How to Be a Dark Hero’s Daughter

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The surgeon brought by Zion appeared.

An operating room was hastily set up at the hotel. Only after the surgeons and nurses began the operation did Collen come out.

Jade also left after persuading Zion many times. He waited until the last moment and reluctantly turned to the exit.

It was new to Zion to see Collen and Jade worry.

“Did you send people to the temple?” Collen asked him.

“Healing is the work of doctors, but priests can use magic to soothe pain. Call them too.”

“Today, most of the senior priests are in the royal palace. Today is the day a church event takes place in the royal palace. Marianne is there too. You might think they care about saving people.”

Collen laughed. His red eyes suddenly calmed down.

“Go and tell the king to send all the priests right now,” Callen whispered.

“If my daughter gets sick from the pain and dies of shock.”

“…”

“Tell the king if he doesn’t send priests, then I will break into the Royal Palace and cause the same pain to the first member of his family I meet. He will understand what I’m talking about.”

This was the first time Zion saw Collen’s behavior like this. He bowed his head, looking surprised.

“I’ll take care of it right away.”

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‘I’d rather just make a stuffed animal.’

Like dead Popo.

Jade saw ‘Lee’, his step-sister, lying there as if dead. 

“Jade, this is a chimera cat. It is an animal that dies with you when you die. That’s what a chimera is. So, if you raise this child well, you will be able to live too.”

Popo was a chimera cat. It was the animal that Collen brought for Jade when he was mildly depressed.

Young Jade was fascinated by the cat Popo, because he always ate so well. Taking care of Popo, he was happy.

And one day it turned out that Popo was suffering from an incurable disease that would eventually kill him. Collen told his son that when his cat died, Jade would die with him.

‘As it turns out, that was a blatant lie.’

Jade was angry, but then fell in love with this warm little child.

‘She looks like Popo because she’s also sick.’

Popo was a cute cat with wings and funny oval eyes.

‘But that’s where the similarities end. In fact, it is different.’

He liked seeing Lee talking and smiling.

‘Right. I cannot imagine that I would do this with this warm little body.’

He remembered how the girl covered his father from the arrow. This girl raised many questions. She looked like walking candy wrapped in a ‘Why’ question.

‘Why didn’t I immediately believe her words? Why did this girl save my father and herself hurt? Is she my father’s real daughter? Why… Who is this child?’

Jade was also attached to his father.

But Jade was, after all, a member of Duke’s family. The main thing for them was that they themselves.

If he was as small as Lee. If he knew nothing about the world around. Could he have suffered for the good of his father? In retrospect, the answer was simple.

“No.”

Therefore, this girl possessed more courage than himself.

‘I’m somehow strange at heart.’

Jade tilted his head.

‘My heart hurts.’

It was unfamiliar.

Right. The day Popo died. It was a prickly feeling that he hadn’t felt in a long time since the day his biological mother abandoned him and left for a foreign country to die.