The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 162
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Episode 162
“Found her! Grandmother!”
Airi’s face lit up when she discovered Melissa Marquess.
But Grandmother seemed a bit strange. She didn’t know why she was in prison, but she had completely lost consciousness.
‘They must have tied her up here! Grandmother must be in pain. I need to comfort her like a plump little puppy…’
Airi let out a deep sigh and quickly moved Cookie’s body.
Fortunately, since it was Cookie’s body, she could easily get inside the bars…
Crack, crackle!
“Waaah!”
“Airi, be careful with my body!”
Cookie’s body almost crumbled!
Airi couldn’t enter the barrier and stamped Cookie’s feet in frustration.
‘What should I do?’
That’s when it happened.
Grandmother slowly opened her eyes.
“Grandmother!”
Airi frantically waved Cookie’s hands back and forth.
She thought there would be a reaction from Grandmother.
But…
“…”
Something was strange.
The person before her wasn’t the same Grandmother who used to feed her lots of pumpkin soup and mugwort rice cakes.
The Grandmother before her was, well, very very…
‘Grandmother is acting strange.’
She was completely different from the first test subject she had purified.
This test subject was…
“I miss you so much, my child.”
“Grandmother, I’m here!”
“Olivia, my baby.”
Grandmother’s eyes seemed to be looking not at Airi, but beyond her.
Airi didn’t understand Grandmother’s sad expression.
But she knew who ‘Olivia’ was.
She was Airi’s ‘mother’ and Grandmother’s daughter.
While Airi was trying to make sense of things, Grandmother kept holding her head.
“Grandmother…”
Airi tried hard to move Cookie’s hands. It was to comfort Grandmother even from a distance.
“Grandmother…”
Even though Airi was just a cookie right now.
“My child, have you come back to me like this?”
Airi quietly looked down at the hand Grandmother extended.
Airi couldn’t even put her foot inside the barrier because it stung, but Grandmother was unhesitatingly reaching her hand beyond the barrier.
Crackle crackle, sparks constantly flew from the barrier. It looked like fire was attached to Grandmother’s fingertips.
Even though it looked very painful, Grandmother kept her hand extended while smiling faintly.
As if she had finally met someone she desperately wanted to see…
Airi gently embraced Grandmother’s hand that had come out beyond the prison bars.
Of course, it hurt.
But even so, she couldn’t give up.
She wanted to share her warmth with Grandmother.
She hoped Grandmother would break free from the delirious state where she didn’t recognize Airi and kept looking for Olivia, and see Airi clearly.
With those deep feelings, she gripped Grandmother’s fingertips even tighter.
The moment their warmth touched.
A crack formed in Melissa Marquess’s unconscious mind.
At the same time, Airi’s chocolate chip eyes widened.
She could see the soul of the ‘test subject’ that had invaded Melissa Marquess’s mind and unconscious.
Airi raised Cookie’s hand up.
‘Can I do it with this body too?’
But Airi knew.
Her essence wouldn’t change.
Since she could do it even as a ghost, she could purify even with Cookie’s body!
“Grandmother, wait just a little!”
Airi chattered earnestly while trying to help Grandmother.
Melissa Marquess was listening to Airi’s voice in a daze.
She had allowed the test subject’s invasion only once.
When Airi…
When she believed Airi wouldn’t return.
At that time, her unconscious mind despaired. And using that despair as a host, the test subject’s soul settled in her unconscious.
But now Airi had come.
That meant…
“Grandmother, I’m here! Be strong!”
Finally, Melissa Marquess gradually awakened her mind while thinking of Airi.
But it wasn’t enough yet. For a moment, Airi’s hand trembled.
“Grandmother…”
Airi quietly uttered the most destructive words.
“Airi is hungry…”
At that moment, Grandmother’s eyes, which had been hazy and dim, briefly regained their vitality.
“Gasp!”
It was the perfect crack Airi had been waiting for. Through that gap, something pitch black slowly spread out like clouds.
Airi stepped forward heroically and said.
“There it is! Grandmother, I’ll save you!”
The test subject slowly emerged.
The moment their minds connected.
Airi absorbed all the contamination into her own body.
The purification was complete.
And…
A second orb appeared with a soft pop on Cookie’s hand.
Finally, Airi had saved Grandmother.
Airi had once again saved the souls of the test subjects that the Pope had tried to kill.
This test subject said nothing at all.
Compared to how carefully it had invaded, being expelled was very easy.
The purification was a little different from the first time. Airi muttered quietly to herself.
“…What’s different about it?”
“Perhaps it’s the difference in the ‘possession target’s’ will…”
Cookie’s quiet murmuring could be heard from afar.
If that was the case, it seemed the stronger the ‘desire not to be possessed,’ the easier it was to repel the test subject.
Thus, data about the ‘test subject possession phenomenon’ accumulated one by one in Airi’s mind.
“Grandmother! Praise me!”
But Grandmother had her eyes tightly closed as if she had lost consciousness.
Airi stamped her feet with a worried expression.
Cookie, who was looking outside through the bars, shouted comfortingly.
“It’s done! She’s completely purified! Your grandmother just seems to be sleeping from exhaustion.”
Really?
Airi still turned her worried gaze toward Cookie.
And…
From afar, she saw Cookie, who had taken over her body, opening the status window.
[Status Window of the Strongest Hero Child Airi (9 years old)!]
– Current Corruption Level 10%
– In ‘Body Change’ state with Cookie
– ‘Body Change’ Time Limit (10 hours/100 hours)
“90 hours left…!”
Stomping her feet repeatedly beside the unconscious Grandmother, Airi thought.
‘But do I have to keep staying in prison like this?’
It’s getting a bit boring…
* * *
Airi had gone missing.
To be precise, Airi’s ‘undecaying body’ had disappeared.
This news was immediately delivered to Declan through Raspen.
Just 5 minutes after Airi had vanished.
Immediately, Declan stopped all his work in the Capital City and returned to the Northern Region.
And he stared intently at the now empty coffin where Airi had been laid.
“Any intruders?”
“N-no, there weren’t any.”
“But there was a report that someone heard whispering sounds from inside.”
“A report…”
Declan chewed his lips roughly. His mouth tasted bitter.
But he felt overwhelmed with fear, not knowing how to get Airi back.
“What could have happened?”
He quietly stared at the spot where Airi’s body had been.
Even the warmth had grown cold.
“There were no signs of intrusion, but there’s a stolen item. One of the scrolls…”
“The scroll to Melissa Marquess Estate. The one that goes to the prison.”
“Pardon?”
So then…
“Prepare a teleport scroll, right now.”
He too had to go to the prison.
He had to get back his precious treasure from the thief who stole Airi’s body.
But if, just if.
It was Airi who moved with the scroll…
‘Has Airi come back?’
After parting with Airi, all the emotions he had suppressed for years kept trying to surge forward like a tide.
He muttered through gritted teeth.
“I’m going to Melissa Marquess’ Domain.”
* * *
Airi was very proud and satisfied.
She had almost filled up the 100 hours, so she could return to her original body soon!
She just had to quickly punish the Pope!
“Huh…?”
“Wait.”
The Grandmother, whom she had definitely purified before, was once again tainted with magi.
Airi’s eyes grew wide.
And…
Airi’s cookie-shaped hand dispersed the magi that had grown in fluffy clouds near Grandmother.
The magi slowly disappeared.
At the same time, Grandmother’s body slowly collapsed to the floor.
“Bad magi, I punished you!”
Airi stood firmly with her cookie body, making a “thump” sound.
Amazing hero Airi!
She had saved Grandmother!
But even the hero who defeated the magi faced hardships.
“Airi! Look behind you!”
Airi looked behind her.
She heard the sound of sewage dripping onto the floor with a “drip, drip, drip.”
‘Huh, huk…!’
The Melissa Marquess Family. Since it was a family located in the peaceful Southern Region, they had no servants worth imprisoning, so the prison maintenance wasn’t properly done…!
‘Airi, crisis of feet getting soggy in sewage!’
Airi’s eyes grew wide.
‘I, I’m going into such dirty water…!’
If her body went into the sewage, it would smell terribly!
Airi, who had become Cookie, moved only her feet frantically and then squeezed her eyes shut.
But just then.
Bang!
With a loud noise, the prison door opened roughly.
“Where are you.”
“…Huh?”
At the familiar voice that seemed to be looking for someone, Airi unconsciously made a dumbfounded sound.
Over there in the distance.
The person she had longed for so very long.
So…
“My daughter, are you here?”
…It seemed like Father was visible.
And it was right at that moment.
Airi and Declan’s gazes met head-on.
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