I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 125

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【Chapter 125】

It was Kami’s voice!

“Kami?! Hueop…!”

Rie, startled by her own voice, covered her mouth with both hands.

‘What if they find out that Rie was eavesdropping?!’

She hurriedly covered her face and lowered her head, but fortunately, they didn’t seem to notice as the conversation continued without interruption.

After all, during such an important conversation about the Chronos Empire’s biological clock moving, who would be watching the second floor?

‘Hieek?!’

Someone was watching.

Glancing down at the terrace below, Rie met golden eyes that were like those of a quiet bird of prey.

They were Jair’s eyes.

The boy, who already knew about the Chronos clock, wasn’t shocked by it.

Instead, he keenly noticed the sound from the second floor and came out to the terrace, looking up toward where the voice had come from.

‘Are you okay?’

Jair mouthed the words silently. Rie quickly nodded her head.

‘Help. If needed. Wave anything down. I’ll be watching.’

As expected, he only said pretty words like an angel.

‘Angel, the best, the best!’

Rie gave him a mini thumbs up in gratitude, then came to her senses and looked behind her.

But even after opening the door and checking the corridor, Kami was nowhere to be found.

“…I definitely heard Kami’s voice though…?”

Her heart, which had been beating wildly with hope, began to calm down.

“…I was the only one who heard that scream earlier too. Then maybe Rie heard it wrong. Rie is being strange.”

Her head drooped dejectedly. It was when Rie’s eyelashes were trembling that—

-Little One. It’s me, Kami!

“?!”

This time, Kami’s voice rang out clearly—it wasn’t her imagination.

“Kami. Where are you? How did you find your way here?”

Surprised, Rie looked around, but Kami’s form wasn’t visible—only his voice could be heard in her head.

-How did I find my way here? I was sleeping comfortably after being absorbed by that bastard Casselik, but I woke up in shock because his body was on the verge of fainting!

“…Father is… going to faint?”

Rie’s small mouth gaped open.

Currently, Casselik was in a standoff with Count Greenlenton.

But saying he was on the verge of fainting meant his stamina had hit rock bottom.

What if Father actually fainted?

That would be a big problem, but the Count might also escape with just Serena in that gap.

“That’s not good…!”

Rie stamped her small feet. Kami agreed as well.

-Of course it’s not good! That bastard Casselik believes the Count’s lies and can’t do anything about it!

“Lies? What lies did that villain tell?”

-Didn’t you hear it too? The people inside the hourglass were screaming, begging to be let out by smashing it.

“Hueot?”

Rie’s steps, which had been pacing back and forth anxiously in circles, came to an abrupt halt.

It seemed the mysterious screaming sounds weren’t only heard by her!

If Kami was right, she could understand why they sounded so sad.

‘The dark mages incinerated all the corpses.’

Suddenly, the Captain of the Knights’ words from earlier came to mind.

That’s right. The bodies of the souls trapped in the hourglass had already been burned and disappeared.

They wanted to go to Heaven rather than be trapped in the hourglass forever.

Thump thump. Her heart beat wildly.

“I need to tell Father this fact quickly…!”

Rie was a smart child who had solved various problems while living as a time ability user.

Just as she was about to run to Casselik immediately, another question arose.

“…But no one except Rie could hear that voice. Why can only Rie hear it? Kami isn’t here right now either, but I can only hear your voice.”

-That’s because your ability was transmitted differently from other time ability users.

“Umm?”

When Rie tilted her head at the incomprehensible words, Kami’s explanation continued.

-When you got caught up in the regression with Casselik, I gave you time ability, right? So you can communicate with beings from other time periods.

-Correct. That’s why you communicate well with me too, isn’t it?

Then Chronos, who had been watching, smiled with satisfaction.

-I was going to step in despite the causality if the situation became uncontrollably serious, but it seems there’s no need for that.

The sound of the god chuckling could be heard in her head.

-Wh, what?!

Then Kami panicked as if hearing the god’s voice for the first time. It seemed like she could see him fluttering his wings.

‘Hueot? God is here too?’

A conversation forum suddenly opened up in Rie’s head.

Rie quietly fell into thought.

‘…Kami is Rie’s friend. God is also Rie’s friend.’

Then let’s introduce them!

Rie naturally introduced the two, like an experienced host who had organized a divorce party.

“God, the Kami who nags me is Kami. He’s Rie’s friend. Kami, the smiling lady is Chronos God.”

-I, I know that too, you fool! I was just frozen in surprise for a moment!

“Aren’t you going to say hello to God?”

-I told you I was surprised!

Kami, who had been flustered, shouted as if embarrassed.

-God. Hello, I guess! Why would someone who’s a god take interest in this kid? She’s just a four-year-old with nothing to take, so look for someone else!

‘Huegeok.’

Rie’s mouth gaped open as she listened.

Kami was growling even at the god high in the heavens.

But the god seemed to understand Kami’s sincere concern for Rie and responded leisurely.

-You add a lot of unnecessary words to your greeting. You’re truly a child from Duke Casselik.

-Do you think I like that bastard Casselik?!

-Haha. Let’s save the small talk for later. Right now, don’t we need to deal with the dark mage?

At the god’s gentle urging, Rie also came to her senses.

“I need to tell Father this fact quickly! And it would be good if Rie had a weapon too…”

Swoosh swoosh.

Looking around quickly and opening any door, there was a wooden gavel on the dining table in a small reception room.

“A perfect hammer!”

Rie ran over excitedly and picked up the gavel.

Perhaps Marquis Philip had left it behind when going back and forth to the Tower of Time to meet Jair.

She could use this as a weapon.

But Rie’s time was too short to be happy.

She could hear the Emperor, who had finished the meeting on the first floor, leaving with the knights in a rush.

“…Then let’s go visit the Count for negotiations.”

“Hueot? That’s not good!”

She urgently called out to the Emperor and went down to the first floor, but the adults were already gone.

Only Jair remained alone in the Tower of Time.

“Rie, what’s wrong?”

“Well…!”

As she quickly explained the situation so far, Jair’s expression also became urgent.

“Just use your time ability to stop time.”

“B-but then His Majesty the Emperor will notice everything…!”

“He’s probably already entered the building while we were talking. Time abilities don’t work there, but you need to shake off the knights guarding the Tower of Time.”

“I’ll use my ability!”

Rie pressed the button on her clock without hesitation.

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Meanwhile, Casselik glanced at the window and tried hard to hide his dizzy state.

Night had already fallen.

Since he had first pierced the Count’s heart in the morning, he couldn’t even estimate how many hundreds of times he had stabbed that heart.

“…If you weren’t a Time Manipulator… you wouldn’t have been able to reach your current position. How utterly brutish…”

The Count no longer got up even when his body was restored to perfect condition.

After feeling the pain of having his heart pierced hundreds of times, his mind seemed to be gradually reaching its limit.

But Casselik was equally exhausted.

“…Whenever something happens, you just brutishly turn back time to reach this position. You must be starting to feel regret now too.”

No answer came.

Even though his body was fine, the Count seemed to still feel pain in his head, only frowning and breathing heavily.

Even so, it was obvious he was racking his brain trying to figure out how to break through this situation.

‘I’ll repeat this until you’re sick of it. I’m confident when it comes to brutish attacks.’

He was slightly tired, but this was nothing.

Casselik tried to steady his blurred vision and dragged his blade toward the Count.

However, his steps stopped at the sound of someone knocking.

It was the Emperor.

“…Your Majesty?”

“Count, let’s have a conversation for a moment.”

The Emperor’s gaze was clearly directed toward Count Greenlenton.

“…Not with me, but with the Count?”

“That’s right. I’ll propose a negotiation.”

At the Emperor’s gloomy murmur, both Casselik and Count Greenlenton froze.

Soon their expressions were reversed.

“Your Majesty!”

“Haha… Hahaha! Ahahahahahaha!”

The Count burst into laughter, anticipating victory.

“Negotiation canceled! Bad guys need to be punished.”

Suddenly, a young voice popped out from behind the Emperor.

The knights standing gloomily behind him were the first to spot the owner of the voice.

“R-Rie, how did you…?”

“Princess?”

After the murmuring voices, Rie appeared majestically between them, holding a gavel.

“Bad guy! Don’t lie to Father and accept your punishment!”

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