The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 113

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Chapter 113
Bunny shuffled forward, blocking Shalone’s path, and embraced her while whimpering.
“Sniff. Father taught Bunny everything about manners. So Father is just a lowly commoner… Sister, Bunny is so sad.”
“Well… That’s exactly my point! It’s not Prince Kiriel who lacks proper education—it’s you! You’re bringing shame upon the entire household!”
“No way? Bunny is super amazing, and Bunny has the greatest, most magnificent Phoenix too—a true genius Bunny?”
Bunny blinked her eyes and explained with a radiant smile.
She thrust her chest forward and pounded it with her small clenched fist, her pride evident in every gesture.
At Bunny’s words, the young lady’s lips twitched slightly. The girl clenched her fists and opened her mouth with an indignant expression.
“Phoenix? What does that even matter? There’s no proof it’s real. You’re just calling it that yourself.”
“No way? Bunny calls it the Heugyeomryong Phoenix.”
At Bunny’s bizarre words, the young ladies fell silent, their lips merely fluttering open and closed.
“No! Because you act so shamelessly and don’t know your place, Young Lady Shalone has nowhere to stand. You’re so vulgar that even Young Lady Shalone gets insulted because of you.”
“No way? Sister has tons of places to stand? Here, here, over there, way over there, here too, over there too… Maybe it’s because of that super huge stone with the really big feet? Can’t Sister stand there too?”
“No! That’s not what I meant!”
As Bunny pointed at the empty floor of the Banquet Hall with her fingers, the young ladies who had been glaring at her, apparently frustrated, began clenching their fists and striking their own chests repeatedly.
Bunny sniffled and approached Shalone, pressing herself against her before speaking.
“Sigh. Sister~ Bunny is so upset. Because Bunny is made of stone, Bunny can’t understand what they’re saying. It’s like they’re being stupid… But Bunny is such a big adult, so Bunny tries to understand anyway…”
It’s not easy. It’s really not easy.
Bunny muttered softly like an old man who had seen the whole world, shaking her head, then shrugged her shoulders.
“Is this what they call social interaction?”
At Bunny’s shrug, Shalone looked down at her silently.
Though she didn’t have a thousand faces, how could this little thing be so composed and shameless?
‘I knew she was an evil Demon Clan member…’
But I didn’t expect her acting to be this skillful.
The way she subtly got under people’s skin was no amateur’s work.
The problem was that Shalone couldn’t understand why she felt oddly satisfied watching Bunny do it. If Shalone were in their position, she would have struck her own chest with her fist too.
“You know, Bunny knows her place very well.”
As Bunny, smiling brightly and clinging to Shalone’s arm with an innocent expression, spoke these words, the young ladies froze.
“It’s good to step on them while they’re young like this. They need to learn gratitude toward young ladies. They need to understand what benefits they’re receiving, who they owe it to, and what position they’re in.”
Recalling what they had muttered among themselves moments ago, the young ladies looked at Bunny with pale faces. They had been quite far away, yet Bunny was speaking as if she had heard every word.
And that gaze sent a chill down their spines, leaving them with an eerie feeling.
“Bunny, you little—!”
“Fine, fine. You commoners get along so well together. Now I understand your level, Young Lady Shalone!”
What?
“And you!”
Bunny had seen this scene before in a fairy tale that Luriel had told her.
As Bunny saw the young lady’s finger coming right up to her nose, she quickly opened her mouth.
“Bunny, next time we meet, I won’t let you off easy?!”
Bunny’s eyes sparkled and she bounced excitedly, then looked at the three young ladies with an expression full of anticipation and spoke.
At the same time, the young lady who had her words stolen by Bunny—the very words she had been about to say—fluttered her lips and clenched her fists before hastily backing away.
“No?! I’m going to leave it alone! I won’t even pretend to know her! If I engage with her, my own standards will drop. Let’s go, everyone.”
“Ah! Yes, of course. I, I won’t engage with her either!”
“That’s right! We’ll become stupid.”
Bunny blinked and pointed at them with her finger before opening her mouth.
“Huh, they’re running away.”
“I know, right.”
Shalone, who had witnessed this melodramatic scene unfold before her eyes, let out a quiet laugh. She hadn’t particularly enjoyed how they were subtly belittling Bunny, but perhaps this was for the best after all….
Shalone, who had been thinking up to that point, suddenly widened her eyes and shook her head vigorously.
‘What do you mean it doesn’t sit right with me?!’
She should have sided with those girls and crushed this child’s spirits, so what exactly had she been enjoying?
Finally coming to her senses, Shalone wrapped her head in both hands and let out a silent scream. Bunny tugged insistently at Shalone’s sleeve.
“Shalone, those people won’t even acknowledge Bunny now. Am I being ostracized?”
“What….”
Shalone glanced subtly around her surroundings.
The area that had been bustling with activity grew noticeably quieter.
She could see the Young Ladies and Young Gentlemen gradually distancing themselves. With such a loud outburst, it would be stranger if those nearby hadn’t heard it.
“Yes, you’re being ostracized.”
“Gasp!”
At Shalone’s blunt words, Bunny’s mouth fell open in shock.
“And thanks to you, it seems I’m being ostracized too.”
Shalone shrugged her shoulders and let out a deep sigh, about to turn back to Kiriel, when—
“My goodness, Shalone? How surprising. Is that really you, Shalone?”
“Yes, who….”
As Shalone turned her head, her eyes widened dramatically, and her face quickly hardened.
Snow-white hair rippled softly. The crimson eyes that had found Shalone curved warmly with affection.
Shalone’s lips trembled as she wore a flustered expression, then she opened her mouth with an awkward smile.
“Mo… no, um, Mother.”
“My goodness…. You said you’d be attending a banquet, and it was this one. I’m so delighted to see you like this.”
At the sudden appearance of the woman in a composed dress and Shalone’s frozen form, Bunny’s eyes rolled about.
Shalone’s body, stiff as stone.
Her round eyes, wide with surprise.
And….
‘White-haired woman, something feels tingly and strange.’
Bunny, who had been moving her head busily from left to right, crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes with a rather serious expression.
“What brings you here….”
“I’ve been working as a companion and lady’s maid to Baroness Gallana recently. After sending you off, I took some time to settle my heart. I needed to adapt to noble society before going to the Udiah Duchy, you see…. Then the Baroness received an invitation to today’s banquet, so I came along.”
A lie. A lie. A lie.
Each time the white-haired woman spoke, Bunny felt a tingling, electric sensation.
Bunny blinked as she glanced at Shalone, who stood frozen like a child caught doing something wrong.
“Ah! Meeting like this is such a joy, but could you spare some time for your mother? I’d like to catch up with my daughter after so long. Of course, I’ll speak with Baroness Gallana first.”
Watching the smiling woman gently brush Shalone’s cheek with her palm, Bunny finished her assessment.
‘Something bad and strange about this person.’
Once her judgment was complete, Bunny grabbed Shalone’s sleeve and pulled.
“Shalone, come. Let’s go to Bunny and Father.”
“Hmm?”
The woman, whose gaze had been fixed solely on Shalone, only then seemed to notice Bunny. She tilted her head curiously and lowered her eyes.
“Who are you?”
“I’m Bunny!”
“Bunny? You’re Bunny? You’re the one? My goodness… are you Bunny Yudia?”
The woman’s eyes widened in shock as she began to crouch down in front of Bunny.
Startled, Shalone quickly grabbed the woman’s sleeve.
“L-let’s go to the Terrace, Mother. You don’t need to bother with her.”
A chill ran through the air.
At Shalone’s cold words, Bunny’s mouth fell open and she froze.
Wh-what…?
The white-haired woman, who had been about to crouch, narrowed her eyes and looked at Shalone, then nodded lightly with a smile. She straightened up from her crouching position and took a step back from Bunny.
“Don’t follow. Just stay tucked away in some corner over there.”
At Shalone’s icy words, Bunny’s eyes widened.
A tingling sensation spread across her skin.
Her skin tingled and tingled…
‘…and so did my heart.’
Watching Shalone and the woman’s retreating figures, Bunny blinked and fidgeted with her fingers.
Something felt strange.
‘I thought Ho-Mung was soft on Bunny, but maybe not?’
But tingling only happened when someone was lying, so this was odd.
‘Should I tell Father?’

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