Episode 43: Our Baby Babiyen Has Grown Up

A banquet to repay the grace of Monghwa Valley.

Women’s dances and a feast fit for a king.

It was a continuous banquet that couldn’t have been more splendid.

They subtly suggested sharing a bed, but I refused.

Why would I do that with people from another world?

After the banquet, I slept like a log.

Even though my body was fine thanks to the resurrection magic, there was no way to get rid of the accumulated mental fatigue.

After that, I began to work as a Holy Magic User in Monghwa Valley in earnest.

Besides the hundred people infected with the reddish disease, there were several people with diseases like syphilis.

Since treating them was a relatively minor illness, I could treat them sufficiently with my Holy Magic.

And during my breaks, I studied Holy Magic.

The book written directly by Raphael-nim was filled with descriptions of Holy Magic.

Just memorizing this would make me an expert in the theory of Holy Magic.

And then, an unexpected event occurred.

,Thank you so much, Holy One-nim, for saving my friend’s life.”

I had saved the lives of a hundred people in Monghwa Valley.

They were someone’s acquaintances, friends, and work colleagues.

No one knows how I treated them.

However, they couldn’t help but know that I had treated a hundred people.

Perhaps that’s why the women of Monghwa Valley were treating me like a saint for some reason.

,They say you don’t even sleep with anyone because you’re devoted to the Order and live in abstinence.”

,To think there’s someone like that in Monghwa Valley, you really are a saint.”

Maybe I’m being called a saint for a different reason than curing the disease?

Still, maybe because I avoided sleeping with them, they repaid me in other ways.

By giving me food or handing over valuables they possessed.

,Holy One-nim, if you eat this, you’ll definitely change too!”

,Thank you for the meal.”

,Oh, how is it?”

,It’s delicious.”

,Then how about something else delicious? For example.”

,That’s enough.”

One woman went back with a sullen face.

She was the woman I saw in the hallway yesterday who was betting on sleeping with the Holy One.

Unfortunately, people don’t get horny looking at animals.

And if I used Holy Magic, I could quickly eliminate the effects of aphrodisiacs.

At this point, it’s enough to give me a headache.

,Geez, why do they keep going on about the Holy One?”

What’s the point of being treated like a saint in the black market?

It’s just a saint built on underground dust.

Anyway, the time I have left to leave Monghwa Valley isn’t that long.

I should go back as soon as my work period is over.

As I was thinking that, I looked out the window of my office and saw Aransul concentrating and swinging her sword.

Aransul has been spending more time swinging her sword lately.

Moreover, she seemed to be enjoying swinging her sword much more than before.

In the past, it was a sword swung with obsession and stubbornness for revenge.

But recently, the sword she swings is based on a desire for more fundamental growth.

What effect did the elixir have on Aransul?

As someone who knows nothing about swords, I still couldn’t tell.

Still, Aransul’s face has become noticeably brighter than before.

I think the elixir has proven its worth just by that.

Speaking of brightening up, Horizon’s face has also become very bright recently.

She is a girl who was born and raised in Monghwa Valley.

Her family members who were born and raised with her were safely treated.

Thanks to that, she was able to repay her debt to Monghwa Valley, and her heart was much lighter.

So much so that every time Horizon ran into me, she would give me a bright smile and wave her hand, jumping up and down like a puppy.

Her short arms and legs reminded me of a Welsh Corgi.

Lastly.

,Euh, euuuu.”

I saw Babiyen, who was sitting next to me today and whining.

Baby Babiyen has been strange since yesterday.

She doesn’t whine as much as before, and she doesn’t look for her favorite mama anymore.

Instead, she often just sits there blankly.

Looking at her like that, I get this thought.

Hey, didn’t she come to her senses now?

According to Inferno, a lieutenant general of the Regular Army, Babiyen was temporarily out of her mind due to a mental attack.

As he said she would come back again after a few days, there was a possibility now.

If so, why is Babiyen, who has come to her senses, pretending not to have come to her senses?

The memories of when she was Baby Babiyen have not disappeared and are still there.

Baby Babiyen was truly a mama tyrant.

A series of terrible atrocities that you couldn’t possibly see in a grown woman.

Even if she came to her senses, she would be too ashamed to show her face.

Originally, she could have just looked at the situation and sneaked away when everyone was asleep.

But this is the black market, Nox.

If she wandered around without knowing anyone, she didn’t know what might happen to her.

No matter how much of a Babiyen she is, there was no way she could get out of Nox on her own.

So Babiyen chose to act until she could get out of Nox.

When she gets out of Nox, she will forget everything that happened and live a new life.

She must have made that decision.

Of course, this is just a hypothesis.

It was not known whether Babiyen had really come to her senses.

So today, I decided to check on Babiyen’s condition.

,Babiyen.”

,Eueu, uuu.”

,You remember that you promised to give me as much as the amount you were taking care of me for, right?”

,Eueueung?”

Babiyen’s lips stopped.

,I have a place to spend money. I need that money, so it’s okay to use it, right?”

,Eu, eueuua.”

,You said it’s okay? Babiyen, you’re such a good baby!”

Babiyen’s eyebrows twitched.

I made a living with this.

More than that, she’s still maintaining the act.

She’s a tough woman who survived in the vicious otherworld aristocratic world.

I can’t help it.

It’s a secret weapon.

,Come to think of it, isn’t it almost time for Babiyen to eat mama?”

,Mama, mama?”

Babiyen looked around.

There was no one here who could give her the mama she usually talked about.

,Don’t worry. Even I, a man, have mama.”

I got up from my seat, fumbling.

Babiyen followed me with trembling eyes.

,It’s also a very rich and thick delicious mama. Babiyen will definitely like it too.”

Finally, I smiled brightly with my hand on my fly.

,Wait a minute. I’ll give it to you soon.”

I closed the curtains in the medical room and grabbed something long and soft.

Then, I started shaking it hard, making a ttakttak sound.

,Eu, u, a, aaa, aaaaaaaak!”

At that moment, a scream echoed from outside.

I hurriedly opened the curtains and came out, and Babiyen was screaming and crawling on the floor after falling off her chair.

,Babiyen.”

,Pervert, you perverted bastard! Crazy bastard! What kind of saint is this! Don’t come near meeee!”

Babiyen screamed at the top of her lungs.

I stared at her for a moment and then moved what I was holding in my hand, ttakttak.

,You should have told me if you didn’t like the bottle.”

In my hand was a baby bottle filled with baby food.

It was specially prepared for Baby Babiyen in Monghwa Valley.

,Bo, bottle?”

Babiyen was screaming at the top of her lungs when she finally saw the baby bottle in my hand.

And then she slowly moved her gaze and met my eyes.

With me smiling sincerely.

,Eu, u, aaa, ma, mama.”

Babiyen belatedly waved her hands and pretended to be a baby.

As I watched her quietly, she soon politely gathered her legs and bowed her head.

,Harua, I sincerely thank you for helping me regain the girl’s memory through shock therapy.

I would like to give you a reward with the money I earned from the bounty last time.”

,To think our baby Babiyen has grown up like this and knows how to be filial, I’m so moved.”

Babiyen swallowed tears of blood.

With this, I made money and Babiyen came to her senses.

It was a happy ending for everyone.

,So Babiyen, now that you’ve come to your senses, let’s talk a little.”

While Babiyen was dusting off her knees and getting up, I brought a chair and sat down.

,What the hell happened to you in prison that you ended up like that?”

Babiyen had something happen to her in the Regular Army’s underground prison.

As a result, she went berserk with magic power in the prison and burned it down.

,…Hoo, are you talking about what happened then?”

Babiyen’s face darkened slightly.

Looking at her expression, she definitely knew something.

,There’s a traitor in the Regular Army who belongs to the Black Dawn, was it him?”

Feeling that she was hesitant to speak, I asked in detail, and Babiyen avoided my gaze.

After looking at her for a while, I was able to learn one thing.

This isn’t that she knows something.

,You don’t remember anything from that time?”

Babiyen’s shoulders flinched.

The eyes looking at her turned cold.

,Bu, but the person who cast the mental attack wouldn’t have left my memories behind!”

Her face was full of injustice.

That was definitely true.

In the end, Babiyen was mentally attacked by someone without knowing why and went berserk.

That was all that was left of this incident.

,Well, this is the Regular Army’s job.”

There was no reason for me to dig it up.

I just wondered why the person who made Babiyen go berserk had to make her go berserk.

Could it be that there was someone in that prison who had to be burned?

The suspicion ended up chasing its tail.

This part was also something that the Regular Army had to solve, and even if I worried about it, there was no answer.

,Rather, I have a lot of things I want to ask!”

Babiyen said that her story was enough and shouted instead.

,Harua, how are you still alive? At that time, you definitely died.”

,What are you talking about? Then, are you saying that I’m a dead corpse now?”

,Stop playing dumb! Did you forget that I was with Aransul when you were talking?”

I forgot.

To be honest, I didn’t think Baby Babiyen would remember everything.

At that time, there was no way to separate Babiyen, so I couldn’t pay attention.

,…And it was like that before too. I was burned to death by my master.”

Could it be that she still had those memories?

As expected of a magician, she has a good memory.

,Wasn’t the last person by my side you, Harua?”

I have used resurrection magic several times in front of Babiyen.

Her suspicion was reasonable.

,Babiyen, I know what you’re thinking.”

The water has already been spilled.

I don’t think that I shouldn’t have saved her back then.

Anyway, thanks to Babiyen, I was able to return safely from the Moss Flower Cave.

,So for your sake and mine, it’s better to refrain from talking about that.”

She even has the brains to be a magician.

Babiyen stopped, as if she immediately understood the meaning of my words.

I could tell the danger of resurrection magic without thinking deeply about it.

,…Okay. I don’t plan to go around telling people either. I owe Harua my life. I just want to say.”

Babiyen avoided my gaze as if she was embarrassed.

,I just wanted to say thank you. I’ve been feeling uncomfortable because I haven’t been able to say it.”

I guess she can’t live with owing people either.

,I’m sorry for the mean things I said in the past. I had a bad personality.”

I didn’t expect to be apologized to for things in the past.

,I’ll understand. You just wanted to scratch because Aransul is prettier, right?”

,…Who is prettier?”

While Babiyen was making a vicious expression, the medical room door opened.

,Ah, Harua-ssi.”

There was Horizon, who had rushed over in a hurry.

While Babiyen hesitated because she hadn’t told her that she had come to her senses yet, Horizon shouted.

,Ma, Madam said she found out something about Bulldog-ssi!”

I found Bulldog Ajusshi earlier than I thought.