The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 69

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Episode 69

 

“Mugwort rice cake! Rainbow rice cake too! And super duper delicious Grandmother’s special sweet rice drink!”

 

Watching Airi count on her fingers one by one as she spoke, he said.

 

“…I don’t know what those are, but I’ll have the chef prepare them.”

 

“Yes! Elder, you can eat with me too! Ah! And there are friends who helped with this!”

 

“Were you found out? Your identity.”

 

“Karhen helped so I wouldn’t get caught! Karhen is very smart!”

 

“…”

 

“…Smart!”

 

Airi was still bright and innocent. She seemed to think his silence was because she hadn’t used formal speech.

 

‘Should I consider this fortunate or not.’

 

“Alright, I understand. Who are those friends? Don’t they need anything?”

 

“Oh, there is! So very much! I actually have a favor to ask!”

 

Airi smartly pulled out a note she had brought from her pocket.

 

Belize, Dinan: Good with spears and swords.

 

Saal, Lireed: Let them live somewhere green (with friends and animal friends too!)

 

Karhen: Dreams of being a super cool knight!

 

“This isn’t difficult. I’ll send Belize, Dinan, and Karhen to the Knight Order to start as pages. They’ll get paid too.”

 

“Huh, huh!”

 

“Saal and Lireed… I’ll let them tend the garden. There’s hardly any nature in the Northern Region, but I’ll send them there later when it appears.”

 

“What about Serafin?”

 

“Serafin is.”

 

“Please give Serafin lots and lots of secret praise!”

 

“…Yes, I should praise him.”

 

“Wow! That’s really difficult! Thank you!”

 

The truly difficult thing was something else.

 

The adult world that this child didn’t know about.

 

“Now that the White Knight Order has been revived, people are extremely curious about you. They want to use you too.”

 

Airi’s eyes grew wide.

 

“So I’ve prepared a plan to make sure they absolutely can’t find you. Want to hear it?”

 

Declan’s lips curved into a rare gentle arc.

 

* * *

 

One day later.

 

The Hybrid Creature Friends gathered again in Airi’s Room!

 

These ones who had become very close while carrying out their secret grand operation.

 

“Wow! The Knight Order suddenly scouted us!”

 

“I’ve been watching the Knight Order forever! I practiced with swords and spears all day yesterday!”

 

“XX was awesome, it was the best!”

 

“We’re playing with people, and surprisingly everyone likes us! They like that we eat with our hands too!”

 

While they were having such a pleasant conversation, the child who had become obsessed with the ‘great Purification Mage who purified the Northern Region’, Serafin, came running frantically.

 

“I heard incredible news! It’s chaos right now, chaos!”

 

“Karhen, you heard too, right? Airi, you’re the only one who doesn’t know?”

 

“I don’t know either.”

 

“The identity of that great person who gave us our grand mission has been revealed!”

 

Airi thought of Declan.

 

‘Ah, he said he’d make sure it wouldn’t be revealed!’

 

Airi’s eyes blazed with a sense of betrayal.

 

“This is said to be that person’s portrait! I managed to get the latest newspaper!”

 

Serafin unfolded the tabloid he had carefully tucked away in his pocket.

 

Airi felt like her heart was about to burst out of her chest.

 

‘Did I really get found out!’

 

For Airi being a Purification Mage to become widely known to the world.

 

Then was this a picture that Serafin would now worship of her?

 

“I humbly greet the great Purification Mage Airi. From now on, I shall make delicious rainbow rice cakes with my own hands!”

 

…Wait, this might actually be okay?

 

With slight curiosity and doubt, Airi took the portrait Serafin handed her.

 

“Wh, what is this.”

 

Airi’s expression became stunned.

 

“…It’s, it’s a grandfather?”

 

“Well, someone with that level of skill would be a grandfather.”

 

Airi’s eyes shook violently.

 

How could this happen!

 

The Great Mage isn’t a grandfather though…

 

Facing this child who had received the greatest shock of her 5-year-old life, Karhen read the newspaper.

 

“It says it’s either a grandfather or a genius young man in his early twenties.”

 

There was another portrait too.

 

It was a very handsome man in his early to mid-twenties with red hair and green eyes.

 

‘A man, a grandfather! So very different from me!’

 

Anyway, among their Purification Mage candidates, there was no little child.

 

‘Is, is this fortunate?’

 

But for some reason, frustration came rolling in like thick clouds.

 

Airi collapsed onto the table.

 

She could hear Serafin chattering away excitedly for a long time.

 

“If it’s a grandfather, he’d have lots of mustache hair too! How was it when you actually saw him!”

 

At those words, Airi decided on her position toward Declan.

 

‘He was a very very mean Elder!’

 

…Elder, I’m going to hate you!

 

* * *

 

The White Knight Order had returned alive, and the identity of the Purification Mage saving the Northern Region had also subtly been unveiled.

 

While Ortejo Castle’s festive atmosphere continued endlessly.

 

There was one person, no, existence that was completely isolated from the festive mood.

 

Airi’s summoned beast, the palm-sized gingerbread Cookie.

 

“Why on earth!”

 

Cookie clenched her round fists and spoke passionately.

 

“Nobody knows what you did! Why on earth!”

 

“Well, I’m a ‘secret agent’!”

 

“But it’s so annoying that people don’t know, even if they don’t know! I used your purification power to make food and brought it to them! Anyway, it’s not like the king has donkey ears!”

 

“C, calm down, Cookie.”

 

“I wish everyone knew, so why don’t they knooooow!”

 

Airi slipped out of the room with Cookie tucked snugly in her arms.

 

Like a puppy, maybe Cookie’s mood would improve if she took her for a walk!

 

But it was when she came down to the first floor of the castle.

 

In front of the Main Castle door, it was full of small children and women.

 

Since it was usually a quiet place, she looked at the crowd with curiosity, and people wearing White Knight Order uniforms were gathered near them.

 

Airi stood blankly watching them.

 

“Father, you came back alive!”

 

“Papa!”

 

A child riding on Belkhan Captain’s back was smiling brightly.

 

“I love you, Father!”

 

The Haunted Castle where sunlight didn’t shine well.</

However, somehow it seemed like warm sunlight was shining between the child and father.

 

That wasn’t all.

 

The Deputy Captain was wiping sweat from his forehead in front of an old woman with white hair.

 

“Well, um, I’m not sorry for making you worry.”

 

“This son with average Northern Region manners, not even sorry, this unfilial child… Hey you brat, do you know how long I waited!”

 

“But I came back, didn’t I?”

 

“Right, then let’s drink and catch up today.”

 

It felt like a somewhat different kind of reunion, but love was still visible.

 

“Nobody needs to know what I did!”

 

“…”

 

“Everyone became so very happy, so that’s enough!”

 

Cookie in her arms sent a telepathic message.

 

[Still, it’s touching. Seems like you saved them well.]

 

Airi nodded her head.

 

The White Knight Order members who had briefly greeted their families took a step away to officially confirm they had completely escaped from the demonic energy.

 

So Airi quietly approached closer to them.

 

But something unexpected happened.

 

The White Knight Order members and even their families were smiling brightly toward Airi.

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