The Youngest Member Filming a Parenting Show is Adorable - Chapter 268

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Part 2, Episode 75 (268)
The Fate Spirit King remained invisible.
Only a resonant voice reached me, as though not one being but several spoke simultaneously.
Once again, the voices of an elder and a child, a woman and a man intertwined.
The sound of life being born, of life fading away.
A voice infused with envy and love, joy and hatred, understanding and anxiety, then laughter again—the very essence of ordinary ‘life’ itself.
All those sounds turned toward me with tenderness.
[You shall now perceive the rifts in spacetime. The Eye of Ether shall open for you.]
[Yet an ordinary person cannot keep the Eye of Ether open for long!]
[Use it too long and blindness shall claim you. I beseech you, exercise caution.]
Three beings and yet one whispered to me. Simultaneously, gentle hands covered my eyes.
‘I think I understand now. When I open my eyes again… I will possess a sight beyond the ordinary.’
[Fate shall grant you knowledge.]
[Fate shall grant you truth.]
[Fate shall grant you the right to forget what you wish to forget.]
“Thank you, Fate Spirit King.”
[We shall observe your choice once more.]
Did the Fate Spirit King’s ‘we’ refer to the three Fate Spirit Kings, or did it encompass all the other Spirit Kings as well?
I couldn’t say, though it hardly seemed to matter.
“Ah!”
The moment I lifted my closed eyelids….
I beheld an exquisitely beautiful living being.
“Shu, are you alright? Shu!”
“Ah….”
Was it a gasp or a sigh?
A dizzying, vibrant aura of life enveloped him.
‘Could one truly fall in love at first sight with such waves of light pouring from the heart?’
I’d never read a romance novel quite like that.
Yet I… I was drawn not to Rasifer’s beautiful face, nor to his melting tenderness, nor even to the resonant, pleasing timbre of his voice….
But to that light.
The pure power that emanated from him.
I found myself completely drenched in the waves radiating from his being.
‘When I heard his true thoughts, I found them endearing. I was grateful for the sincerity he showed me.’
I couldn’t deny being drawn to him, but love? That was….
Far too distant a notion.
Like a fantasy I could never grasp.
‘But now I understand.’
Perhaps I could come to love that rapturous light for a long time.
As Rasifer held me with concern, that light flowed into me.
So this was why I felt stronger whenever he was near.
Energy. Or ether. Perhaps a wave.
It mattered not what name I gave it.
How lovely it was that the very life force this person possessed could be so endearing.
“I’m fine.”
Wait—did I normally speak like this?
My voice sounded strange somehow.
Sure enough, Rasifer stepped closer, his worry palpable enough to suffocate.
“Your throat sounds hoarse. It sounded like you were calling the Fate Spirit King’s name. Wasn’t it?”
“Y-yes. Really, I’m fine!”
Oh, what was I to do?
My heart thundered violently.
Never before had it been like this, and I found myself at a loss.
Those eyes I’d always gazed into—why did I find myself avoiding them now?
“Let’s go! We must seal the rift at once!”
“…Understood. But if anything feels wrong, you must tell me immediately.”
“Yes, I will.”
It seemed I’d caught some sort of illness.
Being together with him might heal it, or it might make it worse.
I had no idea what the cure was for this strange affliction I’d contracted for the first time.
“I’ll hold you. The ceiling’s already broken anyway—we’ll fly up and out.”
“Mmm…!”
Just moments ago, I’d nestled against him so easily, yet now it felt so awkward.
My heart fluttered.
The light flowing from him warmed me so tenderly.
‘So that’s why I’ve always been fine. Why I could remain composed even before all these horrors… because Rasifer truly sustains me.’
They say compatibility like this is what they call a perfect match.
As I chuckled softly, we’d already passed the Final Floor and reached the Tower Top.
A grotesque magical force utterly unlike Rasifer’s tried to devour me to the bone.
But the strength he exerted to push it back was far greater, leaving me powerless.
“Shu, how can I help you?”
Rasifer never asked me if I could do it.
He took it as given that I could, and asked instead how he might assist—and I was deeply grateful for that.
“Take me there. And Pir must help from beside me as well.”
“Kyuaa!”
Ah, I could see it now.
Around the Tower Top, there was a rift that gaped like an open mouth.
The moment I saw it, I knew what to do.
‘The wisdom the Fate Spirit King gave me is showing me the way.’
First, I summoned the Jellyfish Creatures that possessed time abilities and sent ten of them rushing toward the rift.
The Jellyfish Creatures grasped each other’s tentacles and formed a circle, enclosing the rift in a perfect ring.
“Let us turn back time. To when this tower did not exist.”
Azure light bloomed, and a clock materialized in the center of the Jellyfish circle.
“For the sake of those dear to the people I hold dear. Vanish now.”
The clock’s second hand spun rapidly downward.
Without even needing to wait long, vast stretches of time were rewinding in great sweeps.
‘This is because I’ve made contracts with all the Spirit Kings.’
[All Spirit Kings contracted with you lend their power.]
The shimmering text Upiros had sent rippled before me.
Beyond it, I could see the Jellyfish’s light growing more intense.
“Ah, that’s enough.”
About five minutes had passed.
The Tower of Hell began to be sucked into the cracks.
With a tremendous roar, the moment the tower vanished, the Jellyfish Creatures scattered into droplets of water.
“Goodbye. Rest well, and I’ll see you again later, friends.”
My Jellyfish Creatures would return to their polyp state.
Once enough time had passed and they recovered sufficiently, they would be reborn.
‘Goodbyes are always bittersweet, but it’s alright. It’s not as though we’ll never meet again.’
“Phew, it’s all done.”
“You’ve worked so hard, Shu.”
The ground where the Tower of Hell had stood remained unrepaired, leaving the earth scarred and broken.
But when I made my request to the Earth Spirit King, delicate sprouts began to emerge.
Once rain fell and vegetation flourished further, even the half-dead soil would transform into rich, fertile earth.
‘It would be good to gather plant-type ability users to support the restoration.’
I’d mention that to Maximilian later.
Since this had been such a monumental crisis, there were many matters to handle afterward.
Of course, even without my input, Maximilian—who cherished his people—would surely manage everything well.
“Next is the Tower of Paradise?”
“Yes. Pel, are you not exhausted?”
“Not at all. I’m practically half-Dragon at this point.”
So my taste was actually for Dragons all along…?
It was a silly thought, but entertaining such musings, I moved toward the Tower of Paradise.
Here too, once I used ten Jellyfish Creatures for the time reversal, only one would remain.
Perhaps I had been given twenty-one Jellyfish Creatures from the start for precisely this reason.
Closing the cracks required roughly ten of them each time.
“Then let’s push through to the very end!”
“Let’s do this.”
Teleportation is difficult inside the tower, but possible outside it.
Together with Rasifer, I instantly moved to the Tower of Paradise and closed the cracks using the same method.
I tried my best not to look beyond that eerie, grotesque, unsettling rift—so dark and strange and repulsive to behold.
“Are you tired?”
“Yeah….”
“Rest now. I’ll take you home. You trust me, don’t you?”
“Yeah….”
Now that I’d dealt with the final tower, an overwhelming drowsiness crashed over me.
Though I’d rested during all this time, anxiety and restlessness had lingered in the corner of my mind. Seeing all the towers vanish, the tension finally released.
Cradled in Rasifer’s arms, I drifted in and out of sleep before succumbing entirely to slumber.
This time, it was a long, dreamless sleep.

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