I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 114

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【Chapter 114】

“Shall we cut Rie’s hair?”

The Dark Mages possessing the maid’s body approached the two with chilling smiles.

‘Will she finally show a frightened face now?’

Serena checked the child’s reaction, expecting Rie to be scared—

“You shouldn’t come closer.”

Rie wasn’t frightened.

Instead, she held out her small palm like a maple leaf as a warning.

“If you come closer, the ladies and gentlemen will get hurt!”

She babbled what sounded like nonsense to Serena’s ears.

Currently without her clock, Rie was nothing more than an ordinary four-year-old.

Of course, she had an exceptional talent for teasing people for a four-year-old, but that talent wouldn’t work on Dark Mages.

The Dark Mages chuckled at the child’s warning.

“Lady Serena, you’re certain you took the child’s clock, right?”

“Of course. The clock is in my hands.”

“Little one, how will you use your ability without a clock? How will you make these gentlemen hurt?”

It was the moment they mockingly approached Rie.

—Those who believe in demons rather than gods sure talk a lot!

As an angry voice echoed in Rie’s head, a nearby vase began trembling on its own before crashing toward the Dark Mages.

“Ahhh! What is this!”

Startled Rie blinked her eyes.

“…Wow, God is protecting Rie.”

—I neither protected you nor interfered in human affairs. I just accidentally broke something because I was angry.

Chronos made an innocent excuse, pretending otherwise.

‘…Is she doing this to avoid being caught by that fruit called Ingagyul…?’

It was when Rie tilted her head in confusion.

“D-dark magic!”

“The little one is using dark magic?!”

The shocked Dark Mages backed away in horror.

‘Huh? But they’re the ones using dark magic!’

Rie raised her eyebrows and pointed at the Dark Mages.

“This isn’t dark magic. But if you bully Rie, you’ll be in big trouble!”

She almost said that God would be angry but held back.

She had to keep it secret from Ingagyul.

Then the Dark Mage in the butler’s body sighed.

“What’s the big deal about a broken vase? It’s just a coincidence. We can’t let that little brat get more cocky because of this…”

Clicking his tongue, he stepped on the glass fragments and tried to approach Rie.

Thud—

“Ahhh!”

This time, a nearby curtain suddenly fluttered and covered the butler Dark Mage’s vision.

Those who saw this reached a different conclusion.

“It’s a ghost!”

“A ghost must have possessed the Time Ability User!”

“…It’s not even a ghost!”

Rie’s cheeks puffed up in frustration.

“What’s happening, Evelyn?”

A puzzled question came from deep within the corridor.

It was Count Gillen, who had come to investigate the commotion outside.

He looked at the broken vase and the curtain covering the butler’s body, startled at first, then narrowed his eyes.

“What’s wrong with Miss Rie? Evelyn, did that child come to play… again?”

Gillen’s gaze toward Serena was tinged with slight worry and fear.

Rie also widened her eyes upon seeing him—

‘Oh, mister! Angel said he went to the clothing store with you…!’

She was confused about whether he was friend or foe.

Jair had said that when he set fire to the building, Gillen was also there.

With a frightened face, no less.

But seeing him now, he really seemed to know nothing about dark magic, so maybe he could save Rie?!

Having made her decision, Rie shouted with all her might.

“Mister Gillen, be careful! The Marquis’s Wife here isn’t the real wife, she’s the Dark Mage Serena! The Maid Sisters and Butler here are all Dark Mages too!”

“…What? Then, the reason His Highness the Crown Prince set fire to the building was… really…”

In truth, he had been uncertain all along but wanted to believe the person he loved.

But to think she wasn’t Evelyn from the beginning, but Serena.

Even seeing the shocked Gillen, Serena only frowned as if annoyed.

“That’s right. From the moment I first met you, I was Serena. But you fell in love with ‘me’ who possessed the Marquis’s Wife Rioletta’s body, so it doesn’t matter, does it?”

“What? What kind of nonsense… You mean it doesn’t matter that you deceived me? But you’re saying you’re a criminal!”

“A criminal? How old-fashioned. Soon when the world changes… Ah, you’re misunderstanding because we haven’t changed the world yet? Now, Gillen. Think carefully.”

Crack.

Serena stepped on glass fragments with her high heels and approached him with clicking sounds.

“So you call me a criminal, but what do you have right now? Do you have guard knights, do you have money? You’re a beggar who lost everything to gambling and only has your title left.”

“Evelyn… no, Serena!”

Veins bulged on angry Gillen’s neck.

However, perhaps unable to refute those words, he could only fume without doing anything.

“See? Even now you can’t do anything because of the people protecting me. But Gillen, I’m not saying you’re a loser. If you were a Time Ability User, everything would have been different.”

“But time abilities are originally…”

“Impossible to have? No.”

A white hand wearing lace gloves caressed Gillen’s shoulder.

“Anyone can become a Time Ability User through effort, Gillen. If only they have dark magic.”

Gillen swallowed at the seductive voice.

“Huh? Mister!”

I have to stop mister!

Startled Rie ran toward Serena, carefully avoiding the glass fragments.

“Don’t touch mister, snap out of it!”

She desperately grabbed Gillen’s pant leg, but Gillen didn’t react.

His eyes were captivated solely by Serena.

“Will you live your whole life unable to even establish a position in high society, leeching off others until you die? Or will you work hard by my side to revive the Count House and become the owner of the art gallery?”

“…But Se, Serena, it’s not just… stealing hair. I know dark magic uses human blood. That’s murder…”

“Ah, Gillen seems to be misunderstanding something… You don’t have a choice. If you don’t become a Dark Mage anyway, you won’t be able to leave this place.”

Serena smiled sweetly while looking at Gillen’s face, which had turned pale in an instant, then reached out her hand and commanded.

“Take Count Gillen into the reception room. Watch him so he can’t go outside.”

“Yes.”

“And Rie… if you can’t catch her, I’ll have to catch her myself.”

—How dare this insolent thing!

When Serena reached for Rie without hesitation, Chronos, who had been watching, shattered the remaining vase.

Crash—!

But Serena didn’t dodge.

Glass fragments that hit her face dangled between her hair, and blood flowed from a clear line drawn across her cheek, but she was smiling pleasantly.

“How fortunate this isn’t my face. How precious it would have been if my real face had been scarred instead of Marquis’s Wife Rioletta’s.”

Madness flashed in her gently smiling eyes.

“And you know what? No matter how many little tricks you pull, Rie, if I stay close to you, you won’t be able to use vases or curtains, right? If they break, wouldn’t you, who’s with me, also get hurt?”

Her words made Rie’s body freeze like stone.

‘Aunt Serena… actually used her brain!’

Finally thinking the child was scared, Serena laughed with satisfaction, letting out a pleased “hmph.”

Then she dragged the child along by the hand.

-That crazy woman. What kind of punishment is she trying to receive later! How does she plan to accept the causality that even gods cannot avoid?

Even Chronos, who had been continuously protecting Rie, now stamped her feet anxiously, not knowing what to do.

Of course, she could rescue Rie immediately. However, she decided to watch for a little while.

This was because intervening in human affairs again could make dark magic even stronger.

The hesitating Dark Mages also followed Serena.

The place she dragged Rie to was the office.

When the door opened, an ominous-looking giant purple crystal orb was visible on top of the office desk.

“Rie, time ability isn’t the only thing that can be created through human effort.”

“It’s made with human blood!”

“That’s right. It’s something precious made with human blood, sweat, and tears. With this, you can talk directly with the other party without the Vanguard Unit or letters. Even while looking at their face.”

Serena wiped her cheek with the handkerchief Emilia had given her as a gift, then forcibly sat Rie on her lap as she took the chair.

Whirrr-

When she placed her hand on the giant orb, someone began to appear inside the orb along with a strange sound that resonated through the earth.

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