I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 80
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<Chapter 80>
That was when it happened.
“Be careful from now on, Little One!”
Along with Kami’s sudden warning, Rie’s body swayed.
“Ouch!”
Rie, who had fallen flat, didn’t even notice the pain as she pressed her hands against the floor and got up.
But when she came to her senses and looked around, the wooden floor was moving at regular intervals.
Tick, tick, tick.
That’s right.
What Rie had thought was the ‘floor’ was actually a long, massive minute hand.
“Th-then there must be an hour hand and second hand too?”
When the child, who had been looking around like a meerkat, ran to the edge of the floor, she could see the second hand moving below, making clock sounds.
The place they were standing wasn’t a room, but a giant clock.
“Whoa-! Rie is on top of a clock!”
An unexpected situation.
Rie waved her fists excitedly at the scenery that seemed like it would only appear in fairy tale books.
“There’s a second hand ticking below Rie! Rie has become a dwarf!”
Kami, who had walked all the way without flying, explained.
“That’s right. The subspace is a giant clock composed of each subject’s past. Looking at the clock and wallpaper… it brings to mind a cozy old house? Your mother must have liked places like this.”
“Mmm. It looks like our house! The house where Grandmother and Grandfather live!”
“Anyway, this is just the beginning, so don’t lose your energy already. Be careful and look down. Do you see numbers?”
Kami was pointing somewhere with his black beak.
“Numbers?”
Following Kami’s gaze downward, she could see the number 1 written enormously below the ticking hour and second hands.
“Where we are is 1 AM. So, in your mother’s life… well, we’re at about the newborn baby level.”
“Huh. It’s real. I can see baby Mother!”
Below the number 1, a scene was flowing like waves.
Nelson, who looked about five years old, and even younger Ethan were hugging Emilia wrapped in swaddling clothes.
‘Hehe, baby Mother is cute.’
But Kami was busy even while Rie was lost in sentiment.
“Emilia will get amnesia in her mid-twenties, so we need to go to the place marked 15 o’clock. There should be clock parts that are loose or broken somewhere around there.”
Only then did Rie come to her senses.
“Huh. But 15 o’clock is really, really far away?”
“That’s why we need to move diligently.”
“Okay! Let’s walk step by step to 15 o’clock!”
It was when excited Rie was hopping around.
“Oh my, what’s so good about this dangerous place…”
Kami, who was clicking his tongue and turning his head, discovered something.
“That is…?”
Between the cracked gaps in the floral wallpaper. It was an entrance to the subspace.
If they went through there, they could probably go to Rie or Casselik’s subspace.
But.
‘…How do I… know this?’
Kami tilted his head in puzzlement.
Regardless, an even stranger point was caught.
Light was seeping through the gap.
Originally, light in the space of time was a guide’s gesture beckoning to come this way.
But that gesture didn’t apply to Kami.
Kami wasn’t a time ability user, nor did he have a subspace that was only granted to humans.
He was just a collection of lost time.
‘But, what is a collection of lost time?’
At the sudden question, Kami’s mind went blank.
From the moment he was born, Kami had hated Casselik.
Without knowing who his parents were or why he was born, he only knew that he was a ‘collection of lost time.’
While watching Casselik from within space-time and feeling frustrated, he had discovered Rie who had been swept along with him.
Kami’s eyes, reflected in the light, grew wide.
He was curious.
If I follow that light, will I be able to find out who I am? And also the reason why my feathers are fading?
When he moved away the wing he had been covering himself with, his chest feathers that had faded to white were sparsely revealed.
“…Little One, I’m going somewhere for a moment, so go to 15 o’clock. Got it?”
“Mmm!”
Rie, who had already moved far away, had reached around 2 o’clock.
Kami flew toward the light as if enchanted.
* * *
The moment he entered through the gap of light, the cozy floral wallpaper that had surrounded the room disappeared.
He had entered a different subspace.
“Whose subspace is this?”
Kami looked around, pattering with his thin bird legs.
For some reason he didn’t know, it was a familiar place.
Unlike Emilia’s closed subspace that didn’t even have windows, this place was surrounded on all sides by cool ravines and sky.
The place he was standing on was a minute hand made of tree branches.
A clock situated in a ravine.
“What kind of owner would have a clock in such a rough place? It seems like someone who has experienced a lot of outdoor life. Wait, could it be… my subspace?”
That was when it happened.
It had been a question muttered to himself, but the light that had been guiding him brightened for a moment then dimmed as if to say yes.
“What? You’re saying yes?”
When he asked again in disbelief, the light shone intensely once more.
“Caw!”
Startled Kami looked around.
“I, I had a subspace too? But I’m not human?”
But who had told him that subspaces only existed for humans?
It was all just Kami’s own speculation.
He didn’t even know what his own identity as a collection of lost time meant.
“Th-then this is… my subspace.”
Kami’s black eyes glistened at the first thing that had been granted to him.
The crow spread his wings and flew around the ravine, savoring his subspace like that.
* * *
“Strange.”
Jair, sitting in the Imperial Palace Garden, observed the servants passing by.
They walked away bursting with laughter and disappeared beyond the corner of the castle without stopping.
“…Surely Rie must be using her time ability, but the world hasn’t stopped.”
‘Angel. Then Rie will use her time ability. Time might stop for a moment!’
Since she had even gotten his permission before leaving, he had been mentally preparing.
Finding something strange, he entered the Tower of Time and searched for Rie’s clock among the countless timepieces.
And damn it, the boy’s ominous premonition became reality.
“…Rie. What on earth are you doing?”
The second hand of the small white clock was rotating abnormally fast.
This meant that Rie was currently not existing in normal space.
“Don’t tell me… you didn’t go into a subspace, did you?”
If it was a place where the clock turned this fast, he couldn’t think of anywhere other than a subspace that could directly affect the soul.
‘I thought at most she’d use her time ability to dig into Emilia’s past… who on earth told her about something like this?’
“Mill, I need to write an emergency message. Give me paper and a pen.”
“Yes.”
The emergency message written that way quickly arrived at Theodore Ducal Castle.
A little later.
Casselik, who had been told it was ‘a matter related to Rie,’ hurriedly opened the door to the Tower of Time.
“What’s the matter?”
“Look at this.”
Jair got straight to the point and showed him Rie’s clock.
“Why the clock…?”
Casselik’s brow furrowed as he caught his rough breath from rushing over.
As a time ability user himself, he quickly realized that something was wrong with Rie’s clock.
“…Don’t tell me Rie went into the subspace?”
“Didn’t you teach her that?”
“I’ve never given Rie ability training.”
“What? Then all this time Rie has been using her ability through self-study alone? That doesn’t make sense.”
But that wasn’t the problem.
If Rie had entered that dangerous place alone, they needed to get the child out as quickly as possible.
When Casselik opened the book he was holding, a piece of paper was tucked between the pages like a bookmark.
It was the contract with Emilia.
‘…I never thought I’d use this like this.’
“If needed, I’ll also go with…”
Unfortunately, Jair’s suggestion scattered into thin air.
Casselik, who was desperate to save only Rie, had already entered the subspace.
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