The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 163

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Chapter 163
“Well… I’m already happy enough as things are.”
“Really?”
At Shalone’s answer, Bunny broke into a radiant smile.
“You don’t hate me, right?”
“I mean, you sneak off with my books, pilfer my clothes and accessories… it’s not exactly pleasant, but I wouldn’t say I hate it either…”
At Shalone’s mumbled response, Bunny’s face lit up with delight.
As Shalone glanced down at the giggling girl, she suddenly caught sight of Hila’s expression and froze. Her face had hardened into a rigid mask, twisted with contempt and revulsion laid bare.
“M… Mother…?”
“…It’s all wrong. This child interfering ruined everything. That notebook… that woman getting involved…”
Bunny watched Hila muttering and gnawing at her nails, then broke into a bright smile.
“If I leave the house, Shalone’s Mother will be happy too, right?”
“What? Don’t say something so obvious.”
“Okay. Then I’ll just leave.”
As Bunny spoke with a cheerful smile, both Hila and Shalone stared at her simultaneously.
“What?”
“You’re leaving?!”
“Yes.”
Bunny nodded.
If everyone could only be happy with her gone, then wasn’t it the right answer for her to leave?
“You said you’d be happy if I wasn’t here. But I can be happy anywhere, so I’ll just go.”
Bunny declared this with utter confidence.
At Bunny’s words, Hila opened her mouth in disbelief, then let out a hollow laugh. She couldn’t comprehend what nonsense this was.
‘She’s leaving?’
Hila blinked slowly.
‘She can be happy anywhere, so she’s just going to step aside?’
Was this what a villain should say?
In the game, Bunny was a character who had to become more miserable than anyone else, despair, curse, and crumble. But could she really just say she’d go somewhere else and be happy, and leave of her own accord?
‘…Can the story really progress like this?’
She was so flabbergasted she couldn’t speak.
‘For someone to be happy, someone else must be unhappy.’
There was no story without a villain.
“…You.”
Hila clenched her fists tight.
“You will be unhappy. You won’t be able to be happy. That’s your role!”
The moment Hila shouted with clenched fists, a smile bloomed across Bunny’s face.
“Then I’ll be a brave hero who magnificently breaks free from my assigned role.”
A Demon King calling herself a hero!
“That’s actually pretty cool.”
Bunny rubbed her chin with a smirk, then waved her hand dismissively.
“Well then, I’ll go pack my things!”
Bunny dashed out of the room.
Hila let out a hollow laugh. It was absurd—this villain was dodging all of her attacks with nothing but a smile.
Pitter-patter-patter!
“Oh, that’s right.”
A face peeked around the corner of the doorway, accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps.
“Is it okay if I take just a few things when I leave the house?”
“What…? Do as you please…”
“Yay! Thank you!”
Bunny dashed off again, pitter-patter-patter.
As the sound of her footsteps faded once more, Hila let out another hollow laugh.
“Dad~~!”
The voice rang out sharply through the corridor.
Just as Hila felt a dull throb in her temples and reached for a glass of cold water to drink—
“Let’s leave the house together!!”
Pfft!
The water she hadn’t finished swallowing sprayed out like a fountain.
Hila slowly turned her head, her mouth agape. Shalone too had her eyes wide open, her lips trembling.
“Shalone.”
“…Yes?”
“Is she seriously playing mind games with me right now?”
“Pardon? I…”
What did that even mean?
It didn’t sound like a pleasant word.
Interpreting it roughly as an insult, Shalone slowly shook her head.
“No, I think… she probably isn’t thinking about it at all.”
Shalone spoke softly, gazing out through the open doorway.
* * *
The decision came quickly.
Bunny had decided to leave the house, and she packed “a few things.”
“Father.”
“Yes, my dear.”
Kiriel Yudia chuckled lightly and answered casually to Bunny’s call.
“Allen and Kalbad!”
“Yes.”
“I don’t want to go, but I’m making a special exception! You understand, right?”
“If you don’t want to go, you don’t have to…”
Kalbad’s eyes hardened at Bunny’s words.
“Who said I wasn’t going? I’m just saying it’s a bit bothersome, but I’ll go.”
His words shifted slightly.
Bunny giggled and nodded her head.
“Melissa!”
“Yes, Young Lady.”
Melissa burst into laughter at how adorable Bunny looked with her hands planted on her hips. There was a hint of pride in her expression too. After all, it meant she was included in the list of “things that must be brought along.”
“My, my. Won’t you call my name as well, Young Lady Bunny?”
At Belial’s words, Bunny’s face crumpled. Her displeasure was written plainly across her scrunched features, yet she said nothing more.
‘I don’t like it, but I have to take him along.’
Belial was her subordinate, after all.
Of course, Bunny was far from fond of Belial.
‘I still haven’t asked Luriel anything.’
Not knowing what to ask and feeling afraid, I hadn’t opened the Notebook since that day.
If there was something I needed to apologize for, I should apologize. If there was something I needed to accept an apology for, I should accept it. I thought I needed to properly hear Luriel’s side of the story as well.
My mind understood this logically, but…
My heart wouldn’t move easily.
I was a little afraid of what I might hear.
I had almost no memories of being with my parents. And it was Luriel who filled that void.
I learned the world from Luriel. I learned how to live. Everything that made me who I am was taught by Luriel.
“Let’s go now!”
“Sure, everything’s fine, but… where are we going?”
Kiriel finally asked the question he should have asked before.
It had been two days since Bunny suddenly burst into his room and insisted they leave the house.
“Ah. I want to go back to my house.”
“…Your house?”
“Yes. Since I left, I’ve never gone back home. So I wanted to go back and see it.”
Kiriel stared at Bunny intently.
Everyone was aware that the household atmosphere had become unsettled.
The Holy Temple and the Yudia Ducal House had clashed several times, and people from the Imperial Court had visited twice.
Unsavory rumors were circulating, so they came bearing official documents demanding a proper investigation into what had happened.
Ludbreed Yudia, rather than responding to that, had visited Kiriel several times. Meetings about how to handle Bunny’s treatment had been held multiple times, but they kept ending inconclusively.
He thought Bunny was well aware of this unsettled atmosphere.
Yet instead of resenting it or crying, she had suggested they run away together.
Kiriel had agreed without much hesitation, and this was the result.
‘Is she planning to go to the Demon Realm…?’
He never expected she would choose the Demon Realm as her destination.
‘Can I go back to the Demon King’s Castle again?’
To that place where the Demon King had been slain.
Would the memories of that time become clearer? Could I find more traces of my elder brother?
“…”
Kiriel remained silent and lowered his gaze again.
‘Is Bunny really going to be alright?’
Even if I stay with the one who killed my parents, even if I remain with the one who killed my mother—there’s no problem with that?
Kiriel drew a slow breath, closing his eyes for a long moment before opening them again.
“Let’s go now!”
Bunny wiped beneath her nose with the back of her hand.
Black ink darkened the area under her nose—evidence of writing letters through the night.
Bunny’s expression twisted into a grimace. And Belial watched her intently from where he stood.
‘She’s leaving just like this?’
It was true that he had intended to drive Bunny from the Human Realm.
Whatever game Luriel and that woman Hila were orchestrating, Luriel needed to emerge as the loser—that much was certain.
Which meant Bunny had to lose.
Had to be defeated.
Had to fall.
So that Luriel could remain in this world.
So that her wish would never come true.
But this was far too neat, far too harmonious a resolution.
‘This shouldn’t end so happily, should it?’
His queen was supposed to lose her place and return to the Demon Realm, becoming a solitary ruler trapped within it.
‘She’s going to bundle up everything she needs and wants, then walk out with a happy smile on her face?’
This wasn’t expulsion—it was closer to running away or renouncing the world.
‘That can’t be allowed.’
Belial laughed.

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