I’m the Strong Youngest Daughter Here to Save My Family from Darkness - Chapter 11

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Chapter 11
The change happened in an instant.
The pitiful chick, whose feathers had burned away in the flames, became plump and golden again, a perfectly adorable little bird.
The heat that had been as fierce as a hearth fire was gone.
Arienna’s eyes widened at the wondrous sight.
Chick Kyle had become a healthy chick!
Just as her mouth dropped open.
Ding.
A chime rang out inside her head.
[※ ‘Rescue Chick Kyle’ succeeded!
The effect of will be lifted.
The lenses of the glasses that had been altering Tuntuni’s view will also disappear!]
‘W-what on earth is that supposed to mean?’
Just then, the transparent glasses resting on the bridge of her nose vanished into her pocket.
By the time Chick Kyle appeared in his original form again, the boy who had lost consciousness began to slowly open his eyes.
So Arienna carefully pulled her hand away from Kyle’s body.
The prickly chick prince might not like it, after all.
“You…”
But Kyle, who had regained his senses, was quicker.
He clutched the collar of Arienna’s clothes tightly.
“Did you… save me?”
Arienna shook her head.
“No, I just hugged you, that’s all.”
Kyle muttered in a faint, drained voice.
“Still, it’s like you saved me.”
Arienna tilted her head at words she couldn’t make sense of.
All she had done was warm a sick chick.
“What is this? How did you, how could you possibly…”
“Are you okay now? Wow, you’re alive, yay!”
Arienna beamed and clapped her hands.
Then a strange thought suddenly crossed her mind.
‘Oh, right. He said that if I touch him even a little, we have to get married.’
I can’t get married! Papa will die!
Arienna quietly tried to slip her hand away.
At that moment, Kyle’s throat bobbed.
“I…”
His eyes trembled slightly.
The prickly boy hung his head low and, in a voice very small yet unmistakably clear, said,
“Thank you. Honestly, I didn’t know whether my Rampage could ever be calmed.”
Arienna, who still didn’t fully grasp what a Rampage was, tilted her head and blinked.
Then Kyle grabbed her small hand firmly and asked,
“…But you. Just how strong are you? Is it a healing Special Ability? You calmed my power.”
“…?”
“No healer has ever managed it properly. You did it in one go, just like that, so easily…”
All she had done was pat the chick, though?
Kyle, having firmly misunderstood something, jolted upright at once.
“No wonder you kept saying you’d hunt monsters!”
Then, as if he had made up his mind, he knelt on one knee and murmured as though taking a knight’s oath.
“So you, with your great power, chose me? Wait, was that what the betrothal or whatever-it-was was about?”
“…?”
“But that, that’s not happening yet. I need a lot of, a lot of mental preparation. Anyway, no way.”
Kyle was so incoherent that Arienna couldn’t understand a single word of it.
So she just rolled her eyes and answered.
“I only patted you, though…”
At that, Kyle swallowed a low groan.
“Liar. That’s just you being modest! You’re really strong. You can calm my Rampage, after all.”
Arienna answered earnestly and honestly, but Kyle didn’t believe her.
Instead, he simply stared at her.
Thinking that she was a kid who would soon be leaving, questions he normally wouldn’t have dared ask came tumbling out.
Among them, the one he most wanted to ask was…
Kyle’s eyes sparkled.
Like a chick seeing its mother hen for the very first time.
“Your name is Melissa, right? You said you wanted to, uh, get engaged to me.”
Kyle didn’t realize it, but this was the first honest question he had ever asked another person.
“Actually, I…”
Arienna moved her lips, hesitating.
Every time she had tried to say ‘I’m not Melissa,’ her heart had burned hot in her chest.
But this time, it was different.
“I’m not Melissa.”
She said it boldly, then opened her eyes wide.
The moment the words left her, it felt as though her whole body was sparkling and shimmering.
Pa-bat! A burst of white glitter flashed before her eyes, and Arienna’s vision spun.
Her already small hands shrank even smaller, and her pale skin turned so white it looked almost ghostly.
Her platinum-blonde hair began to change into pink from the roots…
“Wh-what?!”
Wow, was it because three days had passed since she was in the Monster Mansion?
It seemed the ‘Restriction’ the Rheinfeld Family had spoken of had been lifted!
‘My heart doesn’t sting anymore!’
Arienna hopped with delight, but there was someone else who was thrown into a panic by this sudden turn of events.
“What, what?! W-what is this?!”
Kyle’s eyes went wide.
Something enormous had happened right before his eyes.
Black darkness slowly gathered around Arienna, then vanished with a small rustle.
Instead of Melissa’s appearance, there stood a child with pink hair and blue eyes.
Flustered, Kyle managed to shut his gaping mouth and muttered,
“So I guess I need an explanation, kid.”
“……!”
“What on earth happened to your face? You said your name was Melissa Leinfeld. So that was a lie too?”
Arienna peered at her reflection in the water pooled on the ground and called out boldly,
“My real name is Arienna! I didn’t say it before because… there’s a reason…”
Even as she said it, her shoulders drooped a little.
Because ‘Arienna’ was the name of another child, one who had handed over her body to Tuntuni and left for a better world.
She still didn’t know the real name Mom and Dad had meant to give her.
Someday, when she heard that name, she would be sure to tell Kyle too.
Resolved, Arienna looked up at Kyle once more with confidence.
“Arienna. Alright, I get it for now. I’m Kyle.”
The two children finally met each other’s eyes and exchanged introductions.
It was a historic moment, the one in which they came to exchange their names.
Just then, a ding rang inside Arienna’s head like a phantom sound.
[Joy! Our Tuntuni, who was alone, has made a friend!]
Chinggu?
Arienna tilted her head.
A new relationship called ‘friend’ had come into being?
[※ : Kyle / : Chick]
Arienna’s eyes grew wide.
Chick Kyle is Tuntuni’s friend!
And then, with another ding…
[At last, we begin the Conquest of Monster Island to search for ‘Mom and Dad’!]
Arienna’s eyes grew wide.
‘Yay! Now the Conquest of Monster Island begins!’
Arienna was bursting with excitement when it happened.
Kyle, now Tuntuni’s friend, held out his hand and spoke.
“Can you explain it in more detail? I want to know exactly what happened.”
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After hearing what had happened at the Rheinfeld Family, Kyle fumed and huffed through his nose.
“I’ve heard of that curse. It’s the kind that disguises a person!”
“Ye-yes! But it only lasted three days!”
“Right, that makes sense.”
Kyle gritted his teeth, as if the pieces had finally clicked into place.
“Those bastards must have tried to kill you within three days.”
“……?”
“Because if you die, the Womb Betrothal between me and Melissa Leinfeld will be broken.”
“……!”
“Yeah, something’s been off since you showed up. The Barrier was weird too. Damn it, these monsters didn’t just appear out of nowhere. They were sent to kill you……”
Arienna’s eyes went wide at the shocking truth Kyle had deduced.
The Rheinfelds. Apart from that muscle-bound butler Bell, it’s a den of bad people who look at Tuntuni as a thorn in their side.
They said Tuntuni has no mom or dad, and they even looked down on the coolest name in the whole world, Tuntuni.
I could put up with that much.
But still.
Not only did they bully Tuntuni.
Not only did they chase Tuntuni off to Monster Island.
They even tried to kill Tuntuni?
“H-how, how can there be people this awful in the world?”
Her two little fists, still untouched by the grime of the world, clenched tight, each no bigger than a chickpea.
There was no way I could just sit here and let this go.

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