The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 169

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Episode 169

Airi’s eyes sparkled brightly.

‘I’ll definitely figure it out!’

However, when both the Bellian Princess on the left and right simultaneously let out deep sighs, she couldn’t help but furrow her brow with a groan.

‘They’re too identical!’

Everyone, including Airi, was bewildered.

“Who is the real Bellian Princess?”

Countless people murmured among themselves.

And for good reason—their expressions, gestures, movements, and even the mole below their faces were all identical.

Even the way their eyes trembled as if they were confused…

Just as Airi’s eyes spun around as if she were playing a spot-the-difference game.

The Bellian Princess on the left spoke.

“I am innocent.”

The Bellian Princess on the right also spoke.

“Me too… I’m so confused right now.”

They weren’t the only ones confused. This was a moment when everyone gathered at this ball felt the Pope’s overwhelming power.

“…Could this be the Pope’s doing?”

“Then that person… can even clone people?”

At the words of some young lady, the entire gathering froze in silence.

Even Serafin and Berry couldn’t say anything and stiffened.

Only one person, Declan, frowned.

“What’s so confusing?”

At those words, as if their sense of reality had awakened, people trembled.

That’s right. The one who overcame the overwhelming fear of the Pope was…

“Why is everyone frozen like this? We just need to try something somehow.”

…At Declan’s single remark, the already grim atmosphere became even more uncomfortable.

Because…

“I guess you’re planning to kill both of them.”

Declan frowned as if uncomfortable.

“Well, depending on the situation…”

Then, Airi muttered to herself.

“Our dad isn’t that kind of person. He’s kind!”

Airi mixed her voice with plenty of complaints as if she felt very wronged.

In Airi’s mind, Declan was an incredibly kind father. Declan quickly looked down at his inner pocket.

Airi kept pouting her chocolate lips.

Then, Declan quietly removed his hand from his sword hilt and said.

“I have no intention of killing anyone, absolutely not.”

“…”

“I said I don’t. I’m a pacifist.”

When Declan repeatedly emphasized this, people looked puzzled. Their gazes touched Declan’s solid fists before disappearing.

However, the eleven-year-old child here.

Berry, the boy who had dressed in today’s attire while recalling Declan’s armored appearance he had seen in the Northern Region, quietly murmured.

“Truly a kind yet strong adult…”

Somehow, it seemed like he was quite an educationally valuable person to Airi and Berry.

Feeling proud at this thought, Declan slowly opened his mouth with his shoulders strangely tensed.

“Then it would be better to conduct a test.”

“A test, you mean…”

The Bellian Princess on the left spoke. Declan gave instructions indifferently.

“Tell me about yourself. All your current peculiarities too.”

“I have, well, one cousin, and came to the ball together…”

Her voice was trembling terribly.

Declan looked at the Bellian on the right next to her. She also muttered in a trembling voice.

“That’s, that’s right. I don’t know how that fake knows…”

It was the same.

If one side had been strangely calm or spoke too fluently, then he could have been suspicious.

But…

‘Both are acting similarly.’

Then Declan whispered quietly.

“Cousin? Who is that?”

He could quickly tell who the ‘cousin’ was.

It was a small child who was timidly cowering behind the Bellian Princesses.

Though not their own child, both Bellian Princesses seemed to cherish that child very much.

Since they were hiding the child behind them.

‘Then, what’s needed at this moment is acting ability?’

Airi recalled a story she had seen in a textbook long ago.

‘That’s right, Solomon’s strategy!’

Even child Airi knows.

That if a child dies, it cannot be undone.

Airi clenched her sweaty hands. She was sweating so much that Cookie’s hands became damp!

And…

She explained her strategy to Declan in a very, very small voice.

Declan nodded and signaled to Serafin with his eyes. Then Serafin quietly approached near the child.

As soon as he covered the child’s ears, Declan spoke with a strange attitude.

“Then I understand. Since you’ve both become two anyway…”

He smiled coldly.

“I’ll split the child in half. And live like this.”

“Excuse me?”

“…?”

Declan slowly drew his sword.

At that moment, both people’s eyes trembled simultaneously.

“Splitting the child… in half means…”

“…”

“What, you think I can’t do it?”

The atmosphere instantly became quiet. Airi’s persistent gaze reached toward them.

One of the two was now a completely human being. At least in appearance, they were truly perfectly human.

But…

‘Would their emotions be the same as humans? What choice would one of them make?’

…Could the Pope’s creation, the abused test subject, learn emotions too?

Airi looked at both people with sparkling eyes.

Then, the Bellian Princess on the right whispered quietly.

“If that is the method, then we must follow it.”

With this single statement, the atmosphere in the ballroom became distinctly colder.

‘As expected!’

The Pope had completely overlooked the fact that humans need ’emotions.’

Airi thought of the person called ‘Mother.’

The name Mother was still very unfamiliar to Airi, but she knew well what choice ‘Olivia’ would have made.

If it had been her…

Declan smiled fiercely and pointed his sword toward him.

Blood flowed down from the clone’s neck.

In the extremely threatening situation, the test subject squinted and moved.

Then magi began bubbling out around it.

‘Found it!’

A cloned test subject!

Airi clenched her trembling fists and stamped her feet inside the pocket.

At that moment, Declan unhesitatingly thrust his sword toward the magi.

“What are you doing, come out.”

The clone trembled as it saw his menacing expression, then collapsed to the floor.

Airi hurriedly tried to absorb the magi. But…

‘What is that?’

The Pope’s message slowly appeared above the test subject.

aggréssor

Admonitio

‘Squiggly letters!’

Airi squinted her eyes and looked down at the unfamiliar writing.

Then, Declan swallowed quietly.

“Intruder, warning…”

Airi’s eyes widened as she flailed her arms.

At the same time, the message disappeared and a soul orb formed, naturally flowing into Airi’s body.

‘It worked, it worked but…’

Airi successfully collected the ‘soul orb’ into her item window.

Then, a status window appeared before Airi’s eyes.

Airi gripped Declan’s pocket tightly and said.

“Huff, huff. We need to hide quickly!”

“…Huh?”

Declan looked at his pocket with confusion, then gritted his teeth.

Cookie’s body was slowly crumbling.

“…Then, handle the situation well.”

Berry and Serafin looked at each other, then nodded.

And…

Bang!

Declan and Airi quickly hid on a nearby balcony.

As soon as he confirmed no one was there, he lifted up Airi’s Cookie body.

“Why.”

“My body is ch-changing?”

Airi blinked her eyes.

Even without Cookie, a status window appeared before her eyes.

‘No way? Did Cookie secretly come nearby?’

A secret visitor…?!

‘But I don’t see anyone!’

Airi rolled her eyes around. She didn’t quite understand why the status window suddenly appeared before her eyes too, but…

[Souls 10/10]

[Goal Achievement Complete!]

Anyway, she had found the soul orbs and finally achieved her goal.

Airi clenched both fists tightly.

Now what remained was…!

[…Restoring human body…]

On the balcony with just Declan and herself.

Airi jumped down from Declan’s hand to the floor with a hop.

The moment Airi’s Cookie body became sparkling like new and her chocolate eyes opened wide!

Brilliant light began to spread little by little around Airi’s Cookie body.

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