The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 126

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Episode 126

Serafin stomped his foot and spoke toward Berry.

“What! Those guys, why does it seem like they’re trying to monopolize the little one?”

It was truly ghost-like intuition.

Serafin spoke as if pressing Berry, who had stopped walking.

“You, this guy! Are you planning to lose to those guys?”

Berry felt like his feet were stuck to the ground.

Airi and the children laughing heartily were picture-perfect cute.

But he himself was….

Then, Serafin grabbed Berry’s hand tightly and shouted boldly.

“Hey, why! You’re Airi’s first friend! Break through head-on!”

Br, break through?

He didn’t know what it meant, but the battle for Airi had begun.

Head-on breakthrough!

Berry glared with wide eyes at the ten girls, determined not to lose.

A fierce confrontation between proud children!

But what dissolved that confrontation was none other than….

“Huh, what are you all doing?”

It was Airi.

Airi jumped down from her spot.

Then she waved her hand with a bright smile.

“Yay! Since it’s late at night, it’s time for the children to go home!”

With just one smile from Airi, the standoff between the children ended just like that.

Airi bowed and greeted the children.

“Go home safely.”

“Yes, Knight!”

“Bye!”

“Bye, little Knight!”

Airi, completely oblivious to the intense standoff between Berry, Serafin, and the nine girls, thought proudly.

Today, she had purified everyone’s magi.

Except for just one person, Malenda.

‘What should I do about Malenda?’

Airi made a thoughtful expression.

Tomorrow, she was thinking of visiting Malenda’s house, the only child who hadn’t been purified!

Airi didn’t know because she was humming a cheerful tune.

That Berry and Serafin were making serious expressions.

* * *

That night.

Berry somehow felt troubled that he might not be able to become a ‘protector’.

Airi had made many friends besides Berry.

Moreover, the clothes Airi was wearing today were knight’s attire.

‘She looked cooler than me. It seemed like she didn’t need my help.’

Then what was his usefulness?

After tossing and turning for a while, Berry decided to seek out someone he could confide his feelings to.

It was Serafin, the mini-me of the respected Duke Declann.

‘Wouldn’t he be helpful?’

Serafin tilted his head when he saw the seven-year-old boy who came to him saying he had ‘worries’.

“What’s wrong, Berry?”

“Well, about Lady Airi.”

“Hmm?”

“Now that she’s become a knight, she probably doesn’t need a knight to protect her, right?”

At those words, Serafin looked into Berry’s eyes.

He could feel the blue eyes wavering with worry.

So he deliberately spoke loudly as if pounding.

“What’s wrong with you, Berry! If becoming a knight is difficult, you can do other work!”

“Oth, other work?”

Serafin didn’t care about Berry’s bewilderment and hummed cheerfully.

Then he pulled out the dusty ‘Career Guide’ that had been sitting on the bookshelf.

“Look! Look at this! Besides knights, there are thousands of jobs in the world!”

Indeed, the subtitle of the ‘Career Guide’ was ‘Thousands of Jobs in the World Waiting for You’!

Berry unconsciously hurriedly opened the ‘Career Guide’.

[Next, is this a job or not? Here, there’s something a bit special, a wonderful job where you can protect the one you admire!]

It had the subtitle ‘Special Full-time Househusband’.

[Don’t worry that there’s nothing you can do for the other person!

Is there anything that shows love for the other person more than cooking with care and feeding them?

Is there anything that shows concern for the other person more than washing and carefully ironing their clothes?]

‘Lady Airi did like people who cook well…. She also enjoys wearing various clothes.’

What was a full-time househusband?

Suddenly, he became interested.

In the ‘full-time househusband’ description section, several points were written.

[Monogamy, that is, it means a relationship with just one person.]

…This very explanation shook Berry’s heart.

As he became absorbed in reading the book, Serafin, who had grown bored with the study, spoke to him.

“Berry, how long are you going to read? Looking at that book, can you decide on a new job?”

“Yes, yes…. I think I’ve decided on something.”

The ‘Career Guide’ that Serafin had given him was gradually awakening Berry anew.

Something that would greatly shock the people of the eastern ducal family if they saw it.

It was something the future Serafin would never know.

If he had known, he would have immediately scolded him just like he did to the spirited little boy in the south who dreamed of Henry-Airi’s marriage!

The current Serafin was only thinking about sleeping soundly in dreamland like Airi.

* * *

Meanwhile, the atmosphere at Malenda’s Mansion was subdued.

Tersa paced the corridor in front of Malenda’s doorway with a worried expression.

“Malenda, did you have fun playing?”

“….”

“What on earth happened….”

Tersa glanced at the doorway with a worried expression, but soon gave up and turned away.

‘Malenda looked more dejected than usual….’

Then she shut herself in her room and closed the door tightly.

‘She also said irritably that no one should enter her room.’

It was when she moved away from Malenda’s room with a worried heart.

Inside Malenda’s room, an unexpected uninvited guest had arrived.

The being that had seeped in dampily through the open window gap was Cardinal Ibenna.

Cardinal Ibenna grinned wickedly upon seeing Malenda sleeping while breaking out in cold sweat.

Cardinal Ibenna was reading the situation through the shadow he had placed next to Malenda.

He too knew that the Ortejo Family had a Purification Mage.

‘They said they were quite close too….’

Had that Purification Mage taken the opportunity of the party to drive away the children’s magi?

Cardinal Ibenna stroked his chin and smiled slyly.

“Airi Ortejo.”

They were planning a perfect festival.

But variables kept arising in their perfect festival.

“The Ortejo Family and the Purification Mage seem to have quite a connection.”

In that case, he thought he should meet with the Ortejo Family first.

To do that….

Cardinal Ibenna smiled slyly.

At that moment, Malenda, who had been tossing and turning as if dreaming, opened her eyes with a sparkle.

“…Who…. Cardinal?”

“Oh my, Miss Malenda. You’re awake.”

“Yes….”

Looking at Malenda with her drowsy yet murky gaze, Cardinal Ibenna stroked his chin.

‘Did I take too much of her memory?’

Cardinal Ibenna possessed the ability called ‘Screening,’ which could completely extract others’ memories.

However, the more this ability was used, the more extreme mental exhaustion the target whose memories were stolen would experience.

Malenda, who had an entire day’s worth of memories stolen, was bound to reach a state of complete exhaustion.

“My body, why, is it so, tired….”

Malenda’s eyes slowly closed.

Her appearance of gradually withering like a dried flower was exquisite.

“What an unsightly state you’ve become, how pitiful.”

He who had been caressing Malenda’s pale cheek pressed his lips to her forehead.

“From now on, we will fall into a very deep sleep.”

It was the manifestation of his ability.

And….

Looking at Malenda who collapsed with a thud like a marionette whose strings had been cut, he smiled slyly.

“Rest well. You can even die.”

* * *

The next morning!

Airi was doing her usual 【Children’s Wake-up Morning Exercises】 when she grabbed her bottom.

“What’s wrong! Airi!”

“Owww….”

“Huh? What’s the matter! Is it a side effect from absorbing too much magi!”

Airi shook her head back and forth while tightly embracing her bottom with both hands.

“My bottom hurts so so much.”

For the past few days, she had been doing so much bottom dancing in front of the grandmothers that her muscles were sore….

After finishing all the work, the pain had come.

Airi groaned and flopped down on the bed.

‘Something feels so so ominous….’

…And that ominous feeling turned out to be surprisingly accurate.

Meal time.

Airi was trying to have a conversation with Berry, who had somehow become incredibly solemn, when she dropped her spoon with a clink.

“You’re saying Malenda collapsed, Elder?”

“That’s right. It’s become troublesome. From what I can see, she seems to have collapsed because of magi.”

“That’s right. Malenda had so so much magi….”

When Airi replied gloomily, Declan shrugged his shoulders.

Then he went on to give a very long explanation.

“Still, she’s just not waking up, it doesn’t seem to be a life-threatening crisis. Anyway, they say investigators will come to our manor too. The Imperial Palace also requested the guard unit to send servants from the dining room for investigation…. Well, there won’t be any problems. I’ve made sure they absolutely can’t investigate my daughter.”

Airi opened her eyes wide.

Until now, Malenda had just been crossing her arms and observing Airi the whole time.

So she was a child who hadn’t been purified until the very end.

Airi bolted upright and then fell down on the floor with a thud.

“Ow ow ow….”

“You seem really frustrated. What is it?”

“Well, I need to go to the Imperial Palace! To receive investigation!”

“You want to go to the Imperial Palace to ‘receive’ investigation?”

“Yes.”

“Why bother? Are you a curiosity heaven, you.”

“No! Actually, I just thought of a so so tremendous plan! To save Malenda too!”

Airi whispered her plan and then smiled briefly.

“Hehe!”

Declan gently brushed aside Airi’s hair that was sticking out.

Airi was startled by the very slight contact.

“Alright, go to the Imperial Palace. That plan isn’t bad. Though it’s full of holes and flaws.”

“Yes, Elder! It’s cool, right!”

But what Declan was concerned about was something else.

At this time when even Serafin had found the correct way to address him.

Declan suddenly thought about when he would take Airi to the Imperial Palace.

“Brother! And Elder! I finished all the investigation and came out! Let’s go eat something delicious!”

…If someone were to overhear her saying that.

“What’s ‘Elder’?”

“Declan, to think he gets called ‘Elder’ by his daughter. How pitiful….”

To receive sympathy from those damn bastards?

All the hair on his body stood up with goosebumps.

‘Somehow lately they keep showing interest in my daughter, saying things like 【The Grand Duke Who Became a Father】 and such.’

This won’t do.

Declan looked at Airi with an awakened expression.

“Yes, Father will go with you. Fa.ther.will.”

“…Yes?”

Airi tilted her head with a bewildered expression.

It was understandable that she was confused since ‘Elder’ was suddenly insisting on being called Father.

“Why? Are you too proud of Father? You look excited.”

It was the beginning of the epidemic that Serafin called ‘Father disease.’

After emphasizing ‘Father’ dozens more times, Declan said.

“So, when are we going to the Imperial Palace?”

He had to educate her thoroughly until then.

So that not even the ‘El’ of ‘Elder’ would come out.

At that moment, the extraordinary child Airi put down her spoon with a clink and cheerfully exclaimed.

“Right now!”

Berry and Serafin and Elder too.

Everyone everyone all together!

The child’s plan execution speed was extraordinary.

Thud.

Declan’s spoon fell to the floor.

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