I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 28
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【Chapter 28】
“…Uncle is annoying. I don’t want to see him either. I hate people who ignore me too!”
Near Aion Cathedral.
The clock that had been made for Philip was thrown away somewhere in the shabby backyard.
Even after throwing away the clock, the boy still seemed angry as he shouted.
“Time Observer? Great my ass, who said I wanted to do this crap! What’s the point of knowing secrets that nobody else knows! I’m so frustrated!”
“Your Highness! Then shall we tell each other? Rie has secrets too!”
“What? Who’s there?”
Rie unconsciously took off her mask as she stood up and spoke.
However, just before Jair turned his head around, she quickly hid again, thinking Kami would scold her.
“What? I heard a voice?”
Rie quickly put on the rabbit mask and shut her mouth tight.
Soon she heard approaching footsteps, and small hands began pushing through the bushes.
“Who’s there! Come out right now!”
Thump thump.
If he walked just a little closer, their noses would almost touch.
But fortunately, Jair passed by without seeing Rie wearing the rabbit mask.
“What? I definitely heard it from here.”
Just as Rie was feeling relieved.
“You. Little. Fool! I told you not to take off the mask!”
Kami’s angry roar echoed from somewhere in the sky.
Hii, hiiek… This is scarier than being caught by His Highness!
Rie hurriedly hid her body and buried her face into the bushes.
“Rie, no good!”
“You think hiding just your face is enough?! Don’t hide and come out quickly!! Before I get even angrier!”
Huh? Kami must be watching everything from up in the sky…
There was no way out.
“Eeeing…”
Finally, Rie lifted her body that felt heavy as lead and returned to the real world.
When she came out of the tunnel, Lost Time was standing with his black wings crossed, and a pitch-black aura was emanating from behind him.
‘Kami has triangle eyes!’
When he’s like that, you absolutely must not touch Kami.
Without being told, Rie knelt down and raised both arms.
“Why did you do that. Explain quickly.”
Absolutely must not… touch him.
Rie rolled her eyes and glanced at Kami.
“…Crown Prince Jair looked really, really lonely.”
Her eyes showing the whites looked just like a puppy that got scolded and was reading the mood.
“…When you’re lonely, you shouldn’t be alone. Someone needs to be there for you….”
“Haa.”
Kami didn’t respond anymore and just sighed.
What could he say when a four-year-old child was explaining loneliness to him?
“Little One. What you just did was terribly wrong, but since it was just one word, it probably won’t have a big impact on Jair’s life. Still, you can’t do that again next time. Understood?”
“Mmm….”
“Anyway, how was going back to the past? Do you think there’s a way to help Marquis Philip?”
Finally, it was the question she had been waiting for.
Rie hesitantly lowered her arms and stood up.
“About that, what if Rie finds the clock that Crown Prince Jair threw away and gives it to Marquis Philip, and then the Marquis gives the clock to Lord Jair? Wouldn’t he be moved?”
“I don’t know if he’ll be moved. But well, it doesn’t seem like a bad idea.”
“Right? Let’s try it once!”
Time Stop was released.
Rie told Philip she was going for a walk and immediately ran to the forest.
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“Crown Prince Jair, I mean. Seeing how he treats Marquis Philip, his personality is quite something.”
Of course it would be. He wasn’t an ordinary person.
“He didn’t seem to be like that originally, but did he change after becoming Crown Prince?”
This was also true.
Everything went wrong after he became Crown Prince.
“At such a young age, his lust for power is already extraordinary, and now he’s Crown Prince. He was exactly like the seed of a tyrant.”
…The seed of a tyrant?
Jair, who had been trying to ignore the passing comments, suddenly turned his head.
The man who had been whispering was startled and quickly bowed his head deeply.
“I-I greet Your Highness.”
“….”
He wanted to correct him that he wasn’t the seed of a tyrant.
But the person bowing before him was too insignificant. So much so that he didn’t even feel the need to correct his words.
Time Observer Jair could see people’s futures whenever he encountered them.
It had been long since he cut off communication with people because of the futures that were drawn even when he didn’t want to see them.
‘In the future, you’ll accumulate gambling debts and even sell your family name? You’re not worth associating with.’
Whoosh-
When the Crown Prince, who had said nothing, resumed walking, the nobles around him let out long sighs of relief.
Because of his earlier atrocity against Philip, he had earned the nickname ‘seed of a tyrant.’
However, in Jair’s eyes, those who cursed him weren’t living particularly honorable lives either.
Some would be abandoned for sowing discord, some would be caught in adultery. Others wore kind smiles but turned into troublemakers at home.
And Marquis Philip.
That heartless man who abandoned him would live happily with a kind-hearted woman.
“Cr-Crown Prince Jair…”
That’s when it happened.
From behind him, his assistant Mill spoke up.
“Just in case, I should mention… His Majesty said not to leave your seat until the banquet ends.”
“I know. I’m not going anywhere.”
“Then where are you going… if I may ask…”
“I’m going to the forest. Traces of time ability usage were discovered there.”
“That… wouldn’t that be from Duke Casselik?”
“That’s exactly why I want to go find it. Because of that bastard, I’ve been trapped in the tower for decades.”
“…Decades?”
But Lord Jair is only seven years old.
Mill wanted to say that, but only swallowed his saliva.
Because that was the kind of assistant Jair wanted.
Meanwhile, the boy looked at the forest with burning eyes.
A time ability user must definitely be inside there.
Indeed, the normally functioning flow of time was broken in places.
Casselik, the ability user who clearly caused this mess, had been abusing his ability regularly.
Jair had been dragged back to the past with him every time he regressed.
How many years he had been trapped in this child’s body, he could barely remember now.
If he had used it this much, he should have achieved what he wanted by now. What could that bastard possibly want.
Just how amazing could it be.
Jair, who had been walking through the forest path with such trivial thoughts, suddenly stopped.
“…?”
From here on, the broken cracks had disappeared.
As if the traces had been deliberately erased.
“…That bastard uses his ability openly, but he doesn’t do things like erasing traces.”
Jair’s mysterious golden eyes sharply scanned through the forest.
Could it be that some other ability user had appeared?
Come to think of it-
‘Casselik’s daughter, was it?’
The duke’s powerless child.
During countless regressions, there were parts that changed little by little, but the child always followed her father Casselik.
But this time, he heard the child herself went to the courtroom and boldly claimed she wanted to live with her mother.
‘And her uncle helped her with that.’
It was something that had never happened before, so he had been interested.
Just as Jair was thinking he should have a conversation with her and was about to exit the forest.
“Hey, but you’re Duke Casselik’s daughter, so why do you keep sticking around with Marquis Philip?”
The moment he got closer to the banquet hall, unpleasant names pierced his ears.
“Haa.”
Jair let out an involuntary sigh and turned his head in that direction.
Not far away, children of that age were huddled together in a group.
“You even made it look like the two of them were fighting over you… So you’re feeling pretty confident, aren’t you? But that’s probably going to end now, isn’t it?”
Among them, a small girl could be seen.
It was Rie.
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