The Baby Who Raised the Devil

Choosing a Gift (10)

I hurriedly headed to the shopping district.

Tri and Emeline were really holding each other's hair like the chairman said.

“Release this!”

"Let me go!"

“One, two, three, release? One two three…!"

"I thought you'd let go, you liar!"

“You didn't even do it! Ikeh ikeh!"

I saw the children circling around holding each other's hair with confused faces.

"You're a bad girl, Emeline!"

"You're Dummy! You'll leave us all!"

“I... i!”

Emeline pushed Tri hard.

As Tri stumbled, staring at the crying girl, Emeline gritted her teeth and took a handful of sand on the ground and threw it towards Tri. I immediately grabbed Emeline's wrist.

"Stop."

"Ah, is this the girl you said you had a fight with Max?"

Tri yelled "Emeline!" but Emeline looked at me with a very sorry expression on her face.

“Max won't come because of you and Tri, that idiot. He thinks you're royalty, so Max is afraid to fight with you.”

"So?"

"Kids like us can't live without Max's protection!"

Emeline looked at me sharply and continued.

“Do you think we live with Max because we like it? No, it's because Max protects us from other gangs!”

“…….”

"What are you gonna do? If Max doesn't come, we'll lose our money to another gang. But Tri, that idiot girl made an accident like this and left after finding her aunt!”

“…….”

“Do you think you became a hero by saving Tri? No, you're making us all die. Tri is in a hurry to leave...!”

“Kids will be taken to shelter.”

"What?"

“You will be given money until you are 15 years old. After that, I will arrange a place for you to work. Now you have no reason to be angry, right?”

Emelin bit her lip. He frowned and opened his mouth,

“Not that...!”

"Yes. That's not the only reason you're angry. Aren't you mad that Tri found her aunt early on?”

"No."

“If not, stop. If you continue like this, others will think you have a sense of inferiority towards Tri.”

Emeline sighed and closed her mouth.

The pale-skinned girl muttered, “You..

I removed the girl's wrist and lifted Tri up.

The workers in the hopeful mercenary union, who saw the situation from a distance and relayed the news through the chairman, ran over and cleared the dust from Tri's clothes.

“Yeah, precious people covered in land. We even have a doctor on standby. ”

Tri looked at Emeline for a moment, but then pursed his lips and turned around. I reached out to Emeline.

"Let's go. You also need to be treated..”.

"Let go!"

Emiline brushed my hand off violently.

When the Dubbled knights heard it, they ran towards me.

"Lady!"

"I'm fine."

“What do you mean it's okay? If master knows, we'll die.”

"Doctor! Doctor!!"

The knights panicked and Emeline twisted her skirt as she looked at me and Tri. Then, in an instant, he turned around and fled. I took a deep breath. Then carefully Tri said to me,

"I……."

"Why?"

“Emeline is stubborn, but she's not a bad boy. So…"

He seemed worried that the adults protecting me and Tri would hurt Emeline. I smile.

“Do not worry about it.”

“R, really?”

"Yes." Yeah."

Tri always has people guarding him. But, why didn't they come out holding each other's hair and arguing?

“Kids grow up with fighting and making peace.”

As I chuckled and raised my head, Tri looked at me.

“Even Emeline often says that!”

I-i know. That's what I heard from Emeline. Emeline is someone who has really taught me a lot.

"What's? Blaine, fool! I told you to go and hit me too!”

“Then, what should I do if we have a big fight?”

“Children grow up fighting and making peace. We will never be able to make peace if you only suffer alone.”

“…….”

“Okay, stupid. Come onl. Let's see how much it hurts.”

It was that child who changed my outlook when I was used to being bullied in my first and second life.

***

Max's group of beggars go to Emeline, who holds her knees stubbornly under the bridge.

“Emeline, aren't you going to pack your bags? When we go to the shelter, they will give us food and clothes. We don't have to suffer anymore.”.

"You're going."

"But……."

"Go! Go!"

As Emeline plucked the weeds off the ground and shouted, the children turned around with sullen faces.

Emeline's skirt was wet with tears.

“My aunt came to see me. I'm gonna stay with my aunt now. Right, Emeline, come with me. If I ask my aunt, we'll be able to live together.”

“Yeah, precious people covered in land. We even have a doctor on standby. ”

“What do you mean it's okay? If master knows, we'll die.”

Stupid Tri also told his family to pick him up. And the girl who helped Tri…

'That sound... It must be the girl who was with the boy at the clothing store.'

“ His name is Leblaine. She's a young girl and she's very, uh-very cool!”

It's chilly? Tri is really stupid.

Anyone who is loved and raised in such a safe environment will be strong.

He was different from a beggar who had no parents…

'No. I have a father. Dad will be here to see me soon.'

But when?

Although from a poor family, Emeline did not know about poverty until her mother died.

Although her mother's hands were rough and often hurt, Emeline always wore and ate good food.

When she tried to help her mother, she always said,

“You are a precious child. How bad your father would feel if he knew that his precious daughter was suffering.”

After her mother died, she had several opportunities to go to an orphanage and move to a new home.

Many parents want Emelime, which is cute, fun, and even knows how to write.

However, Emeline believes her mother's words and runs away. He did not change his name so that his father could visit him.

He steals Max's money and gives it to the temple every month as an offering, and asks if anyone is looking for it.

Emeline bit her lips and sighed. He knows the truth.

When even until now his father had not found him, it could only mean that he did not know of his existence or had no desire to find him.

"My mother is a liar."

Emeline clutched the necklace her mother gave her when she died.

“ This is proof that you, Emeline, are your father's daughter. You should keep it without anyone seeing it.”

When Emeline, who had been staring at the slender pendant with the curved end, was about to throw it under the bridge,

“Emeline!”

He could hear an unfamiliar voice.

"Are you a priest?"

Since he was wearing a priest robe, it was not difficult to guess his identity.

"But it's a blue flower badge."

The order of Neliard temples is:

The management of this place is taken by the head of each temple chosen by the central temple.

The central temple, which manages the local temples, is staffed by 21 priests, who are voted on by the most votes.

The main temple of Neliard, which is owned only by the most powerful clergy, Cardinals, and the Pope, the religious leader of Neliard.

And that blue flower could only be owned by a high-ranking priest, 21 priests.

"Are you Emeline? So you are him. I've been looking for you.”

The approaching priest with a friendly face bent his knees and looked at Emeline.

Emeline accidentally hid the necklace in her pocket and raised her head.

"What are you doing?"

“I have good news. Your father is looking for you.”

"……Huh?"

Emeline's eyes narrowed slightly.

***

I had been in the mercenary guild of hope until late at night, and I returned home with a tired face.

"I'm so tired……."

As I held onto my stiff shoulders and knees like an old man, the chairman, who got off the carriage with me, looked at me.

"You're like an old man."

"It's hard to work too hard even a little since I called Pur."

"Then hurry and grant her wish."

“You don't know how stubborn Pur is. His wish still wants to have my heart.”

“If I don't receive holy power from the 2nd Prince, something big will happen.”

"really? It's time to start using the trick in Pur.….”

As we were talking, my three servants approached me with urgent faces.

"Mr Johann is home."

"really?"

My face brightened as I quickly got off the train. But it's weird.

'Why is the atmosphere like this?'

"What's the problem?"I asked while frowning my forehead.

“There are some people who came with mr Johann.”

"Who?"

“A child believed to be the fourth child and priest.”

After receiving the story from the servants, I ran to the mansion with a stiff face.

People gathered in the courtyard.

I could see my father and the priest among the adults two or three times taller than me.

"Principal Augustine."

One of the 21 priests like Adolf, who stole the ageless medicine I made, and gave it to the Empress Dowager and made her sick.

With the exception of the cardinals, he was the highest priest in charge of my theological class in my first life.

'Augustinus is coming?'

The temple began to move.

“You have no idea how surprised I was to hear that Dubbled had the youngest child, and that the young master was looking for him. But that's how we brought this kid to Dubbled.”

"Evidence?"

When my father asked, Augustine waved his hand and chuckled.

“He is the most likely candidate. A woman who looked like a servant of a noble family settled in a village and raised her. His birthday also coincides with the youngest child. This child seems to think of the woman as her biological mother until now.”.

“…….”

“He told me a few times. His mother told him that a noble father would come to find him one day. Come on, kid, let's say hello. ”

As I approached my father and the priest, I was shocked when I saw the boy.

"It's Emeline."The priest said with a smile.

Emeline looked at him and his brothers. He murmured, not knowing what to do.

“H, hello..”.

The priest then looked at me, lowered his head and said with a friendly smile.

“I've seen you when you were very small. Do you remember? My name is Augustine.”

"…I remember."

"You must be happy to have a new sister."

“…….”

After a moment of silence, I smiled broadly and hugged Emeline.

"It's nice to meet you! I'm Leblaine!”

Augustine's expression became bright.

I hugged Emeline and whispered to her.

"You're not the youngest."

“…….”

"And I know who your father is."

Because I saw it clearly in my third life. He's someone I know well.