The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 63

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Episode 63

Serafin rummaged through the offering box placed beneath Mother’s portrait.

Serafin’s expression looked so sad while searching through the offering box that no one could say a word.

Instead, Airi stared at the small cube placed in front of the offering box.

“Here, take this.”

“…?!”

She should be happy to receive a gift.

She should tease Serafin, who thought he was the smartest and most lovable child in the world.

Airi’s eyes wavered, unable to find their bearings.

It felt strange that ‘Mother’ could be someone who would give her something.

Serafin whispered softly.

“Everyone in the world wanted this, but she left it here saying she had to give it to you!”

“….”

Airi couldn’t bring herself to speak.

Suddenly, a voice echoed in Airi’s mind.

“I feel like I shouldn’t have given birth to her. She doesn’t feel like my daughter. I can’t form an attachment….”

“Isn’t it just postpartum depression lasting longer? They say attachment forms depending on how you approach it.”

“No. Since I didn’t give birth to her from my own womb, she feels exactly like someone else’s child.”

The words her mother from her previous life had said kept coming back to her.

Was that why?

‘That’s not right. A mother wouldn’t love me.’

Serafin tapped Airi’s shoulder and said.

“Father was huddled in a corner crying ‘wah wah’ every day. Because he missed Mother.”

Question marks appeared simultaneously on Karhen and Airi’s faces.

No matter how they thought about it, they couldn’t imagine the Elder huddled in a corner crying ‘wah wah.’

But Serafin continued speaking confidently, as if it were natural.

“So let’s make sure no one else dies like Mother or cries like Father.”

Serafin’s words sounded exactly like a hero of justice.

“The three of us will save the White Knight Order!”

Then Cookie peeked his face out from the pocket and sent a telepathic message.

[Yeah, let’s go! Like heroes of justice! And eat some magi to get stronger while we’re at it!]

Airi quickly stuffed Cookie back into her pocket.

Then she looked at the woman in the portrait.

She still didn’t know if she could call Olivia ‘Mother.’

But Airi recalled Serafin’s sad expression.

She also imagined the scene of the Elder crying ‘wah wah.’

If other people felt as sad as Serafin who lost his family, or like the crying Elder, it would break her heart.

“Alright. Let’s go save them!”

The righteous journey of the little trio began just like that.

* * *

“There’s something we need to do first!”

“What is it?”

“We need to go inside the subspace of this cube!”

Serafin seriously lifted up the cube to show them.

Then he carefully acted, recalling what Mother had said long ago.

When Serafin threw the cube up into the air.

The cube dispersed into the air and created a small door.

Serafin made a puzzled expression looking at the darkly tinted door.

“Wh-what? It’s too dark.”

“It looks like a door.”

Despite Karhen’s clear answer, Serafin didn’t move.

Airi, who was watching Serafin, tilted her head.

“Can’t we just go in?”

Airi took a bold step toward the black door.

Then Serafin looked at Airi with an amazed expression.

“I was going to take deep breaths for about 3 seconds before going in! Why are you so brave?”

“…?”

“Alright! Then let’s go!”

“…?!”

Was it because she had boldly stepped forward first in front of the dark door?

Airi ended up becoming the leader among this trio.

But Airi, being a former class president and Serafin’s younger sister, quickly became absorbed in her ‘leader role.’

“Then, excuse us. The three of us will go inside!”

Airi boldly entered the subspace first.

As soon as she entered the subspace, what Airi saw was a long corridor.

And at the end of the corridor, she could see a small room.

Serafin, befitting an authority on ‘Magi Stagnation Syndrome,’ said.

“You know what? They said the Void of Annihilation where the White Knight Order stays has Ouroboros drawn in front of the door.”

“Then….”

Airi looked at the door visible at the end of the corridor.

“There’s a snake drawn on that door! This might not be the right place….”

“A snake? Damn! It’s not Ouroboros?”

Then Karhen, who had quietly followed behind them, spoke.

“No, it is Ouroboros. Because Ouroboros is a snake.”

At that moment, Airi and Serafin’s gazes turned toward Karhen.

Thinking he had spoken up unnecessarily, Karhen’s ears turned slightly red.

“Wow, that’s really amazing. How did you know?”

“Karhen, genius….”

And so they ran all the way to right in front of the door with Ouroboros drawn on it.

Everything was so easy.

Finding the cube, and locating where the White Knight Order was!

Cookie, who was quietly trapped in her pocket watching the situation, sent a telepathic message.

[Doesn’t it feel like someone is showing us the way, telling us we have to do this? Can we really trust this? Usually this is when heroes fall into traps.]

But it didn’t feel like falling into a trap.

It felt like someone other than Grandmother or Master was protecting her.

“I think it’ll be okay.”

So Airi decided to trust her instincts this time.

But perhaps a hero’s path is always full of obstacles?

When they arrived right in front of the Ouroboros door.

They encountered powerful magi seeping out menacingly.

“This must be the spear-like magi that ‘Magi Stagnation Syndrome’ patients emit.”

“….”

“It might attack us as soon as the door opens.”

Airi glared at the door and thought.

‘What should we do?’

* * *

After identifying the White Knight Order’s location and exiting the subspace created by the cube.

Karhen, Airi, and Serafin gathered again in Airi’s bedroom.

But unlike Karhen who remained calm and Airi who was deep in thought, Serafin was devastatingly disheartened.

“Sigh, did you see? The magi turned into spears and tried to escape outside the door! Right!”

“Yes, I saw it too.”

“So I wasn’t the only one who saw it! We need to save our family’s knights, but what should we do? No one would be able to help us, right?”

Karhen spoke calmly.

“That’s right.”

Serafin grabbed his own hair with the resolve to tear it out, gripping it tightly as he muttered.

“Damn demonic energy XX! If only I could have blown that away with my sword!”

Though Serafin was swearing, this time Airi didn’t tell him to ‘mind his manners.’

He must have believed he could save the White Knight Order if only he had the ‘cube that Mother gave him.’

Even with the cube, the situation where he couldn’t save them must feel hopeless.

Airi understood that Serafin was deeply heartbroken.

But right at that moment, Serafin stopped muttering his curses.

‘Serafin, did you suddenly mature?’

As she watched with suspicion, Serafin stomped his foot hard.

“I just realized a way.”

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