Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 326

Extranummer 5

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[That’s right, dear reader!]

[Has your intuition dulled?]

A barrage of message windows popped up before my eyes.

[This Aphtaneth didn’t raise you to be like this!]

[In the past, you would have figured it out the moment the quest completion didn’t appear!!]

[There was even a hint!]

‘A hint? Ah…….’

Unlike Sid, who went to the desert, my family searched the beaches around here.

They said there was an unusual energy reaction there.

‘So, a dimension traveler really did appear near the beach?’

Azl told me that the fairies found this object in the sea.

It seems my family’s search wasn’t wrong.

[Hmph! Peace has dulled your carbonation!]

‘More like a blade than carbonation.’

[A romance fantasy reader must always sharpen their carbonation to defeat the sweet potato!]

[For a cool cider!]

‘……Why is he being frivolous again?’

[Frivolous, you say! To the ever-wonderful Aphtaneth!]

Yes, that’s what makes him frivolous.

But in a way, I was a little glad.

After removing Kiyasedel from my life, I hadn’t received any messages.

[Hmph, you always pretend otherwise, but it seems you’ve fallen for Aphtaneth’s charm?]

‘Scratch that, I take back the gladness.’

[Hmph!]

I ignored the messages and turned on my phone.

But it wouldn’t turn on, probably because it had fallen into the sea.

‘First, I need to find the owner of this phone.’

But there’s a problem.

‘The ID definitely says it’s a man. If Dad and my brothers find him…….’

The dimension traveler might disappear before he even gets to me.

Then quest completion will be impossible forever, I won’t earn any cash, and summoning a 19+ novel will be out of the question…….

‘I must protect it, cash!’

I should keep it a secret from my family.

And maybe from Sid too.

‘Should I mobilize WBD or SSS?’

Our Darling Daughter Protection Unit and My Money My Hand Your Neck My Hand Petite Cute Pretty Our Youngest Granddaughter Princess TMI Unit [TMI stands for Too Much Information, referring to the unit’s tendency to overshare].

Both are basically Dad and Grandpa’s manpower, but if I threaten…… no, ask them, they’ll secretly do it for me.

[Find them yourself, find them yourself!]

[You used to do everything yourself, but now you just sit around ordering others!]

[Not very romance fantasy reader-like!]

‘Why would I do it myself when I have such good manpower?’

[Additional reward!]

‘—It’s better to do it myself! The fantasy world is best explored on foot!’

I feel the demon’s gaze, as if he’s dumbfounded.

‘Just you wait, Sid.’

I’ll diligently earn cash, and, uh?

I’ll learn everything from the female lead and, uh?

It’s a sin to just leave a man with such beauty alone.

I glanced at Sid and our eyes immediately met.

Seeing his handsome face, my fighting spirit blazed.

I clasped Azl’s hands tightly.

“Thank you. You’re the best, Azl. You always know what I’d be interested in.”

“It’s my pleasure to be of service to you, Miss.”

His gentle and refreshing water-colored eyes curved softly as he looked at me.

How can the water fairy be so innocent today?

“Then you’ll keep helping me, right?”

“Of course.”

I left the room with Azl.

‘Wait for me, cash!’

* * *

Clack.

Sidrian stared at the completely closed door.

The moment the pink hair disappeared, his eyes darkened.

“Sid!”

Cheria called out to Sidrian with a bright smile.

However, Sidrian continued to stare only at the closed door.

“Lulu must be very busy.”

“Get away.”

Sidrian pushed Cheria’s arm away.

Seeing Sidrian become cold as if he had changed the moment Luatisha disappeared, Cheria pouted.

“Sid is such a hypocrite.”

“Don’t call me that.”

“Why~, Sid is Sid’s name! If I want to call Sid, I have to call him Sid!”

“Don’t call me at all. It’s not a name for you to call me.”

Cheria flinched at the cold voice.

‘But Sid is honest with me!’

She liked that he dropped the pretense and treated her like this.

It was a side of him that Luatisha would never see.

Cheria raised both hands and said cutely.

“Okay, okay. I won’t call you Sid. Lulu told me not to call you that. I got it.”

More than anything, she couldn’t help but understand why Sidrian was being so sensitive.

‘Sid said he was Lulu’s slave.’

Then Sidrian would have no choice but to be mindful of Luatisha.

Poor thing.

‘Ugh, a world with slaves. It’s really terrible.’

If it were her, she would have been at the forefront of the fight for slave liberation.

“Then I’ll call you Rihan! It’s so impersonal to call you Sidrian!”

“Don’t call me.”

“Rihan, come on!”

His bickering was amusing.

“Rihan, Ria. We’re kind of similar, right?”

Cheria smiled brightly.

It was a smile that seemed to drive away all the darkness.

* * *

Above the vast sea.

A bird with pure white wings proudly soared through the sky, showing off its majesty.

“He’s not in this area, jjak!”

Majestic…… but somewhat tiny.

I looked at Hermes Jjak, who was showing the limits of his physique, with pitiful eyes and said.

“Then fly around that way once.”

“I’m not a search bird! I’m a messenger bird, jjak!”

I silently took out ‘the thing’.

Hermes Jjak’s eyes, like black sesame seeds, grew as big as black beans.

“T, that is……!”

“Yes, it’s a salted caramel chocolate cookie made directly by the Empress’s pastry chef.”

“……!”

Hermes Jjak fluttered up.

“Just that way, jjak? The side, the back, the front too! I’ll go around and come back, jjak!”

I smiled in satisfaction as I watched Jjiyaki disappear like the wind.

Azl laughed beside me.

“Hermes Jjak is really consistent.”

“Consistent my foot. Now he doesn’t even look at ordinary chocolate chip cookies.”

“Still, it’s a relief to have Hermes Jjak. It’s impossible to search this entire sea.”

“And it’s a relief to have Azl!”

I grinned at Azl.

“How could I safely travel around the sea without Azl?”

The ship I’m on has no navigator or captain.

But thanks to Azl’s abilities as a half-water fairy, we’re sailing smoothly.

Azl smiled shyly.

It was then.

“Found him, jjak!”

Hermes Jjak flew in like an arrow.

The desire for cookies made a quick development— no, search— possible.

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The place Hermes Jjak led us to was a small island.

In fact, it was barely an island, just a shallow pile of sand rising above the sea.

The man was lying unconscious on the shore, probably washed up by the waves.

“Still, it’s a relief there’s even a place like this. Otherwise, he would have fallen into the sea and died as soon as he traveled through dimensions.”

“Miss, watch your step.”

Azl grabbed me.

I approached the man with Azl.

‘He’s definitely a dimension traveler.’

His clothes are different from here.

I examined the man and paused.

‘What, why is he injured?’

There was a wound on the man’s side, as if he had been stabbed by something sharp.

“There aren’t any monsters around here, right?”

“Yes, the area around Miss’s land is well-managed. Because Miss would be sad if the land value dropped.”

Perhaps because of my past life memories, I was very, very sensitive to land value.

So my family was managing it to prevent the land value from falling no matter what.

Thanks to that, the people living on my land were very satisfied with the safety and convenience.

“……Is he even alive? If it’s been a few days since he came here, his life would already be in danger, and he’s even injured.”

I knelt beside the man and put my hand to his nose.

“He’s…… not breathing?”

Was I too late?

Come to think of it, the quest completion notification hasn’t appeared either.

“F, first, even artificial respiration……!”

I laid the man straight and secured his airway.

“M, Miss?!”

“I have to try artificial respiration! He’s really going to die like this!”

“But how could Miss…….”

I realized at Azl’s dissuasion.

Azl is making a big mistake right now.

“Hurry, Azl!”

“Yes?”

“You can do artificial respiration, right?”

At my words, Azl’s gaze went to the man’s lips.

Azl’s complexion turned pale.

“It’s about saving a person!”

“B, but—.”

“I know Azl hasn’t had his first kiss yet!”

“H, how did you—.”

“But it’s just a medical procedure! Don’t give it meaning! No matter how much you’re looking forward to your first kiss! No matter how much it feels like you’re being robbed of your first kiss!”

“That’s not it, I—.”

“It’ll be too late like this!”

Azl closed his eyes tightly.

“T, that’s not it! I can get the water out of his lungs and induce breathing!”

Ah.

“You should have said so sooner.”

For some reason, Azl seemed to be looking at me with resentful eyes.

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“Cough……!”

As if the blocked breath had burst, water spewed out of the man’s mouth along with a cough.

After a while, the man began to breathe.

“That’s it! Good job, Azl.”

“……It’s my pleasure to be of service to you, Miss.”

For some reason, Azl’s voice seemed a little different from usual.

But now was not the time to worry about that.

‘But it’s strange? The quest came a few days ago, but it’s still okay to rescue him now……. Was it not that he fell into the water right after traveling through dimensions?’

Come to think of it, the injury was also strange.

Leaving the questions behind, I reached out towards the injured area.

It was that moment.

Smack—!

A strong hand struck my hand.

I was startled and looked up.

Where did the person who was almost dead get such strength?

The man was glaring at me, keeping his distance.

Cautious, pitch-black eyes.

The moment those eyes met mine.

[You have completed the quest!]

[A 5000 cash gacha ticket has been awarded.]

[(Of course) You have found the dimension traveler yourself.]

[(Since I promised, the benevolent Aphtaneth) will provide additional rewards.]

[A new quest has arrived.]

The quest completion appeared (along with some unnecessary words).

And the moment I saw the contents of the new quest.

I could understand why this man was so wary.

‘Ah, this is bad.’

I sighed.

This man was not just a dimension traveler.

He was the protagonist of an apocalypse story who had regressed dozens of times, with no dreams, no hope, and no future.

‘Male-oriented fantasy is not my specialty.’

I was a reader who walked the path of romance fantasy.

“What are you?”

The man said warningly.

His right hand going to his waist, it seemed he usually kept a weapon there.

‘But I know a cat who is injured and bristling its fur!’

Didn’t I have the experience of meeting Sid for the first time?

Now Sid has become a completely tame, affectionate house cat.

The man muttered, emitting killing intent.

“A humanoid monster?”

“Hey, calling your grandma a monster!”

The man’s expression turned strange at my words.

Ah, that’s right.

I’m not in my grandma form.