The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 93

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Chapter 93
“Ah, I was merely peeking in to see if the Young Lady was present.”
“Without permission, in a room where the master is absent.”
Belial’s brow furrowed slightly as though troubled, and he offered an awkward smile while rubbing the back of his neck.
“My sincerest apologies. I’ve committed a most discourteous act. The Young Lady Bunny, so adorable and lovely that merely beholding her countenance provides profound relief from fatigue—I simply wished to capture her beautiful visage in my eyes, and it seems my body moved faster than my mind could deliberate.”
Sensing the atmosphere had grown tense, Belial spoke thus while clasping his hands behind his back and bowing deeply.
Kiriel, who had been observing this silently, opened Bunny’s door and finally spoke.
“Regardless of your nature, I care little so long as you possess skill. But Bunny is a master you must protect even at the cost of your life. Should you overstep again, then…”
“Yes, I shall be mindful. My lord.”
Click.
Watching the door close, Belial slowly raised his bowed head and turned.
Leptha, who stood motionless behind him, opened his mouth with deliberate slowness.
{It has been long. Master of Destruction and Greed.}
At Leptha’s words, Belial’s eyes widened slightly, and soon his lips curved upward in a smile.
{A pleasure to make your acquaintance. I am Barrian~! Elf. For now, allow me to show you around the Dormitory Mansion. This way, if you please.}
Belial spoke with a smile and nodded toward him.
Leptha, who had been standing rigid, slowly began to walk and followed Belial into the dim corridor where no light penetrated.
The Dormitory Mansion was silent. As though something momentous were about to unfold.
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Flip.
Pop, boom, kaboom!
As the page turned, small fireworks burst forth from it in a magical display. Bunny’s eyes, who had been lying on the bed with her notebook open, grew wide as saucers.
Happy 8th birthday to our Young Master!!
Upon reading the words, Bunny’s shoulders rose proudly and her nose lifted high.
That was right.
Today! I, Bunny! Finally!
Had turned eight years old.
A height grown taller still.
The plump baby fat that had largely faded away.
And fingers now slightly longer than sausages!
Having grown one step further into adulthood, I was in an extraordinarily good mood. I felt as though I were soaring through the sky itself.
Because I was now eight-year-old Bunny!
‘Eight-year-old Bunny, no longer a baby.’
Hehe.
Giggling, I flipped through the pages of my notebook and began reading when I suddenly froze.
Our Young Master has miraculously survived and finally ascended the first step into adulthood!!
Gasp.
“Huh? This is the first step…?”
Unable to believe it, I read the opening sentence several times over, my mouth falling open.
Did that mean all the steps I had walked until now were not actually steps at all?
Bunny rolled back and forth across the large bed in the pastel-toned room, tumbling from one side to the other, before letting out a serious hum and lying flat on her back with the notebook in hand, staring at the ceiling.
As she turned to the next page, words began to materialize once more, flowing across the surface.
To my beloved Young Master, so adorable and beautiful in everything you do, so perfectly flawless—today, to commemorate your coming of age, I’ve decided to share a story I’ve kept hidden away. So you must read this only when you’re completely alone.
At the unusually serious tone, Bunny—who had been tapping her feet—blinked once.
Then she bounced off the plush bed, grabbed the doorknob, and locked the door.
Now that Bunny had grown up, she no longer needed to jump and dangle from the knob; she could reach it simply by standing on her tiptoes.
‘I may not be a super-duper-mega-giant Bunny, but I’ve become a pretty big Bunny.’
Feeling even more proud of this fact, Bunny returned and began reading the notebook.
Young Master, the truth is, I’m a super-duper-mega-genius Luriel with the incredible ability to see the future.
“Gasp…”
I knew she was a genius, but I never imagined Luriel was a “super-duper-mega-genius.” Bunny was a big genius, but Luriel was an even more incredible genius than that.
With her mouth agape, Bunny shook her head repeatedly, then cleared her throat with a soft cough before continuing to read.
And according to the future this mega-genius Luriel has seen, a new child will soon arrive at the Young Lady’s house. I’ve mentioned it several times before, haven’t I? That another child might come, and that you shouldn’t be jealous.
“Mm-hmm.”
Bunny nodded several times in response.
Though she opened Luriel’s secret notebook less frequently than when she was younger, Bunny still turned to it whenever she faced difficult or troubling situations.
A new child will arrive. The daughter of Dios Yudia, the eldest brother of Kiriel Yudia from the Yudia Ducal House… but actually, if I reveal the tremendous secret of her birth…
As the ellipsis in the notebook’s handwriting grew longer and longer, Bunny swallowed hard.
‘A tremendous birth secret!’
Bunny turned her head to glance around the room, then pressed her face close to the notebook as if to bury her nose in it, quickly flipping to the next page.
Actually, that child isn’t Dios Yudia’s daughter. Well, she’s an artificial human created by a Witch. In other words, a homunculus. She has a stone of life—crafted from Dios Yudia’s blood, magical stones, the Witch’s blood, and one human soul—embedded in place of her heart.
“Wow…”
I have no idea what Luri is talking about!
Truly, Luri is a big genius.
There are so many things even genius Bunny doesn’t understand.
“An artificial human? A homunculus…?”
So basically, she’s a fake human, right?
‘The daughter of Father’s brother who’s coming to Bunny’s house is a fake human, and a human and a Witch crafted a soul together…’
Her eyes spun so fast the whole world seemed to whirl around her. Bunny mumbled with her lips, then rolled over and lay sprawled across the notebook as she opened it again.
If I reveal one more secret, the truth is…!!
“The truth?!”
Dios Yudia’s daughter is actually you, Young Master.
“…Huh…?”
Bunny tilted her head with a confused sound, then her mouth fell open wide.
People said Dios Yudia was a hero of the Yudia Ducal House. And Bunny knew well that she herself was the child of the Demon King.
The Yudia Ducal House and the Demon Clan had fought tremendously, or so she’d been told. She remembered it clearly because she’d even taken lessons about the Holy Demon War at the Mansion of Trials.
‘And babies are only made when a mother and father hold hands really tight together!!’
Not long ago, she’d been so curious about how babies were made that she’d asked Melissa, and Melissa had explained it to her.
‘Which means…!’
Bunny crossed her arms and made a gesture as if pushing up glasses that didn’t exist, then let out a soft laugh, curling her lips upward.
‘…Did Father and Mother fight, then hold hands and create Bunny?!’
Bunny had now become a truly brilliant genius capable of such deductions.
Because Bunny was no longer five, six, or seven years old—Bunny was now eight years old!
‘…So Bunny was actually a real Young Lady of the Duke’s House all along?!’
Until now, I’d believed myself to be a fake Young Lady, but it turned out I was genuine!
Struck by this shocking and astonishing revelation, Bunny lay sprawled across the bed with mouth agape, rolling back and forth for quite some time.
‘So Bunny is a real Young Lady of the Duke’s House, and the Incoming Child is the fake one.’
Bunny’s body trembled with excitement as I flipped the notebook page with a flourish.
Which meant Father wasn’t a fake family member either—we were bound by true blood.
Our remarkably clever Young Master seems to have conquered half the Duke’s House using the adorable charm strategy!! But the real game starts now. If we make a single mistake here, our precious Young Master will be cast out from the Duke’s House.
“Why?”
Because that child is an artificial fake, but she’s like the protagonist of this world. You know? The main characters from all those fairy tales I’ve read to you.
“Mmm….”
This world has a protagonist too, and that’s precisely the Incoming Child.

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