How to Replace Dad 34
“You… bow… no….”
“Of course!”
I raised my head arrogantly.
The bow is actually a weapon that requires tremendous muscle.
How could I shoot it?
I looked at Yuis with a sad face.
“I struggled so much pulling the bowstring…”
“So I told you to use a sword.”
“Arrows are better for sneaking.”
“I’m going crazy.”
Yuis let out a big sigh.
Anyway, that happened.
I shot the tracking gun too.
Of course, I had consulted beforehand.
The one with all decision rights of Esgard...
“Yeah, our puppy. You want to use the tracking gun? Haha. If the puppy wants it, then do it.”
- With permission from Duke Esgard.
It wasn't hard for Siruella to predict the escape routes.
Because Yuis, the leader of the Irregular Intelligence Division, is skilled in all information.
It wasn't hard to arrive at the mountain first and install the Ingu.
Because Yuis, leader of the Irregular Intelligence Division, knows the faster route!
Moreover, Siruella's group had to move in a more complicated way than normal paths to evade the pursuit team.
I crouched down and met Siruella's gaze.
“Hand over the explosive.”
Siruella glared at Yuis.
“Wait and see? My sister is suffering like this.”
I let out a big sigh.
“Why are you tormenting us so much and then making us feel guilty?”
“What do you know about us...!”
“I know. You're abusers!”
On top of that, you're human traffickers.
When I glared, Siruella's face crumpled.
“Be careful with your words. Everything was to make Yuis the perfect leader.”
“Ah, really?”
“Although our blood isn't connected like sisters, our family didn't hesitate to give Yuis the most honorable position...”
“A doll that takes responsibility and dies for the family, right?”
“What do you know—!”
“If you really loved even a little bit!”
When I raised my voice, Siruella flinched.
I glared at her and said each word with force.
“Don't put any magical tools like that in the family body!”
Siruella's eyelashes trembled.
I grabbed her collar and said.
“Apologize.”
“...What?”
“Apologize to Yuis. Sorry for using the word 'love' so casually. Sorry for treating you as a tool. Sorry for making you suffer...”
“... .”
Siruella stared at me blankly.
Not only her.
I felt a heavy gaze from the side.
Yuis was staring at me blankly.
Suddenly, Siruella bit her teeth looking at Yuis.
Even though it was pain that prevented her from raising her arms properly, she slapped my hand away.
“Yuis. Suppress this woman right now. Can't you hear?!”
“... .”
“You'd fall for such words?”
“I want to be fooled.”
“...What?”
“You’ve said many times you won't be fooled by words about our family, but you want to be fooled by this?”
“You...”
“So, sister.”
Yuis slowly approached Siruella.
Unlike the first time facing her, head dropped.
From Yuis's hand, a red-black pattern spread, soon surrounding Siruella in a circle.
“Kyaah!”
Siruella screamed.
It's a curse.
The curse that the Mugan tribe had injected into themselves for Yuis.
Yuis looked down coldly on Siruella.
“Never call my comrade a woman again.”
I flinched and looked at him.
Suddenly, the conversation I had with him in the castle flashed.
“Is it possible? Even if I do my best not to cause any harm, can I become a comrade of Yuis-nim?”
“Absolutely not.”
Our eyes met.
He pouted his lips and said.
“What are you looking at.”
“Looking at comrades.”
He clicked his tongue but didn't deny it.
I wanted to tell mom.
Mom, there's a character in the game that I especially like.
On the surface, she's tsundere, but actually, she's a good person who deeply thinks about her comrades.
Today, I became her comrade.
—And.
When I realized there was no escape, Siruella eventually handed over the explosive.
After that, she passed out from the pain of Ingu and the curse.
But I squatted and watched her.
Her whole body was covered with bruises and rashes.
“Hmm. If left like this, she'll die.”
It’s not completely addicted yet, so no contagion.
I didn’t purify my own body, so probably not.
I looked at Yuis.
“Could you fill some mana here?”
I handed over the Botella, and Yuis took it.
Then he filled the mana without hesitation.
Not as pure as Luciano, but as an elite of Irregular, he gave enough mana to fill the Botella.
“Why is this.”
“Yeah. I want to use it a bit.”
“Are you crazy wanting to get addicted to poison?”
“I don’t get addicted to poison.”
“What are you talking about.”
I answered lightly while pouring the mana from the Botella into my body.
“Because I’m the Purifier.”
“Purifier?”
“It’s a game job, but in this world’s terms… Saint?”
“...What?”
Yuis stopped.
I said “Ah.” and turned my head.
“But I don’t know how to use holy power yet, so it’s an air purifier. Since curse and holy power have similar usage, can you tell me?”
“What the—?!”
Yuis shouted loudly.
I was so startled I covered my ears.
“You asked to tell me how to use holy power...?”
“Absolutely not! Really a saint? The saint that all powers in the world are desperately looking for? Eh?!”
“I said so. Tell me faster than that. It seems pursuers are coming soon.”
“What the hell are you...?”
Yuis had a dumbfounded expression, but when I urged, he told the method.
“Mana and holy power have different usage methods. Mana is about implementation, but holy power is closer to interfering with phenomena.”
“Then holy power doesn’t need to make myself the center of the spell like magic?”
“The center is the world.”
Yuis explained well.
I quickly learned the trick.
And when I cast it...
“Wow!”
The bruises and rashes on Siruella's body disappeared rapidly.
It was the first time I tried purification with will, so I was very excited.
Excited, I almost jumped without noticing.
“Eh...?”
My head spun, and the world spun.
My body swayed.
Yuis quickly caught me before I fell.
“Why?”
He asked, and I groaned, holding my head.
“Probably mana depletion.”
Purifying in one go consumes so much mana.
I hadn’t used it casually before, but from now on, I should use it with more deliberation.
Thinking that, I tried to pull away from Yuis, but he suddenly lifted me up.
I was startled and opened my eyes wide.
“You have strength...”
“Do you want to fall?”
“No, you look too delicate...”
“Wrap your arm around my neck. I’m not delicate, I’m beautiful.”
With that, I walked briskly and slapped Yuis's shoulder.
“Gold seal. I should have put a gold seal on her!”
Otherwise, when Siruella is investigated, she wouldn't mention Yuis's name.
“It’s fine.”
“But...”
“I will handle the rest. Leave it.”
Yuis's eyes were serious.
I nodded.
And I moved quietly held in Yuis's arms.
At the bottom of the mountain, Chaeryeong was waiting.
When Chaeryeong saw me being carried by Yuis, she ran over in shock.
“Oh my, young lady! What happened to you? Are you hurt? Where? Legs? Did the pursuers do that? My goodness!”
Chaeryeong raised her hammer and I quickly stopped her.
“It’s okay. And Chaeryeong, you’ll suffocate.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
Yuis sat me in the carriage and told Chaeryeong.
“Start for the castle. And send my squad to this mountain. Emergency order.”
“Yes.”
With that, Chaeryeong entered the carriage and closed the door.
I looked out the window at Yuis climbing the mountain again.
Chaeryeong said.
“Even though I don’t know what happened, it seems like you did well. Should I tell the vice-master to support?”
“No.”
“Eh, but...”
“Some things you have to resolve yourself.”
“When I’m sewing, I always ask Aunt Jora to tie the knots...?”
I smiled gently and stroked Chaeryeong's head.
“Yeah. As long as you’re healthy.”
“I’m healthy.”
Chaeryeong laughed “ehehe.”
Back at the mountain foot.
Siruella, who had regained consciousness, grabbed the dirt floor and struggled to stand up.
Her condition was better than when she first took the Ingu.
Probably the antidote worked.
“Yuis. Yuis did that.”
Siruella smiled bitterly.
Of course.
She couldn’t rebel against the family.
She had been thoroughly taught.
“...Right, Yuis?”
She lifted her head.
Yuis was leaning against a tree, staring at her blankly.
“You exposed your identity? So you did the act? But it was too much.”
Yuis slowly approached her.
Siruella smiled and extended her hand.
At that moment.
Thud.
The blade pierced her chest.
“...!”
Siruella trembled in pain.
The pain ran through her body.
Unable to breathe, Siruella opened her mouth and looked up at him.
Full moon night.
The beautiful platinum hair fluttered in the wind, and moonlight shattered along the contours.
“Go well, sister.”
“Mom... if mom finds out about this... you’ll...”
“Don’t worry. I’ll send mom over soon too.”
The voice stopped on her opening mouth.
I quietly looked at the once-sister who died without even a last word.
Yuis, now looking at the gathered members, said.
“I’m going to the northern border. I’ll exterminate the Mugan tribe.”
The members of Yuis's squad all prostrated themselves at the same time.
Yuis's sword didn't go back to the sheath immediately.
At some point, it was driven into the back of the neck of the one who had been moving like a worm.
“Why... me, I... I...”
“Attempting to touch someone else's body without permission is out from the start.”
The ones who fled from Sintes' estate all vanished from the world.
Two weeks passed like that.
I found Sintes' estate.
“Hello, Astah.”
“I’m glad you came, but the mansion is noisy.”
Of course it would be.
A sorcerer intruded, cast a spell on the knight of the invited guest, and during the investigation, all kinds of crimes were revealed.
Viscount Sintes was busy day and night.
I quickly waved my hand.
“Don’t worry. I just want to deliver this and go.”
The members of Antonio's squad, disguised as castle soldiers, were busily carrying boxes.
Astah tilted her head.
“What is this?”
A gift of apology.
But I couldn’t say that, so I smiled awkwardly.
“When I was doing the replacement before, I promised Viscount to make Magest sweets, but I couldn’t make them.”
“Be careful. Father will like it.”
“Sorry...”
We succeeded in dismantling the crime cartel and erased Yuis's nightmare-like past.
But the aftermath is all being handled in Sintes.
“Hey, if you need anything, let me know anytime. I’ll do my best to help Viscount.”
“Huh? Father was excited?”
“Huh?”
“Because the criminals were all together, it was troublesome. If I touch it now, the Duchess will immediately attach to me, so I was monitoring through you.”
“...Ah?”
“I didn’t know how happy he was when everything was cleaned up at once.”
When Astah smiled.
I heard Viscount Sintes' “Ha ha ha!” happy laugh.
“I’ve never had such fun overtime in my life!”
...That’s good.
“Time to drink tea and go?”
At the moment I was about to answer.
“Miss, contact from the castle. The Yuis squad has returned.”
“Really?”
I quickly looked at Astah.
“Sorry. Tea time next time. I’ll invite you to the castle.”
“Then can you introduce our cute little miss too?”
“Sure.”
“Cute!”
After hugging Astah and greeting, I quickly went outside.
Chaeryeong, walking beside me at a brisk pace, chatted excitedly.
“They say they wiped out an entire tribe in the north. I saw it. I thought they were only good at information collection, weaklings.”
“Entire? The tribe leader too?”
“All of them.”
They really solved everything.
I laughed “ki ki”.
San Miguel Castle's North Tower.
The round table surrounded by the magic circle connected to elite communications had the master, vice-master, Antonio, and Yuis.
[What sudden tribe extermination? When things are already busy, a squad of 2 weeks disappears completely?]
The vice-master rubbed his temple with a troubled face.
He also received the report only after Yuis's squad headed to the northern border.
He told them to return immediately, but Yuis said in a low voice not like himself.
[This is the only time. Please let me do it my way just this once.]
All members of Yuis's squad raised their voices that they would follow the leader's will.
Of course, the vice-master opposed.
But the master...
“Everyone must be brought back alive.”
“Thanks to that permission.”
Yuis eventually finished without any casualties.
The vice-master said with difficulty.
“Anyway, all members returned without any deaths, and mysterious magical tools from the tribe's territory were brought...”
Yuis nodded cleanly.
“Ancient curse tools. One castle can be bought with it. No, if negotiated well, two castles...”
“Shut up.”
“... .”
When the vice-master glared, Yuis turned his eyes away.
Antonio chuckled, finding it funny that Yuis was being scolded.
The master organized the chaotic situation.
“Since I gave permission, you can’t say the rules were broken. Let’s organize it here.”
The members in the magic circle sighed.
[If the master says so, I won’t add more to this matter. But I want a definite answer for the next matter.]
Next agenda.
It was about Yustea's replacement.
The vice-master frowned.
Antonio clicked his tongue.
“How long are you going to talk about that replacement?”
[Until the replacement is done.]
“The young lady worked so hard. The Duke announcing the master as his son is also something the young lady risked her life for...!”
[Risking life is something to be rewarded. With money and status. Right, Yuis?]
A member in the magic circle requested support from Yuis.
The vice-master narrowed his eyes.
“If it's Yuis, he'll definitely agree immediately...”
“What kind of reward is that? Why are you so enthusiastic about memorizing?”
“...?”
[What?]
Yuis's reaction was unexpected.
“If you worked hard, you should acknowledge it instead of just giving money and kicking you out?”
The vice-master and Antonio opened their eyes wide and looked at Yuis.
Who was the one who claimed the most earnestly that such a thing couldn't be done...?
The member in the magic circle laughed dryly.
[What nonsense. Did you do something to him?]
“That's not it, young lady!”
“...?”
“...??”
[Are you crazy?]
“If it's young lady, then it's young lady. Speak properly.”
With that, Yuis stood up with an irritated face. There's nothing more to say to that personality trash.
Anyone who sees it would think I called him young lady when I first came to San Miguel.
Antonio also stood up slightly.
“I'm also not fond of personality trash.”
The vice-master also stood up.
“Personality is important.”
And the master...
“... .”
He was already at the door.
The member in the magic circle exploded.
[Is there a plague going around in this book? Why only when the master goes, that ranting?!]