The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 72
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Episode 72
‘What’s on that wall?’
It was the first time Grandmother had stared so intently at a wall!
So Airi stood on her tiptoes and tried to look at the Troll Wall, following Grandmother’s gaze.
But she couldn’t understand at all why anyone would look at a wall with trolls dangling from it.
What’s more, while she was looking at the Troll Wall, Grandmother had already left!
‘What could it be?’
…It was completely beyond Airi’s little head to understand!
Airi brought her round, chubby hands to her head in frustration.
And then, like saviors, the servants appeared before the dejected Airi.
“Lady Airi, why are you here? Let’s go have your round meal!”
“Huh! There it is.”
“Yes?”
“Why does Lord Yelshanad keep looking at the Troll Wall?”
“Ah, that.”
Actually, there had been talk among the servants about this.
How Yelshanad would stare at the Troll Wall for long periods every day before suddenly disappearing.
“We don’t really know either. She’s quite difficult to understand.”
“Maybe she just thinks those trolls are kind of cute?”
“If it’s Lord Yelshanad, she’s someone who could keep even giant trolls as pets! Hehe.”
At those words, Airi glared at the Troll Wall.
Then the maids made an “oops” expression.
“Oh, Lady Airi is scared of the Troll Wall, right? We didn’t think of that! This stupid head!”
“Huh? I’m not scared!”
“…What? Even most Northern Region children are afraid of it!”
Eyes curious about whether she was being sincere.
But Airi really wasn’t scared at all.
Airi raised her hand high with sparkling eyes and shouted.
“The trolls look like Tyrannosaurus!”
“Ty…what?”
“They look like Triceratops too!”
That’s right.
Trolls?
To Airi, who grew up looking at dinosaurs during her time living in Korea, they weren’t objects of fear.
They were just exciting prey.
So then…
‘Operation: Get close to Grandmother by using the Troll Wall she likes!’
Clench!
Airi squeezed her fist tight.
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The next morning.
Yelshanad was about to look at the Troll Wall as usual, near the study on the 4th floor.
She looked at the troll with a bewildered expression.
A prettily knitted hat had been placed on top of the ugly troll’s head.
‘Who on earth did this?’
Yelshanad stared at the wall with an expressionless face.
And she soon found the person who had done this ‘deed.’
At the end of the corridor, a child less than half her height was peeking around.
“Oh! Good morning! What a coincidence!”
Airi came running over excitedly.
“Isn’t the knitted hat really, really cool? The troll that Grandmother likes got a wonderful hat! So, are you feeling better now?”
“Ah…”
“You seemed to really like the Troll Wall!”
Even the servants who were just eavesdropping nearby didn’t know what to do with Airi’s cuteness.
But Yelshanad still had an expressionless face.
“I don’t like it. I was just looking.”
“…”
“Seeing you flatter me, you must want something from me.”
Airi nodded earnestly even in front of Grandmother, who was radiating cold energy.
Then Yelshanad asked.
“So, what do you want from me?”
“I want to become close! With Grandmother!”
“…”
Eyes as cold as northern winds and snow swept over Airi.
A feeling of hair standing on end all over her body.
A sensation of eyebrows bristling.
Her heart seemed to grow chillingly cold.
Even so, Airi endured it.
With the well-founded belief that ‘all white-haired people like me!’
She held her pounding heart tight and looked at Grandmother.
Grandmother, who met Airi’s eyes, strangely averted her gaze.
“I.”
“Yes!”
“Don’t want to become close.”
The door closed with a bang.
Without another word!
Airi froze like a dog that had been chasing chickens.
* * *
Airi stood quietly in front of Grandmother’s doorway.
‘Is, is this a dream?’
She had even given her a knitted gift, yet Grandmother turned her away!
Shocked, Airi stood in front of the door for a long time, making the servants look worried.
“Lord Yelshanad is always like that! But today she said two more words than usual!”
“Usually ‘get lost’ is average!”
“Lady Airi, please don’t be too heartbroken! You’re a round little baby, so stay round!”
She could hear the cheerful servants’ words, but Airi could only barely nod her head.
Airi trudged back to her room.
After curling up like a bean on the bed, strange thoughts kept coming to mind.
Cookie asked.
“Wow, geez. She’s got a really prickly personality. You okay? You had expectations!”
“That’s not it.”
Airi bolted upright from the blanket. It was so fast that Cookie almost got crushed into crumbs.
“It’s strange! I saw Grandmother’s magic mist, definitely!”
“What?”
She had definitely seen dark mist while talking with Grandmother.
Mist that looked to be at least 3-star grade.
What’s more, it kept getting absorbed into Airi.
“That can’t be. That ‘black mist’ can only be seen in close relationships, right?”
Airi was confused too.
“That’s why I absorbed it too! Look at me!”
It felt like a ring of purification was spinning in her stomach.
Moreover, her body felt incredibly refreshed, giving her the sense that she had become quite strong.
“Good, let’s check it once.”
Cookie extended her hand and showed Airi’s status.
[‘The World’s Strongest Hero’ Airi’s Purification Power Status Window!]
2-Star: Light ‘Tree’
□□□□□
(…)
2-Star: Light ‘Tree’
■■□□□
[Special Ability!]
-Can imbue a specific ‘existence’ with 1-star level purification power.
“Gasp, it’s, it’s real? You went up two whole levels at once?”
“Yeah!”
“What? Is there some kind of error? That’s magic energy, right? From what I could see, it absolutely, absolutely didn’t look like it liked you. No, it looked like it completely despised you!”
Airi was initially shocked by the word ‘despised.’
But without getting discouraged, she spoke cheerfully.
“I need to find out why!”
Until now, gaining Grandmother’s favor had failed time and time again!
But now it was time for Airi’s incredible ultimate technique to appear.
Airi raised her round fist into the air and spoke solemnly.
“I’m using it, my ultimate technique!”
From experience, an incredible ultimate technique that fifty out of fifty people would love!
“Cookie.”
“Yeah?”
“Are there pears or bellflower roots in the kitchen?”
To unleash her ultimate technique.
Airi was planning to make full preparations today.
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