[Episode 13]
Took Ai’s head fell down. Erno slowly reached out and put his finger under the child’s nose.
The rhythmic, motley breathing indicated that the child was still alive and well.
“Are you okay, father?”
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
It was the first time he had ever experienced such an unprecedented runaway.
And the fact that the runaway stopped so quickly.
It was a very strange thing.
Usually, the feeling would come a week before the runaway.
When a berserk approaches, the pressure becomes low, and the urge to kill even over trivial things rises.
Around that time, he too would go out for a while.
There was so much garbage in the world that could legally die.
But until this moment today, there was no such dangerous impulse at all. Because of that, I didn’t notice that my body was pushed to its limit.
‘Coming to think of it, there was definitely a sign about two weeks ago.’
If it was two weeks ago…
‘It was the day I met this kid.’
It reminded me of the freshness I felt when I received the ring. And the sweet and bitter taste that lingers in the mouth.
The moment this fragrance fills the tip of the nose…
‘The berserk has calmed down.’
Not only that, but the fishy smell still lingered on the tip of my tongue very lightly. It was probably the blood of a child.
As expected, the child’s hand is a mess with scratches.
Calling this little child my daughter was just the beginning of a new pastime.
“Doll…”
He got up from his seat with the child in his arms and picked up a tiger doll that was rolling on the floor.
The doll, mangled and trampled with dirt, was not as clean as the one the child had been carrying.
“…Maybe it wasn’t all burned.”
he murmured softly.
For the first time in his life, Erno Etam felt remorse for what he had done.
If I had left a few, I would have been able to return new ones to my child when this happened.
As he slowly glanced around, he saw an attendant who was so frightened that he couldn’t even come near him.
Her eyes are white and tired, as if she is watching a ticking time bomb that may run out of control at any moment.
The prejudiced gaze he had felt since childhood.
‘Yeah, usually that’s normal.’
Running away in order to live.
The dangerous thing is to keep it away from you.
Even my sons made running away a priority. Because you were taught that way.
Once the berserk started, there was only one way to stop it.
A stronger opponent knocks down a berserk being and forcibly stuns it.
However, there was no one in the mansion capable of knocking him down.
The duke of Mirel, who was at least comparable, or the eldest son of the family, was out of the country.
“Father, fortunately, no one seems to have died.”
“okay.”
Even so, he was awake without seeing a single person’s blood.
Originally, no one would have been able to stop it.
‘But I stopped it.’
this small and young thing.
No matter how many times I fell, my hands were covered in dirt and my hands were scratched, and I was hugged by the product and prevented from going berserk.
If I hadn’t, I would have taken the child’s life.
“Clean everything up.”
“Your father. I’ll do it, so hyung and dad go back first.”
“Oh yes. In the meantime, find the fruit this kid was holding earlier and bring it to me. Somehow, I think that’s the fruit that can calm the berserk. I’ll have to check it out sometime.”
“okay.”
Callan Ettam roughly stirred her red hair and chased after Erno Etham, who was carrying a child in a slightly disheveled outfit.
“Dad, is that fruit calming you down?”
“maybe.”
“I was looking for it like that… How did this kid know that?”
“Okay. Because you have many secrets.”
At Erno Etam’s words, Kalan Etam frowned.
“father.”
My footsteps along the corridor were slow. Erno Etam nodded, and Callan finally opened his mouth.
“Actually, I don’t usually say things like this.”
Kalan shook her head in frustration.
“Why don’t we end this prank here?”
Callan cautiously opened his mouth.
“That kid helped my father this time too… honestly, I feel sorry for him. I signed a contract with that guy last year anyway, but it’s not like that with him. Silian is like me…”
“Kalan.”
“Your father.”
“It’s none of your business.”
“How can you not care? Still, he shook my hand when he tried to run away to save his father…”
“Stop. I don’t think it’s something to talk about here, so let’s talk about this a little more later.”
Erno twice refused to speak. Callan knew that this was the end he could meddle with.
“…all right.”
As always, Erno carefully laid the child on the bed in the child’s room.
After giving a few orders to the lady-in-waiting inside, Erno looked at the child’s reddened cheek and then turned away.
“I’ll just go back.”
“Yes, it was hard.”
Kalan Etam bowed her head and walked down the long hallway and disappeared.
‘A fun game…’
He blinked slowly.
“It could have been.”
Erno Etham clenched his fists and moved his stopped foot again.
[Er, you know what? The child is blind. No matter how scared you are, they give you endless affection just because you’re a parent. When a child is born, you will definitely change.]
[It’s definitely your stupid and funny point of view.]
[Ah, don’t be sarcastic. Are you? So, if you meet such a child, you will definitely change.]
[Dahlia always says, but the world you speak of is an ideal world where you always collect all your dreams.]
[Ah, it’s frustrating! At times like this, a cute daughter is the best! They say men are weak when it comes to daughters, right?]
[Children are no longer accepted. Three is enough.]
[Yes, I hope this child is a daughter. Then you will know too. That there are people in the world that you can’t help but love.]
Having said that, she died without even giving birth to the third child.
[This child might change your world, so I hope you won’t be lonely anymore.]
So all those words would have been crumbled to powder.
I couldn’t figure out why it suddenly popped up.
He walked down the empty hallway to his room.
The smell of sour and sour fruit that still lingered in my mouth was oddly different from usual and wasn’t too unpleasant.
* * *
Flash-
When I opened my eyes, I saw a gorgeous chandelier and a ceiling.
As I tried to get up reflexively, I rolled around in the blanket grunting at the feeling of aching here and there.
‘I thought I was going to die…’
But I’m glad I’m alive.
“evil! My report!”
My jewelry, which I poured out all around the fruit…
I always carried it with me to take at least some of the jewelry if I had to run away because I was suddenly humanized.
I fumbled here and there with my little hand, but I couldn’t catch the piece of cloth.
‘Did you lose it? The clothes have also changed.’
Did Mayla change her clothes?
I was about to grab onto the bed and go down to the floor when the door opened with a click.
“Oh my gosh girl!”
“Mira…”
“I’m glad you woke up.”
Mayla ran over and pulled me tightly into her arms.
“I was worried because I couldn’t open my eyes for a week.”
“…Uh huh?”
How many days…?
“Will you…?”
“Yes, he was surprised and overreacted, so he said yes.”
“So…?”
“Yes, I was very worried.”
It was clear that my pupils were trembling even without me looking at them.
‘Is it true that I didn’t get caught?’
It was fortunate that he didn’t turn into a lizard or anything while fainting.
‘It’s ridiculous that it’s been a week…’
Why? The fact that a week has passed must mean that the female lead has already appeared and the original work has begun!
“Damn it…”
The time to earn points disappeared again.
“Are you in the market? I’ll bring you some food right away.”
“Hmm, you know…”
I nodded and let out a big sigh.
‘Jewels fly away, time flies…’
My motivation may have gone along with it.
“Everyone was very worried. Master Callan and Master Silian came almost every day, and His Excellency the Duke also visited once and told us to come once when he woke up.”
Strangely, Mayla’s voice seemed a bit dry as if she was reading a Korean language book.
‘It must be an illusion?’
I brushed off my thoughts.
“Okay? What about Abba?”
“Ah… well… Erno-nim came once a few days ago, and after that…” ”
Really?”
It was expected, so it wasn’t a big hit.
It’s just a pity that everything ended while I was sleeping.
‘Still, I’ll give you the money because the debt is piling up.’
If you don’t expect it, you won’t get hurt. So I became a person who doesn’t get hurt.
Yeah, so it’s okay this time too.
“Yes, probably because you are busy. The duke brought the daughter of the deceased princess. When I heard about it, they said there was talk of adoption going back and forth.”
“I see.”
I got a sense of what the situation was like.
The fact that the heroine has the power to calm the berserk was what Duke Mirelle discovered on the way to this place.
Duke Mirelle tried to give Erno, who had the most berserk symptoms, a child.
Originally, because Erno also ran out of control once, he accepted the heroine without rejecting it.
“Ah, then you and I would be sisters too!”
“Wouldn’t it be so early to write up?”
I brushed off my skirt and said nonchalantly.
‘It’s time to prepare for the end.’
It wasn’t a very long time, but it’s just a pity.
I thought it would last for three months, but I didn’t expect it to end in less than a month.
Still can’t help it
I decided to prepare well and thickly for the return soon.
