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"Although virtually raising a daughter is a common hobby among older men, unfortunately, neither physically nor psychologically am I one..."
A faint, strange sound was heard in the air.
Mino's next words gradually faded into the air; she never managed to say them.
He looked down in astonishment and saw that lovely face, those pure, large eyes, gradually become misty, condense, sob, and swell with tears, and then…
Large tears streamed down Mia's face, forming thin threads.
Chapter 310 Online Trolls and the Media: The Truth Comes to Light!
With a soft thud, the bottle, still half full of milk, slipped from the child's delicate hand and fell straight to the ground.
Mia, who is usually completely absorbed in drinking milk, stared blankly at Mino, seemingly taking a long time to understand what Mino meant. A thick layer of frost slowly condensed in her clear eyes.
With a "waah," she burst into tears—
"Lady Mia? What's wrong, Lady Mia?"
Kleidina panicked and held Mia, who was crying bitterly, tightly in her arms, soothing her with a gentle voice and even activating the power of nurturing.
But those little tricks that always worked in the past seemed to have failed today, unable to stop Mia from shedding a single tear. For the first time, Kleinna was at a loss.
"Hey! It can't be that bad!"
Mino panicked a little. He waved his hand in front of Mia, his eyes wide with confusion:
"We've only breastfed a few times! It's not like I've been breastfeeding you since you were born! The knowledge in the magic jar can prove my innocence!"
Mino went so far as to reveal her family's secrets to explain, but Mia wouldn't listen. She just buried her head in Kletina's arms, looking all wronged.
"Ah~ ah, what a pathetic little hero, actually made Lady Mia cry." The horned demon Migo, who had appeared in the corner at some point, made a disdainful sound.
"This hero is simply not treating people like hostages!" Swell commented as he passed by the prison cell.
“Mino, bad,” Fim nodded in agreement.
"Hey—! Where did all of you come from?!" Mino's eyes widened in astonishment. "Whose cake did I touch? How can you blame me for this?!"
"Mia, please tell them I'm innocent, Mia!"
Mino quickly brought her face close to Kletina's chest, softly calling Mia's name, but then stopped abruptly: "You..."
Mia was held tightly in Kletina's arms, sobbing softly as she snuggled deeper into her neck. Her nose was flushed red from crying, and glistening tears clung to her wet eyelashes. Her pink lips were pouting pitifully.
This sight of her tearful face made Mino's carefully prepared speech freeze in her mind, and her heart clenched suddenly.
A strange sense of guilt and shame surged up, making him want to slap himself hard... He really deserves to die!
Seeing Mino's face, Mia became even more heartbroken. As Kletina's gentle hand stroked her back, she would raise her little head and let out a louder sob, as if reliving how sad she had been.
"Waaaah... Waaaah... Ah waaah..."
Large tears slid down her cheeks again, rolling down her baby-like round face, pausing briefly on the tip of her nose before falling with a thud, breaking into smaller droplets. Her eyes were red and swollen, as if she had suffered a great injustice, and she kept burrowing into Kletina's arms.
"I am guilty—"
With a look of despair, Mino raised his hands in surrender: "Shoot me."
This time, Kletina didn't continue to sulk with Mino. Instead, she gently patted Mia's back and comforted her, her expression a mixture of distress and confusion.
"Strange, I've never seen Lady Mia cry so sadly before... Why is that?"
After a while, the sobbing in her arms finally subsided, and the little bean lying on Kletina's chest began to snore softly. After crying himself to sleep, he slowly fell into a deep sleep, though there were still noticeable tear stains at the corners of his eyes.
"Bang... bang..."
The faint, dreamlike words drifted in the air, fading into the distance as Kleidina disappeared.
In the corner, Artotai stood up with his sword and hopped over to the utterly dejected Mino, comforting him, "Look on the bright side, my lord."
"Making that wicked little demon girl cry, isn't that the first feat befitting a human hero you've accomplished since entering the Demon King's castle?"
"???"
The main hall at the bottom level of the Demon King's castle.
Kletina gently placed Mia on the soft, partitioned bed and closed the door, a hint of worry on her face: "Is it because she's grown up? Lady Mia has started to care about her parents. What should we do next..."
With a soft sigh, Kletina recalled Mia's radiant and innocent smile when she was with Mino.
When did it start? Lady Mia doesn't seem as lonely as before.
With a thousand thoughts swirling in his mind, Swell had been waiting for a long time at the long table in the hall, in the seat of the Second Demon.
"Lady Cletina."
"What's going on, Swell? Has humanity finally made some move?"
“We haven’t yet detected the movements of the Hero of Sin and the mage Lak.” Swell shook his head. “However, there’s something you might need to know—”
A page separated from Swell, revealing dense text that floated toward Kletina, who reached out and took it, unfolding it before her eyes. Soon, her brow furrowed.
Kleidina, somewhat puzzled, read the information aloud:
"The Untold Story of the Former Hero Mino: Mino Reik, the Human Traitor Who Fell into the Demon King's Castle's Gentle Abode?"
"Eh?"
……
The capital's online trolls and media have once again stepped up their efforts.
Under the manipulation of an invisible hand, the topic of the hero Mino spread like wildfire through the streets and alleys, and even reached every corner of the kingdom.
"Don't you find it strange? Ever since the Mino Hero was captured and taken to the Demon King's castle, humanity has been slowly declining: it has even been repeatedly infiltrated and destroyed by the demons! Is it really just a coincidence?"
Bards and adventurers appeared in church squares, taverns at dusk, and every corner of the capital, leaving behind a series of thought-provoking topics:
"It is said that the Prince's Study and the Magician's Round Tower both suffered unprecedented and severe losses! This caused great mental and physical trauma to Chief Lak and Prince Ota! I ask you, who has the deepest bond with these two and knows so many secrets...?"
"It is said that the Ice Saintess once went to the front lines to avenge the Mino Warrior, but was severely harmed by the demons who exploited the weakness of her Ice Heart! The source of the demons' intelligence behind this is truly suspicious..."
"It is said that even the Ice Dragon King Calest, who gained favor because of his reputation as a dragon slayer and forged an equal friendship with the Mino Warrior, was betrayed by a mysterious force from the demon race!"
"Even more so, that figure was involved in Pope Brad's death! Otherwise, the demons could never have defeated Pope Brad's Great Machine So easily!"
In the dimly lit tavern, under the flickering lamplight, a bard spoke in a mature and deep voice:
"A series of clues connect, a series of tragedies unfold, and beneath the seemingly accidental world lies a chilling conclusion..."
"There is only one truth!"
"—The Mino Warrior has betrayed us!!!"
Who is it in Chapter 311? Who wants to frame Mino as a mysterious mole?!
"What nonsense!"
The royal palace in the capital city of Kur.
At the desk in the study, a furious Otta tore the collected documents to shreds!
"Who is it? Who is slandering my great and dearest friend who gave everything for humanity? What are their intentions and purposes?!"
Ota was furious, pointing to the stacks of rumors that were already circulating in the capital and throughout the entire kingdom.
"Tus, Erwin, go! Arrest all those bards who lie through their teeth, and all those gossipy adventurers and vagrants! Lock them all up in jail!"
"Your Highness, calm down, calm down!"
Minister Tus stepped forward in a panic to stop it: "That would involve too many people, not only would it be useless, but it would also easily cause even greater public outcry! Those people are just spreaders of rumors, and right now, one baseless rumor after another is spreading and breeding in every corner of the capital and even the kingdom! It can't be stopped!"
"How much more do you want me to calm down?!" Otta's face was still full of anger.
“Tuss, those people aren’t slandering you, Erwin, or even me! That’s all within my tolerance…”
"But now, they're actually throwing completely unrelated mud at my upright, unwavering, and loyal friend, a pillar of light for humanity! Do you think this is acceptable?!"
"You can tolerate this, but I can't!"
"You should be thankful that Chief Lak has just left the capital!"
"Otherwise, Chief Lak, who has forged a bond with Mino that transcends age and considers her a soulmate, would surely be waging a bloodbath in the capital right now!!!"
The aura of a king enveloped the entire study, and Tus and Erwin broke out in a cold sweat, kneeling on the ground, not daring to utter a sound.
Otto continued to pound the pages in his hand, speaking angrily:
"Look, look at those wicked people and those people who lack judgment! What kind of filth have they smeared on Mino, who has brought miracle after miracle to the kingdom?!"
"To say he's a shameless freeloader? To say he enjoys lightning-fast knee-sliding? To say he lives a life of debauchery in the Demon King's castle? To say he's a pervert obsessed with stealing underwear? To say he's the culprit behind all the kingdom's disasters and turmoil? — That's utter nonsense!!!"
Ota was so enraged by the string of filthy and unfounded statements that he was practically bursting with rage.
"The most outrageous thing is this: they actually said that Mino's mother was a demon and that the hero Shana had demon blood flowing through her veins."
"This is utterly absurd! This is blatant slander!"
“Those people are unforgivable—Mino had already sacrificed his life for his country, yet they not only wanted to tarnish his reputation but also to defame his family and completely frame him as a hateful traitor to humanity!”
"What exactly are they trying to do?!"
With a thud, Ota slammed his fist heavily on the table, making a sound that sent chills down one's spine.
"Your Highness, there's no point in searching for the real culprit now." At his desk, Tus finally mustered the courage to raise his head, his voice trembling.
"Importantly, many people are gradually believing these rumors, and the public's views on Mino the Hero and Shana the Hero are slowly changing..."
"This is absurd!" Ota gritted his teeth, his chest heaving violently. "Why is this happening? Have the people... lost even their basic common sense?"
"Such a baseless argument: it wasn't Mino who caused the kingdom's turmoil and disaster, but rather that the kingdom fell into dire straits because of Mino's absence! That's the opposite, they've all got it backwards!"
"Have they all forgotten the legends and achievements Mino once created in the kingdom? Huh?!"
“Your Highness Ota,” Erwin stepped forward and advised, “There’s no way around it. Under the manipulation of those with ulterior motives, the influence of rumors on the public’s mind cannot be understood in the way of common sense.”
In fact, many people have spoken out for the Mino Warrior, but they have all been drowned out by the sea of public opinion: "Look at the Duke of Moss's noble election, wasn't it the same situation..."
"This time, the severity is incomparable to the last one!!!" Ota interrupted angrily, "At the very least, Duke Moss has actually done something!"
"And now, Mino has to pay the price for something he didn't do at all!"
Looking out at the capital city, Ota's eyes seemed to spit fire: