How to Replace Your Dad - Chapter 103

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How to Replace Your Dad

Chapter 103

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‘It should be working properly.’

This eye.

So my right eye was substituting for a transmission magical device.

When I checked at Kuaron Castle, it worked without any problems.

I couldn’t use it in the Ghost Castle.

Since only consciousness, not the physical body, entered the dungeon.

‘But now it’s different.’

Everything I see will be broadcast through the Mirror World.

So I need to observe the Restoration Council as much as possible.

‘For the subjugation of the Ancien Empire Restoration Society.’

The place Stella, Gaspard, Benjamin, and I headed to was the restaurant.

But the structure of the restaurant was somewhat strange.

The tables were attached to one side instead of being in the center.

They were attached to the wall side, and on the opposite side there was a large window.

Inside the window was a giant wolf-type monster bound with chains.

‘What is this?’

Benjamin sat at the head seat.

And he pointed to the side closer to the wall for Gaspard.

“Please sit.”

Gaspard let out a hollow laugh and sat down.

“A mere traitor at the head seat. What an unpleasant reception.”

Usually, the person with the most noble status sits at the head seat.

According to proper etiquette, the head seat should have been Gaspard’s.

Benjamin curled up the corners of his mouth in a grin.

“Ah, that’s a misunderstanding.”

“What?”

“The head seat is over there.”

“What nonsense are you…”

Just as Gaspard was furrowing his brow, wondering what he meant.

The armored men lined up at the doorway came out and dragged Stella and me away.

There was no way we could overcome the strength of large adult men.

Stella and I were dragged away by them just like that.

The glass door connected to the window opened.

‘Don’t tell me they’re going to put us in there?’

Stella and I, sensing what would happen next, turned pale.

Even Gaspard shot up from his seat.

“What the hell are you doing!”

However, Benjamin still had a relaxed expression.

Crossing his legs, he placed his clasped hands on his knees and spoke.

“The child inside the window has been starved for two days. It’s not a child that a woman’s frail body could handle either.”

“Stop this!”

“But if Your Highness answers my questions, both young ladies will be able to come out of there immediately.”

“What…”

“Where is our holy grail that Avalon’s founding emperor stole?”

“…!!”

Gaspard’s complexion turned deathly pale.

I also stiffened completely.

The holy grail.

That was the treasure of the old empire.

What the founding emperor stole together with the seven guardians, the founding heads of the current Seven Families.

Because they could steal it, they were able to destroy the old empire.

‘The holy grail is the medium for the barrier.’

The Avalon Empire also formed the empire’s barrier through the holy grail.

In other words, if the holy grail is stolen, the empire’s barrier would collapse.

Therefore, the location of the holy grail was top secret.

A secret that even the Seven Families couldn’t access.

‘And Gaspard knows about it?’

I looked at Gaspard.

His expression was strange.

He was completely stiff and gritting his teeth.

‘He knows…!’

Benjamin gestured to a soldier.

The soldiers pushed Stella and me inside the glass door.

And thud!

The door closed.

From behind us came the sound of the monster’s growl, “Grrrr…”

Stella frantically turned the door handle.

But no matter how much force she applied, the door wouldn’t open.

Benjamin said.

“Well, you can’t speak easily, I suppose. Think it over. …Until the young ladies can hold out.”

“You bastard—!”

Gaspard shouted, but nothing changed.

Terrified, Stella pounded on the glass door as if to break it.

“No, no! I don’t want this! Open it! Open this door, Benjamin…!”

Bang!

Bang, bang bang!

She pounded on the door frantically and screamed.

I grabbed Stella’s wrist and pulled her back.

“Stop it.”

“What? Why…!”

“Don’t provoke the monster.”

The monster, excited by the noise, made a growling sound and raised its body.

Saliva dripped from the muzzles of the wolf with two faces.

Stella, who made eye contact with the wolf, trembled and stepped backward.

But blocked by the window, there was nowhere to escape.

The wolf kicked off the ground as if leaping and charged at us.

“Stella—!”

Gaspard let out a scream-like shout.

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[Stella—!]

The nobles flinched at the voice flowing from the Mirror World.

The Emperor’s face hardened stiffly.

‘If Gaspard reveals the location of the holy grail…!’

The Emperor whispered to the Matap Lord.

“Could you move the holy grail?”

The Matap Lord glanced at the nobles and lowered his voice considerably.

“Not right now. The formula could be disrupted and we might lose the barrier’s effectiveness.”

“If we do.”

“At least two months of adjustment will be necessary.”

“Damn it….”

The young noble shouted.

“Your Majesty, you must send down the Imperial Army.”

“No, Your Majesty! Those who have noticed our movements will abandon their stronghold and flee!”

“But rather than losing the Holy Grail…!”

“It would be better to strengthen the Holy Grail’s security…!”

The nobles shouted at each other, making their arguments.

The Emperor held his forehead.

The heads of the Seven Families exchanged glances.

‘So it’s all-out war after all.’

‘If civil war breaks out now when enemy nations’ movements are unsettling, it would be an irreplaceable loss for the Empire.’

But then it happened.

[Kyaah—!]

A scream burst out from the Mirror World.

It was Stella’s voice.

The nobles flinched and turned to look at the Mirror World.

Stella was holding her arm and groaning.

Blood dripped down from her forearm.

“Is it a monster attack?”

“N-no. It’s Yustea Cuaron. That child attacked Stella Andres!”

“What?”

Gaspard shouted in great anger.

[What are you doing!]

Stella also looked at Yustea with trembling eyes.

[You….]

Stella, who was about to say something, flinched.

Because the monster began approaching Stella.

It was entranced by the smell of blood.

Stella looked at Yustea with a hardened face.

[You’re planning to use me as bait!]

[….]

[How could you do this. How can you be so vicious! We still have the same father!]

Stella shouted while trembling violently.

The nobles watching the Mirror World let out sighs.

“Truly cruel.”

“How wicked…. Still, they’re of the same blood.”

“When cornered, one’s true nature is revealed.”

“Poor Stella Andres….”

The 15-year-old girl facing death made the adults feel pity.

Tears streamed down from Stella’s large eyes.

[This is too much. Really too much…! Father, brother!]

It was the moment Stella let out a scream-like shout.

“Huh?”

“What, what is she doing…!”

The nobles flinched.

The view changed in an instant and rapidly approached the monster.

Yustea was running toward the monster.

“Has she gone mad wanting to die!”

The nobles exclaimed.

That was practically like demonstrating a death wish.

A frail 15-year-old girl.

A body without a single weapon.

A situation where mana couldn’t be used properly due to the barrier.

“There’s no way she can handle it!”

The old man, a former general, shouted.

But it was strange.

Even though Yustea was charging at it, the monster wasn’t moving.

The monster was a wolf with two heads.

The blue-eyed wolf head snapped at Yustea.

However, the yellow-eyed wolf head was still fixated on the bleeding Stella.

“Wait, could that be….”

One of the nobles muttered with a dumbfounded face.

Then the old man, a former general, struck his knee forcefully.

“She deliberately made Stella Andres’s arm bleed to confuse the monster!”

“What about Yustea?”

“She’s moved behind it!”

Yustea had already moved behind the monster.

The nobles burst into exclamations.

“It was a monster with two egos.”

“She made one focus on the blood and the other focus on the attacker. To seal its movements.”

“Huh…!”

The nobles focused on the Mirror World with surprised faces.

The young noble who had been constantly watching the Mirror World muttered.

“Come to think of it, the Saint has been concentrating on the monster the entire time she’s been inside.”

“Yes. Unlike Miss Stella Andres who was crying and pounding on the door, she calmly observed the monster.”

She only briefly glanced at Stella and the outside situation.

She held her breath while examining every part of the monster.

Several of the heads of the Seven Families let out hollow laughs.

“She was seeking a way to kill the monster within the given conditions.”

“Should we call it brave. Or should we say she has great courage.”

“It would be more appropriate to say magnificent.”

Marquis Esgaroth clenched his fist tightly.

The communication stone he was holding to issue an emergency order pierced his palm.

‘That’s it!’

She must become more precious.

So that intelligence and talent becomes precious even in the eyes of the Restoration Council…!

‘Even if we start searching immediately, it’s uncertain how long it will take to find them.’

To be safe during that time, she had to display her talent without reservation.

‘Make them want to persuade rather than kill because it would be too wasteful.’

That child knew this point well.

The Pope and the senior priests also had surprised faces.

“The Saint’s age is….”

“Fifteen years old.”

“I’m not asking because I don’t know. I was just amazed.”

The Emperor, who had been frozen ever since Yustea and Stella entered the glass door, also let out a hollow chuckle.

“Just what is that child….”

He had thought she was exceptionally bright from a young age.

But she had never made the Emperor’s heart race like this before.

After being expelled from Andres and becoming part of Esgaroth, seeing Yustea again was truly astonishing.

The previous Yustea had never stepped outside the framework of nobility.

But the current Yustea used every method available and ultimately seized victory.

‘She’s a child worth coveting.’

The Emperor, as well as the Restoration Council, would surely think the same.

And….

The Emperor glanced sideways at Count Andres.

Count Andres was also rarely hardening his face while concentrating on the Mirror World.

Count Andres clenched his fist tightly.

“Congratulations on your return…!”

“Right.”

It was when Yustea was younger than now.

The child welcomed her father, who had returned from subjugating monsters, with a flushed, excited face.

Though he answered dryly, Yustea followed him with quick steps.

“I heard there were hundreds of Orthros (two-headed giant dog-type monsters)? It was a dangerous battle, so I wondered if you were injured anywhere….”

“Foolish words, Yustea.”

“…Yes?”

“No matter how sharp their teeth or giant their bodies, if there are two egos, the opponent isn’t difficult. It’s simple if you disperse their attention.”

“….”

“Don’t embarrass me.”

“I’m, I’m sorry….”

She turned pale and hung her head low.

After that, there was silence for a while.

I thought she might have been hurt and lost interest.

But that wasn’t it.

She had been constantly studying to avoid repeating the same mistake twice.

She would have collected information on all kinds of monsters and mentally simulated to prepare for situations that might arise.

‘Otherwise, she couldn’t move so decisively like that.’

[Hyaaah—!]

Yustea shouted a battle cry and leaped onto the monster’s back.

Only then did the yellow-eyed wolf head that had been focused on Stella move its neck roughly.

The monster resisted fiercely.

However, Yustea clung tightly to its back and didn’t fall.

And….

She quickly strangled the neck of the yellow-eyed wolf head.

The other head bit into Yustea’s forearm.

[Ugh…!]

A chunk of flesh fell off completely.

Screech!

With the sound of chairs being roughly pushed back, Count Esgaroth and Count Andres shot to their feet.

The nobles screamed.

“Kyaah!”

“Oh no…!”

There was no way a girl could endure that pain.

[Who… thinks I’ll fall…!]

Yustea strangled the wolf’s neck even tighter.

[Even… without one arm, I won’t die!]

Stella was only covering her mouth with trembling hands.

Gaspard also stared at Yustea with his mouth agape.

Yustea shouted.

[That’s why you must never tell them the location of the Holy Grail!]

“Good heavens… what kind of stubbornness….”

A young noble muttered.

The old man, a former general, shouted.

“Does that look like stubbornness! That’s loyalty to the country! A noble’s pride!”

The moment even the old man shot to his feet.

The yellow-eyed wolf head went limp.

Yustea grabbed the fur as if twisting it and this time embraced the blue-eyed wolf’s neck.

That was the moment.

[Stop.]

A voice unfamiliar to the nobles leaked from the Mirror World.

But it was a very familiar voice to Yustea.

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I stared blankly at the man who appeared outside the window.

The man who strode forward threw open the glass door.

And.

Swish—!

His sword cut through the air.

Blood spurted like a fountain from the blue-eyed wolf’s neck.

Thud!

The wolf’s body collapsed to the floor.

I also rolled on the ground.

The man walked toward me.

I raised my head and looked at him with shaking eyes.

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