The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 145

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Chapter 145
“I wasn’t asking whether she’s your daughter! I asked if she’s a Demon Clan member!”
“She’s human.”
He spoke with absolute conviction.
“You… you’ve been bewitched by a Demon Clan member.”
Ludbreed sighed at Kiriel’s unwavering declaration.
Kiriel faltered for a moment, his brow furrowing.
“Has this child caused us any harm? Has she ever claimed to be a Demon Clan member? Or in all this time, have you ever once sensed her as a Demon Clan member?”
“Then she must be a high-ranking Demon Clan member. You remember the talk of the Demon King bearing a child, don’t you? The High Priest speculated that child might be the Demon King’s seed.”
At Ludbreed’s words, Kiriel let out a soft laugh.
“After observing for so long, you make your judgment based solely on others’ words… how callous of you.”
“I don’t want to believe it either! I don’t want to!”
Ludbreed clenched his fists so tightly his knuckles whitened, his teeth grinding audibly as he cried out. His contorted face unmistakably betrayed his anguish.
“But if that child is a Demon Clan member… then our entire Yudia Duchy’s internal security has been compromised! Our Duchy, which should be safer than the Imperial Palace itself!”
“So you mean to cast her out? Or perhaps…”
Klein Yudia’s lips twisted further.
“You intend to kill her?”
“…!”
Crunch—
Whether from fingernails digging in or teeth grinding, Ludbreed’s face contorted violently.
Kiriel observed him quietly before speaking.
“This child is human. She consumed holy water without any ill effect. She stood there perfectly fine for over twenty minutes afterward.”
Kiriel turned to look at Michael.
Michael could only nod awkwardly at that questioning gaze. It was undeniably the truth.
“She’s my child, and my father’s granddaughter. That’s all we need to know.”
“Kiriel!!”
“But I felt it too, Marquis. That sinister energy coiled within her. And I saw it clearly with these eyes—her eyes splitting vertically, glowing crimson red.”
Hila spoke carefully, her face contorted as though each word caused her pain.
Kiriel regarded Hila silently before letting out a soft laugh.
“I’m far more curious about your true nature. Dios’s child seems to exist elsewhere entirely, it seems.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Father.”
Klein Yudia noticed the conversation drifting into strange territory and called out to him.
“…Right, that’s not the important matter. Place Bunny on the table. I’ll have Pegasus verify whether she’s a Demon Clan member or not.”
“I refuse.”
Kiriel answered firmly, his eyes fixed on the sofa table.
“What?!”
“It’s scratched and filthy. I said I won’t have it. Our daughter will get dirty. If you’re going to do this, do it on a clean bed.”
“You! Making jokes at a time like this—!”
“It’s not a joke, it’s the truth. Tsk, putting our daughter on such a dirty, tacky table with scratches all over it…”
Kiriel clicked his tongue in disapproval, cast a contemptuous glare at the table, and spun around sharply.
Had the Empire’s finest craftsman who created that table heard such words, he would have wept on the spot.
Faced with Klein Yudia’s insistence, Ludbreed and the others had no choice but to lay Bunny on an empty bed in the Main Residence.
Bunny, who would normally wake at the slightest sound, remained unconscious—whether from exhaustion or having expended considerable energy, her eyes did not open.
Klein Yudia, arms crossed, exhaled sharply and lifted his gaze.
Hila, sensing Klein Yudia’s stare, smiled faintly.
‘What exactly is this woman…?’
Or had his elder brother embraced two women and fathered a child with one of them?
No, that couldn’t be right.
Yet Shalone had also emerged as Dios Yudia’s child. The inconsistency of the narrative troubled Klein Yudia, and he slowly rubbed his face.
“Pegasus.”
The moment Ludbreed’s summons ended, a pale blue luminescence erupted beside him.
From within it came the sound of hoofbeats—clip-clop, clip-clop.
What emerged from the light was a beast. A single horn sprouted from its equine head, and magnificent wings spread across its back—Ludbreed’s Divine Beast.
“You are a Divine Beast who seeks truth. Confirm whether this child is human or Demon Clan.”
At Ludbreed’s words, the Divine Beast approached with measured steps—clip-clop, clip-clop—and bowed its head.
Tap.
Pegasus’s horn touched Bunny’s body gently and withdrew. Pegasus’s eyes widened slightly, then narrowed.
[Master, do you ask about this child’s race? Or do you ask about the child’s worth?]
“Of course I’m asking about the race.”
At Ludbreed’s response, Pegasus gazed silently at the child, then slowly raised its head and opened its mouth.
[This is Demon Clan.]
Thud—
At Pegasus’s answer, the air around them grew heavy in an instant.
Ludbreed’s face twisted, while faint smiles appeared at the corners of Hila’s and Belial’s mouths. The High Priest Michael drew a slow breath.
[And simultaneously, human.]
Pegasus continued, as though its statement was incomplete.
“What do you mean?”
[This child is truly a child of the Yudia Ducal House. Born from the union of human and Demon Clan within the Yudia Ducal House. Half-human and half-Demon Clan, yet the child carries thicker Demon Clan blood.]
At Pegasus’s continued words, Ludbreed’s eyes widened dramatically, then slowly contracted.
He gazed down at the child sleeping peacefully with an angelic face, his own expression deeply troubled.
“Then what I saw back then was real after all…”
Hila opened her mouth in profound shock, her body swaying.
Belial, standing behind her, caught the wavering Hila gently and looked down at her with evident concern.
“This… this is impossible. I… I cannot have my daughter, Shalone, that child… in such a mansion.”
Hila, covering her mouth with a handkerchief, trembled as she spoke. Her expression was unmistakably one of terror.
Klein Yudia watched her retreating form intently.
“…Kiriel, when exactly did you learn the child was Demon Clan?”
Klein Yudia, arms crossed, tilted his head slightly.
“Quite some time ago.”
“Why didn’t you tell us?”
“Because I knew exactly how you’d react. No one would ever see Bunny as Bunny herself.”
That’s why I hadn’t mentioned it to anyone until now. The moment I revealed the child was a Demon Clan member, chaos would erupt from every direction.
“As you’ve witnessed, Bunny has never caused harm, and she never will.”
“That’s precisely how the Demon Clan operates!”
“This child is human.”
“Pegasus said she was Demon Clan. That her demonic blood runs deeper! The aura I felt yesterday—it was unmistakably that of the Demon Clan, without a shred of deception.”
Ludbreed spoke like a pronouncement of judgment, his face twisted in anguish.
Klein Yudia held the child silently in his arms and opened his mouth.
“So what are you saying? That I should kill her?”
“…The Yudia Ducal House cannot raise her.”
At Ludbreed’s words, Kiriel nodded with an expressionless face.
“I understand. Then I shall leave.”
In truth, I had been considering this possibility from the moment things reached this point. No—from the moment I learned Bunny was Demon Clan.
Once the truth of Bunny being Demon Clan came to light, she could not remain in the Yudia Duchy.
And perhaps the only solution was for me to leave this place together with the child.
I had already prepared contingencies for such a situation.
“What…?”
At Kiriel Yudia’s words, Ludbreed’s expression shifted to one of shock—or rather, a look of utter disbelief and bewilderment.
“I said that Bunny and I will leave this house.”

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