I Summoned the Demon King and Got a Dad - Chapter 49

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49. The Witch Did Not Die (3)

 

“Let’s make the reason for divorce death by separation.”

 

A week ago, those were Theodor’s first words when he came to find Elisia.

 

However, Theodor had no intention of persuading or convincing Elisia.

 

Those words were nothing more than a notification disguised as a question.

 

“What do you mean….”

 

“Your purpose is to not go to the temple, isn’t it.”

 

Having said that, Theodor held out a single document in front of Elisia.

 

Something was strange.

 

There was no way Theodor would give her such a small amount of paperwork, was there.

 

But Elisia, who received the document from him, couldn’t help but be flustered.

 

The document Theodor handed to Elisia was none other than a marriage contract.

 

The conditions were simple.

 

Elisia would gain guardian status until Shuria came of age, and if she wanted it, the position of family head would be transferred to her, and if she didn’t want it, one-third of the duchy’s assets would be given to her.

 

Honestly speaking, it was far too good a condition for Elisia.

 

But that was.

 

Wasn’t it a condition that suggested he was going to leave somewhere.

 

“Shuria still needs family.”

 

Theodor couldn’t understand Elisia’s words.

 

Because it seemed like she could become a better family to Shuria than he could.

 

“You’re here, aren’t you.”

 

At Theodor’s answer, Elisia once again became aware of the fact that he was a demon.

 

Though she knew that no matter what she said here, she wouldn’t be able to persuade him, Elisia opened her mouth.

 

Because she couldn’t take away Shuria’s father for her own selfishness.

 

“I don’t want to do that.”

 

“I see.”

 

He seemed to answer more obediently than expected.

 

But the reality was completely different.

 

Because Theodor had already finished signing the document.

 

He was planning to leave this document behind and depart.

 

Because Elisia, worried about Shuria being left alone, would end up signing it.

 

“I trust your humanity.”

 

Theodor disappeared.

 

The document fluttered and fell to the floor.

 

The relationship between Elisia and Theodor was always exactly this much.

 

Created by a single document.

 

A relationship lighter than a single document.

 

Elisia looked at the document that had fallen to the floor with empty eyes before moving her steps.

 

She had to stop Theodor before it was too late.

 

But Theodor had already left with the reason of killing Reina, who was the cause of the rift and threatened his daughter and the northern region.

 

If he killed Reina like that and returned to the Demon Realm, people who didn’t know the truth would remember him as a true hero who perished together with Reina.

 

Though they could never become a true family.

 

But was that really what Shuria wanted.

 

Even if he wasn’t strong enough to save the world.

 

Even if he wasn’t rich enough to grant everything she wanted.

 

Even if he didn’t have the highest status.

 

Shuria would have loved him even if he had nothing at all.

 

But Theodor still didn’t know that fact.

 

Having created the perfect environment for Shuria to grow, he only thought he had fulfilled his responsibility as a father.

 

Elisia didn’t sign the document.

 

Because her instinctive intuition was telling her.

 

That Theodor just didn’t realize it, but he loved Shuria more than anyone.

 

That’s why Elisia couldn’t let Theodor leave like this.

 

Elisia sent a message to the Holy Kingdom.

 

The content was that Theodor had left alone to kill Reina.

 

And while Elisia was moving busily, Shuria woke up from her sleep.

 

Tears began to well up in Shuria’s eyes as she realized that Theodor had disappeared.

 

Eventually, Shuria burst into tears and began crying loudly.

 

Without noticing the Magical Diagram that appeared before her eyes.

 

[Excuse me, I’ll help you find your father.]

 

No matter how versatile the Magical Diagram was, it didn’t know magic to read text aloud.

 

The Magical Diagram that bound Shuria and Theodor was quite a complex existence.

 

The mana, magic power, and divine power of the sacrifices.

 

The Magical Diagram was created from all the transcendent forces that existed in the world.

 

The Magical Diagram could use most of the abilities of the sacrifices, and that included Reina’s abilities, who had offered herself as a sacrifice.

 

Until now, there was no reason to tell Theodor, so it hadn’t been mentioned.

 

Demon summoning was a high-level magic beyond imagination.

 

Obsessed only with the idea that demons could be bound, they didn’t pay attention to the Magical Diagram that had the power to bind those demons, so it remained unknown.

 

Of course, that didn’t mean a Magical Diagram appeared in every summoning.

 

To grant Shuria’s wish, it had to understand what true family was, and in that process, something that could be called a personality was formed.

 

The Magical Diagram’s purpose was to make Theodor and Shuria into a true family.

 

Shuria already considered Theodor as family, so it was enough to just persuade Theodor.

 

That’s why it hadn’t appeared before Shuria until now, but now things were different.

 

Appropriate trials were helpful for a family’s growth.

 

And it had to be Shuria who saved Theodor from those trials.

 

The Magical Diagram was confident it could orchestrate that situation.

 

Because it had that level of ability.

 

[I’ll take you to your father, so please stop crying.]

 

What good was having ability.

 

In the end, Shuria was the one with power in this contract.

 

It meant everything depended on Shuria.

 

“I miss daddy. Daddy!!”

 

What was so good about Theodor who had abandoned her that she cried like that.

 

But there was a fact Shuria didn’t know.

 

The more Shuria cried, the stronger the pain that was transmitted to Theodor’s heart.

 

That was a data value that had been input from the beginning to persuade Theodor, so even the Magical Diagram couldn’t do anything about it.

 

[It would be better if you stopped crying.]

 

It was at that moment that Shuria, who had exhausted all her energy from crying, faced the Magical Diagram.

 

But the problem was.

 

“…I can’t read.”

 

That’s right, Shuria was a five-year-old child.

 

A five-year-old child who couldn’t read.

 

The Magical Diagram felt that something was going wrong.

 

Then it had to explain with pictures.

 

Unfortunately, among the Magical Diagram’s sacrifices, there was no one with talent in drawing.

 

Shuria began to sniffle again, and the Magical Diagram had to stop her somehow.

 

At this rate, Theodor might really die from excessive bleeding.

 

It had to quickly find a method before Shuria recovered her stamina and started crying again.

 

At that moment, one fact came to mind in the Magical Diagram’s head.

 

The Magical Diagram quickly began drawing pictures.

 

It was a picture of Santa Claus not giving presents to a crying child.

 

“Santa is daddy, don’t you even know that? If there’s no daddy, there’s no Santa either.”

 

It didn’t work at all.

 

How, how could he make her stop crying? Just as he was pondering that moment.

 

The door opened and Elisia came inside.

 

“Shuria.”

 

Shuria burst into tears again and was embraced in her arms.

 

Fortunately, Elisia began to comfort Shuria.

 

Thanks to that, Shuria stopped crying before long, and Elisia gently stroked around Shuria’s eyes and spoke in a tender voice.

 

“Teacher will find daddy for you. Don’t cry and wait.”

 

Tracking traces of mana or magic power was impossible for humans.

 

It was something only Theodor could do.

 

Therefore, for them to find Theodor, they had no choice but to rely on luck or track Reina based on the rift’s location.

 

Because where Reina was, Theodor would be too.

 

But the Magical Diagram was different.

 

The Magical Diagram was Reina’s stronghold and knew the location of the rift created for her.

 

Reina, who had moved her body and been revived again, also belonged to the demons.

 

Like Theodor, the Demon Realm had created a rift to take her away.

 

That was the very rift Reina had tried to use when escaping to the Demon Realm.

 

The rift’s size was determined by the amount of magic power possessed by demons, and it occurred at locations following traces of magic power.

 

Realizing this fact, Reina became able to control and predict the rift’s occurrence location to some extent, and the same was true for the Magical Diagram.

 

Given Reina’s current state, she would flee to the Demon Realm.

 

If they could tell them the location of that rift, the three of them could meet.

 

Having finished its calculations, the Magical Diagram displayed the rift’s occurrence location like a map and spread it before Shuria.

 

But there was no way Shuria could notice that.

 

The Magical Diagram, recalling the fairy tale book about children finding their way to the witch’s candy house with breadcrumbs, explained the path in that manner.

 

Only after drawing Theodor’s face at the end did Shuria seem to understand the meaning.

 

“Our daddy doesn’t look like this though.”

 

[If the meaning got through, wouldn’t that mean it was drawn well?]

 

The Magical Diagram expressed its dissatisfaction, but there was no way Shuria could read that.

 

“Shuria, are you okay…”

 

Hearing Shuria’s words, Elisia thought Shuria was seeing hallucinations due to great mental shock.

 

But Shuria’s eyes were filled with conviction.

 

She believed that like the candy house witch story, if she followed the breadcrumbs, she could find daddy.

 

It was fortunate that Shuria was innocent.

 

“Daddy has breadcrumbs. I know where daddy is.”

 

Elisia wasn’t quite that innocent.

 

But her intuition was surprisingly accurate.

 

Elisia, who grasped that Shuria’s words were not lies, nodded her head.

 

“Let’s go find daddy.”

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