The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 103

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Episode 103

Airi put on a very determined expression.

Declan was about to flick Airi on the head but stopped short.

‘Ah, I can’t touch her.’

Instead, he spoke to Airi.

“What are you talking about, you little one.”

“Ahem.”

At Airi’s spirited words, he burst into laughter.

Then he drew out a dagger he had hidden at his waist and played along.

“So, what should I do by stepping back, captain.”

“I’m the c-captain…?!”

Unlike Airi who was somewhat elated, the calm Karhen answered instead.

“Perhaps we should become guards protecting Lady Airi.”

“Wow! Karhen is so smart after all!”

When Airi gave a thumbs up, Declan said with a bewildered expression.

“…I was going to do that guard thing too, you know?”

“I see. Then daddy, hurry up and do it!”

Airi jumped down toward the ground.

Then the bewildered Declan, Karhen, and even Jackvell Marquess.

Everyone surrounded Airi without any gaps.

But right at that moment.

The moment Belarusian Count looked at the pitch-black magi with an ecstatic expression.

The magi that had been covering the ground flinched.

“What the…”

As Belarusian’s expression contorted.

Airi closed her eyes tightly and attempted purification meditation.

The sight of her small body absorbing the pitch-black magi was wondrous.

She would stagger and then stop, her tiny body would flinch and then stop.

In a situation where countless magi rushed at Airi sharply, as if attacking her.

Some of the magi that tried to attack Airi like spears were blocked and struck down by Declan’s dagger.

When more than half of the magi that had filled the space disappeared.

The writhing vines vanished and the trees also disappeared one by one as if they had been cut down.

What remained was only half the darkness.

But Airi was very moved by the fact that she was the ‘captain’.

The rings of purification spun endlessly around Airi’s body.

Cookie shouted.

[As expected of the strongest! No match for her! The magi is gathering! Uhahahaha!]

Finally, when there was no more magi left to absorb.

When the suffocating, oppressive sensation unique to magi disappeared and instead a refreshing, clean feeling arose.

All the trees fell and hid themselves.

Everything disappeared in an instant.

Airi opened her eyes with a sparkle and looked around.

The monster corpses and forest, all of it had returned to nothingness.

The four people approached Belarusian Count who was in the empty space with test subject ‘Berry’.

Belarusian Count’s eyes flashed as he felt a sense of crisis.

“What the hell is this! Now I can’t go to heaven…”

After carelessly throwing the unconscious ‘fake’ Berry onto the ground.

Belarusian’s bloodshot gaze looked at Jackvell Marquess.

At that moment, the side effect of his ability ‘speaking only the truth’ activated.

“Brother, weren’t you going to pretend to be oblivious as usual? About my experiments too.”

“I was going to turn a blind eye. I was also going to quietly investigate and handle Berry separately.”

Belarusian Count finally had an expression that showed he understood everything.

The previous marquess who had made and then destroyed the 【Magi Map】.

Even the strangely cold attitude of the previous marquess and current marquess toward Berry.

Belarusian glared at him while gritting his teeth.

“…Did you enjoy mocking me as stupid, brother?”

“No, I regret it.”

“…”

“I should have tracked more thoroughly when I had suspicions. I’m the one who ruined you.”

“I’ve been ruined…”

Belarusian Count stood up with a calm expression as if acknowledging defeat.

Then he walked toward them step by step and said.

The ‘fake’ Berry remained collapsed and limp.

“I see. I wondered why brother was so easily convinced that test subject was ‘fake’.”

“What?”

“Either way, I’m going to heaven, brother.”

It was the expression of a mad lunatic.

He was so excessively honest and calm that it made everyone more tense.

Everyone was on high alert regarding Belarusian Count’s actions.

He stood calmly and spoke to Karhen who was checking Airi’s condition.

“Is this one? The real one, I mean.”

Suddenly, his lips moved wickedly.

And one vine that Airi hadn’t been able to purify, which Belarusian Count had hidden, flew viciously toward Karhen.

Karhen immediately prepared to strike with distortion.

At that moment.

Jackvell Marquess naturally stepped in front of Karhen.

Swoosh!

After catching the flying vine with his hand.

He barely managed to exhale.

It wasn’t an action that the always rational Jackvell Marquess, who kept one step back, would normally take.

He could have just used his distortion ability.

Deliberately catching the vine with his hand and falling into the trap himself was a foolish act.

He realized this fact immediately, but it was too late.

“Hahahaha!”

Belarusian laughed viciously and summoned new vines around him again.

With his body wrapped in vines, he crashed into a tree that had somehow sprouted again.

At the same time, Belarusian’s body was thrown down.

Jackvell Marquess had regained his senses and manifested his distortion ability again.

Belarusian Count collapsed to the ground.

As if he had suffered internal injuries, he couldn’t even breathe properly.

“Ha, it still doesn’t work…”

His eyes held a subtle pain.

Declan, who had been standing back because he couldn’t intervene in the battle between abilities and magi, immediately dismantled the vines binding Jackvell Marquess.

However, Jackvell Marquess’s complexion had already turned pale.

A sense of exhaustion and excessive fatigue from directly confronting magi had washed over him.

But even until then, Karhen was dazed.

He couldn’t do anything.

He could only continue staring at Jackvell Marquess who had blocked his path and protected him.

Why on earth did he save me?

Karhen knows that Jackvell Marquess is his father.

But is that really such a significant meaning?

It was when Karhen’s gaze became complicated.

Airi tightly grasped Karhen’s scarred hand and said.

“Karhen, let’s go to Jackvell Marquess now.”

Before he knew it, she had also placed the 【Paternity Test Kit】 in Karhen’s hand.

“When you go and he wakes up, you can hold hands.”

Because that’s what family members do – hold hands.

Airi couldn’t do it, but she really wanted Karhen to experience it.

“Those heartless bastards. Just hold your daughter’s hand once before leaving. Airin, it’s okay. This grandmother is here!”

“Yeah, I only need Grandmother!”

She hoped at least Karhen could be happy.

It wasn’t forcing him, just that kind of feeling.

Airi looked at Karhen with all the feelings she couldn’t express.

Then Karhen made a determined expression.

Until numerous people entered the space that had been the ‘forest’ and took Belarusian Count to the interrogation room, Berry to the infirmary, and Jackvell Marquess to the bedroom respectively.

He quietly pondered Airi’s words.

Then he entered the bedroom where Jackvell Marquess was resting.

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Meanwhile, Jackvell Marquess was stepping into a nightmare.

The side effect of distortion ability, ‘nightmare’.

Until now, Jackvell Marquess had only ever had one nightmare.

The day his wife left, holding their child.

[Don’t wait for my child and me. I’m going to leave you.]

When his wife disappeared immediately after giving birth to their child.

In the nightmare that continued every minute and second, he kept crying out.

…Stay just one more day before leaving.

The weather is cold, and you’re weak too.

The child might get sick too.

If you don’t want to see me, I’ll just leave instead.

So, please.

But through countless years, he had lost even the chance to resent her.

It was some winter.

He found a woman’s remains somewhere in the Northern Snowfield.

It was the body of someone completely consumed by magi.

Transformed just like a demon…

There were no remains of the child she had supposedly taken with her.

He never announced the woman’s death anywhere.

Instead, he searched for the child.

In the end, he obtained a very small clue.

“When they parted, they said the child had a scar on their hand. It seemed to be an unusual shape, so it remained in their memory.”

“What kind of shape?”

“I don’t know the exact shape. I don’t know why it was carved either.”

Whenever he saw a child with even the smallest scar, his body would stiffen.

Years passed like that.

He was dreaming, repeating as nightmares those long eons of time when he had searched for the child.

Perhaps an endlessly long time that he might never escape from.

As he was mulling over and over that time, he suddenly opened his eyes.

The nightmares he always had would end with him opening his eyes alone.

But today was different.

Because the nightmare he always had, the new world he always dreamed of, had come to find him.

Before he knew it, there was a scarred hand in front of Jackvell Marquess’s eyes.

Finally, he had found it.

The hand with countless scratches as if it had endured countless years of pain.

“…You were sweating.”

It seemed Karhen had been sitting by his bedside, trying to wipe his forehead.

Jackvell Marquess knew what this young boy was clutching in his other hand.

It must be the 【Paternity Test Kit】.

But now he no longer needed the kit’s help.

Because his son, whom he had waited for so long, was right before his eyes.

He finally opened his trembling lips.

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