Chapter 241
- In a villainous world full of cunning, the clumsy cannot survive (7)
#7 Their Circumstances: Sia Nel Karan’s Circumstances
“Is it…done now?”
I looked at my junior, who was acclaimed as the strongest hero of Nature’s Order, rolling his eyes around in a very un-hero-like manner.
I wanted to flip everything over, but I couldn’t help it.
“Yes…”
I really couldn’t help it.
In my heart, I wanted to kill the pink-haired girl in front of me, but if I did that, I would become my master’s eternal enemy.
If this child was antagonizing me just to monopolize Master, that would be one thing, but if she was genuinely acting to protect Master,
“I can’t help it.”
I could feel her glancing at me furtively.
When our eyes met, she quickly turned her head away. Despite being a full-grown adult, her actions seemed cute.
“Your name is Alice, right?”
“Yes, yes.”
The woman who had been glaring at me murderously in a moment was gone. There was only a helpless little creature avoiding my gaze.
“From now on…let’s get along well?”
“Yes, yes! New mom!”
“Mom!”
“Yes, mom!”
Seeing her smile softly, my heart seemed to relax a little.
Yes, this must be her usual self. Most of the information I received from Mirea about this child was like this anyway.
“Sigh…”
A deep sigh escaped from my heart the moment I came to my senses.
I wasn’t cold-hearted enough.
Because it had been so long since I met Master, I thought I had grasped everything.
I was too complacent and got too excited.
If I had just expressed my love for Master a little more calmly, Master might have taken me more seriously, and this child wouldn’t have misunderstood either.
If that had happened, this could have been the best opportunity yet.
“Too late?”
I looked up at the moonlight falling from the ceiling.
Although the building had 7 floors above ground and 4 below, there was a neat hole pierced through.
It was hard to believe, but I was told Alice had a baby dragon at her side. Who would have thought a dragon under 10 years old could shoot out a breath!
“Master is…”
A mystery himself, and he influences those around him. That’s why such absurd beings are nearby.
“We’ve searched the perimeter, but it looks like they’ve already broken through the encirclement!”
“There aren’t many troops left on the ground.”
“Shall we begin pursuit?”
The subordinates who had been waiting on the ground soon arrived after receiving my contact.
Although they said various things, in summary Master had already escaped, and they were asking if they should begin pursuit.
“Do it.”
I didn’t think they’d be able to catch him, but for now I needed to divert my subordinates’ attention elsewhere.
“Understood!”
The ones who received the order began to move.
– 30 dead, none injured.
– What about damage on our side?
– Most were waiting on this floor so there were no casualties.
– They were all organization members?
– Yes.
At least that was fortunate.
Even though I had focused my main force here, there were still subordinates left on the ground, and they were all unharmed.
– What will you do about the organization members?
– They were living their lives committing crimes anyway. Just think of it as their unlucky day to die.
They were just bodies I gathered to fill the numbers, for Master to swing his metal bat once more.
Compared to these back alley hoodlums just pretending to be elites,
“Mom?”
This girl’s value is a thousand, no, ten thousand times higher.
“Yes, Alice.”
I raised my hand and stroked Alice’s head.
Maybe it was my mood, but my heart felt at ease.
“Junior.”
“Yes, senior!”
While stroking Alice’s head, I looked at my junior who had become a hero.
“Thank you.”
It was just a simple thanks, but for some reason my junior was fidgeting uncomfortably.
“Huh?”
“Thank you.”
If not for my junior’s efforts, I would have crossed an irrevocable river.
No matter how much Master threatened me, his contributions in repeatedly thinking and choosing the best course of action should be recognized.
“Without you, junior, I would have fought this child to the death.”
“Ah, that’s fine. It was just something I should naturally do.”
A hero acting so servile to the boss of an evil organization was laughable, but isn’t this how mentors and disciples should interact?
Didn’t Master also say it? The most important things in life are mentors, friends, and blood!
Because we served the same master, because we went through the same hardships, we have an obligation to help each other.
So,
“I’ll be relying on you from now on, junior.”
“Huh?”
“I said, I’ll be relying on you.”
I smiled gently at my junior who had become a hero.
Incidentally, this was a measure for junior’s sake as well.
Of the two seniors who became heroes, one became a demon king who threatens the world, and I heard the other was backstabbed by the Religion Order and lives crippled like an invalid.
Didn’t Master say it too? The two things you should never do in the world are first, become a hero, second, become a ruler.
I’m so worried about the junior who forgot that teaching and became a hero.
As his senior, I have to show my sincerity to help this dear junior who did his best for me.
Seeing what became of the other seniors who became heroes, junior’s future will surely be a cesspool too.
“I’ll. Be. Relying. On. You?”
“I, I have things to do as a hero of the Religion, so…”
Ah, that’s so like junior. Avoiding being a burden on his senior.
For this lovable junior, I’ll have to show even more sincerity.
“I heard you worked for the royal family even after becoming a hero?”
“Huh?”
My junior looked at me with wide eyes, as if wondering how I knew that.
I have a very capable informant. An extremely skilled informant who could only silently watch as their information was taken.
“The Ast Kidnapping Group? You were active in that rather strange organization, no?”
“Ah, uh…”
Have my feelings finally gotten through to junior? My junior looks at me with teary eyes. I smile gently at him.
“I’ll be relying on you?”
“Yes…”
And so, on the day I lost Master, I gained Master’s daughter Alice and my junior the hero.
#8 Their Circumstances: A Certain Daughter’s Circumstances
“Shall we go find Daddy then?”
I looked at the person holding my hand.
First of all, she’s very beautiful. Plus 10 points.
“Ah, junior, could you please wake up that dumb senior over there?”
“How could I possibly…on the body of my heavenly senior…”
“Want to try getting hit once, junior? “
“No!”
“One hit per minute?”
As I take out a small mace-like thing, the man called a hero starts kicking the disciple of the daddy who gave us this room.
“Wake up! I said wake up!”
Even though he’s kicking enthusiastically, daddy’s disciple doesn’t get up.
The hero is breaking out in a cold sweat.
But it’s futile.
Daddy’s disciple was knocked down by big sister. There’s no way someone like that could get up quickly.
“Then I’ll leave the cleanup to you, seniors.”
“Understood, boss!”
“Leave it to us, boss!”
“We’ll move quickly and decisively, boss!”
Does this mean they understand it well?
Without even looking at the hero struggling to wake up daddy’s disciple, she was commanding the people around her.
…Amazing!
To be able to command people so coldly!
As the former Minister of Chicken, I know.
No matter if they’re called subordinates, they’re living beings with their own thoughts and feelings.
Getting such beings to obey with just a word is extremely difficult.
There were countless protests from the Choma tribe when I was running the Chicken Department.
They said they respect the will of other tribes. They don’t oppose the act of eating chicken.
But must they sell this thing called chicken, similar to themselves, in their own village!
The ones shouting they absolutely could not accept it caused tremendous trouble.
My plan to build chicken restaurants throughout the continent was obstructed greatly.
But I persevered.
With repeated efforts, I made it so they could enjoy chicken deliciously as well.
Not only that, by promising cooperation with the Choma tribe, I got the Gema tribe, similar to chickens, to be able to become Chicken Department vice ministers.
The countless things that happened then.
So I understand.
Obeying orders like that means you’re that capable, overflowing with charisma!
I’ll give 20 more points!
“Now, shall we go?”
Looking at me and smiling brightly, she seemed completely different from just before.
Thoroughly separating business and personal, her attitude is even more appealing.
“Yes, mom!”
“Good, my daughter.”
I felt this person could properly control daddy so he doesn’t do anything foolish.
Daddy is the best. That’s an undeniable fact.
But even I, his daughter, feel his occasional strange behavior looks a bit bad.
At those times, he needs a mom who can rein him in. He needs a wife who will scold him when he does weird things.
And I feel this person can do it.
So I should give 10 more points.
“Let’s go! Kko Kko, Misha!”
“Okay, mom!”
Nyaah~
Kko kko climbed on my right shoulder, Misha on my left.
“Are you the child’s mother?”
“Yup! Kko kko’s my son!”
“Then I’ll be his grandma.”
“Grandma?”
Seeing her smile softly at Kko kko tilting his head, I gave another 10 points.
She seemed to care about age when arguing earlier, but now she’s calling herself grandma for Kko kko sake without hesitation!
This sort of gentleness is also necessary to become my new mom.
Someone who will bring snacks when daddy is working hard in the fields!
“Where do you think daddy might be?”
That question came while going up the stairs, jumping over the place Kko kko had smashed, and ascending above ground.
Where could daddy have gone?
The answer is simple.
“I…don’t really know.”
“I see.”
Seeing my dejected expression, she starts sighing deeply.
“What a pity.”
“But daddy will definitely come find me!”
As if my dejected expression never happened, I smile brightly and encourage her.
“I see.”
My smile makes her smile slightly as well.
Nyaah?
– Eunin? That man said to tell you to come to the Demon King’s Castle?
[Eunin is a term for elder sister]
– Shh.
Nyaah~
I absolutely ordered Misha to stay quiet before he said unnecessary things.
The person who said to meet at the Demon King’s Castle was me. There’s no way I’d forget.
It’s daddy, my beloved daddy. Daddy, who’s more precious than anything.
We got separated from such a daddy, so of course we would promise a place to meet again.
But I can’t reveal daddy’s identity to this person yet.
If it was just one person it would be fine, but sister said there are multiple people who like daddy.
So I have to choose.
They say heroes have three wives and four concubines, but daddy isn’t a hero.
He’s a farmer who will live growing crops with me. Someone like that doesn’t need three wives and four concubines.
And… I know too.
While a daddy should love his children, the person he must love most is first and foremost his wife, who will become my mother.
That can’t be helped. It’s something I acknowledge.
I don’t mind being second.
It might be a little sad, but the spousal relationship being good leads to a good family environment. So I should be satisfied with second place.
But… if there are two new moms instead of one, I’ll be pushed back in the order again.
I can’t accept that. Second place is mine.
So one new mom is enough.
I have to find the best mom and make her daddy’s wife!
To achieve that goal, I have the duty to observe this mom ‘candidate’ and score her.
By the way, her current score is -950 points.
I forgave it. That command to daddy to forget the time we spent together.
It was a misunderstanding, so I should forgive it.
But forgiveness and scores are separate things.
Those words coldly remain at -1000 points.
So the person holding my hand now,
“Shall we go?”
“Yes!”
Is at the very bottom of daddy’s new mom candidates.
So try harder, new mom ‘candidate’.
