The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 62

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Episode 62

That woman…

‘She died, very honorably.’

Declan muttered quietly.

“So purification is impossible?”

“Yes. Even if a 5-star Purification Mage came, it wouldn’t work, unless there’s a miracle.”

“For now, station the Purification Mages and doctors near the subspace.”

“Even though there’s no way to enter the subspace from outside?”

“…Still, do it.”

“Yes, sir.”

If Purification Mages wouldn’t work, he had to find an alternative.

These were people who sacrificed themselves for the family, for the bloodline of Ortezo.

He couldn’t just leave them abandoned like this.

‘I need to investigate properly, what kind of situation it was.’

He hastily threw on some clothes and stepped out into the corridor.

But…

“Wow! Elder!”

Airi, who seemed to have finished her lessons, was walking along with her school bag slung over her shoulder.

Even in this situation, she looked like a little chick. But he needed to give Airi a warning.

“I’m going out for a bit, so stay here quietly. Don’t cause any trouble.”

“Me? I’ve never caused trouble, I’m a well-behaved child.”

A faint smile appeared on Declan’s tired face.

“Liar, you cause trouble all the time.”

“No I don’t! Hmph!”

As Airi’s cheeks puffed up with indignation, Declan said.

“This won’t do. Stay with your brother and friend. Just play together in the room, like normal kids.”

With those words, Declan left.

Airi, left alone in the corridor, tilted her head.

“What’s going on…?”

The Elder looked very weary and lonely.

Airi, left alone like that, also began to dwell on the bitterness…

“Oh my, little round miss! Why are you here alone! Lord Declan said to stay with your friends!”

…but couldn’t.

Airi, dangling from the servants’ hands, was carried toward her room.

“Let’s go quickly!”

Airi was transported while being carried princess-style by the muscular maids.

Wait, where are we going?!

* * *

“What is this…”

Karhen, Airi, and Serafin.

The servants had gathered the three children, who suddenly had nothing to do, in one room.

Serafin muttered with a humiliated expression.

“The, the servants dared to carry me here in a princess carry!”

Next, seven-year-old Karhen spoke maturely.

“I walked here on my own feet. They told me to stay with Lady Airi.”

Airi frowned and said.

“Why won’t they tell us anything at all?”

“I heard rumors. They say the Knight Order people went to die because they caught some kind of dammo.”

“Dammo?”

While Karhen and Airi were wracking their brains.

Thirteen-year-old Serafin, who had somehow become quiet, opened his mouth.

“Not dammo, but dapbo. Someone must have caught Magi Stagnation Syndrome. That’s why… Now I understand.”

Wh-what?

“Don’t look so surprised. I’m naturally smart. It’s a disease that makes people slowly die, ‘Magi Stagnation Phenomenon’, or ‘Magi Stagnation Syndrome’. Their very existence becomes magi, so they can’t be where people live. That’s why they went somewhere deserted.”

For the first time in her life, Airi thought Serafin looked competent.

“You know, do you want to know why I know so much about ‘Magi Stagnation Syndrome’?”

‘For some reason, he looks sad.’

Airi said boldly.

“Huh? Of course I don’t know!”

“Then, follow me here. I’ll tell you.”

Serafin glanced at Karhen and said.

“You, you come along too?”

“Me?”

“It’s absolutely, absolutely not because I’m worried Karhen might feel left out, absolutely not!”

Serafin made a “tch” sound and boldly led the way like the academy’s top leader.

Serafin stomped away irritably.

Behind him, Karhen muttered “What’s soae…” and followed obediently.

Even Karhen, who seemed so adult-like, was still seven years old.

* * *

The place Serafin brought Karhen and Airi to was a small corridor on the top floor of the Haunted Castle.

Thanks to the adults being away handling the incident, the corridor was quiet.

Airi, arriving in front of the corridor lined with portraits, was genuinely amazed.

“Wow! So this is what real portraits look like? They’re completely different from the portrait Serafin drew before! They’re super cool!”

Serafin stood tall.

“I, I can draw well too!”

“Yes, Serafin can draw.”

Cookie looked briefly and thought.

That means he can’t draw.

“…”

Serafin pouted but didn’t say anything more.

Instead, he guided Airi and Karhen.

“You know, about mom. Do you remember? When you were in her belly.”

“There’s no way I’d remember that…”

“Hmm, really? Mom and I always sang to your belly. Saying we wanted to see you soon.”

Serafin, who had been chattering away, made a “huh” sound.

“Ahem, ahem. Well, it’s not like I really wanted you to be born. Just, well, just saying. Don’t misunderstand.”

“I won’t misunderstand.”

“…What?!”

Serafin, who had been going back and forth like moving from a cold bath to a hot bath, said.

“Anyway, not me, but mom waited a lot for you in her belly, and loved you that much.”

Because Serafin hadn’t forgotten what his mother had said.

And on the day he was drawing the portrait.

When talking about mom, he had somehow sensed that Airi’s expression was a bit strange.

So he just added a word.

“Why aren’t you answering?”

“I’m not thinking about anything particular.”

To Airi, it was natural for parents to dislike her.

So the words ‘mom wanted to see you’ felt unreal.

But right then.

Serafin cleared his throat as if he was about to get to the main point.

“You know, the reason I know about Magi Stagnation Syndrome is this. This time, someone in the White Knight Order got the same disease as Mother. Just like our mother. So, so that’s why Father left….”

Serafin looked at the portrait like someone who had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Then he rummaged through the small altar and offering box placed beneath the portrait.

“Y-you shouldn’t touch those things carelessly.”

“What does it matter? There’s no one here. And….”

Serafin gulped nervously.

Despite committing the rude act of carelessly touching the offering box, he looked uncomfortable.

“…Mother, I mean, before she went to Heaven.”

“…?”

“She said she would hide the ‘method to cure the disease’ under her portrait. So Mother said that later, if someone with the same disease as her appeared.”

“If they appeared…?”

“She told me to give this cube to the smartest and most lovable child in the world.”

Airi rolled her eyes around and around.

‘How do we find the smartest and most lovable child in the world?’

That itself was an enormous challenge!

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