The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 123

Kieren safely returned to Serpent’s Castle.

The wound on his right arm was roughly bandaged as a temporary measure.

Still, the wound was deep, and the bleeding continued for quite some time.

One would expect monsters from the Black Forest to rush in, drawn by the scent of blood, but they remained quiet.

It was as if the shrill cry of ‘Rose,’ the woman, telling them to go away, was some kind of command.

Thanks to that, Kieren was able to leave the Black Forest peacefully with the woman.

The woman kept her eyes wide and reddened as she walked through the Black Forest.

As if she was going to protect Kieren.

It was a ridiculous notion, considering she was limping with a bad leg.

In fact, he would have returned much faster if he had been alone.

He briefly considered abandoning her, but Kieren eventually matched Rose’s slow pace and slowly left the Black Forest.

The servants, who had been pacing near the castle gate, wondering when he would arrive, were very pleased with Kieren and Rose’s safe return.

Kieren handed Rose over to them and went straight to receive treatment.

“The wound is deep.”

He was stitched up without proper anesthesia.

The wound inflicted by the monster was quite deep, and the pain was severe even after treatment.

Eventually, he had to receive a painkilling drug.

“The medicine is strong and may cause some hallucinations or auditory hallucinations.”

The attending physician, familiar with the routine, calmly added a word of caution.

He didn’t seem particularly worried.

It was a natural reaction.

Deep wounds that exposed bone, and strong, even toxic, drugs….

For Kieren, facing monsters in the Black Forest was an everyday occurrence.

So there was no need to worry at all.

That woman shed tears over something so trivial.

It was truly a pointless act.

Remembering the woman’s pink eyes as she cried as if her own arm had been cut off, Kieren went about his business as usual.

Since he knew how to write with his left hand, there was no problem doing his work.

After dealing with urgent matters, he looked through the records of his predecessors.

He wanted to see if there was any information to be gained regarding the unusual behavior of the monsters.

He found no meaningful data.

After finishing everything he had to do, he went to bed at his scheduled bedtime.

That night was a little painful.

Despite taking strong painkillers, the pain rose, and he groaned, sweating profusely.

His distorted consciousness wandered in an ambiguous boundary between sleeping and waking.

Then suddenly, he came to his senses as if someone had tapped him.

“…….”

A soft, gentle song was heard.

The song, whispering in an unintelligible language, was a lullaby.

Kieren vaguely thought, with a pleasant voice that made goosebumps rise slightly.

That he was hearing auditory hallucinations from the drug.

But it wasn’t.

Along with the song, a soft cloth gently wiped his sweat-soaked forehead.

The clumsy but sincere touch was ticklish, and when he frowned, the hand gently smoothed out the wrinkled areas.

He didn’t even need to open his eyes to see who the owner of the touch was.

A presumptuous, annoying, and foolish being.

There was only one such being in Serpent’s Castle.

Rose.

The woman he had named that day.

He had no idea how she had crawled into his bedroom.

‘I need to teach her that she shouldn’t enter a man’s bedroom without permission.’

Thinking that he should have her receive sex education starting tomorrow, Kieren slowly relaxed his body.

It would be right to open his eyes and tell her to leave his bedroom, but.

For some reason, he didn’t feel like it.

He wanted to listen to the lullaby a little longer.

Concentrating on the gentle song made the pain fade.

It was virtually impossible for the pain, which could not be erased even with strong drugs, to disappear with just a lullaby.

The drug must be kicking in late.

Thinking so, Kieren quietly listened to the song and fell into a deep sleep.

***

“…Haa.”

Kieren sighed as he rummaged through past memories.

He shouldn’t have brought it up.

Thinking about the past that would not return only made the longing grow.

He had to be especially careful on days like today….

He had endlessly slashed monsters with the Demon Sword, so his mind was already unstable.

It was best not to have dangerous thoughts.

But he felt like he was okay now.

Because Chesya was here.

Kieren stroked the sleeping Chesya and hummed a little song.

It was the lullaby that Rose had sung to him.

The lullaby, which he sang haphazardly following the remembered notes, was a mess.

There was no feeling like a bird chirping, like Rose’s.

Still, it was one of the few things Rose had left him.

All traces of her had been erased from Serpent’s Castle.

The fragments of memories stung whenever he took them out.

The sharp corners were painful, but he was willing to endure the pain because he could remember her.

So he sometimes sang along to the lullaby whenever he felt like it.

Looking back on it, it seemed like he sang it the most for Chesya.

It was because he didn’t know much else to do to soothe a child.

He didn’t know how to handle such a small and fluffy baby.

Belzeon, the twins, were all strong from birth, as children inheriting the blood of Basilian.

‘I’m glad you taught me the lullaby, Rose.’

Thanks to her, he was able to live today.

And he was dying today as well.

Kieren smiled with the feeling of chewing and swallowing broken glass, soothing and comforting his broken mind.

There wasn’t much time left.

He would be able to meet her again soon.

Surely….

As he patted Chesya and sang a lullaby, drowsiness washed over him.

Monsters, the Holy King, Basilian, Hildegard, the Black Forest, the Fairy Queen’s Crown, and Rose.

All the complex thoughts that had been rampaging in his head slowly crumbled.

Following Chesya, who was sleeping soundly, Kieren also fell asleep.

It was a deep sleep without dreams.

***

The great incident that occurred in the Hildegard Holy Empire was spread to various countries on the continent by the participants of the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting.

‘Monsters’ that only inhabited the Black Forest of the Palen Empire, the eastern Basilian territory, suddenly covered the Holy Empire.

It was a grotesque creature that deviated from the laws of nature.

The most outstanding holy priests and holy knights in Hildegard were all mobilized, but they could not properly deal with the monsters.

The one who purified all the monsters was the adopted child of the Basilian County.

The sight of a small baby purifying monsters with amazing power was like a miracle of God.

However, it became a problem because it was the power of a heretical fairy, and the Count of Basilian was imprisoned with the child for defending the adopted child.

All this news spread quickly like a fire spreading across a dry field.

It was as if someone was manipulating the rumors to spread from behind.

All sorts of nonsense were mixed with the truth, and some claimed that the underworld was deliberately spreading stories about the Basilian County.

Of course, it was treated as an unfounded rumor and swept away.

Meanwhile, the Sun Emperor of the Palen Empire personally wrote a petition for his beloved subject.

The fact that the Emperor cherished the Count of Basilian to the point of writing a petition to the Holy King of Hildegard once again became a topic of gossip that swept the continent.

The Basilian County, the protagonist of the storm of rumors, seemed calm at first glance.

This was because they were quietly imprisoned without much resistance.

However, it only seemed calm on the surface.

The Basilian County was biding its time.

It was a moment when the attention of the entire continent was focused.

They never missed the fleeting moment of becoming a famous person, and like a snake aiming for its prey, they quietly crouched down, waiting for the most perfect opportunity to come.

And on the second day of prayer at the Minor Saint Prayer Meeting.

A major accident finally broke out.