The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 207

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Side Story 7

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“You’re lovely today as well.”

Inside the Jackvell Duke’s Glass Garden.

In front of the beautifully bloomed flower bed, Jackvell Marquess was constantly caressing Isadel Marquess while embracing her from behind.

That sight was a little… to Airi’s eyes.

‘Unfamiliar and strange.’

…It was somewhat awkward, but if the two of them were happy, that would be good.

Airi and Berry watched the two people’s love play from a distance.

Isadel Marquess’s expression still looked anxious and pitiful, but nevertheless, she somehow seemed to have mustered some courage.

“Let go of this, Jackvell. People are watching.”

Jackvell silently gazed at her quietly. A subtle crack appeared in his expression. He murmured softly.

“If I send the people away, can I hold you?”

“That’s…”

“I’m asking if you like me.”

The courtship of the man who loved Isadel was persistent. Isadel only moved her lips quietly. Watching her like that, Jackvell stroked her hair. As if telling her to speak slowly. As if he would listen to all her words.

Encouraged by his warm touch, Isadel murmured very quietly.

“…You know what? When you like someone too much, you want to run away.”

“When you like someone too much, you want to run away.”

“Yes.”

He who had been slowly savoring Isadel’s words chuckled.

“Really? You must like me too much then.”

That was the end of it.

Jackvell Marquess was an arrogant duke who had never experienced loss.

He couldn’t even imagine the shadows remaining in Isadel’s heart, who had grown up abused due to her lowly birth.

He simply laughed lowly while holding her tightly from behind, like a boy fallen into the fever of first love.

“When I like someone too much, I want to hold them like this.”

His voice subtly lowering, his attitude whispering affectionately.

“Yes, there is such a thing.”

“I will never run away.”

“…”

“I’ll keep holding onto you every time you want to run away.”

But Isadel Marquess looked up at him quietly. With a feeling as if her throat was burning, she moved her lips.

“…No.”

“Hm?”

“Don’t do that.”

“…”

“Just… be happy. With my child.”

…As if nothing in the future could ever comfort her.

With a face so transparent it seemed like it would disappear at any moment.

She moved her lips.

While turning away from the beloved man who was holding her while looking at her belly.

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Isadel looked at the window.

She had already come to love Jackvell Marquess far too much.

Loving the child in her belly was the same.

So…

Isadel clutched her belly.

“Hybrid monsters manifest their demonic traits when they are at their most vulnerable…”

Until now, Isadel had never once thought about what ‘being most vulnerable’ meant.

Because she had always been weak.

But now, she seemed to understand that her frail body could become even weaker than it was now.

During childbirth, when nursing the child after birth. At those times, she would surely become weak.

If that was the case…

She had to leave.

For the child’s sake as well.

And for her husband’s sake as well.

She quietly gazed at the snowy plains spread beyond the window.

Then she exhaled several times, over and over again.

She had to leave.

To save him.

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After breaking all the memory orbs, Airi and Berry remained silent for a long time.

Isadel Marquess had left Jackvell Marquess.

“Because she was a hybrid monster… afraid she might kill both her husband and son.”

“…Yes, that’s why.”

“…”

“How foolish. As if that would happen.”

Berry chuckled.

The face of the boy who had once lived as a slave named ‘Karhen’ was somehow cynical.

“What’s so special about being a hybrid monster… Instincts are something that can be eliminated.”

But then, Airi tightly grasped Berry’s hand.

“Berry.”

“Yes.”

Airi gripped Berry’s hand and met his gaze.

Because somehow now, there seemed to be subtle cracks in Berry’s eyes.

Her eyes turned toward Berry.

“That’s not it. Lady Isadel must have truly loved Berry.”

“Well, if she truly loved me, I don’t think she would have headed to the snowy plains with a young child.”

At that dry response, Airi pondered for a moment.

Berry seemed to notice that his words had been somewhat cold.

He carefully opened his mouth.

“…Sorry, Airi, it’s not your fault. I was being sharp, wasn’t I?”

Airi shook her head.

She understood Berry. If he could remain calm after seeing the past where his parents went their separate ways, he wouldn’t be human.

But Airi really wanted to say one thing to Berry.

That was…

“About Lady Isadel. She really did love Berry. We saw the last moment of her memories, didn’t we.”

…That was right.

The end of the memories wasn’t when she headed to the snowy plains.

Until Lady Isadel hid herself in the snowy plains and suppressed her instincts as a demon.

She lived in a small cabin and constantly wrote about Berry.

From the situation, it seemed she planned to return to Jarkvel Domain once she became strong again.

And it also seemed she intended to reveal herself to Jackvell Marquess.

If her situation worsened, it seemed she even thought of going to Jarkvel Domain to at least entrust Berry to them.

That was surely something that couldn’t be done without love.

“She earnestly wrote down how to discipline Berry too. Like a child-rearing diary.”

“…”

Seeing that writing was just for a brief moment, but…

“It said ‘I love you’ there. I saw it.”

At Airi’s words, Berry slowly closed his eyes.

He knows it too.

That the situation got twisted, went wrong, and so she ended up dying.

What that small orb showed was just a tiny fragment from Marquess Isadel’s long life, but now Berry knew.

She wasn’t just a miserable person.

She was once happy, a woman who was loved, and a mother who knew how to love her son.

In Jackvell Marquess’s warm memories, she was alive.

She worried about being discovered as a hybrid monster, was anxious and restless. But even so…

‘She wanted to live.’

Airi hung her head low.

Her own mother had returned alive, but somehow she felt sad and upset.

‘Can’t I use divine power or something like that anymore?’

She wanted to let Berry meet his mother directly too.

Maybe, just maybe…

Berry’s mother might be watching from the Heavenly Realm too.

And Airi knew an expert in this field.

She was none other than…

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“Did you finish watching the orb, my daughter?”

“Mother!”

Airi smiled brightly. Then she opened her mouth.

“My baby. What’s wrong?”

“Mother.”

Airi snuggled into Violet’s embrace and hung her head low.

So you see, maybe, all of this…

“Can Berry meet his mother too? Like me.”

…How should I put it, that kind of feeling.

At those words, Violet’s expression changed subtly.

As if she was looking at someone who had opened Pandora’s box.

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