The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 161

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Episode 161

“Me, it’s me!”

She could see her own appearance.

Her own self, blinking like an idiot!

She tried to proudly make a V sign, but her hand moved strangely.

“Huk, my hand is too round so I can’t make a V!”

Airi became a little dejected.

There was one being looking down at such an Airi.

It was Cookie, who had entered Airi’s body.

“But it worked right away, didn’t it!”

“Th-that’s true! I’m the best after all!”

In Cookie’s view, he could see ‘Cookie’ wiggling her butt back and forth.

“Now we’re completely successful!”

Airi, who was extremely excited, danced enthusiastically while in Cookie’s body, shaking her butt.

Cookie, who had become Airi, squeezed his eyes shut.

“Damn, what an unsightly scene…”

“Huh?”

“Never mind. Let’s also check if we can enter our original bodies!”

Cookie lightly tapped Airi’s body and showed the status window.

[Status window of the strongest hero, Child Airi (9 years old)!]

– Current contamination level 10%

– In ‘Body Change’ state with Cookie

– ‘Body Change’ time limit (0 hours/100 hours)

※ Cheer up, Airi! You can do it!

“What’s ‘Cheer up, Airi’?”

“I didn’t do that…”

Cookie and Airi looked at each other and tilted their heads simultaneously.

“Someone’s really cheering for me!”

“I guess so. Maybe it came from the Heavenly Realm?”

But there was no time to waste on a single word of encouragement.

Cookie looked carefully at the status window and said.

“I guess we have to wait 100 hours before our bodies can switch.”

“Is that what Body Change is?”

“Yeah.”

“Then let’s wait here for 100 hours. Then we can switch bodies again!”

Their gazes focused on the phrase ‘Body Change’ time limit.

But Cookie seemed somehow dissatisfied.

“Hmm, then. I’m curious whether only you have a time limit, or if the other test subjects also have time limits…”

Airi blinked her chocolate chip eyes as she watched Cookie make a strangely researcher-like expression.

Then she said carefreely.

“We’ll find out later!”

“Right? Ah, it feels really strange to materialize after so long…”

Airi and Cookie simultaneously plopped down on the floor.

Now they planned to hide here and quietly wait for Father to come.

‘Father… might be a bit upset that I’m returning as Cookie.’

His carefully raised daughter becoming Cookie.

To borrow Teacher’s words, wouldn’t this be something to ‘rage against heaven and earth’?

Airi admired her own cleverness and nodded her head several times.

But then, sounds came from the corridor beyond the doorway.

It was the voices of the maid sisters who used to call Airi ‘Little Round One!’

“Where is Lord Ortejo?”

“I heard he went to Melissa Marquess’s side.”

“Why?”

“Melissa Marquess’s condition became critical. Then she started talking complete nonsense…”

“Oh my.”

“She even said there was no need to bother visiting Lady Airi.”

“That’s completely different from her usual self. Isn’t there some problem?”

As soon as they heard those words, Airi and Cookie clenched both fists tightly.

“Our Grandmother…”

“Right. It seems like she’s been got, doesn’t it?”

“We have to go save her!”

Declan had prepared many things for Airi throughout the room.

There was a crown for Airi who would return someday, and protective items for Cookie too.

And there were also travel scrolls that Declan used!

He had ignored the childcare rule that dangerous items like ‘scrolls’ shouldn’t be left around young children.

…And soon he would pay the price for that.

Airi said resolutely.

“Grab the scroll right now! Let’s hurry!”

Airi stamped her feet habitually as if it was urgent. Then Cookie shouted.

“Don’t treat it carelessly just because it’s not your body! That Cookie body crumbles easily!”

Airi barely stopped her feet. Airi secretly hid some crumbs that had formed near her feet and muttered.

“Then let’s hurry and go save Grandmother! It’s urgent!”

“In this body condition?”

Airi, in Cookie’s body, said resolutely.

“Yes! I can’t wait 100 hours!”

At the thought of having to save Grandmother, Airi’s heart became anxious to the point of being itchy.

Cookie was also flustered by the thought that his body had become Airi’s.

The two held hands tightly and looked at each other.

“Then let’s quickly finish this and come back.”

“Yeah!”

They had to hurry and save Grandmother!

That’s right. A child is still a child, after all.

Airi didn’t know that ‘Father’ cherished her so much that he checked on her constantly.

* * *

Rumors that Melissa Marquess had changed spread secretly.

It was rather fortunate that the Pope’s test subjects hadn’t yet perfectly taken control of human bodies.

Declan gritted his teeth and isolated Melissa Marquess.

But…

“Why are you isolating me?”

“…”

Melissa Marquess was different from the Finance Minister.

He couldn’t tell at all whether she was having her mind controlled by a ‘test subject’, or whether a ‘test subject’ was parasitizing her body.

‘Has the Pope evolved, or is Melissa Marquess overcoming it with mental strength.’

Since Airi disappeared, Melissa Marquess had eliminated countless demons for revenge.

Even when contaminated by demons, she was driving them out through mental strength and the Mage Tower’s magical tools.

So there wouldn’t be many people who could stop her just because her condition wasn’t good.

Except for Declan.

“Please fall back to the rear this time.”

“I’ll also command from the front.”

“It could be dangerous. The test subjects…”

Declan gritted his teeth. He squeezed his eyes shut once, then opened them again and spoke.

“A test subject might be… embedded in mother-in-law’s mind.”

Declan stared directly at her. Then Melissa Marquess muttered.

“…Mother-in-law.”

“I apologize for addressing you that way.”

She rubbed her face wearily as she spoke.

“Yes, I pushed myself too hard. Our Airi.”

“…”

“Our baby… even though the Papal States’ seal has been lifted, she still hasn’t come back…”

“…”

Declan watched as Melissa Marquess bit her lips.

“I’ll go to the rear.”

She stood up as if she would overcome this through sheer willpower.

“Lock me up.”

They could confine her for the time being.

But if they couldn’t drive out the test subject, what would happen to Melissa Marquess?

Would she simply have all her consciousness stolen by the test subject and become a host?

They didn’t know.

But even so, she had to isolate herself.

* * *

Meanwhile, the Airi and Cookie duo had arrived at Melissa Marquess’ estate through a scroll.

Fortunately…

“Huh, where is this place?”

“…What kind of coordinates were set to a prison! Your dad is totally weird!”

They had fallen into a prison.

Some of the scrolls in Airi’s room were written to transport to ‘safe’ spaces.

‘Who would have thought one of them would be a prison.’

To be fair, from Declan’s perspective, falling into a prison posed no problem at all.

First, if you fell into a prison, you could avoid many people’s eyes.

Moreover, he could easily escape from a prison like this.

But Airi and Cookie were different.

Looking around the empty prison, they both sighed simultaneously.

“Wah, we’re trapped…”

“How are we going to find your grandmother from this prison…?”

Airi, who had become Cookie, smoothly stepped outside the prison bars.

As she did so, she said.

“I can find her!”

“Huh?”

“Grandmother’s scent!”

Airi sniffed with the nose she had made as Cookie.

Even as Cookie, her sense of smell was perfectly fine.

Perhaps because she was smelling scents for the first time in so long?

Grandmother’s warm and cozy scent brushed against Airi’s nose.

Airi sniffed eagerly and moved her feet diligently.

Her Cookie-shaped feet were so tiny that she couldn’t run quickly toward Grandmother.

But…

‘I’m a hero! If Grandmother is in prison, I must save her!’

Airi recalled the day she first realized she was a ‘hero.’

Suddenly, Airi’s eyes sharpened with determination.

Then Grandmother’s scent became even clearer.

Airi moved diligently with small bounces toward the adjacent prison cell that had seemed empty.

But…

But it was right at that moment.

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