The Youngest Member Filming a Parenting Show is Adorable - Chapter 234

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Part 2, Chapter 41 (234)
I’d been wanting to resolve the Quest anyway, so I nodded without hesitation.
“Taking a leisurely carriage ride would be nice, but not right now… Will you hold my hand?”
“Yes. I want to hurry. There’s something I need to find out.”
“That’s a shame. Then, once everything is done, will you go on a date with me?”
Rasifer smiled at me with a soft chuckle.
At the same moment, golden radiance erupted around us, and the next instant, we were standing by the riverside.
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Goldrick River.
A deep and vast river renowned for the legend of the “Golden Hand” flowing down from Laximon.
But in truth, the name came from the golden-gleaming fish that dwelled within its waters.
I stood on the riverbank where pansies bloomed in profusion, gazing down into the water before turning my head toward Rasifer.
“I think I need to go down to the riverbed myself.”
“Suddenly?”
“Yes. I don’t have a swimsuit right now, but… I’ll just take off my dress and dive in.”
“…!”
They say that rushing into things never works out, so I’d been restraining myself until I could find a clue.
But now I was reaching my limit.
I tried to maintain the most positive attitude possible, thinking that being gloomy and dreary wouldn’t help—
‘Faster. I need to go faster, even if just a little.’
If the dreams I have are premonitions, I hope they show me Maximilian’s face.
Then I could feel at least somewhat reassured.
I undid my waistband, then proceeded to unbutton the back of my dress with quick taps. At that, Rasifer’s face suddenly flushed crimson, and he whipped his head away.
“D-don’t do that so suddenly. I’ll change you into a swimsuit with magic.”
“Oh! Right. Please, Pel.”
“Y-yes.”
Rasifer rarely stammered like this.
He seemed genuinely flustered, so I giggled.
“It’s not embarrassing when you change my clothes with magic, but it’s not okay when I undress myself?”
“That’s… well… it feels different.”
“What kind of feeling? I don’t understand.”
Rasifer hesitated, then covered his mouth with his left hand while spinning his right index finger in a circle.
Rasifer’s distinctive golden radiance shimmered, and I found myself dressed in a one-piece swimsuit.
“How did you know my taste? That’s amazing, really.”
The pure white swimsuit had shorts attached underneath for good mobility. The back was cut low, making it easy to move my arms.
I bounced lightly on the riverbank to gather momentum, then dove straight in.
Splash!
The refreshing sound quickly faded, and silence descended.
I’d thought the visibility would be poor in a river, but thanks to the light-emitting fish, it was surprisingly decent.
‘A daughter sank to the riverbed. According to the legend, it’s probably not actually a real person or a real daughter.’
It likely referred to that greedy man’s most precious possession.
Truth is usually hidden in such ways, after all.
‘So what could he have treasured most?’
In that tale, the greedy man had ‘summoned’ the Spirit.
In the fairy tale I read, it was written that the Spirit came to him, but in another version it said he called it, and in yet another, he seduced it with song.
‘Regardless, what matters is what came next… he was able to summon the Spirit again. To rid himself of the Golden Hand.’
That greedy man must have possessed a strong affinity for Spirits.
He would have had the makings of a Spirit Master.
And… a Spirit can only lend its power through a ‘contract’.
‘In other words, the owner of the Golden Hand knew the Spirit’s true name.’
The river ran deeper than I had estimated.
I thought the muddy bottom where the aquatic plants grew long was the end, but at a certain point the terrain suddenly dropped away.
‘A hole?’
[The Luck Spirit King ‘■■■■■■’ covers your eyes, saying he cannot bear to look.]
[The Chaos Spirit King ‘■■■■’ chuckles mischievously.]
[The Water Spirit King ‘Aurora’ gently pushes your back.]
[Mother will help you. Go ahead and look.]
Yes, Mother!
Since we’re already underwater, what is there to fear?
The turbulent currents centered around the hole gradually stilled.
As the water calmed, I pushed strength into my legs and descended deeper, ever deeper, further down.
At first it felt somewhat eerie, but before long, lights like dandelion seeds drifted before my eyes.
‘How beautiful.’
They must be freshwater creatures that emit light, though I’m not certain what they are.
‘This much light is more than enough to see by.’
Fasayen is invincible underwater, after all.
And I can feel Mother’s protection enveloping me.
While the other Spirit Kings cannot assist in finding the Spirit King’s true name, I can feel them cheering me on with one heart.
‘There’s something over there.’
From a distance, it looked like a human figure.
Before I knew it, the Jellyfish suddenly appeared and approached it before me to examine it.
‘It’s a statue.’
Seeing the gold leaf remaining in places, it appeared to have been gilded originally.
Now it was simply stone, worn by ages.
‘It’s a statue in the shape of a child. There’s an inscription carved here too.’
[The Luck Spirit King ‘■■■■■■’ grows anxious.]
Judging by the Luck Spirit King’s reaction, this seems to be the jackpot—
The statue stood at an angle, wedged in a crevice of rock.
I can only infer, but it seemed it originally stood upright in this very spot.
It wasn’t simply thrown in—it had been ‘placed’ here deliberately.
‘The Seventh Festival of Joy. In honor of our young goddess.’
Though it was written in ancient script, I could read it well enough.
‘Was this an offering?’
It seemed likely.
In ancient times, human sacrifice was commonplace.
However, not every region actually offered living people.
Some substituted animals or crafted effigies in human form instead.
‘This stone statue must have been the same. If the legend of the golden hand is truly ancient, those people might have genuinely believed in it.’
So they offered this statue to appease the spirit or goddess.
Shaped in the likeness of the greedy man’s daughter.
When I thought about it that way, everything fit perfectly.
‘That would explain why the Luck Spirit King seemed oddly embarrassed.’
[The Luck Spirit King ‘■■■■■■’ insists that he has truly never received a living person as an offering.]
In other words, this was definitely an offering meant for the Luck Spirit King.
I chuckled to myself and circled the statue carefully, examining it thoroughly.
‘There aren’t any other inscriptions.’
Could there be a hidden compartment of some kind?
They wouldn’t have offered only the gilded statue.
‘Creating this must have cost an enormous sum by the standards of that era.’
It would have been an extraordinarily precious offering.
If so, there was a high probability they’d placed valuable grains or jewels from that time inside it.
I ran my fingertips over the inscribed section of the statue’s base.
After doing this for a while, I felt something catch against my fingertips.
‘Here it is!’
Click.
A small hidden stone panel shifted slightly and slid inward.
Then, from the gap beneath the statue where moss had thinly accumulated, a thin golden line of light extended outward.
‘Gasp, it responded.’
That light didn’t extinguish even underwater, shimmering and spreading through the water.
Wondering what would happen next, I waited, and soon the rocky terrain behind the statue began to move slowly.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…!
The rocks split open like a door, and the statue toppled backward with a heavy thud.
Walking over the fallen statue, I now saw a stone tablet.
It bore the marks of having been carefully protected all this time. The tablet appeared before me in an almost undamaged state, as if no one had ever opened this mechanism before.
“…!”
On that stone tablet was something that ordinary people must never know, yet something that should rightfully be inscribed in the Sanctuary.
A true name composed of six characters.
‘Hesasperti.’
The moment I read it aloud without thinking, everything shook violently and small rocks shot upward.
As if the world itself were crumbling, the water raged wildly, and the aura surging from the stone tablet created such a sharp golden wave that I could barely see ahead.

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