I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 35
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【Chapter 35】
“What?!”
At those chilling words, Serena almost came to her senses.
“Just one person will do. Then you’ll be happy forever.”
The Count whispered once more in an enchanting voice.
“How about this? Offering up a criminal.”
“…A criminal would die anyway.”
“Exactly.”
Serena slowly stood up as if entranced and took the potion.
In exchange for one criminal who deserved to die, both she and everyone around her could be happy.
If that were the case, wouldn’t it be a fair trade?
* * *
Just before the first formal interrogation was to begin, Ella had suddenly fallen into a coma state.
Physicians rushed back and forth, but even they could only shake their heads, unable to determine the cause.
While the investigation was being delayed, Serena appeared.
“I heard about Sister Ella’s condition and came because I was worried. Even though she’s a criminal, thinking of our past relationship kept me awake… Could I perhaps take a look at her just once?”
“Ah… even though you’re the Duchess, that’s…”
“Just for a moment. I want to pray for Sister Ella. This is modest, but please consider it a token of my sincerity.”
Her tearful appearance was enchantingly beautiful. With the gold coin pouch she offered, the gatekeeper finally stepped aside.
“Then… just very briefly.”
“Thank you!”
She knelt down in front of Ella, who was sleeping as if truly dead.
“Sister Ella, even though you falsely accused me… I will forgive you. So please wake up.”
Her praying figure looked as if an angel had been reborn.
But a week later.
Ella, who had suddenly awakened from her coma state and complained of stomach pain, became a cold corpse.
Serena was amazed by this.
The Dark Mages were truly remarkable beings.
They had put Ella into a coma state beforehand to prevent her from testifying against her!
“Se, Serena!”
But Cedric, who had no way of knowing this, burst into tears while embracing Serena.
“Ella could have lived! My love could have lived! She was never a woman who should have died like this!”
“You’re right, sob… But Sister Ella must have gone to a good place.”
Serena quietly observed a moment of silence beside him.
Hoping that once all these trials passed, everyone could be happy.
* * *
Emilia gathered the torn invitation back together.
[Ability Detection Test]
In fact, she had already received an invitation from Casselik in advance.
They were planning to conduct tests on the branch family children, and since Rie was his bloodline anyway, he told her to bring her along.
So in the end, today.
‘…We’ve come back here again after all.’
In front of the temple in Theodore Duchy.
Emilia, holding the child’s hand tightly, glared at the temple with a tense expression.
While Rie had made such a fuss about wanting to go, she couldn’t refuse the Crown Prince’s letter inviting the child.
‘It’s okay. This time I’ll be Rie’s shield.’
Emilia, who had changed considerably from before, put on a nonchalant expression and entered the temple.
The chapel with its sky-high ceiling and giant goddess statue.
When she opened the door and entered, the people who had already taken their seats looked at her and the child.
Right after that.
“Oh, isn’t she the one without abilities?”
The expected thorny path unfolded.
“Hey, watch your words. Don’t you know Duke Casselik was clinging to Lady Emilia at the banquet?”
“That was before the ability assessment test. The fact that the Duke is conducting the test means he’s completely forgotten about that little one and Lady Emilia and is starting fresh, right?”
“By the way, why did that little one come? She’s powerless anyway.”
Rie, sitting in the guest seats, flinched.
Emilia rolled up the small cloth piece she had prepared and plugged it into the child’s ears.
“You can’t hear well now, right?”
“Mmhm.”
“Rie, do you know who the most powerless people in the world are? It’s the people who talk about others.”
“Ooh?”
Rie, who had been a little intimidated, showed interest.
“Our Rie doesn’t badmouth others and is always faithful to her own life. Rie is more capable than anyone else.”
“Really? But Rie doesn’t want to be capable… I just want to live together with Mother, just the two of us.”
Fidgeting. Rie’s face turned red as she played with her fingers.
Emilia also smiled warmly looking at her daughter.
“Why else would she come here? She received the Birdwell surname, but now that she’s living with it, she probably wants to make known that she’s of the Duke’s bloodline.”
“Right. The only hope in that little one’s life right now is being of the Duke’s bloodline.”
But the harmonious moment was brief, as the children’s conversation could be heard again from behind.
“Ow.”
Then something hit Rie’s back.
When she turned around in surprise, there was tissue paper rolled up with small stones inside that had fallen right behind her.
‘Bad deed! A third-rate villain like the ones I saw in 【The Guldo】 has appeared!’
When Rie picked up the tissue and opened her eyes wide, the children whose gazes met hers giggled.
“We made eye contact. What are you going to do, what are you going to do?”
It was an infuriating situation, but Rie really pondered about it.
‘Hmm, what should I really do?’
If I act like a third-rate villain, I’ll get in big trouble later too….
Scary villains like Father survive, but half-hearted weak villains get eliminated!
What this means is, villains who bully the weak always get properly educated by righteous protagonists.
Because that was the law of 【Geu.Gul.Do】.
Rie, who considered this worldly wisdom, covered her mouth with her palm and whispered.
“Kids, run away quickly!”
“What? Don’t tell me you’re… talking to us?”
“Yep. You guys are going to get in huge trouble soon. The third-rate villains in 【Geu.Gul.Do】 were like that!”
Rie, who couldn’t distinguish between reality and fiction, nodded her head seriously.
The children frowned and sneered.
“What’s she saying? She’s completely weird.”
“Hey, let’s just throw one more time. That way she’ll come to her senses…”
The child who was about to say that couldn’t continue speaking. Even all the children’s faces turned deathly pale.
Rie tilted her head.
Why are they acting like that?
Come to think of it, it seems like there’s a shadow cast over the top of my head?
‘Huh?’
Oh, when did Mother and the children who were sitting around get up?
“Huh?”
When she looked up… a palm was covering above Rie’s forehead.
As if trying to protect Rie.
When she turned her body around, Jair smiled beautifully with his eyes.
“Hello, Rie.”
Wow.
Rie opened her mouth with a “heh” sound upon seeing the beautiful smile.
Jair was originally pretty, but today he was wearing White Ceremonial Robes, so he looked even more radiant.
“…An angel?!”
“Yes. An angel.”
Jair answered casually, and his gaze turned toward the children who had been bullying Rie.
“By the way, why were you guys trying to throw one more time? Don’t tell me it’s because you failed when you were trying to throw it at me.”
His monotone speech was laced with irritation.
The children gulped and quickly bowed their heads.
“We weren’t aiming for Your Highness the Crown Prince! Absolutely not!”
“Then, you were trying to hit this child?”
“Th, that’s…”
“This child is my only friend. I guess you haven’t heard yet what happens when you hit my friend.”
The children naturally didn’t know.
Because they didn’t know that the Crown Prince had such a thing as a friend.
“S-sorry!”
“We’re sorry!”
At the children’s apology, even the parents nearby stood up and bowed their heads deeply.
“Y-Your Highness the Crown Prince. The children still don’t know much. We will educate them properly.”
“Yeah, sure. Handle the education yourselves, and apologize to my friend with the exact same behavior and heart as you just showed me.”
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