The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 74
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Episode 74
“Besides, if that child looks at me with that cute and lovable expression and calls me ‘Grandmother,’ I’ll give her my liver, my gallbladder, and even my heart.”
“No, madam! Why are you thinking so seriously about it again?”
Watching her clutch at her neatly combed hair, Milligan shook his head inwardly.
Yelshanad muttered with the most ominous expression in the world.
“She’s so cute I want to kill her, really.”
This wasn’t a figurative expression. If she said she’d kill someone, she actually would.
Milligan’s spine instantly turned cold.
“St-still, saying you’d kill her is a bit…”
She scraped the desk while holding a butter knife in her hand.
“Madam! Please, please come to your senses!”
He sighed deeply and firmly grabbed Yelshanad’s shoulders.
“You can’t get this excited, madam. You need to think about your ear.”
At those words, Yelshanad’s rampaging body came to an abrupt stop.
Cracks instantly appeared in her excited expression.
“Ah, that’s right. I should.”
Her hair, which always covered her ears, fell back with a rustling sound, revealing what lay beneath.
On Yelshanad’s left ear was not a human ear, but the ear of a hostile dark elf monster.
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So, five years ago from now.
Yelshanad had rescued the corpse of a comrade who had nearly been eaten alive by dark elves.
As a result, her left ear was consumed by the monster’s curse.
But since it was something she had to do, she didn’t regret it.
However, ever since the monster’s curse took over her left ear, endless sounds of war echoed in her ears.
Sometimes, intermittently, whenever she closed her eyes, she even saw cruel visions of her comrades being dragged away by monsters.
This time was no different.
“Please save us!”
“Please rescue us, I beg you!”
Her comrades’ final cries rang clearly and bleakly in her ears.
“Why didn’t you protect us! You’re the one who killed us!”
The screams of countless imperial citizens echoed in her ears.
The guilt of failing to protect them weighed down on her body.
Their screams and fear-filled gazes gradually rose in her mind before disappearing.
Having finished her recollection, Yelshanad looked at him calmly.
“Yes, I need to calm down.”
Milligan looked at Yelshanad with a pitying expression as he gently touched her ear.
The monster’s ear was something that could neither be removed nor healed.
No being could save Yelshanad from the terrible auditory hallucinations.
‘Unless God takes pity and performs a miracle.’
Perhaps that’s why.
Yelshanad’s temperament gradually grew colder and she isolated herself.
For Yelshanad, who heard the sounds of hell, only the gramophone remained as a friend.
Only the old music flowing from it became her companion.
But still.
Milligan somehow felt that Airi would become salvation for Yelshanad.
So he tenderly touched her ear and whispered.
“Madam, do you know? Our Airi has brought many things to the Northern Region.”
“…”
“So please be good to that child. Do everything she wants to do.”
“…”
Yelshanad thought.
That she truly wanted to do that.
But what could she do about a body that became violent because the child was too cute?
* * *
In just one day, Airi had barely escaped from the great frustrating situation called 【Failure of Special Move】.
Heroes don’t stay frustrated for long after all!
Airi decided to carry out the 【Become friends with Yelshanad! And find out the secret of left and right!】 project.
And the first person she needed to meet to carry out this project!
That person was none other than!
“What, you’ve been having so much fun playing with Grandmother lately.”
Declan Ortejo, who would be Airi’s Elder.
Airi sat on a sofa seat far away from him, swinging her legs back and forth.
“That’s right! I’m super super excited!”
At the diagonal seat across from the sofa.
Declan, who was sitting at his office desk, put down his quill pen with a sound and spoke with a grumpy expression.
“So, you want me to help you become friends with Grandmother?”
“Yes!”
“You already seem close. You play together more than with other family members.”
“Grandmother doesn’t like me very much.”
Airi’s expression became dejected.
“But still, I will become friends with Grandmother! And I’ll become super super strong!”
Watching Airi earnestly lay out her aspirations, Declan rubbed his face wearily.
Why did she have so many burdens on her shoulders despite being only five years old?
Declan hoped the child would just say she wanted to have various things and just play.
“After you become friends with Grandmother.”
“Yes.”
“…Should we all go on a picnic together as a family, somewhere far away.”
He took a light deep breath.
It was because one side of his chest somehow felt heavy as he said these words.
Airi quietly looked at Declan.
Then she curved her round eyes gently into a smile.
“A picnic sounds so good!”
Before long, Airi was shaking her head back and forth, tilting it this way and that, and whistling as if excited.
Airi’s beaming smile came into his view.
‘So this is what it feels like to have all fatigue washed away by a child’s smile.’
Even with all sorts of annoying matters piled up.
‘Not bad.’
Making him think he wanted to live longer.
Was she perfectly motivated now?
Airi swung her radish-like legs wildly as she spoke.
“Then Elder! Please quickly tell me how to become friends with Grandmother!”
“Alright, I got it. Then I’ll tell you how to get along with Grandmother. What you do is…”
“What you do is?”
“First, go and charge at her.”
“…?”
“Just barge into that room, greet her, and purify her right away. She’ll like it.”
He didn’t bother adding that your grandmother seemed to have reached the point where she couldn’t stand it anymore without showing how much she liked you.
She wouldn’t believe it anyway.
Instead, Declan said to Airi.
“When you came here. Do you remember the map I gave you?”
“Gasp! A secret passage map!”
He grinned wickedly and winked.
“Look at that, and break into that passage.”
But Airi was a child steeped in Confucian ideals.
“That’s illegal-da. Illegal? Die? Invasion? That kind of thing-da.”
“It would be illegal trespassing… Not dying.”
Airi nodded earnestly as if she understood.
Of course, she didn’t understand anything at all.
Then, Declan spoke meaningfully.
“But now that I think about it, the owner of that map using the secret passage is proper etiquette, right? It’s written in Article 19, Chapter 1 of our family’s etiquette laws. Not using secret passages goes against proper manners.”
“Huh, gasp.”
Airi became confused once again.
The public morals Airi had learned so far clashed with this family’s etiquette.
‘Wh-what’s right?’
A whirlwind called confusion was raging in Airi’s heart.
Noticing this fact, Declan’s voice lowered seductively like a snake.
“So just try using it once. Think of it as an .”
She hadn’t been able to take etiquette lessons anyway since Grandfather Teacher had urgently left for the demon front!
Suddenly, Airi’s eyes grew wide.
* * *
In the end, Airi used the secret passage to secretly infiltrate Grandmother’s room.
Cookie kept grumbling from inside her pocket.
[Wow, that Elder has a wicked silver tongue. Playing around with a five-year-old like that.]
Airi couldn’t understand what Cookie was saying. Moreover, her head was very complicated right now.
‘How can I become friends with Grandmother?’
Airi pondered deeply even while infiltrating through the secret passage that led close to Grandmother’s room.
Then she knocked on the door.
“Who is it?”
“Gr-Grandmother… Hello-da!”
“Why did you come.”
She, who had been looking at Airi bowing her head, slightly moved her foot.
It was a silent signal to come in.
“So I came because I have something I want to ask you-da!”
But here’s the thing.
Before she could even ask anything, demonic energy spread out abundantly from Grandmother’s body.
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