A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 10

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 10

Veil blinked with a bewildered expression.

“So you see, mister, Veil oppa is making a mercenary group~”

Right in front of him, the little one’s head bobbed up and down enthusiastically.

“The mercenary test is to destroy a small mastone! But he’s scared to do it alone so he needs two more people~”

The large man who had just returned home looked equally flustered.

The man called Basto had been caught by the little one who came running as soon as he entered.

And he was listening to the endless stream of chatter.

“Mister is Hammer mister so you’re super strong!”

Basto glanced sideways at Veil.

Veil met that gaze directly without avoiding it, his brow furrowed.

“Tie has a legendary puppet monster too so she’s strong! If we two join Veil oppa’s mercenary group, we can destroy the small mastone and get identification numbers again!”

She spoke so quickly that the little one was panting after finishing her words.

Basto, who had been staring at her intently, opened his mouth.

“…So.”

He looked Veil up and down thoughtfully as he organized the child’s words.

“That guy called Veil is forming a mercenary group, and he’s looking for two more people besides me?”

“Yes!”

“And you think it would be good if you and I joined?”

“Yes!”

Silence fell over the first floor of the inn.

Unable to stand it any longer, Veil stood up from his seat.

“Hey. Kid. Who said I’d take you along?”

Tie turned toward Veil in surprise.

“You think small mastones are a joke? If they were, I would have handled it alone.”

A small mastone is still a mastone.

It creates rifts and summons troublesome monsters.

While it’s true that the siege difficulty is lower compared to large or medium ones, that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous.

“When I said I’d find two more people, I meant I’d focus on finding skilled ones, not some hammer guy and what? Puke, pupemon? What could you possibly do with that…”

He swallowed the rest of his words about how much help a hairy guy and a wet-behind-the-ears kid would be.

The kid might be easy to handle, but that giant muscle pig was genuinely threatening.

But the response that followed was unexpected.

“I can handle a small mastone by myself.”

Basto, who had picked up Tie at the entrance, strode inside.

He hung his outer coat on the table and sat down heavily in front of Veil.

“Is it true? That you’re going to form a mercenary group?”

He could feel the bright, eager gaze of the little one sitting on the man’s lap.

Veil was flustered but pretended not to be, clearing his throat with a cough.

“Yeah.”

“And that you’re looking for companions to take the mercenary test?”

“Ah, that’s right!”

The mercenary test nowadays involved sieging a small mastone.

If you collected all the monster cores and brought them to the mercenary registration office, you could receive a mercenary identification number, and with an identification number, you could officially work as a mercenary.

After that, you could freely enter Jedo, receive reward money every time you sieged a mastone.

If you were lucky enough to get your mercenary group’s name registered in the rankings, sitting on a pile of money was just a matter of time.

That’s why this matter was important to Veil.

“I’ll say it again, I want skilled people as companions. What you just said about sieging small mastones alone, is that really true?”

Basto nodded heavily.

“Yeah. I sieged one six days ago too. Briowood’s small mastone.”

Veil’s brow furrowed.

Suddenly he remembered the commotion that had occurred near the Gateway a few days ago.

‘Look everyone! Cal Worven of Death Hound has returned with a gift to present to His Imperial Majesty!’

The guy with his long hair carelessly tied up looked nasty at first glance.

‘What are you all doing! The 12th ranked! The immortal Death Hound has returned!’

The guy seemed friendly with the paladins guarding the Gateway and spent a long time drinking only at the Entry Office.

And he spent ages bragging about how he had sieged Briowood’s small mastone.

‘I was startled when flying monsters suddenly appeared, but who am I! I defeated them single-handedly without my subordinates…’

From what he heard, what that bastard had sieged was also a small mastone.

As far as Veil knew, there was only one small mastone in Briowood.

Veil’s eyes narrowed.

“You. If you’re lying to me…”

“It’s not a lie! You idiot!”

At that moment, the little one jumped up from the man’s lap.

The little one scrunched up her brow as much as possible and started getting angry at Veil.

“Hammer mister did that originally! Bad Cal stole it with lies! Cal made Hammer mister’s identification number disappear too, but what do you know, oppa!”

Veil’s eyebrows twitched at the voice that shot out without pause.

While he was suspicious, the little one’s words did make sense.

‘It is common among mercenaries. They steal credit from each other and it even leads to murder.’

Veil had stayed at the Gateway for a long time looking for companions to form a mercenary group.

Had it been about two months now?

During that time, he had wanted to find companions quickly and take the test, but circumstances hadn’t been favorable.

‘You could die if you make a mistake.’

If you choose the wrong companions, if you make even a small mistake during the test.

Then your life would be gone without a second chance.

Then his siblings back home who were anxiously waiting for news of him…

Veil roughly tousled his hair.

His hair got tangled, but his mind was even more complicated and felt like dying.

‘This muscle pig. From the looks of it, he seems to have had his credit stolen by someone else.’

In fact, yesterday he had also seen this man and the little one being denied entry at the Gateway.

‘Fearing future trouble, the Death Hound side seems to have made this side’s mercenary identification number disappear.’

Once the situation was sorted out, making a decision became easier.

Veil sighed and looked at Basto.

“You. Are you certain you can do the work of 1.5 people or more? You’d need to do at least that much.”

He meant he would treat the little one as if she didn’t exist, but the little one herself didn’t seem to understand.

Basto nodded.

“Of course. Just don’t be a burden.”

And so, the next day.

“Chew chew thoroughly~ No picky eating allowed~”

Tie hummed the anti-picky-eating song that she didn’t usually sing much.

Basto mister on the right.

Holding the pretty oppa’s hand on the left and walking to become a mercenary made her that excited.

‘Team!’

It hadn’t even been a week since coming to this world, and she already had a team.

When Kamang woke up, he would surely praise her for doing well.

‘Since Kamang is a legendary puppet monster, he must be incredibly strong even without using magic, right?’

Kamang could transform freely after all.

And Tie was also confident she could help the team.

‘Tie was the fastest in the Quail class!’

Hide-and-seek, tag, cops and robbers!

When Tie became “it,” all the kids in the Quail class were doomed.

“Big brother, don’t worry too much!”

She had only touched his hand because his expression seemed stiff, but Veil grimaced with disgust.

Tie shrugged her shoulders and this time looked at Basto.

“Mister! Don’t worry. Tie is really strong.”

But for some reason, Basto stopped in place.

Then for some reason, he lowered his posture and faced the bewildered Tie.

“Astie. You’re not going.”

“Huh?”

“I hired someone. You’ll wait for us at a base not far from the Mastone.”

At this bolt from the blue, her large eyes shook back and forth.

“Why, but why…?”

“Dealing with monsters isn’t child’s play, Astie.”

Her head spun round and round, but Uncle Basto asked in a low voice.

“What are you most afraid of?”

Tie closed her mouth and rolled her eyes.

“Tyrannosaurus…?”

“I don’t know what that is, but imagine monsters are about ten times scarier than that.”

The Tree Branch that Tie had been holding dropped with a thud.

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