How to Replace Your Dad - Chapter 34

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How to Replace Your Dad

Chapter 34

“You… the bow… no way…”

“Of course!”

I brazenly lifted my chin.

A bow is actually a weapon that requires tremendous muscle strength.

There’s no way I could just shoot it like that.

I looked at Yuise with a sad expression.

“It was really hard pulling the bowstring…”

“That’s why I told you to use a sword.”

“Arrows are better for driving them away.”

“This is driving me crazy.”

Yuise let out a deep sigh.

Anyway, that’s how it was.

I was also the one who fired the tracking cannon.

Of course, I discussed it beforehand.

With the one who holds all decision-making power in Esgaroth…

“Yes, my puppy. You want to use the tracking cannon? Haha. If the puppy wants it, we must do it.”

─After getting permission from Marquis Esgaroth.

It wasn’t difficult to predict the route Siruela would take to escape.

Since we had Yuise, the leader of the Irregular Intelligence Unit who was skilled in all kinds of information.

It wasn’t difficult to arrive at the mountain before Siruela and set up a trap either.

Since Yuise, the leader of the Irregular Intelligence Unit, knew a faster route!

Moreover, Siruela’s group had to move in a more complicated way than normal routes while shaking off the pursuit force.

I knelt down and met Siruela’s gaze.

“Hand over the detonator.”

Siruela suddenly glared at Yuise.

“Are you just going to watch? Your sister is suffering like this.”

I let out a deep sigh.

“Why do you torment the child so much and then make her feel guilty too?”

“What do you know about us…!”

“I know. You’re an abuser!”

And a human trafficker on top of that.

When I glared at her, Siruela’s face crumpled.

“Watch your words. Everything was done to make Yuise a perfect clan leader.”

“Oh, really?”

“Although she doesn’t share blood with our mother like we sisters do, our family didn’t regret at all giving Yuise the most honorable position…!”

“You needed a doll to take responsibility and die when necessary.”

“What do you know─!”

“If you truly loved her even a little!”

When I raised my voice, Siruela flinched.

I glared at her and spoke with emphasis on each word.

“You wouldn’t have embedded that kind of magical device in a family member’s body!”

Siruela’s eyes trembled.

I grabbed her by the collar and said.

“Apologize.”

“…What?”

“Apologize to Yuise. Say you’re sorry for carelessly using the word love. Say you’re sorry for treating her like a tool. Say you’re sorry for making her suffer…!”

“…”

Siruela stared at me intently.

It wasn’t just her.

I felt a persistent gaze on my cheek.

Yuise was looking at me in a daze.

Before I knew it, Siruela was looking at such Yuise and gritting her teeth.

Even though she must be in pain where she can’t even lift her arm properly, she swatted my hand away.

“Yuise. Subdue this bitch right now. Can’t you hear me?!”

“…”

“Are you going to be fooled by such words?”

“I want to be fooled.”

“…What?”

“I’ve resolved countless times not to be fooled by your talk about family, but I want to be fooled by those words.”

“You…”

“So, sister.”

Yuise slowly approached Siruela.

It was different from the first time when she couldn’t even lift her head when facing her.

A dark red pattern spread from Yuise’s hand and soon surrounded Siruela in a circle.

“Kyaaaah!”

Siruela screamed.

It was a curse.

The curse that the Mage Clan had injected into Yuise for their own purposes.

Yuise looked down at Siruela coldly.

“Never call my comrade a bitch again.”

I flinched and looked at him.

For a moment, I remembered the conversation I had with him at the castle.

“By any chance. Even if I do my best not to cause harm, couldn’t I become Yuise’s comrade?”

“Absolutely not.”

My eyes met with Yuise’s.

He soon pouted and said.

“What are you looking at.”

“Looking at my comrade.”

He made a tsk sound, but didn’t deny it.

I wanted to tell Mother.

Mother, there was a character I especially liked in the game.

He acts aloof on the outside, but he’s actually a good person who deeply cares for his comrades.

Today, I became comrades with him.

—Like that.

* * *

When she realized there was no corner to escape to, Siruela finally handed over the detonator.

After that, she fainted from the pain of the trap and curse.

I crouched down and examined her.

Her entire body was covered with hives and spots.

‘Hmm. If I leave her like this, she’ll die.’

Since it wasn’t a complete state of poisoning yet, it seemed there was no contagiousness.

It didn’t seem like it was purifying my body.

I looked at Yuise.

“Could you put some mana in here?”

When I held out the bottle, Yuise took it.

And he obediently filled it with mana.

Although the purity wasn’t as tremendous as Luciano’s, as an Elite of the Irregulars, he provided enough mana to fill the bottle completely.

“What’s this for.”

“Yeah. I want to use some.”

“Are you crazy enough to want to get magic poisoning?”

“I don’t get magic poisoning.”

“What are you talking about.”

I let Botela’s mana flow through my body and answered lightly.

“Because I’m a Purifier.”

“Purification?”

“It’s a game class, but in terms of this world… a saint?”

“…What?”

Yuise hesitated.

I turned my head with an “Ah.”

“But I don’t know how to use divine power yet, so I’m like an air purifier. Since sorcery and divine power have similar usage methods, could you teach me a bit?”

“Whaaaat─?!”

Yuise screamed.

The sound was so loud that I was startled enough to cover my ears.

“I asked you to teach me how to use divine power…”

“Not that! You’re really a saint? The saint that all the power holders are desperately searching for with fire in their eyes? Huh?!”

“I told you I was. More importantly, hurry up and teach me. I feel like pursuers will come soon.”

“Just what are you…”

Yuise had an incredulous expression, but when I urged him, he taught me the method.

“Magic power and divine power have completely different usage methods. Magic power is manifestation, but divine power is closer to interfering with phenomena.”

“So unlike magic, divine power doesn’t require me to make myself the axis of the technique?”

“The world is the axis.”

Yuise explained well.

I quickly grasped the technique.

And when I cast it…

“Wow!”

The spots and hives on Siruela’s body rapidly disappeared.

Since this was my first time doing purification intentionally, I was extremely excited.

I was so thrilled that I was about to jump without realizing it.

“Huh…?”

My head became dizzy and the world spun.

My body swayed.

Yuise quickly caught me as I was about to fall.

“What’s wrong.”

When he asked, I groaned and held my head.

“I think it’s mana depletion.”

So purification done all at once consumes this much mana.

I hadn’t used it carelessly before either, but I’ll have to be even more careful about using it in the future.

Thinking that, I tried to step away from Yuise, but he swept me up in his arms.

I was startled and opened my eyes wide.

“You do have strength…”

“Do you want to fall?”

“No, you just looked so frail…”

“Put your arms around my neck. I’m beautiful, not frail.”

As he strode forward, I quickly tapped Yuise’s shoulder.

“A binding spell. I need to cast a binding spell!”

That way Siruela wouldn’t mention Yuise’s name during her investigation.

“It’s fine.”

“But…”

“I’ll handle the rest, so leave it.”

Yuise’s eyes were serious.

I nodded.

And I obediently let Yuise carry me as we moved.

Charlie was waiting at the foot of the mountain.

Charlie was startled to see me being carried by Yuise and came running.

“Oh my, Miss! What happened to you? Are you hurt? Where? Your leg? Did those pursuers do this? I’ll show those bastards!”

Charlie stood up holding her mace, so I quickly stopped her.

“I’m fine. And Charlie, I can’t breathe.”

“Really?”

“Yeah.”

Yuise sat me down inside the carriage and spoke to Charlie.

“Depart for the castle. And send my unit to this mountain. It’s an emergency order.”

“Yes.”

Charlie entered the carriage and closed the door.

I looked out the window at Yuise climbing the mountain again.

Charlie said.

“It seems like something serious really happened. Should I tell the Clan Leader to send support?”

“No.”

“But…”

“Some things need to be resolved by oneself.”

“When I sew, I always ask Aunt Jora to tie the knots for me though…?”

I smiled kindly and patted Charlie’s head.

“Yeah. It’s good that you’re healthy.”

“I am healthy.”

Charlie giggled.

* * *

Back at the mountainside.

Siruela, who had regained consciousness, gripped the dirt ground and shakily raised her body.

Her physical condition was better than when she was first hit by the poison.

It seemed she had been detoxified.

‘Yuise. Yuise must have done that.’

Siruela grinned.

Of course.

There’s no way he could rebel against family.

She had taught him thoroughly.

“…Right, Yuise?”

She raised her head.

Yuise was leaning against a tree, quietly watching her.

“Did your identity get exposed? So you put on an act? But it was too excessive.”

Yuise slowly approached her.

Siruela smiled brightly and extended her hand.

At that moment.

Thunk.

A blade pierced through her chest.

“…!”

Siruela trembled violently.

Intense pain shot through her body.

In agony that made breathing impossible, Siruela gasped and looked up at him.

On this full moon night.

Her beautiful platinum hair fluttered in the wind, and moonlight scattered hazily along her silhouette.

“Farewell, sister.”

“If Mother… finds out about this… you…”

“Don’t worry. I’ll send Mother to your side soon too.”

The sound stopped coming from her gasping mouth.

He quietly gazed at his former sister, whose breath had ceased without even a death rattle.

Yustea looked at the unit members who had gathered around and said.

“We’re going to the Northern Border. We will annihilate the Mage Clan.”

Yustea’s Team members all prostrated themselves simultaneously.

Yustea’s sword didn’t go straight back into its sheath.

It plunged once more into the back of the neck of someone who had been crawling around like a bug.

“Why… I, I am… I…”

“Touching someone else’s body without permission is out from the very attempt.”

All those who had fled from Sintese Manor vanished from the world without a trace.

* * *

Two weeks passed like that.

I visited Sintese Manor.

“Hello, Asta.”

“I’m glad you came, but what should we do? The manor is in chaos.”

Well, of course it would be.

An alchemist had infiltrated and cast alchemy on a guest’s knight, and all sorts of crimes were revealed during the investigation.

Marquis Sintus was incredibly busy.

I quickly waved my hands.

“Don’t worry about it. I just came to deliver this and leave.”

Antonio’s Unit members, that is, those disguised as castle soldiers, were busily moving boxes.

Asta tilted her head.

“What is this?”

A gift of apology.

But I couldn’t say that, so I smiled awkwardly.

“Last time when I worked as a servant, I promised the Marquis I’d make Magarst essence but couldn’t deliver it.”

“How thoughtful of you. Father will be pleased.”

“I’m sorry about that…”

We had succeeded in dismantling the crime cartel and erasing Yustea’s nightmarish past.

But Sintez was handling all the aftermath.

“Um, if you need anything, please let me know anytime. I’ll do my best to help the Marquis.”

“Huh? But Father is excited?”

“Pardon?”

“The criminals were all huddled together, which was troublesome. He was hesitant to touch them since they’d obviously cling to the Marquise immediately, so he just had me monitor them.”

“…Ah?”

“But now that everything’s been cleaned up at once, you don’t know how delighted he is.”

Just then, as Asta smiled brightly.

Marquis Sintus’s cheerful laughter could be heard – “Hahaha!”

“This is the first time in my life I’ve enjoyed overtime this much!”

…Well, that’s a relief then.

“You have time for tea, don’t you?”

Just as I was about to answer.

“Miss, there’s word from the castle. Yustea’s Team has returned.”

“Really?”

I quickly looked at Asta.

“Sorry. Let’s have tea time next time. I’ll invite you to the castle.”

“Then will you really introduce me to those lovely girls of yours too?”

“Of course.”

“How adorable!”

I hugged Asta goodbye and quickly headed outside.

Charlie chattered excitedly beside me as I walked briskly.

“I heard they completely wiped out some tribe in the North? I have new respect for them. I thought they were weak since they only gathered information.”

“Completely? Even the tribal chief?”

“All of them.”

They really did resolve everything.

I giggled.

* * *

Sanmiguel Castle Spiral Tower.

Around the round table surrounding the mirror connected to communications with the Elite sat the Clan Leader, Deputy Clan Leader, Antonio, and Yustea.

[What’s this sudden tribal annihilation? When we already have so much work, an entire unit disappears for two weeks?]

The Deputy Clan Leader rubbed his temples with a troubled expression.

He too had only received the report after Yustea’s Team had already departed for the Northern Border.

When he immediately ordered them to return, Yustea said in an uncharacteristically subdued voice.

[Just this once. Please let me do things my way just this once.]

All of Yustea’s Team members raised their voices, saying they would follow their leader’s will.

Of course, the Deputy Clan Leader opposed it.

But the Clan Leader…

“You must bring everyone back alive without exception.”

‘Because he gave permission like that.’

Yustea ultimately managed to finish without casualties.

The Deputy Clan Leader said in a troubled tone.

“Anyway, all the unit members returned without a single death, and they brought back mysterious magical artifacts from the tribal grounds…”

Yustea quickly nodded.

“They’re ancient ritual implements. If we sell them, we could buy a castle. No, if we negotiate well, maybe two…”

“Shut up.”

“…”

When the Deputy Clan Leader glared, Yustea quickly looked away.

Antonio giggled, finding it amusing to see Yustea getting scolded.

It was the Clan Leader who sorted out the chaotic situation.

“Since I gave permission, it can’t be considered breaking the rules. Let’s end this here.”

The unit members in the mirror sighed.

[If the Clan Leader says so, we won’t add more words to this matter. But for the next issue, we want a definitive answer.]

The next agenda item.

It was about Yustea’s disownment.

The Deputy Clan Leader frowned.

Antonio also clicked his tongue.

“How long are we going to talk about that damn disownment?”

[Until the disownment happens.]

“The young lady worked incredibly hard. The fact that the Marquis publicly declared the Clan Leader as his son was also because the young lady risked her life…!”

[Life-risking deeds can be compensated. With money and status. Isn’t that right, Yustea?]

The Elite in the mirror requested support from Yustea.

The Deputy Clan Leader narrowed his brow.

‘Yustea would surely agree immediately…’

“What’s with that compensation chant? Why are you so eagerly reciting it?”

“…?”

[What?]

Yuise’s reaction was different from what I expected.

“If someone worked hard, you should acknowledge it, not just throw money at them and kick them out?”

The Clan Leader and Antonio’s eyes widened as they stared at Yuise.

Who was it that argued most passionately for that unreasonable course of action…?

The clan member in the mirror world let out a hollow laugh.

[What nonsense. Did he pull some trick on you or something.]

“That’s not it, Miss!”

“…?”

“…??”

[Are you insane?]

“If you brought me in as Miss, then I’m Miss. Use the proper title.”

With that, Yuise stood up with an irritated expression, saying she had nothing more to discuss with that trash of a person.

Anyone watching would think she was called Miss when she first came to Sanmiguel.

Antonio also quietly got to his feet.

“I’m not fond of trash people either.”

The Clan Leader also rose from his seat.

“Character is important.”

And the Clan Leader was…

“….”

Already at the doorway.

The clan member in the mirror world exploded in frustration.

[Is there some kind of epidemic going around headquarters? Why does this shit happen every time I’m at headquarters?!]

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