He’s going to grab me roughly now.
There’ll be a sickening pop, and my arm will be ripped right out.
But what I feared didn’t happen.
Instead, Baba, who had just touched my arm, flinched and yanked his hand back.
“Whoa!
Wh-what is this?
Why is she so squishy?
Mika, something’s wrong.”
“Of course she’s squishy.
She’s a baby.”
“Are babies always this squishy?
Is she sick or something?”
Baba squatted in front of me, staring intently.
Mika squatted right next to him, joining in.
Feeling like some sort of sideshow attraction under their gaze, I desperately hoped they wouldn’t attack me.
Of course, I had no intention of just taking it if they did.
Even if this tiny body tore itself apart, I would unleash my mana to its absolute limit and drag them down to hell with me.
Though, if I ended up regressing again, even that would be pointless.
After staring at my face for what felt like an eternity, Baba extended his index finger.
Why does everyone keep pointing their index fingers at me?
Are they trying to brag that they can easily kill someone like me with a single finger?
I’m a baby.
Of course I’d die from a single finger!
That’s nothing to brag about!
Annoyed, I reached out and snatched Baba’s finger.
In an instant, Baba’s eyes went wide, and a massive grin spread across his face.
Having never seen him smile before, my jaw dropped in shock.
“Look, Mika.
I think she likes me.”
“No way.
She looks terrified you’re going to kill her.”
Mika was sharp.
“No, look at her eyes.
She definitely likes me.
What was her name again?
El…
something.”
“Elienor.”
“Ellie.
Do you like me?
Want to hold my axe?”
“Stop trying to make everyone you like touch your axe.
Nobody likes that.”
“Oh?
Hey, she’s drooling.”
I hadn’t even realized I was drooling through my parted lips, too stunned by Baba’s smile.
How embarrassing.
“Slurp.”
I quickly sucked the drool back in.
“What?
Did she just understand us?”
“Seems like it.”
“What is this?
Is she…
what do you call it?
A genius?
She’s a genius, right?”
“Seems like it.”
Mika nodded with such a serious face that I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
Getting called a genius just for sucking in some spit.
“Kyahaha!”
When I laughed, Baba and Mika’s eyes went wide.
Ah, did I mock them too much?
I regretted it instantly, but my baby body wouldn’t let me stop laughing.
As I giggled and cooed, Mika muttered,
“Laughing like that with our master’s face…”
“This is too…”
“I can’t take it.”
Mika turned her head away, covering her flushed face with her hand.
“She’s so cute I feel like crushing her.”
You definitely shouldn’t do that.
I desperately tried to stop laughing.
“You crazy girl.
That’s always your problem.
Whenever you see something cute, you have to squeeze it to death.”
Oh my god.
Mika was that kind of person?
Come to think of it…
“Was it Bliss?
I really like your face.
It’s totally my style.”
In one of my past lives, Mika had said something like that while slicing off my ear.
Holy shit.
Did she really kill me in such a brutal way just because she liked my face?
The memory instantly killed my laughter.
I tried to turn away from Mika, but lost my balance and tumbled over.
My round little body rolled across the floor.
A whimpering groan escaped my lips from sheer embarrassment.
“Heenyung…”
As Mika watched my pathetic display, her next words sent a shiver down my spine.
“I should take Ellie and raise her myself.”