The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 15

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Episode 15

“Ah, so coming to the kitchen was also…”

“Yes, that’s right! I really want to become friends with Lord Ortejo so I can stay here for a long, long time! Not just a week, but much longer! But I learned that to become friends with Lord Ortejo, I need to give him delicious food!”

But this was strange.

As soon as they heard Airi’s words, they made determined expressions.

“So, so that’s what it was.”

No, should I say they became more energetic than usual?

“We two know well what foods Lord Ortejo likes.”

“Wow!”

“We’ll do our absolute best to show our skills, Lady Airi.”

“Wooow.”

“Let’s try cooking all the foods that Lord Ortejo likes. His Lordship actually enjoys bitter flavors. Ah, and!”

“And?”

“That misutgaru thing too, it seems like a dish he used to enjoy in the Southern Region… Lord Ortejo will definitely like it. Would you help us make it together?”

Airi nodded her head vigorously.

‘Hehehe. Everything is going according to plan!’

She had successfully won over the real powers of the kitchen.

Now if she could just become friends with Lord Ortejo through food, it would be perfect!

Airi stood well apart and enthusiastically cheered on the two people who were working incredibly hard to make food.

After waiting diligently, the chefs displayed tremendous skill.

“Little miss, we worked really hard on this.”

“You’ll do great!”

“We’re all rooting for you!”

“We received intelligence that Lord Ortejo is in the training hall! Let’s move out right away!”

Delicious dishes, completed in abundance!

With everyone’s encouragement behind her.

Airi hugged the dish plates directly to her chest and took quick little steps.

Sadly, to meet the gentleman, she had to wear those puffy clothes!

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“Hello! I, Airi, have come to the training hall for the first time!”

Declan, who had been in the middle of sparring, wiped the sweat from his forehead.

His gaze struck directly at his daughter Airi, who was standing at the entrance of the training hall, quite far away.

“Um, I have something to give you!”

“What is it? What did you bring?”

Airi brought her hands together in front of her chest and whispered energetically. Raspen, who was watching this scene, briefly exclaimed in admiration.

“She’s really round and cute. Go receive it.”

“…Well. I know that too. But you guys go get it.”

At the word “cute,” Declan’s lips twitched slightly as he pointed to a knight.

The other knights also put down their swords one by one and said.

“I’m jealous.”

“My son pulled out my hair and made me bald…”

The other knights kept praising him.

‘Why do I feel like my lips are getting strangely soft for some reason.’

However, upon hearing Airi’s next words, his facial muscles stiffened completely.

Airi shouted clearly.

“This is a meal! It’s very bitter and delicious food mixed with purslane and mugwort!”

“…What?”

“Because I heard you like bitter flavors!”

“…”

“I brought a bean drink too!”

Just who had spread such wrong information to his daughter?

His brow furrowed.

That’s right.

He was someone who hated bitter flavors.

* * *

The reason was unknown!

But even from 5 meters away, she could clearly see Declan’s expression contorting.

But Airi Ortejo.

She’s a child who doesn’t know how to give up.

“If-you-eat-this-you’ll-like-it!”

But…

She had only shaken the tray a few times, but Declan’s expression contorted.

“If you move like that, it’ll fall. Servant, go get it.”

“Yes, sir.”

The servant who quickly approached Airi’s side hurriedly took the tray.

‘Amazing, mister!’

The servant mister might even be able to compete in the Olympics.

As she was seriously impressed, Declan looked at the food on the tray.

Airi smiled brightly and pointed to the drink.

“The thing next to the mugwort is a drink made by grinding beans.”

“Grinding beans?”

Airi nodded her head vigorously.

“Do you know a food called misutgaru? It’s incredibly delicious!”

“…”

Usually don’t little kids like that like chocolate or something?

Why does this little kid have the taste buds of a grandmother?

As he looked on with questions, Airi answered energetically.

“If you eat lots of misutgaru in the morning, you become very strong! Please try it!”

As he narrowed his eyes and observed.

Airi carefully moved her lips.

“Perhaps.”

“…?”

So that strangely familiar gaze…

It seemed like the kind of gaze he only received when he was very young.

Then, Airi said quietly.

“Are you… being picky about your food?”

Declan looked at Airi’s suspicious expression and contorted his lips.

Airi muttered quietly to herself.

“Hmm, I’m still a child too, but I eat beans really well.”

“…”

“You have to eat beans to become healthy and grow taller.”

Declan’s red eyes, who had no need to grow any taller, shook violently.

It was the first time in his life he had become so flustered that he couldn’t even make excuses.

Then, interpreting his silence somehow, Airi added one more comment.

“Oh, if you heard that, I’m sorry, sir.”

This was strange.

At that one polite remark.

Why did he feel like he had been completely K.O.’d?

Declan Ortejo.

Current age thirty-three.

A man who was the great ruler of the Northern Region and had one son and one daughter under his care.

And right now he had become…

An adult throwing a tantrum because he didn’t want to eat beans.

Declan lifted his cup with a bewildered expression.

“Eat your beans well.”

When she blinked at him, stubbornness arose in him and he roughly swallowed the drink.

Not wanting to look like a pathetic father to his own daughter, he had planned to drink just about one sip.

That’s definitely what he intended.

But his Adam’s apple kept moving.

Declan put down the drink while slightly furrowing his brow.

Without realizing it, he had emptied the entire cup.

‘What kind of sensation is this?’

It felt like his sharply heightened senses were gradually calming down.

Airi, who had been observing Declan’s constantly changing expressions, rolled her eyes around.

Then she said with all her might.

“So-so-so-so-! This much-! Delicious, right-!”

“You didn’t make this food all by yourself, did you.”

“I made it all by myself!”

“It’s so delicious, what did you put in it? You didn’t add poison, did you?”

“I didn’t add poison…!”

He playfully raised an eyebrow.

“What, you did add poison.”

When he smiled teasingly, Airi looked quite annoyed.

He said while grinning broadly.

“But I like poison.”

That expression was one that said ‘What a strange adult.’

“So you like poison, sir.”

Ah, why is it the ‘sir’ thing again.

Declan looked at the child with a complicated expression.

It seemed like normally one wouldn’t receive this kind of treatment from their own child.

“I’m still only thirty-three years old.”

“Oh my.”

Airi quietly counted on her fingers.

Declan found the fact that Airi was counting strangely satisfying.

‘She really is smart.’

But right at that moment.

Airi said seriously.

“Excuse me, sir who is a whole 28 years older than me. Would you like to try some other food that I’ve prepared?”

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