I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 72
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<Chapter 72>
When I opened the window, there was a crow that looked extremely angry, holding a piece of paper in its beak.
It looked like paper torn from a book.
[Today, 6 PM. Leverly Clock Tower Intersection at the Southern Coastline. Emilia dies after being struck by a horse.]
The current time was 4:30 PM.
It would take at least 4 hours to get to Leverly Clock Tower Intersection from here.
“Damn it! Prepare a carriage immediately!”
Casselik, holding his clock, burst out cursing and ran off.
* * *
At that time, Emilia, having finished work, came out of the shop.
The sun was already setting slowly.
“I hope Ethan gets better soon… Maybe I should buy something delicious on the way home.”
She, who thought only of her family day and night, walked toward Leverly Clock Tower while looking around downtown.
Then.
“The horse’s reins came loose, everyone run away!”
“Neiiigh-!”
A coachman’s scream was heard from nearby.
When Emilia, who had been distracted by street snacks, slowly turned her head.
Her vision was filled only with the teeth of a horse drooling profusely.
Just as the crazed horse opened its mouth wide as if to swallow her whole.
“Oh my, I didn’t anticipate a situation where Rie couldn’t see the notebook.”
A woman’s sigh was heard, and simultaneously, time stopped.
The frozen scene of Leverly Clock Tower.
Emilia’s eyes widened in surprise.
The horse with its mouth wide open, the screaming coachman, and people looking this way with horrified faces.
The world stopped except for a woman over 3 meters tall.
“From now on, I’ll have to tell the child directly.”
Muttering this, the tall woman walked leisurely among the people.
At that time. After parting with Jair and on the way home with Ethan.
Rie looked around like a meerkat.
This was because everyone, including Ethan, had suddenly stopped.
“…This isn’t something Rie did.”
Did Father do it? But if so, Rie wouldn’t have been able to notice.
Even Time Ability Users couldn’t interfere in time periods stopped by others.
‘But why can Rie move?’
Just as she was wondering.
“Rie.”
Rie’s head turned at an unfamiliar woman’s voice.
Not only did she turn, but she had to keep looking up endlessly.
Where her gaze reached, a giant woman was standing.
‘Wh, whoa. She’s big… bigger than Father and Uncle Nelson… even more!’
Rie’s mouth fell wide open.
She was so tall that she was barely visible to the small child’s field of vision.
Standing on tiptoes and craning her neck back, she could barely make out the face.
Wavy hair covering her waist.
Mischievous corners of her mouth. Short eyelashes attached to her eyelids that looked like second hands.
‘Oh, I’ve seen her somewhere before…?’
Rie, who finally remembered, unconsciously pointed.
“Ah! It’s the statue lady!”
That’s right.
She looked exactly like the statue she had seen on Father and Aunt Serena’s wedding day.
Even though she pointed without thinking of manners due to surprise, the woman calmly introduced herself.
“You have good memory. Yes, I am Chronos.”
“Whoa?! You are?! …You’re pretty!”
Rie’s mouth hung wide open.
Regardless, the woman bent down and gently stroked the child’s cheek.
“How dare they try to sacrifice my child’s family. You all still have much to do to be offered to the vampires of the borderlands. Though that doesn’t mean others should be sacrificed instead.”
“Border… vampires?”
All difficult words!
“Goddess. What are border… vampires? Did Rie do something wrong?”
When the child rolled her eyes while reading her expression, the goddess smiled as if to say not to worry.
“No. I came to help you. But since I’ve interfered in human personal affairs, according to the established laws of the world, those guys’ power might become stronger.”
“The bad guys’ power will get stronger…?”
‘Is the bad guy’s name Border Vampire?’
Her blue eyes, which had been filled with curiosity, became serious.
“Yes. So, I’d like you to reveal that Rie is a Time Ability User.”
“Huh?”
At Rie’s flustered face, the woman smiled gently and explained.
“I am Chronos. Originally, a god’s power grows stronger through people’s faith. If your identity is revealed to the world and people’s faith increases, I might be able to give you more powerful help.”
“Y-yes. But Rie is…”
Gulp.
The child’s throat bobbed.
While talking with Ethan, she had decided to return the notebook to Duke Casselik, but revealing her abilities was a different matter.
‘If, if I get dragged to the Duke’s Castle… what do I do?’
Would the goddess scold her if she said no?
Her eyes rolled around as she watched the woman’s expression.
Then the goddess noticed the child’s expression and giggled while patting her head.
“Everything is your choice. Do it when you’re mentally ready. But child, there’s something more urgent than that. You know Leverly Clock Tower, right?”
Fortunately, the goddess didn’t force her and changed the subject.
“Yes.”
Leverly Clock Tower.
She sometimes passed by that clock tower when going downtown. It was near the embroidery shop where Emilia worked.
“Since I’ve stopped time, go to the clock tower during this gap and save Mother. Mother is in danger right now.”
“Wh-what?!”
“Well then, see you later.”
The goddess, leaving only a shocking warning, stroked the child’s head for a while before disappearing like the wind.
“Goddess? Wh, Mother…? Save her…?”
Rie’s mouth fell open as she stood dazed for a moment.
“…Mother-!”
In the frozen world.
The pale child moved her short legs and ran toward Leverly Clock Tower.
After a while, she could see Mother sitting on the ground with a surprised face in the distance.
“Neigh! Horse, you bad thing!”
As soon as Rie saw the horse roughly raising its legs in front of her, she shouted.
“Don’t bully our Mother-! Rie will scold you!”
Rie, equipped with fierce eyes, picked up a tree branch that had been discarded nearby.
She planned to smack the bad horse’s bottom with this.
Just as she was running toward them with determination.
“Rie.”
A familiar low voice suddenly heard.
The child’s short legs stopped.
“Huh…?”
This voice was definitely…
“…I expected it, but you really are a Time Ability User.”
Rie’s body flinched at the clear low voice that rang out again.
Calming her ragged breathing and looking ahead carefully-
Someone who had been hidden behind the horse, embracing Mother, stood up.
It was Casselik.
“Huh…”
Surprised Rie’s mouth fell open on its own.
She wasn’t mentally prepared yet!
Somehow it seemed like Father had found out she was a Time Ability User.
* * *
When Casselik received Lost Time’s note and came running frantically, time had already stopped.
Though he couldn’t understand what was happening, he spotted Emilia screaming in front of the horse and hurriedly approached her.
And overwhelmed by rushing relief, he embraced Emilia’s body.
‘Where’s Rie?’
He looked around, but the child was nowhere to be seen.
‘Where is she? Is she safe?’
Casselik simply hoped the child was alive.
She could make duck lips and call him Dung Cart for all he cared.
He just wanted a small chance.
After saving the child, he wanted to hear from both the child and Emilia what he had done wrong.
That was all. He had no greater desires than that.
But he never imagined they would reunite in this way.
Not far away.
The child seemed frightened, flinching before freezing like a stone.
It meant she was moving unaffected in a world where time had stopped.
If he approached hastily, she would run away.
Casselik slowly straightened his knees and stood, and though he already knew, he asked carefully.
“…Rie. Were you a Time Ability User?”
He tried to ask as gently as possible, but his voice cracked mercilessly.
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