The Baby Who Raised the Devil

Time to Choose Your Father (8)

Nos muttered, swallowing his dry saliva.

" Newt is... "

I was surprised by what Nos said about the stone inside the jewelry box.

'It's Newt?'

As I turned blue, Nos said with an embarrassed expression.

“ Sorry, Sir. This is not his fault, but the storage conditions are not good. Otherwise, Newt wouldn't have suddenly become a powder. ”

Nos tried hard to find an excuse, but the duke's face did not improve.

Holding the end of the skirt, I grabbed Duke's arm, and shivered.

“ Sawlah,sawlah.Wrong, wrong.I didn't mean.) ”

However, the duke shook my hand and frowned.

******* flowing from his lips

“You're bothering me.”

My whole body trembled like an aspen tree.

Instead of being liked, I had an accident.

I think I'm too afraid to say that my life expectancy is getting worse.

Besides, my eyes started to swirl, and my vision narrowed.

"Don't bother me again and go back to your room"

“ Ouch…. ”

As soon as I groaned, my body tilted and fell under the chair.

“ Small miss !”

In my narrowed field of view, the duke has hardened with his eyes wide open.

Then came the silence.

***

In the darkness I looked back at Duke Amity.

My father, who was kind, cautious and fair.

I respect and love him so much.

I had to sacrifice a lot of things to live as her daughter, but it was fine.

If only he would laugh with me while calling my name.

But I do know. If there is a wall between us.

Duke Amity gave me a room to stay, taught me noble missions, and dined together, but only to that extent.

He doesn't consider me his son.

But I did my best because I liked it.

I hesitated for a long time and then reached out to him

“ Ay- “

“ Father !”

Mina ran past me and approached Duke Amity

Somehow Mina hugged his arm without hesitation.

When Mina smiled with her eyes folded, Duke Amity stroked her head and smiled.

Its alright. That might happen. Mina is truly the child of destiny.

She's a good girl who brings rain to drought, and gives hope to the poor and the sick.

If I work harder, my dad will take care of me too.

Then the darkness around me shook.

“ Stupid !”

A roar came from the air.

I was shocked to see the hand sticking out of the distorted darkness.

A hand with a ring engraved with the name Vallua immediately caught my attention.

" If you're hiding, I'm afraid I can't find you. You little mouse. "

Duke Vallua kicked me. Without a doubt, Duchess Vallua, appeared immediately.

" This useless girl . "

They came to me little by little. I shuddered with my palm back.

Don't hit me.

Ii'm sorry.

I'm sorry ····!!

“ Heuk !”

I woke up kicking the blanket.

My back was full of cold sweat, and my hands were trembling.

After looking at the familiar clock in front of me, I regained my senses.

"It's a dream."

Only the sound of rain hitting the window woke the silence.

There was a basin and towel next to the bed. The chair was still warm as if someone had been here for a while.

'That's right, I fell.'

I couldn't breathe when I remembered what happened in the afternoon.

"Newt it, what to do."

After three deaths, I found a decent place.

The waiter Dubbled was very friendly, and Duke Dubbled was not as evil as the people in my past life.

But when these people hate me,

The duke's eyes will be as cold as they were. Leah and Nos won't laugh at me either.

Suddenly the thunder boomed, revealing something that had been in the dark.

***

Lea brought some new clothes to Leblaine, who was sweating a lot in her sleep.

The servants followed him and cried.

" Is the baby okay?"

“I heard the doctor doesn't know why. What is going on ?”

Lea sighed.

" Because he's sick for no reason. After you give him a fever-lowering"

Leblaine, who was supposed to be lying in bed, was nowhere to be seen.

“ What ..”

As the servants panicked and muttered, Lea cried as if shouting.

" Find the baby! "

The surprised waiter ransacked the bathroom, ransacking the hallway, but there was no Leblaine in sight.

The pale-faced Lea delivered the news to the Duke.

At midnight, the lights are on in the Dubbled Castle area.

Everyone's busy looking for Leblaine.

Nos ran towards Duke in the hallway.

“ He is not in the pavilion.”

"Kitchen. He's probably wandering around looking for bread. ”

“I've been looking for him. ”

The duke's face hardened. Many of these men had been commanded, but they could not find a single child.

Was he hit by an assassin who came here for Dubbled?

Or the Senate, which disapproves of the child of destiny, might use its hands.

"Command troops.To perform search—"

"Your Majesty!"

Then came an urgent voice from outside the window.

The butlers and gardeners surrounded a man.

In it, Lea, who found him, ran as fast as she could.

“ Small miss !”

Leblaine wriggled her hands as she saw Lea hugging her.

The Duke took a step towards the boy.

The guards stationed around the area ran out of water, and eventually Leblaine looked well.

His pyjamas were covered in dust, and bare feet without dirty shoes with scratches and dirt.

The young body, which was drenched in heavy rain, trembled, and its lips turned blue. Leblaine had staggered behind Lea and walked over to the Duke.

“ You ...”

When Duke narrowed the middle of his forehead, Leblaine took out something.

It was a red flower in trembling hands.

“ You like awnyewlir(you like carnations.)”

“.......”

“Maawfkan me (forgive me)”

When Newt broke, Leblaine, who did not know what to do and held onto his sleeve, appeared in his mind.

" Maawfakan me. (I'm sorry) ....."

Duke could not give any answer. He rubbed his hands desperately to ask for forgiveness with a pale face.

When I coldly hit his hand, I regretted it.

***

Thanks to the thunder, I knew there was carnation in the garden outside the window. So I rushed to find the flower at once.

It's raining cats and dogs, but it doesn't matter. I have to do something to not be hated.

I looked at Duke with a frightened face. After a long silence, he hugged me.

'Euah!'

Then Lea and the embarrassed Nos came running quickly.

" Ah, Sir. The baby might have unintentionally made a fuss. He's still a kid, so he doesn't know anything"

But the Duke took me to the castle without listening to anything.

'What are you going to do with me?'

I prayed my best, but it could not be solved with a bunch of flowers destroying Newt.

However, the place the duke entered was the bathroom.

'Is this water torture?'

I was so scared that I became so stiff.

The Duke extended his hand after he put me in the bathtub.

'Fall!'

I closed my eyes reflexively. Thats odd. That's not painful.

When I opened my eyes carefully, I saw the duke with one knee bent.

Shortly after, he touched my feet. I was amazed at what he was trying to do.

He started wiping my legs. When the water touched my feet, I flinched.

“What is pain?”

"No..."

“.....”

He looked at me without a word, so I muttered.

“ Little ..”

The touch has softened.

Every time the mud and dust on my feet melted into the water and fell to the floor, the wound became clearer. I don't feel sick because I'm in a hurry.

The duke's gaze at my feet sank deeply.

" Don't wander around the castle late at night ."

I thought I'd be in trouble now, but his mouth wasn't open anymore.

'That's it?' It was even more disturbing because the Duke was not angry. '

I moved my hand and muttered.

“D yuke, aren't you angry? (Duke, aren't you angry?) ”

A strange silence seeped into the bathroom.

He looked at me for a long time and opened his lips.

" I'm not angry."

Did ya?

Are you sure?

I looked at him with a look of disbelief, and he narrowed his forehead and patted me on the forehead. It doesn't hurt at all.