The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 143

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Episode 143

Declan moved his hands that had been like wooden blocks and grabbed Airi with a thud.

“Yes, I’m Father.”

“Huh, huk!”

“What.”

“You, you came back to life after dying…”

“Father didn’t die.”

“…”

“What.”

Declan’s lips twisted strangely.

“You called me Father. Call me again. I think I’ll really get healthier.”

Airi’s eyes widened.

With just one word from her, Father would become incredibly healthy!

“Father, Father, Father…”

“Why do you keep calling me.”

“I’ll save you! There’s still more of this left!”

Airi wiped her reddened eyes.

Then she tightly grasped the half-remaining potion bottle that had been placed by the bedside and stuck the spout right into Declan’s mouth.

“Ugh!”

“Don’t fuss. You have to swallow it.”

Declan grabbed the potion bottle with his hand and said.

“Wait a moment.”

“Huk.”

Instantly, Airi’s eyes grew large.

“Is this perhaps medicine fussing? You can’t do this, Elder!”

“Father.”

Airi said spiritedly.

“Father! They say bitter things in the mouth are also bitter medicine…!”

“Bitter medicine in the mouth must be good for the body too.”

“Anyway, you have to eat it quickly.”

“Alright, since I’m Father, I’ll eat it for you.”

Declan took the potion bottle and downed it in one shot.

“How’s that. Isn’t Father cool?”

Airi opened her eyes wide.

“Woooow! Father!”

What was this.

To exaggerate a bit, it seemed like he was receiving more respectful looks than when he saved Airi from the magi.

Declan shrugged his shoulders and said.

“Is Father that cool?”

Airi nodded her head vigorously. Then she looked around Declan’s surroundings with a swirl.

“Really! You ate so much medicine, now there’s no magi!”

Finally, finally!

There wasn’t a single bit of magi around Father.

Airi bounced her body and received the potion bottle from Declan.

“It said the expiration date is 15 years!”

Declan smiled and ruffled Airi’s hair.

“Got it. Let’s slowly look into the 15-year expiration date for now.”

“…Slowly, you say?”

“Yeah, slowly. We have plenty of time. After playing with our daughter for a long, long time.”

Thanks to leveling up from terminal illness to a 15-year terminal illness, his body felt refreshed.

So he had just answered playfully…

But Airi didn’t respond to his playful words.

She just had lonely eyes as if she knew many things.

Airi tightly grasped Declan’s sleeve and said.

“Um.”

“Yeah?”

“I have something to say, so I’ll go get dressed up. With Seraphine and Berry.”

“Huh? Suddenly?”

“So Father also has to dress up nicely.”

Airi tightly grasped the potion bottle.

Inside it was a piece of parchment.

“There’s something I have to tell you!”

* * *

A few hours after Airi declared she would ‘get dressed up.’

Inside the Grand Duke’s study located in the Ortejo Town House.

As soon as they noticed he had awakened, countless people sent letters of concern by the minute.

‘They sent all the documents that needed to be processed at once too.’

Among the countless documents, a letter from the Emperor had also arrived.

[Grand Duke, I heard you’ve awakened. What a relief.

Through this incident, I’ve learned that the Temple is rotten to its roots!

They’re saying they’ll blockade the Papal Territory…

Princess Rashe says it would be good to isolate and observe all the clergy for now, so that’s what we’re doing.

I need the Grand Duke’s wise opinion!]

‘What an incompetent Emperor. If it’s going to be like this, he should just abdicate to the wise Princess…’

His aide, Raspen, felt his vision go dark at the thought of having to handle the situation.

Meanwhile, Declan, who had just risen from his sickbed, had an unusual expression.

His lips were twitching.

Raspen realized.

Declan was tremendously angry right now!

“You, you must be very angry, but…”

“What are you talking about? Why would I be angry?”

“Well, the Pope’s movements are suspicious… You could be angry about that.”

Then Declan’s lips twitched strangely.

This was strange.

That looked like the situation right before bragging about something.

Was there something to brag about right now? The situation just seemed to have become more troublesome.

It was when Raspen tilted his head in puzzlement.

“I was thinking of returning to the Northern Region? With my daughter. Oh, you don’t have a daughter, do you? Poor thing. Well, it’s nothing much.”

“Pardon?”

“Because I’m Father.”

“Hmm…”

Raspen thought carefully.

Could it be that the Grand Duke he served had gone mad?

Or had he been a madman from the beginning?

But right at that moment.

With a knock-knock sound, the door opened carefully.

Airi, Seraphine, and Berry appeared, holding all sorts of pins in their hands.

“What, what’s this.”

Cold water was poured on Declan’s expression that had seemed like he was dreaming.

And Raspen also tilted his head.

“What brings you here, young master and young ladies?”

“Right now! Something super duper scary has happened!”

“Something super duper scary?”

Declan’s brow furrowed.

He quickly got up and examined the children’s bodies.

“Hmm… You seem fine.”

The Papacy’s reach was approaching moment by moment.

He hurriedly checked, worried that magi might have entered the children or they might have fallen under some wicked sorcery.

“We’re fine!”

“We have something important to say. So!”

Around Airi’s waist as she spoke was actually…

A black belt tied around her.

‘What? What are those letters written on that black belt?’

Yellow characters he couldn’t read were embroidered on the black belt.

Then, Airi spoke with a lively expression.

“We need to go read Mother’s letter!”

“…Huh?”

Declan’s expression became subtle as he watched the children who had suddenly stood up.

Then, Airi whispered softly as if something didn’t sit right with her.

“I’m not dressed up pretty.”

“Oh, you’re totally dressed up the prettiest. Now, sit down.”

Declan dismissed Raspen with a single glance and sat at the round table chair in his study.

Then he seated Airi on his lap and had Serafin and Berry sit on either side as he said.

“So, what did you want to say?”

* * *

Meanwhile, Airi was very serious.

“Father needs to see Mother’s letter!”

She had shaken the potion bottle vigorously to get the bottle inside out, and even managed to take out the parchment from within.

But as she quietly looked at it…

Airi’s expression hardened stiffly.

It was an expression of having made some kind of decision.

“Can’t you read it?”

“I can’t see anything.”

Declan handed the fingernail-sized piece of parchment back to Airi with an indifferent expression.

The parchment letter seemed to have found its owner, and as soon as it touched Airi’s hand, it gradually changed size until it became the perfect size for the child’s hands.

“I guess only you can read it.”

“Mm, then. Mm…”

Airi, who had been thinking deeply, muttered.

“I’ll read it to you!”

Airi took a light deep breath and read the very first line.

“Hello, my daughter. And husband.”

After finishing those words, Airi sniffled and muttered.

“This doesn’t feel right, I really should dress up pretty before reading this…”

At that moment, Airi and Declan’s eyes met as she seemed to be pondering something.

Declan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Strange.

Even though things are so peaceful right now…

‘…Why do I feel strangely ominous?’

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