The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 79
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Episode 79
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When Taria Marquess finished all her schedules and returned to the Southern Region.
Melissa Marquess, who had been worried sick from days of crystal orb calls, was hurriedly preparing to head to the Northern Region.
“Marquess! I’m back.”
“Oh, Taria Marquess. You’re here?”
“Yes. I also met with Lady Airi.”
“How is our baby doing?”
“They certainly seemed to be treating her well… The princess was also very excited.”
Even when listening to Airi’s words through the crystal orb, it had been confusing.
But now it was the same.
It was time to witness the situation with her own eyes and understand how the Northern Region was operating.
“However, the atmosphere was a bit suspicious.”
“…Suspicious?”
She reported everything she had heard and seen in detail.
“What? A dark pond, and what’s this about equipment?”
“It does feel dangerous, doesn’t it?”
“Of course it’s dangerous!”
“So please be careful when you go to the castle. Since you’ve temporarily removed your divine power, you could be in danger too, Marquess.”
Melissa Marquess chuckled.
“Madam, do you think I’d be helpless just because I don’t have divine power?”
Taria Marquess carefully gulped.
Only then did Melissa Marquess’s powerful arms come into view.
“In my prime, I could tear apart bears with my bare hands.”
…That’s right.
Melissa Marquess.
She wasn’t actually an ordinary grandmother who was a former holy knight.
“Just because I lack something as trivial as divine power, do you think I can’t deal with things that bother my child?”
Taria Marquess thought to herself.
‘Anyone who touches Lady Airi might die immediately…’
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That night.
Thick fog hung around Ortejo Castle in the Northern Region.
Several sinister shadows moved silently in the dense darkness.
As if they had become part of the darkness itself, they hid among the thick bushes and circled around the castle.
“Finally, Declan Ortejo has taken the bait.”
Another figure muttered lowly while covering his entire face with a hood.
“Good news.”
Another voice was heard from within the smoke.
As if they had been waiting, their voices spread through the calm tension.
“So, the beginning is…”
“At that time, they say.”
They exchanged glances with each other.
The target was already decided.
The timing was also already decided.
They had planted numerous loyal followers for ‘that day’ and only the execution remained.
“Everything is only for That Person. Remember that.”
“Yes, sir.”
Just as the shadow that glanced at Ortejo Castle was about to gradually disappear.
One shadow’s hood was roughly pulled off by an invisible hand.
“Kuh, kuhehehehuk!”
“I caught a little rat that was scurrying around.”
“Wh-who…”
When the hooded shadow twisted his body frantically.
Declan’s lips twisted upward.
“It’s me, the owner of this castle.”
It was Declan who had been patrolling near the castle.
The expressions of the hooded men distorted at his sudden appearance.
However, after several of them moved instantly.
He could only catch the one guy whose nape he had grabbed.
Declan tilted his head crookedly and asked.
“What, trying to die again?”
And as soon as his words ended, the hooded man’s body collapsed to the ground.
Then, Raspen who came running hurriedly shouted urgently.
“L-Lord Ortejo!”
“What.”
“Did you kill him again? No, please control your temper.”
No, this is a bit unfair for me.
Declan frowned and said.
“We’ll strengthen the castle’s defenses for the time being. And it would be better to have hidden guards around this area.”
“Yes?”
“Soon, an important guest will come from the Southern Region.”
“Ah, that’s right. A letter came saying she would visit. But if it’s an important guest, shouldn’t you personally receive her?”
“Well, that important guest would hate to see my face, so I’m thinking of going out for a while.”
Declan shrugged his shoulders and left.
Raspen looked at his retreating figure with pity.
‘So why don’t you just say there was a misunderstanding?’
Melissa Marquess thinks of Declan as a scoundrel.
A ruthless person who forced her daughter to deploy to dangerous battles, ultimately killed her, and didn’t even bring back her corpse.
Declan had no intention of correcting the misunderstanding and remained silent.
‘It seems like it’s time for that misunderstanding to be cleared up.’
Raspen sighed.
‘What if the angry Melissa Marquess says she’ll take Lady Airi away earlier than planned!’
Then, Raspen suddenly thought.
‘No, wait. Lady Airi could clear up the misunderstanding between the two, right?’
While thinking that.
“Aren’t you following?”
“Yes, yes! I’m coming!”
Raspen hurriedly followed Declan.
Having to think about the identity of the mastermind spreading magi in the Northern Region, and worrying about his lord’s family relationships.
Today too, the chief aide’s day was arduous.
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The next day, at dawn.
As scheduled, Besiana Melissa Marquess appeared at Ortejo Castle.
She was a strong woman with upright spirit.
Her appearance entering Ortejo Castle with her back straight was like that of a general.
However, Melissa Marquess’s mind was quite complicated.
The gloomy weather, the cold climate where something that might be rain or frost occasionally fell, even the bloodstains of monsters clinging to the castle walls.
‘My child is living in such a dangerous castle.’
She gritted her teeth and entered the main castle.
Melissa Marquess’s expression looked like it would never become happy.
“Grandmotherrrrr!”
That is, until ‘our little puppy’ came running like crazy from the end of the corridor.
No, until ‘my child’ appeared.
Melissa Marquess’s face instantly brightened radiantly.
“Oh my, our puppy came? Oh, how precious.”
“Grand, Grandma I missed youuu.”
Usually, Airi always walked properly and quietly with perfect manners.
The servants were also surprised to see her run without hesitation and hug her grandmother tightly.
“Oh my, my child. How did you get so thin? Hmm?”
“Grandmother, I lost weight…”
Airi buried her face deep in Grandmother’s embrace and shook her head back and forth.
A satisfied smile appeared on Melissa Marquess’s lips at her characteristic whining.
“Oh yes, my child. So what did you eat today?”
“Nothing? Grandmother, I’m hungry! Make something delicious!”
But with Airi’s single comment, everything came to a complete stop.
“What?”
“Uh, huh? Grand, Grandma’s expression.”
Grandmother’s eyes flashed.
Airi instinctively realized she had pressed a button and her face turned pale.
“These people aren’t even feeding our baby properly?”
“N-no… I ate lots of delicious food! I’m just a little hungry today.”
At that moment, Grandmother’s thunderous command fell.
“What are you saying! Just now, I heard the crying sound my child makes when on the verge of death. Let’s go right now!”
She boldly spoke to the Head Maid beside her who couldn’t even collect her wits.
“Where is the dining room here?”
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Airi arrived at the dining room while being held in Grandmother’s arms.
And she encountered Yelshanad who had appeared in the dining room to eat.
The moment she met Yelshanad, Melissa’s expression turned cold.
‘This must be one of the people who neglected my child while she was starving.’
How hungry must she have been to make that crying sound my child makes before dying—hungry.
“Good day, madam.”
“Yes.”
As expected, not even a proper greeting.
‘Not much different from before.’
Back then, she allowed the marriage because her daughter liked him so much.
But to think he’d be this blunt and authoritative even toward his own granddaughter.
Everything was uncomfortable.
‘Seeing how she doesn’t find my child adorable, she has no eye for such things.’
Perhaps trying to maintain appearances in her own way.
Quite delicious dishes were set on the table.
Melissa Marquess stroked the head of Airi, who must have grown up being mistreated in this place, and said.
“My child, come here. Quickly, say ah.”
“But Grandmothers should eat first!”
“No. Grandmothers ate a lot, so it’s proper manners for our baby to eat first.”
Just as Airi was about to quickly open her mouth at the words that it was proper manners for her to eat.
Yelshanad with a cold expression picked up a spoon.
Airi tilted her head.
“Grandmother?”
She pressed down hard on the soft tofu with an expressionless face.
The soft tofu tore apart with a squish.
Then Yelshanad said to Airi.
“Ah.”
“…?”
She was bringing the spoon with soft tofu up to Airi.
“…Huh, what?”
“Say ah.”
With a displeased expression, Melissa Marquess said.
“Are you speaking to my little shit—I mean, Airi right now?”
“Yes.”
“I was going to give our baby a bite first.”
“Please do so. I’ll give her some too.”
Airi, caught in the middle, rolled her eyes.
It seemed like electricity was crackling between the two of them.
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