The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 89
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Episode 89
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Was it because of the conversation she had with Karhen last night?
Airi had spent a long time pondering the meaning of family, and ended up losing sleep over it.
With puffy eyes like a goldfish, she made her way outside.
Airi met Penedeex and Karhen waiting for her in the reception room.
“Oh, Lady Airi.”
“Are you playing assistant again today?”
Penedeex said while glancing toward Karhen.
“Yes. Actually, today we’re not going to see Hybrid Monsters. Lady Airi and Karhen work so well together that I thought I’d come along.”
“Huh, what are we doing today?”
“Well, over the past seven years or so, there are about ten places where we’ve received reports of Prince Berry being spotted.”
Looking at Penedeex’s cheerful smile, Airi said seriously.
“So today we’re playing detective?”
“Yes. Something like that.”
As Penedeex chuckled, Airi became determined.
Today she would play detective and absorb magi too!
Going to ten whole places.
Surely at least one of them would be full of magi!
Today’s journey began with an excited heart.
But today turned out to be a day of rather extraordinary scale.
The place the three arrived at using teleport scrolls was Stony Mountain.
“Lady Airi, this is where the boundary stone between the East and Northern Region is located.”
“Wooooow!”
“Yes.”
“They said traces were detected around here too. About five years ago from now.”
He swept his gaze around the boundary stone area, then immediately frowned.
“Huh, what’s this.”
Near the boundary stone, there were traces as if someone had dug around with their hands.
It looked exactly like something a mouse had gnawed on.
Penedeex muttered briefly to himself with an annoyed expression.
“Ugh, damn. Someone must have checked here first and left. Recently.”
“Huh, is that so?”
“Yes. It seems they already took anything that could serve as evidence. Let’s go.”
The problem didn’t only occur at Stony Mountain. Strange situations continued.
The next place they visited based on a tip was an isolated cabin near the castle.
There they discovered traces of someone having fled.
“No, I feel like someone is definitely playing games with me.”
Penedeex raised one eyebrow.
Cookie in her pocket put on glasses drawn with white chocolate and muttered.
[It’s almost like someone deliberately set things up to make us come up empty-handed.]
Did Penedeex feel similar emotions to Cookie?
He glanced at Karhen and Airi.
“Nothing’s working out today, so shall we prepare for other work instead?”
Other work?
“First we’ll go prepare tools. Originally, assistants don’t work empty-handed but with tools, right?”
The moment Penedeex smiled ominously.
Knights who had been hiding in the shadows revealed themselves.
Then they naturally positioned themselves behind Airi.
An action that was tantamount to a warning that they wouldn’t stand for any funny business.
Penedeex wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered.
“We’re going to a legal place. A legal place.”
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On a day when nothing was going right, even the path to the ‘legal place’ was treacherous!
Coming along the winding mountain road by carriage.
When she kept fidgeting because her bottom felt like it would go numb, Penedeex said.
“I should have brought a cushion, I’m sorry, Princess.”
“It’s fine! It’s okaaaay.”
Actually, she felt like she might get motion sick, so it wasn’t okay.
If Karhen beside her hadn’t anxiously handed her a lemon candy, it could have been a disaster.
Airi shuddered.
This place they arrived at after crossing mountains and rivers.
It was exactly that—a dilapidated and gloomy but massive cabin.
Cookie quietly whispered telepathically from Airi’s pocket.
[It looks exactly like an illegal gambling den. We’re not going to lose our heads going in there, are we?]
Karhen seemed to have the same thought as Cookie.
He naturally blocked Airi with his body and looked at Penedeex warily.
“What is this place?”
“Oh, don’t be suspicious.”
Penedeex said as he lit the lights of the dark cabin with a snap.
“This is our magic tool workshop.”
“Magic tool workshop?”
“It’s where we store the magic tools researched by our Matap. We need tools to find Prince Berry, after all.”
“Oh, that’s right!”
Didn’t Airi’s favorite anime 【Detective Conan】 also feature child detectives who used tools!
Airi, clutching her pounding heart, energetically followed him into the workshop.
Then she saw a display stand loaded with magic tools before her eyes.
He pointed to the items on the stand one by one and said.
“This is a 【Paternity Test Kit】 that I personally researched and developed. The accuracy is certain, but people call it a white elephant since there’s only one in the world.”
It was just a square brick-shaped black magic tool. It had two holes in the middle like a real brick.
When Airi, who didn’t know what a white elephant meant, tilted her head.
“There’s only one person in this world who can use it. Well, anyway… But besides the 【Paternity Test Kit】, there are many good items. Would you like to take a look?”
“What do you have? I’m curious!”
Airi’s eyes sparkled with anticipation that there would be many fascinating items since they were made by the Matap lord.
【Video magic tool that eliminates all divine power in the body and converts it to mana】
【Magic tool that regenerates goblin horns】
【Magic tool that turns bananas into ginger】 and such things were spread out.
‘Can we find Prince Berry with these?’
Just as deep doubt was washing over her.
He grinned and looked over the magic tools.
“This is a machine that picks troll boogers.”
“Huh, huk.”
Penedeex was extremely enthusiastic.
Cookie muttered.
[Who would buy something like that? How disgusting.]
Unlike the honest Cookie, Airi, being a well-mannered child, didn’t voice that thought out loud.
“Well, shall we set out tomorrow with the things here?”
“Yes!”
“What kind of tool are you thinking of taking, Lady Airi?”
“I am…”
“Yes.”
“I’ll go with the 【Paternity Test Kit】.”
It was an all too obvious choice.
It seemed better than a magic tool that regenerates goblin horns, a magic tool that turns bananas into ginger, or a magic tool that picks troll boogers.
But Penedeex muttered in confusion, “I thought you’d obviously choose the troll magic tool.”
“Then, what about Karhen?”
“I don’t mind anything.”
They spent an enjoyable time in the Magic Tool Workshop selecting various tools for Karhen.
“Then I’ll organize everything and bring it tomorrow.”
“Yes!”
They parted ways, resolving to begin searching for Berry in earnest tomorrow.
But sad news came to Penedeex and Airi’s group.
The news arrived that very night, while Airi was sleeping soundly with Cookie, kicking off her blankets.
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“Extra! Extra!”
“Extra!”
The region where the sun rises earliest, the eastern Jarkvel Domain.
In this usually quiet place, the vigorous shouts of young boys selling newspapers flew in even before the birdsongs that herald the morning.
“What on earth is going on? This early in the morning.”
“I know, right. Should we go find out?”
By the time people whose sweet morning sleep had been disturbed came out to the streets with irritated voices.
The young boys selling newspapers, the young men at newspaper stands, and even the elders who had come out early to gather in small groups all shouted with excited expressions.
“Everyone shouldn’t be sleeping!”
“It’s 4 AM right now.”
“When Berry has returned, how can you be lost in deep sleep?”
“That’s right! Berry has returned to the domain after a whole 7 years.”
Berry Jarkvel Prince.
The precious son of Jackvell Marquess who went missing 7 years ago.
The young boy who made everyone living in Jarkvel Domain curious about his life and whereabouts.
With pure pink hair resembling his mother and brilliant blue eyes resembling his father’s.
Currently seven years old.
Berry Jarkvel Prince had appeared.
Holding the hand of his uncle, Bellarusian Subprince.
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