The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 181

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Episode 181

Airi looked at his finger with a sad expression.

“What are you looking at.”

Declan deliberately pretended nothing was wrong as he organized his 【Child-rearing Diary】.

Airi reached out and lightly tapped his blunted ring finger.

Airi’s eyebrows drooped downward.

“It looks painful.”

“I saved you from a demon beast. It’s a medal of honor, you know.”

But perhaps it was different now from when she was a young child.

Airi quickly composed the distorted expression that looked like she might cry at any moment.

“It’s not a medal of honor! When I become a 5-star Purification Mage, I can heal it!”

“Oh, really?”

“Yes! I will definitely heal it for you!”

Even at sixteen, the child still had that spirited way of speaking.

Watching the bright Airi, Declan smiled.

“It’s fine, it’s not really inconvenient or anything.”

He was just grateful that the child was safe.

But right at that moment.

As he was looking at the child and smiling, he heard noisy sounds from far away.

Declan instinctively pulled the child behind his back and moved to the window.

“Huh.”

“Yes?”

“…What is that?”

Declan narrowed his brow as he looked beyond the window. Seeing this, Airi tilted her head.

“What do you mean?”

Then she stood on her tiptoes, peeking out from behind Declan’s back.

But…

Unlike Declan’s serious expression, Airi tilted her head as she looked toward the window.

“There’s nothing outside the window.”

As soon as Airi finished speaking, Declan looked at the window again with a puzzled expression.

“That’s not…”

“Yes?”

“…I can’t see it anymore.”

“…?”

…That’s strange.

He had definitely heard the sound of demon beasts howling, so he approached the window.

And he had also seen something similar to a ghostly form in the distance.

Suddenly, Declan’s expression became subtle.

Right now, his instincts were telling him.

That this situation shouldn’t be left alone.

Declan looked at Airi and said quietly.

“I won’t eat dinner.”

He needed to check and figure out what was causing these sudden auditory and visual hallucinations.

But however she interpreted this, Airi crossed her arms in front of her chest and narrowed her eyes, just like when she was five.

“…Don’t tell me, you’re complaining about the side dishes?”

“Ah, I knew you’d say that.”

“Don’t tell me you don’t like beans either?”

Declan let out a helpless laugh and rubbed his face.

“That’s not it. I eat everything well.”

“Father is 28 years older than me, an adult, but you don’t even eat meals on time…”

“Okay, okay. I’ll eat, I’ll eat.”

Anyway, he couldn’t win against his daughter’s nagging.

After letting out a short sigh, Declan headed to the dining area.

Right, let me eat something first and then think about it.

However, even after finishing his meal, Declan couldn’t find the exact cause of the hallucination he had seen.

Airi, who had been staring intently at Declan, chewed her beans diligently and thought.

This situation seemed suspicious somehow.

* * *

After the meal was over.

Airi was seriously thinking about what her father had said.

And she went to find Berry, who was the top expert on such matters as far as she knew.

“Berry!”

“Yes?”

“You said your head hurts. Are you okay?”

Airi waved her hand toward Berry, who was sitting at his desk organizing documents.

“I’m fine. Please sit here.”

After seating Airi on the sofa in the reception room, Berry sat across from her and asked.

“Did something happen? You came in such a hurry.”

“Well, something did happen, but before that… Berry, are you okay?”

To other people, he might look the same as usual.

But Airi was in a relationship where they had promised each other a future.

So she knew Berry’s condition better than others.

Berry’s situation lately hadn’t been very good.

“You know, Berry. I know that you sometimes hear voices.”

“…”

Berry’s eyes grew wide.

It was a silent question of how she knew, but Airi couldn’t answer that question.

Because she really had ‘just’ found out.

But since Berry seemed curious, Airi decided to explain her own reasoning.

“When you like someone, you end up observing them for a long time. So you can see them better.”

Berry, a boy who was still very shy despite being eighteen this year, turned bright red in the ears.

“…Yes. I’m sorry for causing you worry…”

Airi’s index finger lightly touched Berry’s lips.

“Don’t be sorry. But there’s something strange.”

Perhaps startled by Airi’s touch, Berry quickly moved away from Airi and hurriedly leaned back against the sofa.

“What kind of strange thing?”

Looking at Berry, who was still very shy, Airi answered with a playful smile.

“Father also saw auditory and visual hallucinations earlier.”

“…”

“It seems similar to yours, Berry, so this seems strange somehow.”

When Berry was looking at Airi with a contemplative expression.

The door to the reception room burst open.

At the door stood Serafin with an angry expression.

Serafin, who had become an adult with a height well over 180cm.

“Hey hey! What are you two doing there!”

“Huh? Seraphine!”

Airi was exactly sixteen years old this year. In Korea, it would mean she was old enough to still be wearing a school uniform.

And that meaning was that Serafin was now…

“Serafin is an adult now, so why does he still act like a child…”

Serafin clenched both fists and spoke in a manly way.

“What are you talking about.”

“Grandmother said that Seraphine should get married now, but Seraphine is still like a child…”

At those words, Serafin forgot why he had even entered this room and huffed with all his might.

“What are you talking about! I have no intention of getting married until I collect all the evil spirit fragments. And…”

“Hm?”

“I’m going to protect my little sister. I don’t want to make another family.”

Airi had already become ‘my little sister’.

Sixteen years old.

Airi was now too old to simply be called a little kid anymore.

Airi grinned and nodded her head.

“Yeah, right. I understand. But why did you come in?”

“Ah!”

Serafin frowned and said.

“Something strange was discovered in the 2nd floor garden. They suspect it might be magi, but they said you need to come see it to know for sure.”

At that moment, Airi’s eyes sank deeply.

The 2nd floor garden of Ortejo Castle.

That was the place where Declan had seen hallucinations earlier.

* * *

Airi, who had rushed to the garden in an instant, glared at the suspicious ‘Lake flower’.

“They say magi seems to be dwelling here. Lake flowers have power similar to weak purification magic, so why would there be magi?”

Airi bit her lip and picked up the Lake flower.

Airi knew about this magi.

“Do you remember the evil spirit fragment that came from the Pope’s corpse 7 years ago?”

“Yes.”

“…It feels exactly like that.”

Of course, compared to that, it was excessively faint, to the point where there was barely even a trace…

Airi purified the magi that touched her hand while simultaneously muttering.

“You know.”

“Yes?”

It was when Berry made a puzzled expression.

Airi extended her slightly more grown hand and said.

“I said that the power that had dwelled in the evil spirit fragment seems to have remained in this flower.”

“…”

“If that’s the case, then this is the first trace of the Pope to appear in several years…”

But there were problems.

First was that the magi was excessively subtle.

Second was that after purifying the magi, no other magi could be felt at all.

“Where the Pope’s main body is right now… I’m not really sure either.”

If there were an evil spirit, turbid magi would spread out subtly, but wasn’t this area far too peaceful right now?

But there was one thing Airi could understand.

“It seems like the time has come to seriously hunt the evil spirit.”

The Pope had appeared again.

Finally, the age of deceiving the masses had come.

Serafin, Airi, and even Berry all clenched their hands with sweat.

And the moment they realized that the Pope’s evil spirit had returned.

For the first time in a very long while…

With a ding sound, a small status window appeared before Airi’s eyes.

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