The Youngest Member Filming a Parenting Show is Adorable - Chapter 158

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【158】
“I never thought I’d actually feed something like this.”
At that moment, Rasifer muttered quietly beside me.
“He was trying to summon a Swamp Dragon. It’s a creature designed with the trait of liking to eat frogs.”
As expected.
‘Mother, Father—what if they really rush into the stadium?’
I exhaled in relief, then instead of eating the frog, I gripped the skewer like a fishing rod and stood up.
A small ball of flame expanded its body to its maximum and shone brightly, and I relied on that light as I waited for the Swamp Dragon.
‘It’s so quiet, it seems Grandfather held Father back well. Right?’
Mother?
Mother.
“…Mother?”
No matter how long I waited, the faint sparkling letters didn’t appear.
Tilting my head in confusion, I tried calling out to others this time.
“Shapasi! Flammeus!”
After all, the true names of the Spirit Kings are silenced to everyone else’s ears anyway.
“…?”
But here’s the thing—
No one answered me.
‘Then… Upiros?’
Upiros, the administrator of Eden, should have appeared.
Crackle, crackle-crackle.
Sparks scattered through the void.
No Swamp Dragon, no sparkling letters, no Announcer’s voice.
In the silence alone, Rasifer furrowed his brow.
“Wait. Something is seriously wrong here.”
Before those words even finished, a rustling sound came from behind.
In the blink of an eye, ‘something’ came rushing at me.
“Grrrrrrrraaaaahhh!!”
A piercing shriek tore through the silence.
The ‘something’ that came charging with flailing arms outstretched didn’t reveal its appearance clearly. But right now, the darkness was almost a mercy.
As if it had overturned a garbage bin over itself… the stench was unbearable.
What in the world could emit such a foul odor?
“Grrgh, gh, grrrrr…!”
Boom!
Before I could even react, the ‘something’ burst apart.
Through the expansion of air, I could feel it.
“I never told anyone to create and place something this hideous….”
A desolate voice followed.
Since I’d never imagined a situation like this, I froze for a moment, but then my vision brightened and crimson letters appeared.
[Children $& children, there is strong @ & intervention#. The trials are overwhelming. Please overcome this ╭(°ㅂ°`)╮!!!]
The message, barely transmitted, flickered with corrupted characters scattered throughout.
‘Powerful entities? What kind of intervention?’
As I deciphered the broken syllables, I rolled away from the attack rushing at me from behind.
But the assault came from more than one direction.
Simultaneously, ‘something’ erupted from five different angles.
“Grraahhh!”
“Gaahhkk…!”
“Hack!”
In the darkness, identifying my surroundings with only a faint flame was extraordinarily difficult.
Fighting within it was even harder.
“How dare you bother me.”
The fortunate thing was that I wasn’t alone here.
Crackle!
Lightning suddenly flashed from somewhere.
I felt a sinister aura buzzing and intensifying around the Platinum-haired Boy standing beside me, and then came a series of crisp sounds, as if the sugar coating of crème brûlée was shattering.
“Pel, don’t clear it away. I want to see what it is.”
“…It’s filthy.”
“Still. I’m going to look. Don’t hide it.”
That was something that burst out instinctively.
‘I need to know what’s happening.’
The Spirit Kings all lost contact at once.
And Upiros clearly said ‘a trial’.
I felt certain this was connected to the current situation.
“Then let’s turn on some light first. I need to figure out why the Swamp Dragon I was supposed to face isn’t appearing, and these things are crawling out instead.”
Clap clap!
The moment Rasifer clapped twice, everything shook and the illusion collapsed.
The surroundings brightened. The heat that had definitely existed moments ago vanished instantly.
The magically created sky disappeared too, and a hemispherical ceiling revealed itself.
The grass became white space. The dense trees became white walls.
From the start, this ‘Stadium’ was a hemisphere-shaped space infused with magical power—an illusion with physical force and substance.
When the magical power cut off, the primordial framework was exposed.
Naturally, the other competitors scattered throughout the space returned to perfect reality.
All except one.
That one person was charging at Maximilian while transformed into 【Marshmallow】.
“Aaahhhhh! Do something about this guy! Help me!”
Zzzzt!
【Marshmallow】 transformed into Ibis Rundle.
Maximilian, barely blocking Ibis Rundle with his sword, screamed at the top of his lungs.
“I’m dying! Help me!!”
Before I could even send Jellyfish in my startled panic, there was someone who moved faster.
Swish!
A sickle gleamed in the hands of a woman whose raven-black hair and robes fluttered wildly through the air.
It was Diolrose who had manipulated the Shadow Woman to sever Ibis Rundle’s neck.
“….”
Witnessing “death” for the first time, I stood frozen in shock.
‘That’s a marshmallow.’
No, it’s Ibis Rundle.
Crackle, crackle.
The child protection filter that the Spirit Kings had purchased for me in Eden wasn’t working properly—the corpse kept flickering between appearing as a marshmallow and as Ibis Rundle.
“Phew, I thought I was done for. Thanks for saving me, Princess.”
“Were you bitten?”
“Yeah, I think so.”
“No, I meant—was Your Highness the Crown Prince bitten?”
There was no time to dwell on my thoughts.
The sickle that had severed Ibis Rundle was now aimed at Maximilian.
“Sister!!”
As I rushed forward in alarm, Diolrose gracefully extended her arm to block me from reaching Maximilian.
“Laximon Household Master Deputy, you have the Eye of Truth, so you should be able to see clearly. Could you check if the Crown Prince was bitten?”
Was I the only one who hadn’t grasped what was happening?
Normally the Spirit Kings would have helped me in a situation like this, but with them absent, I felt utterly helpless.
“No, he wasn’t bitten, I’m telling you! He wasn’t even grazed!”
“Well… unfortunately, that appears to be the truth.”
“Then that’s a relief.”
Only after Rasifer’s verification did my sister lower her sickle.
In the meantime, I looked around—the entire area was filled with rotting marshmallows.
‘Marshmallows, then corpses, then marshmallows again….’
My vision spun dizzily.
“Are you alright? Shu.”
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
“At first I thought these things were part of the game, but at some point the Announcer’s voice stopped.”
I hadn’t noticed until then, but weariness was evident in my sister’s voice.
It wasn’t her usual composed tone.
And for good reason—on her side, marshmallows were piled up like a mountain.
“Sister, what are those…?”
“Zombies. An army of dark sorcerers.”
Corpses that had been resurrected.
Puppets that continued moving unless their necks were severed, with terrifyingly potent contagion.
I knew what zombies were.
But this was the first time I’d ever seen one.
The Chaos Spirit King absolutely adores zombies. That’s why he keeps pestering me every single time, whining about making a contract so he can create them…
‘I hate it. I hated it just hearing about it, but now that I’ve seen it, I definitely hate it.’
When I reconnect with the Chaos Spirit King next time, I need to tell him firmly this time.
Thinking such thoughts, I tried to calm my unease.
My stomach kept churning uncomfortably ever since earlier.
An indescribable sense of wrongness that I couldn’t quite pinpoint tormented me.
And I stood beside Maximilian, who was catching his breath, and slowly looked back at my Sister and Rasifer. Then, I understood gradually.
“You both know what’s happening outside, don’t you? That’s why you’re not going out right away. Right?”
Then what happened earlier when Father and Grandfather clashed… might not be the situation the Announcer described.
“The fact that there are zombies here… does that mean there are some outside too?”
Maximilian, who had been breathing heavily, chimed in a beat too late.
And as he did, he kicked something, and the thing that rolled came to a stop only when it bumped against the toe of my boot.
‘A blood-red crystal the size of a sesame seed.’
This was naturally something I recognized.
The crystal mimicking Bijou pulsed on its own as if it were a real heart.
It was utterly grotesque.
“…Myosotis.”
I muttered and suddenly lifted my head.
“Let me go out, Pel. I need to see what’s happening outside right now.”
“It’s a mess. I don’t want you to see such things before everything is cleaned up… This place is the safest. Everything inside has been cleanly killed. I’ve seized control of this Dome, so nothing else can invade.”
“I understand that inside is safe. But my family is outside.”
Of course they would all be fine.
There was no one in my family weaker than me.
But how would I know if even a cat’s paw might be needed.
‘Ever since earlier, I keep feeling, keep feeling anxious.’

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