I Will Try to Save My Dad - Chapter 190

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Special Side Story Episode 4

My stomach ached.
It was as though invisible claws were tearing at my lower abdomen from within.
Cold sweat poured down like rain and my vision blurred, but Theon pushed himself upright, drew a deep breath, and walked toward the sofa.
“Berry! Just… just hold on a little longer!”
“Summon the Crown Princess! Quickly!”
Less than thirty seconds after Jeffrey began searching for a physician, the room flooded with maids and servants.
“I’m fine. Where is Theon?”
“Here.”
Theon took Berry’s hand. She said she was fine, but her hand trembled in his. It felt as though his insides were collapsing.
‘Ah.’
I wish all the pain were mine instead.
‘You mustn’t suffer, Berry.’
If only I could take it all—
A splash of water echoed from somewhere.
That was Theon’s last memory.

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“Wake up!”
Theon’s eyes snapped open.
Someone’s shout had jolted him awake. Reflexively, he opened his eyes and swung his arm toward the source of the voice.
Without a sword, he struck nothing. A man with hair white as snow stood before him, his bangs long enough to obscure his eyes—a suspicious-looking figure.
“Ha ha. You’re awake?”
“…?”
As Theon pushed himself up on his hands, something felt wrong. Beneath his palms, the ground was soft and yielding. He was sitting in a lush, verdant meadow.

[He’s awake!]
[Let’s play!]
[He’s human!]

Moreover, the chattering voice of the wind could be heard all around.
A stream flowed, sunlight poured down, and lush trees bearing flowers and fruit filled the surroundings. It was a space that seemed to overflow with vitality.
“A dream?”
“Not a dream.”
The man answered Theon’s murmur.
“Do you know how hard I tried to wake you? It was exhausting. Really. No matter how many times I tried to wake you, you wouldn’t get up, so I had no choice but to even use my voice—”
“Where is this place?”
Theon quickly assessed the situation.
He had lost consciousness at the Imperial Palace and found himself in an unfamiliar place without understanding why. He could hear the voices of wind spirits—sounds only audible in places where divine power or natural forces were strong.
Considering all these circumstances, he became certain that this was not the world he had lived in.
“How do I return to where I was?”
Where this place was, why he had come here—
These were not what mattered to Theon at this moment.
I had to return.
“My wife is in labor. I must return.”
Theon rose from where he lay and walked toward the man.
He had thought the man must be older because of his snow-white hair, but up close, the man’s lower face appeared youthful.
The man raised both hands toward the threatening-looking Theon and spoke in a cheerful voice.
“Calm down. No matter how long you stay here, only a very short time will pass in your world.”
“…Is that true?”
“What would I gain from lying?”
….
“You don’t seem to trust me. But I have to say, you’re suspicious too. You were lying in the passage. This is a path that humans who have lived long cannot pass through.”
Humans who have lived long?
Theon was twenty-seven years old. I observed the man again.
“And you?”
“Me?”
“Yes. You don’t seem to have a large age difference from me. Actually, you look younger than me.”
“Ah, is that so?”
The man laughed as if he had heard something amusing.
“I’m from this world, and I received special permission today. Oh right, you said you wanted to return. You’re suspicious, but I’m kind, so I’ll show you the way. Follow me. I’m going that way anyway.”
The man passed Theon and went ahead.
He would show me the way out.
I’m not one to trust people easily, but there were no other clues. I followed the man and asked questions to gather information.
“Then you came here after receiving permission?”
“That’s right. I made a bet with the administrator here and won. I wanted to see off some children, so I’m here as a reward for winning the bet.”
“Where is this place? The Spirit Realm?”
“If you want to return, it’s better not to know where this is.”
The man’s tone remained consistently kind, but his last words carried a deep warning.
“Your wife is in labor right now, you said?”
“Yes.”
“Is she beautiful?”
“….”
Theon regarded the back of the man’s head with contempt—a question hardly worth answering.
Perhaps feeling the weight of that gaze, the man continued speaking.
“Since you’re such a fine-looking fellow, I thought if your wife is beautiful too, your children must be absolutely stunning.”
“This is our first child.”
“Ha ha. Not ‘children,’ then, is it?”
Before long, we walked through the flower garden and arrived at a Pond. The water was so clear and transparent that the bottom was visible—a modest circular expanse about three meters in diameter.
“And there’s a saying, you know. When you love someone, everything looks beautiful.”
“Then it seems your question is flawed. Rather than asking if she’s beautiful, shouldn’t you be asking if I love her?”
“Of course you must love her.”
“…Pardon?”
Theon could not comprehend the man’s words.
The man walked toward Theon. Between his parted bangs, his features were clearly visible. What first captured my attention was a pair of brilliant golden eyes.
“…!”
“Next time someone asks, tell them she’s so beautiful it would hurt to put her in your eyes—that’s how precious she is.”
“Brown Quartz.”
I couldn’t believe it.
A man who looked identical to the statue I’d seen in a small Village of the Edencia Kingdom a few months ago. And those golden eyes—they resembled Count Trabel’s.
“That’s how she looks to my eyes.”
Whoosh!
Taking advantage of Theon’s moment of inattention, Brown shoved him hard into the Pond.
Splash!
Theon sank into the depths where the bottom was invisible. A large bubble of air enveloped him.
“Sorry for pushing you! I had to send you before this world could claim you!”
Through the transparent Pond, the outside was clearly visible. Brown’s eyes crinkled as he smiled brightly.
It was the kind of smile that, as my teacher had described, made a person seem so genuinely good-natured that it dissolved all tension.
“Take good care of them!”
Whoosh—
Theon became aware of the presences cradled in my embrace. Two small lights. The breathing of two lights that existed without yet having taken form.
Take good care of them.
Theon held the two lights tenderly. Brown called out.
“Tell my daughter I love her too!”
Theon nodded.
Brown, growing ever more distant, became a speck, and even after he vanished from sight, he continued waving toward Theon.

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“Theon.”
Theon’s eyes opened at Berry’s voice. The landscape that connected to the last scene of the Imperial Palace he remembered.
Berry sat on the sofa, gripped by labor pains, and I held her hand. Brown was right. Only a brief moment had truly passed.
Maids brought cloth and draped it around Berry’s upper body, and servants brought a stretcher. But the stretcher wasn’t needed. Theon, now free from pain, declared he would carry Berry there himself.
“I can do this well, right?”
On the way to the Delivery Room.
Berry, cradled in Theon’s arms, asked anxiously.
“Yes.”
Theon nodded.
This wasn’t the time to tell Berry about visiting another world and meeting Brown—such words were incomprehensible to her now.
What she needed now wasn’t words she couldn’t understand, but certain words of encouragement.
“I’ll stay by your side the whole time.”
“Really?”
“I’m your husband and your support, after all.”
At Theon’s unwavering words, Berry smiled.
“Thank you.”
“Berry! I’ll cheer you on from out here!”
Jeffrey, seizing the moment, rushed over to the two about to enter the Delivery Room and shouted.
“Whether it’s a boy or a girl! Once you give birth, I’ll contact the Trabel Estate right away—!”
“Jeffrey.”
Theon spoke to Jeffrey.
“Both.”
“No one else may enter now!”
The Delivery Room door slammed shut.
Jeffrey stared at the door closed right before his face, turning over what Theon had just said, and tilted his head in confusion.
“…What did he mean?”

And about an hour later.
“Waaaaah—!”
A robust cry that pierced through the Delivery Room door and spilled into the Corridor.
Reytan and the others who had rushed over upon hearing the news, along with Jeffrey who had been anxiously waiting in the Corridor, felt their skin prickle as they strained to listen to the cry.
‘Wow. Brother Theon.’
He really feels like a wall.
The cry was….
“Congratulations! They are twins!”
There were two.

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[BREAKING NEWS] Igselona Crown Princess Delivers Twins… Imperial Palace Official Announcement!
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