The Baby Who Raised the Devil

Flower Ring (2)

Viscount Roman secretly summoned followers for a meeting.

“We must take down Theodore Dubbled, and kill the child of destiny for the future of the Dubbled family!”

However, the Roman words did not appeal to the followers.

“What is it necessary?”

"What?"

“I'd rather see it as a good thing. We now at least have a rope on the duke. ”

“He's fake! And ordinary people!”

"Well, that's a rumor."

A follower who said so smiled, and looked at others.

"Have you not witnessed our little miss's kindness last time?"

"That's amazing."

“Improvement of its holy power has also been confirmed. Apparently, the people from the church are very happy.”

“Even among those who are able to use divine power to experience an increase is extremely rare.”

The followers, who had previously stated that they would never acknowledge Leblaine as a member of the Dubbled family, changed their minds and gave her all sorts of praise.

"Nobody is as beautiful and generous as she is."

“No matter how small a child is, they can always tell the difference between evil and good. It is clear that he is an angel who came down from heaven because he saved us, even though we made him through it all.”

"These people…!!! Control yourself. The little girl was not the child of fate, but the demon who had let Duke down!”

The other follower shouted, "Oho!"

"You talk too much!"

"Your life was saved by little lady, you should be a little grateful!"

The followers work together and drive Roman out of the room.

***

After dinner, Duke called me to the office.

As I stood in front of him, I looked at him with an unconscious expression on my face. I don't know why he called me this time.

“Leblain.”

"Yes." Yeah."

"Why didn't you give me a flower ring?"

"What?"

When I looked at him, he pointed to Henry and Isaac, who were smiling brightly.

They reached out their hands throughout the day and continued to stare at him while saying, "Love in the language of Flowers" and "love of Leblaine" and finally, it fell into the duke's ears.

I pointed at the duke's index finger.

"Dyuke there's a hewe ring." (Duke, there's a ring here.)

I said while pointing at the Dubbled seal on his index finger.

immediately he took off the ring and threw it at Nos.

"No, no more rings."

Is it okay to throw it away like that…?

It was an amazing sight because in the past, Duke Vallua held the seal almost like it was his honor.

"It's too late to look for violets."

I wondered what to do and found the yellow tulip stuck in the vase.

I took it and made a flower ring for her.

Tulips have thick stems, I can't tie them into rings, so I turned them into bracelets.

“Completed.”

After finishing the flower bracelet and pasting the seal on Nos' hand, I sighed.

The duke glanced gently at the flower bracelet I had made.

'What if he doesn't like it after trying it?'

I don't know if it resembles a flower ring made of small flowers, but a bracelet that big looks a bit overburdening.

The Duke looked at my brothers. Then he lifted his arm.

"My tree is bigger."

'Stop!'

"It's twice as big as yours."

'Stop.'

“Isn't mine prettier?”

'Stop that mouth!'

I got embarrassed from seeing his actions.

I panicked and looked at Henry, Isaac, and the others

Lea and the servants looked envious, squeezing their handkerchiefs, and Isaac was enraged.

"But I got it first."

As the boy continued, the corner of the duke's mouth rose. Isaac was angry and did not know what to do.

But Henry was silent.

'As expected, Henry is the most normal here.'

Fortunately, Henry smiled brightly and looked at Duke.

"Yellow flowers mean wasted love."

"….What's?"

“The meaning of violet purple in the language of flowers is love.”

Henry looked at the ring with a gentle gaze while the duke's gaze hardened.

After that Isaac smiled brightly, taking turns to look at my purple purple flower ring and the duke's yellow flower bracelet.

"Aha, love for nothing."

After I saw Duke glaring at him with a cold gaze, I tried my best to calm him down.

“Bwaine does not understand the language of flowers.” (Blaine does not understand the language of flowers)

“….”

“I'll make a flowew ring tomorrow. Two!"((I'll make two flower rings tomorrow)

Duke's expression softened only after I promised to make two of them.

I sat on the Duke's lap and sighed.

Bizarrely.

Why do I feel like I'm raising children?

Duke gave me a glass of orange juice.

"Drink."

He said in a friendly voice.

While I was drinking juice, Duke fixed my messy hair.

"Are you sick? You sweat.”

"No."

It's because I've been trying to maintain Boone's form all along.

The first time Boone showed up, I thought it would be difficult, but it was bearable because I had Etwal hanging around my neck.

“Your Majesty!”

Viscount Dubos rushed to the room.

“There is a problem with the existing spinel mine on top of Celbon!”

"What's that?"

"The volcano suddenly erupted and the mine was buried under the lava."

Viscount Dubos continued with a frown.

“Right now..we are at war with the Kingdom of Kruger, and if we don't get enough Spinel, we won't win.”

Kruger is a country famous for its powerful army made up of witches.

As the witches protect the Kruger knights from behind, the opponent must use spinel (a stone that can contain sacred power) to build a defensive line for a chance to counterattack.

"This is what happened this year."

But why is Dubbled preparing for the battle of Kruger?

It should be Duke Amity.

'Did they relinquish the right to be commanders because they didn't have enough Spinel?'

Eventually, the spinel mines were irreversible and Spinel prices soared.

Even if it was expensive, it could somehow be obtained with the money that the Dubbled family had, but the problem was that no one could secure sufficient amounts to supply to the battlefield.

'After the Spinel mine was buried, the church became the main supplier of spinel.'

In the past, the church must have sent spinels to Duke Amity first to keep Dubbleds in check.

As I recalled all those details, Duke called out to the follower at once.

***

The followers shared their opinions for hours, but there was only one answer.

To get help from the church that supplies the most spinels besides the Celbon spinel mine.

Viscount Dubos called the church.

As I sat on the duke's lap, I observed the followers waiting to talk to the church officials.

A familiar voice came from the magic stone that the witches had prepared. The one who greeted them was Adolf who was on bad terms with the Dubbled family.

[I regret hearing about what happened, but we are also in trouble due to poor supply and high demand for Spinel.]

On the surface, he looked troubled, but could not hide the ridicule from his eyes.

Viscount Dubos tried to contain his anger.

“Your Majesty the Emperor himself has issued a war decree for Dubbled. Without Spinel, this war will kill all our soldiers.”

[If you really want it, it's not like there's no other way.]

"What's that?"

Viscount Dubos's face was bright.

[If His Holiness were to ask the Pope directly, how would the Most Merciful refuse that request?]

"What?"

The faces of the followers all hardened.

I looked at Adolf, who continued to smile gracefully.

'Adolf is always a jerk.'

He considers Dubbled, who unlike other families is not afraid of the church, like a thorn.

Deliberately sending him for negotiation, the church might try to catch the duke's weakness.

He doesn't want to give us a spinel, so it's better to stop.

The Duke stared at the magic stone and knocked on the table slowly.

“No.”

“Ya, Your Highness.”

“Take Leblaine. It would be too much for a child to hear this. ”

"I'll go alone, Nos, Dyuke." (I go alone, Nos, Duke)

After saying that, I left the room quickly

I sent Nos back to the conference room and walked in the hall alone to return to my room.

'That's weird.'

[What's up, son?]

"I feel like I'm forgetting something."

I feel like it's something about Spinel.

'No matter how much I think about it, I can't remember it. What're those?'

It happened when I turned the corner while worrying about it.

Bumped!

If I hit someone.

Sitting down, I rubbed my forehead and raised my head.

"Are you okay?"

When I saw the man who hit me, my eyes turned in shock.

Despite being old, he had broad shoulders and a finely wrinkled face.

When he was young, he was probably a man who would have many admirers.

"He must be the rumored senate chief."

As he rubbed the dust off his shoulder, he said.

“You must be surprised.”

“….”

"Come, I'll help you stand up."

He helped me stand up and looked straight at me.

His eyes were sharp, as if he was looking through me.

Since he is a strong person and is not friendly with me, I feel very tense.

I slowly raised my head to meet her gaze.

"You look as pretty as I heard from the rumors."

"Thank You"

When I thanked him as if I was confused, the chief's eyebrows rose.

“Mr Noanoke!”

A familiar voice came from far away.

It was Roman himself, the elder who tried to expel me by influencing followers.

He frowned at me as he hesitated.

"What are you doing here? And what kind of tricks are you trying to do..!”.

"Stop."

Hearing the chief's words, Roman clicked his tongue.

"Let's go. Followers are already discussing the Spinel.” case

As Roman spoke, the chairman glanced at me, took a few steps and went towards him.

Roman himself grumbled and followed him.

“What does the child of destiny do here? Since he came here, all sorts of misfortunes have befallen Dubbled.”

"If you make fun of him in the castle, your tongue will be plucked."

I looked at the two and muttered, "Ah!" with a small voice.

'I'm reminded.'

Where have I heard of Spinel!