The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 100

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Episode 100

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After gaining tremendous enlightenment.

From behind her, she heard Declan speaking indifferently.

“Ari, why aren’t you going?”

“Huh, hup. I’m going!”

But even as she walked diligently out of the forest, Airi could only think about those two people.

‘They seem similar somehow!’

That’s when it happened.

Belarusian Count appeared before Airi’s eyes.

Hair dyed pitch black and pitch-black pupils.

Even his eyes that moved anxiously somehow.

He had an incredibly gloomy impression.

Airi carefully bowed her head.

“Hello! I’m called Ari from the Northern Region!”

“Ah, still maintaining the act? Hello, I’m a northern merchant.”

“Ah… Yes, what’s the matter?”

He didn’t even ask who Declan, Airi, and Karhen were.

Then he roughly swept and organized his desk.

All sorts of notebooks with spells written on them were scattered on the desk, and Declan seemed to be paying attention to those spells.

“You’re quite the type to control yourself, aren’t you?”

“Ah, yes?”

“The spells.”

“Ah, that’s right.”

Declan’s gaze swept over him.

“Are you somewhat anxious by nature? There are many stabilizers too.”

“The research I’m doing would be di, disastrous if I’m anxious, so, so that’s why…”

Belarus’s eyes wavered anxiously. He pointed to the sofa.

“Fi, first, pl, pl, please sit here.”

“Yes.”

Belarus had exactly one interest.

“Th, th, that forest, forest is my century’s masterpiece, how was it? Did it look good?”

Namely, the forest.

Then Jackvell Marquess quietly murmured.

“Ah, this child originally can’t be stopped once he gets fixated on something. You can just answer appropriately.”

“So, how was it?”

Meeting Belarus’s persistent gaze, Airi said quietly.

“Very very…”

“Very very refreshing, right? Weren’t the green trees truly beautiful? They’re perfect friends born from perfect soil! Haah…”

“Yes?”

The air of that forest wasn’t refreshing at all.

‘It looked like it was full of 2-star level or higher magical energy.’

At that moment, Airi felt a strong sense of unease.

Because both Jackvell Marquess and Karhen were carefully nodding as if agreeing with his words.

When Airi glanced toward Karhen, Karhen said carefully.

“It was refreshing. …Maybe because it’s a forest.”

Only Declan was watching Belarusian Count with strange eyes.

‘Something is definitely strange!’

She had a vague feeling of why this space was painted black on the .

Belarusian Count seemed very peculiar, and appeared to be quite exposed to magical energy.

Especially the forest he created was just like a monster.

Cookie seemed to have the same thoughts as Airi.

[Why do they feel magical energy as refreshing? That’s strange.]

Airi stared intently at Belarusian Count.

She watched the questionable smile on his expression throughout and thought.

‘I should do what I can.’

Cookie muttered.

[Belarusian Count is suspicious, I don’t know Karhen’s identity either, and our little hero is small. Cookie’s insides are rotting, rotting.]

‘Huk, Cookie can’t rot!’

Airi’s eyes spun round and round.

The place where such Airi’s gaze landed was exactly…

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After volunteering to be the ‘guardian’ and shooing away Karhen who was carefully following behind her.

Airi called Elder out to the balcony.

“Elder, have you been in good health?”

“Uh, extremely healthy. What, why. You have something to say.”

“That’s a relief! I have so very much to say! Where should I start…”

Airi tried to speak coherently while counting on her fingers one, two, three.

Declan looked at Airi and muttered with mixed feelings.

“I have no idea what’s in your head.”

“Hup. I can’t organize well either. There’s too much.”

Seeing Airi’s eyes spinning round and round, Declan gestured with his chin.

“Write it on a note and bring it.”

Airi nodded vigorously.

Then she diligently wrote down her deductions so far on a note and handed it to him.

1. I think Karhen is Jackvell Marquess’s son!

(There’s a paternity test kit that Matazu gave! If I put the power of strong purification magic in here, it’s solved! Airi, can do it!)

2. Belarusian Count is very suspicious!

“…Yeah, Belarusian Count looks suspicious to me too.”

“Huk!”

As expected of Elder!

“His face looks suspicious from the start.”

…Or not?

Judging people by their faces is bad. But Belarusian Count being suspicious is right.

Between these two thoughts, Airi’s head spun round and round.

Declan, who was staring at such Airi, said.

“So, Airi. Your thought is that Karhen seems to be Jackvell Marquess’s son?”

“Yes.”

“What’s your evidence?”

“I saw it in a drama…! Elder, do you know about 【Secrets of Birth】?”

He didn’t know what a drama was, but he could tell it wasn’t proper evidence.

But Declan looked at Airi’s sparkling purple eyes.

Seeing those eyes made him want to play along even if all this was just a game.

Then, Airi said.

“Um, Elder. Did you see below the note too?”

“Uh, let me see.”

Problem!

Put Karhen-Duke’s breath into the and add purification magic.

But if I add purification magic, I can’t ‘hide power’.

I need to hide my power, right.

To do that….

“…I need to spread some bait.”

“Huh?”

“So someone has no choice but to bite. Make it smell tempting, subtly.”

As Airi tilted her head in confusion, Declan looked down at the paternity test kit and grinned wickedly.

“Just trust your father.”

“Yes! But unc….”

“I’m not your uncle.”

Watching Declan suddenly straighten up, Cookie muttered through telepathy.

[Oh, uncle’s got some presence, doesn’t he?]

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That night, Airi followed Declan to the eastern region where magical energy was present.

After doing some simple purification meditation there, she returned to the castle and slept soundly.

But….

‘What’s this?’

The next day, when she opened her eyes.

Airi noticed the strangely excited atmosphere in the east.

“Did you hear that story? The Purification Mage….”

“…the one who will save the world….”

“What should I do, I’m so excited….”

The rumor that ‘a great Purification Mage had purified the east’ spread as fast as wildfire.

But this wasn’t the only thing.

The next day.

Airi briefly purified the village right next to the castle and returned.

And….

The following day at lunch, when the Northern Delegation gathered for their meal.

Airi heard many children, and even Karhen, quietly humming a song.

“That Person is coming. That Person is coming, to the grief-stricken east That Person shall come….”

“Huh, what’s that?”

“Ah.”

Karhen’s earlobes turned red.

“The servants were going around singing this song earlier.”

“Oh, I see.”

Seeing the Elder’s lips curling up with what seemed like pride, it was definitely a song the Elder had spread.

It wasn’t common for young children to imitate melodies that sounded like funeral dirges.

Airi made an “ooh” sound and stroked her chin.

Then Karhen carefully pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and showed it to her.

“It seems to be spreading faster because it’s called the Purification Mage’s song.”

It appeared to be a clipping he’d collected from somewhere, an article with the full lyrics of the song.

[A great one wearing a dark hood has appeared in the east.

Some said this person had jet-black hair and jet-black eyes.

Others said this person had snow-white hair and snow-white eyes.

But the miracle this person performed will remain in the east forever.

Standing atop countless monster corpses, this person’s deed was precisely….

To willingly bring happiness to those steeped in sorrow.

This person’s purification magic was like turning back time.

Smiles bloomed on everyone’s faces

The world shall be perfectly purified.

On the day That Person comes.

On the day That Person arrives.]

…Looking at it this way, what Airi had done seemed like an incredibly amazing feat.

‘I, I didn’t do something this amazing?!’

She had just purified a small amount of magical energy.

‘Looking at this, it’s like I’m the world’s savior beyond even a hero…!’

Just as excited Airi put down the clipping article on the table with trembling hands.

Cookie muttered through telepathy.

[Wow. Your Elder spreads bait amazingly well. Now it wouldn’t be strange for a Purification Mage to come to the castle.]

The child Airi clearly understood the situation once Cookie explained it in detail.

But there was something even Cookie couldn’t understand.

[But is your Elder into funeral dirges? The song’s melody is incredibly gloomy.]

…Airi glanced at Declan’s black hair and red eyes.

Airi thought so too.

‘Elder’s taste in songs is a bit suspicious!’

But there was something even more suspicious.

Namely, Prince Berry and Count Belarusian, who would have heard these rumors.

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