The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 185

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Chapter 185
“Heh. Sorry.”
Bunny shrugged her shoulders and offered a casual apology, but Shalone immediately grabbed her by the collar and began shaking her vigorously.
“What is wrong with you?! You show up after all this time and destroy the door?! Have you lost your mind?”
“No~ Sister, you wouldn’t open the door for me. I think this is a fifty-fifty fault situation. After all, if Sister had opened the door on time, this never would have happened….”
“THAT. IS. NOT. THE. POINT! You could have just given up! Why are you still so stubborn, just like before?!”
Bunny, being shaken back and forth by Shalone’s grip, laughed with amusement.
“Don’t be jealous~ Your little sister might just be a bit stronger than you.”
At her casual tone, Shalone’s mouth fell open. I couldn’t believe how irritating those laughing, crescent-shaped eyes looked.
Bunny watched Shalone trembling with clenched fists, then quickly extended both her legs.
Thump.
“What, what are you doing?”
Bunny, clinging to Shalone’s body like a cicada, giggled.
“Well, I’m just happy that nothing has changed about you.”
“What?”
Shalone’s cheeks twitched noticeably.
She narrowed her eyes indignantly and glared at Bunny.
“Nothing has changed? My height has grown so much more than yours, and I’ve stretched out! You know you’re much smaller than me now, right? And I’ve become such a lady—how can you say nothing has changed?”
“Hmm. Though your personality does seem to have gotten a bit worse….”
At Bunny’s soft murmur, fire blazed anew in Shalone’s eyes.
“Eek.”
Bunny let out a low cry, quickly released Shalone, and dashed into the room.
“Anyway, I’m just saying I’m happy to see you again! Sister, weren’t you unhappy without me?”
“What? You’re not leaving?! I don’t even want to look at you, so get out. I hate seeing your face.”
“You’re lying. You’re happy to see me.”
Bunny sat down on the large bed and swung her legs, speaking those words. Though she said she wasn’t happy, it was clear to Bunny that she was delighted!
Even if her face and entire body radiated irritation.
‘Shalone has always been terrible at being honest.’
I should be understanding of her, no matter what.
Bunny clicked her tongue and wagged her finger left and right.
“Where is Shalone’s Mother? She said that if I weren’t here, Shalone would become incredibly happy, and then she could go back home.”
“…I don’t know.”
“Huh? Your mother, and you don’t know where she is?”
At Bunny’s words, Shalone frowned and turned her head away irritably.
“She’s not my mother. She’s just the person who created me.”
“That’s your mother. The person who created me.”
At Bunny’s words, Shalone paused.
She looked at Bunny with a somewhat pained expression, then spoke as if exhausted, like a sigh.
“She told me I was no longer useful. That I didn’t fulfill my role properly. So I haven’t spoken to her in almost a year now.”
“Why? You could just talk to her.”
“You ignore me even when I walk. As if I don’t exist… wait, why am I even telling you this?! Get out! How are you still so willful even as you grow older?!”
Shalone, mid-sentence, suddenly seemed to realize something and lunged to grab Bunny by the scruff of her neck. But Bunny swiftly dodged, her head weaving left and right to evade every attempt.
“That’s my charm.”
Bunny flashed a peace sign with her fingers and grinned infuriatingly.
Shalone gripped her own neck and let out a hollow laugh that caught in her throat, then took a long, deep breath.
“Get out.”
“Mmm. By the way, have you been reading any interesting novels lately?”
Bunny sprawled across the bed and craned her neck outward, peering underneath with her face thrust forward as she spoke.
“Hey!”
Then she stretched her arm and began rummaging frantically beneath the bed!
At Bunny’s behavior, Shalone’s mouth fell open and she quickly grabbed her arm.
“What are you doing?! Clean that up right now?! Hey!”
“Hmm. I have a feeling something’s down here.”
Bunny pushed her arm deeper and deeper under the bed, ignoring Shalone entirely. Shalone clutched at her own hair in exasperation before hastily reaching out.
“Hey! Snap out of it! I’ve told you a thousand times not to rummage through other people’s rooms!”
Shalone grabbed Bunny and pulled, but she was so strong that she wouldn’t budge an inch.
Dumbfounded, Shalone’s mouth hung open as Bunny finally managed to extract something.
“Found it!”
The moment Bunny held up what she’d grasped high into the air.
“Ahhh! Just get out already!! You need to leave!! Aren’t you listening?!”
“Hehe. Using such harsh language with your younger sister. You still have a long way to go, big sister.”
Bunny pulled out a bundle of papers and sprawled across the bed to unfold them as she spoke.
“But this isn’t a book.”
Now that she was grown, she’d thought she could confidently tackle any kind of writing.
“Huh…?”
As Bunny flipped through the papers, her head tilted slightly.
“Ah, please give it back! Bunny!”
Fine-quality paper bound with unbound writing.
The content was similar to the books Bunny had secretly read from Shalone before. Stories of someone meeting someone and falling in love.
The problem was…
“Did you write this, big sister?”
The ink felt warm, as if it had just dried!
Bunny’s eyes sparkled as she asked, and Shalone’s face flushed crimson as she hastily reached out.
Bunny grinned wickedly and pulled her body back.
“Wow, big sister, you’ve even started writing now…”
“Ah, just give it back! Really… why won’t you listen! Just give it back!”
Patter.
Tears suddenly spilled onto the floor, and Bunny froze rigid.
“…Big sister?”
“Why won’t you ever listen to me… I said I don’t like it. Give it back! I told you to get out!”
It seemed I couldn’t contain the surge of emotions.
A sob escaped.
Bunny, watching Shalone burst into tears, awkwardly thrust the paper she’d been holding into Shalone’s arms.
Shalone accepted it through her tears, then immediately threw it to the ground.
“I hate you! You annoy me! I told you to leave! Why do you keep clinging to me? Why! What’s so good about it!”
“…Because… I like you, Sister.”
“…!”
Shalone looked at Bunny, then wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, tears streaming down her face.
“I really hate you…”
“Mm-hmm. You say that, but you actually like me.”
Bunny spoke while rubbing the back of her neck.
Bunny reached out, pulled Shalone onto the bed, and rested her head against her shoulder with a soft thud.
“Why are you crying? I wanted to see you so much that I came running here the moment I woke up yesterday.”
“You must have wanted to see Grandfather, not me.”
“No, I wanted to see you, Sister! I came to see you before Roel!”
A sniffle.
Shalone pressed her eyes firmly.
“I really hate you.”
“Mm-hmm. You’ve been saying that for ages now, so what.”
“…I hate that attitude too. When I say things like this, you should get angry at least. Why do you always do this?”
Shalone spoke in a slightly softer voice.
Bunny giggled and shrugged her shoulders.
“They say the person who likes the other more loses…”
Shalone’s eyes widened slightly.
“So it seems you like me more, Sister. You always look after me.”
“…Why would it be that way?”
It was truly absurd.
Shalone, with a bewildered expression, let out a deep sigh. Her expression, slightly more relaxed than before, glanced at Bunny.
“I’m sorry. It felt like I drove you away like that…”
“No. That was something I had to do to become an adult anyway. It just happened a bit sooner. It doesn’t bother me at all.”
Bunny waved her hand dismissively.
“And I’ve never once thought that you drove me away.”
In all sincerity, I had never harbored such a thought even once.
Shalone, looking at Bunny’s expression, wiped her face thoroughly and sighed.
“So don’t think like that. And come to the Demon Realm with me.”
“…What?”
“I think you’re unhappy because you’re stuck here feeling depressed, Sister. Shouldn’t the whole family be together?”
“What do you…”
Seeing Shalone frown, Bunny tapped her chest.
“I’ve thought about it carefully, and Sister, your happiness doesn’t come from being stuck here monopolizing everyone’s attention, does it?”
“…?”
“Weren’t you happier when you were with me? Wasn’t it more joyful when Father, Allen, Kalbad, and I all played together?”
Shalone’s lips sealed shut at Bunny’s words. She couldn’t bring herself to deny it.
In truth, Shalone had never had as much fun as she did back then. Young Bunny’s willful antics had irritated her somewhat, but that was all.
Back then, she could always smile.
“But even so… what would that change?”
“You said we need to be happy, so if Shalone comes to the Demon Realm with me and becomes absolutely blissful, wouldn’t that be enough for Shalone’s Mother to return to where she wants to go?”
“That doesn’t make any….”
Shalone furrowed her brow at Bunny’s words and tilted her head. Yet it was a method she had never attempted before.

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