The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 200

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Episode 200

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“My son-in-law came, so Dad prepared the food himself.”

“What son-in-law! Add ‘prospective’ to that.”

“Oh right, prospective son-in-law. You’re so petty anyway…”

“What kind of petty father-in-law would personally make food for his son-in-law to eat?”

“Fine, fine. I get it. Oh! The pot-au-feu is burning.”

“Ah, right.”

A simple meal prepared directly by Declan and Olivia.

Fortunately, the afterglow of the cheek kiss had completely disappeared by now.

But Olivia winked as she ladled soup into bowls.

“Anyway, Declan, you’d be in real trouble if our daughter did something like kiss someone, wouldn’t you?”

“Yeah, I’d be in trouble.”

“…”

“I’d die.”

Airi looked at Declan with a suddenly chilled expression.

“Be, Berry would die?”

Was Dad really that scary of a person?

If so, Berry was already confirmed dead.

Just as Airi’s vision began to blur,

Declan held his forehead and quietly muttered.

“I would. I’d die.”

“…”

“I really would die, but still, after she becomes an adult…”

Seeing Declan’s dejected appearance, Olivia grinned and tapped his cheek.

“Get a grip.”

“I don’t know. I won’t get a grip. Even my son Serafin, now that he’s grown up, just sits on Grandmother’s lap… I raised my kids well and they’ve all been stolen away.”

After Declan grumbled for a while, he combatively lifted a spoonful of pot-au-feu. Olivia snatched his spoon away and said,

“Stop grumbling. What do you mean stolen? Are you a child?”

“Well, no.”

Olivia slipped the spoon into Declan’s mouth and winked.

“Then eat quietly.”

Watching the bickering couple, Berry smiled warmly.

However, Airi’s mind went completely blank.

Dad had only imagined Berry and Airi kissing.

And even with just that, he was already completely deflated.

But what would happen if Airi said she had already kissed Berry on the cheek twice?

‘Dad really seems like he’d die…’

Airi made a serious resolution.

The cheek kissing incident with Berry.

This matter would be a secret she’d take to her grave.

However, the ‘cheek kissing incident’ was revealed to the world in an absurdly anticlimactic way.

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Airi ended up having an ‘additional meal’ with Serafin and Grandmother.

“How can only Dad and Mom eat soup!”

“Huh, did Serafin get upset because we didn’t call him? Oh my…”

“Me and Grandmother should eat too!”

‘…So that’s what he meant.’

Was it because of the incident when Airi became a ghost and disappeared to the Papal States when she was young?

Both Serafin and the family were being overly protective of Airi.

So Airi ended up having a second meal that wasn’t in her fate.

‘Though I didn’t expect to see this unfamiliar side of Serafin.’

After gaping at the sumptuous feast of food that Melissa Marquess Grandmother had prepared,

Airi was shocked to see her grandson Serafin stuck right next to Grandmother’s side.

“Serafin… Have you lost some dignity?”

“That’s not it…!”

At first, Airi thought Serafin was sitting on Grandmother’s lap with his large frame.

But when she rubbed her eyes and looked again, he was just clinging right next to her.

Serafin’s face, stuck like gum to Grandmother’s side, turned bright red.

But still,

Serafin didn’t stop what he was doing.

Melissa Marquess Grandmother whispered solemnly.

“Yes, my child.”

“…”

“Kiss.”

With a beet-red expression, Serafin gave Grandmother a cheek kiss and quickly moved away.

“Yes…”

Airi was still ‘almost an adult’ by her own perception, but Serafin was already an adult.

For such a Serafin to kiss Grandmother as if mustering great courage.

She could understand why Serafin’s face had become a bright red beet.

It was such a different course of action from when he was raising a black flame dragon on one arm.

“What!”

“Hm?”

“You’ve done it too! Cheek kissing!”

Then, Berry…

“Ah, yes.”

…Berry answered immediately.

“Wh, what, why are you answering?”

Though he had become a devoted grandson, Serafin’s eyes, which were basically sharp when it came to Airi’s affairs, shook roughly.

“So, so you mean. Surely not.”

“Yeah.”

“Su, surely not!”

Airi nodded her head.

“Just the cheek.”

“Gaaaah…”

Serafin made a sound of despair.

Grandmother’s eyes were also shaking.

But still, Grandmother was a bit more composed.

“I, I see. Our baby is now going to have her debutante ball and become an ad, adult.”

“…”

“She’s still five years old in Grandma’s eyes though.”

Seeing their attitudes, it seemed like a major storm would arise regarding her romance with Berry.

But Airi was secretly relieved.

At least it was fortunate that Dad didn’t find out, right?

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That evening, at Ortejo Duchy Castle.

Having eaten too much and taken a nap, Airi tilted her head when she saw the maid who came to call for her.

“Um, Lord Declan is calling for you.”

“Huh?”

“He said to come with Lord Berry.”

On the way to the Ortejo Family Room with Berry, who was resting in the guest room after finishing their date.

The atmosphere of Ortejo Castle felt as quiet as if Declan, the family head, had died.

The closer they got to the family room of Ortejo Castle, the more serious the atmosphere became.

“Yes, you came well.”

Declan, whom they met again after a few hours, had dark circles under his eyes as if he were bedridden with illness.

Berry, Airi, and Declan sat facing each other on the sofa.

Declan spoke in a dying voice as if he had no strength left to talk.

“The news…”

“Yes?”

“I heard…”

Berry asked politely like Airi.

“What news are you referring to?”

With a face that looked like he might die at any moment, he muttered.

“You two, kis…”

“Ah.”

Declan quietly recited as if he couldn’t continue his words.

“I heard a very unseemly incident occurred…”

Airi thought of Serafin’s meddlesome behavior.

Father found out about the ‘cheek kiss.’

Then she should simply admit it.

Heroes don’t lie, after all.

“Yes!”

At that spirited response, the area under Declan’s eyes became even darker.

He looked as if he had been struck by magi.

Then, Berry quietly said.

“To be precise, it was two cheek kisses.”

“Two times!”

“Yes. But we won’t do anything more than that. Originally, you should never do anything beyond cheek kisses.”

Berry added seriously.

“I thought my heart was going to burst too.”

Declan’s expression rotted away. It was exactly the expression of someone whose heart might burst.

Without noticing his expression, Airi looked at Berry with curious eyes.

‘How does Berry say embarrassing things so casually?’

Airi’s ears turn red when she says embarrassing things.

But did Berry sense Airi’s curious gaze?

Berry looked at Airi quietly, then smiled broadly.

“I’ll express myself more often for Airi’s share too. That works, right?”

“Huh…?”

“That’s okay, right?”

Suddenly, she felt embarrassed, as if Berry had read her mind thinking ‘I don’t think I could say such embarrassing things.’

As Airi’s cheeks gradually turned red, Declan gritted his teeth and muttered.

“Making romantic statements in front of me, excluding only me…”

“Yes?”

“Do you want to make romantic statements too, Father?”

At Airi’s words, Declan sighed deeply and muttered.

“Still acting like such a baby…”

“…”

His eyes flashed as he emphasized to Berry.

“Really only cheek kisses. As a father, you might think I’m being too strict.”

“Oh, I don’t think that at all!”

“R-really?”

“Me too. I know that Declan loves Airi, that’s why you’re like this.”

Declan reached out both hands and ruffled Airi and Berry’s hair affectionately.

“Even when you love someone, you shouldn’t restrict them… It’s just that it feels like yesterday when you were both like little children. I guess I haven’t adjusted yet.”

“Yes.”

“It seems like it’ll take some time before I can let my child out of my arms.”

Berry said warmly.

“Yes, I’ll handle any situation completely.”

As if he had been waiting for those words, Declan smiled wickedly.

Berry, it seems like you pressed some kind of serious button.

“Then the future looks very promising, hehe.”

Berry, I hope you can come back alive.

Airi’s romantic commotion, no, her first cheek kiss commotion flowed by so boisterously.

Airi looked at the two people with a bright smile.

Declan with his thoroughly mischievous expression, and Berry with his sage-like expression.

In this flowing daily life, if there was one wish.

It was that she didn’t want to lose these precious people beside her in this reclaimed daily life.

Just like until now, continuing into the future.

She wanted to be happy, warmly bickering with the people she loves.

【A Confucian Child Saves the Villain Family】 Epilogue Complete

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