The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 45

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Episode 45

Serafin glanced at Declan, who was still awkward around him, when he suddenly realized.

‘I should have figured it out from the beginning when he called Dad “Elder”!’

But it wasn’t too late yet.

The great black dragon Serafin was in this family after all!

“You’re curious about Mom, right? I’ll definitely tell you about her later!”

“Um, I’m perfectly fine without it…”

Anyone could see this was a strange response, so Serafin was rather flustered.

“R-really?”

“If you want to show me, you may.”

Though she said that, she didn’t really want to see ‘Mom.’

The existence called mother was like an alien to Airi.

‘Very, very unfamiliar.’

The only memory she could recall about her parents, from when she was Airin, flickered through her mind like a panorama.

“Poor little Airin. She’s a child abandoned by her own parents.”

“I told you not to say such things where the child can hear.”

“But still, how can parents abandon their child? Getting blinded by remarriage and a fresh start…”

“Get out, get out!”

As she recalled the conversation between Grandmother and her friends, the remnants of those memories gradually overlapped in her mind.

To drive away those unpleasant remnants, Airi spoke cheerfully.

“Then you’ve finished drawing all the portraits now?”

“Y-yeah.”

…Serafin was a bit flustered.

‘She’s never even met Mom.’

She was acting exactly like a child who had been deeply hurt by family.

So Serafin was a little worried about Airi’s behavior.

Nevertheless, Airi remained cheerful.

“Then I’ll go back to my room now!”

This was strange.

‘Was she always that small?’

She was always cheerfully clenching her fists and punching the air.

But today her retreating figure looked so small.

He wanted to run after her like a strong boy and hug her tight.

But he felt like he shouldn’t disturb such a small child.

So Serafin stayed still.

Then, Declan looked at Serafin and spoke.

“…Serafin.”

“Yes?”

“Let’s have a conversation for a moment.”

* * *

“Serafin, have you become quite close with Airi?”

“Um, just…?”

Should I say we’ve become close, or not?

He thought of his round little sister who stuck to the floor like a tiny tot.

Her round eyes were gentle and cute, though.

“I think we’ve become a little close.”

That kid was quite wicked, but still, she might have become just a little close to him.

But right at that moment.

Seeing Serafin all tense, Declan spoke first.

“It looks like you two will hold hands and cause trouble together.”

“I-I don’t cause trouble. I’m an honor student.”

“Right, I checked your Academy grades. Your grades are good too. You got first place as soon as you entered second year. Except for home economics class.”

“…How did you know?”

He thought his father had no interest in him whatsoever.

“I receive all the reports.”

Declan couldn’t be affectionate toward Serafin, just as he couldn’t with Airi.

He wanted the child who would have to lead this family after his death to become strong.

But when he saw Serafin hesitating to approach him.

He realized that he should interact with the child at least a little while he was still alive.

‘When I die, only Serafin and Airi will remain in Ortezo.’

Declan quietly looked at Serafin.

“Well done. And thank you for doing so well.”

At those words, Serafin’s eyes widened.

Serafin was thirteen years old.

He had a distant relationship with his father who was always away at war.

But today Serafin vaguely felt.

‘Maybe Father cares about me and Airi a little too?’

Maybe it was really just because of the magi that Father couldn’t get close to him.

Coming to understand his father’s heart.

It felt like he was perhaps reaching the beginning of adolescence.

* * *

The next morning.

Airi had quickly overcome her past trauma.

‘I was being stupid. The honor of a taekwondo practitioner was tarnished!’

Forget about the foolish Airi of the past!

Only Airi, who would become an incredibly powerful warrior, remained.

Airi, who had come over to Serafin’s room through the side door, looked at him proudly.

‘The last of the magi is flowing out from Serafin!’

Perhaps because he had completely opened his heart?

Right now, magi was seeping out from Serafin.

And she had absorbed it all!

Perhaps because the black flame dragon that had been stirring in a corner of his heart had disappeared.

Serafin had gentle eyes.

‘Is the concept of mother really that significant? Enough to open his heart so very much?’

Airi only knew Grandmother.

Her maternal grandmother had told Airi, ‘I’ll tell you about your mother when the time comes.’

Airi suddenly became curious, just briefly, very briefly, about the mother who had left them with purple eyes and departed…

Airi remembered how Serafin had been crying with a runny nose.

‘If I ask, he’ll cry again, since he’s a crybaby?’

So Airi didn’t ask about their mother, ‘Olivia.’

Anyway, Airi was used to enduring things.

Like a martial artist!

Airi chuckled softly and watched Serafin diligently writing a letter.

“I’m absolutely not going to show you this.”

“I had no intention of looking! Secretly reading other people’s letters is wrong!”

“…What, what’s this? This kid is incredibly thorough.”

Instead, Airi sat next to Serafin as he wrote his letter and began writing a small note.

Homework: 【Observation Journal of People Around Me, Serafin】

0. Very awkward.

1. A crybaby.

2. Can’t draw well.

She was diligently racking her brain and moving her pen when Serafin suddenly screamed.

“H-hey! What are you doing!”

“Why are you like that?”

“…I’m not a crybaby! And I draw well too! Do you know what my Academy subordinates call me?”

“What do they call you?”

“They call me the great Lord Serafin who possesses tremendously strong darkness of darkness.”

“Gasp, saying all those words. Your throat must be hoarse.”

“…That’s not what’s important right now! It means they praise me like that, hmph.”

Praise Serafin?

The image of a sycophant with a bushy mustache sprouted up in Airi’s mind.

“I’ll invite my subordinates later too and show them how amazing I am!”

Not knowing what grand ambitions Serafin harbored.

Airi slightly covered with her hand and continued writing more in her Serafin observation diary.

It was the final version of the observation diary that she would absolutely never show to Serafin.

0. Very awkward. : But there was a reason for being awkward!

1. A crybaby. : But that’s much better than being cold-blooded.

2. Can’t draw well. : But he made me and Elder hold hands!

Airi giggled and closed the 【Observation Diary】 again.

Then this time, very seriously, she took out a new piece of paper and began writing.

It was a letter to send to her beloved Grandmother in the Southern Region.

The hectic, chaotic Northern Region life with no time to breathe!

Meanwhile, anxiety was slowly creeping into Airi’s heart.

‘Grandmother, is she staying healthy like a plump little puppy?’

The identity of that anxiety was precisely.

‘She didn’t forget me like candy, did she?’

…that.

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