics sensitive to magic power react, it means powerful magic was activated somewhere nearby.”

“…”

“So, using those two dates as reference points, I searched through all the ‘unusual incidents’ that occurred in the Empire.”

I swallowed hard.

“In February, there was an incident where a child from a local orphanage sent a letter to Duke Abner. Not long after, the Duke took in a ward.”

Theo continued speaking smoothly with an expressionless face.

“Upon investigation, that turned out to be you, Princess. After you came, the Abner family sued the House of Coel, with whom they had a long cooperative relationship, and exposed their mining corruption.”

“…”

“In the meantime, they even developed a new magic stone refining formula, and the developer was you again.”

Theo’s golden eyes were directed at me without a hint of wavering.

The explanation continued.

“June 7th. Starting from that day when the relics reacted once more, your whereabouts became mysterious.”

“…Hiccup.”

“Upon investigation, it was revealed that you had been attacked so severely that your life was in danger and you were bedridden. I also found records of a man named Owen coming to the Academy of Pharmacy to seek treatment…”

Theo stopped speaking and frowned with one eyebrow.

“Is the rumor that he’s your master true?”

I forgot to answer and shook my head vigorously to regain my senses.

Somehow, I felt like I was getting increasingly entangled by Theo.

But Theo only muttered quietly.

“If you’re going to call yourself a master, you shouldn’t have let her get hurt in the first place.”

Then he let out a sigh.

“…Anyway. After that, you developed Lubarinna and Lubaven. You completed your registration at the Academy of Pharmacy with a recommendation letter from Crown Prince Tian, with whom you had a close relationship.”

My mouth went completely dry.

Theo literally knew everything about my activities over the past few months.

“When I investigated the Crown Prince, that was also a bit strange. It was puzzling how someone who had been called a and despised by the Empire’s citizens suddenly grasped the political situation of the Eastern Continent.”

“….”

“Then there were the letters you exchanged with him. So isn’t it obvious? A five-year-old acting as if she knows everything that’s going to happen…”

“St-stop!”

Unable to listen any longer, I once again covered Theo’s mouth with my hand.

Theo just stayed still with his lips pressed against my hand.

“Y-you even stole the Crown Prince’s letters? What exactly is your identity, Mage Tower Lord!”

“I’m just the owner of the Magic Tower.”

“Aren’t you a Dark Guild leader?!”

“Creating one wouldn’t be a bad idea either.”

“Th-this…!”

“The point is. I was quite desperate and persistent. When it came to meeting you.”

Theo took out the artifact again.

Lasandra’s twin ring still glowed with a hazy light.

“There are several ancient documents in the Magic Tower that only I can access. Among them are some information about this ring.”

“….”

“Have you ever thought that regression might be a type of complex magic?”

Meeting his suddenly serious gaze, I hesitantly nodded.

“I have.”

“Then do you know the activation conditions for the artifact specified in the ancient documents?”

“…What are they?”

“The wearer must be a target of magic who has previously experienced an explosive flow of magical power.”

My lips pressed tightly together.

A target of magic who has experienced an explosive flow of magical power.

That was clearly referring to me, who had regressed.

“June 7th. You must have experienced something mysterious on that day when the artifact reacted as well.”

I hesitated before nodding.

I remembered how light had burst from my wound just before I was about to die, and how order had warped as if time was flowing backward.

Thanks to that, I was able to save my life from Brooke.

“…I did experience it.”

“That’s called a remnant.”

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