The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 40
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Episode 40
Right. The opponent is five years old.
Unlike himself who was thirteen, she probably wouldn’t know a difficult word like ‘sympathy.’
More than that…
‘…What, she’s not scared?’
Then, the tiny child spoke solemnly.
“Anyway, you must use proper and kind words with your younger sibling. I won’t accept otherwise. Now please lie down.”
Despite trying to act solemn, her voice was strangely squeaky, and he found himself lying down on the bed without realizing it. Serafin frowned with a bewildered expression.
“Hey, you, what, what did you do? Why is my body automatically following your words!”
The strange magical tool in Airi’s hand glowed red.
Airi lifted up a white paper she had brought from somewhere and diligently wrote letters.
“How have you been living lately? From what I know, your day and night are reversed.”
“Like a great knight of the Northern Region, I sleep during the day and work at night. So what.”
Day and night reversed. Night owl. Condition serious.
“What? Condition serious?”
“Hmm, are you eating properly?”
“I eat well. Like a future dragon slayer should. Yesterday I even ate as many as three pieces of salty jerky. It was an incredible luxury.”
Three pieces of dried jerky would be a top-class full meal for a powerful warrior.
Right when he smiled with satisfaction.
Airi muttered ominously.
“Tsk. The condition is really very serious…”
“…?”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I was lacking in manners.”
The girl who rolled her eyes held up a card.
Sweet taste, sour taste, delicious taste… A child lacking in just all tastes
In the dim place, only Airi’s eyes shone sharply.
“What am I lacking?”
What on earth was this tiny child trying to do?
At that moment!
A cozy blanket flew onto Serafin who was lying on the bed.
“Kuh, kuk…!”
…The thickness of the blanket was extraordinary.
It felt like it was pressing down on his very heart.
“What! The great knights of the Northern Region don’t cover themselves with blankets…”
“Fluffy?”
At Airi’s solemnly squeaky question, Serafin ended up confessing the truth.
“…It’s fluffy.”
Damn it.
Serafin didn’t sleep well, and he didn’t cover himself with blankets well either, but this blanket was definitely the best among all the blankets he had ever used!
In an instant, his bloodshot whites rolled around. Airi quietly offered something sweet to the thirteen-year-old boy.
“Now, please drink a cup of warm milk and go to sleep.”
“Originally, great berserkers drink coffee, not milk.”
“Oh my, I thought so and brought milk mixed with grain powder.”
What on earth was grain powder?
Serafin’s expression twisted.
Regardless, Airi kept pushing the grain powder toward him.
Serafin unconsciously sniffed the smell.
‘Now that I smell it, I know. This is…!’
“It’s a drink that grandfathers would like…!”
“Yes, that’s right! You know!”
“What, you. Do you have grandmother tastes?”
“Yes! That’s right! How did you know?”
It was clearly an attack, but Airi was purely happy at those words too.
When Serafin’s expression twisted in dismay at his critical hit failing.
Airi politely offered the cup.
“Then please drink it.”
Serafin’s body was forcibly raised. The flustered Serafin moved his body wildly.
“Wh, what is this? It feels like someone is controlling my body!”
His hand was forcibly receiving the cup of grain powder!
“Wow!”
“You, you! What on earth did you do!”
“I used the magical tool that the head butler grandfather gave me and it’s good.”
“Da, damn! Evil! Are you from our family? Ah, probably so…”
Serafin, who was forced to drink a cup of grain powder, opened his eyes wide.
It was clearly like bean water that only grandmothers would drink, but it was strange.
‘Why is it delicious?’
After finishing it all, his body was laid down again.
‘Strange. My body is really strange!’
Usually he would be full of irritation due to magic penetrating his body.
The wrinkles that had been deeply set between his brows gradually disappeared.
He had clearly been living a life of sleeping during the day and waking at night.
Strangely, even though it was night now, he kept getting sleepy.
“You brat! Wh, what did you do to my body!”
The purple eyes that had just been round until a moment ago felt very wicked.
Normally he would have definitely jumped up, pointed fingers, and made a huge fuss.
Because his stomach was satisfyingly full.
Because the blanket pressing down on his body was strangely cozy.
The evil black dragon that would have been writhing in one arm quietly died away.
That day, for the first time in his thirteen-year life, Serafin fell into a deep sleep.
Meanwhile, seeing Serafin sleeping while even snoring, Airi laughed wickedly.
‘Good. Everything is going according to my great plan!’
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The next morning.
Serafin opened his eyes with great anger.
“Damn it! What on earth is this?”
The servant who heard the loud scream hurriedly entered Serafin’s room.
“Master Serafin, what’s wrong?”
Serafin shouted with an expression like the sky was falling.
“Why did I become a morning person!”
“Well…?”
“Well what!”
The servant who was looking at Serafin with a sour expression quietly recited.
“Because you slept in the evening and woke up in the morning?”
“This is illegal!”
Serafin protested with a powerful voice.
‘This is troublesome!’
His tremendous status was crumbling!
Serafin lowered his voice quietly.
He even made such a terrifying expression that the servant was startled enough to fall over.
“Servant.”
“Y-yes?”
“Bring that cute little one here right now.”
“Cute… little one?”
“Shimmering silver hair. Soft purple eyes. Small, chubby hands.”
“…Are you referring to Lady Airi?”
“Yes! Why can’t you catch on? Servant!”
“…”
Why indeed…
But the servant chuckled inwardly.
‘She has no mother, and it’s difficult for her to get close to Lord Declan.’
Declan had kept his distance from not only Airi but all family members due to the dark magic ingrained in his body.
The only difference between Airi and Serafin was that Serafin was powerful enough to reside in the Northern Region.
The situation that made their relationship inevitably distant was similar.
So the servant hoped that Serafin would become sufficiently close to Airi.
He wanted her to have a place to attach her heart, so she wouldn’t wander like other children.
“…Yes, I understand. I’ll bring her right away.”
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“Gasp! It’s morning!”
Serafin didn’t even need to go look for Airi.
Airi came running toward Serafin with quick, pattering steps.
“What is it, Circle!”
Looking at Serafin’s eyes filled with hostility, Airi smiled brightly.
“The sun is shining brightly, so we must do exercises!”
“What, what exercises?”
“Lord Serafin is living with wrong habits every single day!”
“…?”
That was correct.
It was certainly true that he was living a wrong life…
“So this is definitely a tremendous problem!”
When Airi shouted loudly, Serafin involuntarily shrank back.
“Now! Follow me! First of all, number one!”
“…I won’t follow!”
Serafin was definitely about to leave this place.
If only Airi hadn’t said just one thing, that is…
“We need to start with mental education, but what should we do?”
If only she hadn’t said that rotten, useless phrase ‘mental education’ that Professor Mellen spouted every day whenever he looked at his face!
“You, you, you, did Professor Mellen put you up to this?”
“Melon? Wow, melon sounds delicious!”
What conversation could he have with a child who thought Professor Mellen was a melon?
He lost all motivation.
What crept into the place where motivation disappeared was precisely…
‘I’ll use this little one.’
It was malicious feelings stemming from evil dark magic.
True to someone who had returned from the darkness, he knew how to use even a small child.
He spoke arrogantly to Airi, who had no idea she was being used.
“Then, fine. How do you do this mental education thing?”
He would find out what this ‘mental education’ was from this kid and mock Professor Mellen to his heart’s content.
Suddenly, Airi’s eyes sparkled.
“Finally, you’ve taken interest in mental education. Kuhuhuhuh.”
His body flinched.
‘Why does that kid look more evil than me?’
Because of that kid’s evil-looking expression, the malicious feelings Serafin had harbored inwardly shrank away.
“I’ll bring a skilled assistant, so wait here.”
Naturally, Serafin was planning to torment that kid thoroughly.
Apart from mental education, he felt good thinking about making her look dismayed by running wild while waiting!
But…
“Waiting here quietly and still is also a type of mental education.”
Ah, so what the hell is that damn ‘mental education’ anyway!
So Serafin couldn’t even properly run wild.
Trapped by that wicked 5-year-old’s clutches, he had no choice but to wait obediently!
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