I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 33

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【Chapter 33】

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Meanwhile, Rie, who had returned home from the Crown Prince’s Palace, asked Kami.

“Kami. Rie used her time ability a lot at the wedding. But Crown Prince Jair said someone hid the flow of energy. What does that mean?”

Kami, who had been tearing apart bread crumbs by the window, tilted his head.

“Hid? What?”

“Kami doesn’t know either…?”

“I only know how to use energy, not how to hide it. Don’t tell me you… got caught being a time ability user?”

Seeing him open his beak wide, he looked ready to pour out another lecture.

Rie quickly shook her head frantically.

“No! Anyway, Rie needs to check Mr. Poop Carriage’s notebook! Since we made Marquis Philip happy, there must be something more written in the notebook!”

“Ah, I forgot about that! Let’s check it quickly!”

Phew. She managed to shut Kami’s mouth!

And she had been thinking of checking the notebook now that she was home anyway, so it worked out well.

“Here it is… The note, book!”

The child stuck her fingers under the bed mattress and struggled to pull out the notebook.

A blue light flickered between the pages of the worn-out notebook.

“The energy has condensed. Now we can see the next sentence that bastard Casselik wrote!”

Excited Kami fluttered and flew up.

“Little one, quickly open the notebook! That bastard definitely did something suspicious before his regression!”

“Mmhm. I know.”

Rie was curious too.

Why Father had wailed while looking at dead Mother.

‘Don’t tell me Father killed Mother… for real?!’

Like a passionate reader of 【That.Gul.Do】, Rie swallowed nervously as she imagined dramatic scenarios.

With her heart pounding like that, she opened the notebook.

[You’re probably curious about the reason for my regression, but I’m in a hurry so I’ll write down the important things first. First, don’t divorce Emilia. You didn’t already divorce her, did you?]

Her small finger that had been tracing the sentence stopped.

‘…Don’t divorce Mother…?’

The child’s eyes instantly wavered.

[If you’re at the point where you’ve already divorced, congratulations on being a bastard once again. You idiot.

Everything must be confusing, but I’ll explain later, so let me tell you what needs to be resolved first. Deal with the guys who have black crescents carved on their necks. They are dark mages who violated the doctrine of the Chronos Empire, and they will devour the Theodore Ducal House.]

Without even having time to be shocked, Rie read the next sentence and trembled.

“…Black crescent? Dark mages?”

Suddenly, Philip’s words from the tea time earlier came to mind.

‘Then… it could be the work of dark mages.’

“Just like Marquis Philip said… I wonder if dark mages really exist.”

During her time living at the Duke’s Castle, Rie had learned about dark mages in her history lessons.

They were bad people.

Because they tried to forcibly use time abilities by offering people as sacrifices to evil gods.

“If the Theodore Ducal House gets devoured… what will happen to Father?”

As information suddenly flooded in, her small head began to ache.

“Ow, oww.”

When Rie grabbed her hair and showed signs of distress, a startled Kami perched on top of the child’s head.

“Little One, stop it! Why are you suddenly acting like this!”

“In the notebook, it says dark mages will appear. And those dark mages are going to attack Father!”

“What? That’s a bit unfortunate, but it’s not your concern. Think about what that guy did to you.”

She knew. She knew, but…

The child’s gaze couldn’t leave the sentences that Casselik had pressed down hard while writing.

Rie finally let out a deep sigh.

“And… past Father wrote not to divorce Mother.”

“What? You’re lying!”

Surprised Kami stretched his neck out to check the notebook.

“…He’s making a whole commotion by himself. But that guy already hurt you. You know that, don’t you?”

“Mmm. That’s right. Father hurt Rie and Mother too. But…”

‘…At Mother’s funeral, Father was crying like a little child.’

Rie clenched her small fists and stood up from her spot.

“First, I’m going to find the dark mages who are bothering Father.”

“What?!”

“Rie needs to keep reading the notebook. I want to know why Father cried… why he didn’t want to divorce Mother. You said if I help people and gather energy, I can see more of the notebook’s contents, right?”

“That’s true, but…”

“Finding dark mages is also helping someone, isn’t it?”

The child’s expression had become resolute, even carrying a sense of determination.

In truth, for four-year-old Rie, her world still consisted only of her parents.

Though she had shouted that she didn’t need such a father, abandoning her father didn’t heal the child’s wounds.

“…If that’s what you want, then so be it.”

Kami nodded while looking at the child who had somehow become a little stronger.

When they first met, she had just blindly hated Casselik.

Seeing her set concrete goals and even muster courage for them was admirable.

“Alright, Little One. I’ll help you with all my strength.”

Kami gently stroked Rie’s messy hair with his wing.

“Dark mages are going to devour the Theodore Ducal House? Then surely the dark mages will try to approach Duke Casselik somehow.”

“Then Rie should hover around Father too?”

“I don’t like it, but we’ll have to.”

That’s when it happened.

From outside the closed door came Morgana’s thunderstruck scream.

“What’s this letter about now?! Oh my, dear God! Why do you keep giving trials to the Birdwell Baronet Family!”

“Kami. Did Father cause trouble again? Grandmother makes ‘oh my’ sounds when she’s angry!”

“Foolish child. He’s accumulating karma without knowing anything.”

“Yeah! I’ll go out for a bit and come back!”

Leaving Kami behind, when I entered the reception room, there was a letter embroidered with gold thread on the table.

‘Oh. That’s…’

It didn’t seem like Father had caused trouble.

This is a letter sent by the angel!

“Why did they give our Rie expensive raspberries…?”

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