The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 87

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From far away in the lobby, Miel, Soya, and Ann came running over.

“Young Lady! Oh my, this Miel thought she would die from missing you so much!”

“Well, did you have a good trip?”

Ann was standing behind the two of them, looking at me with a quiet smile.

I gave Ann a simple nod, then looked at Soya.

“Soya.”

Soya’s eyes widened.

“Would you like to have a drink with Annellia right now?”

Now that we had arrived at the duchy, it was time to select the first aide I had been considering.

“Ugh, the smell!”

As soon as Burmard entered the tent, he wrinkled his face in disgust.

Then he glared at the makeshift bed placed in one corner of the tent.

“Really, this is a shared living space. Can’t you be more careful?”

There was a woman lying there with a large injury on her left thigh, and a tall, broad-shouldered man.

The large man, Jen, answered with a troubled expression.

“…I’m sorry.”

“Is being sorry enough? Just how weak is your wife? The people who came with you have already recovered.”

As Burmard grumbled and sat down on a simple chair, about ten people in the tent looked at him.

Burmard shrugged his shoulders, conscious of their gazes.

“By any chance, does your wife have a constitution that doesn’t respond to medicine?”

At that, people looked at each other with quite surprised expressions.

“I mean, think about it. The Abner Princess who made the medicine is only five years old, right?”

“…”

“Besides, seeing how she’s giving it away so freely to lowlifes like us, it might be ineffective watered-down medicine.”

Unable to listen anymore, one person stepped forward.

“Listen here, young man! She’s someone who took in us sick and pitiful people and even gave us that precious healing medicine. Aren’t your words too harsh?”

“Come on. Then why is that frail woman still not getting better?”

At those words, the old man who had been raising his voice fell silent.

Where his gaze fell, Jen’s wife Shelby was sweating coldly and groaning in pain.

Shelby was a good woman who had lived by running a fried food business with her husband at the edge of Longton Territory.

Then one day, when their old pot stand broke, boiling oil spilled over her thigh.

Jen and Shelby tried to treat the wound somehow, but there was no way to get medicine amid the burning pain.

Just as Jen was stamping his feet helplessly, he heard a rumor from a neighbor of a neighbor.

An amazing new healing medicine was being distributed free of charge in Abner Territory.

Jen immediately put Shelby on a cargo wagon.

They rushed straight to Abner Territory.

Since he was normally well-built and athletic, it took less than three days.

But…

“It is strange indeed. Why won’t this woman’s wound heal?”

When an old man clicked his tongue pitifully, Burmard said,

“Ah, it’s obvious! She has a constitution that doesn’t respond to medicine!”

Her husband Jen’s expression grew even darker.

After arriving in Abner Territory, they were immediately guided to temporary tents for immigrants to stay.

And they received appropriate amounts of two bottles of medicine from Burmard, who had been selected as the temporary manager of the tent.

They were Lubarinna for treating wounds and Lubaven for infection prevention.

Shelby immediately began taking the medicine, and for the first few days, her wound seemed to be improving.

But the problem started after that.

“The wound reeks of rot! I can’t stand the smell of the bandages either!”

Burmard slammed the armrest of his chair in annoyance.

The people around protested.

“Hey. You came here sick too. Watch your words in a place where patients gather. Okay?!”

However, Burmard made a fierce expression and was brazenly defiant.

“How ridiculous. Until now, everyone recovered in three days, so there was no need to smell pus. The smell of rotting human flesh is disgusting, isn’t it pleasant?”

“That, that bastard!”

While the atmosphere was becoming hostile, Jen, who was actually Shelby’s husband, remained silent.

He no longer had the energy to protest to Burmard or get angry.

He just hoped that Shelby, who was groaning in pain beside him, would feel even a little better.

“I knew it from the moment I saw her. Your wife looked like someone medicine wouldn’t work on.”

Burmard spoke in a somehow mocking voice.

Then he looked toward Jen.

“You know you’re the only ones in this tent still getting medicine, right? As an intermediate manager, I’m quite conscious of how it looks. Huh?”

Jen bit his lips tightly.

Then finally, unable to hold back, he retorted.

“Then what do you want me to do? Stop the medicine when the wound hasn’t even healed?”

Burmard instinctively flinched.

With his tall height and sun-tanned bronze skin, Jen looked about twice as big as him.

Burmard soon coughed and replied.

“Ah, no. I’m just saying I’m in a bit of a difficult position.”

Then he averted his gaze.

He soon crossed one leg and frowned while trembling.

Inside, he was busy thinking hard.

‘Damn, should I gradually give her the real medicine and end this?’

In his inner pocket were bottles of Lubarinna meant for Shelby that he had been stealing.

There were also quite a few bottles he had stolen one or two at a time from the logistics warehouse.

‘That’s what she gets for daring to reject me.’

He recalled the day Shelby first came to this tent.

While Jen, who had just arrived, was away for paperwork procedures, Shelby was left alone in the tent.

It was then that Burmard approached Shelby.

‘Well, what a treat for the eyes. How old are you? Huh?’

Her appearance with her pale face, hair wet with cold sweat, and the flush on her cheeks from fever was exactly Burmard’s type.

He tried to personally wipe Shelby’s body with a water-dampened cloth, but.

‘…Won’t you get lost?’

Despite looking innocent, Shelby had quite a sharp side.

‘Looking like a potato hit by a stone. Where does she get off.’

Even while groaning, Shelby swatted away Burmard’s hand with contempt and hurled insults at him.

He had just wanted to give her some compliments because she looked pretty!

‘She brought it all on herself. Stupid bitch.’

At first, it was just like a petty revenge.

Burmard switched Shelby’s medicine with old moisturizing ointment he had.

Even so, he didn’t touch the infection prevention medicine Lubaven.

He knew that if infection progressed, it could be life-threatening.

As a result, Shelby’s wound area would swell and puff up, then temporarily improve when she took the infection prevention medicine, repeating this cycle.

She was experiencing a quite nasty situation where she wouldn’t die but was in deadly pain.

‘I was originally planning to gradually reduce the medicine around this time, but…’

He wasn’t confident about readily curing Shelby.

Recently, he had discovered that the Lubarinna he had casually stolen could be more useful than he thought.

‘To the nobles, this is 100,000 tera per bottle.’

That was the price when purchasing from the Academy of Pharmacy, but there were rumors it traded for twenty times more on the black market.

‘I’ve already collected 15 bottles. If I sell them all on the black market…’

He would get an amount he couldn’t earn even working for a year.

Burmard’s lips twitched.

‘Ah, what should I do.’

Should he cure Shelby now and find someone else to steal medicine from?

It was just as he was making various plans.

“P, Princess?”

“How is the Princess here…”

Outside the tent suddenly became noisy.

“Workers to work in the greenhouse?!”

I stared intently at the man grinning from ear to ear.

His appearance was so malicious-looking that my gaze naturally went to him.

‘But I shouldn’t judge people by their appearance.’

I quickly composed myself and nodded.

“Yeah. Is there anyone here who wants to apply?”

“Of course! Naturally!”

The man rubbed his palms together while scanning Count Rogrio and the guards lined up behind me.

Then he turned his gaze to Soya standing beside me.

“I’m Burmad Paki, I walked up from the south for a week. I was the first one to enter this tent!”

I tilted my head.

“Since I was young, I’ve been exceptionally good at managing and organizing things! I worked so well that people lined up everywhere trying to take me…”

The man named Burmard was earnestly promoting himself to Soya, not to me.

As if he couldn’t even communicate with a child like me.

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