I Will Try to Save My Dad - Chapter 109

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Chapter 109

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Akum is a water spirit.
Opening the jewel box meant you possessed the same power as I do.
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‘A letter sent to someone with the same abilities as Grandmother!’
So Akum was a water spirit. I’d suspected as much, but seeing the words written so clearly made my heart race with confirmation.
Information was crucial to understanding the impossible.
Yet I couldn’t possibly ask anyone around me about Akum’s true nature, or my illness, or why I could see the ancient language that traced water veins. Such questions had no answers among those I knew.
No one understood these mysteries.
But then I discovered a letter Julia Quartz had left for her descendants.
Along with a map marking a specific location within the Heishal Empire!

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Forest and water share a deeply intimate bond.
When you need assistance, visit the place marked on this map.
A child who can see the water spirit is rare—they will welcome you warmly.
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‘They’ll welcome me when I need help?’
Julia Quartz had revealed the location of an ally through that map. Exactly what I needed to save Father!
‘The more allies, the better. Since she wrote “Forest,” could it be a beastfolk as strong as the Wild Dog Tribe? They won’t be weak. Grandmother wouldn’t have left such a message otherwise!’
[I was a water spirit!]
Akum bounced excitedly, clearly delighted.
[Why didn’t Quartz tell me? I know quite a bit about spirits myself!]
Along the way, Akum tilted its head in confusion at certain parts of Julia Quartz’s letter.
‘Now that I think about it, didn’t Akum say something like that before?’

[Guardian? Spirit? I don’t know. From the moment my existence was acknowledged, I was simply a caretaker.]

I had lived alone at the Trabel Estate all this time, recognized only as a caretaker. After all, no one had ever seen Akum before Julia Quartz appeared!
[Water spirits, you see, can draw power from places abundant with water! Just as I manage the ancient language!]
Having discovered my true identity after centuries, I began comparing what I already knew about water spirits with my current situation.
[The reason little Quartz could read the ancient language was because she could use the spiritual power I possess! Why, it’s almost the same principle as how the Grand Masters use the power of holy swords~]
“Mmm.”
That seemed right. Whenever I read the ancient language, Akum was always nearby. Sometimes in stone form, even.
[Then… was little Quartz suffering because she lived somewhere without sufficient water veins?]
I was leaving Sapphire House. Since I’d passed several servants on the way, I lowered my voice and asked Akum.
“What do water veins have to do with me?”
[Being able to see water spirits means you have an incredibly high affinity with water, you know? So if there’s no water around, you wither and ail! Just like a massive tree that extends its roots deep into the earth, yet withers from lack of water!]
“Wait. But I’m a person?”
[Exactly, which is why it’s similar to how I turn to stone outside the Trabel Estate. The water veins created by the Forest Spirit carry strong water power~!]
“I see.”
Akum’s explanation was unrealistic. When I tried to imagine it, all I could picture was the bizarre image of roots sprouting from my feet.
Yet it held more credibility than before. After everything I’d experienced so far.
‘In any case, if there are water veins nearby, I won’t suffer?’
When I visited the Grand Temple and Leaf Village, I spent about a week outside the Trabel Estate, yet I didn’t ache at all. In fact, I felt more energetic than usual.
‘Because there were springs created by the Forest Spirit there too!’
Since I couldn’t quite imagine the roots Akum had described, I substituted them with a bucket instead.
My body contained a bucket that needed to be filled by water veins in the surrounding area, and when the water level in that bucket dropped below a certain point, I would start to ache.
‘Hmm. That’s not so bad?’
Living only at the Trabel Estate and living there because it happened to be one of the places that met the conditions were entirely different things.
‘Now, when Father truly wants to leave Trabel, my illness won’t hold him back anymore!’
New possibilities bloomed endlessly in my mind. From a realistic perspective, it was entirely plausible.

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Keep the key with you always. It will help you.
By the way, water has the power to draw wealth.
If you are a child of the Trabel Estate, wouldn’t you be able to enter Diamond House?
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Even the final words written in Julia Quartz’s letter added strength to my imagination.
We would go to Diamond House, and even after I turned sixteen, Father would still be alive, my room would have a golden bed, and Theon—who had become Crown Prince—would visit to play….
“Miss, shall I open the front door for you?”
“Yes!”
Standing before the closed entrance, I rose onto my tiptoes to reach the handle when a passing servant opened it for me.
“Thank you… Wait, Theon?”
“Berry, are you finished?”
As if my imagination had become reality, Theon stood before the gate of Sapphire House. Though this was Sapphire House, and Theon was only ten years old.
I hurried forward to meet him.
Even then, my smile never faded from my face. Would Theon visit me often to play even after becoming Crown Prince? I hoped he would!
“You’re done! Did you come to pick me up? Really?”
I understood how Jeffrey’s tail must feel when it wagged. Seeing Theon filled me with such joy and delight.
“…Yes.”
“Huh?”
“Why?”
“Why does Theon seem unhappy?”
I tilted my head curiously. At my words, Theon’s expression grew even more surprised as he asked back.
“…Me?”
There was one thing I had learned from spending time with Theon—that Father and I read Theon’s emotions quite accurately. Perhaps it was because Theon Phil Igselona, like Father, was a Grand Master chosen by Windis.
‘Theon has a similar aura to Father, after all~’
What mattered was that Theon’s mood wasn’t good right now.
I took Theon’s hand and walked toward Stone House while asking.
“Did something happen today? Something that upset you?”
“Nothing happened.”
Theon shook his head.
Then, on the way to Stone House, he suddenly asked me something unexpected.
“Berry, did Calips teach you your studies well?”
“Huh? Brother Calips?”
“…When you came out of Sapphire House earlier, you looked like you were having fun.”
What was he talking about? When I turned my head to the side, Theon kept his gaze fixed forward as he walked.
‘Oh my. Could it be…!’
The urge to tease Theon meant he was embarrassed.
Could it be that he was jealous because I seemed to be getting along well with Calips!
My one-and-only Crown Prince boyfriend plan—or rather, it hardly felt like a plan anymore. Calculating it logically, Theon was already mine.
“Did it look fun?”
Still unable to resist teasing Theon, I asked playfully, and he nodded silently. I swung our joined hands and giggled.
“It wasn’t fun at all! Playing with you is so much more fun.”
“Playing with me is…?”
“Yes! Playing with you and Jeffrey is way more fun~ I’m not even close with Brother Calips.”
Then I remembered something I needed to tell Theon. Earlier at Sapphire House, the Head Maid of Sapphire House had touched my ribbon without permission.
“That’s right, tie my ribbon for me later!”
“Your ribbon?”
“Yes. The one Theon tied for me this morning came completely undone~”
“Understood.”
“And you know, Theon.”
“Mm.”
“In ten years, I’ll make sure no one can say a word against you!”
This time, Theon turned his head toward me.
“What do you mean, Berry?”
I lifted the corners of my mouth in a smirk.
“It means I’ll be on your side even ten years from now!”
Theon’s eyes widened. Then he whispered his answer to me.
“I will be too. On your side.”

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“The jewel box’s final whereabouts lead to Brown?”
“Yes.”
Laksek’s expression hardened as he received Callet’s report.

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