Black-Haired Dad Isn’t Something You Reap - Chapter 127

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Chapter 127. The Red-Haired Friend Is Not Someone to Adopt (4)
I sulked and told that Helbatro or whoever it was that I wouldn’t attend the wedding, so he told me not to come. So I didn’t. Luruella became the Crown Princess and slipped from my grasp.
I sent letters saying we’d see each other often on the battlefield since human lives were needed for the life-sustaining device, but no reply ever came. After having a child, she made some kind of resolution—Luruella never killed a single person with her own hands.
Luruella’s death was inevitable. From the moment she was born, alchemy alone kept her alive. If she didn’t replenish her energy on the battlefield, both the life-sustaining device and her body would gradually cease functioning. Her organs would fail to perform their roles and rot from within.
With that body, Luruella gave birth to a child and endured for several more years afterward. During that time, trivial matters occurred—the Emperor changed, Helbatro whined—but they meant nothing to me, having lost Luruella.
That Helbatro and the Chief Chamberlain whined so much for help that I diluted military stimulants and supplied them, thinking they’d become addicts and drop dead. Even though it was supposedly a weak drug, that bastard lived healthy and vigorous for years afterward. Disgustingly robust, that one.
After my second heartbreak, I wandered aimlessly across battlefields. Nothing mattered anymore—not the nation, not the family, not my life. I’d die like this. I would die on the battlefield. With that thought, I simply worked hard, when one day strange news reached my ears.
Luruella’s child had executed Helbatro and established a new Emperor. Grayson informed me of this fact, delighted as if Luruella had returned to life.
Certainly, only Luruella could pull off such an audacious deed. I became somewhat interested in the Little One. And strangely, oddly interested in a man named Chiron. I wanted to meet him, but I refrained, fearing I’d only see how different he was from Luruella.
But when I heard about founding an Air Force, I had reason to meet the Emperor and Princess, if only to have a hand in it.
When I actually met her, the Little One named Vishnabel bore no resemblance to Luruella whatsoever. Golden hair, pink eyes—none of it was Luruella’s. Rather, that man, Chiron? He resembled Luruella far more. Not just in appearance, but especially in temperament and manner of speech. Yet for some reason, I felt an inexplicable aversion and couldn’t bring myself to like him.
Some words I’d heard long ago now made sense. I had to be a “cisgender heterosexual man”—but I was the complete opposite. I couldn’t biologically accept a “cisgender heterosexual man.”
“Hmm…”
But after living with Pisha and meeting her several times, my feelings became strangely turbulent. Sometimes I felt a peculiar longing, and oddly, my heart fluttered. These were emotions I’d only felt in childhood. Thinking it strange, I asked Lorowi about it, and that scatterbrained Lorowi, who only answers what’s asked, revealed an important fact.
“Oh, that! Yupi sealed away her childhood, didn’t she? The seal’s expiration date has passed, so it seems time for a re-sealing.”
“You sealed away her childhood?”
“Haha, yes! Yupi cried and carried on so much after being rejected by a woman!”
“How could you tell me something so important only now!”
As I made a motion to grab Lorowi by the collar, that scatterbrained deity looked at me as if it were obvious and actually got angry at me instead.
“You didn’t ask!”
Though a deity of our household, I truly couldn’t associate with them. But this revealed the identity of the discomfort I’d been feeling lately. Now that I knew the reason, the old memories seemed to surface even more clearly.
I must reclaim Luruella. Not Lutia. Luruella. How could I have forgotten this? That’s right—I loved Luruella!
“Oh, the seal is nearly broken.”
“What happens when it breaks?”
“Yupi’s memories will return, and the concept of Luruella’s childhood will scatter.”
“That won’t do!”
How did I gather all of that! You said it would be eternal! If we re-seal it, can we extend the duration?
“No. No, it won’t.”
What needs to happen now isn’t re-sealing. It’s fusion. And conveniently, there’s a suitable Little One available. Since she’s Luruella’s bloodline, the memories should integrate well.
“The sealed body. Where’s the sealed body? Let’s revive it!”
“I have it! I have it! I thought Yupi would say something like that!”
With a flourish, Lorowi produced a recipe book. Lorowi said that while stationed at the Empress Palace, they’d researched Pisha extensively, and they could create a fusion entity by implanting Luruella’s childhood into Pisha’s body.
“The materials are Pisha, the sealed Luruella body, a neutralizer, adhesive paste, and… if we want the appearance to match too, we’ll probably need many photographs.”
“If you ask Grayson, there should be over three thousand stacked in the Storage Shed!”
“Wow, my descendant really gives me chills.”
I reviewed the recipe with Lorowi, gradually modifying the materials and refining the proportions. As I worked to reclaim Luruella, a perfect opportunity presented itself. Kazelnu’s bridegroom-seeking ball was to be held at the Imperial Palace.
This was the moment. With so many people around and the guardians distracted, I could seize the opportunity to fuse Pisha into Luruella and slip away with her.
Lorowi cooperated with this plan, and when I declared I would reclaim that child after remembering Luruella, Grayson offered full support.
From kidnapping Pisha to burning down the Lorowi Main House to finding a place to hide and settle, Grayson prepared everything. Truly my dedicated butler! Grayson was magnificent!
“How fortunate. Yupi, I’m so relieved you’ve regained your former self.”
The seal hadn’t even fully broken, yet Grayson gazed at me with affection. I held him close, hushing his sniffles, and proceeded flawlessly with the plan to abduct Pisha.
“Perfect! Have a little more faith in me, charm! Human edition!”
“Wow, with this, we can make the Imperial Palace people even more careless.”
“Yes! I’ve prepared the sleep gas too!”
“Of course it’s our Yupi! Always so thorough!”
Once preparations were complete, all that remained was to find an opportunity to visit the Imperial Palace and meet Pisha. On the way, Kazelnu insisted on wearing clothes that had been fashionable ten years ago, which alarmed me so much that I gathered all the dressmakers from the Lorowi Territory’s costume rooms and selected a proper dress.
Even someone as ignorant of fashion as I am knows that wearing such an outfit in the imperial court would make one a laughingstock. What on earth was Kazelnu thinking?
In any case, I made contact smoothly with those Imperial Palace people and secured time to meet with Lorowi. That damned Chief Chamberlain—she said she’d meet the household deity and only gave me three minutes. Three minutes isn’t even enough to toast bread and spread jam on it.
I hastily arranged things, and Pisha emerged looking somewhat like an incomplete Luruella—but it worked out better that way. If someone suddenly changed appearance, everyone would find it suspicious. If she gradually transformed into Luruella, it would work in my favor too.
Heaven was on my side. It seemed as though Kisomalos, renowned for good fortune, was smiling upon me. An opportunity arose to slip Pisha out of the Imperial Palace, and conveniently, Chiron and his people weren’t nearby. I sprayed sleep gas throughout the Princess Palace, grabbed Pisha, and bolted.
Pisha’s appearance had now transformed almost entirely into Luruella’s. As I carried the child out of the Imperial Palace, no one suspected that what I was taking away was Princess Vishnabel.
I would run all the way to the unfamiliar land where Grayson was waiting. In this new world where no one knew us, Luruella and I would start anew.
Luruella, made up entirely of memories with me from ages thirteen to sixteen, would never go to Chiron Territory or anywhere else—she would spend a hundred years of marriage with me.
Let’s go live together, just the two of us, sweetly and contentedly. I don’t need an eldest daughter who looks like you or a second daughter who looks like me. We’ll just live together until we die. Of course, with butler Grayson and Lorowi by our side.
“Krhehehehe, haha, hahahaha!”
As I drove and laughed heartily, Ru, who had been sleeping in the passenger seat, stirred and rubbed his eyes groggily.
“Shut up, Yupi. Do you have a death wish?”
It was Ru. The Ru I knew. Ru had returned. I was thrilled and slammed on the accelerator. Ru’s body lurched forward, and he cursed me soundly while grabbing my hair. I was in the best mood.

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