The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 56

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Episode 56

‘That doll that suddenly appeared is extremely suspicious!’

Airi grabbed the rag doll with her thumb and index finger while glaring at it fiercely.

Airi and the rag doll.

The curtain of confrontation rose between the two beings.

“The doll is smiling.”

“Y-yeah, it is.”

It was when Airi’s eyes widened greatly.

“What are you.”

Airi placed the green lizard-shaped rag doll on the bed and glared at it fiercely.

“You, you… you’re a ghost!”

If that’s the case, there’s only one answer.

Exorcism (physical)!

Airi seriously decided to punish that doll with her fists.

‘Because Monster is inside the cotton ball, so I’m not scared at all!’

But it was when Airi raised her fist with a grim expression.

Some kind of sound started coming from the doll.

[#!@$#!#%!#@%!@]

“…Wh-what?”

It was the strange mechanical sound she had heard before.

Airi blinked and looked around.

[!@#!@# is @#%@#$@ only @@#$@and…]

Airi tried squishing the doll around.

‘It seems like it’s trying to talk to me?’

When she pushed it to the side.

The rag doll’s eyes also moved smoothly.

When she endured the uneasiness and placed it on her knee.

The rag doll’s knees also twitched.

‘This rag doll is extremely strange!’

It kept sneakily approaching her and even bowed twice.

‘Bowing twice is what you do to dead people!’

The image of an ancestral altar flashed through Airi’s mind.

The faces of ancestors smelling incense from behind the folding screen passed by one after another.

‘I don’t know where it came from, but it seems like a very very evil doll?’

Airi glared at the fluffy rag lizard doll.

That thing was extremely suspicious.

But it was right then, during their intense standoff.

The voice of Duke Betchen, who was always confident, could be heard crying out in a pitiful voice.

“Raccoon! Where on earth are you going!”

“…?”

“C-come here. G-good boy?”

Airi heard the voice approaching right up to her doorway and cracked the door open slightly.

Even though he was a cowardly, despicable, and petty old man, he was still an adult, so she thought she’d open the door for him.

But then.

“No! Raccoon! Why are you darting into someone else’s room like that!”

The raccoon slipped right into Airi’s room.

Airi awkwardly bowed her head.

“Hello there?”

Then Cookie inconspicuously wriggled back into her pocket and sent a telepathic message.

[Seriously, this isn’t some animal farm, what with lizard dolls and raccoons and all sorts of things?]

But you’re a cookie too…

* * *

Somehow, Duke Betchen ended up sitting face to face with Airi.

The rumor that a summoned beast had been born in the Northern Region shook the entire Haunted Castle.

And it was a 4-star summoned beast at that!

Duke Betchen had been completely humiliated.

“Is that person the old man who got humiliated while trying to exploit our family?”

“Old man? You should call him grandfather.”

Good grief, he was so embarrassed and ashamed that he didn’t even have the energy to scold her.

His elite teams had long since departed to spread rumors about the ‘Perfect Purifier’ here and there.

But Duke Betchen couldn’t move.

It was because the raccoon kept trying to wander around this castle.

After hearing this whole story, Airi tilted her head.

The raccoon did look a bit pitiful with its tail drooping down.

But it kept pressing itself flat against the floor.

‘What’s this?’

Airi fell deep in thought.

The direction this little raccoon’s gaze was pointing was right toward the lizard rag doll.

* * *

At the same time.

Milligan and Calven were still chasing the summoned beast.

But it was difficult to confirm where the summoned beast had gone.

Declan, who had joined the ‘summoned beast hunt,’ made an incredulous expression.

“So, you hatched a summoned beast, and without even imprinting it, you let it go to become a grateful summoned beast.”

“When you put it that way, I look even more like an idiot.”

“You’re very perceptive.”

Then Calven carefully spoke up.

“Lord Ortejo, the summoned beast might have transformed its appearance. I would be truly grateful if you could search the surroundings carefully.”

Declan let out a hollow laugh while checking the cupboard in the kitchen.

“Right. That’s why I’m even looking at chipped teacups.”

That’s right. They were searching even the kitchen thoroughly like hunting for lice because they didn’t know where the summoned beast had gone.

“Oh, and I heard that summoned beasts feel extremely suspicious to those with abilities. How is it?”

“Hmm, suspicious energy.”

There were so many suspicious things in the Haunted Castle.

Though he often cleared them away because of Airi’s presence, such things frequently appeared before his eyes.

‘There was a ghost today too.’

He had exorcised it because it was clinging near his daughter.

“I’m not really sure.”

Then, Calven spoke as if giving a hint.

“Ah! I think it might feel like a ghost too.”

“…What?”

“I found such records when I looked through ancient documents. Though I’m not certain.”

Declan frowned and rubbed his face wearily.

Purified land, summoned beast, ghost.

And one purification mage who was the cutest person he knew.

Declan instantly reached one conclusion.

‘Could this be.’

Earlier, the child who had approached him and confidently declared ‘I have something to say!’

Yet the same child who ran away trembling in fear of ghosts.

“I am an incredibly strong and powerful warrior!”

What if that tiny child had purified the land where the summoned beast would hatch?

‘That can’t be. She’s dead last after all.’

His reason naturally said that there was no way Airi could have purified the land.

But his instincts as a father were reacting differently.

He felt that sensation of sirens blaring in his head, telling him his child had caused some kind of trouble.

So Declan didn’t hesitate and headed straight to the doorway of Airi’s room.

“Why did you come to Airi’s room? Could it be that this benefactor fellow is the servant staying by Airi’s side?”

Declan smirked as he looked at Milligan, who still couldn’t grasp the situation.

“Father, don’t you sense something from inside Airi’s room?”

The three men’s gazes gathered at the doorway of Airi’s room.

“I don’t know? Why did we come here anyway?”

“I’ll explain later. It’s urgent right now.”

Declan said as he gripped the spinning door handle.

“Airi, are you inside?”

But there was no response from within.

“If you’re there, I’m coming in.”

He didn’t delay and opened the door to Airi’s room.

And what appeared in his field of vision was exactly…

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