The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 26

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Chapter 26
“I should assign a personal maid and knight to my daughter.”
“…Gasp. Like the Young Lady of Gongja-kka?”
“…?”
Sparkle!
At Bunny’s words, her eyes gleaming with delight, Kiriel nodded awkwardly with a puzzled expression.
“Well… yes, that’s right.”
“Wow… Bunny, the Young Lady of Gongja-kka…?”
She would indeed be the Young Lady of the Udiah Duke Family Estate.
Since he had decided to adopt her. Though there were still many procedures to complete.
Kiriel closed his eyes slowly in thought, then opened them again.
“For now… should we sleep a bit more? There’s a conference this afternoon.”
“A conference?”
“We gather and deal with tedious matters. Something about discovering something strange in a Dungeon, or so they say… Sigh.”
Klein Yudia, who had tousled Bunny’s hair affectionately, laid her down on the bed and lay down beside her himself.
Bunny’s eyes widened.
“Bunny was supposed to sleep on the floor….”
“Don’t make me out to be trash.”
“Trash…?”
Bunny tilted her head in confusion.
Why would it make him trash if she graciously gave up her spot and slept on the floor?
When he extended his arm to serve as a pillow for her, Bunny’s eyes grew so wide they seemed to bulge.
“Pat, pat…?”
“Ah… yes.”
Kiriel hesitated, then awkwardly reached out to pat Bunny’s back gently.
Bunny’s eyes widened dramatically, then began to tremble with overwhelming joy.
“Sleep well, Young Master. May you have sweet dreams.”
“Luriel!!”
“Eek! With our Young Master here, of course I’ll have the most wonderful dreams!”
“If Bunny does this, will Luriel be happy?”
“Yes! Young Master is an all-purpose cheat key, so this Luriel, even when tired, can sleep peacefully in Young Master’s embrace without nightmares and have only the happiest dreams!”
“All-purpose cheat key?”
Remembering something from long ago, Bunny squeezed her eyes shut and snuggled deeper into Kiriel’s embrace with a giggle.
“So Bunny is an all-purpose cheat.”
“…?”
Kiriel gazed down at Bunny with a puzzled expression as she uttered yet another incomprehensible phrase.
Thinking that caring for a child was truly not an easy task, he slowly closed his eyes.
Unlike before, when his insomnia made it difficult to fall back asleep once he woke.
Kiriel found his eyelids growing progressively heavier at the sensation of the child nestling and burrowing into his embrace.
‘…Was I mistaken in thinking I sensed the presence of the Demon Clan?’
But now, I felt no such sensation.
Demon Clan members possessed characteristically cold and cool skin, so there was a distinct difference between them and this child—whose warmth was slightly lukewarm yet comfortingly toasty.
Kiriel’s breathing, which I had been observing, soon became even and steady.
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“…Why did you bring the child to the conference?”
“Because I am so fond of her that I cannot bear to be separated from her even for a moment, so I brought her along. What else could I do?”
He answered, then slowly rolled his eyes.
‘It did seem oddly like reading from a script.’
Those were actually Bunny’s own words.
“Bunny really, really likes Marquis so much that Bunny wants to go everywhere Marquis goes. Because Bunny doesn’t want to be separated. Without Marquis, Bunny gets really, really sad.”
“….”
According to what Luriel had written in her notebook, to properly train a guardian, one must tell them every single day that you like them and follow them everywhere, helping them with everything.
“Hmph, do you take my eyes for fools? How dare you wag that three-inch tongue so carelessly? Do you want it cut off? Besides, since when have you ever looked after children….”
At Ludbreed’s savage words, Bunny’s mouth fell open in shock.
Ludbreed, whose gaze had locked with Bunny’s startled eyes, suddenly closed his mouth with a look of regret.
But Bunny did not miss it.
“…Grandpa, you’re being mean.”
“No, it’s not that….”
“That’s right. We shouldn’t engage with such a mean old man, daughter.”
“Kiriel!”
Bunny’s body trembled violently.
With wide, round eyes and tense alertness, Bunny grasped Kiriel’s sleeve and shrank her neck.
‘Is he angry?’
When humans become angry, they shout. Then they say they can’t stand the sight of you, or tell you to leave, or demand you get out immediately.
Both Luriel and I had experienced this many times.
‘Will Bunny be cast out again…?’
I had to apologize quickly….
Thump. Thump. Thump.
At the sound of my rapidly beating heart, my face stiffened slightly.
“I…!”
Just as I was about to open my mouth to apologize quickly.
Kiriel strode into the conference room as if unbothered by the commotion, carelessly settled into his designated seat, and placed me on his lap.
“The child’s eardrums will burst.”
At Kiriel’s words, his brow furrowed, and Ludbreed saw my expression frozen in fear—then quickly relaxed his face.
“Ahem. I wasn’t speaking to you, Bunny. Anyway… since you’re here, there’s no helping it, but you mustn’t make a fuss, understood?”
“Okay….”
With rolling eyes, I nodded at Ludbreed’s gentle voice.
“Tsk, what is this…? It doesn’t even suit him.”
A muscular man with dark skin, dressed in gleaming silver armor, entered and looked at Ludbreed with a disgusted expression.
Then he glanced at Kiriel and me once each before striding toward me.
“Oh, the little quail egg who was fluttering about and greeting us before.”
“Not a quail—a Heu-Gyeom Dragon egg.”
“Heu-Gyeom Dragon? What in the world is that? Anyway, if the youngest decided to adopt you, I suppose that makes me your uncle.”
“Uncle?”
“That’s right. From now on, call me uncle.”
A man with silver hair and blue eyes grinned broadly, chuckling as he ruffled Bunny’s head with a rough hand.
The large hand brushed through Bunny’s hair carelessly before pulling away.
“Anyway, Father, could you please stop quarreling with the youngest? Let’s just review things quickly, reach a conclusion, and part ways. I doubt anyone but Father would summon the First Holy Knight Order’s commander and the Holy Maiden so casually.”
A direct bloodline of the Udiah Duke Family Estate.
With a belligerent temperament that seemed impossible for someone from a clergy family, boisterous and straightforward, yet possessing a cruel nature—the current eldest son of the Udiah Duke Family Estate, Klein Yudia.
He served as commander of the First Holy Knight Order and pursued monster subjugation as a hobby.
He took the seat to Ludbreed’s right and let out a long, weary sigh as he crossed his arms.
“Father must have been quite exasperated to summon us. Elder Brother really does seem obsessed with fighting.”
A beautiful woman dressed in pure white, with long silver hair that shimmered and blue eyes, walked over with measured steps and took her seat at the enormous round table. She sat to Ludbreed’s left.
Salame Yudia.
Renowned as the Empire’s sole Holy Maiden, she possessed the purest and most sacred divine power—a woman who loved, or rather adored, wealth and honor to an extraordinary degree.
After they took their seats, people streamed in from outside and filled the long table completely.
‘…They’re all dressed in pure white!’
Bunny… if I’m discovered, I’m done for.
Bunny, who had been turning her head left and right nervously, tensed and pressed her body closer to Kiriel.
Kiriel glanced at the child and let out a soft laugh.
He had only kept the child nearby because the Demon Clan’s aura had caught his attention, yet the child proved to be surprisingly affectionate.
“So you’re saying that in the dungeon that was subjugated this time, an object emitting strange sounds was discovered?”
“Yes. However, we cannot understand what it’s saying at all, and it could be a curse, so we decided to entrust it to you for now.”
“So what is it? This object that emits those strange sounds?”
At Salame Yudia’s words, one of the retainers stood from his seat, placed something in the center of the table, and unfolded what was wrapped in cloth inscribed with golden glowing letters.
From the object, which resembled a fist-sized crystal, emanated a very faint sound.
“έτυμοςδήμοςάνατομήπάθοςμίσοςκύριοςάμαρτία”
It was truly incomprehensible.
The moment they all furrowed their brows at the sound, as if something were crawling up from the abyss itself—
【P-p-please… help… me…】
Bunny’s ears perked up.

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