I’m The Brave Puppy That Will Save The Villainess - Chapter 34
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Episode 34
“Ah, Little Master?”
“Grand Prince Rivera!”
“What, what is this. You came back alive?!”
Coco, who had her eyes tightly shut, let out a breath with a “puha.”
“Yes! I came back alive!”
Coco smiled brightly and bowed her head.
Caligo, who was wearing a ring embedded with a sparkling ruby, opened his eyes.
In the incomplete silence.
“You came back alive?”
“How did you survive the rampage…”
Only the murmuring sounds of people could be heard.
At the same time, Theresia’s complexion turned pale white.
And Duke Ardos, who appeared to be the only one calm in the chaos, opened his mouth.
“Why is the tiger spirit beast here?”
“I will explain that from now on!”
Duke Ardos scooped up Coco’s body.
Her very light body dangled as she was lifted.
“Tell me.”
At Duke Ardos’s words, Coco bravely stretched her hand up high.
It was when Coco’s fingertip touched the pin dangling from Duke Ardos’s chest.
“So, yesterday when I saw Tiger, this is what happened!”
* * *
The situation returns to the past when she had just met Tiger.
“Tomorrow, when Theresia is healing, you just need to go where that shadow wants to go.”
[Can I go?]
“Yes, I’ll secretly leave the door open. Can you come using invisibility?”
After making that promise with Tiger, she met the invisible Tiger and together they encountered Caligo just before his rampage.
After handing over the ring and calming the rampage.
When Caligo had given up on everything.
“We can live!”
“…How?”
“You know, have you ever seen a tiger in the Grand Duchy before?”
As soon as the shout ended, the tiger released its invisibility from within the subspace.
Deep eyes quietly gazed at Caligo.
In a situation where all time seemed to have stopped, I quietly murmured.
“You two can just imprint!”
“…Imprinting.”
“Then you can recover your lost power, and with that power, you can leave this space!”
I conveyed exactly what Ruth had told me when I first heard about spirit beasts.
And finally….
The tiger bowed its head toward Caligo with a nod, as if saying please take care of me from now on.
It was a simple reunion.
But I could see the trembling of the fine hairs standing up on the tiger’s skin surface.
And looking at the tiger that had been waiting for him for so long, Caligo’s first words were….
“…Hello.”
It was a word anyone could say after a long-awaited meeting.
But it was the word the tiger had been waiting for longer than anyone else.
When Caligo’s plump fingertips stroked the tiger.
He finally petted the tiger’s head and whispered affectionately.
“…In the past, people just called you ‘Tiger,’ I think.”
“….”
“But when we imprint and leave this place.”
“….”
“Then, I’ll give you a name at that time. Since I’m your imprinter… after all.”
Giving a name.
It means making the other party not just a passing object, but someone who will influence your life.
For Caligo, it was a statement mixed with his determination to accept Black Tiger as his friend.
At that moment, a bluish light shone intensely.
Black Tiger’s jelly-covered paw gently touched Caligo.
And finally.
Between the tiger and Caligo, a barrier that no one could approach was formed.
Complete imprinting between spirit beast and human began within the subspace.
‘They said complete imprinting would produce explosive power!’
Bang!
Not long after, their imprinting ended with a small roar.
Caligo looked at me with a much more relieved expression.
“…Coco.”
“Huh?”
“Let’s go out and see.”
The three of us held each other’s hands.
I found it strange that Caligo seemed to be gripping my hand particularly tightly.
With a small tearing sound, the subspace was ripped open.
Finally.
Light from outside the subspace flowed in.
* * *
“What kind of miracle is this, amazing Little Master!”
“We heard that Little Master has no special abilities. Everyone confirmed it…”
“No, there is one! Right!”
I stared intently at Duke Ardos. Duke Ardos looked around at the Council of Elders and answered.
“…According to what I said, it’s Animal Affinity.”
It was a dignified answer, but the sweet potato pin was dangling from his chest.
The Elders, crazy about flattery, opened their mouths with admiring expressions.
“Truly amazing.”
“It seems Lord Caligo even completed imprinting with the Black Tiger spirit inside the subspace thanks to Little Master.”
“Not only has Grand Prince recovered his health, but imprinting with a spirit too. Truly amazing!”
“Since Lord Coco showed such resourcefulness, the Rivera Grand Ducal House will surely commend you as well. Congratulations, Duke!”
Those old men’s eyes sparkled as they looked at me.
They had expressions exactly like dogs recognizing someone who would give them bones.
“Then, now we shall escort the Little Masters…”
“Wait a minute!”
I bravely bared my teeth and shouted.
“The cause of the rampage was something else!”
“What do you mean?”
I pointed at Theresia and shouted.
“Lady Theresia Ardos caused Lord Caligo’s rampage! With the wrong treatment method!”
Caligo calmly testified from beside me.
“Everything this child says is true. Theresia never had the ability to heal me from the beginning.”
Then everyone’s gaze turned toward Theresia.
Half were suspicious looks, half were believing looks that a saint candidate like her couldn’t do such a thing.
“Could Little Master’s words be true? But Lady Theresia is a saint candidate…”
“But even with continued treatment, Grand Prince Rivera kept complaining of pain.”
“Then could it be… Lady Theresia was lying?”
As the people around murmured, Theresia rambled incoherently.
“I, I… It’s a misunderstanding. How can you try to condemn me based only on children’s words? Father, please think of what I’ve contributed to the family until now.”
To some, her words might have sounded reasonable.
Even now the retainers were murmuring among themselves.
But Theresia had chosen the wrong opponent.
“Theresia, recall the words you spoke.”
“…Yes?”
“You reported to me that Coco caused the Grand Prince to go into Rampage.”
“Th, that was.”
“Don’t those words completely contradict Grand Duke Caligo’s current state?”
“That’s…”
“Your words have no evidence, so I cannot believe them either.”
The Duke shook his head firmly and spoke while looking at the Council of Elders and Theresia.
“Theresia Ardos, listen. There have been many things you’ve done for the family until now.”
“F, Father. So…”
“But separate from those deeds, it seems clear that you caused the Prince to go into Rampage.”
“Father! How can you do this to me…!”
Duke Ardos whispered quietly.
“Take Theresia to the ‘Bastille Annex’. Confine yourself there.”
“D, Duke! Even if I did cause the Rampage, it, it wasn’t intentional!”
But Duke Ardos turned away from Theresia.
“That may be so. But Theresia. Wasn’t framing Coco intentional?”
His cold gaze pierced through Theresia.
“Grand Duke Rivera will be coming to the mansion. The annex doors will remain sealed until he arrives.”
“Father! I’m a saint candidate! You can’t treat me this way. No matter how much I’m an adopted daughter.”
“How tiresome, those words!”
Everyone flinched at Duke Ardos’s sharp rebuke.
“Because you’re my daughter, it ends with confinement. You nearly harmed another noble. Even with ten mouths you’d have nothing to say! How pathetic!”
Theresia’s face turned pale white at the thunderous rebuke.
Tears dropped from her eyes.
But no one looked at her with pity.
They only saw her as someone blinded by glory who nearly killed a person.
The family’s private soldiers dragged Theresia to the Bastille Annex.
Only then could I finally breathe.
Theresia was thus confined to the ‘Bastille Annex’.
She was now imprisoned in the very place where she had once confined me.
Only then did I hop down from Duke Ardos’s arms with a bounce.
But then. Caligo looked at me clearly and extended his hand.
“Coco, come here.”
I tilted my head this way and that.
Everything’s over now!
Why does he want to hold my hand?
It was when Caligo muttered something to me.
I quickly raised my head.
‘Sister’s scent!’
Had she been quietly watching my performance from earlier?
Sister approached me with big strides.
Only after seeing Sister’s face did it really hit me that I had saved Grand Prince Rivera.
It meant that now our Sister could live.
‘Really, really, it was so hard.’
I racked my brains so much my head was spinning round and round.
I smiled brightly and ran toward Sister, going “dododo.”
“I saved the Young Master!”
Sister probably doesn’t know that I worked hard to save her, right?
But since everyone was saying I was amazing, I had a little desire to get praised by Sister too.
I thought it would be nice if she said something like “Our Coco is such a genius.”
But…
Sister’s expression was very cold.
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