I’m the Strong Youngest Daughter Here to Save My Family from Darkness - Chapter 6

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Chapter 6
Kyle was startled by the intruder who had burst in out of nowhere, but he had no intention of swinging a weapon at a child who looked to be about five years old.
And yet the kid had gone and fainted.
“Unbelievable.”
Kyle’s brow furrowed.
“But how did you even get in? I’ve never seen anyone make it inside my mansion before.”
Had the locks been left open?
When I checked the barrier last night, there was nothing wrong with it.
Kyle narrowed his eyes and glanced at the little one lying crumpled on the floor.
With a cold expression, he lifted the end of his broom handle and prodded the child with it.
“Hey, brat. Get up.”
Only then did the kid, eyes rolled back in a daze, finally stir and mumble.
“H-hi, hello there…”
“What, seriously. You look like some useless commoner without a single ounce of special ability. How did you even get all the way up here?”
“I’m not a worthless commoner, okay? I came here to make friends with the prince.”
What is that supposed to mean?
The kid gave a tentative little wave, as if delighted to meet him.
Kyle hated that his gaze kept getting snagged on the child’s round, stubby hands.
“I have no interest in becoming friends with you. Get out.”
“Hic.”
The moment he let out a low growl, the tiny child hiccupped frantically.
Anyone could see this kid had no talent whatsoever. I can’t figure out how he ended up washing onto Monster Island.
It’s not an island you can wander into by accident.
‘Well, if I chase him off, he’ll find his own way back. Friends, my foot. I’m much better off on my own.’
Kyle stomped his feet hard as he went down the stairs.
‘If he won’t leave, I’ll just scare him off.’
That was when it happened.
“Um, the thing is, actually, what I mean to say is—”
“Actually what? Get out now, or not?”
Kyle stamped his foot fiercely to intimidate him.
The terrified child squeezed his eyes shut and blurted out something like a ticking time bomb.
“Ugh, okay, so, I, um… I came to make a betrothal with the prince…”
Kyle, who had been half-listening to Arienna’s disjointed babble without much concern, froze with his foot still hovering mid-stomp.
“What? W-wait, betrothal?”
All the color drained from Kyle’s face.
Wh-what on earth is this little snot-nosed brat talking about!
Kyle knew well enough that a Prenatal Betrothal had been tied to him.
He even knew it was somehow bound up with a girl named Melissa Leinfeld.
But now that he’d been sent to this Monster Island, he’d assumed all that betrothal nonsense was finished.
Kyle glared at the child in front of him, his face flushed red, and spoke.
“Y-you wouldn’t happen to be Melissa Leinfeld?”
“Th-that’s, um…”
Kyle ran his eyes from the stammering child’s head down to his toes, then hesitated.
‘Betrothal or not, he’s way too small.’
Unlike himself, who at seven was practically an adult already, this child was tiny and stunted.
His hands were small, his feet were small, and he was round all over.
Especially those gentle-looking eyes, which made him look incredibly foolish and not cute in the least.
So, um…
“…Whatever the case, get out! I’m never going to agree to any betrothal with you!”
* * *
“Huh.”
Arienna finally came to her senses and looked up at Kyle in front of her.
They said his special ability was super strong!
This little groom really wasn’t easy to handle.
Tuntuni’s dad had risked a terrifying danger that could have gotten him killed just to bring up the betrothal, and…
It was a total disaster.
A deep sense of despair welled up in Arienna’s heart.
Still, she resolved not to give up and to try again.
“Um, th-then…”
Arienna fidgeted with her fingers, hesitating. For some reason, Kyle waited quietly the whole time. Though he did raise one eyebrow slightly.
Anyway, Arienna thought of the only relationship she knew to stand in for marriage, or for the betrothal.
The one light that remained in Arienna’s heart.
She had no name for it, no face, and every memory of it had faded, yet it was still the most precious thing she had.
“Th-then, th-then… what about family?”
“What?”
Arienna gazed up at Kyle with sparkling eyes.
If a betrothal led to marriage, it meant becoming family, but little Arienna didn’t yet understand the concept.
“Yeah! It’s the best thing in the whole wide world!”
Like Mommy and Daddy and Big Brother!
Full of ambition, Arienna clenched her tiny fist.
But in that instant, the boy’s face turned icy.
“Get out.”
His voice was colder than it had been when the betrothal was mentioned.
Slam!
With a loud crash, the door shut.
Shoved aside by Kyle, Arienna found herself driven straight out of the mansion.
“W-what… how could this happen?”
She had shown him the best card she had, and still she’d been turned away.
Thrown out of the mansion, Arienna slumped to the ground with a small, miserable thump.
‘What do I do now? I’m really, really scared. Why isn’t Tuntuni’s power working? She said she’d make me not scared, didn’t she?’
If things stayed like this, she’d simply be a little kid who had been kicked out of the mansion.
She clutched her tiny hand tight, and just then—
Words appeared right before Arienna’s eyes.
[※A hint for little ones!
Tuntuni is the only truly ‘sturdy’ child who can give the lonely Prince Kyle a big, warm hug.]
Arienna fiddled with the bridge of her glasses and thought.
Somehow, I think I kinda get it.
But it’s also a little bit confusing, I think.
* * *
Meanwhile, Kyle surveyed his room with an expressionless face.
A room stained with the peculiar, sour scent of incense oil, so sharp it stung the nose.
A magic circle painted in vivid crimson, covering nearly the entire floor.
And then.
An old brooch resting on the table.
The moment his eyes landed on the small brooch, worn out and half broken, the words the little girl had said earlier came back to him.
“Th-then, th-then, what about family?”
Soon after, his lips pressed into a tight line.
Family? It was utter nonsense.
Wasn’t there a fundamental reason he had been brought into this monster mansion, one that no one else knew about?
He clutched the old brooch tightly in his hand and reminded himself of where he stood.
The time was seven in the evening.
Soon, the nocturnal monsters would be due to attack.
For a seven-year-old, there was no trace of humanity left in Kyle’s face at all.
Before long, his body moved swiftly.
* * *
A little while later, Kyle was flustered by a situation he had never faced before.
Kwaaang!
The rear wall of the mansion collapsed entirely. A monster had come into the mansion’s enclosure.
‘Has the mansion’s protective barrier broken?’
It was unthinkable. The Barrier had been installed by a court mage of the Imperial Palace. No monster should have been able to get past the Barrier surrounding the mansion.
Between the little girl getting in and this, there was clearly something wrong with the Barrier.
‘I’ll look into that later.’
Standing before the collapsed wall, Kyle first clenched his teeth and glared at the damned monster before him.
“Grrrrr…”
Beyond the fallen wall, a massive shadow rose. It was an ogre, with curved horns jutting from its head.
Kyle’s eyes went cold and still.
He had never fought inside the mansion, but monster attacks themselves were nothing new to him. By now, they bored him.
“Tch. What a nuisance.”
The ogre lunged toward Kyle.
Kwaang!
Kyle didn’t dodge. He simply flicked one finger.
Crack.
The monster’s right foot split apart.
Crack-crack-crack-CRACK!
With a roar, the leg was severed in an instant.
The monster thrashed and shrieked, but Kyle didn’t so much as blink.
“Get out of here right now. This is my space.”
Crunch!
The frozen monster’s body shattered into pieces and crumbled to the ground.
Taking care of a single monster had taken him five minutes at most.
Kyle disposed of the monster’s corpse with an impassive expression.
Then he turned to head back to his room, calm and composed, when—
“H-huff… hah…”
At the edge of the wall, the little girl he had noticed earlier was trembling. She was wedged into a corner, both hands clamped over her mouth.
Kyle paused when he saw Arienna. Shock and fear were written all over her face.
Kyle knew that face well.
It was the expression ordinary people wore when they came face to face with a disgusting monster.
Being looked at like a monster by others while on the verge of a Rampage was something he’d endured constantly in the Imperial Palace.
Still, it felt as though he hadn’t gotten used to it, now that he was facing it again after so long.
‘That’s why you should have left when I told you to.’
That foolish little brat.
Where had all that talk of betrothal and family gone, now that it mattered?
You’re afraid of me too.
Kyle gritted his teeth and glared at Arienna.
“So, do you understand now?”
“…”
“That I’m the real monster, the one who can kill even monsters in an instant.”
Arienna, utterly terrified, trembled as she looked up at Kyle. She seemed unable to get a single word out.
“That’s, um, that’s…”
Arienna was a timid child by nature, and she was terrified of Kyle—truly, terribly terrified.
Kyle had dispatched that hideous, spiky-horned monster in the blink of an eye.
And with such a fierce expression on his face, too.
It had been so frightening that for a moment she forgot all about her wish to become friends with Kyle.
Just then—
“Stop looking at strange things. It’s bad for the baby’s prenatal development.”
At this unexpected hallucination of a voice, her tightly shut eyes fluttered open a crack.
Then, a voice laced with firm resolve reached her again.
“Our child should only see good things. Cute, pretty things.”
She had forgotten so much about her family, but Arienna instinctively knew.
This was her father’s voice.
In that moment, the glasses on the bridge of her nose grew warm.
With a shimmer, a pale, ivory light began to spread across the once-clear lenses.
Arienna stared wide-eyed into the empty air, while Kyle, paying her no mind, fumed on.
“Are you deaf? What are you standing there staring at!”
“……!”
“So get out of this dangerous place right now!”
It was a furious bellow, the kind that came from the very limit of his patience.
Kyle raged so hard that his hair whipped about, and he thrashed in fury.
But to Arienna’s eyes, Kyle was only—
Whoosh.
A tiny, bright yellow feather, no bigger than a chick’s fingernail, drifted down to the ground with a soft, unremarkable plop.

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