The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 100

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Chapter 100
The moment she sensed a presence, all eyes turned toward the young girl.
“Shalone!”
“Ah….”
“Did you come to play too?”
Bunny, perched comfortably atop the wolf’s back, bounced her entire body as she asked.
As Allen—or rather, the wolf—padded forward on four legs, a peculiar displeasure flickered across his expression.
Watching Allen turn his head away sharply, Shalone clutched at her skirt hem tightly.
“Ah, this wolf here is Allen!”
“I, I see. I just came out for a walk to rest by the lakeside…. I couldn’t sleep.”
Shalone, her purpose now gone, spoke with an awkward laugh.
‘Shalone’s lying.’
Bunny, sensing the turbulent emotion, blinked once.
Lowering her gaze, Bunny stared quietly at Shalone’s chest.
‘Something red, rippling.’
Though she didn’t know what it was, Bunny easily discerned that it was an enormous mass of magical power.
After all, the genius Bunny had excellent eyes!
‘Anyway, ride on Allen’s back and splash-splash.’
I had to do it before Father arrived.
‘But what if Ho-Moong goes back and tells Father that I was playing late at night by the lake with Allen?’
Bunny would get scolded terribly while riding on Allen’s back without even getting to splash around in the lake.
So I absolutely had to drag Ho-Moong into this.
‘If three people are getting scolded, the scolding is divided by three.’
Father only has one mouth, after all.
Having brilliantly completed her wicked scheme, Bunny gazed at Shalone with a radiant smile.
“See, Shalone. Bunny plays with Allen at night, and when it gets late, Father comes to pick me up and I go home.”
“…Really?”
“Yep!”
At Bunny’s impossibly bright words, Shalone silently clenched her fists.
The futures the Witch revealed were almost never wrong. Yet since arriving here, most of the information she’d provided had proven useless.
Feeling heat rush to her eye sockets, Shalone pressed her palms firmly against her eyes.
“Yep. So let’s play together too, Shalone. Bunny wants to play with you too.”
“…!”
Watching the small hand extended without hesitation and the innocent smile spreading across Bunny’s face, Shalone quietly bit her lip.
Looking at such a bright and untainted child made her feel like a terribly wicked one. In truth, the Demon Clan Member deceiving everyone here was herself.
Everyone was simply being deceived, knowing nothing.
‘The Demon Clan are said to be a race that enchants people.’
Bunny must have certainly used such abilities to enthrall everyone before she arrived.
Perhaps she was using such tremendous dark magic on her right now.
Or perhaps….
“Shalone?”
There was no way the hand of this child, who constantly interfered with my work, could possibly feel warm to me.
“…So my name is Shalone.”
Shalone whipped her head around and gently grasped Bunny’s hand.
The moment Shalone took her hand, Bunny broke into a radiant smile, bounced down, and wrapped her arms around Shalone.
“W-what are you doing?!”
“I wish Shalone would be Bunny’s big sister.”
According to my careful observations, the term “big sister” functioned much like “big brother”—an invincible title that made the protagonist… no, any cute younger sibling willing to do absolutely anything.
‘Bunny’s cuteness offensive strategy. Even the protagonist Ho-Moong melts like putty.’
This eight-year-old adult version of the great King Bunny was a remarkably cautious child, never letting her guard down anywhere or anytime.
“Allen, can’t you give Shalone a ride too? Allen is strong?”
“Strong.”
Before Bunny could even finish speaking, the wolf answered confidently while standing on all four legs.
“Well… as long as you don’t go wild, I don’t care.”
“Okay. Shalone, get on quick! We have to hurry!”
“Huh? Why all of a sudden…?”
Bunny grabbed Shalone’s hand and pulled the young girl along.
The wolf crouched down, and Bunny climbed on first.
“Get on, we don’t have time.”
As Allen urged her on, Shalone, reading the situation, carefully climbed onto his back as well.
Shalone’s eyes widened.
‘So fluffy.’
And incredibly soft and warm.
As Shalone unconsciously stroked the fur gently with her palms, savoring the softness—
Suddenly, Bunny thrust her fist high into the air, then stretched her index finger out with a sharp snap, pointing directly at the lake below.
“Allen, let’s goooo!!”
“Arooooo!”
Thud-thud-thud!
The wolf, howling in resonance with Bunny’s solemn cry, began to kick off the ground with all its might.
As a sudden gust of wind swept over them, Shalone instinctively squeezed her eyes shut and reflexively embraced whoever was in front of her.
“Kyaaahhhhh!!”
“Hehehehe!!”
Bunny tapped the back of Shalone’s hand, who was hugging her tightly with her body curled up.
“Shalone, open your eyes. Okay?”
Bunny leaned her back against Shalone’s upper body as she spoke.
The moment Shalone realized that what she had reflexively embraced was Bunny and released the tension in her arms to open her eyes—
“…Oh.”
They were flying over the lake.
Or rather, it was clear that Allen had jumped this high by running at full speed.
“It’s incredibly beautiful, isn’t it?”
Shalone’s eyes widened at Bunny’s cheerful words as she handed something over.
Turning my head, I could indeed see a massive full moon filling the sky—so close it felt as though I could touch it if I merely stretched out my hand.
The full moon, luminous against the pitch-black night sky.
Gossamer clouds rippling around it.
And there we were, soaring above it all.
It was the moment Shalone unconsciously reached out her hand.
“Hold on tight! Both of you!”
“Splash splash!!”
The instant Allen’s voice reached my ears, I felt my body suddenly yanked downward with a whoosh.
My outstretched hand plummeted in an instant.
“Kyaaaaa!”
That was the problem.
As a wolf without wings, the moment we took flight, there was nothing left but to fall.
Shalone shrieked and clung desperately to Bunny.
Bunny, finding it all hilarious, burst into delighted laughter: “Hehehehe!!”
“Allen!”
A familiar voice tinged with exasperation reached my ears, and then—
Splash—!
With a refreshing sound, my entire body plunged into the water before quickly resurfacing.
A startled Shalone reflexively opened her eyes wide and gaped in bewilderment.
“Puhah…!”
“…What is this…?”
Opening my eyes, I found myself in the middle of the lake, sitting on the back of a soaking-wet Allen who was doing a dog paddle, alongside an equally drenched Bunny.
“Whoo-hah, this is fun!!”
A complex about being half-human, half-beast…?
Nonsense.
How could someone with such a complex be dog-paddling through the water and running with all their might to fetch a ball in their mouth?
Shalone, her carefully groomed appearance now completely soaked, stood in a daze, thinking absurdly and letting out a hollow laugh.
A drenched wolf, a young Demon Clan member laughing shamelessly while soaked, and herself, who had tried to be clever only to end up drenched as well.
Truly a trio of fools.
“Ahahahaha!!”
Shalone found herself laughing despite herself.
She felt genuinely foolish.
As Shalone laughed, Bunny, who had been blinking, also burst into another foolish laugh—”Heheheh”—delighted by something.
‘I’ll have to try a different approach.’
If I didn’t do as the Witch instructed, I would face severe punishment.
‘Driving out the Demon Clan Member is the right thing to do, after all.’
Honestly, it made no sense for this child, a Demon Clan Member, to be in the Yudia Ducal House, which valued sanctity.
It was only right that I do this for the sake of this little one.
But today…
For once, even this didn’t seem so bad.
“Allen, Bunny!”
Flinch!
At the sound of a voice from somewhere, Allen and Bunny’s bodies jolted visibly.
As Shalone turned her head in bewilderment, Kiriel Yudia stood rigid by the lakeside, his expression colder than usual—as if a bitter north wind laden with snow swept across his features. Beside him stood Kalvad Yudia, his face etched with discomfort.
“Shalone?”
When Kiriel’s eyes met Shalone’s, his brow furrowed deeper still.
“All three of you, come out.”
At his stern, uncompromising voice, Shalone’s shoulders trembled. She had merely been dragged into this, after all.
It was the moment Shalone, flustered, glanced down at Bunny.
Snicker.
Bunny was smirking at Shalone with a sidelong glance.
Seeing that expression, Shalone’s eyes widened sharply, her body going rigid. Her mouth fell open involuntarily.
‘This little fiend deliberately dragged me into this! Of course…! That wicked Demon Clan Member…!’
‘Ho-Moong hugged me twice today alone. Bunny’s probably already wrapped around his finger.’
Splash, splash.
Lost in their separate thoughts, Allen paddled frantically in a dog paddle and finally reached the shore.
That day, the three of them had no choice but to be scolded until tears streamed down their faces.

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