The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155
Bunny stared blankly at Kalbad before tears streamed down her face, and she rubbed her eyes roughly with her sleeves.
“Hey, wait. You’ll hurt your eyes. Stop, you’re going to damage them. Wipe gently, okay?”
Kalbad rushed over and gently dabbed Bunny’s eyes with a soft handkerchief.
Bunny smiled with a face on the verge of tears, her lips trembling into a fragile grin.
A dull ache.
Kalbad smiled despite himself and stroked the child’s hair.
“I’m sorry.”
“I thought you… hated me.”
A sniffle.
Bunny sniffled and shook her head frantically from side to side.
Kalbad stared at Bunny blankly, then shook his head vigorously, denying it absolutely.
“That’s impossible, you fool.”
“Yeah…”
“Something strange happened, and I didn’t know what to do about it, so I acted that way. But…”
Kalbad rubbed his face roughly.
Looking at that face, such trivial concerns seemed meaningless.
He exhaled a long breath and opened both arms.
“I’m sorry, little sister.”
Kalbad leaned forward and pulled Bunny into his embrace.
Wrapped in the warmth of his arms, Bunny’s face flushed slightly. The warmth that touched her felt wonderfully comforting.
“You don’t hate me?”
“Me? How could I ever hate you?”
Kalbad’s mouth fell open, and he let out a genuine laugh as if he’d heard the most absurd thing in the world.
Bunny’s face grew warm, and soon her expression softened into a smile.
“You’ve probably heard the rumors, but I wanted to tell you myself.”
“You did?”
Kalbad cupped Bunny’s flushed, heated cheeks in his palm.
“Since you asked about eating, you haven’t eaten yet?”
Kalbad, who had grown somewhat and matured noticeably, asked with composure.
Bunny nodded slightly. Watching her cautiously gauge his reaction, Kalbad smiled gently.
“Bunny.”
“Yes?”
“I don’t hate you. Even if you were a lizard-human instead of a Demon Clan member, I would have loved you.”
“A lizard?”
At the unexpected remark, Bunny’s eyes widened.
Kalbad nodded and gently took Bunny’s hand. In that moment, an unsettling feeling washed over him, and Kalbad hesitated.
‘Something’s wrong.’
Kalbad’s brow furrowed.
No matter how much he thought about it, something felt off. An anxiety kept creeping in—a sense that he shouldn’t be close to Bunny.
I felt like I should keep my distance, and instinctively, something about it repelled me. Even a touch that would have been welcome in the past now felt wrong. It was as though I were grasping something I shouldn’t—as if the hand I held belonged to someone else entirely.
As if the hand I should be holding wasn’t this child’s at all, but another’s instead.
Kalbad drew in a deep breath, bit the inside of his mouth hard, and with an expression of indifference, tightened his grip on Bunny’s hand slightly.
“So there’s really no one to trust but your big brother, right? Ahem. I’m better than Allen, aren’t I?”
Kalbad spoke with a forced laugh.
Bunny’s tears had stopped by then. She rubbed her eye sockets with her free hand and tilted her head. Something felt off.
“Kalbad…?”
“…Yeah?”
Kalbad answered a beat too late.
Bunny’s eyes narrowed. She sensed something strange emanating from Kalbad—neither demonic energy nor divine power, but something else entirely.
“Is there anything you’d like to eat? Tell me.”
“I’m fine with anything… But are you okay, Kalbad?”
“You… Call me big brother.”
Kalbad spoke with displeasure.
His voice was as sullen as always, but what was strange was that The Boy wasn’t looking at Bunny. She picked up on it keenly. And that peculiar tingling sensation she felt from him as well.
‘Does he dislike me?’
No.
If he disliked her, given his nature, he would have told her to leave immediately. Yet even as he turned his head away, his hand remained firmly clasped around hers.
“Did something happen? Kalbad?”
“I said call me big brother.”
Answering with his head turned away, Kalbad seemed to be struggling with something.
Bunny, who had followed him into the Room, suddenly stopped at the threshold.
“Kalbad… big brother.”
At Bunny’s call, Kalbad froze.
His ears perked up. And for good reason—no matter how many times he’d asked her to call him big brother or elder brother, she had never once done so until now.
Kalbad turned his head sharply toward Bunny, his eyes wide with surprise.
Thump.
Thump-thump, thump-thump.
His heart began racing again, and Kalbad held his breath.
The heartbeat felt like a warning signal—a danger signal telling him to keep his distance because Bunny was in danger.
And the moment he gave in to that fear and retreated… it felt as though he would never be able to approach her again.
“Something did happen.”
Bunny murmured softly, her gaze fixed on his chest.
“…It’s nothing, really. I think I’m just not feeling well. It keeps…”
“Does your heart keep hurting?”
“A little…”
It wasn’t pain exactly, but it was beating so fast that a ringing sound filled his ears.
Feeling somewhat embarrassed, Kalbad rubbed his face vigorously and turned his head away.
“There’s something strange here.”
Bunny approached with quick strides and pressed the tip of her index finger firmly against the area near Kalbad’s heart.
Kalbad flinched, then exhaled slowly.
“Something strange?”
“Yeah. Just this dark lump. Did you eat something or something?”
“Ah….”
Kalbad’s expression twisted in discomfort.
Shalone had come to him looking quite tense, wanting to introduce her mother to him.
He’d eaten something at that place. He’d heard there that Bunny might be a Demon Clan Member, and… after that, the Household erupted into chaos.
“I did eat something… but it was just light cookies and black tea. Shalone invited me.”
“Shalone did?”
“Yeah. She seemed so afraid of being rejected that she froze for a while… I thought, how long have we known each other that she’d fear something like this? So I went.”
Kalbad scratched his head and spoke hesitantly. His eyes still couldn’t quite meet hers.
Bunny felt somewhat dissatisfied, but she didn’t show it—she simply pressed her lips together and nodded.
“There, um… Shalone’s Mother mentioned you. That you might be a Demon Clan Member. I laughed it off, but soon the whole Household got noisy about it.”
Kalbad sighed.
Honestly, lying or speaking in roundabout ways wasn’t his style, nor did he have the confidence for it.
“…But after that rumor spread, I kept developing negative feelings toward you….”
Something coiled within Kalbad’s heart stirred. A dark, murky mass became visible to Bunny’s eyes.
“You disliked me?”
“More than that primitive emotion… it felt like I was supposed to hate you. Like, if I liked you, something would be wrong. That’s how it felt….”
Kalbad scratched the back of his head. His expression showed he found it quite embarrassing to say.
But….
Honestly, how could he have brought himself to ask about something like that or say it outright? So he’d simply shut himself in his Room until that strange feeling faded.
‘Allen must have felt the same way….’
Of course, if he’d known Bunny would cry, he wouldn’t have made that choice.
“Anyway, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to upset you or make you sad—it’s just… I felt like I needed to understand why I was feeling this way before I could see you again.”
Kalbad bowed deeply and offered his apology.
“I never meant to make you sad. Really.”
“…Yeah.”
Bunny nodded, seeming to understand.
After all, she could clearly see the dark, worm-like mass coiled within Kalbad as well.
“Can I get rid of that for you?”
“Get rid of it? How?”
“I don’t know. Wouldn’t it work if I just poured holy or demonic power into it?”
Kalbad was taken aback by Bunny’s remarkably simplistic solution.
Seeing Bunny laugh comfortably with a more relieved expression than before, Kalbad carefully opened his mouth.
“But, Bunny.”
Kalbad bit at his rising lips with his fingertip and hesitantly spoke.
“Were you upset that we wouldn’t open the Ancient Door for you? Is that why you think we came to dislike you?”
At Kalbad’s words, Bunny’s shoulders trembled greatly.
Bunny suddenly tensed her eyes and straightened her shoulders firmly.
“No…?”
She shook her head vigorously.
“I just… yes, that’s it!”
Bunny, whose eyes had been darting about frantically, cried out in haste.
“I suddenly got really hungry, that’s all. It’s absolutely not because I’m worried you might hate me for being annoying.”
“Hmm.”
“Because I’m an adult now. I’ve become someone who can live alone with dignity and strength, even without anyone else.”
Bunny rambled on incoherently, spilling words in a rush. Something warm and pleasant stirred in Kalbad’s chest, and that was when he burst into a hearty laugh—uh-ha-ha-ha!
Creak!
The door suddenly swung open.
“Bunny!!”
“…”
“Pfft.”
Bunny’s eyes widened in surprise, and Kalbad’s laughter grew even louder.
This was because the figure who had appeared was Allen, his eyes bound tightly with black bandages.

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