Choosing the Baby’s Father From the Following – Chapter 125

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟐𝟓

Ren arrived at the nursery in the blink of a eye.

For some reason, the barrier was activated.

It was definitely the magic that the Grand Duke of Babenberg had installed after purchasing the hotel.

Ominously, someone had collapsed near the crib.

At that moment, he heard the baby’s cry, as if it was about to run out of breath.

“Wahhh! Wahhh!”

Ren reflexively turned his head and froze in shock.

Where his gaze landed, there was a wide-open window, and a tiny baby was precariously hanging from the tip of a slender woman’s hand.

The woman shouted in a sharp voice.

“I’ll drop her if you come any closer! Louise will be very disappointed if you can’t even save the baby after entering this room, won’t she?”

Finally, the clouds that had covered the moon moved away, and the owner of the voice was clearly visible.

It was the Second Princess, Chilla.

Ren quickly estimated the distance to Prillice.

He was someone who didn’t usually make calculations, but recently, his body hadn’t been well because he had used his magic power to the point of losing his vitality.

‘Pull yourself together, Ren Dapht.’

The mere thought of the baby being dropped made him feel like his insides were melting.

Ren calmly took a breath.

The opponent was just a small noblewoman.

It would be enough to pull both her and the baby towards him at once; it would be rather disadvantageous if several people rushed in and agitated her.

So, he added another layer of barrier on top of the barrier that had already been surrounding the room.

Now that no one could interfere with him, he could pull the baby as he intended.

‘It’s a bit unsettling that Prillice is so young, but……’

At that moment, the Second Princess asked in a crazed voice.

“Ren Dapht, the genius of the Magic Tower. Don’t you actually want revenge too?”

However, the question was mixed with Prillice’s incessant crying, and none of it reached Ren’s ears.

In fact, he wasn’t curious about what she was saying.

He only thought of the baby.

So, instead of rashly using his magic power, he started to spread another barrier outside the window.

The Second Princess continued to chatter.

“You liked Louise too, didn’t you? Haven’t you been chasing after her for the past year, doing all sorts of things for her?”

Outside the window, a dense barrier was being woven where the Second Princess couldn’t see.

Once it was completed to a certain extent and he was sure that he could save Prillice even if the Second Princess dropped her, Ren finally had the leisure to understand her words.

“Don’t you find this child disgusting too? Deceiving all of us, abandoning the nobility’s honor, dignity, and face! A secretly born bastard!”

Ren’s brow finally furrowed.

It was because he belatedly realized the reason why the Second Princess was here.

‘She didn’t come here for revenge for her parents, did she?’

From the moment Ren found the Second Princess until now, he had thought that she had come to take revenge for her family and clan.

However, it seemed that she was here only because of her twisted love for the Grand Duke and her jealousy towards Louise.

While Ren was dumbfounded, he thought that he might be able to resolve the situation more easily.

If he diverted the Second Princess’s attention, the baby wouldn’t even have to experience the terrifying ordeal of falling to the barrier outside the window.

“What nonsense are you talking about, Second Princess?”

So, Ren deliberately spoke in an irritated tone.

“That child is mine. Otherwise, would I have been crazy enough to chase after Louise and protect her all this time? Does the Imperial Tower Master seem to have that much free time?”

He calmly confessed the fact that he had believed without a doubt until a month ago.

Since it wasn’t a lie, Ren’s tone was extremely natural.

“Just spending a night together wasn’t enough to win over Her Highness the Princess, and I’m very resentful about that, but still, that child is my daughter.”

However, the Second Princess suddenly burst into laughter.

“Your daughter?”

The laughter was loud and strangely precarious.

When it mixed with the growing cry of the baby, it created a terrible dissonance.

Ren regretted provoking the Second Princess for no reason and tried to pull her and the baby towards him immediately.

At that moment, the Second Princess stopped laughing abruptly and asked.

“Are you still experiencing the side effects of ‘Illusia’?”

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The Second Princess immediately recognized the anxiety and anger that briefly flickered in Ren’s violet eyes.

The woman’s piercing laughter echoed like hell.

“Ren Dapht, you affectionate fool…… You turned out to be a complete idiot, didn’t you?”

Her high-pitched voice was laced with laughter, as if she couldn’t contain her amusement.

“Do you not remember that one and only night you fell asleep in Louise’s room? Or did you have a hallucination that night? Is that why you’re mistaken into thinking you’re the baby’s father?”

The deep purple eyes of the continent’s strongest mage turned cold.

However, the Second Princess continued to chatter, not caring for her life.

“Oh, Ren. I really wanted to help you……!”

She spoke exaggeratedly and then clicked her tongue.

“Well, actually, I didn’t care whether it was you or the Crown Prince. Why couldn’t you guys even sleep with a good-for-nothing like Louise until then? What pathetic men……”

The mage’s aura was gradually becoming ominous.

Chilla was an ordinary person who couldn’t sense magic power, but she could feel with her whole body how angry the Tower Master was.

That made her laugh even more.

If she provoked him, if he helped her, a much more plausible revenge would be possible.

The black flame was like a symbol of the Tower Master Ren.

It was a vicious fire that devoured everything and left only ashes.

Louise would no longer even have the baby’s corpse.

“It’s because you guys were so indecisive and incompetent that I helped you! Why can’t you even accept the meal that was set for you?”

Every time she spoke indignantly, the baby in her grasp swayed precariously.

“Wahhh!”

Chilla truly found the crying sound horrible.

She frowned and said,

“Don’t you find it annoying too? This small, noisy, hot, and pathetic lump of flesh!”

Suddenly, tears flowed from Chilla’s golden eyes.

“Yet it has red eyes? Don’t you too?”

She shook the baby in her hand recklessly.

The baby’s crying grew louder, but Chilla muttered to herself as if she couldn’t hear it.

“If it resembled Cal, I wouldn’t have hated it as much……, it wouldn’t have been this horrible!”

Then, she looked at Ren with her crazed, gleaming golden eyes.

“So let’s kill this baby and take revenge. Then, those two will resent each other and be unhappy forever. Right?”

“Wahhh!”

The Tower Master’s eyes, looking at the baby who cried tirelessly, had already cooled down.

“You said it’s not my child? Are you sure?”

A sharp laugh rang out once again.

“Oh, poor Ren…… The hope of the Dapht County, the Empire’s flame, pfft, you naive man……”

Chilla pulled the baby, which she had been holding out the window, at once and showed it to Ren.

“Do you see any part of it that resembles you even a little?”

Then, without giving him a moment’s pause, she answered herself.

“How could it! Louise wouldn’t have slept with you, with someone like you……! She’s a Princess after all!”

Ren stared at the baby intently without making a sound.

The baby had grown remarkably during the two months he had been at the Magic Tower, but it still resembled Louise without a doubt.

He still couldn’t even imagine that the baby resembled another man other than him.

The Second Princess whispered, pushing the baby closer to Ren.

“Let’s get rid of the baby. As if it never came into this world, let’s turn it into ashes. Ren, that’s what you do best.”

Ren stared at the baby for a long time and finally stretched out his hands.

Chilla parted her lips in excitement and handed over the baby.

“Let’s tear their hearts apart. Let’s make them so miserable just by looking at each other that they can never be together. How about it? Isn’t it what you want too?”

“Wahhh!”

Prillice continued to cry even in Ren’s arms.

Come to think of it, it was the first time he had held the baby.

‘It was this light.’

The baby was hot even when wrapped in a swaddle.

Drenched in sweat from crying with all its might, it endlessly struggled with its tiny, thin legs.

The Tower Master would never, ever forgive that woman who tried to throw such a baby out the window as if it were a useless rag, that woman who dared to feed the Imperial Tower Master with the Magic Tower’s potion.

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