The Baby Who Raised the Devil

Choosing a Gift (7)

I went back to the mansion with Trigon and Cecilia.

Because Cecilia had not recovered even after a while.

People were shocked because they recognized Cecilia.

Lea was very surprised to see him again after such a long time in such a state.

"How could Miss ......"

"Where's dad?"

"He's in the office."

"Lea, come with me."

I went straight to his office.

The father who was talking to Nos narrowed his eyes when he saw Cecilia.

"What's the problem?"

"There's something I want to tell you. It's urgent, so please everyone go.”

“…….”

When the father gestured, Nos and the others left.

Everyone was confused as to why they should leave.

Dad sat on the couch, while me, Cecilia, and Trigon sat around him.

Leah was sitting near us.

Then my father started a conversation.

“So, what do you want to talk to me about, taking me to Olga?”

My father and the others seemed a little impatient, but I calmed down.

I think my father instinctively felt where he was headed.

"Dubbled's day lost Lisette and her youngest child."

As I mentioned it, the tense atmosphere even stood out in the room.

Dad's eyes immediately hardened.

Even Lea bit her lip and immediately called out to me, “Lady.”

I immediately asked my father.

"Do you remember that day?"

“......Blaine.”

"Did you remember?"

The father who closed his eyes for a moment replied.

"Yes." Yeah."

"What about Leah?"

"……I remember."

"Tell me."

Lea glanced at my father.

Only after father nodded did he carefully recall that day.

“Master suddenly emptied the mansion due to an attack on our border. At that time, his predecessors took this opportunity and attacked mansion.”

"Yes." Yeah."

“The knights came to the mansion, as Lisette's bodyguards and my older sister, who was the butler, fled with Lisette."

That's what everyone Dubbled remembers.

“When we will escape, Lisette will give birth. We had no choice but to go to the mountain, so while my sister helped Lisette give birth in the cave, the guards fought on the mountain. The guards eventually died. So I'm the only one ……. ”

From this, Lea and Cecilia's memories were different.

I put the magic contract on the couch table.

"Did you remember?"

“Of course, that's the relic Lisette has, isn't it?”

"How did you know that?"

“I have always served him, of course I know....”.

When Lea answered with a puzzled expression, my father's eyes trembled.

"No. You won't know this.”

"What?"

“The relic was known after his death, he didn't even tell me how to use it!”

"Then……."

I bit my lips tight

'How did he know?'

Father and those Dubbled at that time would never know how to use magic contracts.

If he knew, there was no way someone as meticulous as my father would not use it to his advantage.

If his whereabouts were known, his ancestors would not have attacked him in the first place.

It's a nice rope. Either by threatening his predecessor, or else, he could use it to prevent his predecessor from hurting Lisette and the children.

“Lea, how do you remember it? Did Lisette ever show you this in Dubbled?”

"Aah……. That's not……."

He frowned as if he was confused.

As he looked at it, his eyes narrowed as he grabbed his forehead.

"No. Yep. He showed it to me. Where... When was it? The bed.... room? Is that the bedroom? Ah, yes, I think it's the bedroom.”

Lea muttered as Trigon said with a pale face,

“As expected, it's magic.”

"Are you sure?"

“Created memories will definitely fail. When the error occurred, their memory was rebuilt, as was the case with Dame Lea Shavanol. In short, it means, "When someone under the influence of magic sees something suspicious in their memory, their memory is manipulated back in real time."

Trigon gritted his teeth and added, "Like Dame Lea Shavanol now."

Dad asked me with a stiff face.

"A contrived memory."

“Lea, Cecilia, and Reina, Lea's older sister, are definitely under the influence.”

"What?"

“On the day he died. They risked their lives to protect the newborn.”

“…….”

“Cecilia is there. But neither Lea nor Cecilia could remember him because of that. It was because the real Trigon manipulated their memories with magic!”

The eyes of Father, Lea, and Cecilia turned to Trigon.

Trigon said with a face as white as sheets.

“I'm the one who watched his experiments the most. I know best how his memory manipulation is flawed.”

"What mistake?"

"The intentions of a person with a large amount of holy power cannot be fully manipulated."

This means, like Lea, when a memory error occurs, it is not re-manipulated in real time.

So, unlike Lea, Cecilia could question fabricated memories.

After thinking so, I looked at Cecilia with a smile.

“......Ms. Tri, older sister Cecilia.”

"What?"

"Are you sure he died of the plague?"

"That's weird. Cecilia's sister dies and Tri goes missing. The timing is perfect ……. ”

In my words, everyone in my father's office fell silent like they were struck by lightning.

"That's weird."

It is said that the original Trigon died after failing an experiment.

He definitely never thought that Cecilia, who was a knight, would have holy power, so he manipulated his memories.

"He must have realized it after he failed."

A person with holy power could not be manipulated his memories completely.

If Cecilia is on Dubbled, the Dubbled people can find out the truth of the matter.

That's why he had to let Cecilia go alone by killing her brother, abandoning her niece.

Cecilia's expression completely collapsed.

"……it's ridiculous. That can't be true. Nah! Nah! There's no way my brother died because of me!”

She was crying desperately.

“Cecilia!”

Lea ran and helped him.

The blood vessels in his eyes broke, and his tears were like tears of blood..

"No... No. gabe. Oh, please, Brother...!"

I looked at my father in the midst of a chaotic situation.

As if time had stopped, he stared blankly at his feet.

He can't even breathe properly.

I couldn't even talk to my father, who almost fainted from the message.

The wind blew and caressed us, but our hearts felt uneasy.

The curtains fluttered, and Lisette's picture frame, which always occupied one side of the father's table, fell.

To the youngest boy's shoes.

***

That night, it was very dark in the mansion, the only light in the room was from the moonlight outside my window. I turned around and saw Trigon and Lea, as Cecilia on the bed looked like a corpse.

The entire room was quiet, and I could only hear the sound of soft breathing in the darkness.

As I carefully rubbed my cold hands, I heard someone say,

“Why am I like this?”

“…….”

Cecilia opened her eyes and turned to look at me.

“I should have followed my brother's words from the beginning….I shouldn't be greedy. I should never have been a knight.”

"No……."

"My violence killed my brother."

"It's not like that."

His body was trembling beside his silhouette. He was like a sad and poor lamb who did not know what to do.

“It's late at night. It's time for a child to sleep.”

“...I'm not a child, so it's okay.”

Cecilia's eyes slowly moved towards me.

“I died three times, this is my fourth life. As the child of a false destiny, I was betrayed by my family and sacrificed, I was also persecuted and killed in the next life. In my third life, I lived as a beggar and was betrayed by my friends. Includes Tri.”

“……!”

Cecilia's eyes widen.

"You…"

“But Cecilia. I can still live.”

“…….”

"Even if I don't have anyone by my side, even if I feel guilty, I can live."

“…….”

“Do you think today's pain is the biggest pain you will experience? No. gabe. Tomorrow may be more painful.”

Cecilia carefully got up as I cried and forced a mischievous expression on my face.

"I'm thinking of destroying the world to erase my pain."

“…….”

“But I still have little hope that the world is not that bad. Isn't that weird?”

When I said that, he asked me,

“What hope can I have? I killed my older sister and couldn't protect Lisette......”.

“I will be Cecilia's hope. You can be a knight without raising a sword."

“…….”

"Protect me. I will be your sister, your family, and your master.”

He's laughing a little.

"How can I have a sister as small as you?"

“What is weird?”

"That's weird. But why do I feel comforted?”

I tried not to cry, but no matter how hard I tried, tears kept flowing.

As I rubbed my eyes with my hands, Cecilia gently pushed my hands and wiped my wet cheeks.

He got out of bed and knelt at my feet. He kissed my feet very slowly.

Stepping back in surprise, Cecillia did not mind and said,

"Let me pledge allegiance."

Even if I die, I will never forget this moment. It was the moment when the most powerful empress in the history of the empire, a symbol of peace recorded in history, came to my side.

***

Theodore silently stared at Leblaine and Cecilia who were kneeling through a crack in the slightly open door.

"Dad."

As he turned to look at Johann's call, they glanced at each other.

"I found the magic contract note you mentioned."

"…Am I right?"

"Yes." Yeah."

There was a faint glint in Johann's eyes.

“If those who survived risked their lives to protect the youngest child still alive means that the youngest is also still alive.”

“…….”

Theodore clenched the ring of the couple he had with Lisette.

"Send the search party to the mountain where Lisette died."

"Yes." Yeah."

"And……."

Turning his head to Leblaine for a moment, he said in a low voice.

"Find the orphanage Leblaine is in."

“Why Leblaine.....?”

"I keep having this speculation."

If perhaps Lisette had led the youngest child to him, there was such a possibility.