Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 152

After talking with Mrs. Huen, I walked out into the prison hallway, my head a mess.

“I don’t know for sure either. But… it felt like a very ancient being.”

“It’s definitely a being related to ancient times. I didn’t feel any ancient energy from the Princess’s treatment device either. And for some reason, it hates ancient energy.”

“It lived even without a body. And it possessed my daughter’s body. It was so happy, saying it was a living body…!”

“It kept hurting my daughter’s body, drawing blood, and being ecstatic. It still gives me the creeps.”

Listening to Mrs. Huen, one thing came to mind.

Beings that can live much longer than humans.

Celestials, demons, divine beasts, monsters.

And among them, if there’s a species that can exist even after their body dies…….

‘Among the divine beasts, it’s a mythical beast type.’

Whether that’s true or not is still up for debate.

Too much time has passed since a mythical beast revealed itself.

There are plenty of books about mythical beasts, but no one knows what’s true and what’s false.

After receiving the mythical beast’s egg, I read quite a few books about mythical beasts.

There were many absurd stories.

The idea that they don’t die even if their body dies and can exist as a soul was one of them.

However, existing as a soul has its limitations.

Eventually, they need to obtain a new body.

‘Was that really true?’

I looked straight ahead.

Various notifications were floating around haphazardly.

But I couldn’t find the phrase “Quest Completed.”

Then my thought that it’s a mythical beast is completely wrong一.

‘I need to find out what kind of being it is among the mythical beasts.’

Either way, I’ll be able to figure it out if I meet the opponent.

I’ve grasped its personality quite a bit while clashing with it several times.

‘…But if a mythical beast is such a dangerous being, shouldn’t I not hatch the egg?’

I’ve been taking care of it with all my heart.

Giving it goodnight kisses and talking to it every night…….

‘Hmm, let’s not do that anymore.’

I organized my thoughts and read the floating notifications.

[A new quest has arrived.]

〈Protect the Growing Sprout!〉

Dear Reader!

Did you listen to Mrs. Huen’s heartbreaking story that you can’t hear without tears?

I guess I’m getting old these days; I’ve become more tearful.

I unknowingly dabbed my tears on my sleeve, you know?

Of course, Mrs. Huen has a slightly detestable side, but wasn’t it inevitable to protect her daughter?

And the real Sophia is a seven-year-old baby!

A poor child who has done nothing wrong.

A wicked being is occupying the child’s body and committing all sorts of crimes!

At this rate, that child’s future is bleak.

She may never regain her body for the rest of her life.

This is when a righteous romance fantasy reader should step up!

Save the growing sprout!

– Condition: Return the body to Sophia

– Reward: 3000 Cash Gacha Ticket

‘This devilish guy, I really don’t know what to make of him?’

During the Seed period, he was making a fuss saying what does it matter to the readers even if a child is being sold as a slave.

Now he’s talking about justice and asking me to save a child.

‘What justice from a devilish guy.’

Of course, I was going to save Sophia if I could, but I’m very suspicious because the devilish guy is acting like this.

But I can’t not save her.

[Quest Accepted.]

‘I’ll see what the devilish guy is up to.’

I walked straight down the hallway, deeper inside.

The guard who was guarding the door saw me, bowed his head, and opened the door.

Squeak一.

The sound of the iron door opening echoed eerily.

As I went inside, I could see Sophia’s haggard figure through the bars.

Unlike Mrs. Huen, who apologized from the beginning, Sophia was glaring at me with a venomous look.

“Hello, Sophia.”

Sophia didn’t answer.

She was just glaring at me with an even more ferocious energy.

I raised the corner of my lips and continued.

“Or should I call you Ariel?”

“……!”

Sophia, no, Ariel’s eyes wavered.

Soon, she twisted her lips as if she knew what was going on.

“That bitch told you everything. I knew I couldn’t trust humans.”

“Really? You seem to have a lot of resentment towards humans?”

“Resentment? Ha! Do you think of hating gnats as resentment? I’m just regarding something inferior as inferior.”

“Despite looking down on humans so much, the way you’re trying so hard to mingle among them is quite pathetic.”

Whoosh一!

Ariel’s face flushed in an instant, as if she had been stabbed in the heart.

I always win against you in arguments, why do you keep talking?

Ariel glared at me with fiery eyes and muttered lowly.

“If I had only regained my true power, I would have devoured you in an instant!”

“Yeah, well, maybe. But you don’t have it now? That power.”

I picked my ear with my little finger and then blew on it.

“You know it’s really pathetic to brag about power you don’t have, right?”

Sparks flew from Ariel’s eyes.

“How dare you, a lowly human, treat me like this……!”

“What are you, being caught by such a human and locked up in prison?”

“…….”

“Look at you not answering. I knew it.”

“I am a being who can swallow you whole!”

“Then try swallowing me.”

Ariel just stared at me with murderous eyes but couldn’t do anything.

“You still can’t, can you?”

I stared intently at Ariel’s face and slowly spat out the next words.

“Because the body that could swallow me has already disappeared?”

“……!”

Ariel looked at me in great surprise.

“You…….”

She moved her lips a few times but couldn’t find the words and closed them again.

“Ha, I didn’t know that bitch would even find out my identity…….”

She seemed to be mistaken that Mrs. Huen had noticed her identity and told me.

“You have a lot of nerve. How dare a human be so reckless even knowing who I am.”

No, actually, I don’t know.

Seeing her keep saying she’ll swallow me, is she really a divine beast?

But it wouldn’t be strange if there were individuals among the monsters with special abilities.

I was spinning thoughts in my head, but outwardly, I didn’t show any signs and said.

“Well. It’s nothing much. Am I supposed to tremble before you?”

“……Enjoy it while you can afford to be so relaxed.”

“I can only enjoy it if you’re somewhat of an opponent. You’re not even worth enjoying.”

Gritting!

The sound of Ariel grinding her teeth was fierce.

“Hey, take it easy. Isn’t that not your body? You’ll ruin the kid’s teeth.”

“You’re the first human to annoy me so much in all my years! Even if you fall into the water, only your mouth will float!”

“That’s a relief. I won’t die from drowning.”

When I smiled brightly, Ariel trembled as if she was about to die from anger.

Oh, come on!

Of course, there was a reason why I was teasing Ariel like this.

I’m not doing this for fun; I’m teasing her to get information based on careful calculations and plans.

It’s true.

……But it’s not like it’s not fun.

Isn’t verbally beating up the villain the charm of romance fantasy?

I’m not just watching the female leads do it; I’m beating them up myself.

The experience I’ve gained from reading romance fantasy comes out here.

“……You’re alive now, but it won’t last long. The moment that person faces you, you will fall into hell.”

Oh, it’s out.

That person.

“I don’t know anything about ‘that person’ either. Ariel always kept me away when she talked to that witch [referring to the veiled woman]. ”

“At first, I thought I could save Sophia if I listened to Ariel, so I tried hard not to offend her. So I didn’t know the inside story even more.”

“But after meeting the Princess and seeing Ariel’s reaction, I changed my mind.”

“Maybe Ariel will leave my daughter’s body if she fails……. After the plan failed, seeing her more obsessed with a living body made me think that way.”

“From then on, I watched Ariel closely and eavesdropped on conversations, but there was a limit to trying not to get caught.”

Ariel and her helper and rival, the veiled woman.

And there’s an even higher being above that.

‘That being must be the mastermind behind this.’

Mrs. Huen didn’t know much about that mastermind.

Mrs. Huen’s situation, which the devilish guy listened to while wiping away tears, was simple.

Sophia was Mrs. Huen’s daughter and had been sick for a long time.

One day, a veiled woman came and said she would save her sick daughter.

Instead, she said she had to do anything as a condition, and Mrs. Huen, who was desperate, immediately accepted without thinking.

As the woman said, her sick daughter’s body got better.

But what was occupying her daughter’s body was not a human, but a monster.

Mrs. Huen tried to drive Ariel out, but it was no use.

If she had known that the promise to do anything and pay any price would come back like this, she would never have made it.

The woman threatened and coaxed Mrs. Huen, who was beating her chest in regret.

Her daughter’s life was the excuse.

She had no choice but to cooperate with the promise that she would return her daughter’s body and restore her to perfect health when everything was over.

But suspicion could not help but sprout.

Ariel’s abnormal obsession with the body.

Ariel’s reaction when she failed ‘that person’s’ orders.

Maybe, if Ariel keeps failing, and if she falls out of favor with that person, she might disappear from her daughter’s body.

If she could get her daughter’s body back……!

But if Ariel leaves Sophia’s body, the disease might recur.

Mrs. Huen, who had been deceived once, had no choice but to be careful.

“That’s when the Princess came into my eyes.”

“The Princess said she saw the patterns appearing on Ariel’s body. I thought the Princess might have a special power.”

“And the Princess has a track record of creating a cure for the Black Death and saving Marquis Tarenka. And this time, even a physical therapy device…….”

So she tested me.

Because her daughter’s life was at stake.

“But I don’t know who Ariel is talking about as ‘that person.’ At first, I thought it was that veiled woman.”

“But that woman and Ariel don’t get along very well. I’m sorry. I couldn’t be of much help…….”

In the end, I have no choice but to find out myself.

I crossed my legs and folded my arms.

“Who is she?”

“She? Did you just say she? How dare a lowly human mention that person……!”

“You keep singing about that person, that person, but why isn’t that person helping you?”

“What?”

“If she’s such a great person, she can definitely help you right now, right?”

A ripple ran through Ariel’s eyes at my words.

It wasn’t the first or second time Ariel had been shaken, but this reaction was the first.

Like she was about to collapse at any moment…….

I didn’t stop and continued.

“Or is your ‘that person’ not even capable of that?”

“How dare you! That person is greater and more outstanding than any other being! Someone like you can be crushed with one finger一.”

“But why isn’t she saving you? Even though you believe in and follow her so much?”

“……!”

Ariel took a sharp breath.

But no words came out of her wide-open mouth.

I met her eyes, which were broken by shock, and spat out each word with force.

“You’ve been abandoned.”

Clang, bang!

“Ugh…….”

A claw-like hand gripped my wrist tightly, causing me to groan.

Ariel, who had rushed at me, was blocked by the bars and collided hard.

But she didn’t seem to feel the pain and glared at me with fierce eyes.

Her pupils, visible at close range, sparkled with a strange light.

The brown eyes gradually brightened and took on a bright yellow color.

The pupils were torn vertically.

It wasn’t a human’s eyes.

‘……It’s okay. After all, I have the protective barrier that Dad cast.’

As I comforted myself, red lines began to appear on Ariel’s body like fine cracks.

Soon, they became darker and began to draw clear patterns.

It was the same pattern I had seen at Mrs. Sheruin’s tea party before.

‘Ugh…….’

My face was naturally distorted by the sudden surge of unpleasantness.

A gloomy and ominous energy that pressed down on my chest.

Yet, somehow familiar…….

I had felt this energy before.

‘Seed……!’

It’s clear.

The curse that crawled all over Seed’s body gave off exactly this kind of energy.

At that moment, red lines began to dig into me through the hand that was holding my wrist.

“……!”

Pain.

Pain.

Pain!

Pain came to the point where my head burned white.

It was that moment.