I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 123

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【Chapter 123】

“…Finally….”

Count Greenlenton flipped the small hourglass that came into his hands.

Then sticky blood flowed down into the small glass tube.

Currently, Duke Casselik was in a state where his abilities were greatly diminished due to his daughter becoming an ability user.

He would surely coordinate with the Imperial Palace to create a situation where time abilities couldn’t be used, and would be maintaining a defensive posture.

Because the Count was not someone familiar with swords.

If he were put in a situation where he couldn’t use time abilities due to dark magic, he could be captured by the Imperial Knights.

Perhaps a sword could pierce his heart in just a few seconds.

“…But, with just this….”

“Father, but this hourglass puts strain on your body the more you use it.”

Then someone interrupted. It was Mary with an anxious expression.

The child seemed to know well the function and side effects of the hourglass.

However, the Count knew this well too.

He wrapped his arms around the trembling child’s shoulders.

“It’s alright. If side effects occur, I can just switch to another body. So wait here quietly.”

“Still, I’m worried….”

Mary, who had been hesitating for a while, soon nodded her head.

“Father told me, didn’t you? That in the process of bringing about great change in the world, the existing groups that have seized control of the current world would struggle desperately.”

“That’s right.”

“The Imperial Palace and Theodore Ducal House legally prohibited murder to maintain abilities that only they could use. Even though servants are the property of nobles and can be treated however they want.”

“Correct.”

“Then we must fight back. I believe in you, Father.”

Eyes filled with loyalty and madness looked up at the Count.

He patted his daughter’s shoulder with a satisfied expression.

“Yes. So don’t worry and go to sleep. By tomorrow morning, this father will return with Serena.”

“Yes.”

How happy he was to have such a loyal daughter.

‘Rie. That child is Casselik’s daughter, yet she only threw tantrums and caused trouble at the divorce court. Looking at this, I must have taken all the luck with children.’

The Count, who sent the child to the bedroom, chuckled gloomily and approached the dark mages waiting in the corridor.

“We depart this evening.”

“Yes.”

Tonight. The Imperial Palace would fall.

* * *

Rie grabbed a handful of the Count’s hair and hurriedly escaped from the room.

“What should I do? If Rie gets caught pulling out hair and reality changes….”

Whoosh, whoosh.

Rie, who had exited the Black Dungeon with Jair, hastily surveyed the surroundings. Fortunately, the Tower of Time was still quiet.

But….

‘What if the angry Count Uncle tells Serena Auntie about Rie? And then Serena Auntie doesn’t go to Father and hides away?’

That’s when it happened.

As if he was having the same worry as Rie, Jair opened the tower window and asked a knight.

“What’s the current situation?”

“Cough, cough! Y-Your Highness the Crown Prince! This sandwich is, that’s not it….”

“Never mind the sandwich, quickly report the current situation. Tell me His Majesty and Duke Casselik’s current positions. And the movements of the dark mages.”

“Ah, there doesn’t seem to be any particular situation yet. Everyone is maintaining vigilance and watching for the dark mages’ arrival.”

Rie, who had been listening to the conversation with an anxious expression, made eye contact with Jair.

“…Thank goodness!”

Since the present hadn’t changed, it seemed they could continue with the next operation without worry.

Which was to peek into Count Greenlenton’s past.

“Thank you, Knight Uncles!”

The two children quickly ended the conversation, firmly closed the window, and gathered indoors.

Using the Count’s hair to open a portal and pass through the Black Dungeon—.

“Hair loss medicine?”

An anxious question suddenly popped out.

“Pardon?”

“You’re gathering so much of that guy’s blood, but how is there no one in charge of getting a single hair loss medicine?”

While the big future hadn’t changed, the Count’s personal situation seemed to have changed greatly.

The Count, who had been glaring at his subordinates with a distrustful expression, made a “hmph” sound and looked at the mirror.

Rie pointed at the Count’s round bald crown and said.

“Your Highness, look at that head! If the wind blows once… Wheeeng!”

The Count couldn’t hear because he was wearing a mask, but Jair was different.

The boy, who had been moving his lips, quickly bit his lip to hold back the laughter that was escaping.

Being with Rie kept his mood from sinking even in serious situations.

She was truly a mysterious child.

But the two children’s playfulness didn’t last long—.

Because Count Greenlenton was trying to move to the Imperial Palace with the hourglass made of blood.

Seeing him heading toward the waiting carriage, a flustered Rie called out to Jair.

“A-Angel.”

“Yeah. This point in time seems to be not the distant past but just a few hours ago from the present. If so, the dark mages might have already arrived at the Imperial Palace.”

“Huh…!”

The movement of black robes was reflected in the child’s blue eyes.

Just before getting into the carriage.

Count Greenlenton, who suddenly stopped walking, took out the hourglass.

“I should start now.”

And at the bizarre scene that unfolded immediately after, Rie and Jair’s faces turned pale.

If this was the past, then in reality, the dark mages might have already seized the Imperial Palace.

They had to hurry and go help His Majesty and Casselik.

* * *

“Kheuk….”

Their prediction was correct.

While Rie and Jair were traveling through the past, Count Greenlenton and the dark mages had already secretly infiltrated the Imperial Palace.

However. The one who let out a short death rattle was Count Greenlenton.

“…Really… how tenacious of you…. Since you were chosen as a time manipulator, you wouldn’t have needed to learn swordsmanship….”

Bleeding through his teeth, he muttered toward Casselik standing before him.

Casselik’s sword was precisely pierced through the Count’s heart.

While he could infiltrate the Imperial Palace using dark magic, in this space alone, he couldn’t use time abilities with dark magic, just as the Emperor and Casselik had intended.

“The vicious one isn’t me but you. To sacrifice innocent people just to save one criminal. Considering your sins, the punishment of dying by sword feels disappointingly lenient.”

Casselik clicked his tongue but thought it was all over.

However, the Count facing death had his lips curved in an arc for some reason.

“…Ha… ha…, I wonder about that….”

As if not caring about the blood flowing from his mouth, the Count who let out laughter suddenly collapsed forward.

Soon an unbelievable situation occurred.

Because his body, which had clearly collapsed, was smoothly raised up as if ignoring gravity.

‘What did I just see?’

Startled, Casselik blinked his eyes.

“Greetings.”

In the moment he blinked again, the Count stood up perfectly fine, and the blade Casselik had thrust into him had vanished without a trace.

The Count bowed his head with courtesy, as if mocking them.

It was as if he alone had regressed.

The Emperor, who had been watching, drew in a breath.

“…Duke? What is this…?”

“I don’t know either. It should be absolutely impossible to use time abilities here…”

“To be precise, it would be impossible to change space-time with time abilities.”

Count Greenlenton spoke leisurely with a smile toward the surprised Casselik and Emperor.

“But what if I myself became time?”

As Casselik frowned at the incomprehensible words, the Count unbuttoned his blood-stained shirt.

Between the loosened shirt, in the center of the Count’s stomach, instead of soft flesh, there was something like an emblem carved in relief.

It was an hourglass filled with black blood.

“Having become one with this hourglass, I am now another timeline itself. Not the timeline of this place that you manipulate, but another world has become mine.”

“…What?”

“Simply put, no matter how many times you stab me, Duke, I can turn back time and come back to life as many times as I want!”

Another timeline? He had never heard of such a thing.

No, could it be.

‘…Like Lost Time?’

A sharp doubt suddenly sprang up in Casselik’s mind.

In the past, Casselik had entered the subspace to save Rie and encountered Lost Time.

That was his lost memory.

Originally, it couldn’t exist in reality, but it was a living being created from the energy of the 10 years of memories he had forgotten.

His existence was a different time period within the same time. Was the Count saying he had created that through dark magic?

That’s impossible.

How could such a thing be possible? That was a being created through multiple regressions and lost memories.

His red gaze, which had been glaring at the Count, wavered slightly.

That bastard must be lying to deceive them.

Casselik shook his head once and drew his blade again.

“Such a thing can’t be possible.”

But the Count smiled without a hint of wavering.

“It’s possible with dark magic, Duke. Dark magic can do anything as long as there’s blood. And to be precise, I didn’t even kill fifty people.”

“…What?”

“I just trapped them here. Not in their hearts, but…”

He pointed to the blood inside the hourglass with his white, long fingers like brackets.

“In their blood. How about it? Since I’m using the lowly ones well without killing them, I haven’t broken your laws either, have I?”

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