The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 123
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Chapter 123
If she had lived in a place so distant that Pegasus’s reach could not extend there, I wouldn’t know.
However, when I investigated whether there were any personnel who had been expelled from the Branch Families in the past and whose whereabouts could not be found, there were no major issues according to the family records.
In other words, Bunny’s true identity remained shrouded in mystery.
‘I understand that she came down from Oteloid with a woman named Luriel, but….’
I could only trace their movements themselves.
Tracing their path from the Far North to where they were now proved far easier than expected.
A woman who always wore a hood or hat on her head, traveling from village to village with an infant, selling uncommon snacks—such a thing was not an ordinary occurrence.
‘She must have endured quite a lot.’
Now I understood why the child insisted on doing everything alone—it was a childhood shaped by hardship.
“What are you talking about?”
“Before that, Father doesn’t hate Bunny, right…?”
“I could never hate you.”
“Even if Bunny is a Demon Clan Member?”
At the child’s words, Ludbreed Yudia gazed down at her silently, then sat on the edge of the bed and placed Bunny on his lap.
“Of course.”
“…So Father won’t just kill Bunny, no matter what kind of Demon Clan Member she is?”
Ludbreed Yudia paused for a moment, then let out a soft laugh.
Everything—becoming a man who was not so powerless, living like a perfectly capable human, being surrounded by people, having children depend on him—all of it had begun because of Bunny.
And already… Ludbreed Yudia could not abandon Bunny. The child had come to occupy far too much of his life for that to be possible.
“Yes, absolutely not.”
“…Then Bunny has a really, really big secret to tell you.”
Bunny spread both arms wide as she proclaimed it was an enormously big secret, then waved them about frantically.
She still looked no different from a small child before me.
Ludbreed Yudia let out a light laugh.
Bunny had been thinking strange things for ages now, and there was nothing surprising about it anymore.
“Yes.”
“But you mustn’t hate Bunny, okay….”
Ludbreed Yudia held the child silently in his embrace and gently patted her back.
“I won’t.”
“Actually, Bunny….”
Seeing the child’s pink eyes sparkle, Ludbreed Yudia opened his mouth with a serious expression.
“Is going to become an incredibly huge and powerful and absolutely enormous Demon King—a truly amazing Demon Clan Member.”
“I know, you said becoming a Demon King was your dream.”
Ludbreed Yudia let it pass with a light tone of voice.
Since Bunny had said “absolutely enormous Demon King” several times before, I was well aware that “Demon King” was her childhood dream, much like “hero” was for other children.
“No, that’s not it! Bunny really is going to become an absolutely enormous Demon King!!”
“Yes, yes.”
“Ugh…. So Bunny’s mother is an absolutely enormous Demon King!!”
As Bunny flailed her arms and shouted, Ludbreed Yudia, who had been supporting the child’s back and absently touching her soft cheek while brushing it off lightly, suddenly froze.
“Your mother is the Demon King?”
“Yes-huh!”
“….”
Ludbreed Yudia’s eyes widened slightly at the unexpected revelation, and he quietly lowered his gaze to look at the child.
“…Mom, you said you didn’t know who Dad was.”
“Bunny, I never said I knew or didn’t know.”
I simply kept my mouth shut whenever you asked.
Bunny fidgeted with her fingers and answered evasively, then glanced up to study Ludbreed Yudia’s expression.
“…Dad, are you angry?”
“Do I seem angry to you?”
“…No. You don’t feel prickly.”
When Bunny shook her head, Ludbreed Yudia nodded in response.
He lifted Bunny, who had been sitting on his lap, and placed her in the middle of the bed, then sat across from her with his legs crossed, maintaining a small distance between them.
“Bunny, tell me honestly.”
“Okay.”
“Your biological mother is the Demon King?”
“…Yes-huh.”
Bunny gave a small nod.
As she did, she hugged Ma-Gom even tighter.
With her head slightly bowed, she took a deep breath. Though it was a secret from everyone else, she knew she had to tell Dad.
‘…I don’t want Dad to hate me, but I don’t want to hurt Dad either.’
Bunny wanted to be with Dad and her family for a very, very long time.
To make that happen, she couldn’t keep this hidden to herself. She had to tell Dad and work through it together with him.
‘…But what if Dad dislikes me….’
She had worried and agonized over it enough to lose sleep, but ultimately, it was a problem Bunny couldn’t solve alone.
Bunny was a Demon Clan Member.
She was born a Demon Clan Member.
She had to become the Demon King.
Bunny could never become human.
She couldn’t change what she wasn’t born as.
It was a bit disappointing, but there was no reason to change it. Bunny was simply born, and being born was certainly not wrong.
So….
‘Bunny just needs to change Dad’s mind.’
If she became a kind Demon Clan Member, a big and strong but kind Demon King, that would be enough.
“The Demon King, then….”
Ludbreed Yudia murmured softly and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
Ludbreed Yudia was the only person who had ever met the Demon King directly. And he had personally cut off her life.
“….”
He drew a deep breath, then slowly raised his hand and rubbed his face very deliberately.
“So the child of the Demon King has survived. Word has it that among the surviving Demon Clan Members, there are whispered rumors that this child will awaken as the next Demon King.”
“The Demon King’s child…? You mean a seed?”
“Yes, that must be it. It was strange that she died so readily… but it seems she’d already passed on the seed. I’ll exterminate it the moment we find it. We must dispose of it before it awakens. Otherwise, the Demon Clan will run rampant again.”
It was a matter that Ludbreed Yudia had quietly brought up about a year or two ago, calling him and his brothers aside to give them a heads-up.
Since then, there had been no further word, so I’d completely forgotten about it….
‘The lamp at the base of the pillar casts the deepest shadow….’
I never imagined it would be right here in this house, right beside me.
Kiriel exhaled sharply without realizing it, then slowly closed his mouth.
I had no idea what to say.
“Who told you such a thing?”
“Bunny has memories from when she was little.”
Bunny blinked her eyes, her pupils rolling carefully as she spoke with deliberation.
There was not the slightest tremor or wavering in Bunny’s gaze as she looked directly at Kiriel.
Despite being a child, whenever Bunny met his eyes like this, Kiriel always found himself at a loss for words.
And that was because those eyes, which seemed as though she had made some momentous resolve, reminded him of his Elder Brother.
He is the one who killed the Demon King.
In other words, that meant he could be seen as the enemy who slew the child’s mother.
Kiriel’s lips trembled as his head spun, and he clenched his fists tightly.
It was a considerably shocking thing to hear without any warning.
‘…Bunny is the Demon King’s child?’
The words “next Demon King” ultimately meant that if this child were left alone, the Demon Realm would be revived, and the Demon Clan would regain their strength and run rampant.
Ironically, the Demon Clan were a race whose power grew immeasurably simply by the existence of one being called the Demon King.
The stronger the Demon King’s power, the stronger the Demon Clan’s power became, as if they drew their life force from the Demon King.
The Demon Clan were connected through a single root called the Demon King.
When the Demon King dies, not all the Demon Clan members under her command perish… but they do become powerless.
In fact, the very fact that we haven’t heard anything about the Demon Clan’s rampages since the Holy Demon War ended with the Demon King’s death shows just how weakened they’ve become, how they’ve been holding their breath.
It was an extraordinarily massive war. It lasted for a period that was long if you counted it that way, short if you counted it another, but the scars it left were deep.
Even those counted among the few strongest pillars of the Demon Realm died in considerable numbers during that war.
After the Holy Demon War, the moment the Demon King died, the Demon Clan mysteriously fell silent.
Looking back now, it was quite a strange thing.
Given the nature of the Demon Clan, it would be typical for them to rush forward with malice and struggle to kill even one more person.
But if the reason they were holding their breath was for the sake of the next Demon King, then it made sense.
The Holy Demon War was a conflict that caused great damage to humanity as well.
Among the nobility, there were quite a few who had lost children or parents.
The moment they learned that Bunny was the Demon King’s child, they would come rushing like a pack of hounds.
“….”
Kiriel ran his hand roughly through his hair.
To be perfectly honest, I wished Bunny had gotten the facts wrong.
“Is that something Luriel told you?”
“Yes….”
“Then do you perhaps remember who your father is? Bunny. Whether it’s a name or appearance, anything will do.”
At Kiriel’s words, Bunny’s lips parted slightly before she slowly lifted her head, her bright eyes meeting his gaze.
“….”
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Thyara Zry
Hi, thank you for the work. Can you please fix the name? Ludbreed is the grandfather right?