The Youngest Hides a Lot - Chapter 305

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Side Story Episode 31
A Demon Beast.
The way it concealed its presence and launched a surprise attack suggested this was no ordinary Demon Beast.
Where was it?
Just as he gripped his sword and clenched his teeth.
“Uncle, above! Get out of the way!”
An unfamiliar voice cried out.
Leviathan didn’t hesitate for an instant, pushing off the ground.
A massive Demon Beast plummeted straight down.
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“Ughhhh. Can’t—hear—anything!”
Rubian pulled at her ears with all her might.
But it was futile.
The heavy downpour drowned out every word!
“Ugh. Dad, you’re not getting Mom upset again, are you?”
Leviathan’s back was so broad that Rosetta’s expression was barely visible behind it.
Perhaps I should use magic to amplify my voice a bit…
“Stop.”
But Kalid immediately stopped me.
“Don’t use magic too much. You’re already maintaining the protective spell and the concealment spell. Your core is weak as it is.”
Rubian let out a sigh.
“I’m stronger now… sigh, but you’re right too. Maybe it’s because you keep holding my hand, I’m getting careless.”
As Rubian flexed her hands open and closed, Kalid couldn’t resist even for a moment and firmly grasped her hand again.
“Don’t let go of my hand… keep holding it. Forever, if possible.”
A pleasant flow of mana seeped in.
That’s when it happened.
Suddenly, Kalid dropped my hand and threw himself flat on the ground.
“What?! Your forever is one second?”
“…A tremor.”
“A tremor?”
Kalid clicked his tongue in frustration.
“Rubian, this mountain…”
But he couldn’t finish his sentence.
“A Demon Beast’s presence…!”
A stinging surge of mana was drawing closer.
Their eyes met.
Damn it, Kalid cursed under his breath.
“I said this felt ominous, ominous…”
“Kalid!”
And one was already creeping up behind them both.
“Kalid, I’ll handle that.”
“What? But—”
“It’s fine. Just stay here.”
Kalid clenched his fists tightly.
He was trapped in a ten-year-old body, and his mana control was severely restricted—a consequence of another version of himself existing in this timeline.
But I had to protect Rubian.
With everything I had, no matter what.
‘You bastard trapped in that cave.’
Kalid drew his dagger and smiled coldly.
A sharp hum echoed as azure mana surged across the blade’s polished surface.
‘From now on, I’m protecting Rubian, so shut up and cooperate.’
Our goals are the same anyway.
Rubian’s happiness.
He prayed that his other self in this timeline wouldn’t cause trouble, then drew upon his mana reserves.
“Kalid, be careful!”
Rubian’s voice grew distant.
‘Kalid, will you be okay?’
Rubian was deeply worried about Kalid, but she refocused her priorities.
Before her stood her young parents, still lacking in life experience.
And above their heads, a pitch-black Demon Beast was plummeting down.
“Ugh, being born is seriously this exhausting!”
Rubian traced a magical formula and burst forward.
“Uncle, above! Move!”
“…!”
It happened in an instant.
By the time Rubian blinked and looked ahead,
only a deep crater remained where Leviathan had been standing.
He had pushed his body to its absolute limit and leaped in a single bound.
Rubian secretly used binding magic to ensnare the flying Demon Beast’s legs.
Somehow, the child had already grasped her father’s combat patterns.
‘I know better than anyone here how Leviathan fights against Demon Beasts.’
His exploits during the Human-Beast War were legendary—she’d heard about them endlessly.
‘Of course… I’ve never directly assisted him like this before.’
Even if this was before the war, his combat patterns would be similar.
Rubian secretly aided Leviathan with magic. After he leaped once more with newfound lightness, he pierced straight through the Demon Beast’s skull.
The creature plummeted down the Cliff and vanished.
“…You!”
Clang!
The moment Leviathan sheathed his sword, he approached Rubian, who had collapsed to the ground.
She quickly calmed her reddened eyes from the mana exertion and looked up at him.
“Hi, Father… Uncle.”
The form of address shifted abruptly.
Leviathan regarded the child with an expression of disbelief.
Even so, the child gripped tightly to Rosetta’s hem, as if determined to prevent her escape.
Oddly endearing, that little one was.
‘Ah. Where have I seen this before?’
It seemed Rosetta had brought the Maid’s daughter to a banquet long ago. Why had I forgotten?
“Come on, sigh. Get up.”
Demon Beast blood splattered across soft silver hair like stains.
An inexplicable revulsion welled up, as if I had witnessed something I shouldn’t have.
‘But there shouldn’t be this many Demon Beast ambushes. What is this? It’s as if someone deliberately awakened them…’
Leviathan’s brow furrowed as his anxious gaze swept across the surroundings.
The feeling was wrong. We had to escape this place immediately.
“Uncle. Sister’s condition…! Sister, are you alright?”
Leviathan clicked his tongue harshly, reaching to lift the pallid Rosetta into his arms.
The ground shook violently.
“Rubian!”
At the same moment, Kalid, who had been dealing with the rear Demon Beasts, came rushing over.
He continued shouting something, but the deafening roar that followed made his words incomprehensible.
“…dan…!”
What?
It was the moment Rubian tried to jolt upright.
Rumble. Boom!
Danger! Danger!
Detected physical danger signal for the Traveler!
Danger! Danger!
Goosebumps erupted across my entire body.
Now that I thought about it…
With this much rain, a mountain, and brutal combat combined…
‘It’s the perfect environment for it to happen.’
A landslide…!
By the time I realized it, it was already too late.
Krrrraaaaaash!
A deafening roar tore through the mountainside.
In an instant, earth and debris surged forward, and the ground beneath my feet crumbled away.
Kalid’s face, rushing toward Rubian, was instantly swallowed by the cascading torrent of soil and vanished from sight.
Wet earth and dust clawed into my mouth and nose. Rubian tumbled downward with the landslide.
Warning! Warning!
‘No! Kalid! Mother, Father!’
Rubian cast a barrier spell on Kalid and desperately tried to halt the mountain’s furious rampage. But…
“Ugh!”
Humanity was infinitely powerless before the forces of nature.
With her magical energy torn away, blood pooled rapidly in her mouth.
Rubian clutched at her heart.
I couldn’t die like this. I absolutely couldn’t.
Warning! Warning!
Truly… truly, I couldn’t.
A rabbit-like Father and a lion-like Mother were waiting for me at home.
And a wolf-like boyfriend… there was still so much I hadn’t done with him yet!
Her consciousness grew increasingly hazy.
Rubian’s flailing hands found no purchase on any tree root.
That was when it happened.
A sudden pull—someone snatched the child’s hand and lifted her upward.
Rubian instantly recognized the person drawing her into their embrace.
“Come to your senses!”
Light had returned to Rosetta’s wide blue eyes, startled but resolute.
“…Mother…”
It was an instinct carved into the very soul.
For certain obsessions and loves transcend the boundaries of time and space itself.
“…You cannot die. Never.”
Had she ever wanted to save someone with such fierce intensity?
Rosetta, her medicinal aura completely shed, gripped a nearby tree with all the strength she had left.
The tree seemed to wind itself firmly around her hands in response.

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