The Baby Who Raised the Devil

Unraveling His Intention (10)

After opening the box, I could see a jewel the size of a baby's fist.

It has a deep, vivid red color that looks like a ruby. I know because I once lived in the temple in my first and second life. It's a red thorn.

It was usually mined in the temple's spinel mines, and had no other function such as blue spinel that could contain sacred power.

For this reason, miners refer to red spinel as residue.

“Wait, Leblaine. the-”

I heard Adrian's voice, but I reached out my hand to take the jewel.

It was the same feeling as when I first held the water lizard, the first time I summoned a demon. My hands move on their own, like someone is controlling my body.

When my finger touches the jewel…

The explosion-!

A huge roar sounded from all directions as if it was an earthquake.

A dazzling light emanated from the gem, and the light immediately wrapped around my body.

Power drained from my body in an instant. The power that had been absorbed even in small amounts through the mana stone was also swallowed in the blink of an eye.

“Aduh..!”

My head was about to break, and I choked. Blood flowed into my head as if I was strangled.

[Something like chestnut ... I ate it.].

[Hello, Leblaine.].

[The child ...... Gya!]

[Regardless of your purpose, I. ...I mean.].

[Call me ... son.].

Distorted voices from my family and Lea passed through my mind one after another.

I know this feeling. The problem is I know everything well.

It happens when the regression starts again.

The roar kept ringing in my head as if it was a warning.

'Stop, no…!'

The sound can't come out of me. At that moment, the tears that filled my eyes almost fell.

“Leblaine!”

Adrian hugged me.

As soon as I could feel a warm embrace, the voice that filled my head suddenly stopped.

As my breath gradually stabilized again, the light enveloping my body disappeared.

And then I felt my body drift and my vision go black.

***

Just then, Johann, Dubbede's eldest son, arrives in an abandoned village.

It is the home of some of the emperor's tyrannical victims, those who lost their homes due to the war against immigrants, and those who committed crimes.

They live silently, therefore called abandoned villages.

The knight of Dubblede, accompanied by Johann, knocked on the door of the house made of boards.

After a while, a man with a shabby blanket lifted the tent slightly with a wary face.

"Who is this?"

"Are you the mayor of this abandoned village?"

“What mayor... will there be a mayor in a city like this? I'm just the oldest person living here.”

"Well fine then. I need a hand. I'm looking for someone.”

Johann took out a small portrait of his robe.

"It's a portrait from five or six years ago, it shouldn't be hard to spot."

The man took the portrait with trembling hands.

After he checked, he shook his head and opened his eyes wide.

"Hm. I guess I've never seen anyone like this.”

“He used to work in an orphanage. Have you never heard of him?”

“Never heard or seen. Looky. Most people in this village have sinned. Will such a person easily give up his previous identity so easily? If it is a successful caretaker, I tell you-”

Johann grabbed the old man by the neck with one hand before he could finish speaking.

Bang out! The old man who pushed against the wall with a sharp voice, struggled.

"Why, why are you like this!"

"I just refer to the person in the portrait as an orphanage worker, never call him a successful guard."

Anyone can get a job in a private or public orphanage, but state-run orphanages are different.

Because the state orphanage was managed directly under the imperial palace. They usually sent someone from the administrative office of the imperial palace, so the workers there were previous officials.

That's why people refer to state-run orphanage workers as 'successful caregivers'.

“I, the..!”

“You better say it quickly. I'm not too impatient.”

The man's eyes trembled in front of Johann's sharp gaze.

“A hut under the mountain. He taught the children of this village there..”.

Johann immediately released his power from his hands.

The knights checking the map nodded their heads.

"It's not far from here."

"Let's go."

The man who was sitting on the floor and coughing shouted.

"Why are you looking for him!"

“…….”

“He fled to this city because he committed a crime, but he's not that bad. He is kind enough for us to entrust him with the children. ……Asia!”

"I wouldn't hurt him if he told me the truth."Johann answered without hesitation.

Duval's Asital was the only clue he had found.

Johann explored the area near Leblaine's nursery, but found nothing strange.

When she thought that her father's assumption was not correct, she realized something strange.

Leblaine has no record of her life even though other children have it.

To be exact, there is no record of his life until he was two years old.

It is often referred to as a journal, and is usually given when a child is adopted, but its most important role is to be used as documentary evidence of the state subsidizing orphanages.

Some use this to their advantage.

Sometimes they fake or add journals to receive more subsidies.

“You said he was left in an orphanage the moment he was born. But why is there no record of it until the age of two?”

“It... No, young master, don't look at me like that. It's not that we didn't write it, it was lost when the baby was sent here from the state orphanage.”.

“Country-run orphanages? Is he there? I've never heard of anything like that.”

“This is not a good story, so I don't need to say it.. wait, wait! Put the sword down first. I'll tell you. I will! So there's a secret among the orphanages.”.

"Secret among the orphanages?"

“State-run orphanages must somehow keep adoption rates below 90%. If not, the manager will change. So, troubled children are sent to private orphanages, which is not bad at private orphanages. The money we received when they sent a child from a state-run orphanage was very good.”

“…….”

“Each of it is done clandestinely. Especially since we kept this a secret from the imperial palace.”

It is sad to hear that Leblaine is being treated like a constantly moving piece of trash, or used as a trading tool for voracious adults.

He was angry, but more importantly, he received good information.

He soon found the state-run orphanage where Leblaine lived, but it was closed a few years ago.

The caregivers at the time did not remember Leblaine.

“I'm not sure. It's hard to say if the child was transferred to a private orphanage.

“Am I in charge of the records? That's all the babysitters do. Raising a newborn is hard work, so beginners do it.”

"Let's see. At that time, newbie... Ah! The Asita.”

He found out about the worker in charge of Leblaine. This is the last clue.

Johann walked for a long time with the knights and went down the mountain. A shabby hut could be seen from afar.

***

“. Leblaine!”

Someone shook me and woke me up.

When I came to my senses, I forcefully lifted my heavy eyelids.

Before I could even look around, I felt like my body was in a lot of pain. My entire body was throbbing as if I had been beaten.

'Freaky. It was more painful than usual when I fainted due to the lack of holy power…'

The pulse is usually not this much. As I looked down at my most aching arm, blood seeped through my dress.

'I really am hurt! No, other than blood, why am I so wet?'

Seeing that, my whole body trembled. I rubbed my arms and turned my head. So was Adrian, soaked in water, staring at me.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes. But where are we? Aren't we in the Imperial Palace?”

I look around. This is the first time I've seen this cave.

"I don't know. We were transferred here as soon as you passed out. I think it's because of the Blasio gem you touched. We were swept away by the current as soon as we moved. I just got the two of us out of the water and found the cave.”

"You saved me. Thanks…"

I always seem to bother Adrian. When I turn pale, I,

“It's okay. I think it's more important to check where this is.” Adrian said.

“I have communication tools. There's a tracking spell in it, so if I call my family.”.

After saying that, I took out a communication device.

But it's weird. Call not connected. Adrian shook his head.

"I tried to communicate with the Imperial Palace, but to no avail."

“We, we'll be fine! If the jewel was a magical tool of the temple, it would not have been able to travel far. It can't travel long distances. And the only mountain near us is Mount Redgus behind my mansion.”

'Let's go out and return to the mansion.'

"Let's go."

As I said so, Adrian got up to chase me. We walked on the mountain together. However, as time went on, I felt something strange.

'Since when was Mount Redgus this big?'

In addition, haro flowers are blooming.

I immediately covered my nose with my sleeves.

I have a severe allergy to haro flowers. Knowing this, my family tried to cut every haro flower in sight, including the one on the mountain.

"It's not……."

As I said that, Adrian narrowed his eyebrows and looked somewhere.

When I looked towards Adrian's gaze and saw ...

'Dubblede's big house in the house.'

So we're traveling this far?

'No way. The temple would not be able to travel long distances.'

That time,

"Who is this!"

Footsteps were heard from several directions along with the shout. When I looked, I saw…

“......Lea?”

Lea was covered in blood, and she brandished her sword towards us.

By the way…….

“Why do you look so small?”

“Omong empty what..”

Lea frowned and spoke loudly.

“How can you get into the mountain? If you don't want me to spill your bowels, just say so. ”

"You shouldn't say such cruel things in front of little miss."

Leaku said this before ...

I opened my mouth and at the same time, a cloaked woman came running towards Lea.

"What are you doing? We need to find a place to give birth right now!”

“But, sister. These people..”.

The sister? Could it be Reina, who died while protecting Lisette and the youngest child?

“What such a young girl will be our enemy? Hurry up."

The woman bit her lips hard. Then I realized

The red spinel takes me and Adrian to the past when the youngest son was not born.