The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 184

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Episode 184

“The old romance potion’s effects must be wearing off.”

Airi took out a potion from her pocket.

Then she carefully examined the surface of the potion bottle.

“But still….”

[Expiration Date: Maximum 15 years]

“You don’t read the instructions properly, do you?”

“….”

That’s right.

A brave taekwondo girl doesn’t particularly bother with reading instructions.

When Airi slightly furrowed her eyebrows, Declan grinned.

Unlike Airi, he clearly remembered the description written on the potion bottle.

[Could be shorter.]

In an instant, Airi’s eyes hardened.

“If the potion’s effects have ended….”

“….”

“Then…. We have no choice but to quickly beat down the Pope.”

Declan looked at Airi, who was still spirited but showed hints of worry somewhere.

“Still, when everything’s over, there will be good things too.”

“Yes! First, I’ll become a 5-star Purification Mage and save Father.”

“Right.”

“And I’ll meet Mo… too.”

“You called Father ‘Fa’ for quite a while, right. Never call me Mother.”

Declan giggled playfully.

“I’m the one who saw all of your childhood, right?”

Airi nodded her head vigorously.

Because right now, the only person close to Airi was Father alone.

Only then did Declan put away the playfulness from his eyes and speak.

“…Your mother must be sad that she couldn’t see your childhood.”

“But is that important?”

Declan looked at Airi, who had shed her childish ways and was now a teenager.

“Yes, it’s important. Very much so….”

Airi suddenly thought.

If she were to meet someone named Olivia someday….

“If Mo… is someone important, she probably would have been watching.”

“Hm?”

Airi stretched out her hand and smiled brightly.

“I think she would have been watching from far away!”

In that moment, Declan, who had been staring blankly at the sky, chuckled.

‘She wouldn’t be watching from the sky.’

But Declan didn’t shatter Airi’s still childlike pure heart.

Instead, he looked up at the sky together with her.

“Whatever the case, I hope the Magi would just disappear….”

Airi bit her lips tightly.

The place where the meteor shower they had tried to make wishes upon had disappeared.

Declan and Airi.

Only the gazes of the two remained.

* * *

However, the Magi emanating from Declan and the Magi flowing from Berry were different things.

Just because the ‘potion effects’ applied to Declan were wearing off didn’t mean the same was true for Berry.

So….

The next morning at breakfast, Airi boldly declared to everyone.

“Grandmother, Grandfather, Father, Seraphine, Berry!”

“Yes?”

“From today on, Berry and I have decided to spend 24 hours together.”

There was exactly one thing Airi could do right now.

Stick closely to Berry’s side and monitor his abnormal behavior.

However….

“…?”

The carrot in Berry’s hand dropped onto the table with a thud.

Declan swallowed as if he had expected this.

Looking back and forth between Declan and Berry, who weren’t objecting to her words, Airi spoke with even more emphasis.

“We’ll stick together so closely that we’ll even brush our teeth together.”

“….”

“And Berry has to share everything with me, including combining our diaries. Because….”

Berry’s face turned bright red at Airi’s sudden obsession.

But regardless, Airi remained firm.

Thanks to that, the only one getting frustrated was Seraphine.

“Why on earth!”

“….”

“Why are you the one acting obsessed! I can’t approve of this marriage!”

“It’s not marriage, Seraphine.”

“Haah….”

Airi’s eyes became triangular at Seraphine’s grumpy attitude, as if he was about to rebel against her opinion.

An attitude like dealing with an immature younger brother.

“All of this is for a greater cause.”

At those words, Seraphine’s gaze wavered.

“Whoa.”

He expressed the shock he received in just one word, but the other family members’ language was a bit richer.

“Our baby didn’t mispronounce ‘greater cause’….”

“She’s become so smart….”

At her family’s praise, Airi tried hard to press down her shoulders that were about to rise up.

‘I need to observe more diligently.’

Teenage Airi.

Still at an age where family praise feels gratifying.

So Airi failed to notice.

That Berry’s face had gone beyond beet red and was completely burning up.

* * *

…A week passed like that.

“Berry Berry.”

“….”

Berry was adjusting the bandage tied to his fingertips when he glanced back.

Cookie was looking at him on behalf of Airi, who was nodding off.

“You’re out of your mind, completely out of it.”

“….”

“Why do you keep getting distracted?”

Those words were right.

Berry always moved together with Airi even while exterminating magical beasts.

However….

There were countless battles after that, and fortunately, he was able to continue showing his prowess in front of Airi.

However, no matter how many demonic beasts they defeated, something felt strange.

When night fell, it felt like no memories remained at all.

When darkness descended, Berry would often look up at the moon.

Strangely, every time she looked at the moon, her throat felt parched.

At those times, forgetting that someone was beside her, she would clench her fists and then open them.

She had confided this fact to Airi before.

However, Airi would only nod as if it were nothing serious.

“I see.”

“…”

“It’s okay. Everything will be fine.”

A strangely lukewarm attitude, different from when she would speak with obsessive words about observing her.

So while Berry dutifully reported her situation to Airi, she couldn’t say anything more than that.

This continued as time kept flowing by.

But right then it happened.

Airi, who had been dozing off, showed Berry a paper diary.

“Berry, now write down everything that happened today.”

“…What?”

“But you can’t look at the front pages.”

Airi had been observing Berry all along, then suddenly brought a small diary at some point.

Then she told Berry to write in the diary every day as she finished each day.

Berry had absolutely no intention of going against Airi’s words, so she just answered “Yes,” but…

[Demonic beast extermination.

The day I looked at the moon together with Lady Airi.]

‘The handwriting is crooked and bothers me.’

How was yesterday.

She recalled Airi’s words, but strange curiosity took precedence.

So secretly, when she sneakily flipped to the front page…

[…I caught one demonic beast, and a crystal heart came out from inside it.]

Crystal heart?

‘I don’t remember anything like that.’

Was this really her own handwriting?

‘It does look like my handwriting though…’

Could a person forget what happened yesterday?

Berry’s blue eyes wavered briefly, then became hazy again.

But Airi quietly watched Berry and said.

“Berry, don’t look at the front pages. Just focus on writing what happened today. Everything you remember.”

Since childhood, Airi’s words were always right to Berry.

So Berry began writing letters with the quill pen Airi handed her, scratching away.

“…”

“Because I can protect you.”

She draws strength from Airi’s small murmur.

It can’t be helped.

Since childhood when she held Airi’s hand, that has been an unchanging truth.

So Berry quietly looked at the writing on the front page of the diary, then turned her gaze away.

“Yes.”

Even if something was strange.

“I’ll try my best to write.”

Because the hand she held together with Airi was warm.

She intended to do what she could.

So Berry once again slowly began writing in the diary.

[When I look at the moon…]

…Very honestly.

[My throat feels parched.]

And…

Capturing the sensation she would surely forget by tomorrow.

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