The Family’s Youngest Is This Household’s Savior - Chapter 2
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 2
It happened in a blink of an eye.
Ricardor, who looked down at the sword piercing through his body with a startled expression, turned to look at Oberon.
“…You, what is this—! Cough, cough!”
“Please forgive me, Young Master Ricardor.”
As Oberon politely bowed his head before he swiftly withdrew the sword without hesitation, Riersha, staring dazedly at her brother collapsing to the ground, screamed.
“Brother…!”
Oberon, stopping her from reaching out to Ricardor, let out a sigh.
“Please be quiet, Miss Riersha. What will we do if we get caught by the imperial army like this?”
“What is this?! Why Brother…!”
“Do you know the reason?”
Just as he continued to gaze sharply at her while still looking at the burning castle, his gray eyes were filled with disgust.
“If the Duke did not give the order to protect Miss, the situation would not have turned out like this.”
“What… what are you saying?”
Riersha asked anxiously in a trembling voice.
“It means that the reason Duchy Arachrene was extinct is all because of you.”
Riersha could only stand there dumbfounded. She didn’t want to hear Oberon’s words, stating that everything was because of her.
“Look. Who died just to protect you?”
Saying so, Oberon pointed at Ricardor.
Her eyes widened in shock. The thought that her family was dying and the family was falling apart all because of her…
‘… It’s because of me?’
No, that couldn’t be. Her grandfather had always shunned her, and her father had never come to see her even once. In addition, the other brothers were no different. They had always treated her like a stranger.
However, Oberon shattered everything Riersha had known up until now.
“Do you know what sacrifices the Young Duke made just to protect you?”
Her pupils shook intensely.
“Why did the Young Duke choose to take in such a child? It’s because of that, the Young Duke…!”
The words of the maids murmuring came to mind.
“Do you know how the family has fallen into ruin?”
Riersha’s body trembled as a sense of helplessness washed over her at this moment. At the same time, her mind churned with a sense of powerlessness.
‘…If only I had an ability.’
If only it were so…
“Well, now that you know, what can you do now?”
As Oberon’s sword rose high, a terrible pain soon engulfed Riersha.
“Nyoooo…!”
Swoosh.
As she jerked her arms and sat up abruptly, Riersha’s night clothes were drenched in a cold sweat. Gasping for breath, she hurriedly opened the window and breathed a sigh of relief.
Duke Arachrene Castle, through the dark window, was still undamaged.
“Phew.”
It was all a dream.
Just as she wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, her eyes widened.
“…Ung?”
Riersha’s pupils widened.
The chubby, stubby hands were noticeably smaller by more than a hand’s length than what they should be. Not only that, her body seemed smaller, and her field of vision appeared much lower. At the thought of trying to assess the situation in confusion, she rushed to the mirror.
In the rush, she tripped and fell.
It was hard to regain her balance due to her suddenly smaller body.
“Whad… whad is this?”
The pain was brief.
When she finally looked up and saw her reflection in the mirror, Riersha’s mouth gaped open. In the mirror, there was a child with short short hair and chubby cheeks gently framing her red irises, with a shocked expression.
“…Nwyo, nyo way.
Stammering, she found that the reflection in the mirror repeated her actions. She had traveled back in time.
And not just that, she was now a much younger child.
‘…Was that really real?’
Until the day dawned, Riersha couldn’t leave the mirror. It didn’t matter that the maid, who came briefly to bring breakfast, was giving her odd looks.
Feeling hungry belatedly, she glanced around for where the food was.
‘I have a nut allergy.’
Seeing the platter, Riersha sighed deeply. It appeared that the bread on the meager platter was speckled with nuts.
Riersha removed them one by one with a familiar touch. She didn’t even realize she had the allergy herself. It was only when she had a severe reaction to bread during this time that she discovered the truth.
Soon, Riersha’s pupils widened significantly as she absentmindedly plucked out the nuts.
“Will it be the same?”
The situation was repeating itself, just like what she had experienced in the past.
Unable to distinguish whether the current situation was a dream or reality, she dropped the bread.
“Ish real. Whole family ish ruined…”
Memories of her life at ten years old flooded back to her. It all felt too vivid to dismiss as just a dream. Still, there were aspects that she couldn’t comprehend if she accepted it all as reality.
‘…Why did such a great family collapse because of me?’
The Arachrene family, which was destined to reign over the empire a few years later, was now destined to ruin. She couldn’t possibly reveal this fact to others since she would be considered insane. It was just too unimaginable.
Even experiencing it firsthand, Riersha still couldn’t fully believe it.
‘He certainly said it was because of me.’
Besides what was more, it was difficult for her to believe that it was no one else but her own doing that had caused the downfall of the family. What influence could the once insignificant Riersha have had to be the reason behind the family’s ruin?
…So, could she save the whole family as long as she was not in this house?
Riersha quietly clenched her fists.
She wanted to protect everyone.
‘But I couldn’t awaken my abilities even by the time I turned ten…’
What could she do to protect her family?
Ordinarily, if the lineage of the Arachrene family didn’t awaken their ability by the age of four, they would abandon all hope of any potential. Although it was an undisclosed fact, Riersha knew it was around this time that she had been completely cut off from her family.
“…Still, I haw to potect.”
While Oberon never fully disclosed the family’s circumstances, one thing was certain. It was that Riersha’s presence in this house was like poison.
“Goohd.”
In that case, she would have to leave the mansion so that Oberon has no reason to betray.
In truth, Riersha was also aware of it subconsciously. She knew how much he disliked her. The blatantly disdainful gazes that followed her, even to the point of making her skin crawl, were something hard to forget.
She hadn’t realized it would lead to an irreversible situation.
‘Now that I know…’
Riersha rummaged around, eventually finding a piece of cloth tucked away in a drawer in the wardrobe.
With determination, she sneaked her way somewhere, holding the tightly wrapped cloth.
‘If I can get out of this forest, it should lead to the outside.’
When the Duke’s castle was ablaze, Ricardor had taken her there… so undoubtedly, that forest must be the way connected to the outside.
She had once pondered why she had to live near such a terrifying forest when there were plenty of other empty estates in Arachrene. Perhaps it was because her grandfather disliked her to the extent that he didn’t even want to see her.
But now, Riersha was more than willing to have that forest close by. Since no one cared about her, it seemed she could safely leave the mansion without being noticed.
“Unngghh, hevvy!”
At this time, the Arachrene heirs would be attending their classes. Normally, she would have sneaked into the ‘Tower of Truth’ where classes were held, but today, she had decided to leave the mansion instead.
“Why sho hewvy?”
Despite having only a few things, her arms were already aching.
Riersha looked down at the tightly wrapped cloth, which she had gathered various items that could be sold at a high price outside. Surprisingly, she had heard that toys or items used by young children were sold at a high price.
This, too, she had learned from the murmurs of the maids.
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