I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 79
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<Chapter 79>
“Found it!”
Rie immediately went to her room and hid.
In the wardrobe, blue eyes flashed in the darkness.
What Mother is hiding… it’s probably a secret romance with Father.
“Father likes Mother, Marquis Philip also likes Mother. Then Mother…?”
‘…Hehe. This is getting interesting.’
Rie, swept up in dopamine, unfolded the letter paper.
But the contents of the letter were completely different from what Rie had expected.
[Rie. By the time you’re reading this, Mother will have amnesia and won’t recognize you, right?]
Rie tilted her head.
‘Amnesia? Can’t recognize Rie…?’
[You must be confused and scared by this sudden situation. Actually, the reason Mother went out alone with Father was to prepare for what’s happening now.
Before Father turned back time, Mother suffered from amnesia and went to Heaven.]
“Huh…?”
Rie’s eyes narrowed.
“Heaven means…”
Rie still remembered that day vividly.
The day of Mother’s funeral. Father crying like a little child.
‘…It’s okay… I can turn it back. If I start over again…’
Back then, she didn’t know why Father was crying or what he meant by starting over again, but now she knew.
“Father… to save Mother…”
As all the scattered pieces fit together like a puzzle, her small white hands began to tremble.
Thud.
Rie dropped the letter and came out of the wardrobe, hiding under the blanket.
“If Mother can’t remember Rie later… and goes to Heaven again…”
Then what would happen to Rie?
If that happened, the world would shatter into pieces.
For a four-year-old child, Mother was everything in the world.
That’s when it happened.
Tap tap.
Someone knocked on the bedroom window.
‘Wh-who is it? Mother? I can’t get caught!’
Frightened Rie pulled back the blanket and timidly peeked out just her face.
The one who knocked on the window was none other than Kami.
Kami, who had somehow sat on the window sill, asked worriedly.
“Little One. Why are you crying alone.”
“Th-that’s…”
Rie hesitated for a moment.
Kami had hoped Rie wouldn’t get involved in Emilia’s affairs, but at Rie’s request, he had even told her about the couple’s conversation.
But in the end, she had made him worry by crying.
‘This is all because Rie didn’t listen to Kami…’
“…Mother will lose her memory before going to Heaven and won’t know Rie…”
As she glanced around nervously and muttered in a dejected voice, Kami sighed.
“So you found out after all.”
“…Kami knew about it?”
“I told you I gave that Casselik guy a notebook last time. I read it then. I didn’t tell you because I thought you might be shocked.”
“Oh my, then…”
Surprised Rie’s mouth closed.
‘The reason Kami didn’t take my side earlier… was because he was worried Rie would be sad?’
But Rie, not knowing any of this, had yelled at Kami that she hated him.
Her eyes, filled with tears like chicken droppings, squeezed shut.
“…Kami, I’m sorry. Rie said she hated Kami without knowing anything. But Rie likes Kami.”
Kami must have been terribly disappointed.
One apology, no, even two apologies wouldn’t be enough…
“I’m sorry too.”
“Huh?”
Rie opened her eyes in surprise.
‘Kami is apologizing instead?’
“I said I’m sorry too. I treated you like a child. You are a child, but anyway, I was wrong too. I’m not a stubborn fool like Casselik!”
“Oh my, Kami. Your face is turning red.”
“I know that already, so don’t explain everything! Anyway, get up quickly.”
“Why?”
“There’s a way to prevent your mother’s amnesia.”
Perhaps it’s friendship fights, not love fights, that are like cutting water with a sword.
And so Rie and Kami began earnest preparations to prevent Emilia’s amnesia.
* * *
“Ahem!”
Rie confidently placed both fists on her hips.
She had finished all preparations for using her time ability.
Comfortable nightgown for activity.
Black shoes that wouldn’t be uncomfortable even when running.
Even the rabbit mask needed when opening blue portals!
Kami turned his head sharply toward the child standing straight like a knight with her chest out.
“This operation is extremely dangerous. That’s why I wasn’t going to say anything… but since it’s come to this, are you prepared?”
Rie saluted with her small hamster-like hands.
“Yes sir!”
“Then listen carefully to my explanation, Little One. Amnesia is a symptom that occurs when a person’s life clock breaks down or stops.”
“Huh?”
“But time ability users can enter a person’s life clock, that is, their subspace. If you connect the loose or broken parts there, the amnesia might be cured.”
“Connect the loose parts like playing with colored paper?”
“Not loose, but loosened parts. And exploring subspace is on a different level from the time travel you’ve done so far. You absolutely must not get lost.”
“Why?”
“Because subspaces are connected to each other, you might accidentally enter your subspace or Father’s subspace instead of Mother’s. Also, if you step wrong, you could fall into a place called the Valley of Memory. Then you’ll be forgotten by people forever. By the way, time abilities don’t work in subspace.”
“Why?”
“How would I know? God made it that way. Anyway, just be careful of the valley.”
“I see.”
This is difficult…
While Rie gaped like a fool, Kami rummaged through the child’s pocket and pulled out the clock.
“Snap out of it, Little One!”
The preparations needed to enter subspace were simple.
Just the clock and Emilia’s handkerchief.
As Rie’s desire to go to subspace was contained, a blue whirlwind guided them not to the Black Dungeon but somewhere else.
That’s when it happened.
“This time I’m going in with you too. Because you can’t get lost.”
Kami, who had waddled over, stuck firmly to Rie’s leg.
“Kami…”
Rie was deeply, deeply moved!
And so the child entered the blue whirlwind together with Kami.
* * *
“Huh? Where is this place?”
Rie looked around, turning her head this way and that.
This wasn’t the cave they passed through when traveling to the past, nor was it the stopped world.
A room blocked off on all sides.
The room, which was even larger than the banquet hall of the Theodore ducal family, had not a single window.
There were only sporadically lit candles and vintage-feeling wallpaper decorated with flowers.
And the floor was….
“Wood?”
When she pressed down firmly on the floor with her shoe heel, a creaking sound came from between the floorboards.
“Heh-.”
An interesting sound. Overcome by the urge to press it once more just because, Rie began stomping her feet.
Creak creak creak creak.
“Don’t do that!”
“Huh?!”
Rie barely came to her senses at Kami’s shout.
“…Ah, subspace. It’s dangerous…!”
‘I almost got enchanted by the wooden floor.’
Only then did the child narrow her eyes and look around carefully.
“Kami. Where should we go now?”
“If we keep walking, we’ll be able to figure out what this place is.”
“Yeah, I understand. Let’s walk, let’s walk. Step by step, let’s walk.”
It was while she was humming and taking steps like this.
‘Huh?’
Something strange caught Rie’s attention.
Kami wasn’t flying, but was walking alongside Rie, going tap tap tap.
‘…Normally he would be flying around… why is he doing that?’
Come to think of it, recently, except when she had asked him to, she couldn’t remember seeing him fly.
Curious, Rie tilted her head.
“But Kami. Isn’t flying more comfortable than walking?”
Kami, who had been walking just fine, flinched.
“Oh, this? I’ve been flying around so much that I wanted to exercise my legs a bit. Look at my legs. They’re bird legs.”
“But Kami is a bird, so of course you have bird legs….”
“Are you looking down on birds?! Birds can get legs as sturdy as elephant legs if they exercise too!”
“Mmm.”
‘Kami… his face is turning red again.’
Something seemed strange, but thinking that Kami was embarrassed, Rie decided to let it go.
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