The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 91

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Chapter 91
{Child, we have spoken. I learn human speech. Conversation impossible now.}
{…If learning is the concern, the Imperial Palace wouldn’t be a bad choice either.}
{This child knows our tongue. Convenient.}
{Still too young.}
Kiriel, who had maintained silence against Leptha’s stubborn insistence, finally opened his mouth, and Bunny’s eyes widened in surprise.
Wow.
Kiriel’s gaze lowered to Bunny, whose mouth hung open.
“What is it, daughter?”
“Father also genius?”
Father really good at ancient language!
At Bunny’s question, Kiriel’s expressionless face opened calmly.
“Yes.”
At that brazen answer, the Emperor let out a hollow laugh and rubbed his brow.
“What can one do? Prince Yudia.”
{I cooperate. I give. What you desire.}
At Leptha’s words offering cooperation in exchange for what he sought, a smile deepened across the Emperor’s lips.
Meanwhile, cracks finally appeared in Kiriel’s expressionless facade.
“Cooperate with us. It is to prevent greater danger, after all.”
The Emperor notified Kiriel and then spoke.
{For now, I understand your intent. We shall coordinate the details separately.}
The moment the Emperor’s approval fell, Leptha took Bunny’s small hand and pressed his lips to the back of it.
At the cool kiss, Bunny’s eyes grew round.
“Huh?”
Crash—!
The teacup Roel had been holding fell to the floor and shattered into pieces. Regardless, Leptha opened his mouth calmly.
【I devote myself to you. Save the Elf race, young Demon King.】
He declared it before everyone, yet no one understood.
But Bunny understood perfectly.
It was a declaration by the Elf, offered only to the young girl.
The Elf’s declaration.
There were no longer those who knew of it now, but in truth, it carried considerable weight.
It meant a proud and haughty Elf would serve only one person for all their life.
Offering their very existence.
However, the one who receives an Elf’s declaration must give in return precisely one thing that they desire.
As they are naturally proud beings living lives approaching immortality, declarations are rarely made carelessly, but Leptha possessed nothing save his own body.
I had heard that half-Demon Clan members are extremely vulnerable in their youth. Thus, for this child to safely reach adulthood, he had no choice but to remain by her side.
“N-yes…?”
【I do not ask for anything immediately, young Demon King. What I desire is that when you reach adulthood and safely awaken as the Demon King, you would save our people.】
At the Elf’s prolonged words, Bunny gazed at him quietly.
Despite her youth and small stature, Leptha could perceive it—a colossal seed coiled within that tiny belly.
“Mmm….”
Bunny’s eyes rolled about.
【Will you do that for me?】
Bunny gazed at Leptha with trembling eyes.
Though Bunny was a prodigy, the words Leptha spoke were too difficult for her to comprehend even a single phrase.
‘Elpu is a sacrifice, but you’re saving Elpu right now, and I’m a baby Demon King, but if I awaken as a Demon King, will you save us…?’
As Bunny turned over Leptha’s words again and again in her mind, her eyes began to spin.
【Young Demon King, did you perhaps not understand my words?】
Just as Leptha, seeing Bunny hesitate, reached out to touch the child’s forehead with the hand not holding hers to read her memories—
Smack!
Before he could even lift his hand, it was swatted away, and Leptha’s eyebrow twitched once.
“I don’t like it, so don’t touch Bunny so carelessly.”
Roel, who had worn a gentle expression until moments before, now gazed at Leptha with a cold countenance.
Leptha’s eyes widened slightly as he met the gaze of Roel’s crimson irises.
【Well, I’ll be. Has an age of peace dawned? This era is….】
Leptha, muttering softly, reached out and flicked Roel’s forehead.
“…?!”
Roel’s eyes widened in surprise, and he pressed both hands to his forehead. Leptha chuckled and opened his mouth.
{Born with. Possessing. Something precious. Young human boy.}
Roel’s face grew bewildered.
【Perhaps my awakening in this era is also the arrangement of Rahta.】
Leptha turned his gaze briefly toward the window outside and murmured softly.
The matter of their meeting was settled for now with the arrangement that the Elf would stay temporarily at the Udiah Duchy.
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【Hmm… carriages have developed quite a bit these days. Does the young Demon King live here? Well, it’s not as bad as I thought. The world has advanced considerably.】
Inside the returning carriage, Bunny, sitting on Kiriel’s lap as always, rolled her eyes with a darkened expression.
‘Father’s face is hard and prickly.’
And it tingles.
Bunny frowned as she looked at the Elf before her, Leptha.
‘Elpu found out Bunny’s true identity.’
If Bunny hadn’t insisted on bringing him along, he surely would have told the human leader, ‘This child is actually a baby Demon King!’
【Young Demon King, how old are you? I’m not sure whether you follow human growth or demon growth.】
Bunny tilted her head, then extended all five fingers and held them forward.
“Bunny, five years old!”
“Five years old?”
Leptha naturally repeated Bunny’s words.
Elves are an intelligent race. Having lived for such a long time, they knew much and learned quickly.
He too felt the necessity of learning the language of humans for smooth communication.
【I see. So ‘five years old’ means five years of age?】
Leptha rubbed his chin with his fingertips, muttering softly, and Bunny nodded eagerly in response.
Kiriel, who had been watching the scene with displeasure, opened his mouth.
“Bunny, if that fellow says anything unnecessary, let me know. Any improper remarks.”
“Okay!”
“He’s been muttering about something since earlier—is he spouting useless nonsense?”
“Mmm… no.”
At Kiriel’s question, Bunny shook her head vigorously. The dark-skinned Elf tilted his head whenever his eyes met Bunny’s.
Bunny crossed her arms with what she considered a serious expression.
‘I did what Luri told me to do, and now I have Elpu.’
Bunny’s face grew grave. If the Elf learned human speech and became far more fluent than Bunny, only to later reveal to the human leader that Bunny was actually the young Demon King destined to become the Demon King herself—that would be troublesome.
‘Operation: Recruit Elpu.’
Bunny crossed her short arms and pressed her lips together with determination.
Her lips puckered outward like a duck’s bill from her intense concentration.
‘First, I’ll give Elpu some chocolate…’
When the Elf became utterly captivated by the chocolate Bunny gave him, she would say, “You, become my subordinate!” And if Bunny then declared, “If you refuse, there’s no more chocolate!!” the Elf would have no choice but to become Bunny’s subordinate.
“Sob, sob… if only this chocolate weren’t so delicious and amazing…! I’ve lost. I’ll become your subordinate.”
Bunny’s head nodded contentedly up and down.
‘Perfect.’
Kiriel watched Bunny’s face shift from a frown to brightness to contentment and back again, a faint smile playing at the corners of his lips.

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