The Youngest Member Filming a Parenting Show is Adorable - Chapter 80

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My question hung in the air for a moment, and the atmosphere grew tense.
The next instant, Luarel began clicking her nails anxiously, biting at them.
“I-I can’t. How am I supposed to breathe underwater?”
“Fasayen can do it! Be brave!”
To encourage my fearful sister, I danced about with peaches in both hands, chanting encouragement.
Yet Luarel made no move to follow.
Growing a bit weary, I sighed and finished eating the peaches.
“Hmm, it’s possible she may not be able to breathe underwater immediately.”
At that moment, Cedric spoke slowly and thoughtfully.
“It’s because she’s never tried it before. Moreover, she’s already set limitations on herself in her mind, which may hinder the manifestation of her abilities.”
“Limitations?”
Ah, I’m so full now.
As I patted my rounded belly, Cedric gently wiped my mouth with a clean handkerchief and continued.
“There’s a difference between constantly hearing that you can do something and already believing you cannot. The mind shapes what is possible.”
“So if I just go into the water, I can breathe, right?”
“Normally, yes… but this is the first time anyone has returned home so late in life.”
Luarel’s trembling stopped.
She began rolling her eyes around.
It seemed she was gauging the situation.
“Do you young ladies know how the ‘blessings’—the direct bloodline abilities of each Ducal House—are passed down?”
This time, Cedric took out a fan and gently waved it toward me.
Delighted, I giggled and shook my head.
“You never taught me.”
“Ah, so I indeed never did. How unsurprising.”
Cedric’s matter-of-fact tone made me laugh, and I soon leaned in to listen.
“The blessed ability unique to the direct line of Fasayen is underwater breathing.”
“I see.”
“Belarion has shadow movement—you know that well. But what about Laksimon?”
“…!”
I was curious.
Laksimon of Dawn.
Rasifer’s household.
“Laksimon is rather peculiar—they produce only a single heir. Whether hands are scarce or it’s intentional, I’m not sure… but in any case, there are no siblings. Always an only child.”
“I see.”
“And that one unique direct bloodline heir receives memory transference—they possess all their ancestors’ memories.”
“Wow!”
Then they must be incredibly intelligent. How could anyone remember all of that?
“Finally, Isthel. This is less a blessing and more what the household itself calls a curse.”
“A curse?”
“The direct bloodline of Isthel undergoes monsterification. They go berserk and no one can recognize them anymore.”
Everything about Twilight Isthel felt utterly unfamiliar to me.
It was like an ancient legend.
When I eventually attend a friendly match, will I meet someone from Isthel?
“In any case, the Duke’s Household blessing only applies to the bloodline extending from the Household Master. The current Household Master Galiazard’s siblings can breathe underwater, but their descendants cannot.”
“Mm, yes.”
So that’s why the branch family children can’t breathe underwater.
Though they’re so comfortable in water that they’re incredibly skilled at surfing!
“Later, when Violet becomes the Household Master, from that moment on, the blessing will be severed for the descendants of those who became branch family… well, something along those lines. Do you understand?”
The Teacher turned to address Luarel.
Luarel flinched and blinked her eyes.
[The Water Spirit King ‘■■■■’ whispers.]
[That’s why when the Household Master’s direct line is maintained, they hurry to have children so the blessing continues. If Mikard matures and has a child before Violet becomes Household Master, that child can also receive the blessing.]
‘Who grants the blessing?’
[The Water Spirit King ‘■■■■’ laughs.]
[Ancient magic invisible to human eyes breathes and lives within storied households.]
At the Water Spirit King’s explanation, I began to imagine.
I don’t know how it came to be, but it’s probably enormous.
Large and powerful and magnificent. It probably has horns too.
‘Ancient Magic, if you have any spare blessings, please give me one too. I want to breathe in the sea as well.’
After praying silently like that, would you believe it.
The ancient magic I imagined looked exactly like the Ancestor Whale.
“Anyway, the point is, since it’s a blessing, you’ll definitely be able to breathe underwater.”
“B-but what if, what if it doesn’t work because I’m just not used to it…?”
The atmosphere grew heavy once more.
Luarel picked anxiously at her nails, Elzen shrugged his shoulders, and Cedric the Teacher…
‘Huh, why doesn’t he look annoyed?’
He had the expression of someone observing something carefully.
“Then that would be proof that you’re not Luarel.”
“…!”
“But don’t worry. Didn’t you say you have memories? The memory that you are ‘Luarel’?”
Cedric smiled with a grin.
But was that chill I felt just my imagination?
Shivering slightly, I reached for the peach again to find peace of mind.
The fact that the peach I ate earlier made my stomach feel empty so quickly was a secret.
“If you’re truly of Fasayen, then at some point, when you face a certain trigger, you’ll naturally become able to breathe underwater. Don’t worry.”
“…”
“Keep giving yourself autosuggestion that you can do it. Break the thought that you can’t breathe underwater.”
I wish it were possible just by thinking about it.
[The Water Spirit King ‘■■■■’ advises you to think not that you want to do it or can do it, but that it was originally possible from the start.]
I was following the Water Spirit King’s instructions when Elzen extended his hand to me again.
“Come on, Luarel. We have to try. How long are you going to just sit there?”
“Ah….”
“Come here.”
At his firm words, Luarel hesitantly got to her feet.
I scurried along after her—and Cedric was with us too.
“Wait, Sammi’s coming too?”
“Yes, the Household Master gave me orders. Anyway, he deliberately chose such a scorching hot day for this. His temperament is truly awful.”
Though she grumbled with her words, her eyes were sharp and alert.
Standing before the vast sea, Luarel flinched at the waves rushing in with a roar and took another step backward.
“Luarel.”
At Elzen’s stern voice, she couldn’t flee.
After hesitating for a long while, my sister squeezed her eyes shut and reluctantly stepped into the water.
Then, little by little, she moved forward.
“Brother, brother… I’m so s-scared. I’m just scared. I feel like it’s going to d-devour me.”
“It’s just a feeling. You have to overcome it. From here on, try to go alone.”
“B-but… I think I might have a t-trauma about this.”
“Go on.”
The children who saw us gathered around. Elzen stood behind with his arms crossed, watching over us.
Just as she waded in up to her knees, Luarel’s entire body suddenly began to tremble violently.
Then, as if seized by a convulsion, she arched her back backward!
“Ah, ah, ah… aaaaah!”
Unable to control her trembling, my sister collapsed with foam at her lips.
Splash!
“Oh dear, it seems it was too much after all.”
Shocked into a daze, Cedric stepped forward and caught my sister in his arms.
Her limp arms dangled loosely.
“Tsk, fortunately the water was deep enough that she didn’t hit her head. I’ll move her at once.”
Would she be alright?
The children around us murmured anxiously, and I too watched the two figures receding with a serious expression.
[The Air Spirit King ‘Shapasi’ says she’s just pretending to be unconscious.]
[There’s no need to worry. Her breathing is perfectly fine.]
Ah…what?
Well, if that’s the case, I’m relieved.
It had been quite an unsettling day.
* * *
‘That was dangerous.’
A moment later.
Lying on her bed in her room, Luarel sat up straight and wiped her mouth with a quick swipe the instant the sounds of people faded away.
‘Damn it. What do you mean Fasayen can breathe underwater? No one ever told me that!’

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