The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 55

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Episode 55

As he gazed at the crack in the earth with trembling eyes, mysterious smoke seeped out as if stretching itself awake.

And a vague, formless existence dominated the entire atmosphere around them, consuming everything.

The air also settled heavily.

‘What on earth is this being?’

The power of this intense energy he’d never seen before seemed to bind his entire body.

At first glance, it was clearly a Summoned Beast with tremendous power.

The densely swirling mist-shaped Summoned Beast sent him a telepathic message.

[Who are you?]

“I am the master who hatched you, Summoned Beast.”

Then, the smoke writhed and approached Milligan, wrapping around him as if trying to form a bond.

[I see. You are my rightful master.]

Milligan closed his eyes and waited for the bonding.

But right at that moment.

The smoke that was about to seep into his embrace suddenly stopped.

[However, I must go meet my ‘benefactor’ first.]

“Benefactor…?”

[Yes. I must repay the debt to the one who purified the land so cleanly that I could be born, then return.]

“N-no. When will you repay this debt and return?”

[Wait patiently, human who will become my master.]

Just as Milligan wore an expression of bewilderment, the Summoned Beast’s smoke gradually dispersed.

“Wh-what is this?”

The moment the flustered Calven froze. Milligan quietly muttered.

“Suspicious.”

“…”

“Some strange person has done a favor for the Summoned Beast, becoming its benefactor.”

He laughed ominously.

If so, he would find out.

Just what kind of person had touched the land.

‘Probably someone very powerful and great.’

“Perhaps it’s someone old who dislikes getting involved in worldly affairs. They might be hiding among the servants, so I’ll search for them.”

“Yes, let’s go together. Deploy people. Right now.”

And so, Sea King Milligan Ortejo, his advisor Calven, and including them, countless elites in the Northern Sole Mage Tower.

All these people began pursuing the ‘Summoned Beast’s benefactor.’

In other words, they started chasing a single five-year-old child, Airi.

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At the same time, Airi quietly crept into the room.

‘I want to quickly tell them that I purified the land!’

But she was told not to let other people discover her ‘strong power.’

Airi decided to meet Milligan first.

She planned to run to him immediately and boast that she had prepared amazing land for hatching a Summoned Beast.

But Milligan wasn’t there.

So Airi thought for a moment, then knocked on Declan’s study door.

“What is it?”

Airi folded her body like a folder and bowed deeply.

“Elder, have you been in good health and spirits?”

“You’ve learned something strange again. What is it this time.”

Airi quickly straightened her bent waist.

Dark circles were deeply set under the Elder’s eyes.

‘Elder must be very busy!’

Then she’ll get straight to the point.

“I have something very amazing to tell you, Elder.”

“Really? I just had something to say too.”

“Yes? What might that be?”

“There seems to be a ghost attached to your back.”

“…?!”

Forgetting what she was going to say, sweat dripped down Airi’s spine.

“A, a ghost you say?”

“Yeah. A really strangely shaped ghost.”

“Huh, huk…!”

Declan’s lips curved mischievously.

In truth, this was all petty revenge against the child who only called his grandfather ‘Grandfather’ while addressing him formally as Elder.

Then Airi’s complexion turned pale.

“Wh-where is the ghost?”

“Behind you.”

At that moment.

Airi rolled her round feet frantically and ran out.

“Wh-whaaaaa!”

Even a child with strong physical power is still afraid of ghosts.

The Elder’s small laughter could be heard from behind her.

“No, I got rid of it all. Come back!”

“I can’t do iiiiit-!”

And so, Airi, completely terrified, helplessly returned to her room.

Right after walking into her room.

Airi rolled her round feet and drooped her eyebrows downward.

“Th-the Elder talked about ghosts so I forgot and couldn’t say it! I was supposed to tell him that I purified incredibly powerful land, and now a Summoned Beast can be born!”

Airi was also a child after all.

When one strong topic came up, she had a tendency to easily forget other things.

Then, Cookie said nonchalantly.

“Well, you can just tell him right away. And besides, your Elder did exorcise the ghost for you… wait, that’s not right? Huh? What’s this?”

“Hm?”

Wasn’t there some fluffy stuffed animal on Airi’s bed?

It was a fluffy green lizard-shaped doll.

“That’s strange. I don’t have a doll like that.”

Moreover, that doll was getting slightly closer every time Airi looked away.

‘That thing is somehow very suspicious, right?’

Airi glanced sideways at the suspicious doll.

“D-don’t come closer!”

Then the doll stopped with a thud.

Airi opened her eyes wide and pointed at it.

“I-it definitely moved.”

“Yeah, it moved!”

Cookie and Airi simultaneously shouted at the cloth doll.

“Wh-what are you? G-go away!”

Did it get scared by the loud shout filled with the spirit of the hero and summoned being?

Then the green lizard-shaped cloth doll drooped its tail downward.

[@%!#$#@$…]

After leaving behind a single word.

This small lizard doll hid itself in a gloomy and desolate manner.

Airi and Cookie, who witnessed the entire scene, fell into great shock.

‘Is, is it really a ghost?’

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Grandmother in the Southern Region, Melissa Marquess, had sent a letter recently.

After saying ‘We’ll meet soon,’ there was a proverb that Grandmother had written for her.

‘Adding insult to injury’.

She said it meant that after Airi’s chubby cheeks disappeared, even her soft belly fat would disappear too.

When she first received the letter, the child didn’t understand what Grandmother was talking about.

But Airi had just now painfully realized the meaning of that proverb.

After driving away the terrifying moving lizard doll.

“Huh, they say a summoned beast was born but then disappeared?”

“Yes, that’s what they said. So please be careful. You never know where a summoned beast might be.”

Airi and Cookie looked at each other.

“A summoned beast that disappears as soon as it appears—it must be out of its mind.”

“Summoned beast, ran away maybe.”

What could be the reason?

Feeling upset, Airi decided to capture the summoned beast.

However, it had already been an hour since she enthusiastically set out to find the summoned beast.

Airi hadn’t found the summoned beast.

No, far from finding the summoned beast, she had encountered the lizard doll again.

Airi glared with fierce eyes.

No wonder her shoulders had felt heavy lately!

A lizard-shaped cotton doll was dangling from her shoulder!

“Why are you here?”

Airi, who had been playing some incomprehensible game of tag with the cloth doll, finally exploded.

“This is so annoying!”

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