The Baby Who Regressed Refuses Childcare - Chapter 95
—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————
“…It matches the letter His Grace had me deliver.”
I could hear Butler Roger, who was standing beside Grandmother, quietly murmuring.
“Only His Grace and I know the contents of that letter. Lady Isabel must have had it.”
Roger seemed to be trying hard to keep his voice low.
But thanks to how quiet the surroundings were, everyone could hear his voice.
“We should confirm whether that person is truly Lady Isabel’s daughter, but the letter is certainly…”
“Stop.”
Grandmother’s rigidly hardened voice was heard.
“Stop it, Roger.”
Roger immediately shut his mouth.
He was so tense that his face had turned pale.
In the heavy atmosphere, Grandmother parted her lips.
“…Senianna.”
As if entranced, I held out the letter I was holding toward Grandmother.
Grandmother took the letter.
Only after a long time had passed did Grandmother’s stiffened lips finally open.
“This is a letter I wrote, that’s correct.”
“…”
“Isabel had it… that’s right.”
“Congratulations, Mother.”
A leisurely, beautiful voice rang through the confused meeting hall.
Jayden, who had picked up Senianna, stood up and looked at Grandmother.
“Haven’t you missed Isabel terribly? And now you’ve found that child’s bloodline.”
Grandmother silently looked at Jayden and Senianna in his arms with a rigid gaze.
Jayden smiled.
“I understand your confusion. I too was incredibly surprised when I first discovered Sena.”
“…”
“The child’s face resembles Isabel so much.”
Eyes naturally turned to Senianna.
Below her disheveled silver hair, a face still plump with baby fat was visible.
Large, round eyes and plump lips with slightly upturned ends.
Her appearance seemed to have no resemblance to Grandmother, yet strangely gave off a similar feeling.
I didn’t know what expression to make, so I just stood there quietly.
My head kept getting foggy and strength drained from my hands and feet.
I took a deep breath and repeated to myself.
‘Get it together, Annellia. What are you doing? You should be happy. This is good news.’
In the Abner family, Princess Isabel had always been a sore spot.
Grandmother, the Lord, had only two children: Isabel and Jayden.
But during the busy period when Grandmother was becoming the Lord, Isabel left home for some reason.
I heard it was because of a minor conflict with Grandmother, but I didn’t know the exact reason.
Grandmother tried to bring Isabel back home, but soon terrible news struck the ducal family.
It was news that Isabel had died.
They said Grandmother wasn’t in her right mind for a while due to the grief of losing her daughter.
These were all stories I naturally learned while living in the Abner family.
‘But that Isabel had a child.’
Grandmother had found back that precious child of her daughter.
It was truly a miraculous and joyful event.
‘I should congratulate her. I can’t just stand here like an idiot.’
It was the moment I was about to force myself to speak and say something.
“It’s frightening to think what would have happened if I hadn’t gone to Otium. If I hadn’t discovered Senianna by chance at the slave trader there…”
My gaze turned toward the voice I heard.
The owner of the voice was Jayden.
“Senianna would probably have been sold to the Eastern Continent. If that had happened, we might never have found her.”
My expression gradually hardened as I listened to those words.
“How fortunate that we discovered her like this, Mother.”
Something… something was strange.
“It’s frightening to think what would have happened if I hadn’t gone to the Eastern Continent. If I hadn’t discovered Hiana by chance at the slave trader there…”
“Hiana would probably have lived as a slave forever. If that had happened, we might never have found her.”
“How fortunate that we discovered her like this, Duke.”
Because Jayden’s voice overlapped exactly with something I remembered.
“You’ve finally found your real granddaughter.”
“You’ve finally found your real daughter.”
Those were the words of the person who had found and brought Hiana to Duke Longton in my previous life.
The words of Philomena Longton, Lambert Longton’s sister and my aunt.
“Then… are you really Grandmother Sena?”
My thoughts stopped abruptly at the voice I suddenly heard.
Still held in Jayden’s arms, Senianna was looking at Grandmother with a pitiful expression.
Grandmother’s eyes, facing Senianna, wavered aimlessly.
“Disciple. Are you really okay?”
Owen asked, breaking through the silence of the quiet bedroom.
I quietly nodded my head.
“Your expression right now is terrible. You know that, right?”
I nodded slightly again.
Owen closed his mouth as if he had nothing more to say.
Originally, Owen didn’t come to my bedroom often.
Owen was my teacher who taught me magic, not a maid like Miel or Soya.
But today was an exception.
I told Miel, who was very worried about me, that I wanted to be with Owen.
“Sigh, and your orphanage teacher isn’t here at a time like this.”
Owen looked at me anxiously.
As Owen said, Teacher Ann was currently in the Evehill region where the greenhouse was being built.
There were various things to organize while converting the orphanage building into a medicinal herb warehouse.
In short, Owen was the only person by my side right now who knew about my regression.
“If I’m okay with you, use me for anything. If you need something, tell me, and if there’s something you want to confide…”
“I can’t breathe.”
Owen stopped speaking abruptly.
When I calmly raised my gaze, I saw Owen’s very tense eyes.
“It’s exactly the same as when Hiana returned in my previous life…”
The moment I saw Senianna in the meeting hall, I felt like I somehow knew what would happen next.
I knew better than anyone what happens to ‘fake family’ when ‘real family’ returns.
“Disciple.”
“Teacher, I…”
Owen closed his mouth.
“I don’t want to become a bad person to Grandmother… I mean, to Duke Abner.”
Owen made a flustered expression.
“No, why would you be a bad person? Thanks to you, how well is the family doing right now!”
“If Grandmother met her real granddaughter but didn’t genuinely rejoice about it, then she’d be a bad person.”
Owen froze as if at a loss for words.
Then he ruffled his hair as if troubled.
“That’s…”
“I’m so happy right now, and I don’t want to be mean to the grandmother who made that happiness possible.”
“Ah, my disciple.”
“So I have no idea what I should do or how…”
Finally, the tears I’d been holding back fell drop by drop onto the blanket.
Owen sat there with a pale face, unable to do this or that.
I sniffled and spoke in a dejected voice.
“Senianna is five years old too.”
“…”
“Do you know how young five years old is? If she really was at a slave trader’s, that child…”
The terrible scars carved into Hiana’s body when she returned from my past life came to mind.
That’s what slave traders were like.
Places that treated people like beasts, harming them without a second thought, and sometimes just killing them outright.
I later made scar treatment medicine and removed all the scars from Hiana’s body.
The reason I did that, even while she took so much from me, was because of guilt.
And I felt similar emotions toward the returned Senianna.
‘What if my suspicions are wrong?’
Ever since hearing Jayden’s words in the Meeting Hall, I found Senianna strange.
More precisely, Jayden was strange, which made Senianna seem strange too.
But when I tried to suspect Senianna, guilt kept stabbing at my heart.
‘What if Senianna really is Isabel’s daughter?’
What if she’s a pitiful young child who’s only suffered hardships, unable to meet her family all this time?
‘As someone who entered the family as Isabel’s adopted daughter, this is absolutely something I shouldn’t do.’
It was the moment I was clenching my fists tightly.
“Why wouldn’t you know what to do?”
Owen spoke seriously and then sat down on my bed.
“Disciple, you’re the youngest academy president on the entire continent. You’re a drug developer whose products are commercialized throughout the Empire, and the Magtop Lord is your subordinate researcher.”
“…”
“Just do whatever you feel you should do. It’s not even difficult.”
—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
Mara55
I know it wont happened but I would want her to leave with Owen, Miel, and Ann. And live in her estate the emperor gave her. But since she’s stuck here for now I hope the adults around her support her and make better decisions this time.