The Baby Who Raised the Devil

Traveling to the Past (6)

I hid under the fence of the orphanage and saw the baby found by his nanny. The daycare workers hurriedly hugged the baby and shouted.

"Manager, there's a baby!"

“Yeah... Asital, you go and grab hot water quickly.”

"Yes yes!"

Two middle-aged women and a young man carrying the baby hurriedly ran into the building.

I looked back at them until they disappeared, and then I turned my head.

Adrian was staring at me all along.

“…….”

He didn't say anything. It was a silence that felt more bitter than a few words of comfort.

I couldn't find any words to convince her either, so I laughed.

“Now let's go back. Ag, but how should we go back?”

We didn't come here voluntarily, so we couldn't go back alone.

I groaned and thought while holding my chin.

“The word that the cardinal has is a medium that takes us back to the past, so should we find it? Oh, but now I'm just a kid with no connection, where can I find him..”.

"I know."

"Huh?"

"I know how to go back."

Therefore, Adrian pulled something from his hand.

It was a jade-colored little gem and a letter.

"How's…"

“Because your mother told me how.”

"What?"

“She knows everything.”

I stared at Adrian, stiff as if glued to the ground.

I remember him whispering to Adrian when he suddenly let me go.

He gave me jewelry and letters. When I opened the letter with trembling hands, I could see her handwriting. This is the exact handwriting I saw in my aunt's room earlier.

[At the time you read this, will we part?]

Child anak. Baby son. Don't be so sad even if we part ways like this. I have no regrets in life, so I am a very lucky person.

What should I say first? It would be better to start with the fact that my life purpose was determined by the temple from an early age. As a child, I was unhappy. I sold for 40 francs and lived in a prison called a temple. The only joy I had back then was the cheerful and beautiful child I saw in my dreams.

[The girl with curly hair was always nimble, sweet, and ferocious. Many people liked the boy. An old man I knew well called the child little lady.]

Its me. This is my story.

"The old man must be the chairman."

[Since a very young age, I have admired the child in my dream who keeps moving, no matter how difficult it is. I was so happy when I realized he was my son.]

I decided not to cry anymore, but my eyes kept getting wet and tears fell on the precious letter.

[Thanks to the boy, I was able to gain courage and live my life after leaving the temple.]

But I didn't leave the temple alone. I brought the jewel with me]

Whahuh?

If it is a jewel kept in the temple…

'Etwals.'

[I have six friends in the jewel. Two of them are good people who sent you here and a beautiful deer who will one day be with you.]

Pur…….

[My friends helped me a lot. Thanks to them, I have a family, I have a lover that I want to spend the rest of my life with, and I can have my precious children.

But I know the truth. The reason they helped me was because their real master wanted to help me for some reason. And only today do I know who you really are. Son, you saved my life from beginning to end.]

The letter continues to the next page. However, the last sentence was interrupted.

[...So please protect them on my behalf. Son, when will you come by my side? I want to know your name-]

The handwriting of the letter was messier than the previous record, so it must have been written by my mother while dodging the temple attack.

How did my mom feel when she wrote the letter knowing she was running towards the end of her life?

"Mother is wrong."

I didn't save my mother, she saved me. I hugged the letter and cried for a while.

“Leblaine...”

"I, I ended up doing nothing ..."

Adrian hugged me.

“Do not think like that. Something has obviously changed.”

"But……."

"Trust me, Leblaine."

Adrian looked at me with determined eyes. I looked into her stubborn eyes and bit my lips.

“Last, last...The last time I cried.. And, I won't cry when I get back, so..”.

"Yes." Yeah."

I sighed and held the jewel.

"Let's go back."

“That gem is a demonic passageway. Maybe the devil sent us here.”

The clever Adrian seemed to have finished second-guessing the situation with what he witnessed and what he heard from my mother.

“Then we can go back to the original time.”

"Yes." Yeah."

“My guess is we're going back to where we came. We may meet with a cardinal, so be careful.”

As I nodded, he fused our foreheads as we did as a child. My body warmed up, and I could feel my holy power filling up.

“…..Adrian?”

I suddenly became anxious.

Why would he warn me to be careful of the cardinal and hand over his holy power to me?

That's as if..

Suddenly,

Kkr–!!

The ground shook violently, and a small black ball rushed towards me. The environment quickly became noisy.

“Agh-!”

I immediately contacted Adrian.

"Hurry now!"

But Adrian took a few steps from me.

"I still have something to do."

The ball hugged me like a blanket, and light began to spread within it. My body grew lighter as Adrian smiled.

"Be careful again."

“Adrian-!!”

And then, I lost my consciousness.

***

I hurriedly looked around inside the cardinal's room.

The box of jewels was opened, and in my hand was the jewel Adrian gave me and the jewel I took from the box before going into the past.

But Adrian is not.

'That stupid one!'

What's he gonna do there?

I quickly inserted the jewel with holy power.

'Send me back to the past, please!'

I have to bring back Adrian. The passageway of the devil is in my hands, both in the past and in the future. If this happens, Adrian may never come back. Later then…

"Emperor ... will make you empress ... has there been no word from the Empress Dowager?"

I could hear someone from far away.

'The cardinal is back.'

If he finds out that the cardinal's gem is missing, he'll find the culprit. If they find out that I wasn't in the dorm at that time, I might have to go to war with the temple.

'not yet. We can't fight yet.'

Above all, the two gems suddenly looked murky. It was as if the demons were cast out.

'This is no longer a demonic passageway.'

I didn't need such gems, so I hurriedly returned the gems inside the box and came out through the secret passage.

I rushed back to the inn and took a deep breath.

“Small number?”

“..... Cecilia.”

“Yes God, my son. Why are you sweating..!”

I immediately grabbed his hand.

“Adrian. Have you heard of Adrian?

"Yes." Yeah."

"Did Adrian ever become an adult ?!"

If he cannot return from the past, he must live in the past and become an adult now.

"What are you talking about .. is not like that and His Majesty ordered him to go to the border this morning."

"Border?"

"Yes. She must be gone by now? Well, now it seems like they are trying to connect the troops from the border to the 2nd prince to face the 1st prince.”.

Looks like Adrian came to tell this story today.

'Then I need to buy some time. I have to find a way to get Adrian back before that…'

When I think about it, something catches my attention. Suddenly there was a book on the table.

"…What is it?"

“After I left for a while, it was lying there. Isn't that yours?”

I hurriedly opened the book.

"It's not mine."

This book is a journal.

Well, the journal of me in the Empress Dowager's library.

That must be Adrian.

Only Adrian knows that I have entered the library of the Empress Dowager.

Amand can sense what's left, so I think he knows I'm looking at him.

But, the contents of the journal were different from those found in the Empress Dowager's library.

[After a month, the boy did not cry or laugh. At the meeting it was decided to give up on the boy. It's depressing.]

There is no mention of the kidnapping.

'How can this happen ...'

Then, the writing in the journal was deleted and new writing began to appear.

[The boy disappeared and came back. The child who came back crying and laughing as usual.]

[There was a violet flower next to the boy's bed.]

[Around two in the afternoon, I saw the shadow of someone outside the window. I was quietly waiting to catch the culprit, and what appeared was a very pretty blonde boy. Far from hurting the baby, the boy stroked the baby's head and smiled very sweetly before returning.]

The one who kidnapped me and sent me back was Adrian.

Did he do that to protect me?

When I put the book down, I noticed there was a mark on the back cover that had been removed once about my birthday.

Very, very faint, I could see '7 January' written on it, and '29 February' written on it.

In an instant, I realized what Adrian's 'remaining job' was.

"This fool ......!"

“Small number?”

The day I left the baby was January 7. That's why they couldn't believe the baby was birthday on February 29th, so Adrian secretly fixed it.

'An orphaned children's birthday is usually the day they are registered in a daycare document.'

Now I no longer need to manipulate my documents. I bit my lip and told Cecilia.

"I have to go home."

"Huh?"

“There's something I want to say to my family.”