The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 114

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Episode 114

That bad skeleton’s continuous, continuous lack of respect for elders has been bothering me since before!

Plus, there’s what the Elder said.

“You received loyalty from the White Knight Order. If you’re going to deal with skeletons, choose an escort from the White Knight Order and take them with you. The strongest one.”

So I went to the White Knight Order and quickly asked, ‘Who is the strongest person?’

“Yeah, well. The knights said I’m the strongest, didn’t they?”

“Yes!”

“Kh, khukhukhem. Well, that’s right.”

Airi’s eyes sparkled brightly.

Then she smoothly pulled out a sunflower and a sunlight-type magic tool from her pocket.

Today she’ll use light to reveal the skeleton’s true identity.

And she’ll teach that skull some manners!

The magic tool filled with sunlight sparkled in Airi’s hand.

And then…

With a clattering noise, the group of skeletons appeared again.

But Serafin widened his already large eyes even more and muttered.

“Ah, Airi. This is strange. Those guys, weren’t they attacked?”

Airi, Serafin, and Milligan Grandfather’s gazes simultaneously fixed on the skeletons.

Then Milligan whispered quietly.

“No, they weren’t attacked. Their bodies are just being sucked into the wasteland!”

Airi urgently ran toward the group of skeletons.

Then she shot the sparkling light magic tool toward them.

“Kid! Those guys are weird! They look like they’re melting!”

“No, they’re not melting.”

The more light touched them, the more they seemed to corrode.

Even so, they tried to approach closer to the light.

As the skeletons approached one by one making clattering sounds, Airi hesitated.

“It’s dangerous, Airi. Let me handle this side…”

“Huh, huk. No.”

The skeletons were like beings drawn to light, simply making longing expressions and desperately stretching out their bone hands.

Moreover, every time the light in Airi’s hand sparkled and illuminated them, their voices could be heard little by little.

“And… light…”

‘I can hear them better than before! Not completely though.’

The skeletons approached Airi and kept trying to say something.

Since they never threatened Airi, both Milligan and Serafin quietly drew their swords and stood guard.

“Please, sacred power, to us…”

As soon as she heard those words, Airi realized.

She nodded at the words ‘sacred power.’

‘They must be asking for sacred power!’

Then she clenched her fists tightly and said.

“Wait a moment. In exchange, if I give you sacred power, you must bow politely to Grandfather.”

Clatter clatter. One skull made clattering sounds and nodded its head vigorously.

Airi closed her eyes and felt the strange power circulating within her body.

‘It’s different from the Ring of Purification! Is this sacred power?’

Airi tried to send that strange power flowing toward the skull.

Just by doing that.

Their bodies slowly began to move.

Their worn-out bodies became completely clean.

In the empty wasteland, their legs that had sunk up to their thighs were slowly rising upward.

Milligan quietly murmured.

“This is really… what? I’ve never seen anything like this before.”

Demons and sacred power are natural enemies.

Yet demons touched by sacred power were recovering.

He looked at Airi with eyes full of admiration.

Airi kept her eyes tightly closed and extended her arms toward the skeletons again.

Airi’s short, chubby legs busily waded through and moved around among the skeletons.

However…

Serafin, who had been watching the entire situation, unconsciously muttered quietly to himself.

“The light is just one bit short.”

Even though she was gathering countless lights to try to communicate with the skeletons, it was clearly one bit short.

It was when Airi glanced at Serafin.

Serafin frantically hit his own mouth and muttered.

“Huh, huk. No, this is what Professor Mellen used to say! Anyway, it’s one bit short, but I don’t know what that is.”

Airi held her head in her hands.

The skeletons were disappearing with soft thuds into the ground.

It felt like they were seeping into the floor!

The magi crawling all over the ground, or perhaps something unknown to anyone, seemed to be dragging the skeletons down into the earth.

Airi continued to give them sacred power, but even so, there was no sign of the skeletons recovering.

Then, Milligan murmured quietly.

“Strange. Seeing them disappear as if being dragged into the ground, it doesn’t seem like they’re vanishing of their own will either.”

Usually when demons return to their dwelling places, they open gates and leave, right?

Just as Airi, who had been thinking deeply for a while, let her shoulders droop.

Thud.

With a sound effect made directly with his mouth, a palm-shaped cookie appeared on the skeleton’s shoulder.

“Huh, huk? What?”

Cookie, who had somehow jumped onto Airi’s hand, shouted excitedly.

“Airi! While you were gone, this body has evolved!”

The summoned being Cookie put both hands on his sides and stuck out his belly.

He looked extremely dignified and incredibly solemn!

“Wait, isn’t this kind of a childish pose?”

“Huh? No!”

“Is, is that so?”

Cookie made a somewhat confused expression, then stomped his foot.

“Anyway, I’ve been renewed!”

…What’s a renewal?!

More importantly, the skeletons are in danger right now!

It was when Airi looked bewilderedly at the skeleton whose feet were sinking deeper and deeper.

Cookie magnificently fluttered his red jelly cape on his shoulder.

Just as Airi was thrilling at his truly incredibly dignified appearance.

Cookie lifted up a rabbit-shaped jelly ring and said.

“Now, behold! My powerful strength!”

Thud thud thud.

With self-made sound effects from his mouth, a billboard made of cookies began to appear above Cookie’s head.

Cookie Renewal!

Item Window Open!

What’s a renewal item window?

“I thought it would be good to organize all the items you’ve obtained so far? So I went to the Heavenly Realm for a bit! Now, let’s see if there’s anything useful!”

Airi looked at the status window, no, item window that Cookie was showing her.

‘This looks exactly like the games my friends played in my previous life!’

When she gave two thumbs up, Cookie smugly curled his lips as if proud.

[Items]

1. Rabbit-shaped Ring

An item purchased at the night market. The finish is crude. It seems to clash considerably with my aesthetic sense.

2. A note that says “Airi is an idiot”

Serafin secretly put it in her pocket, but Airi doesn’t know!

Th, this.

Bad Serafin…!

‘Is this item window actually helpful?’

It was when she was diligently checking the item window.

Airi saw the item at the very bottom of her field of vision.

5. Candit

A mysterious gem that emits light on its own

A gem gifted by the Previous Marquess of the East.

But why is this a gem?

Wouldn’t it be fine to just use a magical tool that produces fire on its own?

Airi’s eyes grew wide.

“Th, this!”

Airi raised her hand and pressed the Candit gem.

At that moment, Cookie grinned.

Finally, the Candit gem rolled down into Airi’s palm.

* * *

It was an amazing thing.

Airi had simply reached out her hand and shook the Candit gem to show it.

The skeletons gradually crumbled and became flowers firmly rooted in the ground.

So that means…

“We are experimental humans who were forcibly turned into Skeletons after being affected by the Magi created by the Pope.”

“For a very long time, we wanted to return to the earth.”

“Lady Olivia promised before she passed away. That her daughter would save us… to follow the divine power…”

“So when divine power appeared in the Northern Region, we followed the path they led. We have been struggling for far too long…”

“We want to rest now.”

“Thank you for bringing us eternal peace.”

One by one, they reached out their hands to Airi.

Each time their words ended, the ring of purification in her stomach turned faintly.

‘Those Skeletons were also victims of the Magi.’

Airi clenched her fists tightly.

The Pope.

That evil and wicked guy is spreading Magi to torment people!

‘I’m going to scold the Pope really, really badly!’

Right when Airi made that resolution.

Finally, the Skeleton holding a flower reached out its hand to Airi.

Then it bowed its head toward Milligan Grandfather.

Grandfather also bowed his head to him in return.

Airi proudly praised the last skeleton.

“Such a polite skeleton! The best!”

The Skeleton’s rattling body gradually seeped into the ground.

Then it whispered softly.

“Finally, I’ve kept my friend Olivia’s will… Don’t forget this ‘evening primrose.’ It will be helpful someday.”

Airi witnessed the flower that the skeleton friend had been holding in its hand transform before it returned to the earth.

Then she slowly closed her eyes and opened them.

In the place where all the Skeletons had disappeared, a flower garden bloomed in the Wasteland.

As if someone’s death had conceived new life.

“Amazing as always! Hero!”

Airi looked clearly into the air.

It was strange.

She had only tried using divine power, but her body felt a bit stronger and her five senses felt more developed.

At that moment, Cookie grinned and displayed a status window in the air.

[‘The World’s Strongest Hero’ Airi’s Purification Power Status Window!]

3-Star: Light ‘Shield’

▣▣▣▣▣

(…Before advancing to 4-Star…)

…Calculating…(10/10)

Ding.

Cookie made the sound with its mouth.

At that moment, small text appeared on the status window.

Calculation completed.

Summoned Beast 【Cookie】

Summoner 【Airi】

A special reward for becoming a true 4-Star will be granted.

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