Lady Baby Is a Revenge Maker Chapter 58

“Yes…. What?”

 

Loria’s eyebrows twitched.

 

“What do you mean? How on earth could I have fed such a terrible poison to you? That’s a horrible accusation…”

 

“But I never said you fed it to me.”

 

“Yes….?”

 

Just then, there was a knock—tok tok.

 

‘Okay. Marie is here!’

 

Sepiel cheered inwardly.

 

The door opened carefully and Marie entered the room.

 

“Miss Baby.”

 

“Mayyi, give it to me quickly!”

 

Sephiel ran to Marie, extending her hand.

 

“Yes.”

 

Marie approached and pulled out an item hidden in her skirt.

 

“The thing you mentioned was in Madam Loria’s room.”

 

“Yes!”

 

Sephiel took what Marie offered.

 

“This is yours, right Madam Loria?”

 

Then Sephiel stepped closer and held it out toward her.

 

Loria swallowed dryly.

 

“Look here. This is the cream you kept rubbing on me during massages. I asked Marie to search your room.”

 

“W-what are you saying…”

 

Now Loria’s hands had begun to tremble.

 

“Wow, are you going to keep pretending not to know?”

 

Sephiel tilted her head again.

 

“I know what this is. I read about it in a book.”

 

“What is that?”

 

Daihan asked coldly.

 

“This thing, noble ladies in Allegro used it.”

 

Sephiel said with a bright smile.

 

“And what do they use it for?”

 

“Hmm… when they go ‘ouch!’ You know, pain magic.”

 

“A pain magic?”

 

“Yeah. That magic makes you prettier. Just like Madam Loria.”

 

Sepiel pointed to Loria, whose skin was unnaturally shiny and youthful for her age.

 

“But since that magic stings, you have to use this cream.”

 

“Oh.”

 

Miella seemed to notice something at that moment.

 

“This is—!”

 

She staggered forward and looked at the cream in Sephiel’s hand.

 

“This… I can’t believe it. Now it all makes sense.”

 

‘Yeah, right?’

 

Sephiel wanted to smirk in triumph.

 

“What is this?”

 

Berry couldn’t help but ask.

 

“Beauty Magic,”

 

Miella answered.

 

“In the Kingdom of Allegro, beauty magic is highly developed. But many cosmetic procedures are painful. So this ‘pain relief cream’ is commonly prescribed.”

 

“……”

 

“Mm. Right. I read that in a book too,” Sephiel nodded.

 

“This cream removes the pain, but it makes you sleepy. And it’s only for adults.”

 

“That’s right. It’s a type of topical pain reliever. It’s a very toxic cream that’s only for adults. If you put it on a child, it could be a big problem.”

 

Sephiel wanted to shout, Correct!

 

‘How dangerous is this cream!’

 

Sephiel knew a lot about that cream for a reason.

 

In her previous life, when she first emerged into the world…

 

There was an incident where a noble child died in the castle of Allegro.

 

It happened on the morning of a banquet. The palace was thrown into chaos by the child’s death.

 

‘As it turned out, the truth behind the incident was this.’

 

The child’s mother routinely received ‘beauty magic treatments’.

 

So she always kept pain relief cream in the house.

 

The child, imitating her mother, had been secretly applying the cream every day.

 

‘Eventually, the child went blind, fell gravely ill, and died.’

 

The problem is that the autopsy results concluded that the child was <poisoned>.

 

‘Because that pain relief cream is made from poisonous plants. It’s a poison that adults can easily withstand, but if a child’s body absorbs it, the poison builds up in the body.’

 

It was an unfortunate accident, but the child’s parents were sentenced to death.

 

For no other reason than poisoning a child.

 

‘The scary thing about this cream is that when children or the elderly use it, at first, they don’t show any other symptoms other than increased sleepiness.’

 

But Sephiel, who had been doing all sorts of things as the shadow of the Allegro royal family, knew.

 

‘The royal family covered it up for fear that it would cause problems with the sale of the pain relief cream.’

 

The cream was one of their major products.

 

If it were discovered that there was something wrong with the cream, the royal family could be held responsible.

 

Even if it were a product marketed for adults, it would not be able to avoid criticism if it contained enough toxicity to cause death in a child.

 

So, they tried to shift the blame to the victim couple and gradually stopped selling the product.

 

‘And another characteristic is that Purple nosebleeds.’

 

It was all Sephiel had known from her past life.

 

“That—that woman must’ve had the poison! Ah, I see now. You’re covering for your relative and using me as a scapegoat, aren’t you?”

 

Loria shouted in desperation.

 

“I don’t think so.”

“What…?”

“Actually, I also knew Miss Miela was hiding a bomb. Right there—in the violin case.”

“…Huh?”

 

This time, Miella opened her mouth wide.

 

‘A secret device for musical instrument cases commonly used in the Allegro Royal Family. I can easily figure out how to open it.’

 

Sephiel wanted to giggle.

 

“There were bombs in there, but there was no cream. And the only one who gave me a massage and applied cream was Madam Loria.”

 

Everyone looked at Sephiel with astonishment.

 

“I’m sorry. I secretly kept an eye on Miss Miella’s luggage.”

 

‘She was a suspicious person, so of course I spied on her.’

 

But because Sephiel spoke so cheerfully and shyly, everyone thought for a moment, ‘Wait… was it just a kid playing around?’

 

“Miss Baby, if you were going to spy on someone or search their luggage, you should have told us! When on earth did you search that woman’s luggage?” Berry said.

 

“……”

 

‘Berry, that sounds like a twisted piece of advice.’

 

Sephiel swallowed those words.

 

Instead, she spoke cheerfully.

 

“Every time I play hide-and-seek in the hallway with Beyyi and Mayyi!”

 

“No wonder you always hid so perfectly…”

 

“It’s against the rules to hide in an employee’s room, Miss Baby,” Marie said hesitantly.

 

“Marie, do you say something like that now?”

 

Berry scolded Marie.

 

“Then why,” Daihan asked sharply, his gaze piercing,

 

“Did you pretend not to know that woman had suspicious items in her luggage?”

 

“That’s because…”

 

Sephiel hesitated.

 

“Why? Tell me.”

 

Sepiel tapped the floor with her toes and rolled her eyes as if she were anxious, then slowly raised her head.

 

She still looked soft and chubby like any child, but in that moment— her eyes gleamed with intelligence.

 

“Actually, I…”

 

“Yes.”

 

“I was playing with it secretly, and it seems like the scroll broke.…”

 

Daihan paused.

 

“Bring me the scrolls that were found in that woman’s belongings.”

 

“Yes, master.”

 

Lev ran out quickly.

 

After briefly scanning through the scrolls Lev brought back, Daihan let out a small, bitter laugh.

 

“Hah… so that’s what happened.”

 

“I’m sorry, Miss Miella.…”

 

Miella also frowned, as if she had noticed something.

 

“No way…”

 

—Bang!

 

Daihan tossed the scrolls onto the table. The Grand Duke’s servants quickly leaned in to examine them.

 

“You can’t tell just by looking?”

 

“…..”

 

“Well, they were altered quite cleverly. No wonder. This little raccoon…”

 

Sephiel blinked as if she didn’t know anything.

 

“Hah. You really played around with the scrolls like this? For a child to mess with them so thoroughly and read them this perfectly… I’m starting to wonder if this was really a coincidence.”

 

This time, Sephiel avoided Daihan’s eyes.

 

“Sorry….”

 

“It’s not something to be sorry about.”

 

“My lord, I… honestly have no idea what’s going on…”

 

“That little raccoon destroyed the letters on the scrolls that the insignificant human, Miella, had prepared in advance.”

 

“Huh? Destroyed it?”

 

Lev looked confused—this clearly wasn’t his area of expertise.

 

“This is annoying. You. You’re the teacher. Explain.”

 

“……”

 

Miella looked dumbfounded.

 

“So, a scroll is a kind of magical tool and offensive item that wizards engrave with runes, which are magical letters, to contain magic. So if you ruin or erase even one letter, the effect will be reduced.”

 

As the Grand Duke’s servants stepped aside, Miella staggered forward and read the inscriptions.

 

“Hah. Someone’s added strokes to the runes—just enough to change the letters. That means the scrolls wouldn’t have functioned properly.”

 

“Ah, Master, you noticed everything. I see. No wonder the magic looked impressive but was dealt with so quickly.”

 

Elton scratched his head as he spoke.

 

‘Truth is, the illusion magic Miela had cast was meant to be much grander in scale.’

 

But Sephiel had already fixed the scroll with her small, chubby hands.

 

‘The duration of the magic was drastically shortened.’

 

Sephiel felt very proud.

 

‘But it was impossible to completely destroy it, let alone destroy the scroll without causing any damage.’

 

Most likely, before Sephiel found them, Miella had already activated some of the scrolls—setting up traps, or illusion magic, all over the Grand Duke’s castle.

 

The magic that was cast before the sabotage still worked. But she did succeed in halfway breaking the rest.

 

Elton looked amazed.

 

“At first, since Miss Baby had collapsed, everyone was panicking. I assumed that woman had just done a poor job installing the scrolls, so the illusion magic didn’t activate properly.”

 

Elton’s gaze stopped at Sephiel.

 

“But now I see—that whole situation was in the palm of Miss Baby’s tiny hands, wasn’t it?”

 

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