The Youngest Member Filming a Parenting Show is Adorable - Chapter 86

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【086】
‘Black Jewel Ring Candy!’
Ingredients
Soot created by a shooting star (3g)
Cacao fruit (1g)
Chorus of noisy frogs (2g)
Chattering sunflower seeds (1g)
Honey from the pet bee raised by the Earth Spirit King (3g)
Effects
When consumed, you will speak as rapidly as machine-gun fire.
Caution
The effects only last while the sweetness lingers in your mouth. Brushing your teeth will make the effects disappear!
After that, I gave Angela appropriate responses while carefully reading through the candy’s description.
‘Then I’ll eat it when I need to and skip brushing my teeth!’
For tonight, I didn’t really need it anyway.
Angela had cried so much that she fell asleep around 10:30.
I remained perfectly still before slipping quietly out of the room.
“Big brother!”
Mikard was waiting for me at the end of the corridor, so I was able to reach the Admiral’s Study safely and quickly.
“Hey there.”
“Every time I come here, my heart nearly stops. This is a place we’re not supposed to enter in the first place.”
Iliad and Naiad were already at the meeting spot.
We spread out a thin cloth and huddled together on top of it, but with only a single lantern in the middle, it was quite dark.
[The Chaos Spirit King ‘■■■■’ expresses curiosity.]
[There’s something rather romantic about it—like undead could burst out at any moment!]
…For now, I’ll ignore the Chaos Spirit King.
“Everyone’s here. Then let’s begin the Children’s Detective Group regular meeting.”
After a rustling sound, Elzen and Joy appeared.
But calling it a ‘meeting’ somehow makes me feel so grown-up.
So I muttered the word ‘meeting’ to myself about eight more times under my breath.
“First, Lewiwood Surveillance Team—did you find out anything?”
‘Lewiwood’ was Mikard and Naiad.
‘Bernstein’ was Elzen and Iliad.
‘Luarel’ was Joy.
And ‘Cecilia’ was my assignment!
But both Mikard and Naiad looked dejected.
“No, nothing at all. Lewiwood is perfection itself.”
“Right. We followed him all day and only got to watch him work.”
So there was nothing suspicious about him?
In any case, it was clear we had come up empty-handed.
“Good. If we found nothing, that’s actually a relief. Next is Bernstein’s side, but….”
Elzen opened his mouth quietly.
“Something’s off there. Iliad and I took turns following him on different days, but at some point, he always disappears.”
“Right. We’ve never managed to follow him all the way. Honestly, even I might lose him, but Elzen’s a master at concealing his presence. Yet even he said the man vanished in an instant.”
The atmosphere grew heavier at Iliad’s words.
But that was nothing compared to what Joy said next.
“I… I saw it. What that monster pretending to be Luarel is doing.”
“…!”
What did he mean?
I had been about to mention finding Daisy’s glasses, but I stopped and stared at Joy.
“That monster eats people.”
“Eats… people?”
“Yeah. I saw it clearly. But the way it ate them was strange… It just swallowed them whole. Opened its mouth wide and—”
[The Chaos Spirit King ‘■■■■’ is delighted.]
[How fascinating! I’d love to dissect it and see how it’s structured inside! Humans certainly do create the most peculiar things.]
The Chaos Spirit King is a bit scary….
Anyway, I then told everyone about the evidence and everything that had happened today, and we all became extremely serious at once.
“If we’ve learned this much, I think we need to report to the Household Master now. We’ve crossed the line of what we can handle.”
After a few seconds of silence, Mikard made that suggestion.
“What Joy saw essentially means that a monster might be disguising itself as a human.”
“….”
“Among us, I’m the only one who’s directly faced a monster. They are… nothing like anything we know.”
What could a monster be that makes it so fearsome?
More terrifying than a Golem?
But I wasn’t really that scared of Golems.
Various questions arose, but now wasn’t the time to ask them.
“I agree. The moment I saw its true form, I understood. I can’t defeat that thing.”
It was then that Joy added his final words.
“My, what sort of conspiracy are you all plotting here?”
“…!”
I didn’t even notice him approaching!
The tall Lewiwood was suddenly looming over us from the side, and I was so startled I nearly jumped out of my skin.
“Lewiwood!”
“Yes, youngest. Angela was making a fuss about you disappearing, so I came looking… and found you all having quite the interesting conversation.”
Oh no, he heard everything! What do I do!
* * *
A moment later.
“Now that I think about it, Mikal’s been visiting awfully often lately.”
“Ha ha.”
“And Naiad’s been clinging to him and following him around while he works.”
Though laced with amusement, his cold gaze made Naiad flinch and look away.
Lewiwood exhaled softly as he observed the young sprouts gathered around him, each determined to protect the Household in their own way.
“Do you truly believe the adults don’t know what you’re scheming?”
“Hmm.”
“They know. They simply choose to overlook it. Though they may not have realized it involved a demon.”
“Well, at least we figured that part out!”
Mikard interjected without hesitation, and Lewiwood pressed his fingers to his forehead for a moment.
“True, you did well there. But it changes nothing. Traitors are already being filtered out around that one, so I’d prefer you didn’t take any more dangerous risks.”
The recent movements of the key children had seemed suspicious, yet they had orchestrated this without him.
It was admirable, yet infuriating in equal measure.
The first principle when enemies exist within the Household is to trust no one—yet they had excluded him.
Not that he felt hurt or any such childish emotion, of course.
Lewiwood was analyzing the current situation.
‘This suggests I’ve failed to control the children and haven’t earned their trust.’
That was unacceptable.
Lewiwood’s eyes narrowed.
It could not become known that events had unfolded without his involvement.
Otherwise, his competence as a leader would be questioned.
“Soon, the time the Household Master has set will arrive.”
Softening his sharp tone, Lewiwood quietly contemplated what he had just learned.
Mother, who would never abandon Angela, yet had shown strange behavior.
The expedition preparations nearing completion.
What the Household Master desired.
What he himself would do if he were the Household Master.
‘Ah, poor Mother. In the end, you’ll be sent to the Battlefield as a castoff.’
In this moment, Lewiwood grasped everything the Household Master had left unsaid.
That the easiest way to send Mother to the Battlefield—she who struggled so to avoid it—was to leave Luarel, the enemy’s implant, untouched.
And he could never interrupt this situation to protect Mother.
Because—
‘The price for sacrificing Mother would be my elevation to successor Household Master.’
And becoming Household Master was my goal.
‘How cunning.’
Speaking it aloud would only spit in his own face.
Lewiwood cursed silently, then issued another warning to the children.
“Why not participate in the performance yourselves? Treat Luarel well.”
“Are you insane, brother? Why should I?!”
As expected, Mikard was the first to object.
Elzen remained quietly contemplative.
“Conceal your Awakened aura as much as possible. Adjust everything to suit her. Let’s see what happens.”
Moments later, the perceptive Elzen met his gaze.
“I understand. So the faster we perform, the sooner this situation will conclude?”
“Exactly. The better you all do, the more arrogant that creature will become. It’ll allow the situation to end even sooner than the Household Master anticipated.”
I brought the reins back into my own hands.
Lewiwood concluded with satisfaction.
“That’s all for now. You need your rest if you want to grow tall.”

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