Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 269 (Part 1):

‘She was annoying, but because of that…’

His mind was fixated on her, preventing him from recalling unnecessary memories. That’s what Sarah meant to Helmut.

Time flowed like water currents, buried beneath the surface.

‘This child has improved a lot during this time.’

Though not at Helmut’s level, who possessed the Seed of Darkness and received Darien’s harsh training, Sarah’s skills had grown quite rapidly.

Enough to take down most low-level demonic beasts.

‘In the outside world, she could be treated as a third-rank mercenary.’

That means she can protect herself to some extent. Although Darien’s swordsmanship wasn’t fully passed on, learning common swordsmanship properly is sufficient to build skills.

Sarah was a girl who possessed both talent and diligence.

A vibrant 12-year-old. Today too, Sarah had come running here after touring Elaga’s domain for physical training.

“Helmut, why aren’t you eating? You’re staring at me weirdly. Are you going to hit me again!”

“I’ve never hit you.”

Sarah had an exceptional talent for making Helmut speak. It irritated him when she spoke of things that never happened as if they had.

Having received education at the academy, Helmut couldn’t tolerate being treated as someone who frequently hit a young girl.

Sarah grinned brightly, holding a piece of meat she had been nibbling on.

“Wow, you finally spoke.”

Susan smiled softly as she watched them.

“Sarah, stop chattering and eat your meal.”

Somehow, he felt like sighing. Are children always like this?

‘I don’t think I was like this.’

Perhaps that’s why Elaga often compared Helmut to Sarah, demanding from him the cuteness and charm he lacked.

‘Why is your expression so stiff! Look at how that child smiles! Doesn’t it make the world seem brighter?’

This continued even now, when Helmut was 19 years old.

How could one demand the charmingness of a 12-year-old from a 19-year-old young man?

Whenever Elaga demanded such playfulness from Helmut, even Susan would make an awkward expression.

‘Right, it lacks common sense.’

Helmut himself wasn’t particularly common either, so expecting it from Elaga, a demonic beast, would be foolish.

‘Sending them outside quickly would be less troublesome.’

At least to Elaga, Sarah was just young.

Only 12 years old. Even if all sins are forgiven upon leaving the Forest of Roots, her family has been exterminated.

Being traitors, everyone would avoid them, so she can’t live using her original family name.

The outside world isn’t easy for a girl with no connections to survive with just the swordsmanship skills of a third-rank mercenary.

Even more so if she’s with Susan, who has no power.

But Sarah wouldn’t want to part with Susan either.

She wants to go to the outside world, but above all, what she desires is to be with her mother.

After all, she wanted to learn swordsmanship to protect Susan.

Perhaps the fearful and suffocating memories of being thrown into the Forest of Roots and being oppressed by Erugo and magical beasts at first served as a strong motivation for Sarah to learn swordsmanship.

Fortunately, not long after they entered the Forest of Roots, both Naho and Erugo died, and they came under Elaga’s shadow, so they didn’t suffer greatly.

‘If Susan is the issue, she can go with her too.’

Helmut realized one thing he had been missing through Sarah.

A new method that didn’t exist before he left the Forest of Roots.

Elaga had extracted the demonic energy from the rampaging Helmut.

And just as Elaga did with Helmut, it could extract demonic energy from others. From Susan and Sarah too.

When asked how this was possible, Elaga tilted its head and said it seemed to have become possible after absorbing Naho’s core.

It was in the realm of instinct, where even it didn’t know the principle of how it was possible.

‘Has Elaga awakened another demonic nature as it grew as a demonic beast?’

Anyway, if all the demonic energy is extracted from Susan’s body using this principle, she too could pass through the sacred barrier.

Of course, she would suffer a shock due to the remaining traces of demonic energy, but it wouldn’t be as painful as childbirth, so Susan, being a mother, should be able to endure it well.

‘It wouldn’t be bad to leave now.’

Elaga was already periodically extracting demonic energy from Susan and Sarah.

While demonic energy helps to some extent in achievements as a swordsman or magician, it also eats away at the body just as much.

It’s a power that harms if not fully embraced and utilized like a demonic beast.

The demonic energy accumulating in the body of a powerless human woman like Susan was shortening her lifespan.

Thanks to Elaga, Susan and Sarah were living healthily in the Forest of Roots, experiencing only the inconveniences of living in a remote area, without any other problems.

They couldn’t leave simply because their life outside wasn’t guaranteed.

Then suddenly, a thought occurred to him.

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