The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 87
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Episode 87
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About ten minutes later, inside the reception room.
The Eastern Marquisate lord, Penedeex, met with Airi.
After brief introductions, Airi also greeted Karhen warmly.
“Karhen is here too! Hello!”
Karhen also bowed his head with a nod.
It was Penedeex who immediately changed the cheerful atmosphere.
“Actually, I came to see you because I have something to discuss regarding Karhen.”
“Yes! Please tell me!”
He explained the circumstances of needing to find ‘Berry’ and then got straight to the point.
“…For that reason, I need a hybrid monster assistant, and Karhen happens to fit the conditions perfectly.”
“Oh my.”
“Karhen has agreed to become my temporary assistant if Lady Airi permits it.”
“Then what does a temporary assistant do?”
“They go around Ortejo Castle and outside the castle to search for people.”
Searching for people, he said.
Cookie muttered excitedly.
[This is the perfect job for absorbing mana!]
Airi, who had the same thought as Cookie, raised her hand high.
“Then I’ll be the assistant!”
The atmosphere instantly became awkward.
Airi rolled her eyes and looked at Karhen.
“Does Karhen want to be the assistant?”
“Well…”
Penedeex muttered quietly.
“Um, Lady Airi?”
“Yes.”
Airi straightened her shoulders and made her eyes sparkle.
At times like this, the instructors would say, ‘Oh, yes. Airin has good posture. Come to the front and show us a demonstration!’
“Lady Airi, you’re not a hybrid monster, so it won’t work. You’re disqualified.”
Airi lowered her eyebrows. Karhen, who caught a glimpse of Airi’s expression, immediately spoke up.
“I’ll do it, the assistant job.”
“Oh?”
“But if Lady Airi could also join…”
Karhen’s words gradually trailed off.
He had blurted out the words because Airi seemed sad, but after saying it, he judged that he had overstepped his bounds.
But right then.
Airi confidently stuck out her chest and said.
“Good!”
“Oh, I haven’t given permission yet.”
“Then I’ll enter as the assistant’s assistant!”
“…Excuse me?”
“I’ll become Karhen’s assistant! Right, Karhen?”
“Yes.”
What is this, why are both of them giving permission.
Penedeex looked back and forth between Airi and Karhen with a bewildered expression.
This scenario wasn’t in his expectations.
But…
“Well, I don’t mind. As long as His Highness Declan Ortejo permits it.”
“Elder likes it.”
Penedeex tilted his head inwardly.
‘I’m not so sure about that.’
Well, still, he couldn’t hurt the princess’s feelings.
“If you get permission, let’s do the ‘assistant’s assistant’ thing together.”
“Yes! Then.”
At that moment, Airi raised her hand up again.
“How much will you pay me and Karhen? If you don’t write a contract and don’t pay us, it’s labor exploitation.”
“What, what? Why are you so smart? Aren’t you five years old?”
“Yes! I’m five years old!”
Both Penedeex and Karhen were watching Airi as if she were amazing.
But here, there’s one thing they don’t know.
Airi doesn’t exactly know what she said either!
Everything was an assist from Cookie, who firmly believed that his summoner shouldn’t be taken advantage of.
Thanks to that, Airi and Karhen were able to sign contracts with the industry’s best treatment.
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The next morning, in the dining room.
Airi, who had barely finished eating, put on the rabbit-shaped bag she had brought.
On her head, she pressed down the knitted hat that Grandmother had given her.
Declan was looking at his daughter fondly when it suddenly occurred to him that Airi was going out.
“Where are you going to play?”
“No! I’m going to work!”
“Why would you work.”
“Ah, me! I’m going to look for Berry!”
“…What, without my permission?”
“I already signed the contract!”
“A contract signed by a minor without guardian consent is legally invalid.”
“Wow! It’s invalid!”
Airi doesn’t understand what he’s saying.
She just wants to quickly go outside Ortejo Castle to look for Berry.
Then, sensing something strange in the atmosphere, she just glances at him sideways with rolling eyes.
Declan thought.
‘I overestimated my daughter’s knowledge again.’
He said lightly.
“No.”
“Huh, what. Why not?”
“Why? Because it’s dangerous.”
At Declan’s indifferent words, Airi shook her head.
“B-but, Karhen is going with me too.”
“Hm?”
“The Eastern Duke is looking for his family!”
At the word family, Declan’s body flinched.
Family was also a kind of reverse scale for him.
Because his own daughter had made the arduous journey all the way to the Northern Region to find him.
After pondering, Declan said to Airi.
“Then you need to be fully armed.”
“Oh my.”
“You’ll need to take about 100 knights with you too.”
“Yes!”
“You still want to go?”
Declan added a killer line.
“If you stay here, I’ll make you something delicious.”
However, Airi stood up without hesitation.
“I’m fine! I’ll be back!”
Declan was left behind helplessly in the dining room.
‘The food feels tasteless today for some reason.’
It didn’t seem like it was just his imagination.
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A few hours later.
Penedeex let out a deep sigh that seemed to sink into the ground.
“Another dead end.”
“Huh, another dead end!”
“Why is no one here? It’s as if someone cleaned out that route.”
Airi looked at Penedeex with sympathy.
“Cheer up, teacher.”
As she patted his shoulder with her small hands, Penedeex said playfully.
“Perhaps the knights brought by the ‘assistant’s assistant’ were too threatening, so they fled in advance.”
That very assistant’s assistant, Airi, looked behind her.
She could see those wearing the knight uniforms of the Ortejo Family.
Cookie sent a telepathic message from within her embrace.
[Just how many dozens are there?]
There seemed to be at least thirty of them.
Airi glanced at them briefly, then matched her steps to Penedeex again, taking quick small steps.
His frustrated appearance had disappeared somewhere, and he was looking at the map energetically again.
“Hmm, shall we go a bit further north? The useful hint is that That Person seems to be related to hybrid monsters.”
Soon, the name 【Delian Village】 caught Penedeex’s eye.
“Oh, there’s a village where hybrid monsters live together?”
Airi nodded her head.
‘Everyone is full of demonic energy, so it would be great if I could heal them!’
Let’s go!
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At the entrance of 【Delian Village】.
A house that was almost falling apart came into view. An old woman worn down by life’s hardships was sitting under a stone wall.
Penedeex brazenly tilted his head toward her and said.
“Good day, madam.”
“Madam, my foot.”
“By any chance, did you see a noblewoman about seven years ago?”
“Get lost.”
“Hmm, this isn’t it. I don’t know how to conduct an investigation.”
“…I have no idea what you’re talking about. Get lost.”
Her cold gaze suggested she wouldn’t tell them anything even if she knew something.
Just then.
Airi, who had been watching from behind, hopped forward and bowed deeply in front of the old woman.
“Hello!”
“Hmm?”
“Grandmother’s shoulders are very stiff!”
Airi walked around behind the old woman and gently massaged her shoulders with her small hands.
“Uh, hmm? You seem like a precious child.”
“My grandmother used to like it when I gave her massages like this!”
“Oh, is that so?”
“Yes. But why are your shoulders so stiff?”
“This old woman, well, I live by doing day labor. All the young folks who lived around here got kidnapped.”
“Huh, what!”
“A day laborer hag like me is useless, so I don’t get kidnapped or anything.”
Airi, who had been massaging her shoulders, suddenly stopped.
“Grandmother is not useless! You’re working hard!”
Airi always said textbook-like things.
But they were always used at just the right time and place, and the child’s warm sincerity could be felt abundantly, often quite moving.
The old woman seemed to feel similar emotions, as she grasped Airi’s small hands with her wrinkled ones and said.
“Well, if a child who clearly looks noble says so… You said you were curious about this village? I’m just an old hag, but I might know some useful information.”
“Oh, not me, but that teacher over there.”
“Right, a noblewoman, was it? If you have questions, ask away. I’ll answer everything except what I can’t answer.”
He stroked his chin and muttered.
‘Wow, the assistant’s assistant has brilliant skills?’
It didn’t seem like Airi did it on purpose.
She was just acting innocently like a child who genuinely liked grandmothers.
But through her conversation with the grandmother, she instantly broke down the barriers and even gained cooperation.
‘I brought her along well?’
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